Dear John

Weekend Box Office – RIO Takes Top Perch with $26.8 Million; MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY a Close Second with $25.8 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: April 24th, 2011 at 9:50 am

On Easter weekend the animated hit Rio managed to hold on to its number one perch for a second weekend in a row with an estimated $26.8 million.  The padding between Fox’s birds and the Tyler Perry’s bawd was pretty slim, however.  In second place Madea’s Big Happy Family was right behind Rio with an estimated $25.8 million.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Rio	$26,800,000	$81.3
2	Madea’s Big Happy Family	$25,800,000	$25.8
3	Water for Elephants	$17,500,000	$17.5
4	Hop	$12,500,000	$100.5
5	Scream 4	$7,100,000	$31.1
6	African Cats	$6,400,000	$6.4
7	Soul Surfer	$5,600,000	$28.6
8	Insidious	$5,380,000	$44.1
9	Hanna	$5,275,000	$31.7
10	Soul Surfer	$5,060,000	$44.6

Weekend Box Office – THE ROOMMATE At Home in First Place with $15.6 Million; SANCTUM in Second with $9.2 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: February 6th, 2011 at 9:22 am

Super Bowl weekend is not known for its huge debuts – 2010 being the notable exception.  And with much of the country still dealing with their endless winter nightmares and the rest transfixed by the game, this weekend has a good excuse for its low numbers.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	The Roommate	$15,600,000	$15.6
2	Sanctum	$9,225,000	$9.2
3	No Strings Attached	$8,400,000	$51.7
4	The King’s Speech	$8,310,000	$84.1
5	The Green Hornet	$6,100,000	$87.2
6	The Rite	$5,565,000	$23.6
7	The Mechanic	$5,370,000	$20
8	True Grit	$4,750,000	$155
9	The Dilemma	$3,448,000	$35.7
10	Black Swan	$3,400,000	$95.8

Weekend Box Office – THE RITE Stays On Top with $15 Million; The Mechanic Ties for Third with $11.5 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: January 30th, 2011 at 10:11 am

After finishing in first on Friday, The Rite stayed on top with a three day estimate of $15 million from its 2,985 locations.  No Strings Attached followed in second place, holding on to 58% of its first weekend total.  The Mechanic opened in third for the weekend with $11.5 million, a figure that was well above most projections for the R-rated action film.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	The Rite	$15,000,000	$15
2	No Strings Attached	$13,700,000	$39.7
3	The Mechanic	$11,500,000	$11.5
4	The Green Hornet	$11,500,000	$78.8
5	The King’s Speech	$11,100,000	$72.2
6	True Grit	$7,600,000	$148.3
7	The Dilemma	$5,470,000	$40.6
8	Black Swan	$5,100,000	$90.7
9	The Fighter	$4,055,000	$78.3
10	Yogi Bear	$3,165,000	$92.5

Weekend Box Office – CLASH OF THE TITANS $61.4 Million Breaks Easter Record

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: April 4th, 2010 at 9:50 am

It was a record breaking Easter weekend debut for WB/Legendary’s much-hyped Clash of the Titans remake. The newly-christened 3D pic took in an estimated $61.4 million from 3,777 locations including 1,810 3D screens it managed to pilfer from Alice in Wonderland.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Clash of the Titans	$61,400,000	$64
2	Why Did I Get Married Too	$30,150,000	$30.1
3	How to Train Your Dragon	$29,200,000	$92.3
4	The Last Song	$16,200,000	$25.5
5	Alice in Wonderland	$8,267,000	$309
6	Hot Tub Time Machine	$8,000,000	$27.8
7	The Bounty Hunter	$6,200,000	$48.9
8	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	$5,525,000	$46.2
9	She’s Out of My League	$1,463,000	$28.6
10	Shutter Island	$1,462,000	$123.4

Weekend Box Office – How Original! VALENTINE’S DAY Tops Valentine’s Day Weekend with $52.4 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: February 14th, 2010 at 10:18 am

It seems that every week of 2010 has brought us a new record-breaker at the box office. Last week the romantic drama Dear John became the top earner on a Super Bowl weekend. Only slightly more impressive was the month-long reign of Avatar during which the 3D titan took down nearly every all-time box office category Hollywood could throw at it.  This weekend saw yet another record fall. Valentine’s Day, director Garry Marshall’s star-packed romantic comedy, has already become the highest grossing film over President’s Day weekend – before Monday’s numbers have even been counted.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Valentine’s Day	$52,400,000	$52.4
2	Percy Jackson	$31,100,000	$31.1
3	The Wolfman	$30,600,000	$30.6
4	Avatar	$22,000,000	$659.6
5	Dear John	$15,300,000	$53.1
6	Tooth Fairy	$5,600,000	$41.5
7	From Paris w/Love	$4,740,000	$15.8
8	Edge of Darkness	$4,585,000	$36
9	Crazy Heart	$4,000,000	$16.5
10	When in Rome	$3,429,000	$26

Weekend Box Office – It’s Over. AVATAR Falls To DEAR JOHN with $32.4 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: February 7th, 2010 at 10:31 am

After seven weeks and over $630 million dollars, the Avatar-domination of the domestic box office has been brought to a close. And what title finally proved powerful enough to take down the most profitable film of all time? A romantic confection called Dear John.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Dear John	$32,400,000	$32.4
2	Avatar	$23,600,000	$630
3	From Paris w/Love	$8,120,000	$8.1
4	Edge of Darkness	$7,005,000	$29
5	Tooth Fairy	$6,500,000	$25.3
6	When in Rome	$5,504,000	$20.8
7	Book of Eli	$4,835,000	$82.1
8	Crazy Heart	$3,650,000	$11.1
9	Legion	$3,400,000	$34.6
10	Sherlock Holmes	$2,360,000	$201.5

Friday Box Office – AVATAR Gets Dumped For DEAR JOHN!

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: February 6th, 2010 at 9:48 am

It looks like Avatar has finally met its match. The death blow came from a most unlikely quarter: the romantic drama Dear John. The latest movie to carry the “from the author of The Notebook” tag, Dear John opened to a stronger-than-expected $13.8 million on Friday and is now on its way to a projected weekend take in the $30 million range. Avatar brought in less than half of John‘s total – though its $6.1 million in week eight still smoked the estimated $3 million collected by From Paris with Love on its debut date. Avatar has lost Fridays in the past only to go on to victory in the weekend race. But on those occasions, the film’s margin of defeat was much smaller and there was no demographically-appealing sporting event looming. Avatar fans, start stealing yourselves for a second place finish… just in case.

	Title	Friday	Total
1	Dear John	$13,800,000	$13.8
2	Avatar	$6,100,000	$612.6
3	From Paris w/Love	$3,000,000	$3
4	Edge of Darkness	$2,300,000	$2.3
5	When in Rome	$2,000,000	$2

Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried Exclusive Video Interviews DEAR JOHN

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: February 4th, 2010 at 7:34 pm

Opening tomorrow is director Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) new film Dear John.  Here’s the synopsis:

Based on the best-selling Nicholas Sparks book, Dear John tells the story of  John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), the idealistic college student he falls in love with during her spring vacation. Over the next seven tumultuous years, the couple is separated by John¹s increasingly dangerous deployments.  While meeting only sporadically, they stay in touch by sending a continuous stream of love letters overseas – correspondence that eventually triggers fateful consequences.

While I’m not usually a fan of the Nicholas Sparks genre…I’ll admit to enjoying Dear John a lot more than I expected to.  Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried have great chemistry and the romance and story feels believable.  If you’re girlfriend/wife asks you to see the film, bite the bullet.  Trust me, I’ve seen a lot of bad films in this genre and this is definitely not one of them.

To help promote the film, I recently got to speak with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried.  Hit the jump to watch what they had to say:

Nicholas Sparks Interview DEAR JOHN

by Sheila Roberts    Posted: January 31st, 2010 at 7:13 pm

International best-selling author Nicholas Sparks sat down with us recently to talk about Dear John, the latest film to be adapted from one of his novels. Directed by Oscar nominee Lasse Hallström, Dear John tells the story of John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), the idealistic college student he falls in love with during her spring vacation. The film also stars Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins.

Sparks, who currently resides in North Carolina with his wife and five children, has published fifteen novels of which six have been turned into films. They include The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Last Song, Dear John, and Nights in Rodanthe. Sparks also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of his novel, The Last Song. The film rights for his novel, The Lucky One, have been sold to Warner Bros. with Douglas McGrath attached to direct. Sparks has also sold screenplay adaptations of True Believer and At First Sight.

Nicholas Sparks talked to us about walking the fine line between drama and melodrama, how pleased he is with the way Lasse Hallström and the cast captured his vision on film, and what a love story like Dear John has in common with the Humphrey Bogart classic, Casablanca. Here’s what he had to say:

Channing Tatum Interview DEAR JOHN, Plus Info on Dito Montiel’s SON OF NO ONE and THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH

by Sheila Roberts    Posted: January 31st, 2010 at 6:50 pm

From his growing list of films that include Dito Montiel’s A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Andy Fickman’s She’s the Man, Kimberly Peirce’s Stop-Loss, Stephen Sommers’ G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and most recently, Dear John, Channing Tatum has captured the attention of critics and audiences alike by choosing diverse roles in vastly different genres and working with some of the best directors in the industry.

Helmed by three-time Oscar nominee Lasse Hallström and based on the novel by best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, Dear John tells the story of John Tyree (Tatum), a handsome, soft spoken Special Forces soldier visiting his father in South Carolina while home on leave, and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), the beautiful, idealistic college student he falls in love with after they meet following a chance encounter on the beach during her spring vacation.

Channing Tatum sat down with us to talk about his character, the line between drama and melodrama, what it was like working with Lasse Hallström and Richard Jenkins, and his upcoming projects Son of No One with Dito Montiel and the recently completed The Eagle of the Ninth directed by Kevin Macdonald. Here’s what he had to tell us:

Weekend Box Office – With Another $30 Million AVATAR Makes It Seven Weeks in a Row

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: January 31st, 2010 at 9:45 am

You probably didn’t need me to tell you this morning that Avatar is still the number one movie in America… and in the Universe, as far as I know. With all the talk about Mel Gibson’s cinematic return in Edge of Darkness, it was never realistic to believe that an aging action star would derail Avatar‘s domination – not when the film is still pulling in numbers usually reserved for an opening week well into its second month in theatres.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Avatar	$30,000,000	$594.4
2	Edge of Darkness	$17,120,000	$17.1
3	When in Rome	$12,065,000	$12
4	Tooth Fairy	$10,000,000	$26.1
5	Book of Eli	$8,770,000	$74.3
6	Legion	$6,800,000	$28.6
7	Lovely Bones	$4,735,000	$38
8	Sherlock Holmes	$4,510,000	$197.5
9	Alvin & the Chipmunks 2	$4,000,000	$209.2
10	It’s Complicated	$3,720,000	$104

5 Movie Clips from Lasse Hallström’s DEAR JOHN Starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: January 25th, 2010 at 8:06 pm

Opening on February 5 is director Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) new film Dear John.  Here’s the synopsis:

Based on the best-selling Nicholas Sparks book, Dear John tells the story of  John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), the idealistic college student he falls in love with during her spring vacation. Over the next seven tumultuous years, the couple is separated by John¹s increasingly dangerous deployments.  While meeting only sporadically, they stay in touch by sending a continuous stream of love letters overseas — correspondence that eventually triggers fateful consequences.

While I’m not usually a fan of the Nicholas Sparks genre…I’ll admit to enjoying Dear John a lot more than I expected to.  Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried have great chemistry and the romance and story feels believable.  If you’re girlfriend/wife asks you to see the film, bite the bullet.  Trust me, I’ve seen a lot of bad films in this genre and this is definitely not one of them.

To help promote the film, we’ve been given five movie clips.  Hit the jump to check them out:

Screen Gems 2010 Preview: Synopses and Images from DEAR JOHN, DEATH AT A FUNERAL, TAKERS, PRIEST, THE ROOMATE and More

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: December 22nd, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Screen Gems has released synopses and some first look images from their 2010 films and it’s all after the jump.  Some of the new/first look images are from The Roomate (starring Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly), Death at a Funeral (starring Peter Dinklage, Danny Glover, Martin Lawrence, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock, Zoë Saldaña), and Takers (starring Matt Dillon, Paul Walker, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez, and Hayden Christensen).

Also, while they didn’t release any images, they did provide the first synopsis for Burlesque which stars Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Cam Gigandet, Julianne Hough, Peter Gallagher, Alan Cumming, Kristen Bell and Stanley Tucci.

Check out everything after the jump.  It’s posted by release date.

Amanda Seyfried to Exit BIG LOVE

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: December 20th, 2009 at 8:12 am

January brings us the fourth season of HBO’s Big Love, but it may be the last to feature cast member Amanda Seyfried on a regular basis according to TV Guide. Seyfried plays the eldest of eight children of a polygamist family in suburban Utah, and will be written off the show in the eighth episode of the season.

The show’s creator, Will Scheffer, had this to say, “She’s been exploring her movie career for a couple of years now, and we’ve been giving her a lot of room to do that. I know having a commitment to a show for six months definitely cuts into her ability to pursue that career.” Just so there’s no confusion, Scheffer continues, “She’s moving away”. Hit the jump for what effect this may have on the show.

Exclusive: Channing Tatum talks DEAR JOHN and THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH on the Red Carpet

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: August 7th, 2009 at 11:46 am

As you may have already noticed by the abundance of video interviews on Collider, last night I covered a special “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” screening at Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. While there, I landed tons of video interviews with the cast and producers of the movie. Since I already talked to Channing Tatum about “G.I. Joe” on more than one occasion, I decided to use my time to talk about other projects. So after the jump you can hear Channing talk about his next film “Dear John” and the project he’s about to start…a Roman Empire film called “The Eagle of the Ninth”. If you haven’t heard about that one yet, it’s going to be directed by Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”, “State of Play”). What I’m trying to say is…it’s a film you should be excited for. Watch the interview after the jump:

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