Movies Released on March 18, 2011
Last weekend, Battle: Los Angeles opened in theaters with $35.6 million, a decent March performance that was in line with expectations. Deadline reported that Sony claimed the production budget was a modest $70 million. If that's the case, the sci-fi invasion title looks on course for a profitable run. In second place, Rango dropped 41% and grossed $22.6 million, which brought its total up to $68 million. In third place, the re-telling of Red Riding Hood took in $14.0 million.
Surprisingly, the biggest new generator was the fifth place movie, Disney's Mars Needs Moms. With only $6.9 million, the motion-capture project appears headed for box office infamy. Why? The production costs were around $150 million with another $50 million in marketing. Worldwide box office won't help much either. The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Mars Need Moms rung up $2.1 million in 14 countries.... Read More
Cracks 6 theaters
Eva Green Juno Temple Imogen Poots Maria Valverde
"Cracks" follows an elite group of boarding school girls who compete for the attention of their free-thinking and glamorous young teacher Miss G (Green). She encourages ... morethem to indulge their desires, flout the establishment and - suggesting a world of adventures in her own past - pursue a life of independence and travel. The girls are thrilled to have such an inspiring teacher, but the status quo is threatened when the arrival of an exotic and beautiful Spanish student (Maria Valverde) disturbs the girl's rigid and remorseless power structure. Favored girl Di Radfield (Juno Temple) feels especially threatened and, as Ms G's hold over the girls progresses from emancipation to obsession, there are tragic consequences for everyone.
Desert Flower 3 theaters
The autobiography of Waris Dirie, who fled from an arranged marriage in Somalia when she was 13-years-old and then lived in the streets of London before she became a supe... morermodel and UN spokeswoman.
Limitless 2,756 theaters
Bradley Cooper Robert De Niro Abbie Cornish Anna Friel
The story centers on a down-and-out writer who gets his hands on a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes one smarter. He experiences sudden financial and social succe... moress but soon discovers that the drug has lethal and lasting side effects, including "trip-switching," a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality. Before long, mysterious antagonists are pursuing him.
Paul 2,801 theaters
Simon Pegg Nick Frost Seth Rogen Jason Bateman
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost ("Hot Fuzz," "Shaun of the Dead") reunite for the comedy adventure "Paul" as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America's UFO heart... moreland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.
For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town -- a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).
Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
The Lincoln Lawyer 2,707 theaters
Matthew McConaughey Marisa Tomei Ryan Phillippe William H. Macy
Mickey Haller (Matthew McConaughey) is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Haller has spent most of his... more career defending garden-variety criminals, until he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy accused of murder. But the seemingly straightforward case suddenly develops into a deadly game of survival for Haller.
The Music Never Stopped 32 theaters
J.K. Simmons Julia Ormond Cara Seymour Lou Taylor Pucci
Chronicles the journey of a father and son adjusting to cerebral trauma and a lifetime of missed opportunities.
Win Win 5 theaters
Paul Giamatti Amy Ryan Bobby Cannavale Melanie Lynskey
A light-hearted comedy about how a rough-and-tumble runaway changes the lives of a suburban New Jersey family and turns around the luck of ahigh school wrestling team.
Winter in Wartime 2 theaters
Near the end of World War II, 14-year-old Michiel becomes involved with the Resistance after helping a wounded British soldier.
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