Box Office Winners August 22-24 2014

Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” regained the top spot at the box office this weekend, adding another $17.6 Million dollars, the film is already the 3rd biggest domestic moneymaker of 2014, and at $251 Million, it looks likely to pass “The LEGO Movie” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” in at least 2 weeks time. Coming in second this weekend was “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” with $16.8 Million followed by the latest YA movie/book adaptation “If I Stay” with $16.3 Million. In 4th place is the comedy “Let’s Be Cops” with $11 Million while the sports themed newbie “When the Game Stands Tall” came in 5th with $9 Million. “Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” bombed with a $6.4 Million haul, earning only 8th place. The movie has been dubbed “un-watchable” by several critics. See this and more at the box office roundup below!!

Top 10 Films in the Box Office: August 22-24 2014

#1 Guardians of the Galaxy $17,631,000 $251,884,000
#2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $16,800,000 $145,610,000
#3 If I Stay $16,355,000 $16,355,000
#4 Let’s Be Cops $11,000,000 $45,246,000
#5 When the Game Stands Tall $9,000,000 $9,000,000
#6 The Giver $6,730,000 $24,101,000
#7 The Expendables 3 $6,600,000 $27,519,000
#8 Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For $6,477,000 $6,477,000
#9 The Hundred-Foot Journey $5,562,000 $32,750,000
#10 Into The Storm $3,800,000 $38,301,000

Top 10 Films of 2014 To Date

#1 Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($259,766,572)
#2 The LEGO Movie ($257,749,270)
#3 Guardians of the Galaxy ($251,884,000)
#4 Transformers: Age of Extinction ($243,825,000)
#5 Maleficent ($237,585,000)
#6 X-Men: Days of Future Past ($232,751,000)
#7 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ($203,961,000)
#8 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($202,853,933)
#9 Godzilla ($200,626,327)
#10 22 Jump Street ($190,091,244)

Top Earning Production Studios (of top 10 films of the year)

#1 Buena Vista (Disney) $749,235,572
#2 Warner Bros. $458,375,597
#3 Fox $436,712,000
#4 Sony $392,945,177
#5 Paramount $243,825,000

New Comic Book Releases – August 20 2014

Here is a definitive list of new comics and graphic novels out this week from the fine folks at Things from Another World.

Adventure Time #31

The world of Ooo is a quiet place, where candy and creatures stick to themselves and nothing ever happensâ¦it's almost ACCEPTABLE. It's a twisted adventure starring Ooo's most yellow Earl and there is pretty much nothing Finn and Jake can do about it.
Credits:Ryan North;Shelli Paroline;Mike Holmes

PRICE: $3.19 Order ‘Adventure Time #31’ Now

Adventure Time #31 (Retailer 20 Copy Incentive Variant Cover Edition)

The world of Ooo is a quiet place, where candy and creatures stick to themselves and nothing ever happensâ¦it's almost ACCEPTABLE. It's a twisted adventure starring Ooo's most yellow Earl and there is pretty much nothing Finn and Jake can do about it. This variant cover edition comes bagged and boarded.
Credits:Ryan North;Shelli Paroline;Rachel Hunt

PRICE: $7.99 Order ‘Adventure Time #31 (Retailer 20 Copy Incentive Variant Cover Edition)’ Now

Adventure Time #31 (Subscription Ellis Variant)

The world of Ooo is a quiet place, where candy and creatures stick to themselves and nothing ever happensâ¦it's almost ACCEPTABLE. It's a twisted adventure starring Ooo's most yellow Earl and there is pretty much nothing Finn and Jake can do about it.
Credits:Ryan North;Shelli Paroline;Sam Ellis

PRICE: $3.19 Order ‘Adventure Time #31 (Subscription Ellis Variant)’ Now

Adventure Time Banana Guard Academy #2 (of 6)

Root Beer Guy has his first class of Banana Guard recruits and it's time to send them to boot camp. With the Head Banana Guard looking over his new class, what could possibly go wrong? Unfortunately, these Bananas are a little more than bruised by this new class and they're not going to make it easy. Will Gingerbread Muto, Tree Trunks, Gum Drop Lass, Peppermint Butler, and Mr. Cupcake make it through?
Credits:Kent Osborne;Madeline Rupert;Aimee Fleck

PRICE: $3.19 Order ‘Adventure Time Banana Guard Academy #2 (of 6)’ Now

Box Office Winners July 25-27 2014

In a surprise that was seen by only a few forecasters, “Lucy” used her muscle to win out against Dwayne Johnson’s “Hercules” with $44 Million over “Hercules'” $29 Million. Coming in 3rd was “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” with an additional $16.4 Million, upping it’s domestic haul to $172 and is now the 9th biggest movie of the year. In 4th place is “The Purge: Anarchy” while the animated film “Planes: Fire & Rescue” comes in 5th for the weekend. See the complete top 10 films of the weekend and the year in our detailed breakdown below!

Top 10 Films in the Box Office: July 25-27 2014

#1 Lucy $44,025,000 (Total Gross $44,025,000)
#2 Hercules $29,000,000 (Total Gross $29,000,000)
#3 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes $16,400,000 (Total Gross $172,089,000)
#4 The Purge: Anarchy $9,896,000 (Total Gross $51,272,000)
#5 Planes: Fire & Rescue $9,303,000 (Total Gross $35,121,000)
#6 Sex Tape $5,975,000 (Total Gross $26,877,000)
#7 Transformers: Age of Extinction $4,600,000 (Total Gross $236,352,000)
#8 And So It Goes $4,552,000 (Total Gross $4,552,000)
#9 Tammy $3,400,000 (Total Gross $78,147,000)
#10 A Most Wanted Man $2,717,000 (Total Gross $2,717,000)

Top 10 Films of 2014 To Date

#1 Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($258,712,272)
#2 The LEGO Movie ($257,546,492)
#3 Transformers: Age of Extinction ($236,352,000)
#4 Maleficent ($232,119,000)
#5 X-Men: Days of Future Past ($231,278,000)
#6 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($202,084,843)
#7 Godzilla ($199,317,206)
#8 22 Jump Street ($185,654,000)
#9 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ($172,089,000)
#10 How to Train Your Dragon 2 ($165,629,000)

Top Earning Production Studios (of top 10 films of the year)

#1 Fox $568,996,000
#2 Buena Vista (Disney) $490,831,272
#3 Warner Bros. $456,863,698
#4 Sony $387,738,843
#5 Paramount $236,352,000

Black Widow Solo Film in the Works!

Marvel Studios is developing a film that would revolve around Black Widow, the character played by Scarlett Johansson in the “Iron Man” and “The Avengers” franchises. Studio president Kevin Feige has long been high on the character even before her role was expanded for April’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” When promoting the homevideo release for “Iron Man 2,” in 2010, he said, “We’ve already started discussions with Scarlett (Johansson) about the idea of a solo movie and have begun putting together concepts, but ‘The Avengers’ comes first.”

But Feige is once again discussing the prospects for a Black Widow film now that “The Winter Soldier” is about to be released on April 4.

“We wanted to change the dynamic of the cinematic universe with this film,” Feige told Total Film magazine in a new interview about the “Captain America” sequel. “We wanted Cap and really the entire cinematic universe to be very different at the end of ‘Winter Soldier’ than it is at the beginning.”

About Black Widow

Black Widow (Natalia Alianovna “Natasha” Romanova, also known as Natasha Romanoff) is a fictional character, appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by editor and plotter Stan Lee, scripter Don Rico, and artist Don Heck, the character first appeared in Tales of Suspense No. 52 (April 1964). The character was first introduced as a Russian spy, an antagonist of the superhero Iron Man. She later defected to the United States, becoming an agent of the fictional spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D., and a member of the superhero team the Avengers. Commonly depicted as a femme fatale, the Black Widow was ranked as the 31st sexiest woman in comics by the Comics Buyer’s Guide. Scarlett Johansson portrayed the character in the films Iron Man 2 (2010) and Marvel’s The Avengers (2012) and is set to reprise the role in the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) as a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise.

Natasha was born in Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia. The first and best-known Black Widow is a Russian agent trained as a spy, martial artist, and sniper, and outfitted with an arsenal of high-tech weaponry, including a pair of wrist-mounted energy weapons dubbed her “Widow’s Bite”. She wears no costume during her first few appearances but simply evening wear and a veil. Romanova eventually defects to the U.S. for reasons that include her love for the reluctant-criminal turned superhero archer, Hawkeye.

First hints to Natasha Romanova’s childhood come by Ivan Petrovich, who is introduced as her middle-aged chauffeur and confidant in the Black Widow’s 1970s Amazing Adventures. The man tells Matt Murdock how he had been given custody of little Natasha by a woman just before her death during the Battle of Stalingrad in autumn 1942. He had consequently felt committed to raise the orphan as a surrogate father and she had eventually trained as a Soviet spy, being eager to help her homeland. In another flashback, set in the fictional island of Madripoor in 1941, Petrovich helps Captain America and the mutant Logan, who would later become the Canadian super-agent and costumed hero Wolverine, to rescue Natasha from Nazis.

A revised, retconned origin establishes her as being raised from very early childhood by the U.S.S.R.’s “Black Widow Ops” program, rather than solely by Ivan Petrovitch. Petrovitch had taken her to Department X, with other young female orphans, where she was brainwashed, and trained in combat and espionage at the covert “Red Room” facility. There, she is biotechnologically and psycho-technologically enhanced—an accounting that provides a rationale for her unusually long and youthful lifespan. During that time she had some training under Winter Soldier, and the pair even had a short romance. Each Black Widow is deployed with false memories to help ensure her loyalty. Romanova eventually discovers this, including the fact that she had never, as she had believed, been a ballerina. She further discovers that the Red Room is still active as “2R”.

Natasha was arranged by the KGB to marry the renowned Soviet test pilot Alexei Shostakov. However, when the Soviet government decided to make Alexei into their new operative, the Red Guardian, he is told that he can have no further contact with his wife. Natasha is told that he had died and is trained as a secret agent separately.

Black Widow Comics & Graphic Novels at Amazon

New ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Images!

Marvel has released 9 new images from ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ the images feature Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, Sebastian Stan, Robert Redford, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson & Chris Evans at the titular ‘Captain America’.

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy–the Winter Soldier.

Robert Redford and Samuel L. Jackson star as Alexander Pierce and Nick Fury in Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Frank Grillo stars as Brock Rumlow in Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Chris Evans stars as Captain America in Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Scarlett Johansson stars as Black Widow in Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson star as Captain America and Black Widow in Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1941, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is produced by Kevin Feige, p.g.a., directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, from a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, and Hayley Atwell, with Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is presented by Marvel Studios. The executive producers are Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Michael Grillo, Alan Fine and Stan Lee. The film releases April 4, 2014, and is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

In addition to “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” Marvel Studios will release a slate of films based on the Marvel characters including “Guardians of the Galaxy” on August 1, 2014; “Avengers: Age of Ultron” on May 1, 2015; and “Ant-Man” on July 31, 2015.

Captain America: Winter Soldier Trailer!

Captain America: Winter Soldier Trailer! ’nuff said! Go watch!!!

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” finds Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.

Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Cast: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily Van Camp, Hayley Atwell, Robert Redford
Genre: Action and Adventure

New ‘Captain America: Winter Soldier’ Concept Art

Take a gander at this lovely bit of concept art turned Comic-Con poster for ‘Captain America: Winter Soldier’. The two principals are taking the center stage here, but off in the background we can see an awesome Falcon shot…this is off the hook cool.