Geek News You Should Know: 5/18/14 Weekend Edition

1) Godzilla stomped on the competition this weekend opening up to an estimated $93 million.  The other new movie that hit theaters, Million Dollar Arm, finished up at 4th place behind Neighbors and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with an estimated $10 million, which has to be a little disappointing for Disney.  Here is the top 10 movies this week courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo.com.

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Godzilla (2014)	WB	$93,205,000	-	3,952	-	$23,584	$93,205,000	$160	1
2	1	Neighbors	Uni.	$25,991,000	-47.0%	3,311	+32	$7,850	$91,517,000	$18	2
3	2	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Sony	$16,800,000	-52.7%	3,991	-333	$4,209	$172,170,000	-	3
4	N	Million Dollar Arm	BV	$10,511,000	-	3,019	-	$3,482	$10,511,000	$25	1
5	3	The Other Woman (2014)	Fox	$6,300,000	-34.4%	3,054	-252	$2,063	$71,664,000	$40	4
6	4	Heaven is for Real	TriS	$4,400,000	-41.2%	2,893	-155	$1,521	$82,249,000	$12	5
7	6	Rio 2	Fox	$3,800,000	-24.4%	2,371	-602	$1,603	$118,051,000	$103	6
8	5	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	BV	$3,759,000	-34.6%	2,271	-430	$1,655	$250,627,000	$170	7
9	8	Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return	CE	$1,952,000	-47.9%	2,578	-80	$757	$6,559,000	-	2
10	7	Moms' Night Out	TriS	$1,900,000	-55.9%	1,046	+2	$1,816	$7,327,000	$5	2

2)  Speaking of which, a sequel for Godzilla is in the works at Warner Bros. & Legendary Pictures, which surprises absolutely no one.  I'm sure more details will be released over upcoming months.

3) IGN has released their review for the highly anticipated Mario Kart 8 game coming out May 30th.  They gave it a very solid 9 out of 10.  You can check out their review here.

4)  As we talked about at the end of episode 106 today, AMC has picked up 3 new series to debut on their network.  The first of which is Chris Hardwick's All-Star Celebrity Bowling, where Chris and his friends battle different groups like the cast of Mad Men and Breaking Bad.  This was originally shown on the Nerdist YouTube channel but it will be redone for TV with Randy and Jason Sklar hosting.  Here is one of my favorites as they battle some WWE superstars.



5) Also being picked up by AMC is a reality series circling around Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan's Chicago based wrestling promotion, Resistance Pro, focusing on the behind the scenes aspects of running a wrestling promotion, which in many cases are sometimes even more interesting than what happens during the event.