Jannat was super hit movie in 2008. Emran Hashmi has played the lead role in this movie. This movie marked the debut of Sonal Chauhan into Bollywood. On the other hand this is the first film to director Kunal Deshmukh also. Mukesh Bhatt has produced this movie on his Vishesh Films Banner.

Arjun (Emran Hashmi) a careless and easy going guy. He always interested on short cuts to earn money. One day he meets Zoya (Sonal Chauhan) and falls to her. He decides to become rich from this ordinary life. For that he leaves all his small time gambling and becomes cricket bookie.

Later he enters into mafia and also starts match fixings. His overnight change attracts police men eye. While he is in the dilemma to choose the proper way either love or money, he receives a call from a don. The don offers him never expected life. But he decides to reject that offer.

On the other hand police men suspects him in a murder case. Arjun is now in run to escape from the police. How he proves his innocence and how he wins his love is the remaining story.

Kamran Ahmed and Pritam were composed the music to this crime thriller. 

4/5

Directed by: F. Gary Gray

Starring: Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler

Clyde Shelton is an inventor.  Seemingly a good-natured family man, the devil takes hold of his extremely well motivated hands following the murder of his wife and daughter.  Nick Rice is an attorney.  After striking a somewhat Faustian deal with one of the killers, to secure the conviction of the other, he finds himself the target of Shelton’s latent malevolence.  Ten years pass and, needless to say, the tragedy is not forgotten.  The Philadelphia justice system shudders as Shelton emerges a fully fledged terrorist with the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci and the know-how to back it up.

Starting out as the love-child of Enemy Of The State and Saw, Law Abiding Citizen soon establishes itself as a story deeply rooted in biting moral debate.  Much like the tragic heroes of Sophocles and Euripides, Shelton is a man throttling down the path of hubris towards a gripping climax.  Director F. Gary Gray frames Shelton brilliantly as an early Catholic martyr praying the rosary; defying a corrupt system as he calmly twiddles the beads on a bracelet his daughter made for him.  Both committed family men, Rice and Shelton play tug of war with a rope twisted from dual strands of intellect and action.  The story pivots on this constant back and forth; two forces, each fighting in the name of God, with no right answer.  The issue is a fascinating one.

A well balanced combination of ballsy action sequences, powerful rhetoric and stinging pathos, Law Abiding Citizen is easily appealing to a wide range of audiences.  More Daniel Craig’s Bond than Roger Moore’s, the gutsy script provides a safety net of humour with just the right amount of gore to make the experience feel dangerous.  It’s edgy, it’s clever and more importantly it asks questions, and valid ones at that!  Foxx and Butler are even matched in ability and both turn in convincing and engaging performances.  Where Law Abiding Citizen possibly falls flat is in the unravelling of the game.

Whilst wanting to surrender and just go with the flow, you could easily be forgiven for feeling like you need a bit more detail.  All of the scheming, the technology, the wizardry seems to be just a little out of reach.  Though not necessarily a bad thing, the final reveal is perhaps a little less empowering than other similarly successful thriller flicks.  If you can live with a bit of mystery, problem solved.  If not, you could well find yourself a little underwhelmed.

This past weekend, Twilight-ers proved that not even a movie about Sandra B., Tim Mcgraw, and some fat, black kid (Another movie about fat black children? Read: Precious), an unfunny Robin Williams, and the ghost of Jim Carey’s career could stop them from being number one.

New Moon, the Twilight sequel, earned more than $42 million dollars at the box office this past weekend. Even though that’s a 40% drop from the previous weekend, that’s still a shitload of money. That brings it’s total receipts, in the US, to $190 million (*final figures due later today).

But this past weekend also showed some other strong contenders, with “The Blind Side” starring Sandra Bullock bringing in an impressive $40 million (Take that, Twi-Bitches!). “Old Dogs” starring that dude from “Look Who’s Talking” and that other dude from “Patch Adams,” despite horrible, sucky, reviews, managed to pull in $17 million.

Door closed for this weekend. Let’s see about next weekend. Your prediction: Who is going to be #1 next weekend?

Let ME know! (See below for full list)

Damien

Thanks to Rotten Tomatoes for the official list…

Twilight: New Moon scored number one at the box office again this weekend, but faced stiff competition from the Sandra Bullock starring feel-good film The Blind Side.

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1		The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	$42.5M	$231M
2		The Blind Side (2009)	$40.1M	$100M
3		2012 (2009/I)	$18M	$139M
4		Old Dogs (2009/I)	$16.8M	$24.1M
5		A Christmas Carol (2009)	$16M	$105M
6		Ninja Assassin (2009)	$13.1M	$21M
7		Planet 51 (2009)	$10.2M	$28.5M
8		Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)	$7.09M	$32.4M
9		Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	$7.02M	$10.1M
10		The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	$1.52M	$30.5M

New Moon has set a record for the  biggest Thanksgiving weekend ever with over $66 mil for the first 5 days of being out. And they have made over $270 mil so far. That’s pretty darn good. The Blind Side did really well too with over $40 mil and over $100 mil total so far. I hope this helps Sandra realize she doesn’t have to make terrible movies. Good ones will do better for her.

Other Film News:

This is funny. For his audition to play the park ranger in the live action Yogi Bear film, this guy filmed himself reading his part to a real bear! And he got the part! Good for you, TJ Miller. They are filming now in New Zealand. Here is his audition:

J.J. Abrams, they guy who directed the awesome Star Trek film is going to direct a feature film version of Samurai Jack. It will be animated with some 3D.

Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps  is filming in New York with Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf. Donald Trump has a cameo. Charlie Sheen, Josh Brolin, and Susan Sarandon are also in it. Maybe it’ll be good. I liked the first one.

On top of all the whoring advertising James Cameron has been doing for Avatar he’s going to have a live webcast Q & A on MTV with the cast BEFORE the 1/2 hour TV special that they will air. Overkill? I think maybe so.

From Variety.com:

The DreamWorks principals have greenlit the “Rocky”-esque robot tale “Real Steel,” to star Hugh Jackman, as their first pic since raising $650 million from both J.P. Morgan Securities and Reliance Big Pictures and an additional $175 million from Disney, which will distrib DreamWorks titles.

Story centers on a fighter who has to reinvent himself when human boxers are replaced by robots. Jackman will play a struggling Robot Boxing promoter who finds a discarded robot that always seems to win. He also discovers he has a 11-year-old son, and they bond as the robot brawls its way toward the top.

Although grounded in the father-son relationship, Levy describes the film as a “rousing sports movie” with Jackman’s character “a former boxer who can no longer do the only job he’s good at, and one particular robot that may be his return to grace.”

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Okay, I gotta say that I did not see this coming. A lot weird shit went on in the box office this weekend and I find myself rather surprised. The big story this weekend is not any of the openers or New Moon, but The Blind Side in its second weekend. Why? I’ll get to that in a minute, but first we have to discuss New Moon, which repeats at number one.

New Moon

Well, New Moon tops the charts for a second weekend, which was easily expected. However, the margin by which it claimed number one was significantly smaller than anyone expected. I knew New Moon would crash and burn this weekend, but I didn’t think it would be quite this bad. Anyway, it plummeted 70% down to 42.9 million. Ouch. If Thanksgiving weekend did in fact mitigate that fall, I can’t imagine what it would’ve hit if this were a normal weekend. We could’ve been talking an 80% drop. Damn. Anyway, it doesn’t really matter at this point. The total is already up to 231 million, about forty million more than the first entry in the series. I’m really on the fence about the ability of New Moon do reach 100 million. On the merits of the first weekend alone, it really should. To open to 140 million and not at least cross 300 is ridiculous. At the very least, though, it should end up in the 285 million ballpark, a massive improvement over Twilight.

The Blind Side

Wow. Just wow. This came out of nowhere. After The Blind Side debuted to a stellar 34 million last weekend, it continues to defy expectations. It’s not like it just a had a really small drop this weekend. No, it actually increased. And substantially too. It comes within an inch of supplanting New Moon too. The Blind Side increased a remarkable 18% to 40.1 million. Damn. You never see that kind of thing without a significant increase in the number of theatres. The Blind Side only added 30, which is negligible. Really, that is remarkable. What we have on our hands here is one hell of a crowd pleaser. For it to go up like that…. wow. Don’t get to discuss things like this very often. Anyway, the total is now up to an even 100 million. By comparison, The Proposal, which debuted to a similar 33 million, had amassed 69 million by the end of its weekend. I never, ever thought I’d say this, but based on what The Blind Side has done this weekend, 200 million isn’t out of the question, especially with the rest of the Holiday season ahead of us. Next weekend will tell a better story, though. Wow, this is motherfucking Sandra Bullock’s year.

2012 levels off a bit, dipping 33% to 17.7 million. As the only more male oriented picture in the top three, it’s not surprising that it held pretty well. However, that 138 million total is still kind of disappointing, at least on the domestic front. I really would’ve loved to have seen this plummet again this weekend because it was so terrible, but oh well.

Debuting disappointingly in fourth, we have Old Dogs. This performed nothing like Wild Hogs and I’m very, very grateful because of that. It pulled in a decent 16.9 million. It’s rocking an abysmal 6% at Rotten Tomatoes. Wow. But then again, Americans are fucking retarded and this will probably find its way to a respectable gross anyway. Fuck people.

As expected, A Christmas Carol enjoys a nice boost over this weekend, one that was desperately needed. It went up 28% to 15.8 million, lifting its total to 104.9 million. It still has a long way to go for profitability, though.

And debuting in sixth amidst a crowded weekend, we have the hidden gem that is Ninja Assassin. Two of my friends that saw this with me absolutely hated it. One said part of him died inside. Another seriously considers it “one of the worst movies ever.” Me, I loved every minute of it and don’t feel like I wasted my money at all. But, anyway, I already reviewed this, so on to the box office. It grossed a respectable 13.3 million, which given the reviews and all the other movies in the market, I think that’s pretty good. Plus, its per theatre average actually exceeded both A Christmas Carol and Old Dogs. Even still, I really don’t expect any sort of legs from this. But I’m sure as hell going to get it when it comes out on DVD.

Planet 51 holds well, slipping just 17% to 10.2 million. It has a somewhat decent total so far of 28.5 million. I wouldn’t quite call this a failure per se, but–well, actually looking at its budget and seeing that it cost 70 million, maybe failure would be so inappropriate a label.

Precious made 7.1 million. Down 35%. 32.5 million total. I do not care.

The extremely creepy looking The Fantastic Mr. Fox debuts to rather weak numbers in ninth. And I say, well, good. It looked and seemed weird as well. Made a little less than seven million this weekend. Though, admittedly, on any other weekend, seven million would normally get you much higher than ninth, but the box office has been in hyper drive the past two weekends.

George Clooney takes up the bottom two spots of the top ten with The Men Who Stare at Goats following his creepy fox movie. And it’s a distant tenth at that. TMWSAG grossed 1.5 million for a gross now of 30.5 million. Eh, not bad, but given the starpower, I think more was expected.

EDIT: Well, this is why I sometimes prefer to wait for the actual numbers to come in.  As it turns out, TMWSAG didn’t take the number ten spot. The Road, which I personally thinks looks quite good, (I love Viggo Mortenson) breaks into the top ten  while only in 111 theatres. It edged Goats by only about five hundred dollars, which is ridiculously close. It had the highest per theatre average in the top ten. This reminds me that I really need to see Old Country for Old Men. Anyway, yeah, The Road FTW!  

Yeah, so there you go. New Moon’s drop is almost as amazing as its opening weekend and The Blind Side treats us to something we don’t see often, an uptick in box office due to soley word of mouth. I’m afraid this hot streak may be over next weekend as we got a whole bunch of shit.

Armored: An utterly ridiculous premise that I can’t see doing anything special at the box office.

Brothers: An even more ridiculous premise that has produced one of the most unintentionally hilarious trailers I’ve ever seen. It’s supposed to be so intense and suspenseful, but it’s just bad. And really funny. I just can’t take Tobey Maguire serious in this. If I were ever forced to see this, I’d definitely be laughing all the way through.

Everybody’s Fine: Probably the best choice for next weekend. I like the fact that it’s a Christmas movie released during the actual Christmas season as opposed to something like A Christmas Carol, which got started like two days after Halloween.

Transylmania: Why, humanity, why? Please, please, please, everyone, ignore this movie. Pretend it doesn’t exist and don’t go see it. In fact, as soon as you’re done reading this, forget you ever heard of it and let’s let it fail as miserably as possibly.

Until we meet again.

Se il 1970 era stato un anno superlativo a livello di qualità delle pellicole proiettate nei cinema e molto remunerativo a livello di incassi, il 1971 presenta quasi le stesse connotazioni: film importanti, grandi incassi.
In Italia arrivarono oltre settecento film, alcuni di essi sono considerati autentici capolavori. A cominciare dal capolavoro di Kubrick Arancia meccanica, uno sguardo lucido puntato su una società che mostrava già tutti i segni anticipati da Burgess nel romanzo prima e da Kubrick nel film poi.

James Coburn in Giù la testa di Sergio Leone

Lo stupro di Adrienne Corri nell’immortale Arancia meccanica di Kubrick

Arancia meccanica. il film, oltre a diventare uno dei pù importanti della cinematografia di tutti i tempi, si rivela anche un grande affare ai botteghini. Ho un ricordo personale dell’uscita sugli schermi di Arancia meccanica; il film aveva il divieto ai minori di 18 anni, io ne avevo 14, ma riuscii in qualche modo a vederlo. Ricordo di essere uscito dal cinema stordito, colpito dall’allucinante violenza (per allora, ben inteso) del messaggio di Kubrick, che in seguito sarebbe diventato fatalmente profetico.
Nel 1971 arriva sugli schermi l’ambizioso Giù la testa, di Sergio Leone; se vogliamo, è l’ultimo western girato dal maestro con il suo nome; è un film con pregi e difetti,violento, con un Leone che manda messaggi, cosa prima assolutamente non esistente nelle sue pellicole. Il film ha successo, la sua colonna sonora arriva in hit parade e a fine stagione Giù la testa sarà uno dei film più visti dell’annata.

Una scena dal Decameron di Pier Paolo Pasolini

Morte a Venezia, di Luchino Visconti

E’ anche l’anno del Decameron di Pasolini, prima parte della trilogia della vita dedicata dal regista alla riscoperta dei grandi classici medioevali auenticamente popolari. L’anticlericalismo del regista si materializza in un’opera gioiosa, in cui il sesso diviene l’unica fonte di divertimento del popolo, oppresso dai nobili e dal clero. Pasolini si vendica girando un film al vetriolo, con attori non professionisti, escludendo Davoli, la Luce e il cameo di Silvana Mangano. A fine stagione, il film, che ebbe guai a non finire con la censura, sarà uno dei più visti e sarà anche il battistrada involontario di un fertile filone secondario, chiamato dei Decamerotici, film che sfrutteranno le novelle del Boccaccio, dell’Aretino, di Caucher per mostrare giovani donzelle nude impegnate spesso in improbabili beffe.

Gian Maria Volontè in Sacco e Vanzetti, di Giuliano Montaldo

Cybill Sheperd in L’ultimo spettacolo

Il camionista assassino in Duel di Spielberg

Arriva sugli schermi anche Morte a Venezia, di Luchino Visconti; il riadattamento del celebre romanzo di Mann, ambientato in una Venezia sonnolenta e decadente; il film interpretato da Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci e Marisa Berenson riscuote un gran successo di critica e un buon successo ai botteghini.
Grande successo anche per Sacco e Vanzetti, film di Giuliano Montaldo dedicato alla figura dei due anarchici italiani ingiustamente accusati di rapina e omicidio: le interpretazioni dei due protagonisti, Gian Maria Volonté e Riccardo Cucciolla sono da incorniciare, così come il tema sonoro cantato da Joan Baez, Here’s to you, che entra meritatamente in hit parade.

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Peter Bogdanovich presenta L’ultimo spettacolo, uno straordinario, indimenticabile affresco sull’America del 1950, con tema la giovinezza di un gruppo di ragazzi che vedrà la propria vita cambiare a seguito di avvenimenti di piccola entità, prova concreta che la vita non è solo sconvolgimenti biblici. Il film, che si avvale di una colonna sonora sontuosa, diviene ben presto un cult;

Harold e Maude, di Hal Hashby

Solaris, di Andrei Tarkovskij

anche Duel, opera di un giovane Steven Spielberg diventa un cult. La storia del commesso viaggiatore che ingaggia una mortale sfida con un camionista materializza incubi e paure, e la storia, che corre sul filo dell’angoscia di non sapere cosa accadrà al protagonista, finisce per diventare un punto di partenza per un nuovo modo di concepire il cinema. Hal Ashby porta sugli schermi Harold e Maude, mentre Andrei Tarkovskij presenta Solaris, un film fantascientifico metafisico, sulle orme di 2001 odissea nello spazio: il successo di critica è enorme, il pubblico invece è perplesso, per la evidente difficoltà di recepire tutti i messaggi che il regista lancia con le sue immagini statiche e con la sua concezione di un tempo d’azione molto dilatato.

1975: Occhi bianchi sul pianeta Terra (Omega man)

Quattro mosche di velluto grigio di Dario Argento

Arrivano sugli schermi 1975: Occhi bianchi sul pianeta Terra, di Boris Sagal, anche questo tratto da un romanzo, quello di Matheson, film che ottiene un grande successo in virtù di una trama claustrofobica e dell’ottima interpretazione di Heston e L’uomo che fuggi dal futuro, dell’esordiente futuro re Mida Lucas.
Il cinema italiano risponde con grandi successi di cassetta; Quattro mosche di velluto grigio e Il gatto a 9 code, del regista Dario Argento, fanno il pieno ai botteghini, così come … Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità, di Barboni, che ripropone la inossidabile coppia Hill-Spencer.
C’è un film che ottiene un lusinghiero successo di pubblico e di cassetta; si tratta di Il dittatore dello stato libero di Bananas, opera di un geniale regista americano Woody Allen. La storia dell’oscuro americano che diventa dittatore di una repubblica che da allora in poi avrà come sinonimo una situazione disastrata e allo sbando, diverte il pubblico mondiale e lancia il grande talento di Allen.

Catherine Spaak in Il gatto a 9 code di Dario Argento

Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità

Arriva sugli schermi Ispettore Callaghan: il caso Scorpio è tuo, violentissimo poliziesco impiantato sulle gesta di Harry la carogna, un ispettore dai mezzi spicci e duri. Il film, che ha per protagonista Clint Eastwood, non più uomo con solo due espressioni, è un successo planetario, mal visto dalla critica, che ne condanna il linguaggio e i fini come film fascistoide e istigatore della violenza.

Woody Allen in Il dittatore dello stato libero di Bananas

Nel frattempo il cinema italiano di produzione interna mostra segni evidenti di salute; grande successo ottiene il pessimista Detenuto in attesa di giudizio, interpretato da un ottimo Alberto Sordi, storia di un innocente che sperimenta sulla sua pelle le ingiustizie della società, finendo in carcere prima, in manicomio poi e uscendone alla fine del tutto traumatizzato. Nino Manfredi, passato dietro la cinepresa, presenta l’ottimo Per grazia ricevuta, storia malinconica di un ragazzo quasi costretto a diventare prete in virtù di un suo salvataggio miracoloso dopo una caduta da un bastione,, che troverà la forza di vivere la sua vita accanto alla donna che ama, e che incredibilmente verrà miracolato una seconda volta.

Ispettore Callaghan: il caso Scorpio è tuo

Il film riscuote un grandissimo sucecsso e si piazza tra i più visti della stagione.Un altro successo è l’amarissimo In nome del popolo italiano, con due grandi protagonisti, Gassman e Tognazzi, l’uno palazzinaro senza scrupoli, l’altro giudice integerrimo. Il primo finirà per pagare per l’unica colpa non commessa, l’omicidio di una studentessa, con la complicità del giudice, che distruggerà il diario della ragazza, unica prova dell’innocenza del palazzinaro. Il film di Risi, graffiante, diventa un grosso successo di pubblico, anche se la critica non riserva lo stesso trattamento.

Detenuto in attesa di giudizio

Nino Manfredi in Per grazia ricevuta

Ancora Sordi è protagonista di un’altra commedia amara, Bello onesto emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata, con la partecipazione di Claudia Cardinale; la storia dello sfigato italiano che cerca moglie e che trova una prostituta come compagna, è una commedia degli equivoci ben girata da Luigi Zampa. Anche Pasquale Festa Campanile ritorna alla commedia venata di erotismo con l’ottimo Il merlo maschio, che lancia la straordinaria bellezza di Laura Antonelli. Il film , che parla dell’ossessione sviluppata da un uomo represso nel lavoro che trova una sua affermazione mostrando nuda la moglie, ottiene un grandissimo successo.

Bello onesto emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata

Laura Antonelli in Il merlo maschio

Cosa che invece non accade al kolossal Scipione detto anche l’africano, di Luigi Magni: il film, che pure annovera nel cast Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Turi Ferro ottiene scarso successo;
Altro film delizioso è Basta guardarla, ironico e commosso omaggio di Luciano Salce al mondo dell’avanspettacolo ormai quasi definitivamente avviato sul viale del tramonto;Mario Bava presenta Reazione a catena, thriller di ottima fattura, mentre Lizzani tratteggia un quadro fosco e pessimista della società borghese romana, attraverso uno sguardo cinico sulla Roma bene.
Fausto Tozzi porta sugli schermi Trastevere, commedia ambientata nel popolare quartiere romano, in cui si intrecciano storie di vita dei vari abitanti; Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica, di Damiano Damiani, è una denuncia delle collusioni tra potere mafioso e organi della giustizia, un film davvero bello e ottimamente interpretato da Franco Nero e Martin Balsam. Giorgio Martino invece lancia Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh, thriller con connotazioni erotiche di discreta fattura, con una Edwige Fenech che si appresta a diventare una delle icone degli anni settanta.

Scipione detto anche l’africano

Maria Grazia Buccella in Basta guardarla

Dall’estero arrivano La notte brava del soldato Jonathan, curioso film di Don Siegel, con protagonista Clint Eastwood, che fa il gallo in un collegio femminile, prima di pagare a caro prezzo la sua voglia di seduzione. Un grandissimo successo riscuote l’ottimo L’abominevole Dr. Phibes, diretto da Robert Fuet, con protagonista Vincent Price: un dottore, reso folle dalla morte della moglie, uccide usando le bibliche piaghe i dottori responsabili della scomparsa della donna. Sugli schermi viene proiettato Cane di paglia, di Sam Peckinpah, con protagonista un eccellente Hoffman; la storia del professorino che dopo aver subito umiliazioni di ogni genere si ribella al linciaggio di un uomo accusato di aver ucciso una ragazza.

Senta Berger in Roma bene

Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica

Il film è un grande successo, così come Il braccio violento della legge di William Friedkin, appassionante poliziesco interpretato da Gene Hackmann e vincitore di 5 oscar. Un film di fantascienza è detinato a diventare un cult; si tratta di Andromeda, di Robert Wyse, splendida trasposizione di un romanzo di Michael Crichton, che racconta come un satellite artificiale, caduto dallo spazio, porti con se un letale virus che distrugge la popolazione di una cittadina; solo un vecchio e un bambino sopravvivono, e saranno loro a indicare la strada per una cura efficace.
Tra i film dell’anno, che ebbero un’accoglienza tiepida dal pubblico, immeritatamente, cito E Johnny prese il fucile di Dalton Trumbo con Donald Sutherland, storia terribile di un ragazzo ridotto ad una larva umana dalla guerra che chiede di poter morire e invece viene trattato come una cavia da laboratorio;

Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh

L’abominevole Dr. Phibes

2002, la seconda odissea di Douglas Trumbull, versione ecologista di un viaggio nello spazio, con una nave spaziale che traporta gli ultimi alberi della terra, e che continuerà a vagare per l’universo con al comando un robot, dopo che un membro dell’equipaggio ha ucciso tutti i colleghi che volevano far saltare la cupola in cui erano contenuti.
Segnalo ancora Soffio al cuore, di Louis Malle, ottimo lavoro interpretato da Lea Massari su un tema scomodo, l’incesto, Conoscenza carnale di Mike Nichols, con Jack Nicholson, Family life di Ken Loach “il rosso“,Domenica, maledetta domenica di Schlesinger, la versione cinematografica del Macbeth di Polanski, Homo eroticus, di Marco Vicario, una commediola semi erotica con un cast eccellente.

Susan George in Cane di paglia

Conoscenza carnale

Tra i film di successo, meritevoli di essere rivisti, segnalo Una lucertola con la pelle di donna, thriller parapsicologico diretto da Lucio Fulci con due bellissime dello schermo, Anita Strindberg e Florinda Bolkan, La bestia uccide a sangue freddo, altro thriller diretto da Fernando Di leo, un tantino pasticciato ma con un ottimo cast, La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba, thriller di Miraglia, meritevole di segnalazione più per il buon successo riscontrato che per proprie virtù, il particolare La vittima designata, diretto da Lucidi con un grande Pierre Clementi, L’evaso, un film di Pierre Granier-Deferre con protagonisti Delon, Ottavia Piccolo e Simone Signoret, storia di un evaso che tenta di rifarsi una vita e che finirà male.

Pierre Clementi in La vittima designata

In ultimo, La coda dello scorpione, buon thriller di Martino con le belle Evelyn Stewart e Anita Strindberg, l’ottimo Giornata nera per l’ariete di Bazzoni, La tarantola dal ventre nero, thriller convenzionale ma con un cast eccellente, Una sull’altra di Fulci, ottimo thriller con Marisa Mell, Ettore lo fusto di Enzo Girolami Castellari, gradevole commedia con illustri interpreti.
Il 1971 forse non ha, al di fuori di Arancia meccanica, capolavori eterni, ma si segnala per l’alto numero di produzioni di ottimo livello; è l’anno dei thriller all’italiana, che si colorano di un tocco d’erotismo, è anche l’anno dell’esplosione dei decamerotici e in deifinitiva, ancora un’annata da ricordare.

Il braccio violento della legge (Miglior film)
William Friedkin (Miglior regia per Il braccio violento della legge)
Gene Hackman (Miglior attore per Il braccio violento della legge)
Jane Fonda (Miglior attrice per Una squillo per l’ispettore Klute)
Ben Johnson (Miglior attore non protagonista per L’ultimo spettacolo)
Cloris Leachman (Miglior attrice non protagonista per L’ultimo spettacolo)
Anche i dottori ce l’hanno (Miglior sceneggiatura originale)
Il braccio violento della legge (Miglior sceneggiatura non originale)
Il violinista sul tetto (Miglior fotografia)
Il violinista sul tetto (Miglior adattamento musicale)
Quell’estate del ‘42 (Miglior colonna sonora originale)
Shaft il detective (Miglior canzone)
Nicola e Alessandra (Migliori costumi)
Il braccio violento della legge (Miglior montaggio)
Il violinista sul tetto (Miglior suono)
Pomi d’ottone e manici di scopa (Migliori effetti speciali visivi)
Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (Miglior film straniero)

Messaggero d’amore (The Go-Between) di Joseph Losey (Gran Bretagna)

Vittorio De Sica (Orso d’oro per Il giardino dei Finzi Contini)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Orso d’argento per Il Decameron)
Jean Gabin (Miglior attore per Le chat, l’implacabile uomo di Saint-Germain)
Simone Signoret (Miglior attrice per Le chat, l’implacabile uomo di Saint-Germain)

Enrico Maria Salerno (Miglior regia per Anonimo veneziano)
Luchino Visconti (Miglior regia per Morte a Venezia)
Nino Manfredi (Miglior regia per Per grazia ricevuta)
Florinda Bolkan (Miglior attrice per Anonimo veneziano)
Monica Vitti (Miglior attrice per Ninì Tirabusciò, la donna che inventò la mossa)
Ryan O’Neal (Miglior attore straniero per Love Story)
Ali MacGraw (Miglior attrice straniera per Love Story)
Claude Lelouch (Miglior film straniero per Voyou (La canaglia))

While New Moon continues to dominate the past two weeks at the box office, The Blind Side comes out of nowhere with an even stronger 2nd weekend (+18%). This is unusual for any ‘non-holiday’ movie. Obviously strong word of mouth helped it to almost take 1st place over force of nature New Moon. It be interesting to see if it can take first place in its third week, which is unheard of. Good luck to The Blind Side!

#1 The Twilight Saga: New Moon Gross Weekly Change Days In Release Theaters Average Total Worldwide US All Time $42,500,000 -70 10 4,042 $10,515 $230,700,000 N/A #66

#2 The Blind Side Gross Weekly Change Days In Release Theaters Average Total Worldwide US All Time $40,100,000 +18 10 3,140 $12,771 $100,200,000 N/A #436

#3 2012 Gross Weekly Change Days In Release Theaters Average Total Worldwide US All Time $18,000,000 -32 17 3,444 $5,226 $138,800,000 N/A #222

#4 Old Dogs Gross Weekly Change Days In Release Theaters Average Total Worldwide US All Time $16,800,000 N/A 5 3,425 $4,905 $24,000,000 N/A N/A

#5 Disney’s a Christmas Carol Gross Weekly Change Days In Release Theaters Average Total Worldwide US All Time $16,000,000 +30 24 3,013 $5,310 $105,400,000 N/A #388

The film New Moon (A follow on from the film Twilight) was released in November 2009, breaking a block buster record for most views of a new a release in its first weekend. Staring a lot of popular characters including male stars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner known for there large female fan base.  This was an exciting experience as the first film twilight gained such a large audience in such a short space of time, the movie made a much larger profit then expected as it was in fact a low budget film leaving new moon with a larger budget.  You are able to notice a great difference in not old the filming techniques but the locations, scenery and special effects that create this spectacular movie.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film as I am one of millions of fans of the series. The story line not only develops with plenty of twists and unexpected occurrences, I think the higher budget has enabled the project to be taken to a new level. The drama of the film keeps you interested from start too finish with excellent man candy to stare at! My favourite part of film is when a new love arises between two main characters Bella and Jacob, however it gets exciting when the return of Edward creates friction between Bella and her two loves who are great enemies. The ending leaves you questioning the rest of the storyline which I think is unfortunate for those who have read the books and know what happens next.

After hearing all the hype I just had to check out Paranormal Activity at the weekend. But whilst you’d expect to leave the movie terrified and wanting to find out all about ghosts, demons and the like, instead I was more interested in the marketing behind it. This movie cost just $11,000 to make and has made in excess of $60 million within the first 6 weeks of US screenings.

So what made it so successful? Is it actually the most terrifyingly scary movie you’ll ever see? Or did it just involve very clever marketing? Whilst the last 20 minutes made the movie for me I’d have to go with the latter!

The screening of this movie was initially limited to only a handful of midnight screenings in college towns which promptly sold out. Fans who missed out on a screening were told to “demand it” to be shown at further locations via the official website, whilst the lucky few who got to see the movie were prompted to share their reaction via the website, twitter hashtag and facebook. This generated large amounts of interest about the movie, whilst adverts showing audience reactions only added to the hype already generated. When demands for the movie hit 1 million people it was released nationwide, and that’s not the end of it. Now rumour has it there are several endings to the movie and the one being shown in cinemas at the moment is actually a much shorter version than the one shown at earlier screenings. Which could potentially lead to increased hype if they alternate the versions shown in the cinema. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see on that one!

Either way, I think the use of consumer involvement to generate hype has been fantastic, and what did I think of the movie you ask? Shot in a similar way to both Blair Witch and Cloverfield, the relationship of Katie and Micha is believable and draws you in, there are some funny moments and the subtle goings on during the first few nights helps build the suspense. I’d definitely recommend a watch, worst case you can amuse yourself with the audience reactions! And considering it cost just $15,000 in total, makes me want to pick up a camera myself…….

Gobble! Gobble!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!

Man, do these guys have a lot to be thankful for….

Following its record-breaking first weekend, first-place finisher New Moon brought in $42.5 million over the three-day (Friday through Sunday) weekend, driving its cume to a fantastic $230.7 — the sixth highest of the year, just below Star Trek ($257.7 million). Not far behind, The Blind Side came in at number two with $40.1 million by appealing to audiences who would rather watch a movie about football than stay home for a game on TV. With a $100.3 total so far, the pigskin pic is Sandra Bullock’s second $100 million hit of the year after this summer’s The Proposal ($164 million).

Source.

Auch in der zweiten Woche konnte sich der zweite Twilight Film “New Moon – Bis(s) zur Mittagsstunde” in den USA durchsetzen und die Spitzenposition verteidigen. Insgesamt 42,5 Millionen Dollar reichten für Platz 1 und mit insgesamt 230 Millionen Dollar innerhalb von 10 Tagen ist “New Moon” ein grandioser Erfolg, der bereits den Vorgängerfilm überflügelt hat.

In dieser Woche gibt es aber auch zahlreiche Erfolgsmeldungen im Bereich der Animationsfilme. So konnte “Disney’s Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte” in dieser Woche kräftig zulegen und hat insgesamt 30% zugelegt und konnte Platz 4 verteidigen und weitere 16 Millionen Dollar einspielen. Eventuell kriegt der Film ja noch die Kurve und entpuppt sich ähnlich, wie der “Polarexpress” als Langzeitbrenner, zumal der Film zur Weihnachtszeit noch einmal einen ordentlich Uplift erfahren sollte.

Der Film “Fantastic Mr. Fox” konnte in seiner ersten Woche im Wide Release insgesamt 7 Millionen Dollar einspielen und sich Platz 9 der Charts sichern. “Küss den Frosch” hingegen konnte im Limited Release (2 Kinos) sagenhafte 712.000 Dollar einspielen, was 356.000 Dollar pro Kino entspricht. “New Moon” hat im Vergleich hierzu rund 10.000 Dollar pro Kino eingespielt.

Quelle: boxofficemojo.com

It’s Friday, November 20, 2009 and something is rotten in the state of Box Office Sales.

A usurper to the throne of Single Day Ticket Sales has smote the hither-to unchallenged king… or… maybe he wasn’t smote, perhaps he was just ‘sparkled’ off the throne.

Still, the world watched in shock as comic book super heroes set down the scepter and backed away from the throne, stepping in line with the ranks of their slack-jawed disillusioned fans, muscle-bound 80’s action heroes, and legitimate movie monsters, and actually bowed down before the new king: temperamental teenage vampires and the girls who love them.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon outsold the opening night totals of Iron Man, Spider-Man 2, and yes, even 2008’s Dark Knight, earning the best world-wide opening night of all time with a confirmed $72.7 million dollars made on Friday alone. The king of all comic books films, Dark Knight, racked up $68 million on its opening night, and that was during the summer; blockbuster season. New Moon earned itself the best November opening in history, topping the positively passé Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire by over $20 million.

But what do all of these numbers mean? What shocks me the most about them is the apparent purchasing power of the 9-15 year old girl demographic – not the fact that this group exists as a mighty market niche, but that it’s equaled – and in some cases surpassed – the strength of the nostalgic, entertainment starved and heavy-walleted males age 16-35 machine.

I realize that more people than girls aged 9-15 saw New Moon. There obviously would have to have been some parents filling theatre seats, required to supply the cash and transportation for their daughters and their friends. I pity these parents, who, unlike their children, have critical tastes that outweigh juvenile crushes on the film’s stars. The film is averaging a grade of 4.7 out of ten on movie site Rottentomatoes.com.

It’s also possible that there was some crossover from the mighty comic book crowd; that rarely seen ‘nerdy girl’ demographic that happily and freely went to view both the Dark Knight and New Moon in theatres. Besides parents and comic book-friendly girls I think the next largest group, possibly the main reason for New Moon’s devastating opening couple of days, is that of teenage couples. One half is a superhero-obsessed teenaged boy and the other is a vampire/werewolf obsessed teenaged girl. The girl has been dragged along to see Dark Knight in theatres, and, depending on the length of the relationship, also Iron Man, Spider Man, X-Men, etc. The boy may been dragged to some of the later Harry Potter films, but he was certainly dragged to see Twilight and now, New Moon. It’s payback time. And every time this happens it cancels out some of the Dark Knight’s box office winnings.

There he is. Get a good look. A young Robert Pattinson. How many years before we see his face scroll by, one March in the future, on the Oscars ‘In Memoriam’ screen? Hopefully when his Cro-Magnon mug pops up on that big screen it’s greeted with a moment of disassociation before a few former fans recall, oh yeah, the Twilight kid, and then his memory is immediately set aside, never to be dusted off again, as he is over shadowed by an adored costume designer or cinematographer who’s also died that year.

As for me, I’m staying away from the Twilight series. Call me a fantasy purist or a comic book geek, but vampires and werewolves do not pal around with young girls in forests. They graphically devour them.

Is it a generational thing? When I was say, 13, I deposited a lot of money into the pockets of whoever had the rights to the Pokémon television show, and movies, and video games, and trading cards. Now that I’ve given all that up, I can still look back fondly on those days, while I simultaneously loathe everything that’s made to be enjoyed by kids of that age today.

I was definitely lined up to see the first two Lord of the Rings films earlier this decade – though sans costume, makeup, or ‘Team Hobbit’ t-shirt.

Before this turns into a nostalgia-fest, I’d like to bring this story back to New Moon’s smashing of comic book movies’ box office records. Kristen Stewart and crew had already blown away all comers in the category of November release, online pre-order sales, opening night sales, and midnight screening sales, and, in the category of biggest opening weekend, they were rolling over titles like X-Men 3: The Last Stand (a paltry $102.7 million) and Spider-Man ($114.8 million) like villages in the Westfold.

Spider-Man 3, second on the all-time opening weekend list, was holed up comfortably in its impenetrable $151.1 million – so it thought. After all, New Moon showed in two hundred fewer theatres than Spider-Man 3 during its opening weekend. But with its first night of sales reaching $72.7 million, and Saturday adding on another $42.3 million, New Moon was really crashing against Spider-Man 3’s fortress walls – so to speak. If New Moon could muster $36 million on its Sunday, then Spider-Man 3 would join the ranks of defeated foes, snuffed out by a flood of screaming teenage girls.

But New Moon failed. Maybe it was the slew of barely-passable and negative critical reviews? But no, that can’t be, this movie is part of a wildly popular saga. It has been called ‘critic-proof.’ So how was it that New Moon fell short of having the highest grossing opening weekend of all time? Don’t be coy, you know what it was that saved Spider-man 3 at the crack of dawn of what seemed an un-winnable battle.

Post script:

How come we can’t get the Christian right to come protest these movies? They didn’t like the Da Vinci Code or Harry Potter but I haven’t heard one peep about them hating on this godless sparkly vampire shit. Maybe they’ve learned that drawing attention to these movies only ever beefs up the eventual box office tally.

Still, I’d really like to see the Jesus Camp lady holding up a copy of the Twilight Saga and preaching its evils. It’d finally be something we could agree on.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon ha vinto il suo secondo week-end consecutivo, avendo un ricavo totale stimato di 42.5 Milioni di dollari da 4.042 cinema per il periodo da Venerdì a Domenica, e uno stimato di 66 Milioni di dollari per il week-end dei cinque giorni di festività  da Mercoledì a Domenica. Queste stime comprendono i :

• 14.3   Milioni di dollari di Mercoledì
• 9.2     Milioni di dollari di Giovedi
• 17.7   Milioni di dollari di Venerdì
• 16.5   Milioni di dollari di Sabato
• 8,3     Milioni di dollari di Domenica.

Questo incrementa il totale  nazionale del film di 230.7 Milioni di dollari durante i suoi primi 10 giorni di rilascio. La Summit ora stima che il box office straniero fino ad oggi sia di 243 Milioni di dollari in tutto il mondo per un totale complessivo di 473,7 Milioni di dollari,e continue  stime internazionali continuano ad arrivare.

fonte : Pronetworks

AGGIORNAMENTI : Le stime del box office di Giovedì sono arrivate. The Twilight Saga: New Moon ha guadagnato 9.2 milioni di dollari da 4.042 cinema con una media per schermo di 2.286 dollari per dare il via ai quattro giorni di week-end per la festa del Ringraziamento. Questo aumenta il totale nazionale del film a 188.2 Milioni di dollari durante i suoi primi sette giorni dal rilascio. Il totale attuale di tutto il mondo è di 320.3 Milioni di dollari. Non ci sono stati nuovi numeri internazionali per tutta la settimana perciò  il totale effettivo dovrebbe essere molto più elevato quando la Summit comunicherà i dati aggiornati di questa Domenica.
Con il totale di Venerdì – Giovedi, The Twilight Saga: New Moon (188.2 Milioni di dollari) ha avuto la terza settimana di apertura più grande di tutti i tempi, dietro a The Dark Knight (238.6 Milioni di dollari) e Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (196 milioni di dollari), e davanti a Spider-Man 3 (182 milioni di dollari). Essa pone anche New Moon al sesto posto nell’ elenco di tutti i tempi dei primi sei giorni di ampia diffusione ogni volta che si è verificato, non solo nei fine settimana. Con solo qualche milione per  raggiungere il box office totale in casa di Twilight che raggiunse 192.769.854 milioni di dollari, dopo i numeri di oggi New Moon ha fatto più in otto giorni di quanto Twilight ha fatto nei suoi  147 giorni dal 21 novembre 2008 al 2 aprile , 2009. Anche se il film è stato rovesciato dal primo posto Giovedi dal film della Warner Bros sul tema del calcio “The Blind Side” con 9.5 milioni di dollari, New Moon ha intenzione di rifarsi nel week-end.

Che altro? Naturalmente, continueremo ad aggiungere al conteggio ogni giorno sia a livello nazionale e internazionale. Ma la domanda è, che cosa accadrà durante il prossimo fine settimana?gli Studio rivali hanno quasi gettato la spugna ed esperti del settore concordano sul fatto che niente potrà ancora far scivolare The Twilight Saga: New Moon della Summit Entertainment dal box office. L’ analisi dei Media concorda. Come sarà la battaglia di Old Dogs della Disney contro i licantropi?  Ninja Assassin della Warner Bros combatterà contro i vampiri? Warner “dovrebbe portare più di alcuni giovani maschi lontani dalla frenesia in gran parte femminile delle fan di New Moon”, scrive Carl Diorio in The Hollywood Reporter. Tuttavia, osserva Diorio che “molti studenti e adulti avranno il Venerdì libero, e molte ragazze stanno già ritornando al cinema per ripetere la visione” di New Moon.

fonte : Pronetworks

In fact, we went on opening night — Friday 23rd. 12 of us. I made the signs for Team Jacob AND Team Edward because I’m that fun.

But don’t be confused. I’m 100% Team Jacob.

And I’m 100% happy that the movie is making mega bucks and proving that teenage girls and women can carry a movie to the top of the box office BIG time. These are the people that I love making movies for.

Something to be truly Thankful for!

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