Current Movies Blog

Oh god, I get it. New Moon comes out Friday, premiered last night and it’s going to be the bees’ knees for weeks. Or whatever it is you blasted sparkly Twihards think is cool these days. Back in my day, we only had one kind of vampire: the one that killed you! And Wesley Snipes kill him!

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In the this episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox lead ensemble reviews of Michael Jackson’s This is It, The House of the Devil and Gentlemen Broncos; Ellen celebrates This Is It by breaking down the Top 5 Worst Actor/Musicians and Brett takes us out to the ball game with his new song, Last Second Plays.
In Other News…

It’s telling that Saw VI has been suffering so much under the $15,000 thumb of Paranormal Activity. But just what has been the cause of this technical knock-out in the horror world?

Join Brett and Ellen along with our assembled webcammers as they delve into the fact why this lumbering franchise finally lost out to a hand-held ghost story.

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We’re back from the weekend and boy do we have news for you!

• -Paranormal Activity beat Saw VI at the Box Office. Incredibly. [Current]
• -After 35 years, Paul Haggis publicly leaves the Church of Scientology. [Village Voice]
• -Anchor Bay confirms Slammin’ Salmon for a December release. [Variety]
• -And proof that ghosts are better than Saw…[Current]

So it looks like Paranormal Activity may beat SAW VI this weekend.

But there’s only one way to be sure: go see Saw and send us a webcam review.

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It’s Sunday morning! Get out of my dreams and into my car. Which is ironic because I don’t drive, unless there is news:

• - Paranormal Activity is shaping up to beat Saw VI this weekend–by being number one. [Movieline]
• - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sly Stallone and Bruce Willis walk into a church. Thats the joke. [AICN]
• -Here are 25 Jack ‘O Lanterns vomiting. Which is funnier than 25 drunk college kids vomiting near a lantern. [Listicles]
• -Here’s five tips on starting your Sam Rockwell Grassroots Oscar Nominatino campaign. [Awards Daily]
• -Here’s Jeff Wells taking your points apart piece by piece. [HE]
• -Anime News Network calls Nikki Finke’s site, “TheDeadline.com,” then sources Box Office Mojo. Hilarity to me. [ANN]
• -Finally, here’s a deleted scene from Twilight featuring sweet nips. [CH]

Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen critics to review Paranormal Activity.

-John Lichman

According to our friends at Twitter, today’s big things are #paranormal activity and #new moon.

As for why, “@Twilight has alerted fans that the soundtrack for the second Twilight Saga movie, New Moon, will release this Friday (Oct. 16, 2009).”

And Paranormal Activity, of course, is the ultra-low budget indie horror film that Paramount Pictures has a carefully (and ingenious) plan to release.

We’ll also be reviewing it next week on The Rotten Tomatoes Show, and want your webcam reviews for it.

Click through for the trending tweets, yo

It’s Sunday. The funny thing is, on Sunday, there is technically no “important news.” That’s for Monday. Sunday’s just like, being light and fluffy.

• -Listen, the fantastic talking fox in Antichrist is awesome. Now you can buy it on a t-shirt. And it is viral. [Variety]
• -OLD MAN SHAKES OLD MAN STICK AT ASHTON KUTCHER FOR BEING YOUNG AN’ TWEETERING. [Variety, also]
• -Paranormal Activity made $2.5 million on Friday. It is #5. Couples Retreat made $12.3 million. It is #1. Go wild.  [BOM]
• -After recent screenings in New York, the Yes Men have gone wild with their audiences. Awesome. [Gothamist]
• -Why did I miss that Anvil will be in The Green Hornet? [SHH!]
• -Yeah, so that whole “one million clicks” for Paranormal Activity may have been bullshit. But hey, great marketing there. [The Playlist]
• -That new Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans trailer really doesn’t explain what you’re going to see. That isn’t good, either. [Y!]

-John Lichman