“Let me out! I want to go see ‘Shutter Island’!”
1. Shutter Island $22,200,000
2. Cop Out $18,565,000
3. The Crazies $16,521,000
4. Avatar $14,000,000
5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief $9,800,000
So I don’t think it was a huge surprise that “Shutter Island” hung onto the top spot for a second week. The fact that it’s opening weekend audiences [...]
Producer Michael Deeley’s remarkable career making films such as Blade Runner, The Deer Hunter, The Italian Job (the good version from ‘69) and The Man Who Fell to Earth is chronicled in his recent best-selling autobiography (co-written with Cinema Retro’s own Matthew Field). The book, Blade Runners, Deer Hunters & Blowing the Bloody Doors Off [...]
Heavy Rain is a video game which was recently released on the Playstation 3. It’s a fantastic game, completely different from the usual first-person shooter fare, and has been described as blurring the lines between movies and gaming.
This is due to the style of gameplay, with the action happening on screen like a film, with [...]
Heavy Rain is a video game which was recently released on the Playstation 3. It’s a fantastic game, completely different from the usual first-person shooter fare, and has been described as blurring the lines between movies and gaming.
This is due to the style of gameplay, with the action happening on screen like a film, with [...]
The Ant Man movie that has been on the table for years, and in the mind of Edgar Wright probably even longer than that, could be scrapped, an early victim of Disney’s new strategy of focusing jointly on blockbusters guaranteed to make money and low budget efforts also guaranteed to make money.
It was recently revealed [...]
Fans of Stanley Kramer’s comedy classic It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World can go "sailing right out there" to Santa Monica to see the film in 70mm.
The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica will present a 70mm film festival on March 3-12, giving movie fans a rare opportunity to see movies in their original [...]
March 5
Alice in Wonderland
What it’s about: In this version of the classic Lewis Carroll tale, Alice apparently goes to Wonderland to wear armor and fight in a big war or something. Because, you know, what’s a story without a battle?
What to expect: What will certainly be the definitive version of the film, since many of [...]
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I just picked up the latest issue of Cinema Reto today. Full marks to
Tim Greaves for finally giving Lust for a Vampire it’s just due. I have always
thought this was a very fine film and that all [...]
Maybe Damon and Greengrass can bring back an ass-kicking, geriatric Jason Bourne in about forty years.
Director Paul Greengrass and actor Matt Damon are out doing publicity for their new film “The Green Zone,” so naturally the topic of a fourth “Bourne” film came up. The publicists for “The Green Zone” must have been so thrilled [...]
Michael Bay may be the perpetual target of critics, but he’s crying all the way to the bank. Vanity Fair’s list of the top money makers in Hollywood places Bay in the #1 slot with earnings of $125 million. To read the entire list click here
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