I was asked no fewer than a dozen times over the weekend about JJ Abrams “secret” new movie, tentatively titled “1-18-08” (the release date). Everyone – like me – saw the trailer before seeing Transformers. I know very little about this movie – other than it’s JJ Abrams – and that there is a website that provides very few details. There are 3 photo’s that you can move around – yet I don’t know what it all means. (Very LOST-ish)

The (or one of the) official site(s) for the J.J. Abrams-produced 1-18-08 has revealed a third photo from the movie which shows New York residents during or after the attack on the city (by what is unknown still). You can check it out at 1-18-08.com, where you can move the three photos around to get a better view. The timestamps on the photos indicate that things happen pretty darn quick.

Released by Paramount Pictures, the secret movie is directed by Matt Reeves and written by Drew Goddard. Michael Stahl-David, Odet Jasmin, Mike Vogel and Lizzy Kaplan star.

In case you haven’t seen the trailer – here it the teaser. I am a HUGE JJ Abrams fan – therefor I cannot wait – and will be hanging on every detail until the movie releases!

The cast of “License to Wed” are setting new records! For biggest box office bomb in history. License to Wed was released Wednesday with an estimated 2 million dollars. Transformers continues to rape the box office with $66 million dollars in 2 1/2 days.

License has quickly turned into a disaster of Lucky You proportions. Critics hate this movie, which stars Robin Williams, Mandy Moore and John Krasinski from NBC’s The Office. At last check, License to Wed was rated just 10 percent Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes, and reviews range from awful to cruel.

Some Reviews from the Film

-License to Wed is the worst idea for a studio comedy since last year’s equally dreadful Failure to Launch

-There’s bad, there’s awful and there’s horrible, and then somewhere beyond that, in its own Kingdom of Lousy — where all the milk curdles and the jokes aren’t funny — is “License to Wed,” the latest ghastly exercise starring Robin Williams.

-Comedies don’t get much lamer than License to Wed. Working from a flawed premise with characters lacking credibility and plot turns more moronic than funny, the movie flatlines in about 5 minutes.” — Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter

-”[Robin] Williams has become a comedic glass ceiling, a black hole of laughs that guarantees every scene he’s in will make nails on a chalkboard sound appealing.” — Matt Pais, MetroMix.com

To look at License to Wed’s tracking, an easy comparable is Because I Said So, the Universal romantic comedy from February. Both films star Mandy Moore, both are rated PG-13, and they both feature a fifty-something co-star with multi-generational appeal (Diane Keaton in Because I Said So) and both films bombed in epic proportion style.

Numbers for Wednesday

1. Transformers (Dreamworks/Paramount) — $30 million [$39 million cume]
2. Ratatouille (Buena Vista) — $7.85 million [$62.4 million cume]
3. Live Free or Die Hard (20th Century Fox) — $4.6 million [$57.3 million cume]
4. Evan Almighty (Universal) — $2.11 million [$64.9 million cume]
5. License To Wed (Warner Bros) — $2.05 million [$2.05 million cume]

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Another crappy movie remake?

Nothin says Christmas like the CHIPMUNKS? (And yes, that’s Jason Lee)

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I just read this to the boys the other night!

Official Synopsis:

Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are follows the adventures of Max, a head-strong young boy who leaves home after having a fight with his mother — only to find himself in a mysterious forest bordering a vast sea. Misunderstood and rebellious, Max sets sail to the land of the Wild Things, where mischief reigns.

The adventure film will use a unique process to bring the story to life, incorporating the most dynamic elements of voice performance, live-action puppetry and computer animation. Where the Wild Things Are releases October 3, 2008.

The cast and voice cast includes: Catherine Keener, Forest Whitaker, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, and Catherine O’Hara.

Sweet!!

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I saw both this weekend.  One royally sucked – one was awesome.  It’s hard to guess, right?   So I LOVED Ocean’s 13.  It was so much better than the hugely disappointing Ocean’s 12.  Fantastic 4 on the other hand – man, that was PAINFULLY awful.  The boys wanted to see it, so I took them.  It was worse than I thought it would be.

Did you see either of these this weekend?  What did you think?

A week after DreamWorks picked up Peter Jackson’s “Lovely Bones,” Steven Spielberg and Jackson are teaming up again, this time to bring Spielberg’s long-gestating pet project “Tintin” to the big screen.

Sources said Monday that Jackson and Spielberg would each direct installments of the franchise, which is based on a series of Belgian comic books called “The Adventures of Tintin” by Herge. It is unclear whether other filmmakers would be involved, and no script has been written.

The movies would be made using motion-capture technology.

In the comics, Tintin is a young Belgian reporter and world traveler who is aided in his adventures by his faithful dog Snowy. He later was joined by such colorful characters as Captain Haddock, Professor Cuthbert Calculus and bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson. The books, hugely popular in Europe, have been translated into 50 languages, with more than 200 million sold.

Spielberg is a lifelong Tintin fan, first optioning the film rights just before Herge, whose real name is Georges Remi, died in 1983.

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Spider-Man kept up his box office heroics for a second weekend, as the worldwide total for the third film in the superhero trilogy hit $622 million, the film’s distributor said on Sunday.

In its second weekend of release, “Spider-Man 3″ sold an estimated $145.5 million worth of tickets, split between $60 million for North America and $85.5 million internationally, said Columbia Pictures.

The worldwide lead is likely to change next weekend when “Shrek the Third” opens and then again the following weekend when “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” sets sail.

“Spider-Man 3″ enjoyed a wide margin in North America over the two new releases that rounded out the top three: the zombie thriller “28 Weeks Later” with $10 million, and the latest Lindsay Lohan flop “Georgia Rule” with $5.9 million.

After 10 days, the North American total for “Spider-Man 3″ stands at $242.1 million. By contrast, 2004′s “Spider-Man 2″ had earned $256 million after two weekends, and 2002′s “Spider-Man” $223 million. (“Spider-Man 2″ got a two-day head start, opening on a Wednesday.)

The latest film suffered a steep 60 percent drop from its first weekend, compared with 49 percent for “Spider-Man 2″ and 38 percent for “Spider-Man.” Columbia said it was comfortable with the slide given the film’s record-breaking $151 million first weekend. The previous holder of that record, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” fell 54 percent last year.

Columbia Pictures is a unit of Sony Corp .. “28 Weeks Later” was released by Fox Atomic, a unit of News Corp. “Georgia Rule” was released on behalf of producer Morgan Creek Prods. by Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal.

“Shrek the Third” will be released by Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures on behalf of producer DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., while the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films are Walt Disney Co. releases.

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