Well, the Fall movie season came in with a whimper.
According to Variety, "The first weekend after Labor Day is always sluggish, but this year the frame was affected by the start of the NFL football season and was particularly dreary."
Bangkok Dangerous came in at No.
Ben Stiller's
Tropic Thunder won the top spot at the box office for the
second weekend in a row, earning an estimated $16.1 million. This makes Tropic Thunder,
Iron Man, and
The Dark Knight the only movies to have stayed at No. 1 for two consecutive weeks this Summer (so that's two major box office winners for Robert Downey Jr.!).
Tuesdays are big in entertainment-ville: Not only do all the new DVD releases
hit Netflix, but new music also pours into stores, including iTunes. So I take a spin through each week's iTunes music releases and pick out some albums and tracks worthy of a download. Here are today's selections:
Rock me: The buzzed-about upcoming comedy
Hamlet 2, about a high school musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet, has
its soundtrack out today.
So Steve Coogan stars in the American comedy film
Hamlet 2, as a high school drama teacher looking to motivate his students and save his department by writing a sequel to Shakespeare's "Hamlet". A sequel?! To Hamlet?!
Buying started slow at
Sundance this year, but things started picking up on Tuesday. Check out a rundown of some recent acquisitions:
- Hamlet 2, which stars Steve Coogan as a high school drama teacher, sold to Focus Features for $10 million — making it one of the biggest deals ever in the history of Sundance and putting it in the same league as Little Miss Sunshine. I didn't get to see this one, though the screenings for it at Sundance have been packed.
- Another one of the first non-documentary feature films to be picked up was Henry Poole Is Here, which sold for about $4 million on Monday night. I couldn't be happier about this one; it's an uplifting story with some fine performances — particularly by Luke Wilson and Adriana Barraza.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
Variety brings us news of a little
something called Hamlet 2 (yes, as in a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet), a film starring Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener. The project will be the first produced by Eric Eisner's (son of former Disney chief Michael Eisner) production company L+E.
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