Box Office

Well, I’ve just dug my way out of all the hate mail that came my way after the last Reject Report, in time to preview Public Enemiies and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

I am speechless at The Reject Report. I really don’t know what to say, or even where to begin with this Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie, which has set the five-day record for a Wednesday release with a total gross of $201,246,000.

I’m writing this Reject Report in the aftermath of the absolute slaughter laid by Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at the box office on Wednesday, to the tune of $60.6 million. That’s the all time Wednesday record, and the $16 million from midnight screenings in 3,000 theaters is also a Wednesday record.

Transformers 2 is at 21% on Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes is at 0% on Michael Bay’s give-a-shit meter. Based on the box office numbers, It would also appear that Rotten Tomatoes is at 0% on America’s give-a-shit meter as well.

Welcome to a special early edition of the Reject Report! This Wednesday Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen hits the theaters and one of the big questions on people’s minds concerns how well it will do.

Well, it wasn’t exactly the biggest blockbuster of the summer but The Proposal did pretty well, all things considered, this weekend.

The big question this weekend is whether or not either one of these two movies going out in wide release — The Proposal and Year One – has what it takes to even get past The Hangover.

What can I say? The Hangover has to rank as the biggest box office surprise of the summer — it has to be the Wedding Crashers of 2009.

We have two new movies rolling out with big star power — The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 with Denzel Washington and John Travolta, and Imagine That starring Eddie Murphy.

Well, we have quite a number of stories to report this weekend and I guess the biggest one is the surprisingly strong showing of The Hangover, which exceeded expectations and just about toppled Up from first place this weekend.

Welcome to another hung-over edition of the Reject Report and the big question is who will have the box-office hangover this weekend — The Hangover, or Will Ferrell? Or will Up finally come down to earth?

As expected and predicted by just about everyone, the rest of the field was looking Up — way Up — at yet another dominating Pixar performance at the box office.

The obvious question this weekend is: will the box office go to hell, or will it go Up? Also — some more good Star Trek box office news.

As promised, The Reject Report is back with the final Memorial Day weekend numbers. All I have to say is that if you throw out my bonehead weekend prediction for Terminator: Salvation my picks turned out not too badly.

The Memorial Day weekend isn’t yet over but we already know who the big box office winners and losers were the holiday period.

We have a long Memorial Day weekend ahead here at the Reject Report, and a very competitive weekend with three new movies rolling out. One, Terminator Salvation, is out Thursday while the other two, Dance Flick and Night at the Museum II, roll out Friday.

Well, it is not very often that I am bang-on with predictions, but that’s what happened this weekend. $48 million is the haul for Angels and Demons — definitely not a blockbuster in the USA.

There’s only one new wide release this weekend, Angels and Demons, and the big question we all have is whether or not it will come close to doing as well as its predecessor movie, The Da Vinci Code, which was also based on the hugely successful novel by Dan Brown and opened to $77 million.

There may be some Trekkies out there who are disappointed that the weekend box office for Star Trek was only $72.5 million. Quit grouching. This is still the best showing ever for a Star Trek movie.

Yes, the weekend that all Trekkies have been waiting for is finally here.