Box Office Report: 'The Grey,' 'One for the Money' Strong Out of the Gate

Writer/director Joe Carnahan ('The A-Team') reteams with Liam Neeson for the survival thriller, 'The Grey.' Find out if the film is a gripping and substantive man vs. nature movie experience.

Movies & Television With its bloody Liam Neeson-on-wolf action, blockbuster The Grey, which opens in cinemas today, is g More Movies & Television Ho hum, the 2012 Academy Award nominations are out for another year. What did we think? Here's a qui.

And if you've seen any of the trailers for The Grey, chances are good that's exactly what you thought the movie was going to be about. The plot is refreshingly without frills: Neeson stars as Ottway, a brooding, poetry-quoting

UPDATED: Liam Neeson's "The Grey" firmly on course to win the weekend with $14 million-$17 million weekend; Katherine Heigl's "One for the Money" overperforming at No. 2.

But The Grey is so much more than that. It's really the story of men who need a life-or-death struggle such as this to remember that life is worth living, even if death is a certainty, either by the fangs of a wolf or the extreme and ruthless cold.