Independent Research #10 - Mini Essay #2
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Independent Research #9 - Mini Essay #1
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Independent Research #8 (9/12/2012)
Independent Research (14/10/2012)
James Bond: Skyfall wins praise from critics
Daniel Craig stars as James Bond for the third time in the film
The latest James Bond film Skyfall has been praised by critics, with some hailing it "the best Bond ever".
Starring Daniel Craig in his third outing as 007, the 23rd film in the franchise has been directed by Oscar winner Sam Mendes.The Independent's Geoffrey McNab said: "If not a full blown triumph, this is certainly one of the best Bonds in recent memory."The Times's Kate Muir called it "a great British bulldog of a movie"."From the moment the orchestral sound of Adele belts out, sending a nostalgic shiver down the audience's collective spine, we know this will be a triumphant return to classic Bond," she wrote.McNab added in his review: "Mendes has gone back to basics: chases, stunts, fights."At the same time, he has subtly re-invented the franchise, throwing in far greater depth of characterization than we're accustomed to in a series of films that are often proudly superficial."The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye gave the film five out of five, calling the film "a fantastic combination of 007 meets Bourne meets Spooks meets Home Alone".
Skyfall sees Dame Judi Dench reprise her role as MI6 director M, while Ralph Fiennes, Ben Wishaw and Naomie Harris join the franchise as Bond's co-workers.Robbie Collin praised director Mendes in The Telegraph: "[He] is unafraid to let the quieter dramatic moments breathe...and ace cinematographer Roger Deakins makes the wildly ambitious action sequences the most beautiful in Bond's 50-year career."
Critics also praised Javier Bardem's performance as villain Silva, with McNab saying "he combines pathos, grotesquerie and a Hannibal Lecter-like viciousness". Caroline Jowett added in The Express: "He is not a villain in pursuit of world domination like Ernst Blofeld, and he is slightly upstaged by his own hair but he never fails to surprise. "That he can make us laugh at the same time only makes him more menacing." As one of the few US critics at the preview on Friday, The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy called the film a "serious and specular show". "Dramatically gripping while still brandishing a droll undercurrent of humour, this beautifully made film will certainly be embraced as one of the best Bonds by loyal fans worldwide and leaves you wanting the next one to turn up sooner than four years from now." However The Guardian's Xan Brooks was not as impressed as other critics. Giving it three stars out of a five, he praised the "whiz-bang first half" but said the film "falls prey to a common failing of many 50th birthday bashes: it allows sentimentality to cloud its judgment and loosen its tongue." The film opens in the UK on 26 October.
Independent Research #7 (14/10/2012)
Film review: Crank: High Voltage
After recently getting NetFlix I have decided to watch Crank: High Voltage for the 4th time. I'm so glad that I did this because I had forgotten how much I loved this film! The story follows an assassin with a very powerful heart that is said to be able to work at double the strength of a normal heart. We start with our protagonist Chev Chelleos (Jason Stratham) falling from a Helicopter. This is a good way to start the film because it leads off from the last film very well.The writing in this film is very good and creates a humorous atmosphere around Chev. Coupled with some very funny action scenes this film turns out to be more of a comedy than an action film. Don't get me wrong this still has plenty of action in it satisfy fans of action films.
8/10
Independent Research #6 (09/10/2012)
UK audiences go loopy for Looper The film was the first new release since Colin Farrell's Total Recall remake and comedy The Watch to make more than £2m in its opening weekend.Time-travel action movie Looper was the top draw at cinemas over the weekend, topping the UK and Ireland box office chart with a three-day haul of £2.4m. However both those titles, released in August, required takings from previews to pass the £2m barrier. Looper sees Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt share the same role.Directed by Rian Johnson, the science-fiction thriller begins with Willis being sent back in time so that he can be assassinated by his younger self.Looper's success came at the expense of stop-motion animation ParaNorman, which dropped down to two in its third weekend in UK and Ireland cinemas. Another 3D release, the latest instalment in the Resident Evil franchise, claimed third place with a lacklustre tally of £792,265. Starring Milla Jovovich in her fifth outing as gun-toting zombie slayer Alice, Resident Evil: Retribution was not shown to critics ahead of its UK release. Its takings were roughly matched by The Campaign, a political satire starring Will Ferrell that opened in fifth place after making £772,102 in its debut weekend. Further down the top 10, French title Untouchable - released in London on 21 September - claimed 10th place after being rolled out nationwide seven days later. The film, about a rich white quadriplegic and his disadvantaged black carer, took £317,979 between Friday and Sunday after expanding its release to 153 screens. New films in cinemas this weekend include Taken 2, a sequel to 2008's Taken that sees Liam Neeson reprise his role as a former CIA agent at odds with a gang of Eastern European kidnappers.
Independent Research #5 (09/10/2012)
Film Review: Looper
II saw Looper this past week at Uxbridge Cinema. I was impressed but I left the cinema wanting more closure. I felt that there was quite a few loose ends left at the end of the film. Also some elements that could have been easily implemented that weren't. SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN LOOPER AND YOU'D LIKE TO DON'T READ ON! I'd have liked to see how Cid grew up as good, and how Joe's decision affected his life. I'd also like to see a follow up on Kid Blue and what he did after Old Joe killed everyone in the looper's base. THE SPOILER IS OVER. YOU MAY READ ON SPOILER FREE Although some of these things couldn't have been easily implemented and they probably had a set budget and a set amount of time they could use, but it would have been nice to see those things added. 7.5/10 - Decent film but too many loose ends.
Independent Research #4 (23/09/2012)
Film Review: Sucker Punch
Sucker Punch is a super-charged romp that feels like a hyper-sexed comic book with a few steampunk elements thrown in for good measure. Director/co-writer Zack Snyder brings this martial pastiche of remixed pop-song mash-ups and outlandish fantasy elements to the screen with a dazzling visual aesthetic. The story begins almost like a silent horror film, as we see the sad tale of Babydoll (Emily Browning), a young girl who loses her mother and sister and is then taken by her evil stepfather to a mental institution, where she’s abandoned. As a means of escape from her dark reality, Babydoll retreats into her imagination and creates a world in which she’s an orphan deposited in a bordello and forced to dance for the male clientele. Every time Babydoll dances, she slips into yet another fantasy world -- a violent mission-based fantasy adventure with her friends helping her slay monsters, fly fighter planes, and generally save the world, all the while being advised by the mysterious Wise Man (Scott Glenn). There’s a fetishistic undercurrent to Sucker Punch, as demonstrated by Snyder’s choice of dropping Emily Browning right smack-dab in the middle of a Japanese school-girl fantasy. Browning, with her porcelain skin, rosy cheeks, and permanent pout strikes the perfect balance between innocent adolescent and deadly temptress, all the while using machine guns and swords and pistols and knives and martial arts to slay scores of bad guys. Along with her girls -- Rocket (Jena Malone), Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), and Amber (Jamie Chung) -- she barrels through a half-dozen worlds and three layers of reality on an epic scavenger hunt. They need to find a map, then fire, then a knife, and then a key -- but the girls don’t really act so much as pose and pout while engaged in choreographed violence. The story itself is a half-shredded assemblage of genre standbys structured like a musical. The narrative crashes to a halt for each big number -- in this case, an elaborate action sequence instead of a song-and-dance routine. And while the film panders relentlessly to adolescent fanboy fantasies -- scantily clad heroines fighting zombie Nazis, orc-like creatures in body armor, and fire-breathing dragons on a post-apocalyptic battlefield -- even the special-effects-heavy sequences somehow seem dull. Snyder clearly has talent and a great eye, but his ostentatious, uninspired concept gives us nothing to hang on to.
Independent Research #3 (23/09/2012)
#The Sweeney pushes Dredd off top spot
The Sweeney stars Ray Winstone (l) and Ben Drew, aka rapper Plan B
Director Nick Love's remake of vintage detective drama The Sweeney has knocked Dredd off the top of the UK and Ireland box office chart in its first week.
Starring Ray Winstone and Ben 'Plan B' Drew, the film version of the 1970s TV classic earned £1.5 million, boosted by two days of preview screenings.
3D comedy animation ParaNorman earned £1.4m to enter the chart at two.
At number three Anna Karenina made £813,395, while at number four American gangster movie Lawless took £790,378.
Dredd - the first 18 certificate film to top the UK and Ireland chart since 2010 - took £769,381 in its second weekend of release and fell four places to five.
Based on cult 2000AD character Judge Dredd, its earnings from 415 locations were down 27% on its opening weekend.
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UK & IRELAND BOX OFFICE TOP FIVE
The Sweeney - £1,545,294
ParaNorman - £1,393,123
Anna Karenina - £813,395
Lawless - £790,378
Dredd - £769,381
Source: Rentrak
Relationship drama Hope Springs, starring Meryl Streep, Steve Carell and Tommy Lee Jones, also failed to entice cinema-goers.
It made £728,689 from 417 locations, entering the chart in sixth place in its debut weekend.
At number seven was Brave, which earned £584,321 - a slim 10% drop on the previous weekend.
The Disney-Pixar animated film has now taken £20.1m in box office receipts after seven weeks on release.
Holding on to a spot in the Top 10 was Seth MacFarlane's hit comedy Ted, which has now made just under £30m since its release seven weeks ago.
Comment
This surprised me due to the fact that I saw Judge Dredd having a bigger fan base because of it being a comic book before a film. But Judge Dredd being an 18 means that no teenagers can see it so that obviously hurt its sales.
Independent Research #2 (12/09/2012)
Film Review: Zombieland
Zombieland is a relatively old film now, it came out way way way back in 2009. Although this doesn't put me off. I feel that Jesse Eisenberg's representation of the lead role (Columbus) is just perfect. He plays a socially awkward loser-type who isn't great with the ladies and this proves to be hilarious along side Woody Harrelson as Tallahassee. Harrelson is the badass uncle that you never had, he has guns and knives and drives a kick ass 4x4, whilst wearing his trademark hat and sipping an alcoholic beverage. These two make for some very funny yet very dark humour, such as hitting a zombie with a car door and taking a baseball bat to a zombies face. Later our duo are met by some innocent yet feisty sisters played by Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin. These two girls con losers for a living and hop from state to state in their flash car. As the story progresses we find our heroes facing a few dilemmas such as a zombie ridden casino, and an over run Hollywood. Taking shelter in the house of none other than Billy Murray, star of Ghostbusters. This is a wacky yet hilarious take on the zombie apocalypse.
8.5/10
Independent Research #1 (10/09/2012)
The Avengers passes $1.5bn milestone and is top 2012 film
Jeremy Renner, Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson are amongst The Avengers' all-star cast
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Avengers breaks box office record
Avengers sets box office record
Batman 'sets box office record'
Marvel's The Avengers has passed the $1.5bn (£943m) milestone worldwide, after an extra push at cinemas over the US Labor Day holiday weekend.
According to cinema tracking website Box Office Mojo, the superhero film took $1.7m in the US and Canada last week, and remains the top film of 2012.
Meanwhile, The Dark Knight Rises became the thirteenth film in history to break the $1bn mark on Sunday.
In doing so, it has become the highest grossing Batman film ever made.
Weekend attendance at cinemas across North America was down 4% compared with the same period in 2011.
Topping the chart was new release, The Possession, which earned $17.7m (£11m), according to industry estimates.
Based on a true story, the horror film starring Kyra Sedgwick made an average of $6,294 at 2,816 sites in the US and Canada.
Opening in second place with $9.7m was the bootlegging drama Lawless, starring Shia LaBeouf, while the Expendables 2 took the number three spot.
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US BOX OFFICE TOP FIVE
1 The Possession $17,725,000
2 Lawless $9,674,000
3 The Expendables $8,800,000
4 The Bourne Legacy $7,248,000
5 ParaNorman $6,551,000
Source: Mojo.com
Action film The Bourne Legacy fell to fourth place with $7.2m in ticket sales.
The Avengers, which sees a team of Marvel comic-book heroes team up to fight an extra-terrestrial threat, was directed and co-written by Joss Whedon, creator of the TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Since opening in May, it has broken several box office records and is currently ranked at number three in the list of the most successful films of all time, behind Avatar and Titanic, both directed by James Cameron.
Whedon announced last month that he would return to make the sequel of the hit movie.
Elsewhere in the US box office, the animated film ParaNorman, about a boy who can speak to the dead, held onto fifth place, earning $6.5m, while fantasy-comedy The Odd Life of Timothy Green retained its sixth place spot, bringing in $6.1m.
The Dark Knight Rises earned $5.9m over the weekend and moved into seventh place in the US chart.
The final instalment in director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy has so far raked in more than $431m domestically and an estimated $574m internationally for a total $1.005bn over the weekend.
By comparison The Dark Knight, starring the late Heath Ledger as The Joker, peaked at $1.003bn worldwide in 2008.
Nolan's box office figures have been achieved without the financial fillip of 3D cinema screenings, which incur a higher ticket price.
The English-born director has so far resisted filming in 3D, although he considered it for his previous blockbuster, Inception.
However, his films have been released in the big-screen IMAX format, which has similarly expensive tickets, but is less widespread.
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The two shot opens the scene; the two women are standing on opposite sides. One woman is standing behind the woman on the right this could show the audience that the woman on the left is outnumbered. The woman on the right (Bianca) has a stronger stance than that of the woman on the left (Sam). Bianca appears to be forcing herself at Sam giving the impression that Sam has angered Bianca. The scene then cut to shot of Sam; the shot is a mid-angle midshot. The director may have implemented this shot with the intention of making Sam seem more in control than she actually is in this scene. A reaction shot is then used to demonstrate the way in which Bianca is taking what Sam is saying. The shot is filmed from over Sam’s shoulder. This forces the audience to take Sam’s side in the argument seeing as we are now watching it from her perspective. A close-up-over-the-shoulder shot is then used to show Bianca’s face as she replies to Sam’s comments. A mid-shot two-shot is used by the director to show Bianca’s friend agreeing with Bianca. This now lets the viewer know that Sam is outnumbered two to one.
Independent Research #9 - Mini Essay #1
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The scene opens with angelic-like singing with Merlin's heavy breathing over the top. The mood of the non-diegetic music creates the feel of safety. This insinuates that the program is drawing to a close. It informs the viewer that everything is over, and that all of the issues presented during the program have now been resolved. The music becomes progressively sadder as the crane shot commences. The audience can now see that a knight has died and that he is lying on a boat. The music coincides with the sad tone of the scene. Through the use of the no-diegetic music the director has constructed a sad tone to make the viewer feel empathy towards the fallen knight. The music dies down just enough to hear Merlin whimpering and breathing heavily, causing a sense of anxiety with the viewer. The audience then hear some diegetic dialogue from Merlin. The angelic music continues whilst everyone in the kingdom mourns the death of their king. The scene then cuts to a shot of the queen, the non-diegetic string section start to play and the viewer can sense the sadness in the scene. The diegetic dialogue of a knight saying: “The King is dead” causes the music to come back louder. The return of the music coupled with the dialogue cause the viewer to feel empathy with the queen and her subjects. The non-diegetic music then fades slightly to allow the knight to say “Long live the queen” which is then matched by the other subjects in the room who repeat it. This is an audio match because after that is said it cuts to a shot of the queen sitting on her throne. The music suddenly stops with the change of scene back to the tower that the king was floating towards. A truck rushes past with the diegetic screeching of tyres and the roaring of an engine. This informs the viewer that it is now modern day. The violins cut back slowly. Eventually the non-diegetic sound of an orchestra starts to play. The music fades to the non-diegetic dialogue “MERLIN”
Independent Research #8 (9/12/2012)
The next 12 months of the british film industry
Some promising films are coming out soon in 2013
One of the most note worthy films is Les Misérables starring Helena Bonham Carter.
Britain had a pretty weak year in 2012, despite the obvious hits such as:
- Skyfall,
- Great Expectations,
- Seven Psychopaths,
- And The Woman In Black.
2013 doesn't appear to be too strong at this current moment in time. My prediction for 2013 would be for America to dominate the box office with a few British films shining through the cracks and coming out of the shadows that are cast by these american giants.
Independent Research (14/10/2012)
James Bond: Skyfall wins praise from critics
Daniel Craig stars as James Bond for the third time in the film
The latest James Bond film Skyfall has been praised by critics, with some hailing it "the best Bond ever".
Starring Daniel Craig in his third outing as 007, the 23rd film in the franchise has been directed by Oscar winner Sam Mendes.The Independent's Geoffrey McNab said: "If not a full blown triumph, this is certainly one of the best Bonds in recent memory."The Times's Kate Muir called it "a great British bulldog of a movie"."From the moment the orchestral sound of Adele belts out, sending a nostalgic shiver down the audience's collective spine, we know this will be a triumphant return to classic Bond," she wrote.McNab added in his review: "Mendes has gone back to basics: chases, stunts, fights."At the same time, he has subtly re-invented the franchise, throwing in far greater depth of characterization than we're accustomed to in a series of films that are often proudly superficial."The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye gave the film five out of five, calling the film "a fantastic combination of 007 meets Bourne meets Spooks meets Home Alone".
Skyfall sees Dame Judi Dench reprise her role as MI6 director M, while Ralph Fiennes, Ben Wishaw and Naomie Harris join the franchise as Bond's co-workers.Robbie Collin praised director Mendes in The Telegraph: "[He] is unafraid to let the quieter dramatic moments breathe...and ace cinematographer Roger Deakins makes the wildly ambitious action sequences the most beautiful in Bond's 50-year career."
Critics also praised Javier Bardem's performance as villain Silva, with McNab saying "he combines pathos, grotesquerie and a Hannibal Lecter-like viciousness". Caroline Jowett added in The Express: "He is not a villain in pursuit of world domination like Ernst Blofeld, and he is slightly upstaged by his own hair but he never fails to surprise. "That he can make us laugh at the same time only makes him more menacing." As one of the few US critics at the preview on Friday, The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy called the film a "serious and specular show". "Dramatically gripping while still brandishing a droll undercurrent of humour, this beautifully made film will certainly be embraced as one of the best Bonds by loyal fans worldwide and leaves you wanting the next one to turn up sooner than four years from now." However The Guardian's Xan Brooks was not as impressed as other critics. Giving it three stars out of a five, he praised the "whiz-bang first half" but said the film "falls prey to a common failing of many 50th birthday bashes: it allows sentimentality to cloud its judgment and loosen its tongue." The film opens in the UK on 26 October.
Independent Research #7 (14/10/2012)
Film review: Crank: High Voltage
After recently getting NetFlix I have decided to watch Crank: High Voltage for the 4th time. I'm so glad that I did this because I had forgotten how much I loved this film! The story follows an assassin with a very powerful heart that is said to be able to work at double the strength of a normal heart. We start with our protagonist Chev Chelleos (Jason Stratham) falling from a Helicopter. This is a good way to start the film because it leads off from the last film very well.The writing in this film is very good and creates a humorous atmosphere around Chev. Coupled with some very funny action scenes this film turns out to be more of a comedy than an action film. Don't get me wrong this still has plenty of action in it satisfy fans of action films.
8/10
Independent Research #6 (09/10/2012)
UK audiences go loopy for Looper The film was the first new release since Colin Farrell's Total Recall remake and comedy The Watch to make more than £2m in its opening weekend.Time-travel action movie Looper was the top draw at cinemas over the weekend, topping the UK and Ireland box office chart with a three-day haul of £2.4m. However both those titles, released in August, required takings from previews to pass the £2m barrier. Looper sees Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt share the same role.Directed by Rian Johnson, the science-fiction thriller begins with Willis being sent back in time so that he can be assassinated by his younger self.Looper's success came at the expense of stop-motion animation ParaNorman, which dropped down to two in its third weekend in UK and Ireland cinemas. Another 3D release, the latest instalment in the Resident Evil franchise, claimed third place with a lacklustre tally of £792,265. Starring Milla Jovovich in her fifth outing as gun-toting zombie slayer Alice, Resident Evil: Retribution was not shown to critics ahead of its UK release. Its takings were roughly matched by The Campaign, a political satire starring Will Ferrell that opened in fifth place after making £772,102 in its debut weekend. Further down the top 10, French title Untouchable - released in London on 21 September - claimed 10th place after being rolled out nationwide seven days later. The film, about a rich white quadriplegic and his disadvantaged black carer, took £317,979 between Friday and Sunday after expanding its release to 153 screens. New films in cinemas this weekend include Taken 2, a sequel to 2008's Taken that sees Liam Neeson reprise his role as a former CIA agent at odds with a gang of Eastern European kidnappers.
Independent Research #5 (09/10/2012)
Film Review: Looper
II saw Looper this past week at Uxbridge Cinema. I was impressed but I left the cinema wanting more closure. I felt that there was quite a few loose ends left at the end of the film. Also some elements that could have been easily implemented that weren't. SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN LOOPER AND YOU'D LIKE TO DON'T READ ON! I'd have liked to see how Cid grew up as good, and how Joe's decision affected his life. I'd also like to see a follow up on Kid Blue and what he did after Old Joe killed everyone in the looper's base. THE SPOILER IS OVER. YOU MAY READ ON SPOILER FREE Although some of these things couldn't have been easily implemented and they probably had a set budget and a set amount of time they could use, but it would have been nice to see those things added. 7.5/10 - Decent film but too many loose ends.
Independent Research #4 (23/09/2012)
Film Review: Sucker Punch
Sucker Punch is a super-charged romp that feels like a hyper-sexed comic book with a few steampunk elements thrown in for good measure. Director/co-writer Zack Snyder brings this martial pastiche of remixed pop-song mash-ups and outlandish fantasy elements to the screen with a dazzling visual aesthetic. The story begins almost like a silent horror film, as we see the sad tale of Babydoll (Emily Browning), a young girl who loses her mother and sister and is then taken by her evil stepfather to a mental institution, where she’s abandoned. As a means of escape from her dark reality, Babydoll retreats into her imagination and creates a world in which she’s an orphan deposited in a bordello and forced to dance for the male clientele. Every time Babydoll dances, she slips into yet another fantasy world -- a violent mission-based fantasy adventure with her friends helping her slay monsters, fly fighter planes, and generally save the world, all the while being advised by the mysterious Wise Man (Scott Glenn). There’s a fetishistic undercurrent to Sucker Punch, as demonstrated by Snyder’s choice of dropping Emily Browning right smack-dab in the middle of a Japanese school-girl fantasy. Browning, with her porcelain skin, rosy cheeks, and permanent pout strikes the perfect balance between innocent adolescent and deadly temptress, all the while using machine guns and swords and pistols and knives and martial arts to slay scores of bad guys. Along with her girls -- Rocket (Jena Malone), Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), and Amber (Jamie Chung) -- she barrels through a half-dozen worlds and three layers of reality on an epic scavenger hunt. They need to find a map, then fire, then a knife, and then a key -- but the girls don’t really act so much as pose and pout while engaged in choreographed violence. The story itself is a half-shredded assemblage of genre standbys structured like a musical. The narrative crashes to a halt for each big number -- in this case, an elaborate action sequence instead of a song-and-dance routine. And while the film panders relentlessly to adolescent fanboy fantasies -- scantily clad heroines fighting zombie Nazis, orc-like creatures in body armor, and fire-breathing dragons on a post-apocalyptic battlefield -- even the special-effects-heavy sequences somehow seem dull. Snyder clearly has talent and a great eye, but his ostentatious, uninspired concept gives us nothing to hang on to.
Independent Research #3 (23/09/2012)
#The Sweeney pushes Dredd off top spot
The Sweeney stars Ray Winstone (l) and Ben Drew, aka rapper Plan B
Director Nick Love's remake of vintage detective drama The Sweeney has knocked Dredd off the top of the UK and Ireland box office chart in its first week.
Starring Ray Winstone and Ben 'Plan B' Drew, the film version of the 1970s TV classic earned £1.5 million, boosted by two days of preview screenings.
3D comedy animation ParaNorman earned £1.4m to enter the chart at two.
At number three Anna Karenina made £813,395, while at number four American gangster movie Lawless took £790,378.
Dredd - the first 18 certificate film to top the UK and Ireland chart since 2010 - took £769,381 in its second weekend of release and fell four places to five.
Based on cult 2000AD character Judge Dredd, its earnings from 415 locations were down 27% on its opening weekend.
Continue reading the main story
UK & IRELAND BOX OFFICE TOP FIVE
The Sweeney - £1,545,294
ParaNorman - £1,393,123
Anna Karenina - £813,395
Lawless - £790,378
Dredd - £769,381
Source: Rentrak
Relationship drama Hope Springs, starring Meryl Streep, Steve Carell and Tommy Lee Jones, also failed to entice cinema-goers.
It made £728,689 from 417 locations, entering the chart in sixth place in its debut weekend.
At number seven was Brave, which earned £584,321 - a slim 10% drop on the previous weekend.
The Disney-Pixar animated film has now taken £20.1m in box office receipts after seven weeks on release.
Holding on to a spot in the Top 10 was Seth MacFarlane's hit comedy Ted, which has now made just under £30m since its release seven weeks ago.
Comment
This surprised me due to the fact that I saw Judge Dredd having a bigger fan base because of it being a comic book before a film. But Judge Dredd being an 18 means that no teenagers can see it so that obviously hurt its sales.
Independent Research #2 (12/09/2012)
Film Review: Zombieland
Zombieland is a relatively old film now, it came out way way way back in 2009. Although this doesn't put me off. I feel that Jesse Eisenberg's representation of the lead role (Columbus) is just perfect. He plays a socially awkward loser-type who isn't great with the ladies and this proves to be hilarious along side Woody Harrelson as Tallahassee. Harrelson is the badass uncle that you never had, he has guns and knives and drives a kick ass 4x4, whilst wearing his trademark hat and sipping an alcoholic beverage. These two make for some very funny yet very dark humour, such as hitting a zombie with a car door and taking a baseball bat to a zombies face. Later our duo are met by some innocent yet feisty sisters played by Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin. These two girls con losers for a living and hop from state to state in their flash car. As the story progresses we find our heroes facing a few dilemmas such as a zombie ridden casino, and an over run Hollywood. Taking shelter in the house of none other than Billy Murray, star of Ghostbusters. This is a wacky yet hilarious take on the zombie apocalypse.
8.5/10
Independent Research #1 (10/09/2012)
The Avengers passes $1.5bn milestone and is top 2012 film
Jeremy Renner, Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson are amongst The Avengers' all-star castContinue reading the main story
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Avengers breaks box office record
Avengers sets box office record
Batman 'sets box office record'
Marvel's The Avengers has passed the $1.5bn (£943m) milestone worldwide, after an extra push at cinemas over the US Labor Day holiday weekend.
According to cinema tracking website Box Office Mojo, the superhero film took $1.7m in the US and Canada last week, and remains the top film of 2012.
Meanwhile, The Dark Knight Rises became the thirteenth film in history to break the $1bn mark on Sunday.
In doing so, it has become the highest grossing Batman film ever made.
Weekend attendance at cinemas across North America was down 4% compared with the same period in 2011.
Topping the chart was new release, The Possession, which earned $17.7m (£11m), according to industry estimates.
Based on a true story, the horror film starring Kyra Sedgwick made an average of $6,294 at 2,816 sites in the US and Canada.
Opening in second place with $9.7m was the bootlegging drama Lawless, starring Shia LaBeouf, while the Expendables 2 took the number three spot.
Continue reading the main story
US BOX OFFICE TOP FIVE
1 The Possession $17,725,000
2 Lawless $9,674,000
3 The Expendables $8,800,000
4 The Bourne Legacy $7,248,000
5 ParaNorman $6,551,000
Source: Mojo.com
Action film The Bourne Legacy fell to fourth place with $7.2m in ticket sales.
The Avengers, which sees a team of Marvel comic-book heroes team up to fight an extra-terrestrial threat, was directed and co-written by Joss Whedon, creator of the TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Since opening in May, it has broken several box office records and is currently ranked at number three in the list of the most successful films of all time, behind Avatar and Titanic, both directed by James Cameron.
Whedon announced last month that he would return to make the sequel of the hit movie.
Elsewhere in the US box office, the animated film ParaNorman, about a boy who can speak to the dead, held onto fifth place, earning $6.5m, while fantasy-comedy The Odd Life of Timothy Green retained its sixth place spot, bringing in $6.1m.
The Dark Knight Rises earned $5.9m over the weekend and moved into seventh place in the US chart.
The final instalment in director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy has so far raked in more than $431m domestically and an estimated $574m internationally for a total $1.005bn over the weekend.
By comparison The Dark Knight, starring the late Heath Ledger as The Joker, peaked at $1.003bn worldwide in 2008.
Nolan's box office figures have been achieved without the financial fillip of 3D cinema screenings, which incur a higher ticket price.
The English-born director has so far resisted filming in 3D, although he considered it for his previous blockbuster, Inception.
However, his films have been released in the big-screen IMAX format, which has similarly expensive tickets, but is less widespread.
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