The Weekly Podioplex: March 10, 2015

 

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Focus didn't stay in focus for very long as a quirky movie about a robot took the top box office honors last weekend.  But can it last?   Michael Falkner has the answers, plus more comic movie news and The Expendables on TV on a new Weekly Podioplex.

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Weekly Podioplex Notes for March 10, 2015

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: Cinderella

Box Office Report

Top Ten

#1 – Chappie
#2 – Focus [-1]
#3 –The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
#4 – Kingsman: The Secret Service [-2]
#5 – The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water [-2]
#6 – Fifty Shades of Grey [-2]

#7 – McFarland, USA [-1]
#8 – The Lazarus Effect [-3]
#9 – The DUFF [-1]
#10 – Unfinished Business

 

(New Release) [Change]

 

Tops From the Past

 

2009 – Alice in Wonderland
2004 – Robots
1994 – Outbreak
1984 – Witness
1974 – The Towering Inferno

Box Office Premieres for the week of March 13th, 2015

 

Wide

Cinderella – [PG]

Run All Night – [R]

 

Limited

It Follows – [R]

Seymour: An Introduction – [PG]

 

 

Home Entertainment for the week of March 13rd, 2015

 

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb – [PG-13]

 

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray

The Legend of Korra: Book Four: Balance (2014)

The Red Tent (2014)

Quincy, M.E.: Season Eight (1982)

Shane: The Complete Series (1966)

 

Gomer Pyle: USMC: The Complete Series (1964-1969)

 

Blu-Rays From the Past

 

The Sound of Music (1965)– [G]

 

 

Podcast Promos

 

The RevolutionSF RevCast

 

An online magazine and community dedicated to celebrating the best in science fiction, fantasy, comics, anime, and gaming, RevolutionSF is created by professional columnists, artists, animators, and humorists from the most prominent genre-related websites and magazines around. Tough love for sci-fi.

 

 

 

Quick Flicks

• Comics News: DC, Marvel, Valiant
• Expendables on TV
• Indy PopCon:A Salute to Asylum
• Programming note: More Star Wars coming soon

 

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