'The Hunger Games' Weekend Box Office: $155 Million. Sorry, Bella. When it comes to box-office odds, Katniss Everdeen had everything in her favor. "The Hunger Games" scored $155 million in North American ticket sales this weekend, the third highest opening weekend of all time, according to estimates from Lionsgate. Only "The Dark Knight" ($158.4 million) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" ($169.1 million) have had stronger opening weekend showings, giving "The Hunger Games" the highest non-sequel weekend premiere ever.
The $155 million bounty also outranked every entry in the "Twilight" series, including the franchise's biggest opener, "New Moon," which started with $142.8 million when it bowed in November of 2009. "The Hunger Games" had opened strong on Friday, notching $68.5 million in ticket sales, as fans lined up for midnight screenings and packed theaters around the country. Kelli Catana: The Hunger Games -- A Movie Review. The Hunger Games. All Critics (275) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (232) | Rotten (43) | DVD (4) The film shows precious little hunger and no sense of game.
Even when two people are just talking calmly, Ross jerks the camera around. Why? As the sense of danger increases, he has nothing to build toward. Ross manages to keep the pacing remarkably swift, given that the games themselves don't start until halfway through the 144-minute running time. Like the select participants of its savage sport, The Hunger Games stands triumphant, if scarred and a bit wobbly from the contest. It features a functioning creative imagination and lots of honest-to-goodness acting by its star, Jennifer Lawrence, who brings her usual toughness and emotional transparency to the archer-heroine Katniss. Watching The Hunger Games, I was struck both by how slickly Ross hit his marks and how many opportunities he was missing to take the film to the next level -- to make it more shocking, lyrical, crazy, daring. The Hunger Games Plot Summary and Details. Christianity Today Entertainment Blog: Pray for Japan. The Japanese tsunami of 2011 was a disaster of such epic proportions that the footage looks like something out of an overblown Hollywood blockbuster.
The initial earthquake shut down the country’s infrastructure almost immediately: no electricity, no Internet, no cell phones. Then the ocean wave hit, washing away entire neighborhoods—along with everything and everyone in them. A mass of houses float away, like some misshapen barge. In the days that followed, gasoline became scarce. Food was severely rationed; at one shelter, a thousand people survived for three days on just four bottles of water. And then there was the Fukushima nuclear near-crisis. Details like these help make the first thirty minutes of Pray for Japan compelling, leaving viewers with nothing to say but simply, “Oh my God.” Pray for Japan recaps the fateful details with amazing footage and interviews. But Pray for Japan starts to falter for its remaining hour, its scope too limited for a tragedy so big. Pray for Japan Film by Stu Levy. Thank you for visiting the Pray for Japan documentary film Kickstarter page!
Together we can not only honor the incredible real-life heroes of the Tohoku Tragedy, but build a movement that assures their efforts will never go forgotten. I hope the info here is useful for everyone – please feel free to ask questions here or at FACEBOOK - and don’t forget to “like” the page! Oh, and we're on TWITTER too! Everyone knows about the tremendous devastation caused by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami tragedy. You saw it on the news and online. There are still 90,000 people living in shelters, 650,000 people are estimated to have lost their livelihoods, and entire villages and neighborhoods have been destroyed. Losing loved ones cuts emotional scars which run deep.
I believe we can help heal these wounds by paying tribute to the amazing resilience and quiet spirit of the many victims and volunteers of Tohoku. 希望 - on the sign below - means "hope", the most critical of all human emotions. 有り難うございます！ The Dual Worlds of John Carter. Since his serialized magazine debut 100 years ago, Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter has fueled the world's imagination as a man caught between two worlds. Traveling from Earth to Mars, Carter uses the strength, skills and morals of the former to forge his destiny in the latter. It's only appropriate then, that Andrew Stanton, the man responsible for finally bringing Carter to the screen, is simultaneously crossing worlds of his own, moving from directing animated fare like Finding Nemo and WALL-E to embracing an epically scaled live-action production roughly five years in the making.
In an unprecedented invitation, ComingSoon.net traveled twice to see two very different sides of Stanton's film. The first set visit, in February of 2010, took place at Surrey, England's Longcross Studios on a series of massive production stages. GALLERY: View new behind-the-scenes photos! "If I'm giving full disclosure," he laughs, "I first read the adaptation that Marvel Comics did in the 70's. John Carter Movie Review. Movies Coming Soon. John Carter (2012) John Carter. All Critics (219) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (111) | Rotten (108) | DVD (5) The most indelible performance in the film is not, strictly speaking, a performance at all.
Rather it is Woola, a six-legged Martian hound who rather resembles a cross between a bulldog and a fetal gila monster. The reported $250 million price tag for John Carter gives one pause. I suppose one could argue that masterpieces have no price. Then again, John Carter is no masterpiece. Where John Carter continually gets it right is pacing, levity, and breadth of story. Whenever the fighting stops and two people have to stand and talk, all the air goes out of everything. It isn't bad so much as innocuous, $250-million worth of innocuous, framed by a decent start and a solid finish but sagging through the long middle like a cheap mattress.
Even if Edgar Rice Burroughs' 11-volume series is adapted by its three screenwriters into a nonsensical mess, then it should at least be a visual feast, right? If Cecil B.