Hoot Tagged Articles at Cinematical

Recent Theatricals

Hoot (New Line) -- That movie where that kid saves those animals. This time it's owls. (filmmaker commentary, six featurettes, blooper reel)

RV (Sony) -- That movie where wacky things happen to jerks on vacation. Only it stars an old Robin Williams instead of a young Chevy Chase. (director commentary, five featurettes, gag reel)

Scary Movie 4 (Dimension) -- Wacky pratfalls and movie references. Part 4. (filmmaker commentary, copious deleted scenes, six featurettes, blooper reel)

Catalog Picks

Apocalypse Now (Paramount) -- This "Complete Dossier" Edition includes both versions of Coppola's classic, and more supplemental material than you'll know what to do with.

Heart Like a Wheel (Anchor Bay) -- Bonnie Bedelia is pretty darn excellent in this forgotten-but-not-gone biopic. (director commentary, retrospective featurette)

Safe Men (Universal) -- Amusing indie mob comedy with a pretty colorful cast: Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Paul Giamatti, Mark Ruffalo ... (director/actor commentary, deleted scenes, short film)

Direct-to-Video

The Hard Corps (Sony) -- Just another Van Damme action flick, but the title makes me giggle. (no extras)

I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (Sony) -- I'll always know this series sucks major butt. (director commentary, featurette)

Snakes on a Train (Asylum) -- Whaaaaat? On a TRAIN? That's just wacky! (filmmaker commentary, featurette)

Survival Island (Showtime) -- The movie Billy Zane doesn't want you to see ... because his girlfriend shows her big naked boobies in it! (no extras)

Though Mission: Impossible III easily topped the weekend box office with $48 million from over 4000 screens -- the fourth-widest launch ever -- the film's opening is far short of both what was expected (in the $60 million range) and what the first two installments in the series made in their debuts. Whatever the reason for the relatively low open (Are people turned off by Tom Cruise? Nikki Finke is not alone in thinking so.), studios must be a little nervous about this kind of result for the summer's first "blockbuster," particularly given that the movie was fairly well reviewed.

Though it probably won't make the people at Paramount feel any better, the weekend's two other debuts were much, much worse, particularly that of Hoot. Despite opening on over 3000 screens, the Carl Hiaasen adaptation made only $3.4 million with just over $1000/screen -- barely enough to get it into the top 10 (it ended up tied for ninth with Akeelah and the Bee). An American Haunting, meanwhile, finished third with $6.4 million. Holding onto the second slot was RV, which made $11.1 million in its second week of release. Stick it and United 93 rounded out the top five, pulling in $5.5 million and $5.2 million, respectively; in its two weeks of release, United 93 is already in the black with about $20 million against a $15 million budget. The full top 10 is after the jump.

Sad news about the fate of this podcast is contained within. But first: AMC goes indie; Conservatives rally against that cute little owl movie dangerous work of "eco-terrorism," Hoot; and Richard Dreyfuss slams a media that no longer cares about him.


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