Box Office Breakdown: Holiday Comes Early For Halloween
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: 20th Century Fox, FOCUS, MGM, Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Weinstein Company, Action, Drama, Family, Horror, Romance, Satire, Science Fiction, Sequels, Comedy, Sports, Thrillers, Box Office, Lists, New Releases,
Rob Zombie’s remake of the classic film, Halloween, scared up over $30 million this weekend smashing Transporter 2‘s 2005 achievement ($20 million). Additionally, the horror film’s record gross capped off a successful summer for films overall. With fifteen movies over the $100 million mark, the movie industry soared past $4 billion domestically.
Unfortunately, Jason Statham’s War did very little to contribute to this landmark achievement. While he may have been a record-setter two years ago, his latest outing is slowly dropping off the charts. Meanwhile, the weekend’s other two major openings—Balls of Fury and Death Sentence—fared decently enough to at least make a showing.
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Halle Berry Expecting First Child
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip,
After months of endless speculation, Halle Berry has exclusively confirmed to Access Hollywood that she is now indeed pregnant. The child, who will surely rival Shiloh Jolie-Pitt for the most beautiful baby title, will be the first for the actress and her model boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry. The couple has been together for two years.
It’s reported that plans for a new movie, Tulia, had to be scrapped because Berry, 41, is already three-months along. The film would have reunited Halle with her Monster’s Ball co-star, Billy Bob Thornton.
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This Week on DVD: September 4, 2007
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Lionsgate, Universal, Drama, Independent, Comedy, Home Entertainment, Lists,
Has Lindsay’s stay at Utah’s Cirque Lodge left you feeling lonely? Are you trying to remember if she really can act? Well pick up her latest DVD this Tuesday and reacquaint yourself with the beloved scandal queen. But if you’re enjoying this DUI-free respite, here’s a glance at the slim pickings this week.
- Georgia Rule—starring Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman and Jane Fonda
- Delta Farce—starring Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and DJ Qualls
- The Wind That Shakes The Barley—starring Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney
NOTE: Click here to see the TV-On-DVD options for this week.
Pitt and Jolie Clan to Grow
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Rumors,
Brad Pitt, while promoting his latest flick, told reporters on Sunday that he and Angelina Jolie are ready for another baby. Pitt’s film is about the wild West outlaw Jesse James, and he appeared for his promotion with Jolie and their collected children by his side. Together, the couple has four children, including 15-month Shiloh, the only one biologically born to the couple. Neither Pitt nor Jolie gave any clues as to whether their fifth child will be adopted or biologically born to them. Brad Pitt further went on to say he’s quite pleased with fatherhood, though he isn’t getting much sleep.
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Owen Wilson on the Mend
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip, Rumors,
Owen Wilson, who was hospitalized last week for a suicide attempt, is now back at home and resting. He’s also being closely watched. A source allegedly close to Wilson reports that the actor is thankful to be alive, though still in bad shape mentally. People are watching Wilson 24/7. Wilson stayed at Cedars-Sinai beginning August 26, after a call that he’d attempted to take his own life. During his stay in the hospital, Wilson was visited by brothers Andrew and Luke, and friends like Woody Harrelson. Wilson has already dropped out of one film project, Tropic Thunder, which would have reunited him with on-screen pal Ben Stiller.
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Zombie’s Not-So-Hollow Remake
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: MGM, Horror, Box Office, New Releases,
I’m not a fan of remakes. Being a big advocate of the “create your own——script” philosophy, I turned my nose up when I heard Rob Zombie was re-making Halloween, the movie that launched the career of Jamie Lee Curtis and frightened little child on a night made for scares. But the movie made a whopping $26.5 million in US and Canadian ticket sales over the weekend, and MGM couldn’t be happier. The new version of the 1978 horror classic broke the 2005 Memorial weekend record previously set by Transporter 2. The movie is being touted not as a remake, but as Rob Zombie’s personal version of the story – as if Jamie Lee’s version never existed in the first place. Gar. Wrap it up all you want – you do the same story, you’re doing a remake. But, at least, the second time around has been successful.
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Break-Up Report: Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Celeb News, Celebrity Gossip,
In surprising couples news, actors Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger have called it quits after three years together. (Those betting on Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise to be the first major post-Dawson’s breakup better pay up). The Oscar-nominated actors met on the set of Brokeback Mountain back in 2004. The couple, often rumored to be secretly married, have a young daughter together.
Ledger is currently filming The Dark Knight—the highly-anticipated sequel to Batman Begins—in which he will star as ‘The Joker’.
Read More | People
Review: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Posted by Johnny Mercedes Categories: Lionsgate, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Drama, Thrillers, New Releases, Upcoming Releases, Theatrical Reviews,
When struggling Arizona rancher Dan Evans (Christian Bale) sets out one morning to find his lost cattle, he happens upon a stagecoach robbery and a gang of thieves led by infamous outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe). In need of money, Evans volunteers to help capture Wade in a nearby town, escort him to a railroad stop, and put him on the “3:10 to Yuma”, a train that takes prisoners to trial. There’s only one problem: Wade’s gang is looking for their boss, and they’ll kill anyone who gets in the way. 3:10 to Yuma is based on the classic 1957 western of the same name.
I had a chance to see the film a week early (thanks, Warren Report); here is an in-depth review of the action-packed western.
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FILM REVIEW: The Nanny Diaries
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Weinstein Company, Adaptation, Comedy, New Releases, Theatrical Reviews,
For someone who (sadly) reads very little, I can distinctly remember devouring both The Devil Wears Prada and The Nanny Diaries around the same time. And while I thoroughly enjoyed both novels, it was hard not to notice the extreme similarities. (Hard-edged female boss rules life of naive employee and makes her life miserable with annoying tasks). Only difference? Prada was set at Runway magazine….while Nanny played out in a posh New York apartment. But while the two books were practically identical in plot, make no mistake—the film versions are miles apart in execution.
In retrospect, I knew Nanny was bound to go wrong just from the early trailers. I feared the film would be too light-hearted to deliver the right level of frustration and coldness that I came to expect from my difficult boss storylines. Nevertheless, I held out hope that the movie would be so much more. How could a film with two such talented actresses not be good? How could a book full of juicy content not translate well on the big screen? If Devil could be successful, why not Nanny?
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DVD-Sniffing Dogs Help Curb Counterfeiting
Posted by Johnny Mercedes Categories: Distribution, Home Entertainment, Technology,
Bootleggers beware: DVD pirating is going to the dogs. Literally.
Last Wednesday, the district attorney’s office in Queens, New York reported on the success of a police raid, where a substantial inventory of counterfeit DVDs was undermined. But what set this particular raid apart from the ordinary, everyday struggle to stop the illegal distribution of popular films, were two black Labradors—Lucky and Flo—the newest offensive against a billion-dollar industry.
The dogs use their highly-trained sense of smell to identify chemicals used in the DVDs, and, according to law enforcement, have become a legitimate threat to bootleggers. Said Queens District Attorney Robert Brown, Man’s best friend has become a DVD counterfeiters worst nightmare.
This marks the first canine-assisted bust in the United States after the dogs helped put a stop to a major pirating operation in Malaysia last March. With sponsorship from the Motion Picture Association of America, the dogs are sure to have a long, effective tour in the states.
One thing’s for sure: major bootlegging outfits have a new enemy—one with big teeth, fast legs and an inexplicable aversion to copyright infringement.
Read More | USA Today
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