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New Jack City: Bad BBQ, Screwed by Chuck E & Oscars Blackout
What’s the saying, three strikes and you’re out?
Had Continue reading
New Jack City: 3-D! Love it or will you Leave it?
With the extremely successful 3-D opening of Disney’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND this past weekend, one has to wonder whether the 3-dimensional movie process has come of age or, as some are predicting, is an expensive fad doomed to extinction?
For the record, the Tim Burton directed classic fairytale enjoyed approximately $116 million in ticket sales at some 3,728 playdates throughout North America—making it the biggest grossing 1st quarter opening weekend in history!
2,063 of those locations were showing the blockbuster in 3-D and another 188 in IMAX 3-D.
Additionally ALICE IN WONDERLAND’s opening debut weekend brought in another $94 million from international engagements Continue reading
New Jack City: Sunday’s OSCARS. It’s a Wrap!
Call your bookie…
Let the wagering begin for Sunday’s OSCARS with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin on Disney’s ABC!
Here’s how its going to go down!
Best Picture: A virtual tie between AVATAR and THE HURT LOCKER. But in the end AVATAR’s worldwide hit status should give it the edge with the Academy!
Best Directoress: Kathryn Bigelow because she pulled off THE HURT LOCKER! Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Tim Burton and Johnny Depp make ALICE happen!
Oscar weekend brings Hollywood’s first major tentpole movie of 2010 to local megaplexes.
…and I’m here to tell you that ALICE IN WONDERLAND lives up to its hype!
It’s simply amazing what Hollywood’s Fantastic Four of Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, the Disney Studios and the musical genius Danny Elfman have done with Lewis Caroll’s classic tale!
First off, Alice has become a spunky young woman on the verge of her engagement party where she Continue reading
New Jack City: Update -Disney Makes Peace with Theaters over ALICE
According to the industry trade paper VARIETY, Disney has reportedly resolved its dispute with major worldwide exhibitors regarding the studio’s shortened theatrical window for Tim Burton’s upcoming Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Cop Out is Kevin Smith-LITE!
Director Kevin Smith has Continue reading
New Jack City: Disney Contemplates Shrunken Theatrical Window – Theatres Mad as Hell!
There’s a storm brewing between the world’s theater owners and the Walt Disney movie empire!
The Mouse-House recently announced that with its release of Tim Burton’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND starring Johnny Depp, it plans to tighten the window between theatrical distribution of certain films from its present 16 weeks—to just 13 weeks!
Thus the studio will benefit by getting the ALICE into the hands of consumers the first week of June—the start of summer – which traditionally is a great DVD selling time.
God only knows DVD sales are into the crapper. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Shutter Island—Unpleasant All-Inclusive Destination!
Martin Scorcese’s SHUTTER ISLAND is an intense and gripping film!
Yet somehow his fourth collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio is not one of Scorcese’s better ones.
Go figure…
Fans of Dennis Lehane’s novel, on which the screenplay is based, will most likely come away from the Continue reading
New Jack City: Cinematic Deja Vu in the Northland?
Kansas City’s newest Eat-Drink-Movies venue—the eight-screen STUDIO MOVIE GRILL complex—is poised for a (tentative) March 22nd grand opening at Zona Rosa in the Northland…
It’s at the same location of the former 3-screen MAJESTIC THEATER and IMPROV Comedy Club.
Is this a coincidence? What’s going on here?
We checked with STUDIO MOVIE GRILL’s Creative Affairs director Lynne McQuaker for answers. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Wolfman makes for Bloody Valentine’s Weekend!
Universal Pictures, home to classic FRANKENSTEIN and COUNT DRACULA films, now serves up its cinematic update of 1941’s THE WOLFMAN—the third monster of the studio’s horror trio.
Make no mistake, THIS remake of THE WOLFMAN is an Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Valentine’s Day Delivers Two Hours of Chocolate Covered BonBons
VALENTINE’S DAY should lead the box office this weekend by a mile!
After that its theatrical shelf life could fade fast.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER nails it with its take on this flick: “For fans of bonbons and Hallmark sentiment who wish Valentine’s Day lasted forever, Garry Marshall’s movie arrives like the answer to a prayer.”
But let’s be fair. Sure it’s a fluff piece, but an entertaining one—and definitely critic’s proof! Continue reading
New Jack City: Max Floyd’s Celebrity Roast: The TV Show—Now on Time Warner Cable!
For those who missed it but wanted to be part of it—NOW YOU CAN!
Time Warner Cable’s cameras were on hand at the recent MAX FLOYD CELEBRITY ROAST & SHOOTING STAR CONCERT documenting Kansas City’s long (radio) love affair with KY-102’s first program director, mentor and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Max Floyd.
The event was a long one making it difficult for everything and everyone to be included in the TV show.
But what TWC ended up with is a fast moving, tightly edited 45 minute highlights reel that should give Max’s fans and friends a healthy taste–and BITE–of what went down. Continue reading
New Jack City: You Laughed. You Cried. Make Way for the Razzies!
Despite the hype surrounding next months Academy Awards, there are other fish to fry in the cinematic skillet!
Smelly rotten fish—make that movies. The worst that Hollywood dished out this past year.
All the crap competing for the annual RAZZberry Awards. THE RAZZIES!
This year’s gala staged on Saturday, March 6th (one day prior to the Oscars) not only honors 2009’s Berry worst, but the worst of the entire decade as well!
Here’s what’s in competition in the major catagories as the RAZZIE celebrate 2009’s WORST Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Sony Counters Football Weekend with Kleenex fare!
Super Bowl weekend traditionally means Counter Programming at the movies.
This year’s super weekend is no exception as Sony’s Screen Gems division—known in certain circles as Columbia-Lite—serves up the expected Chick Flick.
But guess what? This is not your typical goofy comedy, but a timely Romantic-Drama from THE CIDER HOUSE RULES director Lasse Hallstroem
And guys will like this one too! Continue reading
New Jack City: Oscar Nominations short on Surprises!
Today’s announcements of the 2010 Academy Award nominations probably contained fewer surprises than any Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Mel Gibson Tracks Down Daughters Killer, Makes no Anti-Semitic Slurs!
EDGE OF DARKNESS contains elements of both Mel Gibson’s LETHAL WEAPON series and TAKEN with Liam Neeson. But when it comes right down to it, it really doesn’t live up to either.
Here Gibson plays a no nonsense veteran Boston police detective looking foward to a visit from his estranged daughter, Emma. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Jeff Bridges Triumphs in CRAZY HEART!
CRAZY HEART was salvaged from big screen doom by FOX SEARCHLIGHT FILMS which aquired the movie after PARAMOUNT decided to take it direct to video.
After all FOX SEARCHLIGHT had scored big with SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE which the studio had taken over after similar initial Continue reading
New Jack City: Kansas City Rescues The Lovely Bones!
In an industry feature story about the initial disappointment—but eventual success of Paramount’s current THE LOVELY BONES—VARIETY points to Kansas City moviegoers for the film’s positive turnaround.
THE LOVELY BONES premiered in limited west coast runs December 11th to a dismal boxoffice.
It was set to roll out wider at Christmas.
The Peter Jackson directed fantasy-thriller starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Saoirse Ronan and Stanley Tucci had been Continue reading
New Jack City: Star Obits Thrive, Movie Ads Nosedive & Inserts Gone Wild!
A few more gripes and observations about Kansas City’s once great daily newspaper…
Why do we always get so many DUPLICATE advertising inserts? Does the Star’s four year-old, $200 million press facility – the one it put up for sale two years ago – need a tuneup already?
Or is the circulation down so far that the newspaper needs to double, triple, even quadruple up to get rid of the inserts advertisers have paid for?
I asked a business associate recently why he still takes the paper?
“For the obituaries,” he replied. Continue reading
