The Weekend Box Office Movie Chart For September 2 -4, 2016

Welcome back to this weeks Box Office Movie Chart for the 2nd – 4th September 2016. For those just joining us, each week I round-up the Top 20 Movies at the Box Office and how they have performed and how much they made a the Box Office this weekend. Let’s see if much has changed since last week.

Chart Legend

Chart Info:

Rank/ Movie Title/ Studio

W/E Gross = Weekend Gross / Total Gross / LW = Last Week

RED = DOWN/ GREEN = UP / BLUE = NO MOVEMENT / TEAL = NEW

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 1.  Don’t Breathe / SGem

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$15,700,000     $51,123,952        #1

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 2.  Suicide Squad / WB

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$10,005,000     $297,422,209    #1

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 3.  Pete’s Dragon 2016 / BV

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$6,471,000       $64,222,939      #6

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2.  Kubo and the Two Strings / Focus

W/K Gross       Total Gross        LW

$6,467,000       $34,328,436        #3

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 5.  Sausage Party / Sony

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$5,300,000       $88,446,124      #4

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 6.  The Light Between the Oceans / BV

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$4,984,000       $4,984,000      NEW

 

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 7.  Bad Moms / STX

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$4,705,000      $102,527,194      #8

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8.  War Dogs / WB

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$4,705,000       $35,217,809       #7

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9.  Hell or High Water / LGF

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$4,500,000      $14,651,633        #12

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10.  Mechanic: Resurrection LG/S

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$4,276,000       $14,418,786       #5

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  11.  Jason Bourne / Uni. 

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$3,991,520       $155,162,175       #9

 

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 12.  No Manches Frida / LGF

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$3,650,000       $3,650,000       NEW

 

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13.  The Secret Life Of Pets / Uni.

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$3,548,335        $358,555,825      #13

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14.  Star Trek Beyond / Par.

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$2,450,000      $154,293,322     #15

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 15.  Ben-Hur (2016) / Par.

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$2,200,000       $23,708,139      #10

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 16.  Florence Foster Jenkins / Par.

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$2,170,000       $23,550,919       #13

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 17.  Morgan / Fox

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$1,960,000       $1,960,000       NEW

 

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18.  Finding Dory / BV

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$1,927,000       $481,848,069    #18

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 19.  Southside with You / RAtt.

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$1,358,995        $5,016,388         #19

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 20.  Hand of Stone / Wein.

W/E Gross       Total Gross       LW

$1,306,000       $3,723,207        #20

 

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Well that’s a wrap for another week movie lovers, see you that same time next week, when we see if Don’t Breathe and Suicide Squad can hold onto No.1 and No.2.

‘Agents of SHIELD’ Season 4: First Look At Ghost Rider

With the Season 4 premiere for ‘Agents of SHIELD’ mere weeks away now, it seems ABC is picking up the pace in promoting it. Entertainment Weekly today revealed the first look at Gabriel Luna (Matador) as Robbie Reyes, a.k.a Ghost Rider.

Though the picture doesn’t give us a full reveal as to what Luna will look like as Ghost Rider, Executive Producer Jed Whedon stated how the character would be adapted from his decidedly minimal source material.

“As always, we are going to put our own spin on the character. We are staying true to the comics in the places where we feel like it’s really important — we love the character’s family dynamic and the East L.A. kid in him.”

Given the majority of audiences won’t be familiar with this version of Ghost Rider, it will be interesting to see what liberties the writers take with the character. Now that the show has been moved to a later 10pm timeslot, there’s much more scope to do some darker things, and this character is a perfect fit.

‘Agents of Shield’ Season 4 premieres Tuesday, 20th September at 10pm on ABC.

SyFy Series: The Expanse Update

Hey, y’all! Deven B here. I’m taking my own sweet time getting to S1 Ep7 of our favorite SyFy series: The Expanse. Don’t worry, I promise it’s on the way! This damn work thing seems to want to keep me away from what I really like to do which is camp out in front of my TV and escape into space with Miller, Holden, and the rest of The Expanse universe.

In the meantime I’ve been following the guys on twitter and checking the internet-verse for news and updates. Occasionally, I’m late on some of the news so if you’ve seen this already, awesome!

The biggest news to hit lately is it looks like a fan favorite from the book series, Robert “Bobbie” Draper, will join the story in the second season. Bobbie Draper will be played by newcomer Frankie Adams.

Other exciting news I’ve come across is the fact that the TV series is still only 2/3rds of the way through the first book. However, show runner Naren Shankar admits that he’s been jumping between books to make the show flow better.

When asked, Shankar does let on that other popular characters from the books will be introduced in season 2.

SyFy brings the popular series back in early 2017. Stay tuned to Skatronnixxx.com for news and updates on The Expanse.

Star Trek Gets Stamps Ahead Of 50th Anniversary

Explore strange new worlds…seek out new life and new civilizations with the new Star Trek postage stamps.  The Star Trek Forever postage stamps are here!  On Friday, Walter Koenig and the US Postal service unveiled the images of the stamps that will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Star Trek franchise.  Star Trek premiered on September 8, 1966. Friday was also the kick of of the three day celebration, Star Trek: Mission New York.

The original Chekov, Walter Koenig was among the speakers for the unveiling.  In an interview with StarTrek.com, Koenig said, “I’ve always liked seeing the word ‘Forever’ on a stamp. It says to me we’ll still be around, and for a long, long time.”

The four images  were designed by artists Jason Kernevich and Dustin Summers.  The images represent the most iconic images of the series.  The Starship Enterprise, a Starfleet insignia, Spock’s “Live Long and Propser” hand sign and a crew member beaming away on the transporter.

The stamps can be purchased on the USPS website and will be valid for mailing First Class letters.

‘Agents Of SHIELD’ Season 4 Premiere Title Revealed

In the absence of a trailer from the fast approaching season of ‘Agents of SHIELD’, fans are currently clinging onto any information we get. And today we got something good indeed.

According to Spoiler TV, it has been revealed that the title for Episode One is ‘The Ghost’. Given what we know about the upcoming Season, this is an exciting development indeed. It has already been announced that Gabriel Luna is set to arrive on the show in a blaze of fire as Ghost Rider, and now we have a pretty substantial clue as to just when this arrival will take place.

Of course this episode title isn’t ironclad confirmation that Ghost Rider will feature heavily in the season-opener. Indeed the group could be tracking someone down simply codenamed ‘The Ghost’ before a full reveal at the end of the episode. Given how TV shows like to tease us, this isn’t exactly unlikely.

Given the reaction to this sliver of information we can only hope that ABC satisfies our hunger for news with the release of a full trailer soon. Season 4 is just over two weeks away from airing, and ABC have been annoyingly quiet in promoting it. This could be the last chance ‘Agents of SHIELD’ gets unless it gains a significant audience, so I urge anyone not watching to do so. Season 3 was consistently amazing, and across a 22 episode season that’s no easy feat.

‘Agents of SHIELD’ Season 4 premieres Tuesday, September 20 at 10pm on ABC. Air dates internationally often vary greatly.

The Film Future Of “Uncharted” Is A Little, Well… Uncharted

As someone who finally got a PlayStation and then proceeded to binge all four Uncharted games in a week (who needs sleep?), I have a deep and abiding love for the fantastic characters of the games. From the disaster-prone and clever Nathan Drake, to the brilliant and bad-a Elena Fisher, to the snarky and loyal Victor Sullivan, I grew invested in their crazy adventures and intricate stories.

So when I heard that Sony was planning to make a live-action Uncharted film, I lost my mind. In late July, Joe Carnahan (The Grey, writer and director) was confirmed as the writer for film, although his current production schedule prohibited him from directing it. Other people attached to making the film happen are producers Charles Roven (Man of Steel) and Avi Arad (The Amazing Spider-Man).

However, don’t get your hopes up. Recently, Sony took the Uncharted film off of their production schedule. The film was originally slated to be released June 30th, 2017, and has been in the works since 2009. But rather than just get a “TBA” or be moved to a different release date – because, even if they got all their ducks in a row today, it’s extremely unlikely that they could have a completed film in less than a year – like other delayed major motion pictures, Uncharted was removed from the production schedule altogether.

Some speculate that this could mean that the film was cancelled entirely.

Insert Pac-Man dying SFX here. Sony's video game adaptation of UNCHARTED, set for 6/30/17, has been removed from their release calendar.

— Exhibitor Relations (@ERCboxoffice) September 1, 2016

But wait! I have some (admittedly weak) evidence to the contrary. The same day that the removal was announced, writer Joe Carnahan tweeted that he had just finished the opening scene in the script – and that it was “REALLY GOOD.”

It would be really odd to announce something like that the same day as a cancellation, right? So, maybe, the film is just being postponed for a long time, and so they just decided to take it off the production schedule until they figured everything out? Maybe? Hopefully?

So I guess you can sorta kinda get your hopes up. I don’t know. It’s kind of an emotional roller coaster at this point.

The opening scene for UNCHARTED…at least in script form, is really, REALLY GOOD.

— Joe Carnahan (@carnojoe) September 2, 2016

So don’t be disappointed. But don’t get your hopes up too high, either. Maybe keep them at a reasonable level (or a wee bit lower), so that, if a later release date for the film is announced, you’re pleasantly surprised (and if it remains cancelled indefinitely, the pain won’t hurt so much).

Personally, I’m going to be crossing my fingers and knocking on wood everyday until I hear that the film is back on track. If they keep to the video game formula of incredible visuals, engaging story, and brilliant and dynamic characters, they’ll have a truly fantastic movie. If Sony accurately captures the relationship between Nate, Elena, and Sully, they’ll easily capture themselves a box-office hit.

So here’s hoping that they’re just pushing the release date back until 2018.

But until I find out for certain, in the words of Victor Sullivan, I’ll be “sweatin’ like a hooker in church” (but for different reasons, obviously).

 

Image Credit by: Brink

Margot Kidder Open To Appearing On A DCTV Show But Does Not Like Portrayal Of Lois Lane In The DCEU

Margot Kidder (Superman, Black Christmas), the original Lois Lane from the Christopher Reeves‘ Superman movies did an interview with HeyUGUys, which you can read in its entirety here. She touched on different aspects of Superman‘s history both past and present.

She expressed her interest in appearing on a DC TV show:

“Yeah, sure. Depending on the script or what they wanted me to do. I am 67, I am an old broad now! So I look back at this with much more amusement than I did. I don’t have a career I need to worry about protecting. My life has nothing to do with movies anymore. I live in a little town in Montana and basically do political activism. So I guess it would be fun to fly-in and do a couple of days work.”

She appeared on a couple episodes of Smallville so her appearing on Supergirl would be the best fit of all the DC TV shows. But before we can start speculating on what role or what show she could appear it still remains to be seen if DC would cast her in anything since she had choice words about the current portrayal of Superman in the movies.

When asked about why people prefer her and Christopher Reeves‘ portrayal of Lois Lane and Superman than the current movie offering, she placed part of the blame on the studio’s handling:

“In that sense, it’s so much simpler than the later films made it out to be. I think there was a cynical decision on the part of the studios, which are now owned by multi-national conglomerates just like everything else on the planet. So they would make these artistic decisions by non-artists – guys would want to hit the millennial demographic because they literally make up about one quarter of the population.

Probably, my guess is what happened is when they decided to hit the demographic of the millennials in the later films. I think the directors were good, the actors were good but the basic approach wasn’t there.”

And also her thoughts on the current portrayal of Lois Lane in the DCEU:

“They took one of the best American actresses’ around, Amy Adams, and didn’t give her anything to do! I mean, how stupid is that? They made her what used to be the girlfriend, which kind of ended in the 60s with women’s rights.”

Although I agree with her on how much the studios interference in the artistic decisions hamper a good movie that has been well cast I don’t believe we have seen the same movie when it comes to Lois Lane‘s portrayal. In Man of Steel she uncovered Superman‘s identity even before he was Superman and in Batman vs. Superman she figured out Lex Luthor was behind everything, something that not even Batman figured out completely. Even though Amy Adams could use more screen time she hasn’t been wasted to the extent that Margot Kidder expresses.

Hopefully DC does cast her in some role in one of their shows. She always knocks it out of the park in whatever she plays.

 

 

[BREAKING NEWS] AHS6 Teaser #23 Has Just Been Released!!

Good Morning my fellow horror fans, I have for you the JUST released (2 minutes ago)  Teaser #23 from American Horror Story. If you thought yesterday’s doll was creepy then you’re in for a real treat with today’s teaser! I don’t know about you guys but I am so excited and can’t wait for AHS6 to air on the 14th September! Take a look at teaser #23 ‘Tide’ below.

AHS6 Tide

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Daredevil SN2 EP1 – ‘Bang’

After a titanic end to season 1 and an overall good first season, the premiere for the second season of Daredevil has a lot to live up to. “Bang” lays its cards on the table early on with Daredevil in action against a group of street hoods. Matt, Karen and Foggy are all on the trail of a criminal who has violently murdered several mafiosos. Seeing Foggy and Karen in action is good because one of my criticisms of the first season overall was the way those two felt like extras.

Foggy and Matt’s relationship is good again, but it has the edge of Foggy being worried about what may happen to his friend. There are some fun scenes where the gang just shoot some pool. This does work in showing their rapport when they are out of action. They are also faced with a moral dilemma. They are officially broke, but they have to decide whether or not to take on a client with a shady past.

This stuff is all good, but this episode introduces the real star: The Punisher. While not referred to by name yet, this episode builds suspense for the character much like the first season built suspense for Fisk. This episode does cut to the chase (which is for the best – the slow burn for Fisk worked ONCE) as we do see his face by the end of the episode. But in the confines of this one episode, the show still builds suspense.

We see quick glimpses of him. He usually appears in shadow or from behind. We see that the Punisher is one tough customer. We see the damage that he caused laying waste to the mafia members – and trust me, this is some gruesome stuff. He waltzes straight into a hospital to take out his targets. He even holds his own and fights off Daredevil. We only get one full shot of the Punisher and says only one word “Bang” on screen. The man says so little with so much.

Overall, this was an excellent start to season 2. Show enough action to get the audience interested, but keep enough secret to make them want more.

Gotham Is A Mad City In Series 3 Trailer

Gotham Season is heading to our televisions on September 19th! After crashing the bus and releasing the monsters in the city Fish Mooney is back and ready to cause problems.

We already have Selina Kyle who is quite the criminal, but this season will be adding more to the fray. The city is going to be quite mad when Gotham: Mad City premieres.

This trailer highlights a lot that is coming and it really is exciting! It includes a view of many interesting things that will happen throughout the season including the change of Poison Ivy, Bruce really stepping up, and Fish amassing an army of Monsters.

Penguin will also be up to his own games and Riddler is locked up for now but he could be freed. The police will lose their grip on the city as monsters run free causing chaos these cops couldn’t think about stopping. The only one for the job is definitely James Gordon who is going to have to do some crazy things in an attempt to arrest these monsters.

Tune into Gotham Mad City when it premiers on September 19th!