Category: Happenings

Weekend Box Office: Think Like A Man, Plunder Like A Pirate

Think Like a Man held onto the top spot at the box office for a second weekend despite several new releases including The Five-Year Engagement and The Raven. Think Like a Man was off 47 percent from it’s opening weekend but still managed to bring in an additional $18 million. The movie, based on Steve Harvey’s 2009 book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, has now earned $60.9 million, making it the highest-grossing movie of April 2012.

Of the four new movies opening this weekend, only The Pirates! Band of Misfits managed to break the top three with an estimated $11.4 million. TimeToPlayMag.com’s family-film critic, Cynthia Fuchs, reviewed the pirates and gave it 9 out of 10 See-It-Again points. You can read Cynthia’s review by clicking here.

Other new movies opening included The Five-Year Engagement, which surprised everyone by how poorly it did. The movie, which opened to $11.16 million, is the latest project from Nick Stoller and Jason Segel, whose Forgetting Sarah Marshall opened to $17.7 million and spawned a sequel. The other two new releases were the latest Jason Statham action movie, Safe, which opened to an estimated $7.7 million and The Raven, which took in an estimated $7.25 million.

Here is the top 10 for the weekend of April 27 – 29, 2012:

1. Think Like a Man ($18,000,000)
2. The Pirates! Band of Misfits ($11,400,000)
3. The Lucky One ($11,325,000)
4. The Hunger Games ($11,250,000)
5. The Five-Year Engagement ($11,157,000)
6. Safe ($7,720,000)
7. The Raven ($7,250,000)
8. Chimpanzee ($5,460,000)
9. The Three Stooges ($5,400,000)
10. The Cabin in the Woods ($4,500,000)

 

Level Festival @ The Arts Center

Tonight at The Arts Center, Troy Night Out will feature Level Festival.

About Level Festival, from ArtsCenterOnline.org:

We Are Architects and the Arts Center celebrate the opening of Level, a new exhibition of recent independent video games that explore human lifestyles and behavior. Four intriguing performances by musicians who work in a range of electronic sounds and unconventional instrumentation will present works influenced by games, and other facets of pop culture, interweaving multi-sensory experiences ranging from a wide variety of video games, to genre bending electronic music. Performances by EXTREME ANIMALS,Bubblyfish, Matthew Carefully, and Evidences. Artists and non-artists from the United States, Europe, and Asia created the games in Level, and include Alexítron, Anna Anthropy, Angela Washko, Bennet Foddy, Alexis Bacot, Ian Bogost, MIT Game Lab, Jonata Söderström, Danish National Academy of Digital Entertainment, Jake Elliot, Peter Favaro, Cliff Harris, Stephen Lavelle, Sebastian Janisz, Molleindustria, Tabor Robak, Jason Rohrer, and Lea Schönfelder.

Game cabinets are designed and fabricated by We Are Architects with assistance from regional game enthusiasts and friends. Collaborators include Donna Fitzgerald’s class at Parson’s Child and Family Center, circuit bending sound artist Peter Edwards, and regional furniture maker Leonard Bellanca.

Level is organized by We Are Architects in collaboration with the artists. This exhibition is generously supported by New York Foundation for the Arts.

WHEN: Friday (April 27, 2012)
TIME: 6:00 PM
ADMISSION: Free
WHERE:The Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River Street, Troy, NY 12180

For more information, visit ArtsCenterOnline.org by clicking here.

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Gary Sinise & Lt. Dan Band Benefit Concert

Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band will perform a benefit concert on Saturday for Joseph Wilkinson at the Washington Street Armory.

From LtDanBand.com:

This concert is part of ‘Building For America’s Bravest’, a joint effort by the Gary Sinise Foundation & Tunnel to Towers Foundation dedicated to building custom-designed Smart Homes for our nation’s most severely wounded veterans.

Proceeds from this performance will help build a home for Tech Sgt. Joseph Wilkinson, who suffers from degenerative nerve damage (Gulf War Syndrome) leaving him unable to walk. [ Read full bio ]

WHEN: Saturday (April 28th, 2012)
TIME: 7:00 pm (Doors open at 6)
WHERE: Washington Street Armory,
195 Washington Avenue – Albany, NY 12210
ADMISSION: $30 – $50

For more info, visit LtDanBand.com.

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Travelogue, China @ New Lebanon Library

This Thursday (April 26) at the New Lebanon Library: Travelogue on China

Local resident Doreen Forney will present a multimedia travelogue about her trip through China. Her eleven day, four city adventure was a visit among the Chinese people and not from a tour bus. The audience will travel to Shanghai, Xian, Baoding and Beijing. Those who have attended one of Doreen’s previous presentations certainly know that the views through Doreen’s camera lens that she shares are always thought provoking and entertaining and made even more so with the experiences she relates. Celebrate the year of the dragon by learning more about China. The presentation will be followed by discussion and Q&A.

WHEN: Thursday (4/26)
TIME: 6:30 pm
PLACE: New Lebanon Library (550 State Route 20, New Lebanon)
Phone: 518-794-8844
Email: leb@taconic.net