Entertainment industry cover up department: The supervising art director
for Django Unchained, Interstellar (2014), Amazing Spider Man, Spider
Man 3, Iron Man 1 &2, A Few Good Men, Lethal Weapon films, Charlies
Angels and many other films lost at trial last month on charges of
sexual a s s a u l t, libel and intentional inflcition of emotional
distress of award winning transgender singer Bralalalala. The director
had been offering solicitation of the singers products but the singer
did not realize it required sex until she was a s s a u l t e d on his
couch after being declined a ride home. The girlfriend of the director
lured the singer and other women to the house at other times on strictly
platonic professional related pretenses. The directors effort to sue
the singer and random others was dismissed. The criminal case remains
pending and this civil case is not appealed. The case was not reported
to keep the social status quo being that the victim is transgender and
the assailant is a director of so many blockbuster films.
Good
for Captain America. Glad it is doing good in the theaters. I haven't
seen it yet, but I plan too. I think I will pass on the rest, especially
Transcendence. Like others have posted, it does look like a Lawnmower
Man remake. Though I do think that Depp would make a decent Dr. Strange.
Maybe he could play that character after he is finished with another
PoTC movie. Maybe that will get him out of his flop funk.
I saw
Capt. America and it was awesome! The chemistry between Cap, Widow and
falcon was great and it didn't looked forced. Thor the Dark World was
too much girl eye-candy and Jane Foster keeps behaving like a giddy
schoolgirl although she's supposed to be a scientist. The C. A. movies
are very close to the comic books, same like the Iron Man movies. That's
why they are so popular.
Captain America continues to vanquish
box office foes, triumphing in ticket sales for the third consecutive
week and dominating over megastar Johnny Depp's new movie.
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"Captain
America: The Winter Soldier" added another $26 million to its coffers,
according to studio estimates Sunday, while Depp's sci-fi thriller,
"Transcendence," opened in fourth place with $11 million.
Directed
by longtime Christopher Nolan cinematographer Wally Pfister, the Warner
Bros. film is Depp's third consecutive box office disappointment. He
played Tonto in last summer's "The Lone Ranger" — one of the biggest
flops of 2013 — and starred in 2012's comedy-horror dud, "Dark Shadows."
"As
we approach the summer movie season, box-office drawing power becomes
more about the concept of the movie rather than its star," said Paul
Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. "It
may not have been so much (about) Johnny Depp, but audiences right now
like brands that they know." |
| Entertainment industry cover up department: The supervising art director
for Django Unchained, Interstellar (2014), Amazing Spider Man, Spider
Man 3, Iron Man 1 &2, A Few Good Men, Lethal Weapon films, Charlies
Angels and many other films lost at trial last month on charges of
sexual a s s a u l t, libel and intentional inflcition of emotional
distress of award winning transgender singer Bralalalala. The director
had been offering solicitation of the singers products but the singer
did not realize it required sex until she was a s s a u l t e d on his
couch after being declined a ride home. The girlfriend of the director
lured the singer and other women to the house at other times on strictly
platonic professional related pretenses. The directors effort to sue
the singer and random others was dismissed. The criminal case remains
pending and this civil case is not appealed. The case was not reported
to keep the social status quo being that the victim is transgender and
the assailant is a director of so many blockbuster films. |
That doesn't bode well for original ideas, such as "Transcendence," penned by first-time screenwriter Jack Paglen. Dergarabedian notes that 12 sequels are expected this summer alone.
Another new movie, the religious-themed "Heaven Is for Real," debuted in third place over Easter weekend, while another sequel, "Rio 2," held on to the second spot.
Faith-based films are performing well, Dergarabedian said, with four releases in the domestic top 20.
"The Winter Soldier" set a box-office record as the biggest April release ever when it opened with more than $96 million domestically. Starring Chris Evans as comic book hero Capt. America and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, the Disney release has earned more than $200 million to date in North America — the 12th Marvel film to do so.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday:
1. "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," $26.6 million ($35.3 million international).
2. "Rio 2," $22.5 million ($48 million international).
3. "Heaven is for Real," $21.5 million.
4. "Transcendence," $11.2 million ($17.4 million international).
5. "A Haunted House 2," $9.1 million.
6. "Draft Day," $5.9 million.
7. "Divergent," $5.75 million ($18.1 million international).
8. "Oculus," $5.2 million.
9. "Noah," $5 million ($21.6 million international).
10. "God's Not Dead," $4.8 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada) for films distributed overseas by Hollywood studios, according to Rentrak:
1. "Rio 2," $48 million.
2. "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," $47 million.
3. "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," $35.3 million.
4. "Noah," $21.6 million.
5. "Divergent," $18.1 million.
6. "Transcendence," $17.4 million.
7. (tie) "Frozen," $7.6 million.
1. (tie) "The Lego Movie," $7.6 million.
1. "The Grand Budapest Hotel," $6 million.
2. "The Other Woman," $5.3 million.
3. "Mr. Peabody and Sherman," $2.2 million.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.
