Sara Paxton and Dustin Milligan in 'Shark Night 3D.'

The film: Shark Night 3D, opening Friday, in which seven attractive college students on a weekend getaway are more than a little surprised to be on the wrong end of freshwater shark attacks.

Theaters and showtimes for ‘Shark Night 3D’ | See the trailer

The food: Enjoy close, but completely safe, encounters with aquatic life at The Breakers’ Seafood Bar, which features aquarium bar counters — and a kitchen well-schooled in preparing the dozen or so types of fresh fish delivered daily. Nightly, the Seafood Bar offers happy-hour specials from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

The Seafood Bar at The Breakers, 1 S. County Road, Palm Beach, (561) 655-6611 | Click here for directions

Director William Friedkin, actress Linda Blair and more look back at the horror classic The Exorcist, which is coming back to theaters for a short run before going on sale on Blu-Ray:

Jackie Earle Haley stars as Freddy Kreuger in the remake of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street.' (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Freddy Krueger is raking in cash at the box office again, while Robert Downey Jr.’s “Iron Man 2″ got off to a big start overseas.

A remake of the slasher flick “A Nightmare on Elm Street” led the weekend with a $32.2 million debut domestically, according to studio estimates Sunday. Released by the Warner Bros. banner New Line, the movie features Jackie Earle Haley as Krueger, a psycho killer who stalks and slays victims in their dreams.

Paramount’s “Iron Man 2″ got an international head start on its domestic debut this Friday, pulling in $100.2 million in 53 foreign markets. While Hollywood blockbusters typically open around the same date in most countries, some get an overseas jump of a week or more on their U.S. debuts.

“Iron Man 2″ brought in $12.2 million in Great Britain, $10.8 million in South Korea, $8.8 million in Australia and $8.2 million in France. According to Paramount, the sequel had bigger openings than 2008′s “Iron Man” in every market.
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Yesterday, 10 seconds of the trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse was available. Now, here’s the whole shebang.

As noted yesterday, the love triangle between Bella (Kristen Stewart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) is definitely heating up.

However, there’s a major threat: Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard), who apparently is out for Bella’s blood.

Here’s your first look at Eclipse, coming out on June 30:

Thanks to the MTV Movies Blog for the link.

Twilight fans, here is a quick dose of the trailer for the third installment of the saga, Eclipse.

Apparently, there’s more of the love triangle between Bella (Kristen Stewart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner).

Unfortunately, you only get 10 seconds of it today. The full trailer will be released Friday, showing both online and before Pattinson’s new movie, Remember Me.

Thanks to Zap2It for the tip.

You may not have realized it, but there was a record for movie box-office money set over the weekend.

No, New Moon didn’t shatter records for vampire movies. This was a much more undesirable record.

A horror comedy called Transylmania has been found to have grossed the least amount of money ever for a film playing at least 1,000 screens, according to Box Office Mojo.

Transylmania, which has no big name stars – though it does have several cast members continuing roles from a pair of National Lampoon movies called Dorm Daze and Dorm Daze 2 (yeah, I don’t remember them either) – pulled in $263,941 at 1,007 screens this past weekend.
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Do you prefer your vampires young and brooding or of a more Gothic bent? Or are you more interested in seeing the fanged bloodsuckers action-movie style?

Let us know what your favorite vampire movie is… or, if it’s not here, let us know in the comments below.

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When the fourth-billed character in a movie’s cast is “Jack the Rapist,” it’s a pretty safe bet it’s not a comedy.

“No, that’s not a good sign!” says West Palm Beach’s Keri Lurtz, the director and star of Lost Angels: City of Dreams, a most cautionary of cautionary tales about three friends who move to Hollywood seeking fame and fortune, but find drugs, desperation, rejection and other stark realities that lead to bad decisions. Incredibly bad decisions. Read the full story

Until this week, I had managed to avoid seeing any of the Saw series, which began in 2004, and was hoping to continue that streak. Forever.

But in honor of today’s release of Saw VI, someone in a higher pay grade decided it would be a great time for me to catch up with sadistic mastermind Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) in a 10-hour, five-movie marathon of death and puppets.

So I spent the better part of a weekend trapped in my house watching this psycho and his minions trap various felons, former addicts and harbingers of evil in a series of disgusting locations (abandoned buildings, skeevy bathrooms, skeevy bathrooms in abandoned buildings).
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The critics have spoken. Here’s what more than a few have to say:

“Scariest movie of the decade.”

“Scariest movie of my life.”

“Scariest movie of our time!”

For Hollywood studio flicks, such raves usually are no more than icing on top of a marketing campaign that cost tens of millions. For “Paranormal Activity,” the raves are the marketing campaign.

The comments above, repeated over and over again in various contexts on Twitter and Facebook — along with other online fan buzz — propelled the micro-budgeted horror movie to a $7.9 million weekend in just 160 theaters. That’s a colossal average of $49,379 a theater, compared with $11,429 in 3,000 theaters for “Couples Retreat,” which debuted as the weekend’s No. 1 movie with $34.3 million.

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