FOUR CHRISTMASES, PUNISHER: WAR ZONE Box Office

Four Christmases topped the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend with $18.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Seth Gordon’s holiday comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon easily dominated its competition, lifting its domestic total to $70.8 million. In the film, a San Francisco couple pays a visit to all four of their divorced parents.

This week’s new releases weren’t that lucky, with Lexi Alexander’s Punisher: War Zone, with Ray Stevenson, delivering the best result at No. 8 with $4 million.

New entry Cadillac Records, starring Adrien Brody and Jeffrey Wright, closely followed in ninth place with only $3.5 million.

As for Nobel Son, the third wide release this weekend, it only finished [...]

by Franck Tabouring | December 8, 2008   
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KING KONG – Naomi Watts – d: Peter Jackson

King Kong (2005)
Direction: Peter Jackson
Screenplay: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson; from Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace’s story for the 1933 film
Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Jamie Bell, Kyle Chandler, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Craig Hall, Evan Parke
 

 

The biggest disappointment about Peter Jackson’s King Kong is that, despite all the p.r. regarding Jackson’s fascination with the Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack 1933 horror classic, this latest remake is considerably closer in spirit — or lack thereof — to the 1976 Dino De Laurentiis production, with (heavy) touches of Jurassic Park and Raiders of the Lost Ark thrown in. In other words, the new King Kong is very much the sort of adventure [...]

by Andre Soares | December 30, 2005   
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