With no new wide releases at the domestic box office last weekend, it was a slow one that two-time reigning champ The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 easily won by adding another $16.5 million to its total, which is set to cross the $250 million mark domestically this week. Rounding out the top 5 was a slight reshuffling of the same four family film... Read More »

Two years ago we had Avatar, last year we had Tron, and next year Disney will be launching a new film franchise that can best be summed up as Star Wars meets Avatar. But before you watch the trailer, what you may not know is that Disney's latest film adaption of John Carter is actually based on novels from 100 years ago by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which have he... Read More »

Hollywood has a history of spitting out similar, competing movies around the same time. Sometimes I like the double dose: Despicable Me and Megamind, Antz and A Bug's Life, The Prestige and The Illusionist, Mission to Mars and Red Planet, Dante's Peak and Volcano. In other cases, I choose sides and prefer one over the other (all of the latter ones in the ... Read More »

Twihards continued to feast at the extended Thanksgiving holiday box office last weekend, giving the latest installment in their beloved saga a repeat win over a cornucopia of family films. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 readily crossed the $200 million mark in domestic gross as it raked in $62.3 million over the five-day weekend. Meanwhile, Di... Read More »

All you Harry Potheads out there can breathe a sigh of relief because your records are safe. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 topped the weekend domestic box office with the second biggest opening of 2011 (behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2) and the fifth biggest ever behind Deathly Hallows Pt 2, The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 3, and ... Read More »

I don't think it's possible to fit any more machismo into one ad than this latest poster for The Expendables 2. It's so jam-packed that they didn't even have room in their pyramid of ass-kicking stars for Randy Couture and Jet Li; luckily Stone Cold isn't in the sequel, so they didn't have to worry about fitting him in, too. The Expendables 2 is set for r... Read More »

I've been seeing a lot of press over the past few months for the upcoming book-to-film adaptation, The Hunger Games. The novels have received tons of praise from both critics and consumers for being gritty and violent stories for young adults. Wondering what all the fuss was about and having not read any of the books myself or even heard of "The Hunger Games... Read More »

The mythical action flick Immortals made a killing at the domestic box office over the weekend by bringing in an impressive $32 million. The gods-based adventure film's impressive 3D was enough to distract gamers from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's record-breaking launch. Despite nearly already recovering its $80 million budget with help from overseas reve... Read More »

DreamWorks Animation's decision to release Shrek spin-off prequel Puss in Boots one week early paid off this weekend as the feline family film remained atop the domestic box office with $33 million, an amazingly tiny 3% decrease from its record-breaking debut. After enjoying the biggest Halloween weekend opening ever, the fairy tale flick had an extremely... Read More »

With the success of found footage films like Cloverfield, Quarantine, and Paranormal Activity 3, it was only a matter of time before one of the hottest genres right now, the superhero movie, got the handheld-camera treatment. The new Chronicle trailer shows some teenagers doing basically what I'd probably be doing if I discovered or developed superpowers... Read More »

Shrek spin-off prequel Puss in Boots opened to great reviews, including ours, and the biggest Halloween weekend debut ever, topping previous record holder Saw III. However, the fairy tale feline's $34 million is less than half of the opening take of the last Shrek sequel and significantly trails those of DreamWorks Animations' other recent films as well, inc... Read More »

Paranormal Activity 3 scored and scared up a new high for the low-budget found footage franchise. Its estimated $54 million debut this weekend at the domestic box office shattered Paranormal Activity 2's opening horror record of $40.7 million set last year and also beat Jackass 3D's $50.4 million for biggest fall opening ever. This bumped back-to-back champ ... Read More »

Early numbers indicate that Atom, the little robot that could, again proved that he's the people's champion as Real Steel defended its domestic box office title against a pair of '80s remakes. Okay, so new prequel The Thing officially isn't a remake, but it has the same exact title, same setting, and basically the same story as John Carpenter's 1982 cult cla... Read More »

It's been about nearly four months since loyal MediaStinger readers first knew to stick around after the credits of Captain America: The First Avenger to enjoy the very first teaser for the big-budget blockbuster that kicks off summer 2012. Marvel's grand plan is starting to come to its culmination via The Avengers, which brings together some of its more pop... Read More »

Netflix really just can't catch a break these past few months. First they increased their prices, then Starz didn't renew its deal with them, and to try and fix things more recently, Netflix decided to announce the creation of Qwikster, a division of Netflix that would take over their DVD-by-mail services as Netflix moved on to streaming movies online... a m... Read More »

In its opening round, Real Steel scored the biggest debut ever for a boxing movie, easily good to win the box office title this weekend over fellow newcomer The Ides of March, which was the runner-up. The fall season typically holds a surge of acting-centric, star-packed Oscar bait like the new George Clooney-directed political drama, but a sci-fi action mov... Read More »