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Sara Vilkomerson's Guide To This Week's Movies: Dizzy for Dillane

Sara Vilkomerson — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:23:42 -0400

Poor Speed Racer! The much-maligned flick from the wacky-pants Wachowski brothers failed to make even a dent in Iron Man at the box office last weekend. Adding insult to injury, Speed Racer’s opening-weekend earnings were just about even with the Cameron Diaz-Ashton Kutcher romantic comedy What Happens in Vegas, which cost a whole lot less to make. Yeouch. Iron Man’s charmed run could come to an end this weekend, though, as the The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian hits theaters. Bring on the Tilda Swinton! read more »

Sara Vilkomerson's Guide To This Week's Movies: Whatcha thinkin', Wachowskis?

Sara Vilkomerson — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:51:22 -0400

O.K., temperatures may only sporadically hitting the 70s, but summer blockbuster season is officially here. Iron Man opened last weekend with a whopping $104.2 million stateside and another 96.8 million overseas ($201 million all together in its first five days). That beats even what the studio was hoping for (a mere $90 million domestically) and out there in Hollywoodland, executive types are thrilled that all the bemoaning and hand-wringing over the death of the box office was premature. read more »

Sara Vilkomerson's Guide to This Week's Movies: Downey Dons Robot Suit!

Sara Vilkomerson — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:32:00 -0400

All hail Tina Fey! The lady we are forever indebted to for making smarts, sass and eyeglasses sexy propelled Baby Mama to the No. 1 spot last weekend with over 18 million smackeroos, beating the stoner set who chose Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. What does this mean for you? That between this and last year’s Knocked Up and Juno, expect Hollywood to start spawning (hee!) tons of pregnant-y flicks, which will get less funny with each trimester.

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Sara Vilkomerson's Guide to This Week's Movies: Errol Morris' Awful Truth

Sara Vilkomerson — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:42:35 -0400

We woke up Monday morning to a pretty big surprise: the funniest-naked-breakup-scene movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall did not take top box office honors last weekend. That spot went to The Forbidden Kingdom (Tag line: “The path is unsafe. The place is unknown. The journey is unbelievable.” Read: boy movie), which features Jet Li and Jackie Chan co-starring for the first time. Kung fu kicked Apatow ass! read more »

Sara Vilkomerson's Guide to This Week's Movies: How Now, Apatow?

Sara Vilkomerson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:38:17 -0400

We could go into an oh-so-increasingly-familiar rant about the fact that Prom Night—a movie whose tag line is “It’s midnight. Everyone’s ready to go home … but someone has other plans”—was the most popular amongst audiences last weekend (lesson learned: people cannot resist the horror flicks) … but what’s the point? read more »

Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide to This Week’s Movies: A Keanu Is a Comforting Thing

Sara Vilkomerson — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:31:48 -0400

Hollywood types are scratching their heads over George Clooney’s Leatherheads, which only brought in $13.5 million when Universal reportedly had been hoping for something closer to $20 million. How could this be? Didn’t the moviegoing public realize this was George Clooney? read more »

Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide to This Week’s Movies: Stones Shine a Light, Clooney Hits the Mud

Sara Vilkomerson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:00:19 -0400

Every time we think the weekend box office can’t surprise us, something comes along to make us say … really? Last weekend, the surprise prize went to 21, the blackjack movie we know, logically, we can’t truly judge without seeing, but yet we still feel like we kind of can. Doesn’t the preview tell us all we need to know? read more »

Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide to This Week’s Movies: Ryan Phillippe’s Tour of Duty

Sara Vilkomerson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:54:56 -0400

Guess who (yuk-yuk) cleaned up again at the box office this weekend? read more »

Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide to This Week’s Movies: ’Toons and a Moon

Sara Vilkomerson — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:11:42 -0400

Get ready for lots more animated films to head our way thanks to the gigantic opening of Horton Hears a Who! last weekend, which pulled an amazing $45 million-plus at the box office, making it the biggest opening thus far of 2008 (beating Cloverfield, for which we are thankful). Prepare yourself for all sorts of puns. (Don’t believe us? read more »

Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide to This Week's Movies: Sputnik, I Think I Love You!

Sara Vilkomerson — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:04:59 -0400

Golly, is it summer blockbuster season already? read more »