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Law Abiding Citizen Review
FilmoFilia —
... a taste of no-mercy vigilante family-man justice 3.0. Ten years after his wife and daughter were slaughtered in front of him, Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) kidnaps one of the perpetrators, straps him down to a torture table, and saws off his limbs (and other things). Then he sends a video of the atrocity to Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), the slick, out-for-himself Philadelphia prosecutor who cut too soft a deal with the killer…read more [EW] ...
Box office preview: ‘Wild Things’ destined to be king
Hollywood Insider —
... : $16 million Not since The Blair Witch Project has a movie captivated fans with its marketing alone. Such is the case with Paranormal , which will expand to 760 theaters this weekend thanks to millions of online fans demanding it. With media attention at a fever pitch a high-teen gross could happen. 4. Law Abiding Citizen : $15 million Something about those television ads is working. Men’s interest in this movie has spiked in the last day, meaning the ultra-violent Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx two-hander could open impressively this weekend. It’s tracking a bit older than ...
‘Law Abiding Citizen’: Can I buy a hyphen?
PopWatch —
... Law Abiding Citizen , surely one of the dumbest movie titles of 2009, has been killing me not-softly since Owen Gleiberman’s EW review of it went up Wednesday afternoon. It is taking everything I have right now to not go into the backend of our website and add a hyphen to every instance of Law Abiding Citizen . I can’t take it much longer. I’m thinking I will just need to let it go, though. This is me letting go. I don’t want to get fired over this . There is no hyphen in the title of the movie. Who am I to scurry around that musty old claptrap we call a “content tool” and ...
‘Where the Wild Things Are’ eats up the box office with $11.9 mil on Friday
Hollywood Insider —
... . The adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book grossed $11.9 million on its first day. The key question now is how much will Wild Things rise on Saturday? A significant jump on Saturday would indicate that families are embracing the PG movie, while a tiny uptick may signal that its support is mainly coming from hip teens and adults who were raised on the book. Landing in second place was the revenge thriller Law Abiding Citizen , which took out $7.7 million. ...
Box Office Report: ‘Wild Things’ is king with $32.5 mil
Hollywood Insider —
... for acclaimed director Spike Jonze, whose two previous films, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation , ended their domestic runs at $22.9 million and $22.5 million, respectively. All eyes will be watching to see how much Wild Things , with its reported $80 million budget, drops next weekend. The film earned a relatively solid “B+” grade from CinemaScore moviegoers, but some families may be staying away as the movie jumped only 2 percent from Friday to Saturday. The violent thriller Law Abiding Citizen , starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, attracted adult moviegoers and ...
Box office preview: ‘This is It’ destined to win the weekend
Hollywood Insider —
... : $13 million This low-budget wonder has already grossed $65 million, becoming the most profitable movie of all time. What Paranormal Activity does from now on really doesn’t matter. A sequel is underway, stars Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston have already received the huge jump start on their career, and director Oren Peli is already making his second movie. Paranormal has out-Blair-Witched Blair Witch . Reaching $100 million shouldn’t be bad for this $11,000 film. 3. Law Abiding Citizen : $7 million Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx have already pulled in $42 million for ...
Weekend Box Office Poll: What will you see? ‘This Is It’? ‘Paranormal Activity’?
PopWatch —
... Activity , Law Abiding Citizen , Where the Wild Things Are , and Couples Retreat . But screw all that box office science and predictions and whatnot. We’re doing our own pre-weekend poll here: What’re you, our beloved EW.com readers, planning to see this weekend? Tell us in the poll below! View This Poll opinion More from EW.com: Box office preview: ‘This Is It’ destined to win the weekend ‘This Is It’ review ‘Paranormal Activity’ review ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ review ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ review‘Couples Retreat’ review
