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Underworld Archives - ShowBizCafe.com

Jack Rico

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2009/02/27 at 12:00am

ShowBizCafe on the radio: ‘Crossing Over,’ ‘Jonas Bros’

02.27.2009 | By |

ShowBizCafe on the radio: 'Crossing Over,' 'Jonas Bros'

We’re being innovative and are going to crossover some Spanish content from time to time for those of you who understand Spanish. This is a weekly radio segment we do every Friday, en español, on the ‘Luis Jimenez Radio Show’, one of the top FM morning shows in New York City. We’re sort of pioneers as this is the only Spanish language movie radio segment tht does it in the US.

So to give you a brief recap of what we spoke about today, we spoke about the Oscar’s and reviewed the new releases ‘Crossing Over’, ‘Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li’, ‘Jonas Bros: The 3D Concert Experience’.

On the DVD front, Extreme Movie and What Just Happened? with Robert De Niro were trashed ad nauseam.

If you’re interested in listening to the show live, you can log on every Friday at 10:50am to get the movie download via: http://www.luisjimenezradio.com/

Give us your feedback, we would love to hear from you!

Pau Brunet

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2009/01/26 at 12:00am

‘Paul Blart: Mall Cop’ is #1 at the box office, again?

01.26.2009 | By |

'Paul Blart: Mall Cop' is #1 at the box office, again?

What is this world coming to?

Is Kevin James the new Will Smith? He has just proved he has some cred. In its second frame, Paul Blart: Mall Cop was able to take down the favorite to win, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and hold onto the number one spot.

Mall Cop continues to beat out expectations in its second frame by declining a miniscule 32% to earn another $21.5 million over the weekend. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans followed at number two with $20.7 million.

While the number is still strong, Lycans is the worst opening we’ve seen from the franchise. The first Underworld bowed to $21.8 million and the sequel, Underworld: Evolution, saw a boost with $26.9 million. While I’m sure Sony will find a way to spin a reason for the drop in ticket sales, we can all assume that an Underworld installment lacking in Kate Beckinsale just didn’t feel right. Lycans cost $35 million to produce, so Sony should have no problem earning some positive cash flows with what should be the franchise’s final installment.

Probably the biggest disappointment was Inkheart. New Line’s latest attempt at fantasy, the family adventure was only able to gross $7.7 million in its opening bow. With a strong cast and a family audience, this film should have done much, much better.

“We’re disappointed. We wish the opening would have been bigger, but I think it was always going to be this type of result. Unfortunately, the audience wasn’t excited to see it,” said Warner exec VP of domestic distribution Jeff Goldstein.

The final film worth a mention is Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino. Though the film didn’t get the love that many hoped from the Oscar nominations, Gran Torino was still able to hold onto the number three spot over the weekend after declining only 27% from the last frame. Tack on the latest earnings of $16 million and the film is close to jumping the $100 million mark. By next weekend it looks like Gran Torino will quickly become Clint Eastwood’s highest grossing film for both directing and acting.

Here’s the estimated ticket sales for Friday through yesterda.

1. Paul Blart: Mall Cop, $21.5 million

2. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, $20.7 million

3. Gran Torino, $16 million

4. Hotel for Dogs, $12.4 million

5. Slumdog Millionaire, $10.6 million

6. My Bloody Valentine 3D, $10.1 million

7. Inkheart, $7.7 million

8. Bride Wars, $7 million

9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, $6 million

10. Notorious, $5.7 million

Jack Rico

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2009/01/23 at 12:00am

ShowBizCafe on the radio: ‘Inkheart’, ‘Underworld’

01.23.2009 | By |

ShowBizCafe on the radio: 'Inkheart', 'Underworld'

We’ve never done this before, but we’re going to try something new and crossover some Spanish content for some of you who understand Spanish. It’s a weekly radio segment we do every Friday, en español of course, on the ‘Luis Jimenez Radio Show’, one of the top FM morning shows in New York City. We’re sort of pioneers as this is the only Spanish language movie radio segment in the US.

So to give you a brief recap of what we spoke about today, we reviewed Inkheart, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and the re-release of The Dark Knight.

On the DVD front, Saw 5 and Max Payne were trashed ad nauseam.

If you’re interested in listening to the show live, you can log on every Friday at 10:50am to get the movie download via: http://www.luisjimenezradio.com/

Give us your feedback, we would love to hear from you!

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