Blended Opinion

-Upcoming Articles: 

Film Reviews: Steve Jobs

Indie Double Feature: Freeheld and Beasts of No Nation

Series Review: The Twilight Saga

Also: Weekly NFL and NBA Preview

OPENING THIS WEEK:

Wide: Rock the Kasbah, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, The Last Witch Hunter, and Jem and the Holograms

Limited: Suffragette, Bone Tomahawk, I Smile Back, and Nasty Baby

Expansions to Watch: Steve Jobs and Freeheld

BOX OFFICE RECAP AND PROJECTIONS:

1. Goosebumps- $24M- Total: $24M- Week: #1
2. The Martian– $21M- Total: $144M– Week: #3
3. Bridge of Spies– $15M- Total: $15M- Week: #1
4. Crimson Peak- $13M- Total: $13M- Week: #1
5. Hotel Transylvania- $13M- Total: $137M– Week: #4
6. Pan-  $6M- Total: $26M- Week: #2
7. The Intern- $5M- Total: $59M- Week: #4
8. Sicario– $5M- Total: $35M- Week: #5
9. Woodlawn- $4M- Total: $4M- Week: #1
10. Maze Runner: Scorch Trials- $3M- Total: $76M– Week: #5

-Next Week’s Projected Order:

1. Steve Jobs…2. The Last Witch Hunter…3. Goosebumps…4. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension…5. The Martian…6. Bridge of Spies…7. Hotel Transylvania 2…8. Crimson Peak…9. Rock the Kasbah…10. Jem and the Holograms

TOP NEWS STORIES: 

-The new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer released online to a slew of excitement and speculation as to what it all means. Where’s Luke? Why are the events of the old films now merely folklore? Who is Kylo Ren really? Etc… If you haven’t watched it to assuage your cynicism of the new series, do it.

-Wes Anderson has also announced his next film, a stop-motion comedy focusing on a quartet of dogs, some of which are voiced by Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum, and Bryan Cranston

ACTOR IN FOCUS…BEST AND WORST OF VIN DIESEL

Note: I did not count his part in Saving Private Ryan nor his voice acting in The Iron Giant or Guardians of the Galaxy, but all are great.

Best: His role as Dominic Toretto in Fast and the Furious, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, and Furious 7

Honorable Mentions: Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, and Riddick as Richard Riddick, and his roles in Find Me Guilty and Boiler Room

Worst: The Pacifier, this movie SUCKS

Honorable Mentions: Babylon AD, and A Man Apart

OUT ON REDBOX FOR RENT:

Coming Tuesday:

Spy    

Southpaw 

Pixels        (I Skipped This for Obvious Reasons)

Poltergeist  

Entourage  (Missed This, Hadn’t Seen the TV Show)

Top 5 Rentals Already Out:

Pitch Perfect 2  

Furious 7   (Missed This, Not Caught Up on Series)

Tomorrowland 

Avengers: Age of Ultron 

Insidious: Chapter 3