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Saturday At The Movies – Total Recall 2012 vs Total Recall 1990
Dear movie studios,
I hate to say this because I like the guy, but if you’re looking to make a splash at the box office during the summer movie season, you must not put Colin Farrell in your tent pole release. No matter how great your film is, no, scratch that. No matter how good or even average your movie is, it will severely underperform if Colin Farrell is your leading man.
It’s a fact. Find out why after the jump.
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The Dark Knight Rises Above Total Recall – Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office Wrap-Up Report
Two new films debut this weekend but neither could shut down the success of The Dark Knight Rises, which held onto the top spot at the box office for the third weekend in a row. Find out what went down at theatres after the jump!
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Total Recall vs Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office Predictions 08/03/2012
This weekend, a sci-fi remake and the third entry in a family friendly franchise look to topple The Dark Knight Rises from the top of the box office. Do either of them have a chance, or will the numbers recall the last few weekends?
Let’s be real – I don’t think anybody has been waiting for a Total Recall remake. The original, a classic, über violent sci-fi flick with Arnold Schwarzenegger, is still well-regarded, even if it did have very little resemblance to its source material, the novel We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Phillip K. Dick. A remake with Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, and Jessica Biel and directed by Len Wiseman was a hard sell for me…and then the trailers started hitting the web. And they look good. I think Total Recall could be a decent hit – not a blockbuster, but it could find an audience that hasn’t particularly been well served with pure science fiction this summer. What the film has going against is none of the leads can really open a film. On that note, I’m predicting a second place showing for Total Recall with $28 million.
Check out the rest of our predictions after the jump!
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Trailer Time: Total Recall
I can’t possibly be the only person who thinks we really didn’t need a remake/reboot/whatever of 1990′s Total Recall, am I? That movie may be 22 years old but it still kicks some serious ass. That being said, the trailer for the Len Wiseman directed, Colin Farrell staring flick due out this August does look like a hell of a lot of fun, and it has a stellar cast, including Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biehl, Bryan Cranston and Bill Nighy. Perhaps this version will incorporate more of the Philip K. Dick story? Time will tell.
Check out the trailer after the jump and let us know if this is a film you’ll be adding Total Recall to your list of summer blockbuster flicks to see.
Vampires With Bite, WW II Planes Take Flight, Hanks and Bullock Together – Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office Predictions, Weekend of January 20th, 2012
A fine selection of films enter theatres this weekend, all looking to nab a piece of the pie and your dollars. A tearjerker from the dream team of Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock; the return of Kate Beckinsale in tight leather; the latest from superstar director Steven Soderbergh; or a non-Star Wars produced film from George Lucas. These are the contenders, and here are our predictions.
