This week brings us quite an eclectic mix of new Blu-ray releases. Among them, we get a failed blockbuster, a sleeper hit comedy, the latest lazy mess from Adam Sandler’s production company, and an art film that will likely polarize audiences for decades to come.
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I would seem that, when I wrote last week’s Blu-ray update, I missed kind of a big title that was released on Friday. You know, the one involving giant robots beating the crap out of each other. Whoops. Allow me to consolidate that into this one. October is going to be another busy (and expensive) month for Blu-ray releases. There’s quite a lot to look at today.
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How embarrassing is it for new releases that ‘The Lion King’ is #1 again? For the second week in a row, the 3D re-release of a 17-year-old movie has dominated the box office. Only falling 26.6% in attendance, ‘The Lion King (in 3D)‘ earned another $22 million. That’s pretty shocking considering that it beat out two Rotten Tomatoes “Certified Fresh” films. Now ranking in 12th place for best domestic release of all time, ‘The Lion King’ has grossed $390 million in all. How much do you want to bet that the ‘Lion King’ limited two-week run gets an extension next week?
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January and September are two of the weakest months of the year for quality movies, but September has something that January doesn’t: – at least one pre-awards season contender. Opening this week is 2011′s September contender. No, I’m not talking about the dumb dolphin movie, the bad action movie with Jason Statham, or the other bad action movie with Taylor Lautner. I’m referring to the film starring Brad Pitt.
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I sure didn’t foresee the weekend being dominated by a 3D re-release of a 17-year-old animated movie – especially one whose new 3d conversion is receiving a Diamond Edition Blu-ray release in just two weeks. Continue Reading
I love it when general audiences walk into a widely-released indie-style movie expecting a standard genre flick and walk out scratching their heads, not exactly sure what they just watched nor how they feel about it. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, hang around the cinema this weekend and you’ll see it in abnormally large numbers, since two of such films opens wide this weekend.
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Grab something and hold on tight! This week brings us a virtual onslaught of new Blu-ray releases, including two cinematic titans battling it out to pry some of those hard-earned dollars from your wallets. I wish I could say that there was only one difficult choice to make this week, but the reality is that a ton of stuff may deserve your money. Quite frankly, ‘Star Wars’ is the least of them.
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Now this is more like it. Three sweet looking games in one week? Hell yeah. PlayStation owners get their hands on a must-have, and every high-def system gets a pair of absolutely stellar-looking titles. It almost makes up for the temperature outside being so low that I have to wear a hoodie. Almost.
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For the third weekend in a row (and its fourth weekend in theaters), ‘The Help‘ has dominated other openers to hold the #1 spot at the box office. According to Box Office Mojo, the last film to reign at #1 for three consecutive weeks was last summer’s ‘Inception’. Down only a staggering 2.3% in attendance from last weekend, ‘The Help’ has now earned more than $118 million. Will ‘Contagion’ please open already and knock ‘The Help’ off its melodramatic and preachy high horse?
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Brace yourselves, folks. September is going to be an expensive month for Blu-ray fans. While the barrage of huge, long-awaited titles won’t hit its peak until next week, this week already brings us several worth consideration.
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