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It's shaping up to be quite a controversial weekend box office summer, with films starring dead people, films that actors have refused to promote and - worst - Sex And The City.
But no film this summer is likely to be as controversial as Wall-E, the latest Pixar movie to top the weekend box office. It's hard to think of a more uncommercial-sounding movie than a film about a silent robot compacting rubbish on a deserted planet, but that's what Wall-E is.
And Wall-E isn't just a commercial success, either. As well as being number one in the US weekend box office, the movie has also been called 'perfect' by more than one reviewer. Yeah? So what - there's a bit in The Love Guru where it sounds like Mike Myers is calling someone 'cuntface' when he's not and it's funny, so shove that up your critically adored poop-chute, Wall-E.
Piers Morgan has won the final of NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice.
Or, to put it another way, Piers Morgan went to America looking for success, and America (and by America we mean Donald Trump) looked back at Piers Morgan and replied: "Sure, why not? You're a man with all the qualities required to succeed here. Your wish is our command".
What is wrong with America? It all started off so positively some 40,000 years ago when a bunch of wandering nomads from Asia decided to set up camp. They had a quaint little society going on, and for thousands of years everything was wonderful, but then in 1492 some Italian named Chris landed on the shore and it all turned to shit.
By now you all probably know about new Will Ferrell movie Semi-Pro thanks to all the talk show appearances, semi-ironic product advertising and constant TV trailers.
Thing is, though, it seems you know so much about Semi-Pro from all of this that none of you bothered to actually go and see the thing.
Although Semi-Pro is the US weekend box office number one, it only managed to scrape together a meagre $15,200,000 - roughly a tenth that Spider-Man 3 made in the same amount of time. Does Semi-Pro's relative failure mean that the public is getting sick of Will Ferrell sports comedies? Well, yes. Plainly it does. Can't you people read?
In the future, when people ask you what the worst weekend box office in living memory was, remember this date.
Because, sweet baby Moses, is this week's weekend box office ever appalling. Thanks to the weekend box office one-two of Fool's Gold and Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, the stars of the two most popular films in America right now - and thus the biggest stars in America - are Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey and Martin Lawrence.
If you need us we'll be weeping despondently in our lead-lined bunker.
Cloverfield - or That Shaky Camera Film About Godzilla Punching The Heads Off Statues as it's known round here - is top of the weekend box office.
But how could it possibly not be? Ever since the Cloverfield teasers flickered into life six months ago, the movie was always going to end up topping the US weekend box office. How good is Cloverfield exactly? According to weekend box office grosses, it's 82 times better than Woody Allen's new film.
But then again we recently did a shit that was 83 times better than Woody Allen's new film, so that isn't exactly high praise.
