New Pic from ‘The Hunger Games’
By Josh Abraham
The Hunger Games topped the box-office last weekend with an $18.9 million take, increasing its domestic cume to $208.8 million.
Posts Tagged ‘Josh Hutcherson’
Monday April 2nd, 2012
Friday March 30th, 2012
‘Twilight,’ ‘Hunger Games’ Stars Headed to Kids’ Choice Awards
By Molly Sullivan
The Kids’ Choice Awards on Saturday night will be filled with some of the biggest stars in the world, including many members of the Twilight and Hunger Games casts.
Monday March 26th, 2012
‘The Hunger Games’ Opened This Weekend With a Scorching $155 Million
By Scott Mendelson
Besting any number of opening weekend records, The Hunger Games opened this weekend with a scorching $155 million. That’s the third-biggest opening weekend of all-time, behind The Dark Knight ($158 million) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II ($169 million). It’s also the biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel, non-summer movie, and the biggest debut in history for a film not released by Warner Bros. during the third weekend in July, for those keeping release-date score. It’s also Lionsgate’s highest-grossing film ever after just three days, besting the $123 million-debut of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. While it’s Lionsgate’s most expensive movie, it’s still an example of smart budgeting as it came it at $90 million before tax credits which brought the total exposure to just $78 million. Even if you factor in the studio’s hardcore marketing over the last month, Lionsgate is surely in the black, or will be by Friday, making everything thereafter pure profit. There isn’t too much to say because this record debut has been prognosticated to the point of tedium over the last two months, as one tracking report after another continually upped the predicted opening weekend number, to the point where the film would have been called a ‘flop’ if it hadn’t opened with at least $100 million (not by me, mind you). But, yeah, Lionsgate pulled some of the best marketing in modern history (teaser/trailer 1/trailer 2), turning a relatively popular young adult book series into a mainstream media ‘event,’ which in turn made the film adaptation into a must-sample event even for audiences who only had token knowledge of the series.
Monday March 26th, 2012
The Immorality of ‘The Hunger Games’
By Scott Mendelson
The Hunger Games, as it exists as a film, is caught between two worlds. On the one hand, it wants to be a dramatic thriller about a totalitarian regime that picks children at random and forces them to fight each other to the death for the entertainment of the wealthy masses. On the other hand, it wants to be a series that appeals to mass audiences in order to rack up massive box-office grosses and become ‘the next big franchise.’
Monday March 26th, 2012
‘The Hunger Games’ Grossed Over $19.7 Million in Midnight Shows
By Josh Abraham
The Hunger Games is out of the gate to a record-breaking start. According to studio the film estimates grossed around $19.7 million in midnight shows. These numbers represents the highest midnight gross for a non-sequel in history.
Thursday March 15th, 2012
‘The Hunger Games’ Premiere: Red Carpet Photos
By Josh Abraham
Stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth celebrate the premiere of the first of four planned films based on the trilogy of best-selling novels by Suzanne Collins.
“The Hunger Games” will open to the general public in more than 3,000 theaters on March 23, and is on its way to gross at least $95 million in its opening weekend.
Monday January 16th, 2012
Vanessa Hudgens + Josh Hutcherson interview
By Rhett Bartlett
As part of the promotion for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, (my review is here) I was afforded 10 minutes to interview the young stars of the film Vanessa Hudgens and Josh Hutcherson.
Sunday January 15th, 2012
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. 2.5 stars
By Rhett Bartlett
Journey 2 is a perfect mix of humour and action – and fills its 90 minute running time with clever sight gags and quite exceptional special effects.
Sunday December 26th, 2010
SCOTT FEINBERG’S TOP 10 FILMS OF ’10
PLEASE NOTE: The following rankings and remarks reflect my personal opinions and do/will not in any way impact my projections or analysis on this site, wherein I strive above all else to correctly forecast what will happen, not what I believe should happen. My demonstrated ability to do that over the years is what has led most of you to my site, and any failure to do that will undoubtedly lead you away from it, so you can rest assured that I mean it when I say that one has/will have no bearing on the other.
Thursday November 25th, 2010
“DEEP VOTE” ON “GET LOW, “THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT,” “SOCIAL NETWORK”
“Deep Vote,” an Oscar winning screenwriter and a member of the Academy, will write this column — exclusively for ScottFeinberg.com — every week until the Academy Awards. He will help to peel back the curtain on the Oscar voting process by sharing his thoughts about the films he sees and, ultimately, his nomination and final ballots, as well. His identity must be protected in order to spare him from repercussions for disclosing the aforementioned information.
Thus far, he has shared his thoughts in column one about his general preferences; in column two about “Winter’s Bone” (Roadside Attractions, 6/11, R, trailer) and “Solitary Man” (Anchor Bay Films, 5/21, R, trailer); and in column three about “Alice in Wonderland” (Disney, 3/5, PG, trailer), “Toy Story 3” (Disney, 6/18, G, trailer), and “Mother and Child” (Sony Pictures Classics, 5/7, R, trailer)…
This week, he assesses three more awards hopefuls: “Get Low” (Sony Pictures Classics, 7/30, PG-13, trailer), “The Kids Are All Right” (Focus Features, 7/9, R, trailer), and “The Social Network” (Columbia, 10/1, PG-13, trailer)…