(This week’s Box-Office Wipe Up brought to you by Roland Emmerich’s evil twin, Rolando Emmerich.)
2012 made $65 million over the weekend, which isn’t surprising considering everyone knew about it. Though it should be noted that Roland Emmerich’s last movie, The Day After Tomorrow, actually opened bigger at $68.7 million, and I don’t know think I know anyone who saw that movie. Also… aren’t they the same movie? What’s going on here?
A Christmas Carol dropped only 25% since it’s opening last weekend, leading many to believe it will continue to play into actual Christmas and leaving little hope that Robert Zemeckis will ever abandon this ridiculous motion-capture experiment. We get it, dude, you like computers.
Precious is tearing it up, thanks to Oprah’s Midas ham hands. Either that or it’s doing well because the main character is so hot. Seriously, do any of you have her number? I want to get all up in her Shar Pei folds. Just like I did with my Shar Pei.
Opening this weekend:
2012 opens this weekend. You know it, I know it, the kids in my rape van know it. I’ve already featured the trailer, the disaster porn version of the trailer, the no-effects trailer, and my favorite, the Raising Arizona music trailer. Anyway, it looks fun, and it’ll probably make a lot of money. Other than that, you’ve got Pirate Radio, which has a great cast but also a guy walking into a lamp post in the trailer, Fantastic Mr. Fox opening in NY and LA, Black Dynamite playing a few more places, and probably some other stuff that I don’t want to look up because it’s Friday. How about you just watch this awesome clip from Bad Lieutenant and we call it a week, shall we?
Fall’s biggest comedy 2012 opens today, so it’s time for us all to care what Roland Emmerich thinks. On that note, the man recently took time out from masturbating to tsunami footage, telling MTV that he’s planning for not one, but two Independence Day sequels. To be titled “‘ID4-ever, Part I and II maybe?” I think he was joking, but on the other hand it’s Roland Emmerich.
“What we want to do in the next – it’s actually two movies – we want to do a bigger arc,” he explained. “‘Independence Day’ was always like the king who leads his troops into battle against an evil force, and that stays like that.”
Independence Day arc: Aliens land. Aliens blow sh-t up. WELCOME DA EARFF! Humans blow up aliens. So what might the “bigger arc” be? Aliens land. Aliens blow sh-t up. WELCOME DA EARFF! Humans blow up aliens. …Pool party? That’s how they’d do it on Entourage.
When it comes to bringing out the awkward and uncomfortable and skeeved out in interview subjects, no one touches MTV Movies Blog. It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these, but Steven Seagal was probably my favorite. This week they spoke to John Cusack and Amanda Peet. While Peet comes off down to Earth and eminently cuddleable, John Cusack IS IN NO MOOD FOR YOUR SH*T, BUDDY. I realize they’re on the tour for 2012 so he’s already on the defensive, but he treats the interviewer’s cardboard boombox prop from Say Anything as if it’s a live rattlesnake.
Granted, there doesn’t seem to be any actual question other than, “Hey, check out this boombox,” but still, Cusack acts like he suspects he’s being made fun of and all this is highly irregular. Hey, John. This is 2012 we’re talking. No one’s gonna ask you about your character. “Tell us about Jack Curtis. Why’s he always running from supervolcanoes?” He comes off like a prick when all he really had to do was smile and play along. Next time, and this goes for Cusack and all actors on silly press tours out there, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Paul Rudd do?
(It’s just not the same without Yakety Sax)
2012 is already looking like the front runner for winter’s best comedy, and here’s a subway ad for it in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. (I hear the tunnels are where Blanka from Street Fighter hides). Anyway, pretty cool. It’s funny, Roland Emmerich didn’t blow up any Muslim landmarks in his movie because he was worried about them getting mad, yet he blew off the famous Brazilian Jesus’ arms in the trailer and they let him put a giant subway ad there. Gosh, I can’t imagine there’s any correlation between the number of hot, scantily clad women that live in a place and the number of touchy, pissed off a-holes there.
[via SciFiSquad]
