With the release of Frankenweenie, Tim Burton has entered a realm of critical appreciation he hasn’t seen for many years. What can Burton do to make sure his Frankenweenie follow-up isn’t another stinker? Follow these five commandments.
Folks all over the world who went out to see Taken 2 this weekend have themselves to thank for assuring another sequel. Robert Mark Kamen, co-writer of the first two films with Luc Besson, has said that Taken 3 is in the works after the $49.5-million domestic take of this weekend and the $122-million worldwide gross to date.
In the marketing for Seven Psychopaths, CBS Films wants you to count the film’s seven stars, but the one real psychopath that matters is writer and director Martin McDonagh, whose follow-up to In Bruges is a cockeyed stroke of genius.
It’s a jam-packed week on The Plot Hole as we cover everything from Oscar news to trailers for The Lone Ranger and A Good Day to Die Hard to this week’s new releases, Taken 2 and Frankenweenie.
A classic Steven Spielberg movie is our Recommendation of the Week: find out which one it is in this week’s DISCussion. Also out this week is a major sci-fi movie, three musicals, an Oscar nominated animated movie and two Hitchcockian thrillers.
All competition got Taken 2 the cleaners by Liam Neeson and his return to action this weekend, which pulled in a huge $49.5 million, good enough for the third-highest October debut of all time.
After much self-inflicted pain trying to work everything out, I’ve made enough sense of it all to at least stave off the nightmares. So let’s go through this step by step shall we? (Or, at least how I see the events of Looper having gone down). Oh, and spoilers obviously.
