Your weekend box office results: 1. Watchmen - $55.7 million. The non-stop barrage viral marketing wasn't enough to push Zack Snyder's latest past his previous March opener, 300, which had no viral marketing except the promise of some dudes fucking some other dudes up and someone getting foot-pushed...

Mondays are best spent piecing together the ruin that followed in the weekend's wake. Recovering the satellites, analyzing the soil samples. And looking at the box office receipts! This week: Disappointment haunted all their dreams. 1) Watchmen — $55.7 million It was supposed to be the biggest...

Today in the news of the showbiz world, we have Meryl Streep as Brechtian hero. Steve Carell as fought-over divorce child. Tyler Perry as fool. And Shonda Rhimes as wicked devil creator. Did you wake up this morning feeling like it was your lucky day? Well, it wasn't as baseless and miserably ironic...

Actually, before I get into any of that, just bizarre news came out this morning about something I guess you could say is close to both my cinematic and musical hearts, the upcoming biopic of Marylander Joan Jett and the Runaways. First, "Twilight" and "Into the Wild" star Kristen Stewart was cast a...

By Steven Zeitchik By this point, Tyler Perry can pretty much touch a rock and turn it into gold (note to Rahm Emanuel: put him in charge of the stimulus package).  So it's not a surprise that Lionsgate's locked down the hyphenate for another two movies. As the minimajor announced toda...

In an effort to understand what makes American film audiences tick, we begin our weekly study of truths in cinema. This week’s lesson? We love men who dress in drag. Tyler Perry’s two-week ascent to the top of the box office with Madea Goes to Jail may seem stunning at first glance. But ...

The Jonas Brothers are a genuine sensation - in all seriousness, they might just be the biggest act on Earth. And the Jonas Brothers had a film out on Friday. So what’s the number one movie at the weekend box office this week? You guessed it - it’s Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes To Jail....

Well, once again I look dumb here at the Reject Report, and it’s all because of the Jonas Brothers. You know that Jonas Brothers movie that I had picked to win the weekend? Well, it won Friday night with a haul of only $4.9 million, and then it promptly sank like a stone. In fact, after Friday...

So here we are in the official Hollywood hangover week. The Oscars are a thing of the past. Slumdog brought home the bacon. Mickey Rourke didn’t get to give a wacky acceptance speech. Hugh Jackman was praised for doing less than anyone else had in the past. We have only two non-reviewed movies rel...

It’s actually not rocket science: you have built-in audience, keep your costs low and deliver a good product and you can have some success. But to be clear: we don’t take our audiences for granted. We don’t just assume that African Americans are going to come out and support; we have to delive...