body of lies
Yappy ‘Chihuahua’ Insurgency Holds Its Ground
3:23AM STV | It might be a holiday for some of you, but even on Columbus Day, the whip cracks for the number-crunchers and trend-spotters at Defamer HQ. Their work today yields the surprising latest installment of Monday Morning Box Office, in which a low-budget thriller surprised even its own studio and Leonardo DiCaprio is furious after stomping out a flaming bag of chihuahua crap. Read on for the details.
‘Express,’ ‘Quarantine’ Climb Into Multiplex Over Leo’s Dead ‘Body’
2:00AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and potentially hideous this week at the movies. Today we see another fistful of titles tossed on the fall-release glut, none of which may have the stamina to outlast Disney’s purse dog in a three-day race at the box office. We also have our refined eye on the weekend’s most disappointing opening as well as our official art-house underdog, plus a few cherry-picked new DVD titles for the shut-ins among you. You know how this works by now: Our opinions are our own, but with free, near-gemological precision like this, why go anywhere else?
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Sinking Ship ‘Body of Lies’ Readies the Lifeboats
9:20AM STV | Tracking on Body of Lies isn’t dazzling anyone today at Warner Bros., which has spent the last two months trying to push Ridley Scott’s $US100 million Leonardo DiCaprio/Russell Crowe war-on-terror thriller onto the top of this weekend’s congested slate of new releases. Most forecasts place its opening gross around $US17 million — likely enough to dispatch mildly aromatic new competition like Quarantine, City of Ember and The Express, but not nearly enough to guarantee a first-place finish ahead of Beverly Hills Chihuahua Not. Acceptable. Is it too early to ask what the hell happened here? More »
