Ah, the post-weekend box office drop. Will the new movies stay around or will they be gone by next week? Well, ‘Kung Fu Panda’ is still going strong, that’s for sure.

1. Kung Fu Panda
Saturday and Sunday: $23,576,429 million
Monday and Tuesday: $8,309,544 million
Drop: 64.75%

Continue reading The post-weekend box office drop, ‘Kung Fu Panda’ numbers still strong

How do you get the kids interested in science. Well, the same way Australia gets people interested in their country. By attaching themselves to a popular movie. NASA today announced it made a deal with Disney to use ‘Wall-e’ for educational and public outreach activities.

And although Pixar movies sometimes look shallow from the outside, the people at the animation studio go through a lot before a movie reaches the theater. Some movies are based on years of research and ideas. And it’s no surprise the (probably somewhat geeky in a positive way) people wanted to help out NASA with their new robot creation. “All of us at Disney are delighted to be working with NASA in their educational and public outreach efforts to teach schoolchildren about space exploration, robot technology, and the universe they live in,” Disney’s Motion Pictures Group president Mark Zoradi said.

It also shows how their new animated buddy will be used for much more than just a movie. “WALL-E is one of the most lovable and entertaining characters that Pixar ever has created, and he is the perfect spokes-robot for this program,” Zoradi added.

And all NASA wants is to get our children to please, please, PLEASE show some kind of interest in science. If they’ll have to use one of the most influential mediums keeping the kids from doing science to promote science, so be it. “Great ideas for future exploration of the universe start with the imagination,” NASA explained.

We should’ve seen this one coming. ‘Bollywood coming to Hollywood‘ + ‘Spielberg wants to reinvent DreamWorks‘  = this post? Apparently DreamWorks’ Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg are in talks with the Indian Reliance Group to invest in their studio.

The big three have been discontent with the Paramount deal for a long time and have been talking to several competing parties. Now it seems like Spielberg and co. will get $500-$600 million from Reliance to become independent yet again.

DreamWorks’ parting from Paramount is pretty much confirmed by now and both don’t seem to mind (at all). But will they really end up in Indian arms? And start the injection of Indian movie capital into Hollywood while the US studios are keeping the money in their pockets?