Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Jumper", the new sci-fi film is breaking records
by Zuzana Krskova


New sci-fi fantasy became No. 1 in countries including Britain, Korea and also North America.Davey (Hayden Christensen) discoveres one day, that he has an ability to teleport himself to any location that he wants to. He is using his new power to find the man, who killed his mother. Without knowing, Dave becomes a National Security officers target and the target of person with the same power as he has. "Gould gives us no teleportation chambers, no shimmery beaming a la Star Trek, no worries about mingling one's own molecules with a fly's- here only one person can teleport and he has no idea how he does it." from Publishers WeeklyAlso, this 20th Century Fox movie earned $67.6 million during the weekend. Movie directed by Dough Liman if full of stars like Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane and others. Movie is based on an adaptation of Steven Gould's young-adult sci-fi novels "Jumper" and "Reflex".Project was made as an cooperation between Fox and production film Regency Enterprices, controlled by billionaire investor Arnon Milchan.Fact is, that many of film critics were not so pleased with Dough Liman ("The Bourne Identity") as an director. Even thought, this can be this picture considered as really successful. Film after opening in 30 international markets earned $29.3 million. Also moviegoers in the United States and Canada contributed $38.3 million from Thursday to Sunday.Movie was also successful in countries as Britain ($6.1 million), Korea ($4.8 million), Spain and Russia (both $3.7 million), Australia ($3.1 million) and Taiwan ($1.3 million). Rest of world will have to wait for the movie until March, when the expand is planned.Berd Livingston, Fox's senior vice president for domestic distribution said, that the audience for "Jumper" is excepted to draw viewers mainly from male spheres and younger than 25.

by Zuzana Krskova
for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)


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