Today's edition of the weekend box office countdown is brought to you with a side helping of tremendous bitterness.
You see, the number one movie at the US weekend box office this week is Where The Wild Things Are – one of the films that we've been most excited about this year. And yet we can't see it until almost Christmas. Because it's not being released over here until December. Stupid Britain.
So no Where The Wild Things Are spoilers please. Especially no spoilers about the temperature of the soup at the end of the film. We mean it.
So Where The Wild Things Are is top of the weekend box office this week. And that's definitely a good thing. Because it has once and for all proved that children?s movies can be slightly dark and ambiguous and leftfield, and still be commercially successful. So here?s looking forward to that Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs remake where the entire second act involves Andy Samburg having a confused existential meltdown and despairingly shouting the word ?WHY?? at the palm of his hands over and over again in a rainstorm for 45 minutes.
Here?s the weekend box office top five…
1 – Where The Wild Things Are (Gee, now Spike Jonze has turned Where The Wild Things Are into such a weekend box office success, maybe we?ll see more arthouse directors take on children?s films like this. Personally we can't wait for Vincent Gallo to adapt The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but only because he?ll probably make it about blowjobs) $32,470,000
2 – Law Abiding Citizen (So we have to wait until December to see Where The Wild Things Are, but Law Abiding Citizen is released here a full month earlier? Thanks a lot, God. You bastard) $21,250,000
3 – Paranormal Activity (When Steven Spielberg watched Paranormal Activity, he became so convinced that his DVD was haunted that he'd only carry it around if it was tied up inside a binbag. In other news, Steven Spielberg is a twunt) $20,163,000
4 – Couples Retreat (Just two exclamation marks stop this film?s title from being a fairly accurate review for any married people who are planning to go and see it) $17,949,000
5 – The Stepfather (Locke from Lost was in the original version of The Stepfather, you know. That's the only thing we know about it. No joke here, sorry) $12,300,000
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JoeMomma says
Where the Wild Things Are was fantastic. It makes up for a lot of trash that comes out of Hollywood. Awsome cinemetography and feel. The pacing is a little slow, but it allows you to take in all the visuals. The best part, you get to think about the movie afterwards. Have a conversation with people about what it meant and what the characters represented.
Be warned though, if you do like this movie and be careful who you reccomend it to. Probably best to leave it to the elitiest art snob cinephile friends (people who liked The Fountain). The MJ, Chris Brown, Twilight crowd will not get it or like it. They’d rather be spoon fed!
Sunny says
I’m so stoked to see this; in the plans for this week. How I adore giant monsters and ornery boys romping about in wolf pajamas! (Although not in THAT way…)