Well, after a bit of a hiatus, the Box Office Predictions are back. This is the time of year when the Box Office really heats up. We are just one week away from May and the start of the Summer movie season. That being said, there is still one week to go. So far, Disturbia has ruled the Box Office for two weeks in a row. This week, there are four new movies opening to challenge it. Which one (if any) will claim the top spot? Read on to find out:
1. Next. The Nicholas Cage thriller seems like an obvious pick for #1 spot at the Box Office this week. For one thing, there really isn’t a lot of good competition. While Disturbia has been #1 two weeks in a row, last week it only made $13 million which was down 41% from its opening week total. If it loses a similar share of its audience, then it has little chance of keeping the top spot. So then we look at the new movies opening up and Next clearly has the most commercial appeal. Cage is coming off of Ghost Rider which did a very impressive $45 million its opening weekend on the way to a $115 million total. Next also appears to be an interesting sci-fi thriller which should appeal to fans. While it won’t do nearly as well as Ghost Rider, Next will still do well with $25 million, easily coming in #1.
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Stone Cold Steve Austin isn’t going to make any crappy movie. The retired pro wrestler told /Film that he actually turned down The Marine, which was later made starring John Cena.
We’ve been talking about doing movies forever, towards the end of my career. And the first one that I was going to was going to be The Marine. I got the script to The Marine, and I didn’t really like it too much, so I passed,” Austin told /Film. “But The Condemned seemed like a cool story, cool concept, a lot of it outdoors, and just seemed like, I don’t know, for some reason it grabbed me. It was something I saw myself doing, and people would expect me to be in, and it seemed like the right thing to do. If you compare The Marine to The Condemned, this is a way better movie. It is.”
The Condemned was the first movie in a three film deal with WWE Films.
“Yeah, we haven’t found anything, but I read about probably 10 or 15 [scripts already] – but we just can’t find the one that’s going to be the one, so we can’t make a decision yet.”
Austin told us that the next project will most likely be more of a solo project, although they are also considering the buddy action movie genre.
What happened to all the bad action movies from the late 1980′s and early 1990′s? You know, the ones with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris. The Condemned is the closest thing I’ve seen to those b-action classics in the last few years. And watching The Condemned I felt myself yearning for those type of films. But sadly The Condemned is not. Although it came very close.
The film stars former pro wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin as Joe Conrad, one of 10 inmates on death row who is chosen to be part of a real life Survivor. The show, which is being illegally broadcast on the internet, pits 10 condemned killers from all corners of the world up against each other. Nine will die, and the sole survivor will be given the gift of freedom. Imagine Battle Royale meets The Running Man, but on a lower budget and scale.
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WWE won’t give up. They have their mind set on making a genre classic with a WWE wrestler in the lead role. Too bad, their track record has been pretty bad: See No Evil, a bloody horror/thriller starring Kane, and The Marine, an action thriller starring John Cena. Now comes a film starring the man that started the second wrestling revolution, Stone Cold Steve Austin. Check out the movie poster, stills, and a trailer after the jump.
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