The Film Adaptation of a Novel I Liked

I'm going back to Darren Shan's "Cirque du Freak" series because I want to talk about the movie. I'll be honest I did enjoy the movie even if it's three books in one movie. The movie is watchable even if the viewer is not a fan of the series. At the beginning the movie, Darren Shan start to give the viewer an introduction to the story before the animated intro starts. (Which was amazing) If you pay attention to the blue dress with a black design that Madame Triska wears, the design is the intro animation. The actor that really got my attention was John C. Reilly as Larten Crepsley, Darren's master. Madame Truska a.k.a the bearded lady played by Salma Hayek also got my attention. Over all, the actors and actresses in the movie played their characters well. Sadly the "Cirque du Freak" movie did not do well in the box office back in October of 2009.

The Blue Dress

Larten Crepsley & Madame Truska

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Paul Weitz, older brother of Chris Weitz and Oscar nominated in screenplay writing with his brother and Peter Hedges for About a Boy in 2002 , directed and wrote the screenplay with Brian Helgeland, Oscar winner in screenplay writing for Mystic River in 2003, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. Same name from the second book in the series from Darren Shan and the movie is under Universal Pictures.

Evra the snake boy & Paul Weitz

The real release of this movie was January 15, 2010 but was moved up to October 23, 2009 for space for other movies in January or so. Paul was hoping this movie would have done well to make the next one. Sadly the Budget was $40 million and only got $6,293,205 opening weekend in October.
The total on the U.S. was $13,869,515, the movie played for five weeks at 2,754 theaters and foreign total was $25,369,598. So the movie made $39,232,113 worldwide.

Please feel free to leave a comment, See everyone on Wednesday for the update of the week. Remember stay young^.^

My update for this week and for next month
Hi everyone,
I just want to say thank you for reading my blog. Also I want to say the my goals for the weeks to come in my blog  are to give a heads up on Wednesdays for the in coming blog on Fridays. Since October is coming and I'm not a big fan of horror films(sadly);however, I will be talking about my favorite superhero Batman since a new video game and animated movie are coming out in October. So I will talk about the movies, the new and old comics, and even the show from the 60's starting next Friday.
   

See all of you on Friday with a Darren Shan's series that became a movie, remember stay young^.^