Weekend at the Box Office
Guardians of the Galaxy had an out-of-this-world weekend at the box office, recording an almost record breaking $94 million dollars this weekend. Its debut marked the second highest opening this year, just shy of beating Captain America: The Winter Soldier at $95 million.
The Scarlett Johansson thriller, Lucy, came in at a distant 2nd place at the box office taking in $18.3 million. Universal’s James Brown biopic Get on Up featuring Chadwick Boseman as the soulful singer opened in third place with $14 million. Rounding out the top 5 were Hercules at $10.7 million and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes at $8.7 million during it’s fourth week in theaters.
Movie News
Have you heard? Paul Feig, the acclaimed director who brought us the hilarious Bridesmaids and The Heat, is allegedly in talks to direct a female reboot of Ghostbusters. Hello, this sounds like all my favorite things all wrapped into one. Idea: Can we add a gratuitous scene with, like, a ghost Magic Mike? Yes.
Speaking of Ghostbusters, Disney announced this week that Bill Murray has just been cast in Jon Favreau’s new live action/CG blend of The Jungle Book. Murray will be voicing the happy-go-lucky Baloo who befriends human Mowgli. We think: spot on casting. Murray joins a star-studded cast lending their voices to the animals that already includes Idris Elba as Shere Khan, Scarlet Johansson as Kaa, Lupita Nyong’o as Raksha, Ben Kingsley as Bagheera and more. The release date is October 9, 2015.
Trailers of the Week
The first non-teaser trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 was released this week! The trailer offers a more detailed glimpse of what’s happening in District 13 and the Capitol. We did take note that Mockingjay is clearly more eerie and dark – a revolution in all senses. It also 
includes scenes featuring Julianne Moore as well as the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Into the Woods released a teaser this week, getting us all HYPED for the Broadway-turned-Hollywood adaptation. You will find me on Christmas Day standing in line to catch this one!
Our Favorite Tweets
If you watch the six films of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings one after the other, a new and unbreakable virginity blooms.
— Count Blissett (@CountBlissett) August 3, 2014
Not only I am opposed to an all female Ghostbusters but I know for a fact THERE ARE NO WOMEN GHOSTS!!!
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) August 4, 2014
No one is sadder about the Studio Ghibli announcement than the guy who has to go out back and shoot all the Totoros.
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) August 3, 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy 2’s poster is fucking weird. pic.twitter.com/WsP5Nv3RBH
— psychicpebbles (@psychicpebble) August 2, 2014
I’m glad you’re all having a big laugh tonight, but my grandmother was killed by a sharktopus.
— Scott Weinberg (@scottEweinberg) August 3, 2014
Congress is off, yay! McCain returned to his gas station in the desert where he’s the last guy to warn the teenagers their cabin is haunted
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) August 2, 2014
BUT DID DUNSTON EVER CHECK OUT
— Marc Snetiker (@MarcSnetiker) August 1, 2014
@ManMadeMoon This is weirding me out…. pic.twitter.com/ApOnZeddAl
— soapy pitts (@boosh71) July 29, 2014
“I couldn’t help but wonder,” Carrie Bradshaw typed. “If Lucy was using 100% of her brain, was there a man using 100% of his heart?”
— Anne T. Donahue (@annetdonahue) July 28, 2014
There Will Be Blood (Drama, 2007) A glimpse at an average day in the life of three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Louis. [Rated-R, 158 mins]
— Glenn (@justabloodygame) July 29, 2014
If Sharknado wasn’t also trending, I would have assumed every one of these people died in a cocaine accident. pic.twitter.com/R9cKzYO25l
— Kaleb Horton (@kalebhorton) July 31, 2014
