Tag Archives: Smurfs

Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington‘s R-rated action pic 2 Guns easily won the North American box office race with a solid $27.4 million, while Sony’s The Smurfs 2 limped to a third-place finish as Hollywood overcrowds the box office with family films. The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, August 4, are as follows: RANK …

The 10th anniversary celebration of Sony Pictures Animation (SPA) continues with a five-week series of special screenings featuring SPA’s beloved collection of animated and hybrid films, as well as reunions with filmmakers participating in Q & As following each screening, rare footage/materials from the SPA archives and giveaways. The series, which …

Production has begun on Columbia Pictures’ and Sony Pictures Animation’s live-action/computer animated hybrid 3D family comedy The Smurfs 2, the sequel to the 2011 worldwide hit that took in over $560 million at the worldwide box office. Returning from the first film for an all-new adventure that takes the Smurfs to Europe are Director Raja Gosnell, Producer …

The expected powerhouse ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ got a surprise at the box office when it finished the weekend in a dead heat with ‘The Smurfs.’ Both films earned $36,206,250 for the weekend, far below the expected earnings for ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ but higher than predicted for ‘The Smurfs.’ Aside from …

The cast of the Smurf film is growing.  According to Entertainment Weekly,  Hank Azaria has joined the cast as the voice of Gargamel, the evil sorcerer and  sworn enemy of the Smurfs. Azaria is a veteran voice actor, with many animated characters to his credit. He voiced Bartok the bat …