‘21′ Is a Winner at the Box Office
The caper drama ‘21‘, in which card-counting MIT eggheads look to break the bank at a Vegas casino, topped the weekend box office with a $23.7 million haul. Placing second was Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!, which with $17.4 mil brought its total-to-date to $117.2 million.Rounding out the weekend’s top five were Superhero Movie (opening with $9.5 mil), Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns ($7.8 mil) and Drillbit Taylor ($5.8 mil).
Among other new arrivals, Stop-Loss’ attempt to soft-pedal its Iraq war theme via The O.C.-like marketing was for naught, as it grossed a mere $4.5 mil, landing it at No. 8
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Kevin Spacey - Interview
DarkHorizons.com interviewed Kevin Spacey about his new film titled “21” and during the interview asked him about returning as Lex Luthor in the next Superman movie.
Question: Was it this character, or this book that appealed to you?
Spacey: Well, it started with the story. I always thought that this story would be right for a film, and my business partner, Dana Brunetti, who, with a co-producer, we’d started hearing rumours about this, about a decade ago, and could never find any real evidence about it. It was sort of like an open secret in Boston, but we couldn’t get anybody on the record about it, and we even tried to write a treatment at one point, and that ended up in a drawer. And then about five years ago, Dana was walking down a New York City street, and he saw a Wired magazine with the cover story, “The MIT students who went to Vegas and made millions.” pulled it off the stands, and called me. Then, we ultimately tracked down Ben Mezrich, who’d written the article, and it was in connection with this book, which was going to come out about a month or two later, then at some point, made it to Los Angeles, and they optioned the book, and then we sold it to MGM, but didn’t know at that moment that, behind closed doors, MGM was being sold. So we went into a kind of holding pattern, until finally, Sony looked at the slate that MGM had, and decided to pull two movies out; one was James Bond, and the other was ours. And here we are, lo and behold, all these years later.
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‘21′ Trailer, Pics and Poster
21’ is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.
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Director: Robert Luketic
Writers: Peter Steinfeld, Allan Loeb
Release Date: 28 March 2008 (USA)
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Liza Lapira, Aaron Yoo
Pics and poster after the jump…
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