Jeff Goldblum rises from the grave on The Colbert Report...

For reasons unknown the embedding code isn't working, so the best I can do is provide a direct link. Regardless, this is a gem. Scott M...

Paramount finds $2 million under a mattress, so Transformers 2 gets its $200 million five-day gross after all.

Well, the final numbers are out, and Transformers 2 's three-day take was only $109 million. Yet they are still claiming that the five-...

Yes, box office write-ups are easier/better when the news is good...

Random thought for the morning: At the end of yesterday's weekend box office roundup , I decided to link to my previous Dark Knight box...

Because girls only go to movies with romance in them...?

Apparently, once again, women are being told that they only go to movies for the mushy stuff. Check out this quote from David Germain's...

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen does $112 million for the weekend, $201 million for the five-day opening. Second-biggest five-day of all time.

It's close, but no cigar . Transformers 2 : Revenge of the Fallen ended up $2 million behind The Dark Knight for that much-desired fi...

Inglorious Bastards gets an official trailer...

On the surface, this looks like an absolute blast. It appears to be a violent, mean-spirited, wish-fullfillment fantasy that has several bi...

Transformers does $36 million for Friday...

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen got a solid 28% Friday bump, starting out the Fri-Sun portion of its opening weekend with $36.7 million...

Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter gets a poster all for himself...

It looks like we'll be seeing character-centric posters for all of the main characters in this Tim Burton-directed Alice In Wonderland ...

Richard Kelly's The Box gets a trailer...

Warning, this trailer appears more spoilerish than I appreciated. View at your own risk... This looks like a trashy, B-movie good time. The...

Daybreakers get a trailer...

Intriguingly, the plot looks like it used a giant deleted subplot from the first Blade movie as a taking off point. If you recall, Stephen...

Tranformers 2 does $28.6 million on Thursday...

Before today, the current record-holder for a non-opening Thursday was $23 million, for Spider-Man 2 (the biggest opening Thursday is Reven...

The Invention of Lying trailer.

This looks like an uncommonly clever concept, although the plot strands seem to become a bit generic. Still, what a cast... I might see thi...

RIP - Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)

I have no great obituary, no epic essay on his career. There are other places for that . I was just a fan as a young child of the 1980s, ...

Hilary Swank plays Amelia Earhart in Amelia...

As always, if the YouTube video goes dead, go here for the official version . I'm not sure if this seemingly straightforward biopic will...

Transformers 2 does $60 million on opening Wednesday...

The official numbers are in, and it appears that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen did $16 million in midnight showings (behind only The ...

M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender gets a teaser...

There is next to no footage in this one, but that's why they call it a teaser. I really ought to try and watch the three seasons of the...

Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo gets a trailer...

This looks oddly like a distillation of DC Comic's Aquaman. I'm assuming there's more to this, but this looks like visually gor...

Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: IMAX Experience (2009)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The IMAX Experience 2009 150 minutes Rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson There's a little fast-food chic...

Trasnformers 2 - Less than Meets the Eye...

A full review will be coming soon. It is quite clear that Michael Bay has violated the 'Godzilla Rule'. Scott Mendelson

Yet another Halloween II trailer...

Nothing much to say here, there is certainly an effort to differenciate this sequel from the original film, as well as the original franchis...

June 23rd, 1989 - twenty years later, how Batman changed the movie business.

Believe it or not, Tim Burton's Batman turns twenty-years old tomorrow. First of all, the sheer number of 'I can't believe thi...

Moneyball strikes out

I'd comment at length on the Moneyball fiasco , but much of what I'm thinking has already been said by David Poland over at The Ho...

The Proposal opens with $33.6 million, Year One opens with $20 million. Hangover and Up still going strong. Weekend box office for 06/20/09.

Not much new to report here . The Proposal had a decent 2.65x multiplier, ending the weekend with $33.6 million. That makes this film the...

New GI Joe: Rise of Cobra trailer...

Or...they could have shown THIS on the MTV Movie Awards a couple weeks ago... just saying. It still looks insanely dumb, but this actually ...

Sandra Bullock doubles her best? Proposal defeats Hangover, but Year One hangs on. Friday box office in review...

I wrote last week that, while Sandra Bullock's movies often show solid long-term playability, that they don't have boffo opening wee...

The trailer for the remake of The Stepfather...

Warning, DO NOT WATCH this trailer if you have not seen the original version of The Stepfather . It gives away one of the best moments of th...

The trailer for the remake of Fame...

The adult cast, Kelsey Grammar, Bebe Neuwirth, Charles S. Dutton, and Megan Mullally, is surprisingly promising. Still, with that 'ther...

Roland Emmerich's next, 2012, gets a trailer...

If you were thrilled by Independence Day ... if you were terrified by The Day After Tomorrow ... then you will be scared shitless by... 2012...