Box Office Report - It's Clobbering Time-ish!

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - Yes, despite looking just marginally better than the first movie of this franchise, this movie managed to stretch it's way into the top spot for the box office numbers for the weekend. But, it doesn't look as spectacular as other comic book inspired movies, like last month's "Spider-Man 3". It didn't even make half as much as that movie made. But, it's a win for Marvel. Let's just hope that they can start putting out good comic book movies instead of shit like "Ghost Rider", this movie, and "Spider-Man 3".

Ocean's Thirteen - Last week's number one gets bumped down to number 2, but that doesn't mean it's not making a ton of money still. Although, I wonder, with so many big names, just how much money does this movie need to make before it covers just their salaries. It's made just under $70 million so far. I just would like to know how much they payed Al Pacino, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and George Clooney combined.

Knocked Up - I'm really happy to see this movie performing as well as it is. Even though it's never held the coveted "#1 Movie in America" title, it's still going strong in it's 3rd week of release and closing in on the $100 million mark. I believe it even outperformed "Ocean's Thirteen", being that it only made $2 million less than that movie but it was being screen on a considerably less number of screens across the nation. Well done Judd Apatow and crew.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - What more can I say about this movie . . . other than it has made $250+ million for Disney, which they will most likely use to fund another crap-tacular movie. Most likely an animated one, based on this movie, because they need to milk this dead horse for as long as possible. Whatever. Does anyone even care about Jack Sparrow or any other character in this story?

Surf's Up - And profits are down. Maybe this will teach Hollywood that we're finally sick and tired of the fucking penguins. Give them a rest. Make a motherfucking manatee movie. Change it up people. Just because one idea worked, a couple of times, doesn't mean that it will forever. Even the penguins (the real ones not the CGI'd ones) on your promos for the film groaned about another penguin movie being released. If your advertising campaign is tired of the genre, it's time to move on.