I'll be honest, "The Book of Eli" kind of lost me when it opened with its main character killing and eating a cat. But if you can overlook that gruesome trait (hey, I get it, times are tough in post-apocalyptic America), then there's a couple hours of Denzel Washington swashbuckling his way through our nation's devastated rural highway system while dodging an evil Gary Oldman (is there any other kind?). The Hughes brothers' film is now arriving on DVD and Blu-ray, and we've got a first look at the bonus content. In the featurette below, Denzel and his sexy co-star Mila Kunis discuss their characters and some of their intricacies.
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Denzel Washington And Mila Kunis Open 'The Book Of Eli' In This EXCLUSIVE DVD Featurette
Posted 6/15/10 10:30 am EST by Brian Jacks in DVD, Video
'Avatar' Wins Its Seventh Weekend In A Row In The Sunday Box Office Report
Posted 1/31/10 4:36 pm EST by Josh Wigler in Box Office
1. "Avatar" ($30 million)
2. "Edge of Darkness" ($17.1 million)
3. "When in Rome" ($12.1 million)
4. "Tooth Fairy" ($10 million)
5. "The Book of Eli" ($8.8 million)
To the surprise of absolutely nobody, "Avatar" once again topped the box office charts this past weekend for its seventh straight weekend victory. Following the $30 million haul, James Cameron's latest film sits atop a domestic money pile worth $594.5 million and is well within days of eclipsing "Titanic's" current record of $600.8 million. Read More...
'Avatar' Continues Its Winning Streak In The Saturday Box Office Report
Posted 1/30/10 1:42 pm EST by Josh Wigler in Box Office
1. "Avatar" ($7.5 million)
2. "Edge of Darkness" ($5.7 million)
3. "When in Rome" ($4.4 million)
4. "The Book of Eli" ($2.5 million)
5. "Tooth Fairy" ($2.3 million)
After seven straight weeks in theaters, you didn't really think that "Avatar" would fall from the top of the charts, did you? James Cameron's science fiction epic continued to barrel ahead of the competition on Friday with a $7.5 million intake, bringing the record-smashing film's cumulative domestic tally up to $572 million. Read More...
'Avatar' Is Right Behind 'Titanic's' Worldwide Record In The Sunday Box Office Report
Posted 1/24/10 1:40 pm EST by Josh Wigler in Box Office
1. "Avatar" ($36 million)
2. "Legion" ($18.2 million)
3. "The Book of Eli" ($17 million)
4. "Tooth Fairy" ($14.5 million)
5. "The Lovely Bones" ($8.8 million)
James Cameron's "Avatar" easily won its sixth straight weekend at the box office, but the film's victory over its current theatrical competitors is hardly the greatest cause for celebration — that distinction belongs to the Na'vi people's victory over Gotham City's personal superhero, as "Avatar" has officially surpassed Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" as the second highest grossing film of all time at the domestic box office. Read More...
'Avatar' Closes In On 'The Dark Knight's' Record In The Saturday Box Office Report
Posted 1/23/10 2:53 pm EST by Josh Wigler in Box Office
1. "Avatar" ($9.1 million)
2. "Legion" ($6.7 million)
3. "The Book of Eli" ($4.9 million)
4. "Tooth Fairy" ($3.5 million)
5. "The Lovely Bones" ($2.6 million)
With six Friday performances under its belt, James Cameron's "Avatar" remains the top dog at the box office, once again pulling out a first place finish worth $9.1 million — and just like the late musician Wesley Willis, "Avatar" is now poised to whoop Batman's you know what. Read More...
'Avatar' Burns 'The Book Of Eli' In The Sunday Box Office Report
Posted 1/17/10 3:26 pm EST by Josh Wigler in Box Office
1. "Avatar" ($41.3 million)
2. "The Book of Eli" ($31.6 million)
3. "The Lovely Bones" ($17 million)
4. "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" ($11.5 million)
5. "Sherlock Holmes" ($9.8 million)
Once again, moviegoers pledged their loyalty and price of admission to the natives of Pandora as director James Cameron's "Avatar" continued its dominance over the box office. For the fifth straight weekend, "Avatar" has emerged at the top of the charts, taking in an estimated $41.3 million by Sunday evening. Read More...
Denzel Washington Trained With Bruce Lee's Disciple For 'The Book Of Eli' Fight Scenes
Posted 1/15/10 3:00 pm EST by Eric Ditzian in News
The last time we saw Denzel Washington on screen, he was sporting a gut and a sweater vest as a lowly subway dispatcher in "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3." When MTV News caught up with the Oscar-winner last June, though, he happily declared of his paunch, "It's gone now!"
Why? The 55-year-old had to get into serious fighting shape for his starring role in "The Book of Eli," a post-apocalyptic western in which he busts skulls and attempts to save humanity in the midst of an anarchic wasteland.
"I'm knocking dudes around in this one," the actor said proudly when we chatted with him again at last year's Comic-Con. Read More...
FROM MTV.COM: Welcome back to the apocalypse afterparty. As always, the landscape is blasted and barren and drained of color; and the road that runs through it, littered with long-abandoned vehicles, goes on forever. Traipsing down this lonesome highway is a solitary, dust-crusted figure. He's armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a really big knife. He's also packing ... an iPod? Wait a minute ...
"The Book of Eli" is a movie that attains perfection, of a sort — it's perfectly ridiculous. In the 30 years since the war that trashed the planet, Denzel Washington's enigmatic Eli has been making his way, on foot, toward the West Coast. (America's a big country and all, but really — 30 years?) Along the way he encounters the usual post-apocalyptic annoyances — bands of roving cannibals, gangs of feral bikers. But although Eli is a man of peace, much given to Biblical mutterings, he is also, when pressed, a formidable butt-kicker, dispatching scumbags by the herd.
Continue reading 'The Book Of Eli': Armageddon Again, By Kurt Loder
Will You Open 'The Book Of Eli' In This Week's Box Office Poll?
Posted 1/11/10 12:00 pm EST by Adam Rosenberg in Box Office Poll
Let's be honest with ourselves here: "Avatar" is in all likelihood going to dominate the weekend box office once again. It's just the way things are. Sure, the potential always exists that some other mega-release, perhaps "Sherlock Holmes" or "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," might sneak in for a surprise upset. But the odds continue to heavily favor James Cameron's sprawling sci-fi epic.
That said, there are some solid options this week for those who have had enough of Cameron's blue aliens for the time being. Fans of "Avatar" might be inclined to check out "The Book of Eli," a Denzel Washington-starring post-apocalyptic action flick in which the titular book -- and Washington's Eli, the man who protects it -- could be humanity's last hope. I've got to see this, if for no other reason than because Gary Oldman plays the villain. Read More...
'Punisher' Ray Stevenson Joins 'Book of Eli' Cast As Post-Apoc Hit Man
Posted 12/2/08 10:18 am EST by Elisabeth Rappe in News
"The Book of Eli" officially has my interest. We've watched the film rack up a pretty nice casting line-up in Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman and Mila Kunis, but something was missing in this post-apocalyptic story. That something was obviously the Punisher.
That's right -- Ray Stevenson, aka the new Punisher (who you'll see shoot up the place next week in Punisher: War Zone), has joined the cast of "Eli." According to Variety, he'll be playing an enforcer dispatched to kill Eli, that poor man who's just trying to guard a book and save humanity. Read More...
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