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Opus and friends waddle to the movies

Opus and friends waddle to the movies

The next biggest name in comics movies? Quite possibly Berkeley Breathed, who has three projects going right now.

His newspaper hero Opus (from Bloom County, Outland and of course the current Opus) is swimming its way to the theaters. Opus: The Last Christmas is scheduled for release December 19, 2008 from the Weinstein Company, with Breathed directing the project. 

Breathed’s latest hardcover, Mars Needs Moms! is also headed to the screen with Robert Zemeckis (Back To The Future, Forest Gump, Tales From The Crypt) set to direct. Breathed and Zemeckis are playing with the screenplay.

Finally, Breathed’s Flawed Dogs: The Year End Leftovers at the Piddleton “Last Chance” Dog Pound is also on the production charts, to be directed by Gore Verbinski, of Pirates of the Caribbean fame.

No word on Keith Richards’ availability on that last one.

(Artwork copyright Berkeley Breathed. All Rights Reserved.)

Spider-Man 3 box office eclipses national debt!

Spider-Man 3 box office eclipses national debt!

Well, given all those mixed reviews and all that bitchy word-of-mouth, Sony’s Spider-Man 3 managed to only rake in a mere $148,000,000 (estimated) in its premiere North American three day weekend. 

Which means by the time it’s done, and all the pay-per-view and cable revenue has been added, and all the various DVD incarnations have come out, and all that worldwide income is counted, and all the merchandising and licensing revenue is tallied, Spider-Man 3 will bring in something in the neighborhood of a billion plus.

That’s a very nice neighborhood.

Spidey-3 beats the poo out of last year’s record-breaking Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest which scored a mere $135.6 million. But Pirates 3 is coming out soon in the Big Battle of the 3-Quels… and Pirates has Keith Richards going for it!

Don’t get your fingers and toes too close to that one.

Spider-Man 3 advance tickets set new records

Spider-Man 3 advance tickets set new records

Fandango, the phone and online advance movie ticket source, sent out a press release saying that as of 9 this morning, Pacific time, 94% of all weekly ticket sales online were for Spider-Man 3.  Most of the Thursday midnight shows around the country have sold out, and lots of theaters added 3 AM shows. 

As comparison, Fandango reports that SM3 is selling six times as many tickets as SM2, and two and a half times as many tickets as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest at the same point in their sales cycles.

In an online poll, Fandango asked moviegoers their thoughts about possible Spider-Man movies in the future. In responding to the poll, 58% of fans said they would not consider buying a ticket to a fourth Spider-Man movie with someone other than Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker. Also, 52% of fans said they would not consider buying a ticket to a fourth Spider-Man movie if it were directed by someone other than Sam Raimi.

Depp’s daddy Disney disaster?

Depp’s daddy Disney disaster?

  • News
  • April 5, 2007

As you may have heard, earlier this week rock legend Keith Richards acknowledged snorting the ashen remains of his father. Within 24 hours, his publicist issued a retraction. April Fools, she said, a few days late.

O.K. Fine. I believed the former, I don’t want to believe the latter, but what the hell it wasn’t my dad.

But it was said by Johnny Depp’s dad – as in, "Keith Richards plays Johnny Depp’s father in Pirates of the Caribbean At World’s End."

There’s a wonderful opportunity for an exciting new ending here. Otherwise, Disney’s spin-meisters are going to have quite a tangled web to weave.

Pirates of the Caribbean At World’s End opens May 25th.

New UK Top Ten Film Lists

New UK Top Ten Film Lists

  • News
  • April 3, 2007

Over 3000 readers of the UK-based SFX magazine have chosen their Top Ten all-time classic science fiction movies and, in a surprise to many, Joss Whedon’s Serenity has knocked George Lucas’ Star Wars off its reigning pedestal, garnering 61% of the vote to SW’s 28%.  The poll results were met with much skepticism in the comments section of the news item, which did not specify what controls were in place to prevent vote tampering.

Also out of the UK, The Shiznit has announced its picks for Top Ten movie monkeys.  As with comics, there must be a school of thought in movieland that says you can’t go wrong with an ape on the poster.

There are two crossovers between the two lists (there might have been more if anyone had voted Raiders of the Lost Ark or King Kong into the Top 10 sf movies), and one amusing choice on the second list which isn’t an ape or a monkey.

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