The worst weekend at the box office since 2008.  WOW.  That just sucks.  Honestly, where we normally go into this film and that film, not this weekend.  Obviously you didn’t care, so why should we, ha.  Suffice it to say, The Words opened awfully with only $5m and The Cold Light of Day opened in 12th with $1.8m.  The best …

Labor Day Weekend is typically one of the slowest at the Box Office, but one film managed to buck the trend as The Possession took the #1 spot with $17.7 million according to studio estimates.  The low-budget horror flick starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick as divorced parents of 2 young girls and 1 happens to get possessed by, …

Stallone’s old-men-0n-a-mission opus ‘The Expendables 2’ repeated #1 at the North American Box Office this weekend with $13.4 million, according to final numbers.  That puts the film at $52.2m to date…about $12m behind the total of the 1st Expendables, but the 2nd weekend hold was roughly the same.  Look for Expendables 2 to end up about $80m, or about 20% …

Want to know what the new releases are this weekend?  Well here you go: Premium Rush: Joseph Gordon-Levitt darts around town as a bike messenger trying to get a package delivered and also the hell away from villain Michael Shannon.  Currently at 70% positive reviews.  Very impressive for this kind of thriller. The Apparition: Ashley Green & Sebastian Stan star …

On The HO this week: We review The Expendables 2; look at upcoming releases including Lawless and The Possession; review a couple of listener requested items (yep, including Honey Boo Boo); and on our extended From the Outside In topic this week: we talk about some of our most anticipated shows of the new Fall TV season. As always, we …

The Expendables 2 opened to $28.5m  this weekend, according to final numbers.  While that’s a good opening, it’s weaker than the original film…most attribute that to the novelty wore out as well as a very crowded slate of flicks.  That said, the Cinemascore’s for the sequel are much higher than they were for the original, and word-of-mouth as well as critics …

Reviews of Hit and Run, The Bourne Legacy and The Campaign; discussing upcoming releases including The Apparition and Premium Rush; new trailers for Trouble With the Curve and Red Dawn; our From the Outsider In topic this week: what characters from other film series’ would we like to spun off into their own film. As always, we also bring you …

Jeremy Renner’s assuming the lead in The Bourne Legacy from franchise stablemate Matt Damon, seems to have started off strong…with an estimated $38.1 million   opening this weekend.  Industry experts predicted a much higher opening, but this film is a reboot and a spin-off, it has more in common with Casino Royale than it does a Bourne sequel.  We’ll have our review …

Spoiler-free review of Total Recall and the new to home video: ATM; discussing upcoming releases including The Expendables 2 and Sparkle; new trailers for Zero Dark Thirty and Silent Hill Revelation 3D; our From the Outsider In topic this week: a listener suggested topic on video game films. As always, we also bring you the latest in movie & TV news …

  This week on The Hollywood Outsider we discuss some interesting updates on the newest Film and TV news (Expendables 2 getting a PG-13 treatment, an upcoming ‘Back to the Future’ spinoff, George Lucas’ retirement, Oscar’s Best Pic noms, and much more) and a few new trailers (Detachment, Resident Evil: Retribution, and Jeff Who Lives At Home). Justin tries to …