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Disney Announces Plans for 15 3D Blu-Ray Releases in 2011, Including THE LION KING, TANGLED, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and TRON: LEGACY

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: January 3rd, 2011 at 9:11 am

While the 3D format continues its move towards home entertainment with more and more titles being released on 3D Blu-ray every month, it looks like Disney is getting in on the action as well. The Walt Disney Company announced today that it plans to release at least fifteen films on 3D Blu-ray throughout 2011. Titles set to hit 3D home video include The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, The Nightmare Before Christmas, TRON: Legacy, and Tangled. Not only will the films be presented in 3D, but the special 3D Blu-ray release will come complete with 3D menus, 3D trailers, and an introduction to the world of Disney 3D from The Lion King characters Timon and Pumba. Executive Vice-President and General Manager of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Lori MacPherson had this to say:

As our contemporary library of 3D content continues to grow, and the original artists and filmmakers meticulously ‘dimensionalize’ their work for release on the Blu-ray 3D format, we will be offering movie-lovers the most incredible in-home entertainment experience they will ever have

Hit the jump for more, including the other Disney titles planned for a 3D Blu-ray release. [We've updated this story with the official press release]

Friday Box Office – DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS Number One with $8.4 Million; INCEPTION Second, CHARLIE St. CLOUD Fourth, Cats & Dogs 2 Can’t Compete

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: July 31st, 2010 at 10:15 am

Even with so-so reviews, a screen count deficit and TV spots that were kind of bizarre, the PG-13 comedy Dinner for Schmucks managed a first place finish on Friday – barely. Jay Roach’s comedy made an estimated $8.4 million from 2,911 locations; just slightly ahead of Inception. With another remarkable hold after 15 days, Inception is now poised for a third weekend at number one – unless Schmucks can convince the weekend crowd that it’s actually a sequel to Date Night. Universal’s Charlie St. Cloud placed fourth with $5.6 million from 2,720 venues. Finally, though Warner Brothers was clearly hoping for a G-Force-sized success with their sequel to 2001’s mid-level hit Cats & Dogs, the family film could not even break the top five on Friday. Cats & Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore placed sixth with an estimated $4.2 million. And that was with a big screen count advantage and a 3D price premium at many of the film’s 3,705 locations. So the appeal of the talking, 3D animal has its limits after all! We’ll have full details tomorrow.

	Title	Friday	Total
1	Dinner for Schmucks	$8,400,000	$8.4
2	Inception	$8,100,000	$173.9
3	Salt	$5,900,000	$57.4
4	Charlie St. Cloud	$5,600,000	$5.6
5	Despicable Me	$4,700,000	$179.5

G-FORCE Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: December 16th, 2009 at 5:35 am

Whatever can be said of Jerry Bruckheimer, and at this point the white hot hate for his style of Bruckheimer/Simpson movies has to have subsided some (he’s no longer making Top Gun-Style borderline propaganda now that Michael Bay’s moved on), there is no doubt of one thing: dude has an eye for talent. Look at G-Force, and the cast: Tracy Morgan, Zach Galifianakis, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Nicholas Cage, Will Arnett, Penelope Cruz, and Bill Nighy. That’s a cast you’d want in most anything. My review of G-Force after the jump.

Weekend Box Office – FUNNY PEOPLE Tops a Soft Weekend with $23 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: August 2nd, 2009 at 9:40 am

The summer-weirdness continues as the weekend’s highest-profile release – director Judd Apatow’s “Funny People” – took first place and still managed to look like a bit of a loser.  Apatow’s star-packed follow-up to “Knocked Up” was a question mark to many box office analysts from the start.  On the one hand, it’s never a good idea to bet against an Apatow comedy; on the other hand, rumor had it that “Funny People” wasn’t that funny.  So what did it all mean in the end?  A respectable $23.4 million weekend take for the funny folks and another disappointing entry in Universal’s summer of regret…

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Funny People	$23,440,000	$23,440,000
2	Harry Potter 6	$17,700,000	$255,463,000
3	G-Force	$17,058,000	$66,461,000
4	The Ugly Truth	$13,000,000	$54,481,000
5	Aliens in the Attic	$7,800,000	$7,800,000
6	Orphan	$7,250,000	$26,791,000
7	Ice Age 3	$5,300,000	$181,843,000
8	The Hangover	$5,080,000	$255,776,000
9	The Proposal	$4,848,000	$148,882,000
10	Transformers 2	$4,600,000	$388,101,000

Friday Box Office – FUNNY PEOPLE Brings in $8.6 Million on First Friday

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: August 1st, 2009 at 10:35 am

Judd Apatow easily won Friday with the debut of his third R-rated comedy, “Funny People”.  Good news, right?  Well, sort of.  An $8.6 million first day puts “Funny People” smack in the middle of Apatow’s past releases – “The 40 Year Old Virgin” had a $7 million Friday in 2005 while “Knocked Up” brought in $9.8 million in 2007.  Universal would have liked to see those numbers go a bit higher for the high profile “Funny People”, though they were careful to manage expectations by lowering their projections to $25 million earlier this week.  After day one it looks like Seth Rogen and Adam Sandler may have some trouble getting to that figure, unless word of mouth puts some Apatow-sized legs under the film quick.  Updates on “Funny People” and the week’s other new releases await when you check back tomorrow…

	Title	Friday	Total
1	Funny People	$8.600,000	$8,600,000
2	G-Force	$5,800,000	$55,200,000
3	Harry Potter 6	$5,400,000	$243,200,000
4	The Ugly Truth	$4,400,000	$44,900,000
5	Aliens in the Attic	$2,800,000	$2,800,000

Weekend Box Office – HARRY POTTER Falls to G-Force on its Second Weekend

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: July 26th, 2009 at 9:58 am

One week at number one was all “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” could manage after all.  The sixth installment in Warner Brother’s epic wizarding-world saga succumbed to the superior numbers of Disney’s “G-Force”, which opened this weekend to a total of $32.2 million from 3,697 theatres – including 1,603 in Digital 3D.  Falling over 61% in its second weekend, “Half-Blood” still pulled in a respectable $30 million – good enough for second place and to bring the film’s worldwide total above $457 million. “The Ugly Truth” earned a very solid $27 million in its first weekend from 2,882 locations – proving that audiences are still in the mood to spend lavishly on romantic-comedies, no matter how terrible and ill-conceived those comedies might be.  And bringing up the rear of this weekend’s new releases parade, Dark Castle’s “Orphan” earned $12.8 million from its 2,750 venues.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	G-Force	$32,152,000	$32,152,000
2	Harry Potter 6	$30,000,000	$221,884,000
3	The Ugly Truth	$27,000,000	$27,000,000
4	Orphan	$12,770,000	$12,770,000
5	Ice Age 3	$8,200,000	$171,291,000
6	Transformers 2	$8,000,000	$379,090,000
7	The Hangover	$6,465,000	$247,077,000
8	The Proposal	$6,423,000	$140,086,000
9	Public Enemies	$4,170,000	$88,096,000
10	Bruno	$2,719,000	$56,516,000

Friday Box Office – HARRY Who? G-FORCE and THE UGLY TRUTH Top POTTER

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: July 25th, 2009 at 10:29 am

At this time last year the box office was still being dominated by one blockbuster release – something to do with Batman, if I recall.  The summer of 2009 has had nothing like the single-title excitement of “The Dark Knight”, however, and already in the last weekend of July the studios are throwing multiple, genre-specific titles at the screen to see what sticks.  Disney has the  CGI hamster action of “G-Force” out in both Digital 3D and standard versions and – if Friday’s opening day numbers are any indication – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” may have a hard time holding on to the top spot against the cunning rodents.   Sony’s “The Ugly Truth” is playing well to the romantic-comedy crowd while producer Joel Silver’s “Orphan” seems to be courting the under-served “kids without parents are creepy” demographic.  “Half-Blood” did manage to cross the $200 million mark on its tenth day out so check back tomorrow to see if that magic can overcome “G-Force” for the weekend title…

	Title	Friday	Total
1	G-Force	$11,500,000	$11,500,000
2	The Ugly Truth	$10,800,000	$10,800,000
3	Harry Potter 6	$9,300,000	$201,100,000
4	Orphan	$4,900,000	$4,900,000
5	Ice Age 3	$2,600,000	$165,700,000

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer Backstage Interview – 2009 Saturn Awards

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: June 28th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

As the producer of over seventy movies and TV shows, you’ve all seen something made by producer Jerry Bruckheimer. But if you don’t recognize the name, maybe you’ve seen “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Bad Boys”, “Beverly Hills Cop”, “C.S.I.” or “Cold Case”. To put it simply, Jerry’s a big deal.

So when I got the chance to briefly interview him backstage at the 2009 Saturn Awards, I wasn’t sure what to ask. After all, you could spend the entire interview asking questions about previous projects. But since he has a project about to come out and some stuff in post production, I decided to talk about upcoming things.

After the jump Jerry talks about “G-Force”, “Prince of Persia” and “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. Take a look:

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