‘Expendables 2’ still strong

This week the box office remains intact with ‘The Expendables 2’ still at number one, earning $13.5 million dollars. The star-studded action film keeps entertaining the crowd, but it might have competition this coming weekend with the premiere of ‘Lawless’.

‘The Bourne Legacy’ stays at number two with $9.3 million dollars. According to the numbers it won’t be able to reach the amount of ‘Bourne Identity’, either way Jeremy Renner has owned up to his role and performed well.

Finally, the family film ‘ParaNorman’ also continues at number three with $8.5 million dollars. Certainly this stop-motion zombie has earned a good share of money, but not as much as what ‘Coraline’ got Laika Entertainment.

The Top 10 Movies in the Box Office are:

1. The Expendables 2 – $13.5 mil

2. The Bourne Legacy – $9.3 mil

3. ParaNorman – $8.5 mil

4. The Campaign – $7.4 mil

5. The Dark Knight Rises – $7.2 mil

6. The Odd Life of Timothy Green – $7.1 mil

7. Premium Rush – $6.3 mil

8. 2016:Obama’s America – $6.3 mil

9. Hope Springs – $6 mil

10. Hit and Run – $4.7 mil

Ernest Borgnine’s final film: ‘Vicente Fernandez’

Indican Pictures has acquired North American rights to Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine’s final film, ‘The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernández’.
 
Indican will release the film theatrically in Los Angeles this October, with additional select cities to follow, and will launch an awards campaign centered on Borgnine’s final performance.
 
Film premiered in April at this year’s Newport Beach Int’l Film Festival, where Borgnine won the fest’s Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award.
 
The pic is written and directed by Elia Petridis, and produced by Darren Brandl and Dave O’Brien.  Additional cast members include Barry Corbin, Carla Ortiz, Dale Dickey and Tony Plana.
 
‘Vicente Fernández’ stars Ernest Borgnine as a stubborn man who becomes the local hero of his nursing home upon leading the Latino staff in a revolt against the home’s tyrannical owner.
 
“Indican Pictures is extremely honored to be releasing Oscar winning actor Ernest Borgnine’s final film performance, which is among his best,” said Randolph Kret, VP of Indican Pictures.
 
Hollywood icon Borgnine, who passed away in July of this year, racked up more than 200 film and television credits in an esteemed acting career spanning six decades.  He won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a lovelorn butcher in 1955’s “Marty”, was nominated for three Emmys, and won a life achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2010.
 
The deal was negotiated by Shaun Hill of Indican Pictures and Maren Olson of Traction Media on behalf of the Producers.

‘The Expandables 2’ on top

‘The Expendables 2’ takes over the number one spot with $28.8 million dollars, it’s no surprise because everyone wants to see the action heroes reunion in this silly action packed film. This sequel reunites even more heroes from the past; despite of this it didn’t earn enough compared to its predecessor.

Last week’s number one ‘The Bourne Legacy’ falls to number two with $17 million dollars. Jeremy Renner’s film did its best to put up a fight against the muscle machine that took the first spot.

The spooky family film ‘ParaNorman’ premiered at number three with $14 million dollars. The zombie 3D movie, also didn’t collect as much as expected. The box office has brought in weak number since the Colorado shooting. On another note ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ fell to the sixth spot from the third spot last week.

The Top 10 Movies in the Box Office are:

1. The Expendables 2 – $28.8 mil

2. The Bourne Legacy – $17 mil

3. ParaNorman – $14 mil

4. The Campaign – $13.4 mil

5. Sparkle – $12 mil

6. The Dark Knight Rises – $11.1 mil

7. The Odd Life of Timothy Green – $10.9 mil

8. Hope Springs – $9.1 mil

9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days – $3.9 mil

10. Total Recall – $3.5 mil

‘The Bourne Legacy’ opens at #1!

‘The Bourne Legacy’ successfully premieres at number one, beating out Batman’s streak with $40.3 million dollars. Universal certainly did everything right to keep the Bourne franchise alive, with the results of this one we can be sure to receive many more films about the spies looking for their identities.

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis’ comedy ‘The Campaign’ took over the second spot with $27.4 million dollars. Perhaps many people wanted to get a comedic relief from all the presidential campaigning happening at the moment and these two comedy geniuses sure delivered. 

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ takes a hard fall to number three with $19.5 million dollars, rounding out to $390 million dollars. The drop is sudden and surprising but the film remained at number one for three straight weeks like ‘The Avengers’ did, despite of it not earning as much as that one.

The Top 10 Movies in the Box Office are:

1. The Bourne Legacy – $40.3 mil

2. The Campaign – $27.4 mil

3. The Dark Knight Rises – $19.5 mil

4. Hope Springs – $15.6 mil

5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days – $8.2 mil

6. Total Recall – $8.1 mil

7. Ice Age: Continental Drift – $6.8 mil

8. Ted – $3.3 mil

9. Step Up Revolution – $2.9 mil

10. The Amazing Spider-Man – $2.2 mil

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Still on Top

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ is still king of the box office at number 1 with $36.4 million dollars, with a domestic total of $354.6 million dollars and a grand total of $733 million dollars worldwide. It’s doubtful that it will reach ‘The Dark Knight’ total neither domestically nor worldwide, which were $533.3 million dollars and $1.002 billion dollars respectably.

Len Wiseman’s remake of ‘Total Recall’ premiered at number two with $26 million dollars far from the amount it took to make which was around $140 million dollars, making it a big flop. This isn’t surprising since the main star Colin Farrell has been part of box office failures for most of his career; this one adds one more to his list.

‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days’ the third one of the ‘Wimpy Kid’ series opened at number 3 with $14.7 million dollars, the lowest debut for the film franchise. Since Fox spent only $22 million dollars on it, this won’t affect the studio much.

The Top 10 in the Box Office are:

1. The Dark Knight Rises – $36.4 mil

2. Total Recall – $26 mil

3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days – $14.7 mil

4. Ice Age: Continental Drift – $8.4 mil

5. The Watch – $6.4 mil

6. Ted – $5.5 mil

7. Step Up Revolution – $5.3 mil

8. The Amazing Spider-Man – $4.3 mil

9. Brave – $2.9 mil

10. Magic Mike – $1.4 mil