Rachel Bilson

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Don't Jump! Sci-Fi Pic, Step Up Dance Jig, Even Here; In Bruges Surges

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Don't Jump! Sci-Fi Pic, Step Up Dance Jig, Even Here; In Bruges Surges
Fox, Buena Vista, Universal

If trailers for the movie Jumper (no. 1), the sci-fi actioner starring Hayden Chrstensen, Rachel Bilson and Samuel L. Jackson, made you want to jump out of a window, you may want to take the week off. The movie was a resounding success, both here and throughout the country, raking in over $27 million dollars over the three-day weekend. Guess there won’t be a desperate OC reunion anytime soon.  read more »

Leapin’ Liman

Hayden’s planet: Christensen hops over to the pyramids.
Twentieth Century Fox
Hayden’s planet: Christensen hops over to the pyramids.

JUMPER
RUNNING TIME 90 minutes
WRITTEN BY David S. Goyer, Jim Uhls, Simon Kinberg, Steven Gould
DIRECTED BY Doug Liman
STARRING Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane

A piece of idiotic sci-fi piffle called Jumper looks like $90 billion wasted on 90 minutes of popcorn junk. Even the butter is phony.  read more »

Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide to This Week’s Movies: Americans Get Dumb. And Dumber.

Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide to This Week’s Movies: Americans Get Dumb. And Dumber.
Michael Gibson/Twentieth Century Fox

And it will be—those slick Super Bowl commercials looked pretty irresistible, right?  read more »