Box Office Sabermetrics is a weekly column that will attempt to apply the statistical analysis Sabermetrics, used in Baseball, to the box office results each weekend. Universal Studios is having a great year. In fact they’re having a year where they are having the biggest box office returns this year by a long shot – …
So this is kind of sad for horror movie buffs. Growing up for many fans Universal’s classic monster movies like Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Creature of the Black Lagoon, and others were a gateway to the genre and were landmarks in the early days of horror. Now in a move to cash in …
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Written by Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall Directed by Edgar Wright USA, Canada, 2010 If a big-budget blockbuster opens, and nobody goes to see it, does it make a noise? In the case of 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, an ambitious adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s cult favorite graphic …
The Mummy’s Hand Directed by Christy Cabanne Written by Griffin Jay Starring Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, and Tom Tyler USA, 67 min – 1940. “You are very beautiful…so beautiful I’m going to make you immortal. Like Kharis, you will live forever. What I can do for you I can do for myself. Neither time nor …
Arabian Nights Directed by John Rawlins Starring Jon Hall, Maria Montez, and Sabu USA, 86 min – 1942. Part of a series of exotic pictures released by Universal in the 1940s (the others of which include Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and White Savage), Arabian Nights places the Hollywood spin on the classic tale …
‘The Wolf Man Directed by George Waggner Starring Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, and Evelyn Ankers USA, 70 min – 1941. “The way you walked was thorny through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Now you will …
Universal is being slow on giving the go ahead for the next Paul Anderson movie. The director of “There will be blood” has chosen Philip Seymour Hoffman to be part of his next, unnamed movie endeavor. Hoffman would be the lead in an untitled period drama as a “Master”, according to http://weblogs.variety.com/. The Master hatches …