Here’s a recap of how I did with my predictions. The official Top 10 estimates are below. I’ll give myself a “C”, but I’m a tough critic: 1) The Town $18.5M – Got it right @ #1, but missed the $$$ by a lot. 2) Easy A $15.6 – Underestimated the $ as well. Bigger […]

Big news that you may have missed from this past weekend: “At the Movies” is coming back and Roger Ebert is coming back with it! Ebert (and his wife Chaz) are producing the show, plus Roger will appear each week with his own segment. This is fantastic! The show will be broadcast on PBS stations […]

“Flipped” was scheduled to be released nationwide on August 27. However, at the last minute, Warner Brothers decided to only put it out in a handful of theaters in a few major cities. “The Winning Season” came out a few weeks ago, but only in three theaters in the entire country, and also on Pay […]

It’s time, once again, for the “LCJ Summer Movie Awards”. MOST FORGETTABLE I saw “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” the day it came out and I really haven’t thought about it since. Dull story, boring special effects, ho-hum performances. The only memorable scene in the film is when Alfred Molina’s character kisses an ostrich. […]

Fox’s 2008 animated comedy “Space Chimps” is getting a sequel. The film (titled “Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back” has already been released in the UK, and will be coming to DVD in the U.S. October 5th. Sometimes direct-to-DVD sequels of animated movies do not have the same voice actors as in the original. The […]

The first weekend of “Avatar: Special Edition” was a bomb. $4 million in three days on 800 screens is okay, but much less than what the studio and many movie insiders expected (I predicted it would do less that $5M). Not finishing in the top ten is a little embarrassing. Clearly fans realized they were […]

The writers of “Kung Fu Panda”, Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff, are set to write the screenplay for “The Karate Kid 2” (or as I’d rather call it, “The Karate Kid: Part II 2”). Maybe there will be a little more humor in the sequel, but why is there going to be a sequel anyway? […]

Variety reports that after nearly 30 years, Disney and Pixar will not submit nominations for their animated movies for the Annie Awards. People from those studios, including Pixar’s Ed Catmull, believe that there’s an issue with the way the Annie’s are judged. Organizers of the event still hope that “Toy Story 3” and “Tangled” can […]

According to Pixar Planet, there will be a teaser trailer for “Cars 2” on the “Toy Story 3” DVD, which is coming out November 2nd. Thankfully it’s pre-Thanksgiving, but it’s still a long time to wait – over two months! I wonder if something about it, or parts of the trailer itself, will leak out […]