Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Frightening Four Pack

Weekend Openers
Your mission: Predict the opening weekend (Fri-Sun) totals for this week's releases. The deadline is Friday night at Midnight EST.



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It looks to be a sad, sad weekend for movies.

First off, Rainn Wilson is moving from The Office to the big screen in The Rocker. Apparently he gets his freak on with Christina Applegate - pardon me while I try and pry that imagery out of my head with a claw hammer.

Everyone's favorite B-movie action star Jason Statham is back driving in a Death Race whose only similarity to the original with David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone are the character names. Sorry folks, no points for killing people here.

Anna Faris tries to make people forget those hilariously awful uncomedies and tries a more serious role in The House Bunny. Oh, please - who am I kidding? It's safe to say you won't be seeing Faris in any dramatic roles. At least not while these gems are here for her to do.

And inspired by a true story, Ice Cube coaches a female quarterback in The Longshots. Is this comparable to Walter Matthau and his female pitcher in the Bad News Bears? And did my eyes deceive me or is Fred Durst directing this? Eeek.

I am thinking Batman may regain the #1 spot this week.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Death Race 19.4
Rocker 14.6
Long Shot 8.7
HouseBunny 4.3

frightEning!!!

Grimm said...

Ok, I have a feeling this week may come down to pennies here.

Death Race - $20.85
The House Bunny - $11.10
The Rocker - $15.87
The Longshots - $7.45

These can go so many different ways...I have no clue.

Anonymous said...

Race-17
Bunny-10.5
Rocker-10
Longshot-7