“The Avengers” hit $1 billion in global box office Sunday, in its 19th day of release, Disney said.
The Marvel superhero mashup took in another $103.2 million over the weekend, the best-ever second week and the first time a film has broken $100 million in a second frame.
The geriatric gang of aging uber spies first featured in RED is getting back together — and getting some new (i.e. young) blood. RED 2, the sequel announced Friday, will see the original team of Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, and Mary-Louise Parker reuniting, and being joined by Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Peter Bradshaw, in his review of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie The Dictator, says that Cohen’s central character is ‘set to make Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau a model of subtlety and sensitivity’ and that the movie features ‘ moments of gasp-inducing offensiveness’.
‘It is relentlessly immature and I was often reminded of the cheerfully reprehensible Kentucky Fried Movie in the 70s, a film unashamedly low in nutritional value. But it was very funny and so is this. The Dictator isn’t going to win awards and it isn’t as hip as Borat. Big goofy outrageous laughs is what it has to offer.’
Caine is not your average nine year-old boy. In his dad’s used auto parts store in LA, he’s constructed his own DIY cardboard arcade — it’s there now; you can totally go see it and play.
Seriously, the kid built his own claw machine! He’s even devised a security system so that people won’t rip him off when paying for a Fun Pass, which grants patrons 500 plays a month for $2.
But the problem was nobody was coming in to play Caine’s games. His dad’s shop wasn’t in an area of LA with a lot of foot traffic, but a chance encounter with Nirvan Mullick lead to something special: an organized flashmob. Mullick filmed everything, creating a short film
Disney and Marvel Studios’ The Avengers is on course to hit $1 billion in global grosses by Sunday or early next week.
If it reaches the milestone on Sunday — its 19th day in release — it will be on par with with Avatar and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 in terms of record-breaking speed.
Entries for the Jozi Film Festival (JFF) 2013 are now open.
The JFF is a new annual film festival that will showcase the latest films made by Jozi and Gauteng filmmakers and/or films made in Johannesburg or Gauteng. The festival’s mission is to create a platform for Jozi’s growing film community to screen their films, while simultaneously making the films accessible to all members of the community by keeping admission tickets reasonably priced. A few film screenings will be at no charge.
Entries are now being accepted, until November 16, 2012 (postmark date).
Hollywood’s latest adaptation from the world of comics, The Avengers, has smashed the box office record for the biggest US opening weekend by a margin befitting a film trading heavily on cacophonous superhero-style walloping.
The $200.3m (£124m) debut is by far the biggest American opening to date, shooting past the $169.2m record for the debut of last year’s Harry Potter finale. A $200m take from all new movies is considered a great weekend for the business as a whole, so The Avengers has effectively redefined the standards for a blockbuster debut.
The Nikon D4 and D800, Nikon’s newly launched top of the range DSLR cameras, are now available for rental in South Africa.
The D4 offers a powerful combination of up to 11 fps, a 16.2 megapixel FX-format sensor and phenomenally high ISO (extendable up to 204,800, equivalent). D-movie delivers all the flexibility you need for broadcast quality video. The Kevlar/carbon fiber-composite shutter unit boasts a standard life cycle rating of 400,000 releases, thirty percent more than its predecessor.
Of the D800, Nikon says: “The 36.3 megapixel FX-format sensor and class-leading autofocus system deliver unprecedented levels of depth and detail in your photography. Full HD D-movie offers all the flexibility you need for broadcast quality video.”
South African Charlie Vundla scooped Best Director and his debut, film noir thriller How 2 Steal 2 Million,was named Best Film at the eighth Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), held on 22 April 2012, at The Expo Centre, Eko Hotel & Suite in Lagos, Nigeria. South African actress Terry Pheto was named Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, which also won Best Achievement in Editing (Garreth Fradgely). With four awards, How 2 Steal 2 Million was the most awarded film on the night.
Director Joss Whedon pulls off a stunning feat in bringing balance to this superhuman circus, engineered to charm the geek core and non-fans alike.
The All-Star Game of modern superhero extravaganzas, The Avengers is humongous, the film Marvel and its legions of fans have been waiting for. It’s hard to imagine that anyone with an appetite for the trademark’s patented brand of fantasy, effects, mayhem and strangely dressed he-men will be disappointed; not only does this eye-popping 3D display of visual effects fireworks feature an enormously high proportion of action scenes, but director Joss Whedon has adroitly balanced the celebrity circus to give every single one of the superstar characters his or her due. Worldwide box office returns will be, in a word, Marvelous.