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New DVD and Blu-ray - Dolphin Tale; Futurama; Midnight in Paris

This week, the tide of new DVD & Blu-ray releases is slowing down a bit with the Christmas season in full swing! There are around 70 new titles hitting the market this week on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011.

You can look for stars such as Harry Connick Jr., Owen Wilson, Dianna Agron, Morgan Freeman, Chad Michael Murray, Tom Hardy, Kevin Spacey and Paul Bettany amongst the list that you can take home.

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Before I charge in to the new releases, don’t forget that some folks on your Christmas lists (Or maybe yourself!) might like to get some more popular older titles… I for one am looking to start filling up my Blu-ray coffers a little bit… and some of these titles are priced pretty decently. I mean heck, if you wait long enough, older titles get pretty well priced!

(Director/Movie/ IMDb rating)

  • Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (8.9)
  • Jon Favreau’s Iron Man (7.9)
  • Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (8.3)
  • Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (8.0)
  • Michael Bay’s Transformers (7.2)
  • Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale (7.9)
  • Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (7.7)
  • Zack Snyder’s 300 (7.8)
  • Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend (7.1)
  • Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (7.0)
  • Brad Bird’s Ratatouille (8.1)
  • Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (7.3)
  • James Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma (7.8)
  • John Lasseter’s Cars (7.4)
  • Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (8.3)
  • Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element (Remastered) (7.5)
  • Alex Proyas’ I, Robot (7.0)
  • Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (8.5)
  • Marc Forster’s Quantum of Solace (6.8)
  • Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (8.4)

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Cinema Static Box Office Numbers - Top-10 MoviesWell, I had suspected that Paranormal Activity 3 was going to contend with Real Steel for the top spot in the top-10 movies from the weekend.  But I didn’t suspect was that it would destroy not only the Hugh Jackman starring movie, but would set records in the process!

As estimates for the movie weekend are coming in, it looks as though the Henry Joost directed Paranormal Activity 3 will be pulling in $54M, far and above Shawn Levy‘s Real Steel, who placed 2nd.  (Word of mouth is doing its job on this one!)

PA3‘s numbers are a box office record, with it being called the all-time biggest horror film openings of all time.  In fact, if estimates hold true or close to accurate, PA3 made more than the other 9 movies in the top-10!

It’s getting both praise and punishment, depending who you look at.  Some fans seem to be sneering at the delivery of the movie, despite knowing what they were getting into when they headed to the theater.  I don’t get that… maybe trying to justify something.

But alas, the other interesting angst folks are pointing out and that I was dwelling on was that many of the scenes we saw in the movie trailers, well, most of them aren’t in the movie!

Paranormal Activity Review

The one movie trailer where the sisters are pulling off the ‘Bloody Mary’ routine in the bathroom does not exist in the  bathroom.  (Oh, as far as I’m concerned, never never never try that.  It can’t be good, what comes of it.!)

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