Monday Morning Joe : Movie News Wrap For The Week Of Nov 280

Written by Sean Koh

As Hollywood wakes from a turkey-induced hol­i­day coma, we take moment to briefly remem­ber the vic­tims of last [Black] Friday’s pepper-spray frenzy, puz­zle at why ‘Breaking Dawn’ keeps its No.1 seat at last weekend’s box-office, and brace our­selves for the inevitable Cyber-Monday Apocalypse where ridicu­lously under-priced Blu-Ray movies will over­turn world economies and kill us all.

But of course, who are we kid­ding? Let’s get to the movie news that actu­ally matter.

Christian Bale Done With Batman, after ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Says Bale, in an inter­view with the Philippine Daily Inquirer “I wrapped a few days ago, so that will be the last time I’m tak­ing that [Batman hood] off.”

This comes as no sur­prise, with Director Chris Nolan stat­ing that the next Batman movie will also be his last. This also marks the end of what was an espe­cially good run for the Batman movie series, which hasn’t always been spectacular.

As Bale also states :

“When you have the oppor­tu­nity to be a char­ac­ter so many times, you develop another rela­tion­ship with him, a more pro­found one.”

I won­der if George Clooney or Val Kilmer could say the same.

Speilberg Not Impressed With Movies Made Today:

It isn’t all that hard to imag­ine why really. The era of movies geared toward pre-pubescent ‘Tweens’, that brought us block­buster hits such as ‘Never Say Never’ and ‘Twillight’, just isn’t impress­ing Speilberg. :

“There’s not a lot of films I’d watch that are made over the past 20 years, because I’m much more of a roman­tic.
“I like to go way back to the source. I look at a lot of silent movies for inspi­ra­tion because they’re all told visu­ally and they’re all told with hyper-extended per­for­mance and with won­der­ful use of a frame. It’s a way of get­ting my engine started.”

Just as an accom­pa­ni­ment to that,David Gritten over at The Telegraph wrote an inter­est­ing arti­cle on the rise of movie crowd-pleasers for grown-ups, such as ‘Hugo’ and ‘The Decendents’, which gives us hope for the future of great films.

Bret McKenzie Hints At A ‘Flight Of The Concords’ Movie

Oh, please make this happen.

In an inter­view with The Hollywood Reporter, Bret McKenzie of the short-lived but well-loved HBO series hints at a ‘Flight Of The Concords’ movie say­ing : “We’re gonna try and do a movie,” he said. “We just need a story.” Bret McKenzie appear­ing at The Muppets movie pre­mière reunites with his for­mer co-star Kristen Schaal, and co-creator James Bobin for musi­cal work on the lat­est Muppets movie.

Speaking of which, we’re all still wait­ing for that Arrested Development movie, which I imag­ine must be in movie devel­op­ment hell right now (no pun intended).

And finally,

Box Office Earning Calls: Breaking Dawn still doing Gangbusters, And The Rise Of The Holiday Family Movies

Time for the reg­u­lar Twilight check in… and it looks like it still glit­ters. Making over $489.3 mil­lion Worldwide, ‘Breaking Dawn’ eas­ily over­shad­owed the bet­ter reviewed, family-oriented new addi­tions this week. ‘The Muppets’ which debut at $42 mil­lion over a the long hol­i­day week­end leads the pack of ‘PG-ers’ with danc­ing pen­guins in ‘Happy Feet 2’, and ‘Hugo’ com­ing in at places No.3 and No.5 [respec­tively] on the Box Office charts.

The Decendents holds steady at No.10, cap­ping off the Thanksgiving weekend.