HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (Warner Bros) continued its strong run at the box office on Friday grabbing an estimated $26.5M, bringing its 3-day cume to just shy of $90M. That should put HP5 right at $80M for the traditional Fri thru Sun 3-day weekend, and it will give ORDER OF THE [...]

The summer movie season is in full effect. I saw Live Free or Die Hard last night and loved it despite the many logic holes and ridiculous stunts (read my review here). Tonight I see License to Wed, which I don’t have much hope for (why does Mandy Moore keep picking the crappiest movies? I [...]

Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere has published the late June industry tracking numbers. To make things easier, we have filed the numbers in this neat little table below:

Film
General Awareness
Definite Interest
First Choice
Definately Not Interested

1408

56%

30%

9%

12%

A Mighty Heart

44%

22%

6%

Evan Almighty

89%

40%

15%

Live Free or Die Hard

92%

36%

5%

Ratatouille

78%

36%

7%

Sicko

38%

22%

3%

22%

License to Wed

69%

22%

2%

Transformers

87%

41%

12%

Here are the things that we [...]

I love Mandy Moore, but what has happened to her film career as of late? She had a great run of teen films. She even elevated to some really interesting issue based comedies (Saved! and American Dreamz). Her latest effort, Because I Said So, was unwatchable. It was marketed towards the teen/college crowd, but in [...]