{"id":28338,"date":"2013-05-24T06:11:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T10:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=28338"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:17:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:17:51","slug":"new-releases-may-24-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/24\/new-releases-may-24-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: May 24, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Epic-2013-Movie-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28340\" alt=\"Epic-2013-Movie-Poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Epic-2013-Movie-Poster-203x300.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Epic-2013-Movie-Poster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Epic-2013-Movie-Poster-550x811.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Epic-2013-Movie-Poster.jpg 868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>1. Epic (Fox, 3,882 Theaters, 102 Minutes, Rated PG): <\/strong>This film has a bigger theater count than either <strong>The Hangover Part III <\/strong>(3,555) or <strong>Fast &amp; Furious 6 <\/strong>(3,658). That tells me that Fox is expecting a lot of moms to bring their kids to see this film while dad sees one of the other two.<\/p>\n<p>This film is based on William Joyce&#8217;s children&#8217;s books <em>The Leaf Men<\/em>\u00a0<em><\/em>and <em>The Brave Good Bugs. <\/em>It deals with a teenager who finds a war going on amongst the small plants in her local woods. Soon, she shrinks down to take part in the battle between good and evil she finds there.<\/p>\n<p>So, it sounds like a <strong>Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Ant Bully, Antz <\/strong>megamix, with <strong>A Bug&#8217;s Life, <\/strong>which Joyce worked on, added in for good measure. While I&#8217;m sure that Fox is hoping their attempt at counter programming works, other computer animated films based on Joyce&#8217;s works (<strong>Meet the Robinsons, Rise of the Guardians<\/strong>) haven&#8217;t really set the box office on fire. I expect the same here.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"520\" height=\"276\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/emd\/58779\" \/><embed width=\"520\" height=\"276\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/emd\/58779\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Savvy Memorial Day counter programming or sacrificial lamb to the Wolfpack and the Gearheads?<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/24\/new-releases-may-24-2013\/\" title=\"New Releases: May 24, 2013\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2395,6453,6450,6125,2228,3813,3814,6454,5868,6452,6437,6451],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-a-bugs-life","9":"tag-antz","10":"tag-epic","11":"tag-fast-furious-6","12":"tag-fox","13":"tag-honey","14":"tag-i-shrunk-the-kids","15":"tag-meet-the-robinsons","16":"tag-rise-of-the-guardians","17":"tag-the-ant-bully","18":"tag-the-hangover-part-iii","19":"tag-william-joyce"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28338"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=28338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}