Welcome to Box Office Wizard, Player Affinity’s premiere movie box office prediction contest that gives the average Tom, Dick or Merlin the chance to prove his or her worth. Entering is simple, so why not get give it a try? Just read through this post and leave your prediction of top five box office finishers of this weekend. Finish out 2011 on top and you will win something COOL.
Charlie Day is perhaps best known for his work on FX’s acclaimed comedy series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. However, with appearances in films like Going the Distance and next month’s Horrible Bosses, he’s slowly but surely making his way on the silver screen. That being said, it looks like he may have signed on for his biggest project yet. Day will have a role as a scientist in the upcoming Guillermo del Toro film, Pacific Rim. The film focuses on people trying to save Earth from violent creatures in the future.
Hugh Jackman did not make his name on playing Wolverine. The Aussie started his career on stage with well-known roles in musicals before injecting his body with adamantium. On film, however, he has not had the chance to show off his singing and dancing skills on film since Oklahoma! in 1999. Well, perhaps that’s about to change.
If Fall/Winter of the film season is about contemplative and quiet films, Summer is all about knockdown, dragout brawls. And this Summer season has provided us some decent contenders to the point where we ask (and debate): who would win in a fight? We can argue all day long, but it’s up to our readers to choose the winners of Summer 2011! Leave your thoughts on the matter and vote the first round of winners below!
There was so much back-and-forth about whether or not Sylvester Stallone would direct the sequel to his financially successful all-star action flick The Expendables, but Sly finally made the official announcement that he wouldn’t be directing the film. Instead, the director will be Simon West.
Unlike their real world counterparts in museums all over the world, the dinosaurs of “Jurassic Park” just won’t become extinct. Despite being endangered for 10 years after Joe Johnston’s Jurassic Park III, rumblings of how to make a fourth film or to reboot the franchise have risen once more.
Two years ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the individuals who year after year vote on this little thing called the Oscars) dropped a bomb on everyone by announcing that Best Picture would return to having ten nominees instead of the five to which most are accustomed, harkening back to the old days of Hollywood. Well, they’re not totally happy with that either.
