On this episode of Collider Movie Talk, John Campea, Mark Ellis, and Jon Schnepp discuss the following:
It’s Monday, which means it’s time for our weekly Box Office report brought to you by our friends at AMC Theatres. Hanging on to the #1 this week isThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2, making an addition $51 million dollars to bring its worldwide total up to $440 million. Coming in second place is the new Pixar filmThe Good Dinosaurmaking $39 million on its opening weekend. In 3rd spot is the newest film in theRockyfranchise,Creed, taking in $30 million dollars. In the number 4 spot is the latest James Bond filmSpectremaking $12.8 million on its 4th weekend bringing its worldwide total up to just under $750 million dollars. And rounding out the top 5 is the Charlie BrownPeanutsmovie, making $9.7 million also on its 4th weekend bringing its total up to $126 million dollars.
According to a recent interview withMen In BlackproducerLaurie MacDonald, new installments of the franchise will soon be on the way. This time one of the leads will be a woman andWill Smithwon’t likely return. Her producing partnerWalter Parkesalso said this about the new installments: “We sort of looked at the first three in retrospect as a bit of a trilogy. We tried to tell a story about those two characters and that relationship, It sounds silly because it’s a fun, science fiction comedy but when you work on these things you sort of attempt to find some thematic basis underneath it. Now we are looking at a reinvention, but it’s a wonderful world to get back into.”
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As many of you knowZoolander 2is heading to theaters on February 12th and launched itsfirst trailerrecently. Now, Paramount has announced that the trailer has become the most successful trailer launch for a comedy ever, accumulating over 52 million views in its first week of release. Ben Still describedZoolander 2this way: “It’s basically Derek and Hansel ten years later – though the last movie ended on a happy note a lot of things have happened in the meantime. Their lives have changed and they’re not really relevant anymore. It’s a new world for them.”
Batman V Supermanis still 4 months away, but the marketing machine for the film is starting to get kicked into high gear. Fox recently announced that a brand new sneak peek for the film is coming that will be featured on Fox’s showGothamtonight.
As many of you remember, last year it was announced thatIron Man 3directorShane Blackwould be working on a newPredatorfilm for Fox. A lot of time has passed between then and now and fans have recently been wondering if the new film was even still getting made. Well wonder no more. Black’s co-writer for the new film, Fred Dekker, has just revealed on his facebook page that the script for the newPredatorhas now been completed and turned in to Fox. Ina recent interview with Collider, producerJohn Davissaid the following: “The writing is so fresh, the perspective is so fresh. I’m telling you you’re going to get something you don’t expect and you’re going to say, ‘This is the most entertaining way to reinvent a franchise.’”
Over the Thanksgiving Day break a new poster and trailer for the upcomingPride and Prejudice and Zombieshit the web. A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (played byCinderella’sLily James) is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield.
Tyler Brown writes: What do you all think about the rumors that Iron Man and Captain America are going to be in the nextSpider-Manmovie? There was some comments made during the Jimmy Kimmel interview with the two of them heading back to Atlanta for more filming but the movies already scheduled to film there have no parts for the two of them.
Jeff Neubaum writes: Dear movie talkers, IfDeadpoolis a success being a Marvel rated R movie what property from DC could you see being a rated R movie.I would love to seeSuicide Squadrated R but I think its just too big of a property that being said what do you think will be a rated R movie that DC would release?
