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New Blu-ray and DVD Releases: July 19th
19, Jul 2011
Rank the week of July 19th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time:
NEW RELEASES
LIMITLESS
(DVD & Blu-ray | PG13 | 201)
Flickchart Ranking: #1890
Times Ranked: 3217
Win Percentage: 51%
Top-20 Rankings: 12
Directed By: Neil Burger
Starring: Bradley Cooper • Robert De Niro • Abbie Cornish • Anna Friel • Andrew Howard
Genres: Psychological Sci-Fi • Psychological Thriller • Science Fiction • Thriller
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by Dan
Welcome to the middle of Summer! Things should pick up again next week with Mad Men beginning to be available to stream and then the week after will bring the 1st of the month (always great for new releases).
If the Sony/STARZ contract issue ever gets sorted out, Academy Award winning documentary Inside Job would be available starting Wednesday.
New to Netflix Streaming On Friday July 22nd:
Four for Texas (NR | 1963)Flickchart Ranking: #13538
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Directed By: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Dean Martin • Anita Ekberg • Frank Sinatra • Ursula Andress • Charles Bronson
Genres: Comedy • Comedy Western • Western
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Johnny Be Good (PG13 | 1988)Flickchart Ranking: #7172
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Directed By: Bud S. Smith
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall • Robert Downey, Jr. • Paul Gleason • Uma Thurman • Steve James • Howard Cosell • Robert Downey, Sr.
Genres: Comedy • Sports Comedy • Teen Movie
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Expiring from Netflix Instant on July 20th
- Surrogates (2009) – Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames
- A Town Called Panic (2009) – Cowboy, Indian, Horse
Expiring from Netflix Instant on July 22th
- View our archive of posts on the lists of new movies on Netflix Instant Streaming every week -
As always, these are all the streaming movies we could verify by Sunday night via Netflix and their API and all dates are subject to change at Netflix’s discretion.
Weekend Box Office Results: July 15th – 17th
17, Jul 2011by Dan
The new Harry Potter movie opens with a record $168.6 million (making an insane $92 million on Friday alone), beating the previous record held by The Dark Knight by $10 million.
| Movie | Weekend $ | Total $ | Average $/Theater | Add to Flickchart |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 | $168.6 Mil | $169 Mil | $38,526 |  |
| Transformers: Dark of the Moon | $21.2 Mil | $303 Mil | $5,425 | |
| Horrible Bosses | $17.6 Mil | $60 Mil | $5,625 | |
| Zookeeper | $12.3 Mil | $42 Mil | $3,532 | |
| Cars 2 | $8.3 Mil | $165 Mil | $2,568 | |
| Winnie the Pooh | $8 Mil | $8 Mil | $3,326 | |
| Bad Teacher | $5.2 Mil | $89 Mil | $1,956 | |
| Larry Crowne | $2.8 Mil | $32 Mil | $1,125 | |
| Super 8 | $1.9 Mil | $122 Mil | $1,319 | |
| Midnight in Paris | $1.9 Mil | $42 Mil | $2,678 | |
Source: Box Office Mojo
by Dan
Welcome to your one-stop place to learn all about the week’s newest movie trailers!
Contagion (9-9-2011)
DIRECTOR: Steven Soderbergh
CAST: Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bryan Cranston, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, John Hawkes
FLICKCHART FUTURE: It could either be Children of Men or The Happening. Fishburne’s line about birds has me fearing it’s going to lean more towards The Happening but that cast is too good to waste on junk, right?
Soundtracks of Significance – “Silverado”
14, Jul 2011
Sometimes I am introduced to movies in odd ways. I’ve already shared how the teaser poster to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is directly responsible for me becoming a Trekker, but this story is probably far less common than being swayed by a poster. For twenty years, my family owned and operated a consignment shop. Most of the items we took in and resold were clothes and household items, but every now and again a consignor would bring us entertainment. Sometime in the late 90s, we received the soundtrack album for Silverado on cassette. I think my mom priced it at $3.00. Eventually, curiosity overcame me and I bought it myself. Read the rest of this entry »
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