After the record-smashing $207.4 domestic opening weekend for ‘The Avengers’, the only studio movie going against Marvel’s superhero juggernaut is a remake of a late-’60s\/early-’70s soap opera. A few indie flicks are also opening, but we all know what’s going to be the #1 movie in America again \u2013 the movie that I’ve already gone back to see twice since the press screening. Even if ‘The Avengers’ slips 60% in attendance, it’s still going to make another $83 million this weekend.
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With each trailer and television spot, I can’t help but wonder whom ‘Dark Shadows<\/strong>‘ is marketed to. With so much sexuality, innuendo and vampire blood-sucking, it’s not made for families or kids. As a ‘Beetlejuice’-esque comedy, it’s not trying to please fans of the dramatic soap opera that it’s loosely based upon. Coming from Tim Burton, it’s no surprise that I find myself calling a “weird little movie,” but it doesn’t seem to know what audience it’s made for. I’ve seen it and even I can’t tell you.<\/p>\n Eva Mendes stars in the new little dramedy ‘Girl in Progress<\/strong>‘, in which she plays a single mom who’s already in over her head with her own drama when her teenage daughter decides that she wants to live the life of an adult already. Sounds dreadful.<\/p>\n Bobcat Goldthwait’s new comedy ‘God Bless America<\/strong>‘ is opening on 12 screens. In this dark comedy, a terminally ill man decides to blow away as many repulsive people as he can before he dies. By his side is a 16-year-old girl who shares his same rash opinions. It sounds like a mix of ‘Leon: The Professional<\/a>‘, ‘Super<\/a>‘ and ‘Falling Down<\/a>‘ \u2013 all movies that I like. I’m interested.<\/p>\n Finally, the movie that I’m most interested in is one that I hadn’t heard of until I saw its trailer on a recent Blu-ray \u2013 ‘Tonight You’re Mine<\/strong>‘. In this musical romantic comedy, two rival musicians cause a scene and are handcuffed together for the duration of a festival that they’re both supposed to be performing at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the record-smashing $207.4 domestic opening weekend for ‘The Avengers’, the only studio movie going against Marvel’s superhero juggernaut is a remake of a late-’60s\/early-’70s soap opera. A few indie flicks are also opening, but we all know what’s going to be the #1 movie in America again \u2013 the movie that I’ve already gone…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":34211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[4657,5061,3418,5083,4703,1495,1213,5084,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34223"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34392,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223\/revisions\/34392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}