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cinematical.com - 1/23/2009

Cinematical Seven: Great January Movies

— cinematical.com — If you're a movie buff, you probably spend most of January catching up with all the awards... movies released in December, especially since most of them initially open in big cities, and then expand across the country. But movie critics see all the ... (more) Cinematical Seven: Great January Movies

Drama

January Jones

The Bubble

Cloverfield

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Preview: Taken
Screaming Blue Reviews — Liam Neeson stars in the latest from action auteur Luc Besson. Jedi Master, Dark Knight mentor and Scottish freedom fighter Liam Neeson returns to the screen in Taken, a kidnapping/revenge adventure produced and written by 90s action maestro Luc Besson (Leon, The Fifth Element).  Neeson plays Bryan Mills, a former CIA ...

An Arbitrary Guide To This Weekend’s New Releases
Hollywoodtuna — Between the Super Bowl and prestige picture holdovers, don’t expect the few new releases this week to make very much noise. Normally studios reserve their female-leaning slate for Super Bowl weekend (like last year’s Hannah Montana 3D concert movie), but Fox is taking a risk this year releasing the male-driven Taken. A solid cast (Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen) lifts the hardly-original premise (oh snap… they messed with the wrong guy!), but really, it’s nothing worth rushing out opening weekend for… Same goes for ...

Weekend Box Office Estimates: “Taken” Takes Prize
Hollywoodtuna — So much for conventional Super Bowl Weekend wisdom, as a male-driven action movie took #1 despite a steep drop in Sunday traffic, while more traditional releases like The Uninvited and New in Town took 3rd and 8th respectively. In fact, Taken’s $24.6 million finish was the second-best Super Bowl opener of all-time behind last year’s Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus behemoth. Otherwise though, the weekend box office played out more or less as expected. Paul Blart: Mall Cop continued its depressing march toward the $100 million mark, while Slumdog ...

Weekend Box Office Estimates: Audiences Definitely Into “Not That Into You”
Hollywoodtuna — Well, chances are if you got dragged to He’s Just Not That Into You this weekend, you weren’t alone - the ensemble romantic comedy easily took first place at the box office with a $27.4 million finish. Meanwhile, the stop-motion Coraline ended up 3rd with a little help from higher 3D ticket prices, but Taken continues to impress by nabbing a second-place finish while fending off a host of overperforming new releases. I guess Liam Neeson can be an action hero after all. The jury’s still out on Push’s Chris Evans though. I mean, dude ...

Weekend Box Office Estimates: Audiences Loved “Friday The 13th”
Hollywoodtuna — Valentine’s Day and President’s Day combined for the perfect storm at the box office this weekend, as grosses were up significantly across the board. But nobody felt the love more than Friday the 13th, which grossed an astonishing $42.2 million - the best opening ever for a horror film. The movie stands to make even more money today with the kids off school, but no matter what happens, it’s already a success - the slasher reimagining made back its $19 million production budget (and then some) on Friday alone. Confessions of a Shopaholic wasn’t nearly as lucky, as it couldn’t pass fellow rom-com ...

Weekend Box Office Estimates: “Madea Goes To” #1
Hollywoodtuna — Time to take a brief break from our Oscar coverage for a look at the weekend box office tallies. As expected, Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail took advantage of little to no competition to win the weekend running away. The resulting $41.1 million opener was easily Perry’s biggest yet, exceeding most industry expectations by around $10 million and ensuring his latest Madea film most definitely won’t be his last. Oh good… Otherwise, Taken and Coraline continued to do surprisingly strong business, with the sleeper action hit poised to break the $100 ...

Taken
DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog — Taken (2008) dir. Pierre Morel Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace **1/2 How a film like this, with ‘straight-to-DVD’ written all over it, managed to subvert expectations and make a $125million in the box office this year is astounding. It truly is. The fact is, this atrociously scripted minimalist actioner is the type ...