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March 2010 Breaks Box-Office Records, But Attendance Doesn’t Look Good
We’ve been absent from Hollywood Prophets for almost two weeks now, but we aren’t gone for good. Expect posts like this one to be back again frequently. March represents another record breaking month for box-office. As illustrated in this Box Office Mojo article that would not have been possible without the increasing popularity of 3-D tech. [...]
Weekend Forecast: “Green Zone” Fires At Americans Who Want More Iraq, Rob Says “Remember Me” to the Teenyboppers, “She’s Out of My League” But Damon and Rob Are Cock Blockin’, and “My Family Wedding” Shouldn’t Be Expecting Many Guests
1. Alice in Wonderland After an unbelievable opening weekend, one that would go down as the biggest Spring or Winter has ever seen, Alice in Wonderland has secured its spot at the top of the box-office for a second week. It’s $116 million dollar opening shocked the whole industry, excited Disney, and propelled 3-D’s popularity [...]
New and Classic, Young and Old Unite for J. Edgar Hoover Bio-Pic
J. Edgar Hoover is a pretty colorful character to make a movie about. He’s unbelievably eccentric, flamboyant, and mysterious. The thing that makes him noteworthy though is that a guy that was this odd actually had a huge amount of power. He ran the freaking FBI throughout the entire red scare and gangster period for [...]
Trailer Watch: New Trailer for Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood” Not Looking Too Good
A new trailer for Robin Hood was released today. The film stars Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, and is directed by Ridley Scott. Oh, I almost forgot; Mark Strong lends a hand to play the bad guy, but you already knew that because he will be playing the bad guy in every single film being released [...]
Oscar Woes: Sacha Baron Cohen/Ben Stiller Sketch Nixed for Fear of Jim Cameron
I’ve never understood people that can’t take a joke, but I think that James Cameron has made some pretty sweet flicks. All of them have plenty to laugh at though, namely his most recent film, Avatar. It’s practically a cheese festival, an enjoyable and entertaining one, but it’s okay to call people out on lazy [...]
Weekend Forecast: “Cop Out” Opts for Adults With Raunchy Childish Humor, “The Crazies” Stabs for Horror Crowds
1. Shutter Island Without question, Shutter Island’s massive debut surprised a lot of people. We weren’t really surprised by it, we wrote an article about how we thought it would happen. We were however surprised by the fact that it was going to happen. That article was just an expression of the country’s mood that [...]
WTF: “The Crazies” Gets Great Reviews!
If you would’ve asked us two weeks ago, “What should we see on February 26th?” we would’ve probably said, “Cop Out might be solid.” I don’t think anyone expected The Crazies to have any potential to be worth seeing. Sure it looked like it had potential to be scary from the trailers, but Hollywood turns [...]
The Plight of “Shutter Island” May Pay Off in Spades
Heading into Fall of 2009 I had one film that I was truly looking forward to. The trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar looked very iffy, and buzz was beginning to turn against it. It wasn’t a sure thing at all. Sherlock Holmes looked fun, but Guy Ritchie is so inconsistent and that wasn’t a sure [...]
Bragging Rights: How Our Predictions Panned Out
Every weekend Hollywood Prophets makes some predictions about how much each of the top 10 films at the box-office will make. A lot of sites do this, but we’re going to take it one step further. In “Bragging Rights” you’ll read about what we got right, and what we weren’t so right on. This is [...]
Joe Johnston Helps Us Understand What Went Wrong with “The Wolfman”
We criticized Joe Johnston in our review, but it seems that we may have been at least a little off with that assumption. We always felt like things throughout the film were noticeably rushed, reliant on things like music, and post-production effects to make them anything close to scary or exciting (which really just made [...]