As of the time of this writing, the Saw re-release has ranked in as the third worst wide opening at the box office. This is according to Box Office Mojo's records, which reach as far back as 1982. To put this into perspective, a "very wide" release is one that opens in more than 2,000 theaters. So out of the worst 200 films to have opened in the past 32 years, with as wide of an audience as can be expected for a major motion picture, Saw's tenth anniversary re-release opened worse than such films as The Real Cancun, Bandslam, and The Adventures Of Pluto Nash. Who would have thought that a franchise that used to be the toast of the October film market would bring in such a telling sign about the state of its ultimate legacy ten years on. With the Saw franchise producers eager to bring new life to their monster...
- 11/3/2014
- cinemablend.com
Things in the film industry must be in an interesting place when someone in power says, "A 'Gilligan's Island' movie starring the guy from '1600 Penn'? Sold." That's what happening, though. Josh Gad has been tapped to co-write and star in a movie adaptation of the 1960s sitcom.
Warner Bros. is behind the feature film, which will be a vehicle to push Gad to the forefront as a star. He will co-write the script with Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez, according to Deadline. There's no word on what role Gad will play just yet, but the best bets are Gilligan or the Skipper.
"Gilligan's Island" is far from the first TV property to be turned into a movie, and things don't always end pretty. Sometimes a film can capture the spirit of the show, but the odds are normally against it.
As a bit of a history lesson,...
Warner Bros. is behind the feature film, which will be a vehicle to push Gad to the forefront as a star. He will co-write the script with Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez, according to Deadline. There's no word on what role Gad will play just yet, but the best bets are Gilligan or the Skipper.
"Gilligan's Island" is far from the first TV property to be turned into a movie, and things don't always end pretty. Sometimes a film can capture the spirit of the show, but the odds are normally against it.
As a bit of a history lesson,...
- 12/19/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Spring Breakers
Written by Harmony Korine
Directed by Harmony Korine
USA, 2012
One of the more highly publicized entries in this year’s festival thanks to the Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy director Harmony Korine’s instantly notorious casting of bubblegum sensations Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson, Spring Breakers is a part-comedy, part-horror, part-cautionary tale – like Scarface meets The Real Cancun. Four particularly impressionable teens escape to an exaggerated version of St. Petersburg, Florida to cut loose on the beach during Spring Break, eventually meeting a hustler called Alien (James Franco) who changes their lives.
For our establishing plunge in to this world Korine thrusts us headlong in to a heedless, animalistic rut – a reservoir of excess sexual energy and booze – not unlike the comparatively tame but similarly intentioned Spring Break content broadcast annually on MTV. This unforgiving sequence of unsupervised youth’s media-cultivated behavior, insignificantly triumphant sexism and enthusiastic self-objectification,...
Written by Harmony Korine
Directed by Harmony Korine
USA, 2012
One of the more highly publicized entries in this year’s festival thanks to the Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy director Harmony Korine’s instantly notorious casting of bubblegum sensations Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson, Spring Breakers is a part-comedy, part-horror, part-cautionary tale – like Scarface meets The Real Cancun. Four particularly impressionable teens escape to an exaggerated version of St. Petersburg, Florida to cut loose on the beach during Spring Break, eventually meeting a hustler called Alien (James Franco) who changes their lives.
For our establishing plunge in to this world Korine thrusts us headlong in to a heedless, animalistic rut – a reservoir of excess sexual energy and booze – not unlike the comparatively tame but similarly intentioned Spring Break content broadcast annually on MTV. This unforgiving sequence of unsupervised youth’s media-cultivated behavior, insignificantly triumphant sexism and enthusiastic self-objectification,...
- 9/10/2012
- by Tom Stoup
- SoundOnSight
"Oogieloves In the Big Balloon Adventure" secured its place in infamy over the weekend by scoring the worst ever debut on over 2,000 screens. The surreal children's film was an unmitigated disaster, taking in only $445,000 during its opening weekend, after spending $20 million on production and an enormous sum on an aggressive marketing campaign.
While "Oogieloves" claims the top spot on that dubious list, the rest of the top five have aspects to them that make their grand failures more fascinating than anything.
"Delgo"
The former champion, "Delgo," a computer-animated fantasy film, earned just over half a million dollars in 2008, when it opened on 2,160 screens, the exact same number as "Oogieloves." The story, which centers around vaguely reptilian creatures, is pretty typical fantasy fair with warring factions, a tough princess, and an unlikely hero, and the cast featured relatively well-known actors like Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Most analysts attribute...
While "Oogieloves" claims the top spot on that dubious list, the rest of the top five have aspects to them that make their grand failures more fascinating than anything.
"Delgo"
The former champion, "Delgo," a computer-animated fantasy film, earned just over half a million dollars in 2008, when it opened on 2,160 screens, the exact same number as "Oogieloves." The story, which centers around vaguely reptilian creatures, is pretty typical fantasy fair with warring factions, a tough princess, and an unlikely hero, and the cast featured relatively well-known actors like Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Most analysts attribute...
- 9/4/2012
- by Kevin P. Sullivan
- MTV Movies Blog
In Middle Men, Laura Ramsey plays a woman who parlays an ignoble beginning (selling sex on the internet) into a lucrative business, and in some ways, it's a fortuitous match of actress and character. Ramsey, too, paid her dues in productions she'd probably rather forget (like MTV's reality flop The Real Cancun), but she's since built a promising career as an actress, with notable appearances in projects like The Ruins, The Covenant, and Mad Men. She called up Movieline to talk about fake online profiles, and donning a sailor hat for Sofia Coppola.
- 8/9/2010
- Movieline
When I heard Will Ferrell and Adam McKay were slapping their names on a teen sex comedy I expected something like Sex Drive. That.s not at all what you.ll get in the first trailer for The Virginity Hit. Instead it.s kind of like a fictionalized version of The Real Cancun, but with bigger nerds and a lot of unnecessary references to YouTube, just for the kids. Regardless of the format the topic seems to be the same: the teenage obsession with getting laid. Hollywood.s been making raunchy movies on the topic since the late 70s but to me it feels like the obsession has grown even worse in the past few years. I.m not sure what it says about our society that our teenagers are only interested in the size of their cocks, but I.m pretty sure it.s nothing good. Whatever it says...
- 7/26/2010
- cinemablend.com
Before we got to know Snooki and The Situation, there was Casey and the Twins. I’m talking, of course, of the monumental film experiment The Real Cancun, which hit the big screen in 2003 and was billed as the "first reality feature film." When I saw it, I was convinced that this was this was the trashy, fun future of filmed entertainment -- but I was oh-so-wrong: it kinda tanked at the box-office. Later that year, some friends and I kept the legacy alive by screening the film at a Real Cancun theme party (bad spring break T-shirts and lots...
- 2/11/2010
- by Wendy Mitchell
- EW.com - PopWatch
The location for the 22nd season of MTV's "Real World" was finally chosen. The lucky city that will soon have seven strangers living together running rampant on its streets next season is Cancun, Mexico.
The vacation destination will be home to the housemates. They will also work at StudentCity.com, a popular spring break travel agency/website, as tour guides for visiting college students. "They're going to help give people a safe and fun vacation," co-creator Jonathan Murray told the Hollywood Reporter. "They also might have to bail somebody out of a Mexican jail, stuff like that."Production has already started on the 22nd season, which will air on MTV later this year. The current "Real World" season is set in Brooklyn. "Cancun is a good one to do after Brooklyn, which was a more gritty environment," Murray said.
Since Cancun is a huge party destination and popular spring break...
The vacation destination will be home to the housemates. They will also work at StudentCity.com, a popular spring break travel agency/website, as tour guides for visiting college students. "They're going to help give people a safe and fun vacation," co-creator Jonathan Murray told the Hollywood Reporter. "They also might have to bail somebody out of a Mexican jail, stuff like that."Production has already started on the 22nd season, which will air on MTV later this year. The current "Real World" season is set in Brooklyn. "Cancun is a good one to do after Brooklyn, which was a more gritty environment," Murray said.
Since Cancun is a huge party destination and popular spring break...
- 1/26/2009
- icelebz.com
And the location for the next season of "The Real World" is ... Cancun.
The Mexico vacation destination will serve as the setting for the MTV show's 22nd cycle. There, the housemates will work with spring break resource site StudentCity.com to serve as guides for visiting college students.
"They're going to help give people a safe and fun vacation," co-creator Jonathan Murray said. "They also might have to bail somebody out of a Mexican jail, stuff like that."
Production has started on the season, which will debut this year.
The current season is set in Brooklyn. The recent season premiere was up 18% in the total viewers from last year and continues to rank as one of MTV's top-rated shows.
"Cancun is a good one to do after Brooklyn, which was a more gritty environment," Murray said.
If the location sounds like it's from a previous installment of the groundbreaking reality series,...
The Mexico vacation destination will serve as the setting for the MTV show's 22nd cycle. There, the housemates will work with spring break resource site StudentCity.com to serve as guides for visiting college students.
"They're going to help give people a safe and fun vacation," co-creator Jonathan Murray said. "They also might have to bail somebody out of a Mexican jail, stuff like that."
Production has started on the season, which will debut this year.
The current season is set in Brooklyn. The recent season premiere was up 18% in the total viewers from last year and continues to rank as one of MTV's top-rated shows.
"Cancun is a good one to do after Brooklyn, which was a more gritty environment," Murray said.
If the location sounds like it's from a previous installment of the groundbreaking reality series,...
- 1/26/2009
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Love split couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez look set to sweep the board at this year's Razzie Awards - their flop film Gigli has picked up an impressive nine nominations. The Martin Brest-directed gangster comedy is nominated in the Worst Picture, Worst On-screen Couple, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Supporting Actor, Worst Supporting Actress, Worst Actress and Worst Actor categories. Other nominees in the Worst Picture race include Dr Seuss' The Cat In The Hat, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, From Justin To Kelly and The Real Cancun. Razzies founder John Wilson blames Affleck and Lopez's high-profile relationship for their popularity among voters. He explains, "Ostensibly, we're talking about their on-screen performances, but I'm sure all the endless twaddle about their personal lives played into their being nominated. But it is an embarrassingly bad movie, and unfortunately, it's not a fun bad movie." The Razzies will be handed out on February 28, one day before the Oscar ceremony.
- 1/27/2004
- WENN
Amidst four new wide releases this weekend, Sony's Identity proved the strongest as the thriller revealed $16.2 million on its theatrical debut to capture the top spot at the boxoffice, just ahead of the distributor's Anger Management. After two weeks at No. 1, the Adam Sandler-Jack Nicholson starrer Anger culled $15 million to place second -- down 40% in its third session. Its cume cruised past the $100 million mark Saturday, making it the fourth release this year to reach that summit. By the end of the weekend its total had reached $103.5 million. Buena Vista's Holes held up well as the family adventure placed third with $12.6 million, off a scant 23% from its debut, upping its 10-day cume to $36.4 million. But the weekend's biggest disappointment was New Line's The Real Cancun, the latest reality-style film to hit theaters. Cancun, an unscripted film from the producers of MTV's Real World, follows students on spring break and arrived in the 10th spot with a dismal $2.1 from 2,261 venues, averaging a bleak $933 per theater.
- 4/29/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sony's thriller Identity, one of four wide openers at the weekend boxoffice, debuts as the top movie for the frame as the R-rated thriller takes in an estimated $17 million. Lions Gate's grifter drama Confidence, which debuted at this year's Sundance Film Festival, makes off with an estimated $4.8 million in fifth place. MGM's Kirk Douglas-Michael Douglas collaboration It Runs in the Family debuts at No. 9 with an estimated $3 million. New Line's "reality" movie, The Real Cancun, shot just last month and edited on the fly, opens in a disappointing 10th place with an estimated $2.3 million. Among the weekend's holdovers, Sony's Anger Management crosses the $100 million barrier, taking in an estimated $16 million as the Jack Nicholson-Adam Sandler comedy lands in second place after two weekends on top. Its total now stands at about $104.5 million. Buena Vista's PG-rated Holes drops one spot to third with an estimated $13 million in its second weekend. Warners' Jamie Kennedy vehicle Malibu's Most Wanted collects an estimated $7.7 million in fourth place. MGM's actioner Bulletproof Monk scores an estimated $4.7 million in sixth place. Warners' Amanda Bynes starrer What a Girl Wants takes in an estimated $3.4 million in seventh place. Fox's Phone Booth dials up an estimated $3.1 million in eighth.
- 4/27/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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