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Everybody was a kid once. Many people still are. And nearly all of them, it seems, went to the movies this weekend to channel their inner child, or the monster lurking in their psyches. In a weekend whose gross revenue was 38% over the previous one's, and 59% over the same one last year, the top spot went to Where the Wild Things Are, which set an opening-day record for a live-action PG film and, according to early studio reports, will end the session with $32.5 million. The serial-killer thriller Law Abiding Citizen slashed...
...audiences of all ages paid to see it, and the film played especially well (an A- CinemaScore rating) among those under age 25. Its road was paved by the success of another favorite children's book brought to the screen, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which on the previous four weekends had ranked in the top three spots and on Oct. 15 cracked $100 million at the North American box office. It's an open question whether the Jonze movie can show those steady legs, but for now, Wild Things is making Warner Bros.'s heart sing...
Every director of the top three pictures scored personal bests. Wild Things made 44% more in a weekend than what either of Jonze's previous two features, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, earned in their entire runs. (Mind you, Wild Things cost a lot more: at least $80 million.) Law Abiding Citizen had the highest per-screen average of any film directed by F. Gary Gray. Oren Peli is a first-time auteur, but since he made Paranormal Activity in 2006 for a laughably low $11,000, he could boast that his movie made back more than twice its budget...
...constraints on her ability to experiment, but these haven’t bothered her. “Anything that’s consistent between the shows, I realized I didn’t want to change it,” she says. To avoid creating a carbon copy of previous productions, Lodha is utilizing some unusual staging as well as playing up the introspective aspects of Auburn’s original vision, which she feels sometimes get submerged in other productions...
...question we have to ask is who has done the most in the previous year to enhance peace in the world. And who has done more than Barack Obama?” said the chairman of the Nobel Committee, after announcing that President Obama had won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. It is this question, not one’s opinion on Obama’s domestic policies or what he might do in the future, that is the salient issue when evaluating whether Obama should have won the prize. And in this regard, Obama is clearly...