Opening Weekend Congrats To Mike Medavoy

The Hollywood Hill's Founding Advisory Board member / film producer Mike Medavoy took this weekend's box office with Shutter Island taking in a great $40M est. B.O.  Variety gave the film a terrific review...

Expert, screw-turning narrative filmmaking put at the service of old-dark-madhouse claptrap, "Shutter Island" arguably occupies a similar place in Martin Scorsese's filmography as "The Shining" does in Stanley Kubrick's. In his first dramatic feature since "The Departed," Scorsese applies his protean skill and unsurpassed knowledge of Hollywood genres to create a dark, intense thriller involving insanity, ghastly memories, mind-alteration and violence, all wrapped in a story about the search for a missing patient at an island asylum. A topnotch cast headed by Leonardo DiCaprio looks to lead this Paramount release, postponed from its original opening date last fall to Feb. 19, to muscular returns in all markets.

We're ecstatic for the full Phoenix Pictures team - Mike, Arnie, and Brad.  Go see the film! (most people don't know this bit of trivia: we formed The Hollywood Hill in Mike's living room back in 2004)

(NY Screening of Shutter Island: Patricia Clarkson, Martin Scorsese, Mike Medavoy, Leonardo DiCaprio, Laeta Kalogridis)