ComingSoon.net - The Weekend Warrior

The Weekend Warrior looks at the box office for the upcoming weekend.

We are now officially in the pre-summer doldrums. Nothing is happening this week.

• The likely winner is Obsessed. God knows why. It's a PG-13 thriller with a B-list cast: Idris Elba, Ali Larter and Beyonce. (How did that not go straight-to-DVD?) Despite being picked to finish in first place, it is not expected to reach $20m. (No reviews to date.)
  
• The Soloist is expected to finish a distant third, with less than ten million. That one does have an A-list cast - Robert Downey and Jamie Foxx - but is not considered commercially appealing because, as Variety noted, it is "neither rarefied art film nor widely accessible inspirational drama." (56% positive reviews so far.)
  
• Fighting is expected to limp in with only 8 million despite a 2000-theater rollout. It's a streetfighting flick. (No reviews.)
  
• Earth is probably the most interesting offering of the week - a G-rated nature documentary which is expected to crack the top ten! (92% positive reviews. Narrated by Darth Vader.)
  
• The Informers is an adaptation of a book by Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, American Psycho), as written for the screen by ... Bret Easton Ellis. It is rated R for "strong sexual content and nudity, drug use, pervasive language and some disturbing images." It stars elderly sex symbols Kim Basinger and Billy Bob Thornton, as well as noted nutburgers Winona Ryder and Mickey Rourke. That cast ought to give you an idea of what those disturbing images might consist of. And that team might also set the all-time record for mental instability in a movie cast. The film must be pretty friggin' awful. It is only being released on 450 screens and critics have hated it (13% positive reviews)
  

  Here are some sample reviews:
  

  
  
  • "An ugly, blank slate of a film."
    
  • "Sublimely awful, director Gregor Jordan's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' dystopic vision of '80s era Los Angeles bounces between a slew of unlikable reckless characters."
    
  • "Perhaps the only use this film has is to give philosophers who sit through it some way of experiencing what eternity truly means."