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Archive for the Film Category
Exhumed Films Fulci Double Feature
Posted in Film on 11/30/2012 by lazycrazydays06.1-3.2012: Weekend Box Office – The $
Posted in Box Office, Film on 06/04/2012 by sharonwongKristen Stewart’s Snow White bit into the poisonous apple of Charlize Theron’s Queen Ravenna and MIB3‘s weekend box office. Snow White and the Huntsman shattered the mirror as in Mirror Mirror, premiering at #1 with $56.217 million which is just a few million shy from the first Snow White of 2012’s 10-weekend domestic gross of $62.911 million. The $170 million movie opened at 3,773 theaters, appealing to a wide audience of which 52% were aged 30 years and older. Continue reading
05.25-28.2012: Weekend Box Office – The $
Posted in Box Office, Film on 05/29/2012 by sharonwongThough not July 4th but Memorial Day weekend, Will Smith rejoined the summer movie season with a sequel ten years in the making. Agents J (Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin), the men in Men in Black III, fought the aliens to win against The Avengers‘ Hulk, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor and Captain America. The superheroes fell to the fellow Earth-saving duo yet they continued to dominate over second weekenders #3 Battleship ($11.05 million) and #4 The Dictator ($9.276 million), and the just released Chernobyl Diaries in the top five of the weekend box office. Continue reading
Suicide & Grindhouse…A Boston Comic Con Interview with Mike Pecci
Posted in Film, Interviews on 05/17/2012 by shaundaniels78Interview & Written by Shaun Daniels, Edited by Roger Froilan and Photos by Sharon Wong with Audio Editing by Stephen Laskey of Laskey Productions
Good chances are that somewhere on the interwebs you’ve come across Mike Pecci. Whether it’s the director/photographer’s high concept photography, work with the Suicide Girls or Grindhouse Shorts film, then you’ve experienced his work. If that wasn’t enough for his resume, Mike has filmed music videos for old school hardcore acts like Sick Of It All and Agnostic Front as well as Boston’s own hip-hop stars 7L & Esoteric. We had the utmost pleasure speaking with Mike at Boston Comic Con this year, where he gave us a rundown of Grindhouse Shorts and teased at future work, including a documentary about Ben Templesmith. Continue reading
05.4-6.2012: Weekend Box Office – The $
Posted in Box Office, Film on 05/07/2012 by sharonwongAfter two weekends of Think(ing) Like a Man, audiences were thinking superheroes. Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Joss Whedon brought together Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye to form the superhero team and the #1 movie The Avengers. The action-adventure with a bit of sci-fi film crushed Loki and the nine top ten movies including Think Like a Man. Steve Harvey’s non-fiction book turned romantic comedy fell to #2 and -54%, earning $8.106 million in its third weekend at 2,010 theaters.