While Watchmen delivered a robust opening of about $55.7 million in North America, it came in lower than expectations--and much lower than Snyder's last film, the blockbuster 300--both domestically and overseas. Finally, Watchmen works best as the narratively complex, visually dazzling comics series...

Sometimes when so many things are going wrong, some things do go right: Like retail holiday sales getting off to a robust start. Like a strong holiday weekend at the boxoffice, well up from last year. Like the best-reviewed two movies, Milk and Slumdog Millionaire, doing great in limited release ove...

When Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight opens Friday, it will be huge. $130 million huge? That's a high figure for a two-and-a-half hour movie. And many of those ticket sales are being made in advance. MovieTickets.com, for example, reports that over 700 performances of Dark Knight are already sold...

Kung Fu Panda will hit solidly with families. (It's pretty damned good.) Panda scored great reviews Friday, with an 85% fresh Rotten Tomatoes score, while Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan nabbed a piddly 37 % rotten. It should reach a few of the poor neglected males out there. Sex and th...

Won't it be amusing if after Warners cuts back New Line Cinema, the label scores a raft of hits? Sex and the City, which appeals largely to women, is expected to score off the charts this weekend for a movie with virtually no allure for men. Nora and I will be going to an early Saturday screening, a...

Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who! landed atop the boxoffice charts again, while Tyler Perry's latest opened well and Judd Apatow's badly-reviewed Owen Wilson comedy Drillbit Taylor did not. That's two Apatow-produced disappointments now, after Walk Hard. But the next three---Forgetting Sarah Marshall,...