Friday Box Office – What the Smurf? The Smurfs Edge Out Cowboys And Aliens On Opening Day

This week the box office gave us Cowboys and Aliens: a huge action movie directed by Jon Favreau, written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman and produced by Steven Spielberg. It also gave us The Smurfs: a movie about tiny, animated blue creatures from the eighties which was supposed to play as family-friendly counter-programming to the would-be summer blockbuster. So what’s with that chart? Opening in 3,750 locations, Cowboys and Aliens was projected to take the weekend with $45-$50 million to The Smurfs $20 million from 3,395 dates. With Friday’s estimates, however, it now looks like Cowboys will be a first-place disappointment with $40 million while The Smurfs will overperform in second place with at least $30 million. Meanwhile, the third new release of the week, Crazy Stupid Love, opened in 3,020 locations, taking in an estimated $6.6 million for a weekend projection of $20 million. Full details and analysis tomorrow. Title Friday Total 1 The Smurfs $13,300,000 $13.3 2 Cowboys » By : IMDb.CoM

Leonardo DiCaprio up for Creed Of Violence with Todd Field?

Rumours are rife that Leonardo DiCaprio could be set to join another period western: Todd Field's The Creed Of Violence. We say another, as DiCaprio is set to play villain Calvin Candie in Quentin Taratino's Django Unchained (there still hasn't been a 100% official confirmation on that casting, but it seems to be taken as a given now). According to an unnamed source in a Los Angeles Times report, DiCaprio is reportedly interested in starring in The Creed Of Violence, which is based on a novel by Boston Teran. Set in 1910, the story takes... » By : IMDb.CoM

‘Just Like Being There:’ A Gig Poster Documentary, Now In Production

/Film is proud to exclusively announce that a previously untitled, currently in production documentary on the world of gig posters has officially been dubbed Just Like Being There. The crew, lead by director by Scout Shannon and producer by Johanna Goldstein, has been traveling the country documenting some of the best poster artists in the business and they plan on releasing a movie about this world. If you read /Film, you know this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart so when I heard about this film, I had find out more about it to share with you all. "Gig posters" doesn't only refer to concert posters, though. It pretty much covers all kinds of limited edition poster art such as the posters that Mondo releases [1], gallery shows at places like Gallery 1988 [2] in Los Angeles or Spoke Art [3] in San Francisco and, of course, the art that » By : IMDb.CoM