http://cinemaverytasty.com what's tasty and new in show business. [beta] Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:10:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shutter Island set a new personal best opening for director Martin Scorsese over the weekend, scaring up $41.1 million at the box office. The latest collaboration between Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio bested The Departed's $26.9 million opening, and set DiCaprio's best opening weekend numbers as well. The horror-thriller was the ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/02/22/shutter-island-the-1-destination-at-the-box-office/ I guess a parade of famous actors and a timely holiday release is all you need to shatter records these days. Valentine's Day became the biggest Presidents' Day weekend release with its $56.3 million first place debut. Including the Monday holiday, its four day total of $63.1 million led the charge ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/02/16/valentines-day-is-huge-at-the-presidents-day-weekend-box-office/ Finally, in its 8th weekend of release, Avatar was knocked from its perch atop the box office by Dear John's surprising $30.5 million opening. Avatar came in second with a solid $22.9 million, but Dear John's counter-programming on Super Bowl weekend worked wonders as its 84% female audience breakdown led it ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/02/08/dear-john-topples-avatar-at-the-box-office/ The first (green-band) trailer for Kevin Smith's Cop Out was a huge letdown. I've been a fan of Smith over the years but his recent fare hasn't especially impressed me, and it looked like Cop Out wasn't going to be bucking any trends. But now MySpace has released the red-band ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/02/05/red-band-trailer-for-kevin-smiths-cop-out-restores-faith-in-the-film/ M. Night Shyamalan is one of the most divisive directors we've had in recent years. While he proved that he's a talented filmmaker with movies like The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, his other works have either been mixed bags (I loved Signs and really enjoyed The Village, but I know ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/02/05/a-promising-super-bowl-ad-for-the-last-airbender-is-out/ The West Coast is just waking up, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has already finished announcing their nominations for this year's Oscars. It's the first year since 1943 that there are 10 nominations for Best Picture, and it's refreshing to see some films that might usually ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/02/02/the-2010-oscar-noms-are-in/ To utterly no one's surprise, Avatar won the weekend yet again in its 7th week of release. Pulling in $31.3 million, the sci fi epic's total reached $595.8 million and is mere days away from surpassing Titanic's $600.8 million mark to claim the title of highest domestic gross of all ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/02/01/avatar-continues-to-steamroll-at-the-box-office/ A new trailer has hit the nets for The Losers, the big screen adaptation of the Vertigo comic series by Andy Diggle and Jock, and boy does it look like all kinds of fun. We were pretty excited when news about the fantastic casting first started rolling out for The Losers, ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/01/31/the-losers-trailer-unleashes-the-bad-assery/ Avatar won the weekend yet again, pulling in $34.9 million for its sixth consecutive first-place finish at the box office and bringing its domestic total to $551.7 million. Avatar has now passed The Dark Knight's $533.3 million domestic total to become the second-highest grossing movie of all time. However, with James ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/01/25/avatar-smashes-more-records-in-its-6th-weekend-atop-the-box-office/ If you caught The Book of Eli this past weekend, you were treated to Denzel Washington unleashing some righteous ass-whoopings. Good times all around. But The Book of Eli was a lot more than your run-of-the-mill action flick. It had atmosphere and heart, and pulsated with grimness and hope. Part of ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/01/20/who-wants-some-free-stuff-from-the-book-of-eli/ REVIEW: (500) Days of Summer, one of the year's most refreshing and endearing romantic comedies, has arrived on DVD and Blu-ray, and it's just as good as it ever was when we saw it in theaters. The whimsical love story of Tom Hansen and Summer Finn is an original and fun ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/01/19/blu-review-500-days-of-summer/ In case you missed it, yesterday night was the 2010 Golden Globes Awards ceremony. The show was pretty zippy, though the seating arrangements were kind of awkward in that a lot of the award winners seemed to take a while to get from their tables to the stage. I guess ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/01/18/and-now-your-2010-golden-globe-winners/ In addition to picking up a couple Golden Globes in the Best Director and Best Picture - Drama categories, Avatar earned another $41.3 million and took the top spot at the box office for the fifth weekend in a row. The picture dipped only 18% to bring its domestic total to ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/01/18/avatar-once-again-captures-the-box-office/ Editor's note: We never reviewed Jennifer's Body on c, vt, so as opposed to a mini review, we're running a longer one for the Blu-ray release. REVIEW: Jennifer's Body was a script that received a lot of attention when it first began circulating through Hollywood, though with good reason. For starters, it ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/01/15/blu-review-jennifers-body/ There's just no stopping James Cameron. Avatar once again topped the box office in its fourth month of release with a $50.3 million weekend, showing only the slightest signs of slowing in the post-holiday frame. It set the mark for biggest fourth weekend gross, handily unseating the record previously held ... http://cinemaverytasty.com/2010/01/11/avatar-is-1-four-weeks-in-a-row-at-the-box-office/