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2012/05/07 at 12:00am

Box Office Report: The other 9 films!

05.7.2012 | By Karen Posada |

‘The Avengers’ makes history becoming the biggest box office movie of all time, setting a new record with $200 million dollars; obviously premiering at number one. This superhero packed movie, has gotten high praises from critics and fans alike. It is not surprising that it stole the number one spot, since the buzz around this film has been loud and clear for months even before it opened.

The previous leader of the box office ‘Think Like a Man’ falls to number two, with $8 million dollars. This comedy although it fell one spot, is still holding on strong.

‘The Hunger Games’ is steadily at number three with $5.7 million dollars. This movie has a grand total of $380 million dollars as of now, which shows how big ‘The Avengers’ amount for the first weekend is in the U.S.

The Top 10 Movies in the Box Office are:

1.The Avengers -$200 mil

2. Think Like a Man -$8 mil

3. The Hunger Games -$5.7 mil

4. The Lucky One -$5.5 mil

5. The Pirates! Band of Misfits -$5.4 mil

6. The Five-Year Engagement -$5.1 mil

7. The Raven -$2.5mil

8. Safe! -$2.5mil

9. Chimpanzee -$2.4mil

10. The Three Stooges -$1.8mil

DVD Reviews: Haywire, W.E., New Year’s Eve

By Jack Rico

2012/05/01 at 12:00am

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DVD Reviews: Haywire, W.E., New Year’s Eve

05.1.2012 | By Jack Rico |

This week from Miami, on the Enrique Santos Morning Show, Jack Rico reviews the new DVD/Bluray releases: the action film HAYWIRE, Madonna’s new movie W.E., and the end of year romantic comedy NEW YEAR’S EVE.

You can hear our DVD review segment in Miami on the ‘Enrique Santos Morning Show‘ every Tuesday at 7:25 AM and 9:25 AM by Univision Radio ‘MIX98.3FM’ in Miami or the global network by visiting: http: / / www.enriquesantos.com/

By Karen Posada

2012/04/30 at 12:00am

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‘Think Like a Man’ keeps the #1 spot!

04.30.2012 | By Karen Posada |

‘Think Like a Man’ once more took over the first place with $18 million dollars. Obviously the public agrees that this hilarious romantic comedy should continue headlining the box office.

‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’ a perfect movie for the whole family follows it, with $11.4 million dollars. Hugh Grant’s first animated film along with other actors like Salma Hayek, has earned this spot because of the intricate details that form this wonderful story.

The romantic movie ‘The Lucky One’ fell to third place with $11.3 million dollars. Leaving ‘The Hunger Games’ in fourth place, which indicates that possibly it will loose a place in the top 10 rapidly.

The Top 10 Movies in the Box Office are:

1. Think Like a Man – $18 mil

2. The Pirates! Band of Misfits – $11.4 mil

3. The Lucky One – $11.3 mil

4. The Hunger Games – $11.3 mil

5. The Five Year Engagement – $11.2 mil

6. Safe – $7.7 mil

7. The Raven – $7.3 mil

8. Chimpanzee – $5.5 mil

9. The Three Stooges – $5.4 mil

10. The Cabin in the Woods – $4.5 mil

‘Think Like a Man’ takes the #1 spot at the box office!

By Karen Posada

2012/04/23 at 12:00am

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‘Think Like a Man’ takes the #1 spot at the box office!

04.23.2012 | By Karen Posada |

We begin the week with an incredible surprise! ‘Think Like a Man’ premiered in the number one spot, finally taking ‘The Hunger Games’ out of the spot it occupied for four consecutive weeks. This comedy not only makes you die laughing, but it has done the impossible taking the first place with $33 million dollars.

‘The Lucky One’ took second place in the box office with $22.8 million dollars. This romantic movie with Zac Effron is not very entertaining, but it seems like the public decided that it was time to change the look of the box office.

‘The Hunger Games’ took third place with $14.5 million dollars. Although it still holds a prestigious place, the hard fall is surprising from first to third place. It was thought that only ‘The Avengers’ was going to be able to take its place.

The Top 10 Movies in the Box Office are:

1.Think Like a Man – $33 mil

2. The Lucky One – $22.8 mil

3. The Hunger Games – $14.5 mil

4. Chimpanzee – $10.2 mil

5. The Three Stooges – $9.2 mil

6. The Cabin in the Woods – $7.8 mil

7. American Reunion – $5.2 mil

8. Titanic 3D – $5 mil

9. 21 Jump Street – $4.6 mil

10. Mirror, Mirror – $4.1 mil

Radio Reviews: The Lucky One, Think Like A Man

By Jack Rico

2012/04/20 at 12:00am

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Radio Reviews: The Lucky One, Think Like A Man

04.20.2012 | By Jack Rico |

This week from Miami, on the Enrique Santos Morning Show, Jack Rico reviews the new romantic movies The Lucky One, Think Like A Man, and the family film Chimpanzee.

You can hear our film review segment in Miami on the ‘Enrique Santos Morning Show’ every Friday at 7:25 AM and 9:25 AM by Univision Radio ‘MIX98.3FM’ in Miami or the global network by visiting: http://www.enriquesantos.com/

DVD Radio: ‘Mission Impossible 4’, ‘Shame’

By Jack Rico

2012/04/17 at 12:00am

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DVD Radio: ‘Mission Impossible 4’, ‘Shame’

04.17.2012 | By Jack Rico |

This week from Miami, on the Enrique Santos Morning Show, Jack Rico reviews the new DVD/Bluray releases: the action film Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol starring Tom Cruise, and the sex addiction drama Shame.

Ibero-America has its first Online Film Festival

By Jack Rico

2012/04/17 at 12:00am

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Ibero-America has its first Online Film Festival

04.17.2012 | By Jack Rico |

On April 16, 2012, the First Ibero-American Online Film Festival iber.film.america, promoted by filmotech.com, came to a close. Internet users across Ibero-America were able to see, free-of-charge, legally and online, a selection of fourteen films which have participated previously or have received awards at other film festivals, such as San Sebastian, Venice and Sundance.

For the three weeks the festival took place, its website had more than 126,000 visitors from all countries which make up the Ibero-American region, with the greatest numbers coming from Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.

Award Winners

Medianeras (Sidewalls), by Argentine director Gustavo Taretto and produced by Rizoma Films (Argentina) Eddie Saeta (Spain) and Pandora Films (Germany), has won the Critics’ Award, selected by the First Edition iber.film.america Jury, composed of the film journalists and critics Hugo Chaparro Valderrama, Jean Christophe Berjon, Joel Poblete, Marcelo Stiletano, Nicolás Kusmin and Toni Ulled Nadal.
The film, an Argentine, Spanish and German co-production, stands out for the ability with which its director and script-writer, Gustavo Taretto, defends humor as one of the most efficient mechanisms to portray the dramas of modern human kind: the lack of communication in large cities, the loneliness not out of choice, the fruitless search for love and the second, third, and even fourth chances. Performing in the film’s leading roles are Javier Drolas and Pilar López de Ayala.
The film’s producer, Hernán Musaluppi, will be an honored guest at the EGEDA Ibero-American Audiovisual Forum, being held April 24-26, 2012 in Panama City, Panama, where he will receive an award that comes with $3,000 in prize money.
Contracorriente (Undertow), by Javier Fuentes-León and produced by El Calvo Films (Peru), Dynamo (Colombia), La Cinefacture (France) and Neuecameofilm (Germany), has won the People’s Choice Award, with this film receiving the highest number of votes by users via a facebook app voting system created especially for the Festival.

This film, which is the Peruvian filmmaker’s debut work, tells the story of Miguel, a young fisherman living in a coastal town in northern Peru whose love is divided between his wife and a gay painter.

All festival film viewers participating in the selection of the People’s Choice Award were included in a raffle before a notary public for a trip to Los Angeles to attend the 18th annual Recent Spanish Cinema series and ten year-long passes for free viewing of the online movie portal filmotech.com

The list of raffle winners can be found on the festival’s website: www.iberfilmamerica.com

Results from participation in the Festival during the three weeks it was held show the success of this first edition of iber.film.america, a pioneering initiative of filmotech.com, with support from the ICAA (Spanish “Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts”), FIPCA (acronym in Spanish for the “Ibero-American Federation of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Producers”) and the Instituto Cervantes.

‘The Hunger Games’ is #1 for the fourth straight week!

By Karen Posada

2012/04/16 at 12:00am

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‘The Hunger Games’ is #1 for the fourth straight week!

04.16.2012 | By Karen Posada |

‘The Hunger Games’ continues owning the box office; no one can take its place. It added an extra $21.5 million dollars to the jackpot it has already collected. Perhaps the only movie that will be able to take its’ spot will be ‘The Avengers’, which premieres in a couple of weeks.

‘The Three Stooges’ took ‘American Reunion’’s spot, which fell to fourth place, with $17.1 million dollars. Critics have said that the remake of the stooges is worth seeing and the box office clearly shows it.

‘The Cabin in the Woods’ a perfect film for Friday the 13th, came in third place with $14.9 million dollars. This comic-horror movie is a breath of fresh air for a genre that seems to be falling flat more than not.

The Top 10 movies at the box office are:

1. The Hunger Games – $21.5 mil

2. The Three Stooges – $17.1 mil

3. The Cabin in the Woods – $14.9 mil

4. Titanic 3D – $11.6 mil

5. American Reunion – $10.7 mil

6. Mirror, Mirror – $7 mil

7. Wrath of the Titans – $6.9 mil

8. 21 Jump Street – $6.8 mil

9. Lockout – $6.3 mil

10. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax – $3 mil

‘The Hunger Games’ reaches $302 million at the box office!

By Karen Posada

2012/04/09 at 12:00am

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‘The Hunger Games’ reaches $302 million at the box office!

04.9.2012 | By Karen Posada |

‘The Hunger Games’ not only continues to hold the number one spot in the box office with $33.5 million dollars, but it has reached the outstanding amount of $302 million total (in the U.S., it is almost at $460 mil world-wide) in just three weeks. Despite of the tough contenders it had, it keeps holding on strongly.

The fourth installment of the American Pie franchise ‘American Reunion,’ took the second spot in the box office with $21.5 million dollars. It seems like many of its’ loyal followers decided to check out what this last slice of pie had to offer.

Another blast from the past ‘Titanic 3D’ shows up in third place with $17.4 million dollars. James Cameron continues to show that his work is hard to top; he was capable of re-making a film from 1997 flawlessly into 3D and it almost already made up for the $18 million dollars it took to convert it.

The Top 10 in the Box Office are:

1.The Hunger Games – $33.5 mil

2. American Reunion – $21.5 mil

3. Titanic 3D – $17.4 mil

4. Wrath of the Titans – $15 mil

5. Mirror, Mirror – $11 mil

6. Jump Street – $10.2 mil

7. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax – $5 mil

8. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – $ 975 Thousand

9. John Carter – $ 820 Thousand

10. Safe House – $581 Thousand

By Jack Rico

2012/04/03 at 12:00am

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DVD Radio: War Horse, We Bought A Zoo

04.3.2012 | By Jack Rico |

This week from Miami, on the Enrique Santos Morning Show, Jack Rico reviews the new DVD/Bluray releases: the epic war film War Horse by Steven Spielberg, and the family drama We Bought A Zoo starring Matt Damon.