Hugh Jackman : Real Steel

Plot
In 2020, humans have been replaced by robots in boxing. Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a former boxer who attempts to get money in illegal boxing matches between robots to pay his debts to loan sharks. During a fight, Charlie's robot, Ambush, is destroyed by Black Thunder, a bull belonging to Ricky (Kevin Durand). Having made a bet that Ambush would win, Charlie now owes Ricky $20,000, which he doesn't pay before leaving.
While leaving, Charlie is informed that his ex-girlfriend has died, and he has to attend a meeting to decide the fate of his 11-year-old son Max (Dakota Goyo). Max's aunt Debra (Hope Davis) and uncle Marvin (James Rebhorn) want full custody, and Charlie gives it to them in exchange for $100,000 from Marvin, $50,000 of in advance, on the condition that Charlie takes care of Max for three weeks, while Marvin and Debra are away on a second honeymoon.
Charlie and Max meet with Charlie's friend Bailey Tallet (Evangeline Lily), who runs the boxing gym of her deceased father, Charlie's old coach. There, Charlie buys a secondhand Japanese robot, Noisy Boy, and arranges for it to fight the illegal circuit's champion, Midas, at a vanue belonging to his friend Finn (Anthony Mackie). Partly due to his inexperience with the robot, Charlie ends up losing control of Noisy Boy and Midas destroys it.
Charlie breaks into a junkyard with Max to steal scraps that he can use to put a new robot together. There, Max falls over a ledge, where he is saved from doom after being snagged by a lodged and buried robot arm. After Charlie pulls him back up, Max uncovers the entire robot, called Atom. On Max's insistence, Charlie takes it back to Bailey's gym, where they discover Atom is a sparring bot that can sustain massive damage, but is only able to fight by reproducing the movements of others through a "shadow mode". Max convinces Charlie to get Atom a fight, and upgrades him to take vocal commands using spare parts from Noisy Boy.
Charlie and Max take Atom to fight an unsanctioned outdoor match against a robot called Metro, and Atom wins, earning back some of Charlie's money. Atom's string of subsequent wins attracts the attention of a promoter from the World Robot Boxing league (WRB), who offers Atom a professional fight against a robot called Twin Cities. Charlie accepts, and Atom wins again, thanks to Charlie's knowledge of boxing, which allows him to locate a design flaw in Twin Cities. Taking advantage of Atom's subsequent novelty attention, Max challenges WRB champion Zeus, designed by arrogant genius Tak Mashido (Karl Yune) and sponsored by rich Russian Farra Lemcova (Olga Fonda), who accepts, but first tries to buy the upstart Atom.
As they leave the Twin Cities fight, Charlie is attacked by Ricky and his men, who beat him severely, assault Max and steal their money. Feeling guilty, Charlie returns Max to his aunt and uncle so he can protect them, but Bailey convinces him he can be a better father to Max. Convincing Aunt Debra for one more chance, Charlie takes Max to the Zeus-Atom match, Zeus severely damages Atom — while also getting injured, a first for Zeus. In the last round of the five-round match, Atom's vocal receptors are damaged, and he has to fight in shadow mode, copying Charlie's moves from the aisle. After Zeus runs very low on power, Atom begins to heavily damage Zeus, but doesn't win before the round ends, forcing the judges to declare a winner on points. They favor Zeus, but his reputation is tarnished, and Atom has become famous as "the people's champion".

Cast

• Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton
• Dakota Goyo as Max Kenton
• Evangeline Lilly as Bailey Tallet
• Kevin Durand as Ricky
• Anthony Mackie as Finn
• Olga Fonda as Farra Lemcova
• Hope Davis as Debra
• Phil LaMarr as ESPN Boxing Commentator
• James Rebhorn as Marvin
• Karl Yune as Tak Mashido

'New Moon' breaks boxoffice record

'New Moon' breaks boxoffice record
'New Moon' breaks boxoffice recordSummit Entertainment’s vampire-romance sequel “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” rung up a record $72.7 million in opening-day boxoffice on Friday, easily topping domestic rankings.

That bested a previous single-day boxoffice mark of $67.2 million, set by Warner Bros.’ Batman sequel “The Dark Knight” in July 2008.The first-day tally for “New Moon” included $26.3 million in boxoffice from a total 3,514 performances at12:01 a.m. Friday, which set a record for witching-hour coin.

Consensus pre-release forecasts put the likely first-weekend tally for “New Moon” at $85 million-plus. Not even a meteoric burnout on Saturday and Sunday would keep the largely female-fueled film from soaring well past those projections.

“Dark Knight” holds the record for the biggest opening ever, at $158.4 million. Whether “New Moon” – which is playing in more than 4,024 locations this weekend – will hold up well enough in its second and third days of release to approach that record is virtually unknowable, as the sequel is traveling into uncharted territory for the franchise.

The original “Twilight” – released a year ago this weekend – collected $36 million in its first day of release and $69.6 million in its first weekend. And that was considered a major over-performance at the time.

Elsewhere in the daily rankings, Warners’ Sandra Bullock-toplined drama “The Blind Side” debuted with $10.8 million, good for second place on the day. That’s a terrific start for the feel-good pigskin pic, which some thought would get blind-sided by “New Moon” and fail to rise above teen millions on the weekend.

Sony’s animated feature “Planet 51” landed in fifth place with a soft $3.2 million in first-day boxoffice. But the PG-rated pic should find a more lucrative orbit once Saturday and Sunday matinees kick in.

Sony’s scifi actioner “2012” -- which topped domestic rankings a week earlier – was third among all Friday grosses with $8.1 million. That gives the Roland Emmerich pic an $89.8 million cume through its first eight days in the marketplace.



'New Moon' breaks midnight screening record
Opening at midnight Thursday in North America, "New Moon" was way over the moon.

The second installment in the "Twilight" franchise scooped up an estimated $26.27 million in 3,514 theaters for a per-theater average of $7,476.

In doing so, it surpassed the previous record-setter in the midnight arena, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," at $22.2 million.

Summit also played the original "Twilight" movie in 2,057 on Thursday as a 9 p.m. warm-up screening for "Moon," and it grossed an additional $1.3 million.

On Friday, "Moon" will be playing in 4,024 theaters as it settles in for its first weekend run.

'Max Payne' tops box office

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – "Max Payne" marked a successful transition from video game star to movie hero as the film debuted atop the North American box office at the weekend, final figures showed Monday.
The noir, fantasy-tinged movie, based on the best-selling video game and starring Mark Wahlberg as an undercover New York cop hell-bent on revenge, earned 17.6 million dollars, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.
Payne knocked the pooches of "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" off their number one perch and easily outstripped Oliver Stone's biopic of President George W. Bush, "W", which opened in fourth place.
Walt Disney's "Beverly Hills Chihuahua", about a pampered pup forced to fend for herself on Mexico's mean streets, was second with 11.4 million dollars.
Buzzing into third place in its debut weekend was "The Secret Life of Bees," a sweet story of a young white girl (Dakota Fanning) taken in by three African-American sisters. The film, an adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's best-selling book, took in 10.53 million dollars.
Stone's hotly anticipated "W." was closely behind in fourth, earning 10.5 million dollars.
Slipping one notch to fifth, with a seven-million-dollar take, was "Eagle Eye," a futuristic thriller starring young Hollywood phenomenon Shia LaBeouf about a villain who infiltrates phones, televisions and computers.
In sixth place was the Ridley Scott-directed spy thriller "Body of Lies", starring Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, which earned 6.8 million.
"Quarantine," last weekend's second place finisher about a television crew trapped in a small apartment building whose residents have been infected with a new strain of rabies, slipped to seventh, earning six million dollars.
Romantic comedy "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," featuring "Juno" and "Superbad" star Michael Cera, took eighth place, with 3.7 million dollars.
Debuting in ninth spot was "Sex Drive," which follows the tried-and-true formula of teen sex comedy -- 18-year-old virgin protagonist obsesses over losing virginity -- to earn 3.6 million dollars.
Big-screen veterans Diane Lane and Richard Gere try to rekindle some romance in "Nights in Rodanthe," which rounded out the top 10 with 2.6 million dollars.