Two new releases were able to top the rental chart this week with first place Australia generating about 20% more revenue than second place Beverly Hills Chihuahua.ĭVD Sales - Going Out of Business is Good TitlesĪ combination of terrible new releases and two massive store sales (including the Circuit City Going out of Business sale) meant this week's sales chart was dominated by some of the biggest hits from last year. The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.ĭVD Rentals - Down Under Finishes on Top of Rental Chart Production and Technical Credits Ridley Scott R for strong violence including some torture, and for language throughout.Īction Thriller, C.I.A., Terrorism, Set in Iraq, Kidnap, Double-Crossed, Rescue, Surprise Twistįor a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.
October 10th, 2008 (Wide) by Warner Bros. See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records. Far safer to gloss the production with A-list close-ups and keep marching onward to the next action setpiece another pyrrhic victory in a losing campaign.All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 2,201-2,300)Īll Time International Box Office (Rank 1,201-1,300)Īll Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 1,401-1,500)Īll Time Domestic Box Office for R Movies (Rank 601-700)Īll Time International Box Office for R Movies (Rank 201-300)Īll Time Worldwide Box Office for R Movies (Rank 301-400) He's Hollywood's answer to Donald Rumsfeld, dimly aware that this assignment might call for a more nuanced approach, but too shackled to a hidebound studio system to do it justice. Scott directs in his usual stentorian, sergeant-major fashion. He wants to flush out a shadowy terrorist organisation, but he also wants to romance a cute Muslim nurse (a cheap plot device if ever there was one).
Ferris has to placate his neocon boss back home (Russell Crowe) but also has to curry favour with the suave head of the Jordanian secret service (Mark Strong). Leonardo DiCaprio plays Roger Ferris, the acceptable face of CIA black ops complete with a bum-fluff beard (signifying wisdom) and pensive frown (suggestive of Growing Doubts). Body of Lies is big and bombastic, confused and irritable - a 20th-century blockbuster struggling to adapt (too little, too late) to a 21st-century terrain. I t's tempting to view Ridley Scott's latest outing as a sly metaphor for America's misadventures in the Middle East.
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