My goodness...
Can we just discuss this and get it over with? Rumors are running rampant right now claiming that Megan Fox has been signed and cast as Catwoman in Christopher Nolan’s next Batman film. This is a lot of bull.
Firstly, Nolan isn’t even signed to direct a third Batman film yet. Sure, he probably will but nothing has been inked at this time. That means that a script hasn’t even been started. There’s no story, therefore there is no Catwoman. Therefore…well, you get it. Also, Megan Fox is a bit too young for Christian Bale. Being a massive Batman fan (seriously, it’s kind of sad), I can tell you that Selina Kyle, a.k.a. Catwoman, has to be the approximate age of Bruce Wayne, hence their bizarre on-again/off-again relationship.
Rumors about the third Batman film have been spreading like the plague this year. Remember when Shia LaBeouf was supposedly signed on to play Robin? Or how about when Eddie Murphy was cast as The Riddler? These rumors are just that and there’s nothing to them. They generate traffic to websites and it’s always fun to fantasy-cast but it’s kind of silly at this point. We’ve still got some time before any official announcement about the third Bat-film is made. At that time, let the speculation begin. For the time being, don’t trust any of it.
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Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince made many people happy yesterday, especially Warner Brothers. The blockbuster film made a whopping $58.4 million in its opening day, including its record-breaking $22 million from midnight shows alone. That makes it the second-best Wednesday ever. The best Wednesday ever? That belongs to those giant robots from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
The biggest one-day take for a film still belongs to The Dark Knight, with $67.2 million.
The last Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, made $44 million on its first day (also a Wednesday) so this movie is sure to pass that in box office receipts. We’ll see if it can break any weekend records set by Transformers only last month.
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Give us your money, America
UPDATE: The midnight haul was actually $22 million. Mamma mia, that’s a lot of money.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince had an amazing performance last night. You could even say it was — wait for it — magical.
The new Potter film made $20 million $22 million dollars at the midnight screenings last night. That is officially the greatest midnight opening in history, beating the last record holder, The Dark Knight, by about $2 million.
It’s also surprising because the last Potter flick, Order of the Phoenix, had an impressive if not ground-breaking $12 million midnight showing. It looks like that long gap between the two films might really be helping business.
I can attest to the massive anticipation. Last night, when walking by a very popular theater here in L.A., I saw a line that was nearly a block long and it was only 7 PM.
We’ll see how much this puppy makes in the following days but it definitely has the best start of all time.
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Opened yesterday
That noise you hear is the sound of Dreamworks and Paramount executives rolling in money.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the movie that everyone is talking about (but not necessarily in a good way) is going to be a big hit. The question is now how big? Looking at last night’s numbers, everyone can safely assume that Transformers 3 won’t be too far away.
The film made $16 million at the midnight screenings last night. While not as good as The Dark Knight’s midnight haul of $18.5 million, that’s still darn good. In fact, it’s the greatest Wednesday midnight draw ever. And Transformers’ IMAX haul surpassed The Dark Knight’s. But questions still remain. While this weekend’s numbers will be stellar, will bad word-of-mouth affect next week’s business?
I still haven’t seen it. Is it any good?
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The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced today that the Best Picture race is getting bigger. Instead of the traditional five films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, AMPAS will now allow ten. The new rule is effective starting this year, meaning films like Up, Star Trek and others may end up being nominated for The Oscars top prize, even though their genres are usually ignored. This could be a shock of the life to The Academy Awards, bringing in new, younger viewers who are rooting on their favorite films.
I don’t know how I feel about this. I agree that The Oscars regularly ignore truly great films (The Dark Knight anybody?) but ten films means we will probably get a few that are probably just filler. But who knows, maybe I’m wrong. I’ll tell you right now that if Up doesn’t get nominated for Best Picture under these new rules then something is truly wrong in the world.
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