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What Are You Going To See This Weekend? - June 20th Edition
SizzlingPopcorn.com — This week’s edition features the release of two hilarious comedies starring two great comedians: Get Smart (Steve Carell) and The Love Guru (Mike Myers). What are you going to see this weekend? Each week we will give you a preview of the movies coming out on the weekend, including MPAA ratings, synopsis, and trailers. Let us know which one you’ll be seeing and then come back to let us know what you thought of it. Wide Releases: Get Smart Genres: Comedy and Thriller Running Time: N/A. MPAA ...

An Arbitrary Guide To This Weekend’s New Releases
Hollywoodtuna — Two big-name comedies go head to head at the box office this weekend in Get Smart and The Love Guru, which means one of them likely won’t be laughing come Monday. It’s standard policy to avoid a heads-up confrontation between two similarly-marketed films (in this case both PG-13 comedies), but when neither production flinched and moved their release date, the line in the sand was drawn. Conventional wisdom (not to mention good taste) has Get Smart coming out on top, and the results ought to go a long way towards determining ...

Is ‘Get Smart’ A Smart Movie Choice?
Comedy Centric — If I wasn’t spending my entire day blogging for charity, I would be at a movie theater, or on my way to one, right about now to see Steve Carell in Get Smart. Since I’m stuck in front of my computer, though, I’ve had the chance to dawdle around at Metacritic to learn what the professional reviewers think, not that I usually care. Surprisingly — or perhaps not if you think about it — they don’t seem generally enthusiastic about the big-screen adaptation. The movie’s average score among critics is currently an unimpressive 53, although users have given ...

Movie Marketing Madness: Get Smart
Movie Marketing Madness — I love the old Don Adams-starring television show “Get Smart.” I have a lot of fond memories of watching that on basic cable back in my early/mid-80’s childhood, where it was mixed in with rerurns of “The Munsters,” “I Love Lucy,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and other staples of classic television. The whip-smart writing that accompanied the slight bits of actual spy intrigue made for a potent combination in my mind and certainly fit in with my burgeoning appreciation for writing and delivery being key components to making entertainment actually entertaining. So ...

Weekend Box Office Estimates: “The Love Guru” Not Looking So “Smart”
Hollywoodtuna — “Please don’t go, I can be funny again, I promise!” Call it karma if you want, but this is what The Love Guru gets for not moving its release date away from the clearly-superior Get Smart: a big black eye of a fourth-place finish. So while Steve Carell coasted to an easy $39.1 million win and potentially launched a new franchise (Warners is taking a wait-and-see approach on the sequel), Mike Myers was left looking on as not one, but two holdovers leapfrogged The Love Guru in the box office ...

Weekend Box Office Estimates: “Wall-E” And “Wanted” Duke It Out
Hollywoodtuna — Both Wall-E and Wanted opened this weekend and opened big, setting records for June. Wall-E’s $62.5 million was easily good enough for the victory, along with the second best June opening of all-time. Wanted was no slouch either, far exceeding expectations with its $51.1 million take - the best R-rated opening in June, along with the sixth best all-time. That meant there wasn’t much money left over for the holdovers, as Get Smart and Kung Fu Panda snagged the majority of the holdover business. ...

(Long) Weekend Box Office Estimates: “Hancock” Is Huge
Hollywoodtuna — Anybody out there still wondering if Will Smith is the biggest draw in town? Despite the general consensus on Hancock being “good, but not great”, Smith still managed to land his second-best opening ever - behind I Am Legend’s $77.2 million start last winter, making it his second straight insanely profitable movie featuring a promising start and a weak third act. But that’s not all… It’s also Will’s eighth straight No. 1 opener, along with his fifth - and most profitable - over the July 4th weekend. ...

Weekend Box Office Estimates: “Meet Dave” Gets Burned By “Hellboy II”
Hollywoodtuna — Maybe it’s just the Universe balancing out for Norbit’s depressing $95 million haul, but it looks like there might be some justice in this world after all: Meet Dave opened to $5.3 million and seventh place. Hell, numbers like that make The Love Guru seem like Titanic in comparison. Hellboy II, on the other hand, made Universal look like geniuses for buying the rights to the now-franchise from Sony. Guillermo del Toro’s monster of a sequel took down close to $36 million in its debut - which ...

Weekend Box Office Estimates: “The Dark Knight” Is One For The Record Books
Hollywoodtuna — Here’s all you need to know about The Dark Knight’s record-breaking weekend: I’m back in the suburbs until I head West for Comic-Con on Wednesday and figured I’d catch a 10 PM screening last night. But by the time I got there not only was the 10 PM already sold out, so was the 11, and the line-up for that already stretched out the door. So yeah, a $158.3 million final tally doesn’t surprise me all that much - and yes, I’m running the risk of being the only person in all of San Diego who still hasn’t seen The Dark Knight. Those better than ...