The fourth collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio has proven to be their best. The duo have not only beat out 2002’s Gangs Of New York, 2004’s The Aviator, and 2006’s The Departed, but also their personal record. The Departed was previously Scorsese’s best with $26.8M, while Leo’s was $30M for Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can. We can all forget about that as Shutter Island made $40.2M this weekend. This puts it in the Top 20 R-rated openings of all-time as well as in the Top 10 February openings of all-time. Read the full story

In this episode of the The Film Stage podcast Jordan Raup and Dan Mecca discuss Chris Columbus’ Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Garry Marshall’s Valentine’s Day and Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman. You can stream the episode below or download it here. (right click + save as…) Read the full story

Happy Valentine’s Day! The ensemble romantic comedy came out on top in its namesake weekend grossing an estimated $52.4 million. Covering costs in its debut weekend, Valentine’s Day beat out two other prominent debuts handily en route to a stellar showing. Read the full story

Here are a round-up of posters from the last few days. Highlights include Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, retro Wolf Man posters and a UK Kick-Ass poster. Check them out below. Read the full story

My favorite part of the Superbowl has to be the new TV spots for upcoming blockbusters. Indiewire reports that we will see spots for Alice in Wonderland, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, The Wolfman and Robin Hood. Today we have two other major ones. The first is for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. Check it out below via Firstshowing. Read the full story

Not sure what is coming out this month? I tell you what to check out in theaters, rent later and avoid altogether. Check out the list below.
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Below you will find a round-up of all the posters that have been released the past few days. The major one is final (ugly) Wolfman poster featuring more floating heads than the Macy’s Day parade. My favorite of the round-up is for Tilda Swinton’s I Am Love or Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut Jack Goes Boating. Collider also has a hi-res version of the new Tron: Legacy poster we put up the other day. Check them out below. Read the full story

It’s hard to gauge how excited/worried on should get reading news like this. Director Joe Johnston, doing the PR thing for The Wolfman, talked to Box Office Magazine a bit about his upcoming Captain America film and the long-gestating Jurassic Park IV.

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Thanks to a tweet by the official Universal Pictures twitter it’s confirmed that the upcoming horror remake The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving and Emily Blunt, has been rated R.

It reads: “... this just in: THE WOLFMAN has been rated ‘R’ for bloody horror, violence and gore. Get ready: February 12, 2010“

This announcement comes after much debate over the film’s rating, along with many other things, most commonly the string of push backs the film’s release date has gotten and the recent hiring of industry editors Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now) and Mark Goldblatt (True Lies) to recut the film.

And while no one is saying the film is automatically going to be good because it is R, the fact that the studio has faith in a harder version of the film suggests something worth taking a risk on. Or perhaps they hope to milk the gore audience for all their worth? The Wolfman opens  February 12th, 2010.

What do you think about The Wolfman getting an R rating?

WeAreMovieGeeks has uncovered a new poster for the upcoming horror remake of The Wolfman, starring Benicio del Toro. The poster can be viewed below: Read the full story