Megamind' Opens With Huge Box-Office Sales

The animated superhero comedy "Megamind" ruled the box office opening day. Boasting voice-over contributions from Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and Brad Pitt, who was happy to lay off the makeup and wardrobe for his latest role, the movie opened in first place with $12.5 million.

"Megamind," a tale of a villain looking to flex his evil skills, barely inched ahead of "Due Date" for the #1 spot, with the Dreamworks offering fending off the Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. comedy with just a $300,000 lead. The latest from "Hangover" director Todd Phillips raked in $12.2 million in Friday box-office sales.

Debuting in third place is the all-star drama "For Colored Girls." Tyler Perry's screen adaptation of the landmark 1975 Ntozake Shange stage production "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" arrived in theaters with $7.4 million. Featuring a diverse ensemble, which includes Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine, Janet Jackson, Tessa Thompson and Whoopi Goldberg, the film's stars say the movie is "a great statement on sisterhood and community."

The torture thriller "Saw 3D" continued to scare up ticket sales after its big Halloween-weekend debut. The latest installment in the horror franchise took the fourth-place slot at the Friday box office, picking up about $2.6 million. Friday's number tips the film's total haul to around $33 million.

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The assassin, action flick "Red" kicked off the weekend in fifth place. Heavy on firepower and fiery performances from Hollywood veterans Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich, the film scored $2.5 million. The Friday figure bumps the film's total tally to roughly $65 million.

(source:mtv.com)

Due Date – review

The odd-couple cross-country road movie (starting with It Happened One Night and leading on to Midnight Run and Planes, Trains and Automobiles) is here given a sporadically very funny outing by the director of The Hangover. For reasons hardly worth going into, Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr), a successful, easily irritated architect, is forced to drive from Atlanta, Georgia to Los Angeles, in company with the young, obese Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis). Peter wants to get home to be with his wife who is about to give birth to their first child. Ethan is to audition in Hollywood, though Jackass is the only obvious place for his talents. Peter is dislikable in an understandable way; Ethan is an irredeemable monster of obtuse offensiveness. Phillips keeps the horrendous journey moving at a decent pace, the scenery is attractive and there are some amusing cameos, most especially from Danny McBride as an angry Iraq war veteran working as a Western Union clerk. The dramatic arc that takes Peter and Ethan to the end of their trans-continental rainbow ends with the usual sentimental pot of fool's gold.

(source:guardian.co.uk)