Author: Sutter Cane

Another so-so weekend at the box office, with Mel’s Apocalypto taking the number one spot with $14.1 million and a $5.7 thousand average. Obviously, this isn’t in the same league as the $83 million opening for The Passion of the Christ, but I remain dully impressed that American audiences are willing to turn out for [...]

You know, sometimes it’s hard being right. I was little nervous about calling for all three movies opening this weekend to bomb, but sure enough, they did. The Nativity Story opened strongest at the number four spot with $8 million, but in 3,100 theatres that makes for a paltry $2,500 a screen. Apparently it takes [...]

Well, my Steelers went out yesterday and played like CHUMPS, The Fountain crashed before takeoff, and most of America seems to have aligned themselves cinematically with those demonic penguins. So what are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?

Well, faithful readers (both of you), this may come as a shock to you, but your favorite moviegasm columnist has finally seen a movie in the theatres worth writing about. I mentioned in my first column that I was really looking forward to Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain, and as it did not contain any direct [...]

Well, I guess I was wrong about Happy Feet having a definite edge over Casino Royale this weekend. While it’s still probably going to take the cake, estimates came in at $42 million for Feet and $40.6 for Casino Royale. I’m trying really hard to care about whether Royale’s final numbers on Tuesday will overtake [...]

I was going to start with a box office preview piece and ask if Casino Royale or Happy Feet would take the weekend, but the consensus seems to be that Happy Feet has a definite edge- family film + Thanksgiving + 3,800 theatres = $40-50 million, against a new, low-tech, gritty Bond in about 3,400 [...]

Producers and directors seem to really hate all the emphasis on box office and budgets in the media. Costner is always talking about how Waterworld was, well, dead in the water before it was ever screened because of all the coverage about the skyrocketing budget. And maybe he has a point; what difference should it [...]

Producers and directors seem to really hate all the emphasis on box office and budgets in the media. Costner is always talking about how Waterworld was, well, dead in the water before it was ever screened because of all the coverage about the skyrocketing budget. And maybe he has a point; what difference should it [...]

It’s been a long time coming. A brand new feature to TVgasm that you’ve been asking for is coming to fruition. Moviegasm! Our first post in Moviegasm comes from Sutter Cane. He’s something of an Avenger of movie critics. He doesn’t answer to a studio or speak with parent company sensitivity. He hasn’t been a [...]