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Keanu Reeves’ “The Day the Earth Stood Still” came in at number 1 raking in $31 million in ticket sales during the three day weekend pushing the current two week box office champion, “Four Christmases” into the number 2 slot. The movie is about an alien, Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) who has come to Earth to save it from the destructive humans,but then decides to spare them after he sees a different side to them that is free from violence and war. The movie got allot of bad reviews from critics,but that didn’t stop moviegoers including myself from going to see it.

This was Keanu Reeves’ biggest opening since 2003 when he starred in “The Matrix : Revolution” which grossed $48 million in it’s opening weekend to eventually make $139 million. “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is also number 1 overseas making about $39 million in 90 markets. Read the rest of this entry »

In “The Day the Earth Stood Still” the government gathers a group of top scientist one of them being Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) because they see a unknown flying object moving through outer space headed for Earth at blazing fast speeds on their radars. They think the object is an asteriod or meteorite that will wipe out Earth if it were to hit. The option to missile it away had come up ,but the object is moving so fast that the chance of success is slim to none.

They prepare for the worst as the object enters Earth,but then wait it begins to slow down as if to prepare for a landing which it does eventually do. Apparently it’s a giant sphere. Everyone gathers around it,and out steps an alien cloaked in a special body suite. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s the trailer for “The Day the Earth Stood still” movie that’s coming out in a few weeks. It stars : Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, Jon Hamm, Kyle Chandler. The trailer looks really,really cool . I’ll definately go check this one out.

The Plot : In a remake of the 1951 Classic, Keanu Reeves plays, Klaatu an alien that arrives to Earth and triggers a global upheaval. Governments and scientist try to seek out the reason for the alien’s arrival. A woman(Jennifer Connelly) and her stepson get caught up in his mission and start to understand why he describes himself as a friend to Earth. His message is that Earth must live in peace or prepare to be destroyed by, Gort a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy.

Release Date: December 12,2008