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Tips for Tuesday: New to DVD on 8/1
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Recent TheatricalsThe Shaggy Dog (Disney) -- Tim Allen must be stopped. Seriously. (filmmaker commentary, deleted scenes, bark-along bone-us track for dogs and I'm not joking)
V for Vendetta (Warner Bros.) -- Natalie Portman goes all dystopian on us. Very cool flick. (2-disc SE includes four featurettes and a music video)
Catalog Picks
A Fish Called Wanda Special Edition (MGM) -- So get this: It's got 25 minutes of deleted scenes, a John Cleese audio commentary, an all-new retrospective piece ... and MGM canceled the release! Are you freakin' KIDDING ME? Argh.
My Summer Story (MGM) -- The kinda sorta but not really semi-sequel to A Christmas Story that you never heard of. (no extras)
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (Sony) -- For my money, the guy's best concert. Sunset Strip comes close, but this is the king at his peak. (no extras)
Direct-to-Video
The Black Hole (Echo Bridge) -- Judd Nelson and Kristy Swanson battle an electrical monster who fell out of a man-made black hole. Don't ask. (featurette)
I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (Sony) -- And I'll always hate these movies, so stop making 'em. (filmmaker commentary, featurette)
Severed: Forest of the Dead (Universal) -- I don't know anything about this one, but the title makes me chuckle. (no extras)
Box Office Report: V for Victory
Filed under: Comedy », Horror », Romance », Thrillers », Box Office », Family Films », Newsstand », Remakes and Sequels »
V
for Vendetta roared to the top of the box office this weekend, its take of about $26 million out-earning the
nearest competition by more than $10 million. While that total - on just under 3400 screens - sounds pretty impressive,
it's believed to be below the studio's opening weekend hopes. Meanwhile She's
the Man, the week's other debut, met estimates with $11 million, which was enough to make it the fourth-highest
earner of the weekend. Finishing second was Failure
to Launch which, with a take of $15.8 million, fell 35% from last week's chart-leading totals. In third was
The
Shaggy Dog with $13.6 million, the audience for which fell only slightly after last week's open - thanks to
families with small kids, this one might have some staying power. Wrapping up the top five was The
Hills Have Eyes, which took in $8.1 million; the film's $28.8 million total after just two weeks in release is
nearly twice its budget.Full numbers are after the jump.
Box Office Report: Failure to Launch lends itself to so many clever headlines that I'm confounded by the options and can't pick one
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The box office as a whole was be up an estimated
10% from last weekend, led by a trio of new releases that filled the top spots. Easily topping the list was Failure to Launch, which
took in $24.6 million - not bad for a movie that, after having its release delayed, got mostly bad reviews from
critics. Filling the second and third spots this weekend were two remakes: Disney's The Shaggy Dog made $16 million, while The Hills Have Eyes came it at just under that number, with $15.5 million. As the AP
report points out, the fact that this weekend's three new releases are so different means they appeal to different
viewers, so they tended to take audiences from older films, rather than from one another.Filling the fourth spot was 16 Blocks which, in only its second week of release, was down to just over $7 million. Madea's Family Reunion, meanwhile, earned nearly $6 million, thus bringing its three week total to $55.8 million, or nearly 10 times its budget. Who thinks we'll be seeing another movie about the life of Miss Madea? Of the other top earning films this weekend, only Eight Below made more than $5 million - ah, the power of puppies. (The complete numbers are after the jump.)
Review: The Shaggy Dog
Filed under: Comedy », New Releases », Disney », New in Theaters », Family Films », Remakes and Sequels »
There is a moment in Joe Dante's neato kitsch comedy, Matinee, when Cold War kids Gene (Simon Fenton) and Dennis (Jesse Lee) are sitting in a movie theater, bored silly by the zany (and entirely fictional) body-switching family comedy, The Shook-Up Shopping Cart (a double bill with the equally non-existent The Bashful Bobcat). It was Dante's way of simultaneously mocking and paying tribute to the low-concept filler that Disney made in between what are now the company's enduring classics, and it was a hilarious moment.
While Disney's remake of their 1959 mega-hit, The Shaggy Dog, is not loaded with hilarious moments, it is, as they say, what it is, even if it is that same sort of self-congratulatory jape. Tim Allen plays a dog-hating lawyer who by convenient magic becomes one, makes a fun enough show of it, rolling together nicely the parts played by Tommy Kirk in the original and Dean Jones in the 1976 sequel, The Shaggy D.A. Like My Three Sons star Fred MacMurray in the original, Allen is a Disney contract player, and while he may not be the fatherly comfort that the MacMurray was, he can certainly sell a movie in the same way. People know Tim Allen from Home Improvement; they know him as the voice of Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story movies; they know him from The Santa Clause, and that is all the selling/warning that most people need.
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