HEAT WAVE!!! Yeah so this week was yet another hot summer in the winter time frame. We still have about a week of Winter left before we technically hit Spring! BUT, temps during the week were in the low 80's but the weekend was the mid to low 90's! I hate this weather during this time ... it is suppose to get cooler this coming week but still, seriously. It got windy a day too which usually means fire season but luckily nothing happened. That would have been bad too with wind and then followed by two days of massive heat! Does this mean that the actual Summer this year will hit 100 degrees most of the days? I am not prepared for that. I love AC but no matter where you are, its expensive and then go from cold to hot to cold to hot, that can't be good either.Weekly Update:
Here is some sad Hollywood news ... the voice of the movie trailer, Hal Douglas, passed away on Thursday. The name may not be familiar but his voice was. He was the one who coined the phrase, "In a world ..." in so many movie trailers (or previews) for hundreds, if not thousands, of films. He was the master of movie preview voice-overs and made it his career and life. Back in 2010 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and also suffered a stroke which took much of his ability to speak. He was the voice of pop culture in film for a generation and we will continue to hear his voice through his predecessors. Hal was 89.
At the movies:
Going up the charts this week with just a minor drop in revenue is "Mr. Peabody and Sherman" earning an extra 21.2 million at the box office. This brings the cume to 63.2 and it could hit the 100 mil mark. Average drop to #2 is "300: Rise of an Empire" with another 19.1 mil as it makes its way to 100 mill as well. New at #3 is the action film Need for Speed with only 17.8 mil to open, nearly half of all expectations. I guess the TV star's fame fell short of the transition from small to big screen. Holding ground at #4 is "Non-Stop" with another 10.6 mil as it tries to crawl to 100 mil but will probably fall just shy of it. Rounding off the top 5 is Tyler Perry's Single Moms Club earning 8.3 mil this weekend, again another film that fell way below expectations. One factor that most may have forgotten to calculate in was Saturday night. With St. Patrick's Day on a Monday, everyone was out celebrating Saturday instead of going to the movies.
One movie to mention that had a limited release this weekend was the Kickstarter film The Veronica Mars Movie that came out on about 300 screens and only made 2 million (#10 spot). That is less than 7,000 per screen so was that campaign to get this film successful? Sure, because it got made. But was the film itself successful at the box office? No, not with those numbers and "Mars-mellows" who supported the film probably didn't want to have to pay again to see it which makes sense to me. But we continue to not see a successful Kickstarter film as of yet and everyone thought this would be the one.
Quote of the week:
"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up." - James Belasco
Facts & Tips:
The name of the city we call Bangkok is 115 letters long in the Thai language.
"The internet ... is that the one with the e-mail?" - John Michael Higgins as Corey Taft in "For Your Consideration."
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