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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema and more

Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Ender’s Game Tops The US Box Office Despite Boycott Calls

November 4, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Enders-Game-Poster1Despite calls for boycott from gay groups angry at Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card’s virulent homophobia, the adaptation of the novel has landed at the top of the US box office with $28 million. It’s difficult to tell whether the boycott calls had any effect, as while tracking has suggested a $30 million+ opening for the film, many have suggested the publicity around the planned boycott may actually have acted as free advertising for the film.

Last Vegas came in third at the box office on its debut with $16.5 million, which isn’t a triumph but could certainly have been worse. It’s also believed the Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Robert De Niro has had a good audience reaction, suggesting it should hold up well over the coming weeks.

The animated comedy Free Birds took the fourth spot with $16.2 million. Some have suggested that the film could have done a lot better if the marketing has focussed on the story rather than generic hi-jinks, but there’s still time for the film to find more success, as its Thanksgiving theme may help it in the run up to the holiday later this month.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of November 1st-4th.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 Ender’s Game $28.0 $28.0
2 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa $20.5 $62.0
3 Last vegas $16.5 $16.5
4 Free Birds $16.2 $16.2
5 Gravity $13.1 $219.1
6 Captain Phillips $8.5 $82.5
7 12 Years A Slave $4.6 $8.7
8 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 $4.2 $106.1
9 Carrie $3.4 $31.9
10 The Counselor $3.2 $13.3
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FILMS: Ender's Game, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Last Vegas, Free Birds, Gravity, Captain Phillips, 12 Years A Slave, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2, Carrie, The Counselor  

Bad Grandpa Tops The US Box Office, With The Counselor Sinking

October 28, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

jackass-bad-grandpa-posterAs many expected, the power of Jackass won out over the weekend, with Bad Grandpa taking the top spot with $32 million. Although that’s around $20 million less than the opening of Jackass 3-D, the film cost little to make and will prove very profitable.

However there was less cheer for Ridley Scott’s The Counselor, which despite a starry cast and a script by Cormac McCarthy, only placed fourth on the chart with $8.0. Indeed it may have been the problem that the promotion so heavily sold the stars – such as Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt – that they forgot to tell anyone what the movie was actually about. Bad reviews certainly didn’t help.

While those were the only new openers in the top 10, 12 Years A Slave made its first appeared after expanding onto 123 screens (after just 19 last week), taking $2.1 million to place eighth. It suggest the movie will stay strong as in goes into more cinemas over the coming weeks.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of October 25th-27th.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa $32.0 $32.0
2 Gravity $20.3 $199.8
3 Captain Phillips $11.8 $70.0
4 The Counselor $8.0 $8.0
5 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 $6.1 $100.6
6 Carrie $5.9 $26.0
7 Escape Plan $4.3 $17.4
8 12 Years A Slave $2.1 $3.4
9 Enough Said $1.5 $13.0
10 Prisoners $1.0 $59.1
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FILMS: Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Gravity, Captain Phillips, The Counselor, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2, Carrie, Escape Plan, 12 Years A Slave, Enough Said, Prisoners  

Gravity Tops The US Box Office For A Third Week, While Fifth Estate Tanks Badly

October 21, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

gravity-preview-pic1Gravity has continued its impressive box office run, topping the US box office for a third week with $31 million, once more dropping less than 30% from the previous weekend (most films fall around 40-60% each week). It’s made $170 million in North America so far and is expected to gross another $100 million before the end of its run.

It certainly saw off the newcomers. The remake of Carrie was the best new opener with $17 million, which means that while it should still be profitable as it didn’t cost too much to make, it’s on the low end for recent horror releases, which is slightly surprising with Halloween not far away.

Escape Plan came fifth with $9.8 million, showing once more that after his time as Californian Governor, Armie isn’t the box office name he used to be, even if he teams up with Sylvester Stallone – something that in the 80s fans would have died for.

The only other new opener in the top 10 was the Wikileaks drama, The Fifth Estate, which took a dismal $1.7 million. It was a bit of a disaster, as it’s the lowest opening in DreamWorks history, and the worst start for a movie opening at over 1,500 cinemas this year. With bad reviews and mediocre audience reaction, it’s unlikely to do much better in the coming weeks.

Outside the top 10, 12 Years A Slave did well, taking $960,000 on just 19 screens. That’s an incredibly impressive $50,000 per screen, suggesting it’ll do extremely well as it expands nationwide in the coming weeks.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 Gravity $31.0 $170.5
2 Captain Phillips $17.3 $53.3
3 Carrie $17.0 $17.0
4 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 $10.1 $93.1
5 Escape Plan $9.8 $9.8
6 Prisoners $2.0 $57.2
7 Enough Said $1.8 $10.7
8 The Fifth Estate $1.7 $1.7
9 Runner Runner $1.6 $17.5
10 Insidious Chapter 2 $1.5 $80.9
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FILMS: Gravity, Captain Phillips, Carrie, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2, Escape Plan, Prisoners, Enough Said, The Fifth Estate, Runner Runner, Insidious Chapter 2  

Comic-Con Posters: Godzilla, I Frankenstein, Thor: The Dark World & Carrie

July 16, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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With Comic-Con kicking off in just a couple of days, the movie studios are already trying to build the hype for their upcoming movies, which includes releasing a slew of posters for those film that will be filling the halls this weekend in San Diego. Now we have a rather cool trio of posters for the Aaron Eckhart movie I,  Frankenstein, a banner for the remake of Carrie, a Thor: The Dark World concept art image, and as you can see above, a great new mondo poster for Godzilla.

The giant lizard film is expected to be one of the biggest movies at Comic-Con this weekend, with Warner promising a massive presentation and plenty of other things going on in relation to the film.

The movie, starring Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Ken Watanabe, David Strathairn, Sally Hawkins and Juliette Binoche, is said to be closer to the tone of the Japanese originals than Roland Emmerich’s 1990s movie. The Gareth Edwards directed film hits cinemas May 16th 2014.

I, Frankenstein is based on Kevin Grevioux’s graphic novel of the same name about Adam Frankenstein (Aaron Eckhart), the creation of Dr. Frankenstein, who is still alive centuries after his ‘birth’. Adam is hunted down by a clan of demons who want to learn Adam’s secret in order to reanimate deceased demons and start a new army. Miranda Otto, Jai Courtney, Bill Nighy and Aden Young also star. It’s due in cinemas next January.

Based on Stephen King’s debut novel, the remake of Carrie sees Chloe Moretz take over the title role of the girl on the edge of adolescence, whose problem with bullies and a terrifying mother become dangerous when she develops telekinetic powers. It’s due out in October.

Thor: The Dark World is, of course, the follow-up to Marvel’s Thor and The Avengers, with Chris Hemsworth back as the Norse god. This time he must prevent an ancient race, led by the vengeful Malekith, from plunging the universe back into darkness. It’s due in cinemas in November.

Click below for larger versions of the posters and images.

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ACTORS: Chloe Moretz, Chris Hemsworth  FILMS: Godzilla, I Frankenstein, Thor: The Dark World, Carrie  

Carrie Motion Poster Shows Off The Prom Carnage

May 27, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It’s still a few months until Carrie is due to debut in cinemas (it’s out in October in the US and November in the UK), but in order to try and get us excited, a motion poster has debuted, which you can take a look at above.

Based on Stephen King’s first novel, the film tells the story of a teenage girl with a tyrannical mother, who gets bullied at school. However she begins to develop telekinetic powers, which come to full fruition on the night of the prom.

Take a look at the carnage in the motion poster.

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ACTORS: Chloe Moretz, Julianne Moore  DIRECTORS: Kimberly Peirce  FILMS: Carrie  

Carrie Trailer – Chloe Moretz takes on the iconic Stephen King character

April 5, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Although there are still some people who don’t think Hollywood should have remade Carrie, feeling Brian De Palma’s 1976 film was already the definitive statement on Stephen King’s debut novel. However this trailer suggests the do-over could well be worth a look.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The quiet suburb of Chamberlain, Maine is home to the deeply religious and conservative Margaret White (Julianne Moore) and her daughter Carrie (Chloe Moretz). Carrie is a sweet but meek outcast whom Margaret has sheltered from society. Gym teacher Miss Desjardin (Judy Greer) tries in vain to protect Carrie from local mean girls led by the popular and haughty Chris Hargenson (Portia Doubleday, Youth in Revolt), but only Chris’ best friend, Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde, The Three Musketeers), regrets their actions. In an effort to make amends, Sue asks her boyfriend, high school heartthrob Tommy Ross (newcomer Ansel Elgort), to take Carrie to prom. Pushed to the limit by her peers at the dance, Carrie unleashes telekinetic havoc.’

The film will hit cinemas in October.

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ACTORS: Chloe Moretz, Julianne Moore  DIRECTORS: Kimberly Peirce  FILMS: Carrie  

New Carrie Poster Online – Meet Julianne Moore’s Margaret White

January 15, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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It’s still a few months until the remake of Carrie hits cinemas in November, due to the fact it’s been put back from its originally planned Spring release. However to keep us interested, Sony has released a new poster via Latino Review, which shows us Julianne Moore’s Margaret White.

If you know Stephen King’s novel or the 1976 film version, you’ll know that Margaret isn’t not exactly the nicest of people. She is Carrie’s (Chloe Moretz) mother and a bit of a religious zealot monster who believes her daughter’s newfound powers are evil and just about everything she does goes against God.

Carrie’s homelife is as bad as school, where the quiet young girl is laughed at and bullied – something that comes to a head when the popular people play a prank on her at the prom. Judy Greer, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday, Alex Russell and Michelle Nolden also star.

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ACTORS: Julianne Moore, Chloe Moretz  DIRECTORS: Kimberly Peirce  FILMS: Carrie  

Carrie Teaser Trailer – Take your first look at Chloe Moretz in the upcoming remake

October 16, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


It’s all going up in flames in the remake of Carrie – at least that’s what this teaser trailer promises, with Chloe Moretz covered in blood, after having gone a bit pyrokinetic. The film is a reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. The movie’s due out April 5th, 2013.

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ACTORS: Chloe Moretz, Julianne Moore  DIRECTORS: Kimberly Peirce  FILMS: Carrie  

First Pics From Carrie Remake Emerge

August 23, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

EW has got the first look at images from Kimberly Peirce’s upcoming remake of the classic horror film Carrie. The first image above recreates the iconic moment from the original movie, although this time with Chloe Moretz drenched in blood. The the other photo gives us a look at Julianne Moore as the title character’s mother. Both photos feature a side by side comparison with the original Carrie stars Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. The remake is due out April 12th, 2013.

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ACTORS: Chloe Moretz, Julianne Moore  DIRECTORS: Kimberly Peirce  FILMS: Carrie  

Judy Greer Joins Carrie Remake

May 28, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

MGM Studios is ramping up their casting efforts for the upcoming Carrie remake, bringing on Judy Greer, Ivana Baquero (Pan’s Labyrinth), and Gabriella Wilde (The Three Musketeers) for the Kimberly Peirce directed film, according to Bloody Digusting.

Chloe Moretz is set to star as the title character, a tormented high school girl who uses her new telekinetic abilities to get revenge on those students who bullied her. Judy Greer will play the high school gym teacher, while Ivana Baquero is portraying the “sexy bad girl”, Chris. No details are known for Gabriella Wilde’s character. Julianne Moore, Alex Russell, and Ansel Elgort also star.

Shooting is expected to begin fairly soon, with a March 15th, 2013 US release already set.

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ACTORS: Judy Greer, Gabriella Wilde, Ivana Baquero  DIRECTORS: Kimberly Peirce  FILMS: Carrie  
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