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The Johnny Depp animated comedy “Rango” opened as the No. 1 film in U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend, generating $38 million in ticket sales for Viacom Inc. (VIA/B)’s Paramount and Nickelodeon divisions.
“The Adjustment Bureau,” starring Matt Damon, opened in second place with $20.9 million for Comcast Corp. (CMCSA)’s Universal Pictures, researcher Hollywood.com Box Office said today in a statement.
“Rango,” featuring Depp as a chameleon who tries to clean up the Wild West town of Dirt, is the third Paramount film to occupy the top weekend spot this year, following “No Strings Attached” and the remake of “True Grit” with Jeff Bridges. Paramount is No. 1 in U.S. box-office sales this year, with $285 million in revenue as of Feb. 27, according to Box Office Mojo.
“Rango” was expected to take in about $36 million, the forecast of Gitesh Pandya, editor of the Box Office Guru website. The film was directed by Gore Verbinski, who also oversaw Walt Disney Co. (DIS)’s successful “Pirates of the Caribbean” series.
The picture cost $135 million to make, according to Sherman Oaks, California-based Box Office Mojo, and also features the voices of Isla Fisher, Ned Beatty and Alfred Molina.
In “The Adjustment Bureau,” Damon plays a politician, David Norris, who gets a glimpse of his future and decides to take another course, instead pursuing his love interest played by Emily Blunt. John Slattery, from TV’s “Mad Men,” is part of the team trying to put Norris’s life back on its intended course. The film is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.
CBS Corp. (CBS)’s “Beastly,” a retelling of the “Beauty and the Beast” tale, took in $10.1 million in third place. Alex Pettyfer, who is also in theaters in the movie “I Am Number Four,” plays a New York teen who is turned into a monster and must find true love to reverse the curse. Vanessa Hudgens, known for her success in Disney’s “High School Musical,” co-stars as Pettyfer’s love interest and Mary-Kate Olsen is the witch who casts a spell on him.
This article isn’t specifically about Isla but I thought it was pretty interesting, funny and accurate, so worth a read…
Is Rango So Good a Grown Man Would Make Love to It? (and 25 Other Questions)
Just when you’d given up on 2011, along comes Rango, an animated feature by the guy who directed the Pirates of the Caribbean series (Gore Verbinski), featuring the voice of the guy who starred in them (Johnny Depp). Is this the shining beacon we’ve been waiting for? As a service, we answer every question you could possibly have about Rango.
Q: Is Rango the movie about the colorful birds?
A: No, that’s Rio.
Q: How many minutes into Rango did it take you to realize it wasn’t Rio?
A: About 15 minutes, at which point I whispered to my girlfriend, “When do the birds show up?”
Q: Is Rango one of the best movies to be released in 2011.
A: By far.
Q: You’re kidding, right? We’re only two months in.
A: The year is young, but Rango is that good—and it didn’t really have to be!
Q: Who is Rango?
A: Rango [Johnny Depp] is a pet lizard who fancies himself a thespian. We first meet Rango acting out a scene in his aquarium when a bump in the road propels him out of the backseat of a moving car and onto the Nevada highway.
Saturday-morning numbers for Paramount’s “Rango” were softer than even Friday’s disappointing preliminary estimates.
According to one rival studio, Paramount’s first CG-animated family film grossed just $9.5 million Friday and is on pace for a weekend gross of about $33 million.
Overall, Depp couldn’t match, well, Depp, with the domestic market down about 38 percent from the same weekend last year — a frame that was led by the the $116 million opening of “Alice in Wonderland.”
Here’s how the top 10 shaped up Friday. TheWrap’s Friday-night report continues below chart:
“Rango” ($9.5m)
“Adjustment Bureau” ($6.7m)
“Beastly” ($3.5m)
“Hall Pass” ($2.7m)
“Just Go With It” ($1.9m)
“Unknown” ($1.7m)
“I Am Number Four” ($1.6m)
“The King’s Speech” ($1.6m)
“Gnomeo & Juliet” ($1.6m)
“Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” ($1.2m)
Explain to me this concept of “emotion capture” that you used.
We didn’t now what else to call it because it’s not motion capture, which is when your actors’ physical performance is driving the computer. We were just recording their sound only, so we jokingly called it emotion capture because we had all the actors in this one space at one time wearing flip flops and hats and side arms, jumping off apple boxes. It gave it a theater of the absurd feeling. We were just trying to get a really lively soundtrack, get any sort of anomalies we could hold onto and cherish.
Everything that we were trying to do was to make it feel like there actually is a lizard talking to a tortoise. We’re trying to fabricate this sense that it happened. It wasn’t manufactured. The term “emotion capture” was just a poke at motion capture to say, “Look, we’re doing something different.” The actors were all saying this isn’t how you do animation. A lot of them worked on animated films and they never wore hats and jumped around and shot guns and running around while doing them.
What’s an example of something you were able to change because all the actors were together in the same room?
I would say when Rango and Beans (Isla Fisher) are together, when she freezes for the first time, and he’s got her arm around her, and he’s doing, “What are you doing?” “I was not,” that sort of thing. If you had one person in the room and then a few months later another person in the room, and you were cutting the different audio together you would never get that sort of awkwardness.
- Read the full Q&A with Gore Verbinski at VanityFair.com
CBS have now posted the video of Isla’s appearance on their show earlier this week, and you can view it by clicking the link below (they’ve sadly disabled embedding).
Isla appeared on the Rachael Ray show this morning (sorry I didn’t let you know beforehand – I wasn’t aware of the appearance til just now!) to promote Rango, and a short clip from the segment has been posted on Rachael’s official website.
If anyone can provide us with a full clip from Isla’s appearance then please get in touch!
Isla Fisher cracked up moviegoers with her hilarious turns in Wedding Crashers and Confessions of a Shopaholic, and now she’ll be entertaining younger audiences with two new animated features: Rango with Johnny Depp, and The Rise of the Guardians with Hugh Jackman. And despite being a mom of two now, Isla tells Rachael that she didn’t pick these films in hopes that one day her girls would enjoy them. “I don’t think that far ahead,” she laughs. “I was really excited to do Rango because I love director Gore Verbinski, who directed Pirates of the Caribbean, and I love Johnny Depp – who doesn’t?”
The Rango star shares three things you don’t know about her! Plus, tune in today when Isla explains why she passed up the opportunity to kiss co-star Johnny Depp!
TEETERING into the London hotel room on six-inch heels, Isla Fisher is in full glamorous mode as she grips my hand: a gesture that combines warmth with a pressing need for something to hang on to.
This is day two of a European tour to promote her new film Rango, and the tight schedule of TV and press leaves her no time to change between interviews – hence her plunging neckline, some Weimar-era eye make-up and the vertiginous footwear. Yet underneath it all, a rising comedy star is still recognisable as she wobbles towards a chair.
“I’m definitely at my most comfortable tapping into my inner idiot,” she confirms. “I mean, I love dramatic actors and actresses but I’ve never personally aspired to have an Oscar. I’m just a comedy fan.” Up until now however, in films such as Wedding Crashers, Confessions Of A Shopaholic and Wedding Daze, she’s been able to rely on her physical gift for slapstick. In Rango, her performance concentrates on a deadpan vocal performance as a sceptical frontier lizard called Beans, who doesn’t even have Fisher’s Australian accent. “The director wanted Beans to sound like Holly Hunter – so I watched Raising Arizona a million times and practised until I got the pitch nice and low.”
Gore Verbinski’s animated animal western is about Rango (Johnny Depp), a chameleon who manages to blend into the old west world of gunshooting rattlesnakes (Bill Nighy), bar-room rats (Ray Winstone) and a precocious desert mouse (Little Miss Sunshine’s Abigail Breslin). Fisher’s character is the only one who suspects that Rango is an imposter rather than a real gunslinger.
Burke & Hare (2010) 
Rango (2011) 
Bored To Death (TV) (Guest) (2011) 
Bachelorette (2012) 
Rise Of The Guardians (2012) 
The Great Gatsby (2012) 
Now You See Me (2013) 
