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'Christmas Carol' leads Us box office

8 November 2009 3:21 PM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

A Christmas Carol has debuted at the top of the Us box office. Robert Zemeckis's animated film, starring Jim Carrey, pulled in $$31m in its opening weekend. Michael Jackson's This Is It slipped to number two with $$14m. Other debuts this week include The Men Who Stare At Goats at number three with $$13.3m, thriller The Fourth Kind at number four with $$12.5m and Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly's The Box took sixth with $$7.8m. Vince Vaughn comedy Couples Retreat and Law Abiding Citizen claimed the number seven and eight positions respectively. Landing (more) »

- By Marcell Minaya

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Robert Downey Jr. And Ben Stiller Turn Down Oscars Hosting Gig, So Who's The Right Fit For The Job?

3 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

While Ricky Gervais is busy working on his routine for hosting the Golden Globes, the folks orchestrating the Academy Awards are feverishly hunting for a host of their own.

Hugh Jackman, last year's master of ceremonies, has already turned down the gig, and now it appears that the dynamic duo of Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. have declined the opportunity to host in tandem as well. The obvious questions is, what is it about the Academy Awards that's putting these prospective hosts off? Does Oscar have something in his teeth?

Maybe it's a simple matter of not asking the right people, since Hollywood has no shortage of talented professionals that could do the award ceremony justice. If I were in charge of selecting a host, here are some of the folks that I'd consider.

Billy Crystal:

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Billy Crystal is widely considered »

- Josh Wigler

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Adam Goldberg: The Hollywood Interview

2 November 2009 10:22 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Adam Goldberg: Shooting To The Music

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Alex Simon

Adam Goldberg first brought his unique brand of manic intensity to Richard Linklater’s ensemble classic Dazed and Confused in 1993 and has since been featured in such varied films as 2 Days in Paris, A Beautiful Mind, Saving Private Ryan, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Hebrew Hammer and I Love Your Work, which he also directed. An actor with a talent for mining the neuroses of his character for both comedic and dramatic effect, Goldberg also played recurring roles in “Friends” and “Entourage.” Goldberg's music CD, "LANDy, Eros And Omissions," hit shelves June 23 of this year from Nine Yards Records.

Goldberg’s latest film, (Untitled), is a satirical comedy that has him playing Adrian Jacobs, a brooding avant-garde composer who falls for the gorgeous owner (Marley Shelton) of a trendy New York art gallery. The quirky worlds »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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'This Is It' Dances to the Top of Weekend Box Office

1 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

There is nowhere but atop the chart for the late Michael Jackson as his backstage documentary "This Is It" nabbed the #1 spot at the North American box office. Despite making a so-so start, the movie that compiled the late King of Pop's rehearsal footage did reign over the Halloween weekend with an estimation of $21.3 million.

Since it was released on Wednesday, October 28, the Kenny Ortega-directed movie has produced around $32.5 million in North America alone. Overseas, it garnered approximately $68.5 million, including $10.4 million in Japan, $6.3 million in Germany, $5.8 million in France and $3.2 million in China. Both domestic and international numbers brought the movie to the total of $101 million worldwide.

The hundred-plus bow easily made "This Is It" the highest-grossing concert film worldwide. It bested over Miley Cyrus' "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour" which scored $70.6 million worldwide in 2008. "It was expected to be the top-grossing film, »

- AceShowbiz.com

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"Michael Jackson's This Is It" Dances to the Top of Box Office Weekend! See Complete Top 10 List!

1 November 2009 3:46 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

"Michael Jackson's This Is It" becomes the fifth biggest foreign debut of the year with a huge $68.5 million at the international box-office. Right here in the U.S., "This Is It" debuted with a modest $32.5 million since opening Tuesday night.

For the weekend, the documentary sold $21.3 million ticket sales from 3,481 theaters. (See my movie review of "Michael Jackson's This Is It" right here)

Now, Sony has announced that it is extending the film's supposed 2-week run by 3 weeks or through Thanksgiving!

The previous box-office champ, "Paranormal Activity," only declined by 22% and its total theater count is now at 2,404. For the weekend, the film grossed an estimated $16.5 million. So far, its total is now at $84.8 million.

(Check out my movie review of "Paranormal Activity" right here, and my interviews with stars Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat right here)

"Law Abiding Citizen" starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx remained steady at No. »

- Manny

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Jackson's This Is It Moonwalks To Top Of U.S. Box Office

1 November 2009 3:06 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Michael Jackson's This Is It rehearsal documentary has soared to the top of the U.S. box office, taking $21.3 million (£13.3 million) in its opening weekend (30Oct-01Nov09).

The film, which follows the Thriller legend as he prepared for his ill-fated London concerts, premiered worldwide on Wednesday.

Within five days This Is It has earned a massive $32.5 million (£20.3 million) in the states and $101 million (£63.1 million) worldwide - prompting Sony bosses to extend its run in the U.S. until Thanksgiving weekend (begs27Nov09), and add showtimes in other territories on a country-by-country basis.

However, its success still falls short of last year's $31.1 million (£19.4 million) U.S. opening weekend for Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert.

This Is It bumped low-budget horror film Paranormal Activity from number one to the second spot, with $16.5 million (£10.3 million) in earnings; however, moviegoers proved they were seeking a thrill over the Halloween weekend, helping Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler's crime drama Law Abiding Citizen land at number three with $7.3 million (£4.6 million) in earnings.

Rounding out the top five is Vince Vaughn's comedy Couples Retreat and horror film Saw VI, earning $6.1 million (£3.8 million) and $5.6 million (£3.5 million) respectively. »

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: November 1st, 2009

1 November 2009 1:27 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

This week:

The box office says This Is It; The Tourist finally gets its bags packed; Billy Bob Thornton and Dwayne Johnson go Faster; Ricky Gervais hosts The Golden Globes and DeNiro and Stiller are hanging out with the Little Fockers.

Box Office

Michael Jackson’s This Is It topped the box office over the Halloween weekend with an estimated $21 million. The concert film has made $32 million in the Us in the five days since it opened. It’s an okay start for the movie, but not the huge debut that Sony was hoping for. It’s doing twice as well overseas and has brought in about $100Mm worldwide so far.

 

Paranormal Activity scared-up another $16.5 million over the spooky weekend giving the $11, 000 budgeted film a mind-boggling $84.7 million total. Ka-ching!

Law Abiding Citizen banked another $7 million to give the Gerard Butler/ Jamie Foxx flick a solid $51 million.

The grand total for »

- Niall Browne

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“Ticket Stubs” Review of ‘A Serious Man’ - The Coen Brothers’ New Film

30 October 2009 4:43 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

“Ticket Stubs” review of ‘A Serious Man‘ by Austin Lugar

for MovieSet.com

As we wrap Halloween Movie Month at MovieSet.com, I decided to check out a scary movie. No I didn’t go out and see Saw VI, Cirque de Freak or the horrifying looking Couples Retreat. I decided to check out the latest Coen Brothers’ creation: A Serious Man.

Writer/director Ethan Coen and actor Aaron Wolff on the set of writer/directors Joel & Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man, a Focus Features release.

Now I’m sure all of you’re are screaming at your computer screens in protest demanding that I rightfully categorize it as a drama or even a drama-edy not a horror film. Now let’s just look at what constitutes a horror movie.

To me the effective horror movies are ones where bad things are happening to relatively good people. What’s »

- Austin Lugar

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Discuss: The Characters We Wish Were Serialized

29 October 2009 3:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

There are times when our fandom gets satiated. We see a world stretch out before us on the big screen, come to adore a character, and then get to follow him or her through a number of films. In some cases, they might even start to feel like an old friend, popping up over and over again. We'll become attuned to their swagger, the tone of their voice, the moments they love or loathe. Other characters, their presence in our lives is deliciously, yet painfully brief -- destined only for repeat viewings of the same scenes, the same reactions, the same outcome over and over again.

The more our movie world leans towards sequels, the more part of me wishes certain characters could have continuing life on the big screen. (Played by the same actor, of course. No Vince Vaughn/Norman Bates recasts allowed.) On the mind from earlier this month, »

- Monika Bartyzel

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Vince and Kyla Retreat to Rome

29 October 2009 2:30 PM, PDT | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »

Vince Vaughn and Kyla Weber cuddled up as they took a walking tour around Rome on Wednesday. Vince is taking advantage of his promotional world tour, and turned it into a romantic vacation and real life Couples Retreat by bringing costar Malin Akerman and her husband along for the ride. Vince and Kyla looked happily in love as they held hands throughout the day, showing that the famous bachelor is really ready to settle down. View 20 Photos › To see more of Vince and Kyla in Rome, just read more. View 20 Photos › »

- PopSugar

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Box office preview: 'This is It' destined to win the weekend

29 October 2009 2:19 PM, PDT | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »

Michael Jackson is really the only one who can take on Halloween weekend and win. The annual holiday is known for being a box office killer, especially when it falls on a Saturday night, so it's no wonder Sony Pictures slotted This is It for a Wednesday bow. No other major release was scheduled for the weekend, so uber-fans will come out early and perhaps often considering Jackson's favorite holiday, big shocker, was All Hallow's Eve. The studio has been working overtime to tamp down expectations for the concert film they spent $60 million for the right to release. Wednesday's gross of $20 million worldwide ($7.4 domestically, »

- Nicole Sperling

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'Nightmare On Elm Street' New Freddy Krueger Thanks Fans For Casting

29 October 2009 3:52 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

'The first I heard about it was people were suggesting me on the Internet for the part,' Jackie Earle Haley says.

By Larry Carroll, with reporting by Vanessa White Wolf

Jackie Earle Haley

Photo: MTV News

For decades, Hollywood cast the person they thought would bring in the most money for a movie role, often resulting in some odd choices (Vince Vaughn in "Psycho," Kevin Costner in "Robin Hood," Keanu Reeves in virtually everything) that were largely rejected by audiences. But now, it's the 21st century, and the Internet has made film more of a conversation than a monologue. From Michael Chiklis as The Thing in "Fantastic Four" to Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool in "Wolverine," several high-profile castings of the last few years have begun online — and Jackie Earle Haley couldn't be happier.

"The first I heard about it was people were suggesting me on the Internet for the part of Freddy. »

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: October 26, 2009

26 October 2009 7:55 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

This week:

Over the weekend the box office Saw some Paranormal Activity; Carl Ellsworth was hired by Paramount but he wants C.O.D (Cash On Delivery); True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten is Griff the Invisible; Derek Mears gears up for Predators and Laura Dern Meets Stiller and family.

Wow. It looks like the Saw franchise has finally come to a grisly end. The sixth film in the horror franchise opened with 50% less than what was predicted, earning a not-so-good $14.7 million. The film probably only cost about $15 million to make, but this poor gross means that it’ll have to have some serious overseas takings to make new installments viable.

 

The flipside to Saw’s demise was the $22 million that Paranormal Activity took over the weekend - from a thousand less screens than Saw!

With a cost of approximately $11,000 (yeah, you read that right) it looks like Oren Peli’s »

- Niall Browne

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'Retreat' reclaims Aus Bo top spot

26 October 2009 3:01 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Couples Retreat has reclaimed first place at the Australian box office. The Vince Vaughn comedy leaps from second spot to displace horror The Final Destination from the chart summit. Mao's Last Dancer climbs a place from third, while new entry Saw VI and Julie & Julia round out the top five. Elsewhere, new releases All About Steve and An Education debut in the top ten, at number seven and nine respectively. The (more) »

- By Simon Reynolds

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'Paranormal Activity' Conquers North American Box Office

25 October 2009 7:54 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

Continually climbing the North American box office since its limited release on September 25, "Paranormal Activity" has finally reached the crowned #1 spot. With the expansion from 863 theaters to 1,945 this weekend, the micro-budgeted movie has managed to cash in an estimated $22 million worth of ticket sales.

While this horror sensation is yet to match the success of the 1999's "The Blair Witch Project", it is already on the path to be one of the highest grossing entries in its sub-genre. It has already surpassed the final tallies of "White Noise" and "The Haunting in Connecticut". So far, "Paranormal" has raked in as much as $62.5 million.

In a phone interview, Hollywood.com's analyst Paul Dergarabedian gave his comment on the movie winning the top slot. "You knew that once this film got a shot at more theaters it would do well," he said. "And it was made for about $15,000, which is probably the »

- AceShowbiz.com

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Malin Akerman's Fine with Fame -- as Long as She's Not Robert Pattinson

25 October 2009 1:22 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Actress Malin Akerman's career has been on an upward trajectory since her breakout role on the short-lived Lisa Kudrow series The Comeback. Since then, Akerman has gone psycho in The Heartbreak Kid with Ben Stiller, played a superhero in Zack Snyder's Watchmen, and is currently starring in one of this year's biggest comedy hits, Couples Retreat.

In the October issue of 944 magazine, Akerman talked about some of her upcoming projects and discussed the price of fame. For her next film, she's taking a break from comedy for a dramatic role.

Yes, The Bang Bang Club — it's based on a true story of two photojournalists' journey through the end of Apartheid — I play the photo editor. The story's incredible and it's really raw. We used a lot of locals and shot in all the same places where things happened.

Akerman will return to comedy in writer-director Josh Radnor's HappyThankYouMorePlease, »

- BrentJS Sprecher

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Podcast: Antichrist (Steve Dollar, Andrew Grant, Michael Tully)

24 October 2009 7:04 PM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »

Chaos... yeah, you know already! I haven't peeked at any reports other than from the IFC Center in NYC, where Thursday's late-night preview of Lars von Trier's Antichrist filled three auditoriums and turned yet more people away. The reviews have been wildly mixed, with the disgusted detractors often just as fiery as the film's champions, but you certainly can't argue that this is a Halloween-appropriate provocation that gets people talking: A grieving couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) retreat to "Eden," their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse... After a Skype video conference with von Trier following last month's Nyff press screening (for further reading, see my recent interview with the Danish auteur), I shared some post-game commentary about Antichrist with freelance critic (and regular GreenCine Daily contributor) Steve Dollar, »

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TwitCritics: Tweet Your Own Movie Rating

22 October 2009 10:35 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Since you’re reading Screen Rant, I’m going to safely assume you’re a movie fan. That’s a given, right? That said, do you have a Twitter account? And if so do you use it to Tweet what you think about the latest movies? “Transformers sucked!” “Zombieland is the best movie of the year!” “Spider-Man 3 was such a disappointment!” and so on and so forth. Well, if you do use Twitter at least partly for that purpose, you might be interested in the latest Twitter-related website that has launched called TwitCritics.com.

So what is it? Well, it’s pretty simple, really: TwitCritics is basically the Rotten Tomatoes of Twitter, but taking the opinions of average movie fans instead of movie critics. Basically it searches through all Tweets that have keywords related to a particular movie, and then compiles a percentage rating of how many are positive and negative. »

- Ross Miller

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Vince Vaughn's happy Irish 'Couples Retreat' (IrishCentral)

22 October 2009 6:56 AM, PDT | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »

He’s king of the box office yet again with his latest hit “Couples Retreat,” and Vince Vaughn is doing the rounds on a promotional victory lap in Europe. Dublin, it appears, was easily his favorite stop. Vaughn did a guest spot on Rte’s “Late Late Show” last Friday night, and besides garnering chuckles for mispronouncing Galway as “Gahl-way” – host Ryan Tubridy teased that he could be a “real Irishman” back home by saying it the correct way, and that his surname would be pronounced “Vaw-han” if he lived in Ireland –the star spoke warmly of his trips to Ireland in the past. “I have a lot of Irish ancestors and I’ve been here many times. The Ring of Kerry is beautiful, but I’m always scared of driving on the little roads y’all have here,” Vaughn said. “And (the signs) say, ‘40 people killed on this road, »

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Vince Vaughn planning "small wedding"

21 October 2009 4:31 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Vince Vaughn has revealed the plans for his wedding to fianceé Kyla Webber. The Couples Retreat star, who previously dated Jennifer Aniston, claimed that the event would be "small" with only family members present as guests. "Thankfully we're going to have a small wedding with just our families, which is good. I've seen these huge weddings on cliff tops and it's unclear what goes through these people's minds," he told Absolute Radio. "Then I always start taking (more) »

- By Alex Fletcher

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