We’ve added a few more reviews/reports this week:
USA Box Office Estimates Friday 23rd October – We’ve been watching the astonishing rise of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY over the past couple of weeks, and now, it’s finally hit the top of the box office. It’s looking at a $20M weekend. Marketing and achieving critical mass with an audience seems to happen when you have a product that captures the imagination, or interest of people, and this $15,000 production is certainly scaring up a storm. It makes these multi-million dollar productions amusing, particularly as SAW VI came in under PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, something that franchise is not used to after being number one for the last few films when opening around Halloween. It just goes to prove how fickle and uncertain achieving success is in the film business.
Angels & Demons DVD review – Alex recently watched the DVD and gave a pass mark. I remember watching this at the cinema earlier in the year and being surprised that the first three quarters of the film was actually entertaining, especially after the boring opus that was The Da Vinci Code. The ending became quite over the top and silly. Maybe they should have made this film first? It seems to work better as a film and might not have alienated the audience.
Sunshine Cleaning Film Review – Picked this up on DVD the other day. I had never heard of it before. It’s hit and miss. There are some nice character moments, and it feels very real. But it doesn’t really go anywhere, and nothing really gets resolved. Emily Blunt is really good in this though, and Alan Arkin is funny as the eccentric and witty father.
Todd.
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