A Week of Entertainment - Issue 3

Gotta say, I thought it was a slow week for anything real newsworthy.  So much so, that I'm leading off with a poster.

Poster of Future Past - This is the new poster released for the upcoming X-Men movie.  Don't have a whole to say about it.  I just thought it was cool and can't wait for the movie.

No More Monkey Business - Well, maybe a little bit more.  Everyone's favorite go to man in Hollywood to play the role of monkey is taking off the CGI mask and heading to the director's chair.  Andy Serkis is done monkeying around.  Now he wants to direct someone else to do it in the new live action Jungle Book.  On a side note, this will be another Snow White and the Huntsman/Mirror Mirror situation.  Two companies taking a beloved classic Disney cartoon and making a live action version.  It looks as though Serkis will be directing for Warner Brothers, while Jon Favreau directs his own version for Disney itself.

Aarruaghah, my back! - It looks like Arnold "I'll be back!" Schwarzenegger is keeping his promise once again.  The 66 year old Austrian actor is coming back to play the same T-800 robot he made famous waaaaay back in 1984.  Here's what he had to say:

“The way that the character is written, it’s a machine underneath,” he said. “It’s this metal skeleton but above that is human flesh, and the Terminator’s flesh ages, just like any other human being’s flesh. Maybe not as fast, but it definitely ages."

So, Skynet was able to develop technology that could teach itself and eventually take over the world, but they weren't smart enough to develop a synthetic skin that wouldn't age?  That's kinda weak Ahnold.  I love that you're back in the movies, but let this Terminator thing go.  All that being said.....I'm sure I'll probably go see it.

TMNTrash - I kid, I kid.  It's just that this new Ninja Turtles movie (new trailer) has two huge strikes against it.  Michael Bay and Megan Fox.  Yes, I will admit that I thought Transformers was entertaining.  Then they went and made 2 and 3.  The slightly promising news is, Bay is only producing, and in the trailer at least, Megan Fox had no dialogue.  Hopefully they will keep that to a minimum in the film too.  Although the storyline of Shredder working with O'Neil's father to create the turtles is something that will be hard to wrap my head around, the trailer had a few good things.  One, the turtles' fun-loving side showed through in a few of the scenes.  Two, the turtles' faces look a little funky, but other than that they don't look too bad.  Three, William Fichtner!  Seriously, I'll watch that guy in anything.  I mean, have you seen Drive Angry? Probably not, because it was a really crappy (although a lot of fun) Nicolas Cage movie.  Most of that fun is because William Fichtner is awesome.

Until next time......Kowabunga dudes!

Weekend Top 10 at the box office:

1 - Noah (new release) $44M

2 - Divergent  $26.5M

3 - Muppets Most Wanted $11.4M

4 - Mr. Peabody & Sherman $9.5M

5 - God's Not Dead $9M

6 - The Grand Budapest Hotel $8.8M

7 - Sabotage (new release) $5.3M

8 - Need For Speed $4.3M

9 - 300: Rise of an Empire $4.3M

10 - Non-Stop $4M