On the other hand, with so many new films opening and so many different demographics being targeted, it was a good week at the box office overall with receipts hitting $133 million, up 14% from last week and 22% from last year. Six wide releases in a single weekend appears to have been at least three too many as most struggled at the box office. However, it is important to note that was the weekend Ice Age: The Meltdown opened with nearly $70 million and 2007 is still 6% ahead of 2006's pace.
That is also down 10% from the same weekend last year. Overall the weekend total gross was $128 million, down 5% from last weekend. March ended on a similar tone as it began, but not as strong as recent weeks. However, the double-shot of Canada and Independence Day meant they didn't arrive until it was too late for last week's column. On a side note, we only have two spotlight reviews this week, both of them for DVDs that were released last week. That said, it is still worth picking up, especially if you are the kind of person into movies enough to check out box office numbers, and I think that includes most people reading this column right now. The best of the bunch is Extras - The Complete Second Season, but I'm a little worried about the inside nature of the humor. Once again, new releases were unable to top the holdovers leaving Shooter in first place with $5.40 million over the week for a three-week total of $19.70 million.Īnother slow week with little in the way of top-notch DVD releases. We finally saw a new release top the charts this week as Premonition was the number one renting and seller on the home market this week including taking in $7.29 million in rentals. And whenever developments threaten to push the boundaries of credibility a little too far, Wilson’s character reins in the excess with his sardonic line delivery.īut even he can’t salvage a jarringly clunky bit of product placement concerning Mimzy’s internal make-up that yanks older viewers out of the mythology with little time left to bring them back into the fold.įortunately, Shaye ultimately manages to win enough of them over with the help of his inventive visual effects team, his energetic cast and a gently expansive Howard Shore score, assuring “Mimzy” a promising future.I Predict Premonition Will Win the Race on the Home Market Charts Viewers willing to go along for the ride should be agreeably charmed by the yarn. White (“The Office’s” Rainn Wilson), who detects a higher purpose in the boy’s complex geometric doodles that bear an eerie resemblance to the ancient configurations that keep popping up in his dreams.Įmma, meanwhile, has been picking up telepathically on Mimzy’s warnings regarding the survival of the inhabitants of the future and has to act fast before special government agent Nathaniel Boardman (Michael Clarke Duncan), who’s investigating the source of a citywide blackout, gets to her. It’s a development that doesn’t go unnoticed by Noah’s teacher, Mr. Opting not to share their discovery with their workaholic dad (Timothy Hutton) and overly cautious mom (Joely Richardson), siblings Noah (Chris O’Neil) and Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) soon discover that playing with the newfound objects has a profound effect on their intelligence levels. Here, the Mimzy in question is an innocuous-looking, well-traveled toy bunny found among mysterious items in a box that turns up floating behind the Wilder family waterfront vacation home in Seattle. The original title took its cue from a line in Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky.”
#THE MIMZY FULL MOVIE UPDATE#
While the Shaye picture, which was given an advance preview in conjunction with a New Line 40-year retrospective conversation hosted by Sundance director Geoffrey Gilmore, won’t be phoning home those “E.T.” figures, “Mimzy” packs sufficient whimsy to make it a solid performer when it lands in theaters on March 23.ĭespite the spelling change, screenwriters Bruce Joel Rubin (“Ghost”) and Toby Emmerich (“Frequency”) are unlikely to offend many purists in their update of the original work, about a box of educational toys that have been sent back from the future to the present.
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