The military drama starring Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle topped the box office for a second weekend in a row with $64.4 million in first place, according to studio estimates Sunday. "American Sniper" is up for six Academy Awards, including best picture and best actor for Cooper.
The horror genre is a not a section of the industry that thrives on quality material consistently. More often than naught it churns out more bad movies instead of good ones.
I've studied the film industry, both academically and informally, for 25 years and extensively written about it for the last five years. My outlets for film criticism, box office commentary, and film-skewing scholarship have included The Huffington Post, Salon, and Film Threat.
Ghost Story was a one season long anthology show based on horror themes . It changed names halfway through, becoming Circle of Fear.
Our review of this week's Dracula Untold doesn't inspire much hope : "This Dracula Begins -style sword-and-fangs curio plays like someone said, 'What if we took a vampire flick but did a find-and-replace swapping out all that bare-neck sensuality for some video-game ass-kicking?'" But for every genre-entry failure, there are numerous other modern vampire movies that manage to plumb and toy with the creature's mythology in imaginative ways. The breadth of the directors featured in our slideshow - from French auteur Claire Denis to Germany's Werner Herzog to American mavericks Jim Jarmusch and Francis Ford Coppola - speaks to the wide variety of voices that have tackled the genre with such ingenuity in recent decades.
Interview with actor Michael Ironside about his upcoming movie "Turbo Kid." He also discusses working on "Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone 3-D."
E! News has confirmed that Jamie Lee Curtis and Emma Roberts are your Scream Queens on Fox. The duo will topline the first 15-episode season of Fox's new anthology series from Ryan Murphy.
The comedy barely cracked the top ten when it opened to $1.5 million on Friday and looks to finish the weekend with a dismal $4.3 million. The pic is far behind this weekend's other new wide release, Jennifer Lopez's "The Boy Next Door," which is runner-up to Bradley Cooper's "American Sniper" as it continues to defy expectations with an estimated weekend haul of a massive $62 million.
A brilliant scientist working in the swamps to help humanity. A rich, evil powerful villain who wants even more power.