Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Sex and the City 2 — CDN $10,640,000 — N.AM $90,170,101 — 11.8%Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time — CDN $8,500,000 — N.AM $80,800,574 — 10.5%Get Him to the Greek — CDN $4,810,000 — N.AM $47,844,275 — 10.1%Shrek Forever After — CDN $21,900,000 — N.AM $223,076,925 — 9.8%Iron Man... Read more

I haven’t read the book version of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in a few years now, so I don’t know quite how to pick this trailer apart just yet — but I’m sure the true Narnia fans out there will be chiming in pretty soon. In the meantime, behold: http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_yo9jk7dv/uiconf_id/48501 Read more

I’ve had Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth on the brain these last few weeks, so I figured now was as good a time as any to note that the film version of Lindsey’s book, narrated by Orson Welles, is currently available for viewing on YouTube. My essay on the film, which I wrote for a course on documentary films in 1996, is still available here — though a number of the links have died since I last updated... Read more

Aslan may have killed her in the first Narnia movie, but that hasn’t stopped the White Witch from showing up in all of the sequels. First some dissident Narnians tried to bring her back from the dead in Prince Caspian. Then, a few weeks ago, her face showed up on the newest display ad for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. And now, reports The Torch Online, the possibility that she might have a role, however small, in all of... Read more

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Robin Hood — CDN $12,300,000 — N.AM $99,463,670 — 12.4%Sex and the City 2 — CDN $9,760,000 — N.AM $84,658,826 — 11.5%Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time — CDN $7,440,000 — N.AM $72,228,302 — 10.3%Shrek Forever After — CDN $20,600,000 — N.AM $210,022,557 — 9.8%Get Him to the Greek... Read more

Remember what I said a few months ago about the three phases of Pixar’s history, and how this newest sequel-filled phase seems to represent a retreat of sorts from the artistic ambitions of the second phase? The reviews of Toy Story 3 have started to trickle out, ten days before the movie’s release, and some of them are echoing these concerns. Take, for example, Peter Debruge at Variety magazine: Andy outgrows his anthropomorphic amigos Buzz and Woody in “Toy Story... Read more

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Robin Hood — CDN $11,590,000 — N.AM $94,496,010 — 12.3%Sex and the City 2 — CDN $8,010,000 — N.AM $73,128,387 — 10.9%Shrek Forever After — CDN $17,990,000 — N.AM $183,229,453 — 9.8%Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time — CDN $5,850,000 — N.AM $59,621,721 — 9.8%Splice — CDN $715,780 —... Read more

Steven D. Greydanus has done such a thorough job deconstructing Agora — which opened in the U.S. last week and opens in Canada next week — that I have little to add. (Maybe later, though.) One of the many good points he makes is that the film goes out of its way to make its heroine, Hypatia, a modern woman, or a woman that modern audiences can easily identify with, to the point that it obscures or ignores what the... Read more

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. The Child Prodigy — CDN $138,546 — N.AM $138,546 — 100%Robin Hood — CDN $10,150,000 — N.AM $83,125,570 — 12.2%MacGruber — CDN $758,584 — N.AM $7,216,320 — 10.5%Shrek Forever After — CDN $13,220,000 — N.AM $133,061,414 — 9.9%Date Night — CDN $9,140,000 — N.AM $93,515,463 — 9.8%Sex and the City... Read more