Archive for November, 2009

Sony Cutting Out Its Distributors

…and thumbs up to them! In releasing Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs via IPTV and Blu-Ray players prior to the DVD release, Sony will be eliminating tons of unnecessary waste from the supply pipeline.
It sucks for distributors to have their master beat them to the market as a competitor, and it may seem [...]

Eminem Getting Back To Acting

Word is spreading that Eminem is going to test the movie box office waters again. Eminem’s last movie was the smash hit 8 Mile, and I thought he was super in it. The difference is that his next movie will be a 3-D Horror, so it will really test his movie revenue drawing [...]

Avatar costing $500 million

James Cameron has been gestating ‘Avatar’ now and running up the budget with a whopping $500,000,000 in expenses! How much movie revenue does News Corp think the movie ‘Avatar’ can generate? Titanic was a home run at the box office for Cameron — Will Avatar perform?
NY Mag’s article alludes to the huge risk [...]

A Christmas Carol number 1

‘A Christmas Carol’ had the top movie revenue for the week. Jim Carrey delivers a solid start to the holiday season box office, even though sales were down from this time last year.
Disney’s animation movie cost $175 million to get out of the gates, and it has returned $31 million in movie revenue in [...]

Review: Jim Carrey Good, A Christmas Carol Not So Good

The early reviews are in and the Washington Post is saying that they like the efforts of the cast, but that the animation was distracting and inhuman.
Disney’s A Christmas Carol
Too much spirit, too little heart
…despite the Herculean efforts of the voice cast, which includes Jim Carrey as Scrooge and the ghosts that visit him, and [...]