The Met– The New York Metropolitan Opera– has been offering selections from their current season in selected movie theatres as live HD transmissions. Saturday morning, my wife and I attended the latest one: Puccini’s La Bohème, Produced for the Met by Franco Zeffirelli.
It was something we had intended to do for a while. On New [...]

Last weekend my niece Abigail reached a milestone in her young life– she was taken to her first movie.
This event is a sort of maturity marker for parents– To take a very young child to a theatres makes some basic assumptions: Will he or she sit still for two hours? Will he or she understand, [...]

Is it pile on Kate Hudson time here at Box Office Weekly? Maybe.
According to Variety, Kate Hudson, the star of The Four Feathers and You, Me and Dupree is set to star in Big Eyes, the biopic of Margaret Keane. If there is some sort of contest for least necessary movie, we’re looking at a [...]

Unlike Daniel, I did not bother watching what was left of the Golden Globes award-announcing telecast thingy. I was instead on good ol’ Fox, watching the premiere of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” Gotta admit, it wasn’t that bad. It wasn’t exactly excellent television, but it had impressive effects, fairly lean (if lazily motivated) plot [...]

A few brief notions:
The Lead Compass: The Golden Compass took in just under $26M when it opened last weekend. It’s probably headed to the basement as more holiday movies, I Am Legend in particular, open. For a film that costs upwards of $180M to make that’s south of bad news.
A few months ago I bemoaned [...]

It’s not my usual bailiwick to recommend TV shows, but there is one starting up tomorrow you have to check out. And in this dark season of endless reruns, horrible reality shows and a writer’s strike threating to go on indefinitely, the show I’m recommending is not only new (to the U.S.), it’s startlingly original.
“Life [...]

Martian Child is slated to come out November 2 in the US. It’s a comedy-drama which tells the story of a sci-fi novelist and widower (John Cusack) who adopts a child (Bobby Coleman) who believes he is from Mars. Soon into the film, the love interest appears in the lovely form of Amanda Peet. Oddly, [...]

I swear– I never thought it would happen. An official Kurt Cobain biopic has been greenlighted. Universal is set to produce the film and David Benioff (The Kite Runner) has been tapped to write it.
Very exciting news! Was a pretty big Nirvana fan back in the days. That’s not entirely true– I actually started out [...]

George Lucas is starting development of a live-action Star Wars TV series. It’s going to be about “minor characters” in that galaxy of his own creation far, far away (Alright, let’s hear from Biggs! Wedge Antillies, your time is now! Mon Mothma, it’s all about you, sweetie! Jar Jar… We’ll call you). As Mr. Lucas [...]

A 25th anniversary special cut of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner premiered at the New York Film Festival this weekend. It will run in theatres in New York and LA afterward. This latest version is called Blade Runner: The Final Cut. This name signals either of two things: This is indeed Mr. Scott’s final and definitive [...]