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This past weekend featured Shrek 4 blowing out all other competition especially the other new release MacGruber which made only $4 million less than Just Wright and that is Just Sad. Oh, and Lost ended…
This weekend features two new releases, both which I expect to be terrible movies and excellent money makers. Coming out this weekend are Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Sex and the City 2.
Prince of Persia, is a movie starring Jake Gyllenhal based on a video game witht he same name. The movie is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and is similar to his other period action pieces: the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. With a larger original fan-base than Pirates you should expect this movie to do well however, it does only feature one big name actor as opposed to 3 in Pirates. Prince of Persia opens this weekend in 3,500 theaters.
Sex and the City 2 similarly has an already built-up fanbase only this one is enormous and is also from the same medium. I expect Sex and the City 2 to be at least as successful as the original movie, which made $57 million its opening weekend, and will quite likely be much more successful as women everywhere flood the box office looking for their latest Sex and the City franchise fix. It opens in 3,400 theaters.
Podcast Place: Three Screen This! is the first FlickPicks fancast and if you missed the initial episode go give it a listen now. In this week’s upcoming podcast the creators intend to start a new feature: the Nicolas Cage Match. One of the host will go head to head against a guest in a one on one debate on a topic neither side is aware of. In this week’s podcast the guest will debate against Brot (so it should be easy right?)
However, they are still searching for their guest; so if you are interested, leave a comment below and you’ll be contacted. The show records on Tuesdays at 10pm EST/7pm PST and Skype is required.
Caption Contest: This week we started a new rule to determine the winner of the caption contests and that rule is the caption with the most likes and under that policy I must award the win to SilentBob with 5 likes who will receive +30 points.
Be aware, however, that after this weekend a new rule of 1 caption per theater will be in effect. Keep that in mind next weekend.
- Matt Powell, FlickPicks
