Captain America: The First Avenger 'topped the U.S. box office after winning a U.S. $ 65.8 million or equivalent to Rp560 billion in the first weekend screenings. While the film ' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : Part 2' is only able to reap more than U.S. $ 48 million or equivalent to Rp409 billion in the second week of screenings. Head of Distribution for Paramount, Don Harris said, the film 'Captain America' beyond what is expected. He estimated that revenue will be the same movie as the movie 'X-Men: First Class', ie U.S. $ 55.1 million or equivalent to Rp469 billion. "Being the fifth film that tells the story of superheroes this summer, we seem to have saved the best for last," he said.  Meanwhile, the film 'Captain America: The First Avenger' only able to reach revenues of U.S. $ 2.8 million or equivalent to Rp23 billion in Italy. The film itself will be played in 23 countries, including Britain, Australia, K...

  On 18 November 2001, I began my review of the first Harry Potter movie: "It's difficult to separate the film of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone from Harry Potter the phenomenon – that astronomical budget; the producers' worldwide deal with Coca-Cola; the billion dollars-worth of associated merchandise; the actors' complaints of being exploited by Hollywood; the declaration by its director, Chris Columbus, that JK Rowling's novel merited the respect accorded to Shakespeare; the endless opinions on its significance ranging from world premiere guest Brooklyn Beckham to newspaper moralist Melanie Phillips." The Harry Potter books are a mishmash of myths ancient and modern, pulling in everything from Dickens to Wagner, the New Testament to Superman, with Harry as Christ, King Arthur and Clark Kent. What Rowling's books also emphasise is an essential Britishness that has been partly maintained in the films through local casting involving almost...

Transformers 3 Dark Of The Moon (2011)   The Michael Bay-directed sequel has grossed $64.7 million since debuting at Tuesday-evening sneak peeks. Thursday update: Michael Bay's third "Transformers" movie grossed $37.3 million at the Wednesday box office. The original 2007 "Transformers" also debuted with sneak peeks and grossed $36.7 million over its first 36 hours. At a 36 percent 'fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, "Dark of the Moon's" soft reviews have been better than the terrible ones given to "Revenge of the Fallen" (20 percent). With Bay's 3D achievements also receiving solid word-of-mouth, the film has grossed 60 percent of its initial revenue through the format -- a solid performance, given that the 3D revenue percentage has hovered in the 40 percent range for most in-format films released earlier this summer. After seeing the third installment in Michael Bay ‘s big-budget blockbuster action film franchise, Los Ange...

Cars 2 Movie 2011 Review : In the world of Cars and now Cars 2, there live only transportation vehicles, no humans. All the cars, trucks, planes, trains, boats, etc. talk and have human personalities. Their world is just like ours, only with a machine industry spin (for instance, there’s a movie called The Incredimobiles instead of The Incredibles. Get it?). I’m fully aware the Cars movies are supposed to be fun, silly and are aimed chiefly at kids and families, but alas, their world is simply one I cannot accept. It leaves me with too many burning questions. For instance, how did the very first car come to be? Who built it? How are the cars able to feel? Do they reproduce? Give birth? Who constructed all the buildings we see in these movies, like the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Are we supposed to believe a car did all that? You’re probably thinking I have no business asking such questions about a movie with talking cars in it, not least because it makes no claims to be ...