This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: September 21, 2010
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: DreamWorks, Magnolia, Sony, Universal, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Foreign, Foreign Language, Remakes, Sequels, Sports, Thrillers, Home Entertainment, Lists, New Releases,
Here are some of the DVD and Blu-ray options available this Tuesday:
- American Beauty: Blu-ray
- Calvin Marshall: DVD, Blu-ray
- Charade: DVD
- The Experiment: DVD, Blu-ray
- Ondine: DVD, Blu-ray
- The Peacemaker: Blu-ray
- Robin Hood: DVD, Blu-ray
- The Secret in Their Eyes: DVD, Blu-ray
- The Secret of Moonacre: DVD, Blu-ray
- Stomp the Yard: Homecoming: DVD, Blu-ray
- (Untitled): DVD, Blu-ray
Make sure to also check out the TV-on-DVD options for this week.
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Box Office Breakdown: The Town Takes the Crown
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: 20th Century Fox, FOCUS, Lionsgate, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros, Action, Animation, Drama, Family, Horror, Science Fiction, Sequels, Comedy, Thrillers, Box Office, Lists,
The Town, Ben Affleck’s second directorial feature, surprised analysts this weekend with a win at the box office. The film, which far surpassed Gone Baby Gone’s $5.5 million debut in 2007, earned $23.8 million—a September-best for Warner Bros. The drama, co-starring Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner, also gave actor Affleck his first #1 film—outside of He’s Just Not that Into You—since Daredevil.
Although many had Easy A topping the charts, the film came in a very respectable second place. The Emma Stone-starrer – which only cost $8 million to produce – generated good reviews and a $17.7 million take.
The weekend’s other two new wide releases also landed in the Top 5. The PG-13 horror film Devil raised $12.3 million while Alpha and Omega, a more family-friendly entry, rang up $9.1 million in ticket sales.
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Sacha Baron Cohen to Play Queen’s Freddie Mercury
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Biopics, Drama, Music, Casting, Upcoming Releases, Videos,
Sacha Baron Cohen will be sporting a mustache once again for his next movie.
The actor, best known as his alternate personality Borat, has been tapped to play late singer Freddie Mercury in a film about rock band Queen.
The movie will focus on the band’s early years up to their performance at Live Aid in 1985. (You can see clips from that event above and after the jump.) Oscar nominee Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen) will pen the script.
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First Look: Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Paramount, Biopics, Drama, Sports, Trailers, Upcoming Releases,
Last summer, Christian Bale went to extreme measures (again) to physically prepare for a role. Now, we get to see the film he was so passionate about.
In The Fighter, Bale plays a Dicky Eklund, a former boxer turned drug addict who later helps his brother (Mark Wahlberg) with his own career. The biopic about real-life boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward (Mark Wahlberg) also stars Amy Adams Mickey’s love interest.
The movie, directed by Three Kings’ David O. Russell, opens on December 10—just in time for Oscar season.
In Theaters This Weekend: September 17, 2010
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Fox Searchlight, Lionsgate, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros, Animation, Documentary, Drama, Family, Foreign, Foreign Language, Horror, Independent, Romance, Science Fiction, Comedy, Thrillers, Lists, New Releases, Trailers,
Here are a few selections in theaters this weekend:
- Alpha and Omega (PG): starring Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci (directed by Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck)
- Devil (PG-13): starring Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Jenny O’Hara (directed by John Erick Dowdle)
- Easy A (PG-13): starring Emma Stone, Penn Badgely, Thomas Haden Church (directed by Will Gluck)
- The Town (R): starring Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm (directed by Ben Affleck)
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Justin Bieber, the Movie Star
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Family, Casting, Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Rumors, Upcoming Releases,
Some guys
adolescent teen boys get all the luck…if they know Will Smith.
Justin Bieber’s manager (whose name, by the way, is Scooter) let it slip in October’s Teen Vogue that the Biebs will take the leading role in a new feature-length film that Smith is producing.
If we could get Will’s kid Jaden in this thing and have both boys record another song together, the money would just rain down from the sky.
Considering the subject matter of the flick, we’re pretty sure that’s just how it’s going to go down. According to Scooter—and who could doubt his professionalism?—the film is a “fictional piece that may have some similarities to Justin’s life.” Production is “likely” to begin next spring or summer.
It pays to have friends in high places…and an entire horde of demanding tween girls as your fan base.
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First Look: Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in The Tourist
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Columbia Pictures, Action, Drama, Thrillers, Trailers, Upcoming Releases,
Angelina Jolie + (another) “Sexiest Man Alive” = box office heat.
Later this year, Brad Pitt’s significant other can be seen with Johnny Depp in The Tourist, a thriller directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others). In the film, Angelina plays an Interpol agent who purposely ropes in an American tourist (Depp) into her game of mistaken identity. (Of course, I doubt she really had to try that hard.)
The Tourist opens on December 10—right in the middle of the busy holiday season.
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Lauren Graham, who once won hearts playing Lorelai Gilmore, says that a Gilmore Girls movie may be in the works. Is it a case of wishful thinking, or a viable possibility?
Graham says that people “who could actually make it happen are talking about it. I think it could be good.” Earlier this summer, actor Scott Patterson (Luke Danes) also expressed optimism about a big screen project. “I think the fans are so loyal and so faithful, that it probably will happen,” he said.
A possible Gilmore Girls movie has been a highly talked-about subject among the show’s fans for years. Gilmore Girls ran for seven seasons on The CW.
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This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: September 14, 2010
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: 20th Century Fox, Disney, Lionsgate, New Line, Sony, Universal, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Animation, Family, Foreign, Horror, Musicals, Romance, Comedy, Home Entertainment, Lists, New Releases,
Here are some of the DVD and Blu-ray options available today:
- Delicatessan: Blu-ray
- Jacob’s Ladder: DVD, Blu-ray
- James and the Giant Peach: DVD
- Just Wright: DVD, Blu-ray
- Letters to Juliet: DVD, Blu-ray
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Blu-ray
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Blu-ray
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Blu-ray
- Monster House: Blu-ray 3D
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?: DVD
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: DVD, Blu-ray
- Seven: Blu-ray
Make sure to also check out the TV-on-DVD options for this week.
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Quote of the Day: Ryan Gosling on His Non-Canadian Accent
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Celebrity Gossip,
“As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn’t sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can’t shake, so it’s not phony anymore. I’m going for the Madonna thing, the Lady Gaga thing—a phony accent that becomes your trademark.”
-Blue Valentine‘s Ryan Gosling on why he doesn’t sound like he’s from Canada.
(Make sure to check out other notable quotes.)
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