This feature revolves around the business, finance and marketing aspects of Hollywood. Ranging from a film’s success or failure in the box office we also discuss trends, advertising and the more sophisticated side of Hollywood in this feature.

As to be expected people did show for the end of the world. Roland Emmerich’s latest white house detroying cataclysmic film, 2012 churned out $65 million in a box office beat down. The question is will it make its budget of $260 million? That will remain to be seen but we speculate with domestic sales [...]

So I got this wonderful press release in my email this morning saying that Apparition and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group have announced that they have decided to expand The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day “nationwide to additional markets” on November 13th 2009.
The film on its October 30 opening weekend grossed over $500,000 in [...]

Deadline Hollywood Daily, is reporting that MGM recently held a conference call with its bondholders in a desperate plea for funding. I didn’t know MGM was in financial peril but then again I haven’t been reading a lot of the financial Hollywood news as of late. Turns out the studio is teetering on the edge of [...]

The latest installment of the Harry Potter franchise The Half-Blood Prince has set a new opening day record chalking in $100 million globally in its first 24 hours - $58.2 million domestically and $45.9 million internationally for a total tally of $104 million - the best start ever for the franchise. This comes the already $22 [...]

Not to worry girls these  pics are from Robert Pattinson’s latest movie Remember Me, apparently this is from a scene from a car wreck. The blood is movie magic.

Here’s what we know about Remember Me so far….
A drama centered on two lovers whose new found relationship is threatened as they
try to cope with their respective [...]

TRANSMORPHERS: FALL OF MAN
Release date June 30, 2009
In this present day prequel, the robot invaders attack the Earth, forcing a small band of humans to seek refuge below the surface of the planet.
The Trailer

Produced by: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Directed by: Scott Wheeler
Written by: Shane Van Dyke
Cinematography by: Mark Atkins
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner, Jennifer [...]

This past weekends Box office continues to impress upon last year’s success. Up almost 5% YTD, this weekend was led by the adult-thriller Angels and Demons while Star Trek improved its bounty showing its legs in its second weekend of summer.
Reaching $147.6 million in just over ten days, it eclipsed Star Trek IV: The Voyage [...]

I get a lot of flack in the film blogosphere for not knowing what I am talking about most of the time and that I speculate too much almost to the point of “exaggerated hopelessness” but every once in awhile I get something right. Today I am doing my “I Got it Right” dance as [...]

Update - Monday May 11, 2009 - Star Trek’s official 4 day opening weekend grab was $72.5 million on approximately 7,400 screens at 3,849 sites over the weekend (plus an estimated $4 million from Thursday night previews). This is directly correlative to Batman Begins 5 day opening weekend. It didn’t make $80 million like I [...]

As we enter the second week of summer of an 87 million weekend from X-Men Origins: Wolverine the next big popcorn flick is none other than Star Trek. Its been floating around Twitter, the buzz is heavy, a 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an already massive international appeal. Star Trek is poised to [...]