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Weekend Box Office Aug 31 – Sep 2
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, …
Read More »New Releases: Labor Day Weekend
New Releases, as discussed in Ep 56: Lawless – Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy star as bootleggers in Prohibition-era Virginia, trying to get rich and stay alive. Currently at 65% positive ratings. Scott’s choice for Pick of the Weekend The Possession – ‘BASED on a true story’ Jefferey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick are parents who’s little daughter becomes obsessed with …
Read More »DVD Releases Aug 28
New Releases on Blu Ray / DVD Tuesday Aug 28th: Movies: Think Like A Man; Battleship; The Lucky One; Pirates; Headhunters; Life Happens; The Moth Diaries; Starship Troopers: Invasion TV: Boardwalk Empire S2; Homeland S1; In Plain Sight S5; Jersey Shore S5 (REALLY?); Once Upon A Time S1; Sons of Anarchy S4; Walking Dead S2 Here are 2 reviews from …
Read More »Weekend Box Office Aug 24-26
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% …
Read More »New Releases – Weekend Aug 24-26
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 …
Read More »RIP Tony Scott
We normally use Facebook and Twitter for any news items and keep the website strictly for the Podcast, but Tony Scott is a director that receives very little credit for his works. Scott is the lesser known of the Scott brothers, Ridley is the big fish, but Scott has had a strong career of his own. Top Gun, Beverly Hills …
Read More »Weekend Box Office Aug 17-19
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 …
Read More »Weekend Box Office Aug 10-12
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 …
Read More »Weekend Box Office – Aug 3-5
The Dark Knight Rises held the #1 slot for the 3rd week in a row. Christopher Nolan’s conclusion to his epic Dark Knight trilogy is holding strong and will have no problem breezing past $400 million domestic, and has already cleared $730 million worldwide. The film has done well enough that you can rest assured someone, somewhere, is writing a new …
Read More »The Threatening of the Theater Experience
A terrible tragedy happened in Aurora, CO during the midnight showing of the remaining film in the Dark Knight trilogy – The Dark Knight Rises. A masked gunman interrupted the showing and riddled the audience with gunfire – killing some and maiming many. Our thoughts and hearts go out to those that are affected by this incident. We will not …
Read More »Are you a HO?
Hurry up and enter! You’ve got until 3PM July 25th to enter our Hollywood Outsider IMAHO T-shirt giveaway contest. Are YOU a HO? Then win this conversation starter and get everyone talking. For details on the 3 ways to win, listen to Episode 51 – HO’s Before Dark and the winners will be named on our 1 Year Anniversary Episode – Ep 52. Good Luck! …
Read More »The CW’s “Arrow”
And here’s a trailer for “Arrow,” the CW’s new show based on the DC Comics character, Green Arrow. The dude looks fit, that’s for sure, but I’m not sure about that voice. We’ll see…
Read More »The CW’s “Beauty And The Beast” trailer
One show we failed to talk about in our latest episode was the CW’s “Beauty And The Beast.”I don’t know much about it, but I liked the original show from way back in the day, and I like Kristen Kreuk (who got far too much undeserved crap for her portrayal of Lana Lang on “Smallville.” Here’s the trailer so you …
Read More »One the fence? Listen to our new promo…
The Hollywood Outsider Podcast is now available in all major music services…BUT, we’re still a project in motion. Here is our first promo, for any that also maintain podcasts or just simply want to know what it is about…here you go and thank you for listening! HO Promo w Music
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