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 — CDN $12,330,000 — N.AM $119,522,016 — 10.3%What Happens in Vegas — CDN $7,350,000 — N.AM $75,755,145 — 9.7%The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian — CDN $11,240,000 — N.AM $131,904,474 — 8.5%You Don’t Mess with the Zohan — CDN $5,740,000 — N.AM $68,760,685 — 8.3%Iron Man... Read more

I’ve been sitting on some of these for a while — but no longer! 1. It looks like MGM is serious about remaking RoboCop (1987; my comments). The studio created a poster for the new film and put it on display at the Licensing International Expo in New York last week, and a studio rep reportedly re-assured a fan that the remake will be rated R, just like the first two RoboCop films — and unlike the PG-13 third film.... Read more

One more item for Father’s Day: National Post film critic Chris Knight had an article in yesterday’s paper on taking his three-year- old son to his first movie, Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!: When the film ended, we walked hand in hand to the lobby, where he tugged at my arm until he had me down at his level. He has his mother’s blue eyes and his father’s absurdly serious face. “Thank you for the movie, Daddy,” he said... Read more

I’ve been thinking about doing a weekly series of favorite movie images, and for some time now I have wanted to start with the image above from Finding Nemo (2003) — and since today is Father’s Day, this seemed like as good a time as any. I love the image above for a number of reasons. First, the luminous translucence of Pixar’s simulated underwater photography. Second, the obvious pro-life resonance. (I’m not saying that that’s how the filmmakers intended it,... Read more

I know Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed created a lot of controversy when it opened in the United States two months ago, but most of that, as near as I can tell, consisted of blog posts and newspaper articles and atheist scientists showing up uninvited at an advance screening and a telephone press conference. I can’t recall reading any stories about fans of the movie actually staging protests against pro-evolutionary museum exhibits or anything like that. And yet that, apparently, is... Read more

Warning: There be spoilers here. When it was announced last year that Marvel Studios was going to produce a new version of The Incredible Hulk, only a few years after Ang Lee’s film came out to mixed reviews and middling box-office in 2003, many people wondered why they would bother. But now that the film is out there, I think we can safely say that the answer boils down to two words: The Avengers. For many years, the typical comic-book... Read more

The video below is pretty self-explanatory. The soundtrack is taken from Campus Crusade’s Jesus (1979), but the animatics are brand new. Click here if the video file above doesn’t play properly. Matt Page has some good thoughts on this new project, and some good links as well. I agree with him that it might be just as well if the filmmakers started from scratch and re-recorded all the dialogue. I also think that animated films, such as The Miracle Maker... Read more

One of the fun things about having a blog like this is discovering some of the other blogs out there that link to the things you write — and one of my favorite discoveries has been Carmen Andres’s In the Open Space: God & Culture, a fun potpourri of spiritual ruminations, pop-culture analysis and, um, local weather reports. (Just kidding … sort of. I actually like the photos.) Anyway, Carmen tagged this blog a short while ago as one of... Read more

No, I still have not seen Sex and the City — though I might, some day. There is only one other film that made over $100 million domestically within the past decade that I have not yet seen, namely The Pacifier (2005), and I do try to stay on top of stuff like this. But in the meantime, the urban mating film is provoking a few discussions that I think are worth noting. First, a number of people have asked... Read more