THE PRINCESS AND THE RUGBY BALL

Timed perfectly for a holiday release, Buena Vista's The Princess and The Frog hit theatres with a bang this weekend at top spot, earning $27.9 million from 4,800 screens. The film features the voices of Terrence Howard, Oprah Winfrey and Anika Noni Rose, whom many of you might remember from Dreamgirls.

Two Warner Bros. sports-dramas occupy the second and third slot respectively, with excellent The Blind Side which topped the Box Office last week slipping to number two this weekend. Clint Eastwood-directed Invictus opened in third and has been getting excellent reviews. Check out my review of it here.

There isn't much else new to report this weekend with very few movies opening. After many weeks in the Top Ten now, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, A Christmas Carol and 2012 still hang on strong in fourth, fifth and seventh respectively.

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So apparently there's some obscure, low-budget film called The Twilight Saga: New Moon out and it did just okay this weekend. Just kidding. tee-hee. The Summit Entertainment film actually did more than okay. In fact, it shattered the all-time record for biggest opening day ever for a film, earning $72.7 alone on Friday night. The previous record holder for biggest opening day film was The Dark Knight at $67.2 million. The Twilight Saga: New Moon's overall tally was a jaw-dropping $140.7 million this past weekend, proving that people really do want to see a bunch of shirtless, buff guys speaking really monotone for two hours.

Warner Bros.' sports drama The Blind Side starring Box Office sweetheart Sandra Bullock, was a distant second, earning an outstanding $34.5 million, which would place it well ahead of its competition on any other weekend. Although I'm sure many of these ticket sales were a result of movie-goers not being able to get in to see New Moon, thus resorting to an alternative. The film's reviews are actually quite positive overall, so my interest has been peaked.

The terrible 2012 which dominated last weekend, experienced a dramatic slip in dropping to third spot at a still impressive $26.5 million. The film was so awful I refuse to devote any mor....

Sony/Columbia Pictures' animated feature Planet 51 also made a noteworthy debut this weekend in fourth place, taking in $12.6 million, which would likely mean a significant loss for the studio. The film features the voices of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, The Mac Guy - Justin Long and Jessica Biel and the reviews are scathing generally.

Word-of-mouth continues to spread about Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire pulling in $11 million from just 627 theatres alone, landing it in sixth spot. In limited release alone, it has made $21.4 million in three weeks, which is more than many movies will make in a theatrical run. The reviews continue to get better and better and critical consensus site Rotten Tomatoes now has the film at an overwhelmingly positive 91% rating, making it one of the best rated films of 2009. It is the one to beat in the match for Best Picture at the 2010 Oscars.

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I am not going to mention how that awful film topped this weekend's Box Office tally, destroying its competition with over $65 million in ticket sales. What I will comment on is how Precious: Based On the Novel "Push" By Sapphire continues to amaze at the Box Office in limited release, pulling in $6 million from just 174 theatres. Yes, the film really is that amazing - just you wait your turn when it expands to your city.

Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) continues to perform impressively, pulling in $22 million in its second week. Also, of note was Focus Features' Pirate Radio which debuted in eleventh spot with $2.9 million from 882 theatres. The '60s era film however, was made for $50 million, resulting in a severe hit for Focus Features, which had Oscar hopes surely for the all-star cast film which includes Philip Seymour Hofman, January Jones, Emma Thompson and Bill Nighy.

REVIEW: 2012

OMG. Worst movie. Ever. Director Roland Emmerich's (The Day After Tomorrow) latest action blockbuster 2012 is quite the catastrophe and no, I'm not just referring to the natural disaster the film centers around.

The two and a half hour debacle from Columbia Pictures focuses on recently separated Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) and Kate Curtis (Amanda Peet), the latter who is one of the film's few redeeming qualilties with her genuine performance. Jackson decides to take their two children to Yellowstone National Park for a weekend getaway, where he has a chance encounter with Charlie Frost (Woody Harrelson). It turns out that zaney Charlie happens to have been compiling proof that the world is about to come to an end and the U.S. government is conspiring in failing to inform the public about this. Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a scientist who is made aware via a tip-off in India, that the world is on the verge of ending and he informs President Tommy Wilson (Danny Glover) of this. A strategy is developed to benefit billionaires around the world in selling them spots on a jumbo airplane designed to transport them to safety amidst world destruction.

There are several confusing and poorly developed subplots in 2012. Jackson and Kate are still in love clearly, but Kate is now living with plastic surgeon Gordon (Thomas McCarthy), who magically knows how to navigate an airplane we learn. Laura Wilson (Thandie Newton) is the daughter of President Wilson and her father sacrifices a spot for her aboard this life-saving jumbo plane. And within moments after her father's subsequent tragic death during the catastrophe, she winds up falling in love with Adrian and shows little remorse over her father's death. What Dad?