Weekend Box Office - "The Avengers" was number one and continued to break records bringing in $103.1 million, "Dark Shadows" debuted at number two with $29.7 million, and coming in third was "Think Like a Man" with $5.8 million.

 

 

                                                                           

                                                                         

 

 

 

    "Battleship" inspired by the popular Milton Bradley board game opens this Friday and the movie already has scored big in the overseas marketswere it has already been released. Director Peter Berg even made a brilliant entrance on the red carpet in a custom built version of the alien attack weapons nicknamed "The Shredders" that was built on the season finale SyFy channel show "Dream Machines".

 

 

                                                                             

                                                                          

                                                                            

                                                                          

 

     From Laika, the makers of "Coraline", comes their latest release "ParaNorman". A stop motion animated comedy complete with ghosts and zombies. The movie has almost the same creepy mood as the Oscar nominated "Coraline".

 

 

                                                                  

                                                                              

 

 

     Another animated movie worth a look is "Hotel Transylvania". Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky who brought us "Dexter's Laboratory","The Powerpuff Girls", "Samurai Jack", and the original "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" animated series. The voice cast features Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Steve Buscemi, Kevin James, David Spade, Andy Samberg, Fran Drescher, David Koechner, Cee-Lo Green, and Molly Shannon.

 

 

                                                                               

 

 

      A new four minute preview of "The Amazing Spider-Man" aired on Tuesday night on many of the NBC Universal networks. The extended trailer features an even more extensive look at the relaunched Spider-Man franchise.