Tweetle Dumb – The Week’s Worst Tweets

It’s Swedish.  You’re welcome.

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Okay, I do like Grease… but this might be the first time hearing someone saying it’s the best film ever made.  A movie with something called “the hand jive” cannot by the best movie ever.

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I looked.  There is no movie titled “I’m the legend.”  There is an awful sci-fi film from 2007 starring Will Smith titled “I Am Legend.”  Eh, you were close enough.

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Doody?  Does that mean the movie was crap… or does it mean it appeals strictly to dudes?  And how do you “kind of” meet someone?

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Wrong.  “Up” is not the first feature length 3-D movie.

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lol.  “How in fuck”  hahahahahaha.

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But if her hair color is wrong, then you might as well just stop watching the movie right now.

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And “I’m didn’t” know you were such a sour-puss.  Sorry buddy.  You get the Tweetle Dumb Pick of the Week.  I give you a big thumbs DOWN for bashing Pixar’s latest and one of their finest.  Now I don’t know what’s worse… you hating Up or Jenna hating Toy Story.  You two were meant for each other.

Box Office Results: Star Trek travels at warp speed to the top

Studio Estimates (May 8-10):

1.  Star Trek – $72.5 million
2.  X-Men Origins: Wolverine – $27 million
3.  Ghosts of Girlfriends Past – $10.5 million
4.  Obsessed – $6.6 million
5.  17 Again – $4.4 million

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To no surprise, Star Trek was the box office champion this Mother’s Day Weekend with an impressive $72.5 million (approx. $80 million if you count Thursday’s gross).  In addition to the movie being a box office hit, it was a smash hit with the critics as well, receiving a 96% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 228 reviews.  After the success of X-Men Origins: Wolverine last weekend, there was an announcement for a Deadpool spin-off sequel.  Do I smell a Star Trek sequel in the near future?

As for the other new release this weekend, Next Day Air failed to make the Top 5.  It placed #6 at the box office with only $4 million.  The rest of the Top 5 that followed Star Trek were Wolverine, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Obsessed, and 17 Again.

Check back on Friday when the summer blockbuster season continues with yet ANOTHER prequel, Angels & Demons starring Tom Hanks.

Box Office Results: Wolverine slashes its way through the competition

Studio Estimates for May 1-3:

1.  X-Men Origins: Wolverine – $87 million
2.  Ghosts of Girlfriends Past – $15.3 million
3.  Obsessed – $12.2 million
4.  17 Again – $6.4 million
5.  Monsters vs. Aliens – $5.8 million

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And the summer blockbuster season is under way with Wolverine taking in $87 million during the first weekend of May.  I guess all the questions whether the online leak would be a serious obstacle for the X-men prequel have been put to rest.  Although Wolverine didn’t pull in as much money as X-Men: The Last Stand ($102.8 million) did its opening weekend, it still exceeded expectations despite mostly negative reviews.  I’m sure there will be plenty of X-Men movies to come.

The rest of the box office fell into place.  The romantic comedy, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, grabbed the #2 spot with $15.3 million.  And Obsessed, 17 Again, and Monsters vs. Aliens rounded up the Top 5.

As for our predictions, Sheehan was the only one to correctly predict the movies in the Top 5 (although not in order), but my prediction for Wolverine was the closest and was what made me the Top Dog of the Panel for this weekend.

Check back on Friday for our new predictions as the summer blockbuster season continues with JJ Abrams’ take on Star Trek.

Tweetle Dumb – The Week’s Worst Tweets

Here’s a new segment on The Entertainment Blur where I will list a number of tweets that I have bumped into.  Whatever the reason, these tweets made me laugh and I hope you share a similar sense of humor.  Also, I have to thank Chris from the Predictions Panel for giving me the hilarious title for this new segment, “Tweetle Dumb.”

Okay, so here we go…

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There were a lot of tweets this weekend for the #1 film of the country, “Obsessed.”  This struck my funny bone because I don’t think I’ve ever seen/heard “good ass” and “bad ass” used in the same sentence before.

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Because Beyonce’s acting skills were so high to begin with…

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Do people actually talk like this?  Or is this a new slang/ghetto way of typing?  Also, Obsessed should not be anyone’s favorite movie.

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Yes, The Soloist is an epic 109 minutes long.  I bet you that this person has never watched Lawrence of Arabia.

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Hmm… someone else confusing The Soloist for an epic?  For a movie buff, you’d think she wouldn’t compare The Soloist to Braveheart… but I haven’t seen The Soloist yet so who knows, maybe there were armies of thousands trying to overthrow Juilliard in New York City.

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To her credit, the three movies she mentioned weren’t received well by the critics.  But to say there are no good movies out you have to do your research… especially when movies like State of Play, Adventureland, I Love You Man, and Earth are in the theaters and all have an 80% or higher Rotten Tomatoes rating.

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First off, this person’s statistics are as real as Barney Stinson’s in ‘How I Met Your Mother.’  Secondly, The Wrestler is as much a movie about wrestling as The Reader is about the Holocaust.  Want to make a wager whoever posted this hasn’t even seen the movie?  Double the bet that the stats are entirely made up.

Box Office Results: Audiences go crazy for ‘Obsessed’

Studio Estimates (April 24-26):

1.  Obsessed – $28.5 million
2.  17 Again – $11.7 million
3.  Fighting – $11.4 million
4.  The Soloist – $9.7 million
5.  Earth – $8.6 million

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So what was about this ‘Obsessed’ film that made everyone want to see it this weekend?  Who knows… maybe the Beyonce star-power, or maybe the psycho/suspense/thriller is something the teens want to see these days.  Whatever the reason, it destroyed the competition from the rest of the new releases.

The rest of the three new films were able to land in the Top 5, but all behind last weekend’s box office king, 17 Again.  The results for the #5 and #6 spots were extremely close.  Disney’s documentary Earth landed the fifth spot with an estimate of $8.55 million while the DreamWorks animated feature Monsters vs. Aliens grossed an estimate of $8.52 million.  Those two can very well be switched when the actual results come in.

As for our predictions, Phil was the only one to guess all five films on the Top 5, but unfortunately none were in the right order.  After tallying the results, my predictions were the closest to the results with Sheehan not too far behind.

Check back on Friday when the first week of May presents us with the first weekend of the Summer Blockbusters:  the romantic-comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Box Office Predictions (April 24-26)

After two consecutive weekends where movies with tween stars ended up on top, there is a nice variety of four new releases that will try to take the box office crown away from them.

First, the PG-13 thriller Obsessed starring Beyonce, Ali Later, and Idris Elba.  Opening in about 2,500 theaters, this film should be able to bring in the African American demographic along with the teens.  I think this has the best shot at taking the top spot this weekend.

Next is Fighting, a PG-13 action film about the underground world of street fighting.  Starring Channing Tatum.  That’s pretty much all I know about the film.  I haven’t seen a trailer or commercial so I guess that’s it.

On Wednesday, Disney released the animal/environment documentary, Earth.  Debuting in about 1,800 theaters, it made approximately $4 million on Wednesday.  Documentaries usually aren’t box office hits (March of the Penguins being the exception), so I don’t expect Earth to have an impact in the Top 5.

Finally, the bio-pic/drama by Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement) titled The Soloist.  Starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx, the movie tells the story of a journalist befriending a homeless Julliard trained musician.  This seems like an untimely release for a movie with an Oscar-caliber cast.  The mixed reviews suggests that it would’ve been chewed up and spat out if it was released in November.  Nonetheless, The Soloist is depending on the mature audiences to flock to the theaters.

Let’s check out our predictions:

My Predictions:

1.  Obsessed – $17 million
2.  17 Again – $12 million
3.  Fighting – $10 million
4.  The Soloist – $8 million
5.  Monsters vs. Aliens – $8 million

Chris’ Predictions:

1.  The Soloist – $20 million
2.  17 Again – $15 million
3.  Obsessed – $13 million
4.  State of Play – $9 million
5.  Monsters vs. Aliens – $8 million

Sheehan’s Predictions:

1.  Obsessed – $15 million
2.  17 Again – $14 million
3.  The Soloist – $13 million
4.  State of Play – $11 million
5.  Earth – $10 million

Phil’s Predictions:

1.  Fighting – $25 million
2.  Obsessed – $16 million
3.  17 Again – $12 million
4.  Earth – $9 million
5.  The Soloist – $7 million

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The four new releases created quite a stir in the Predictions Panel for this weekend.  If there’s one thing we all agreed on, it’s that the box office race will be close.  Half of the Panel picked Obsessed to take the #1 spot.  Phil is the only one who thinks all four new films will land on the Top 5.

Check back on Monday for the box office results.