Jun 09 2008
The Celebrity Today Movie Report for June 9th
Hello everyone! It’s Monday Morning, and that means it is time for this week’s look at the movies. We had two new movies hit the box office this past weekend, Kung Fu Panda and You Don’t Mess With The Zohan. Well, the panda messed with Zohan, and after a long hard ten round battle, the panda came out on top. It is estimated that Kung Fu Panda made $60 million in box office sales. This beats out the opening number for last week’s top finisher, Sex & The City. The ladies came in fourth place this week with an estimated $21.3 million sales. You Don’t Mess With Zohan earned $40 million in ticket sales, while Indiana Jones 4 stayed in the mix by coming in third. Worldwide, Indy has made $579 million in sales. This Friday two new big movies join the mix to fight it out, The Happening and The Incredible Hulk. With as much promotion The Incredible Hulk as had in recent weeks, this movie should do well at the box office. We’ll have to see what happens as Hulk takes on Kung Fu Panda for the top spot.
As far as DVD releases go, Rambo topped the rental charts for the week ending June 1st, while National Treasure: Book of Secrets remained on top of the sales charts. This week, we have a number of new releases including Jumper and The Other Boleyn Girl. Having seen both films, The Other Boleyn Girl is a strong movie with good performances by Eric Bana, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. There has already been talks of a sequel as I mentioned on this blog previously. As for Jumper, imagine if you could go anywhere in the world by just closing your eyes and thinking about it. That is what one man can do in this movie starring Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson. It’s a fun movie, but not much substance. I felt as if the casting was a bit off in my opinion. Rachel Bilson just didn’t do much for me in this movie. For television fans, there are several television series also hitting DVD this week. For fans of Lifetime’s Army Wives, the first season of that series hits DVD on Tuesday just in time for the premiere of season two last night.For us 80s kids, the complete series of What’s Happening!! will hit store shelves this week as well.
For a complete list of this week’s releases, check after the jump.
In Theaters June 13
The Happening 20th Century Fox
The Incredible Hulk Universal Pictures
On DVD June 10th
The Bucket List (PG-13)
Jumper (PG-13)
The Other Boleyn Girl (PG-13)
Witless Protection (PG-13)
Funny Games (R)
The Signal (R)
7th Heaven The Complete 6th Season
Army Wives The Complete 1st Season
Boondocks The Complete 2nd Season
Broken Trail (mini-series)
Bump! American Southwest
City of Vice
Da Vinci’s Inquest Season 3
Dukes of Hazzard Two Movie Collection
Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Heroes Complete Season 1
Fugitive Season 2, Volume 1
Hawaii Five-O The 4th Season
Home Improvement The Complete 8th Season
Incredible Hulk When Monsters Meet
Into Alaska with Jeff Corwin Collection 1
John Adams (mini-series)
McLeod’s Daughters The Complete 6th Season
Multiple Shows Comedy Central Home Grown
My Boys The Complete 1st Season
Odd Couple The 4th Season
Pressure Cook Season 1
Soap The Complete Series
TekWar Tekwar
Waiting for God Series 3
What’s Happening!! The Complete Series
On CD June 10th
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Plies - Definition Of Real
Alanis Morissette - Flavors of Entanglement
Montgomery Gentry - Back When I Knew It All
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be
Rev Theory - Light It Up
Hil St. Soul - Black Rose
Adele - 19
N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds
Sergio Mendes - Encanto
Marco Antonio Solis - Una Noche en Madrid [Live]
Rebecca Lynn Howard - No Rules
The Fratellis - Here We Stand
Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
Martha Wainwright - I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too
Dope - No Regrets
The Boxmasters - The Boxmasters
Walter Becker - Circus Monkey
The Bangkok Five - We Love What Kills Us
The Orb - The Dream
Robert Pollard - Robert Pollard Is Off To Business
Railroad Earth - Amen Corner
Robert Walter - Cure All
Solomon Burke - Like A Fire
Skillz - Million Dollar Backpack
Mariano Barba - Nuestro Punto G
Amandi - Amandititita
The Bridges - Limits Of The Sky
Joan As Policewoman - To Survive
Tyga - No Introduction
We loved National Treasure: Book of Secrets - had to buy it the first day it came out. I hope they do a third one!