Welcome back to The Weekly Couch Potato. Last weekend, The Croods had a strong $43.6 million opening, with Olympus Has Fallen surprising with a big $30.3 million in its first weekend. Oz The Great and Powerful saw nearly a 50% decline at the box office, but is closing in on its $... Read More »
Welcome back to the Weekly Couch Potato. Oz the Great and Powerful had another strong weekend, pulling in over $40 million as it nears its huge $215 million budget. The Call was the real winner of the weekend, hauling in over $17 million on its first weekend (and on a $13 million... Read More »
Welcome back to The Weekly Couch Potato. Oz the Great and Powerful is looking like one of the bigger successes of the early year, bringing in nearly $80 million in its first weekend. Significantly behind in second place is Jack the Giant Slayer at just under $10 million. At under... Read More »
Welcome back to The Weekly Couch Potato. Jack the Giant Slayer flopped miserably, grossing around $27 million on a $195 million budget. We'll see if Bryan Singer's poorly-reviewed re-imagined fairy tale can recoup some of its losses, but this week we have a more promising fantasy... Read More »
Welcome back to The Weekly Couch Potato. With the Oscars going on (and Jason McKiernan accurately summing up why they were so bad), just about nobody went to the theaters. Identity Thief climbed back on top of the box office in its third week, pulling in just over $14 million, wi... Read More »
Welcome back to The Weekly Couch Potato. Last week was a historically bad week for openers, quality wise – of the top four films at the box office, Escape From Planet Earth has the highest Rotten Tomatoes rating, at 29%. A Good Day to Die Hard opened nearly $10 million less succe... Read More »
Welcome back to The Weekly Couch Potato. After two straight weeks of critically acclaimed releases, with Side Effects following Warm Bodies, it looked like we had finally kicked the January slump. Not so fast, friends. This week's offerings look pretty dismal, including the bigge... Read More »
Welcome back to the Weekly Couch Potato, where we have a very bittersweet opening weekend. Last week, Warm Bodies stole the show with a $20 million opening, more than doubling the second-place Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (why are we still going to see that, guys)? Bullet to ... Read More »
Welcome back to The Weekly Couch Potato, where we are triumphantly celebrating the end of January. We are not, however, celebrating the end of bad movies. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters did surprisingly well (I assume because of Dustin Freeley’s “you know what? It doesn’t suck ... Read More »
Welcome back to The Weekly Couch Potato, where we give you streaming alternatives to movies playing at the theaters. Mama had a surprisingly good opening weekend, with Oscar potentials Zero Dark Thirty and Silver Linings Playbook (with a late theater count bump) taking up the nex... Read More »
We’re back with The Weekly Couch Potato. Is there a movie coming out in theaters this week that you want to watch but lack the time or money? You’ve come to the right place. I will say, I’m disappointed with you guys on two fronts – only $24 million for Zero Dark Thirty (a smalle... Read More »
Welcome back to the Weekly Couch Potato, where we suggest alternatives to going to the theaters by looking through the Netflix and Amazon Prime catalogs. Last week, I tried to tell you guys you didn’t have to go see Texas Chainsaw 3D, but you went to the movies anyway – the slash... Read More »
