Tag Archives: Jack Poessiger
Jack Goes Confidential: Cocky IRON MAN 2 on Target for Summer Popcorn Action!
It’s great to have IRON MAN 2 ushering in the summer 2010 movie season and picking up right where No. 1 ended two years ago when Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) admitted that he in fact Continue reading
New Jack City: Mega Movie May Bustin’ Out All Over!
Not so long ago Hollywood kicked-off its summer popcorn extravaganza on Memorial Day weekend…
Then, sometime during the 90’s, one studio moved its summer launch date up a week and the payoff was huge.
So then how about mid-May? That worked too!
By the time the decade ended, the first weekend of May had become the new official kick-off date for summer, as the various Continue reading
New Jack City: Hollywood Clean-Up Weekend Precedes Monster May at Movies!
The end of Hollywood’s spring house cleaning ends this weekend as the studios dust-off their shelves one last time before transporting moviegoers into this year’s high profile summer movie season with four consecutive weeks of potential tentpole blockbusters!
So it’s one more week of easily forgettable cinematic Continue reading
New Jack City: Packed Planes Spark Carry-On Crackdown!
I recently read that Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: J-Lo Marks Screen Return with Patronizing Chick- Flick Farce!
Are we experiencing the silver screen’s late spring doldrums?
Let the Continue reading
New Jack City: Popcorn, Pop & Candies for the Family = $#@&*!
Did the Smith family smuggle food into the movie theater for their kids to snack on while watching HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON?
Chances are—YES!
According to the Industry’s ONLINE TESTING EXCHANGE (OTX), parents are the primary group to most likely purchase concessions or spend more money at the movies (purchasing for several people instead of just one or two).
They are also much more likely to consistently smuggle in food from the outside for their children. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Intriguing Stealth Marketing by THE JONESES!
THE JONESES is a thought provoking bittersweet comedic-drama that’ll have you wondering Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: KICK-ASS hits with Shock Value, Violence–and Laffs!
KICK-ASS is funny and violent Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: THE RUNAWAYS–Hot, Nubile and Ready to Rock!
Here it is! The music-fueled bio-pic of pioneering, 70’s, all-girl rock band THE RUNAWAYS with Kristen Stewart as the young Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning—rebellious and provocative as the band’s leader, nubile Cherie Currie.
This is their story. Their rise to fame, celebrity, egomania—and eventually to flameout.
Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n Roll. You get the picture!
THE RUNAWAYS were manufactured by sleazy male manager Kim Fowley, played here perfectly by Michael Shannen from REVOLUTIONARY ROAD!
The gals aren’t bad either. Matter of fact, (little) Dakota Fanning as 15 year old underage sexpot Cherie Curry is an eye Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: DATE NIGHT dishes up sparks for dessert!
What would happen if two of today’s hottest TV actors–Steve Carell and Tina Fey—were to step back in time and do a Steve Martin/Goldie Hawn tribute movie?
Or dare I suggest, Continue reading
New Jack City: Ebert vows to keep THUMBS UP!
Thumbs Down on the recently announced cancellation of AT THE MOVIES. You know, the bickering critics show that’s seen numerous incarnations of itself since its birth during the 70’s in Chicago as OPENING SOON AT A THEATER NEAR YOU.
The Walt Disney Company, producer of the program, is calling it a wrap after the final telecast on the weekend of August 14th.
According to Disney’s syndication unit, “from a business perspective it became clear this weekly half hour, broadcast syndicated series was no longer sustainable.”
Odd statement at a time when moviegoing is at an all time high! Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: CLASH OF THE TITANS not KRAKEN up to Hype!
“Release the Kraken!” Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Miley Dumps Hannah for Ronnie. Sparks fly!
It’s not easy!
Finding the exact right property for a tween idol’s transition to (semi) adulthood roles can be a tricky process.
Not only do you want to hang on to your excisting audience base, but also reach for something an older crowd would buy into!
For my money Miley Cyrus’ handlers have done her right by selecting a screenplay by best selling weep meister Nicholas Sparks of THE NOTEBOOK, DEAR JOHN, A WALK TO REMEMBER and NIGHTS IN RODANTHE fame. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Vikings vs. Dragons = Nordic Nooky, Animated Action
I must confess that our advance screening of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON earlier this week was not presented in 3-D!
Still it became pretty evident which scenes in the movie would play most effectively in the 3-dimensional process that most moviegoers will be enjoying beginning this weekend.
And ENJOY is the key word here as DreamWorks—the studio behind such previous projects as SHREK, MADAGASCAR, and KUNG FU PANDA—unleashes its latest potential franchise.
What we’ve got here is an exciting and very entertaining action adventure. A mythical fantasy story about a Viking teenager rebelling against his people’s practice of dragon slaying—and in the process befriending a young fire-breather! Continue reading
New Jack City: Hollywood Hits Vegas & 3-D Bottleneck
Judging by the mood of the world’s movie theater operators at last week’s international ShoWest convention in Las Vegas, you’d never know that we were in a recession!
Last year turned out to be the biggest year ever at the boxoffice and judging by the presentations made by the major and independent studios in Sin City, there’s no reason why 2010 shouldn’t be even better last year’s record breaker!
Biggest topic of discussion between studios and exhibitors; the glut of 3-D films scheduled for release this year—3-D gridlock with not enough Digital 3-D equipped auditoriums to take care of them all. Continue reading
New Jack City: Movie Confab Unveils Boffo 2010
Some convention briefs from the recent ShoWest motion picture trade show and convention in Las vegas…
Director Todd Phillips, promoting his new fall comedy DUE DATE with Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: BOUNTY HUNTER Exes Mark the Spot
Guess you could call it his DREAM JOB!
Down on his luck BOUNTY HUNTER, Gerard Butler getting to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Jennifer Aniston!
But no easy payday when Aniston gives him the SLIP so that she can chase a lead on a murder cover up!
This could turn out WORSE than their marriages!!!!
Staying alive now getting a whole lot tougher for
THE BOUNTY HUNTER!
…..let the EX-games—-begin. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Repo Men, Organ-ized Crime
New this weekend: Continue reading
New Jack City: K.C. Discount Theaters on Life Support?
One would think that in today’s fragile economic climate, the Discount Movie Theater scene would be thriving…
But that’s not the case!
During the past couple decades you could count as many as Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: American Pie has Nothing on these SEMEN-ly Laughs!
Being in the mood for a good laugh earlier this week, I reluctantly made myself attend the screening of SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE….Continue reading
