Weekend Box Office Report

Yes, it was another slow week, far from those huge summer films like Spider Man 3, Harry Potter, Transformers, Shrek, and others. This weekend, the #1 spot went to Beowulf, an animated epic film adapted from the Old English heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship. The cast of the #1 film which grossed over $28 million, includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, and Angelina Jolie. At #2, Bee Movie holds on steadily, while adding another $13 million to its $93 million box office gross total so far, not bad. American Gangster falls to #3 collecting another $13 million, now they stand at $100 million total. Other movies are quite boring and not worth mentioning, other than Love in the Time of Cholera which opened at #10 with a dissapointing $1 million collected, ouch. I honestly can't wait 'til next summer to see these numbers rise once again.

American Ganster and Bee Movie on Top

After a somewhat good box office weekend, Universal's American Ganster film can breather easy after opening on top grossing over 43 million dollars. Definitely not bad at all, those are good numbers. Now, I was surprised to find out that DreamWorks' Bee Movie had to settle for the #2 slot after grossing $38 million, this is one of the few DreamWorks animated films to not debut at #1. Other films in the top 10 include Saw IV at #3, Dan in Real Life at #4, The Game Plan at #5, 30 Days of Night at #6, Martian Child at #7 and Gone Baby Gone at #10 - all grossing from just 2 million dollars to $10 million each - pretty sad numbers for a top 10.

Out Today: Bee Movie

It's been a while since a movie has caught my attention, and funnily enough, a cartoon movie has done so. Bee Movie is a computer-animated film starring Jerry Seinfeld and Renée Zellweger. Having just graduated from 3 days of college, a bee by the name of Barry Bee Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) finds himself disillusioned with the prospect of having only one career choice – honey. As he ventures outside of the hive for the first time, he breaks one of the cardinal rules of the bee world and talks to a human, a New York City florist named Vanessa (Renée Zellweger). He is shocked to discover that the humans have been stealing and eating the bees' honey for centuries, and ultimately realizes that his true calling in life is to set the world right by suing the human race for stealing their precious honey. Because of this, Barry wins the lawsuit, and all honey in the world is confiscated and returned to the bees. But now, Barry and Vanessa realize that now all the honey in the world is back, every bee has been put out of a job, and thus cannot earn money for their families. Barry also realizes that without bees pollinating the flowers, the plant life is dying and producing no more oxygen. To set things right, he and Vanessa must find a way to re-pollinate the flowers and get the bees their jobs back before the balance of nature shifts for the worse.

Sounds great to me, I'll be going out this weekend to catch this movie.