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Weekend Box Office – Chronicle and The Woman In Black Both Break $20 Million on Super Bowl Weekend
9 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
It didn’t claim the record for highest debut or the greatest attendance, but this year’s Super Bowl weekend still caught most box office watchers by surprise with two bigger-than-expected openings. Fox’s Chronicle was first with $22 million from 2,907 locations, but CBS Films’ The Woman in Black was right on its heels with $21 million from 2,855. That’s the first time that two titles have opened to over $20 million on a Super Bowl frame since… ever. Title Weekend Total 1 Chronicle $22,000,000 $22 2 The Woman in Black $21,000,000 $21 3 The Grey $9,500,000 $34.7 4 Big Miracle $8,480,000 $8.5 5 Underworld Awakening $5,600,000 $54.3 6 One For The Money $5,250,000 $19.6 7 Red Tails $5,000,000 $41.3 8 The Descendants $4,600,000 $65.5 9 Man on a Ledge $4,460,000 $14.7 10 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close $3,925,000 $26.7 One week ago I was busy trying to decide which of this year’s Super Bowl Weekend releases would distinguish itself by reaching $15 million, the plateau set by 2011’s The Roommate. Even with a string of ‘up’ weekends to its credit, it seemed beyond »
- Nicole Pedersen
'Rango' Wrangles a Passel of Annie Awards
10 hours ago | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
"Rango" officially became the frontrunner for the Best Animated Feature award at this year's Oscars last night, as the Johnny Depp vehicle lapped the field at the 39th Annual Annie Awards, taking home five Annies, including Best Animated Feature, Best Writing in a Feature and Members Favorite.
"Rango," which reunited Depp with "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski, also took home the trophies for Best Editing in a Feature and Best Character Design in a Feature.
"Kung Fu Panda 2," meanwhile, earned two Annies, winning Best Directing in a Feature and Best Production Design in a Feature. Ironically, "Kung Fu Panda 2's" loss in the Best Animated Feature category may help restore legitimacy to the Annie Awards, which have been under fire for the last several years after DreamWorks was accused of stuffing the ballot following "Kung Fu Panda's" shocking 2009 triumph over the critically acclaimed Pixar film "Up. »
- Scott Harris
Filmmakers Mike deGruy and Andrew Wight killed in helicopter smash
9 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Titanic director James Cameron pays tribute to his deep-sea brothers who had accomplished 'extraordinary things'
The American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have been killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia.
Police said two people – a pilot and a passenger – died on Saturday when their aircraft crashed soon after takeoff near Nowra, 97 miles north of Sydney, but did not immediately release the victims' identities. ABC News reported that Wight had been piloting the helicopter.
The pair's employers, National Geographic and the Titanic director, James Cameron, confirmed the victims' identities, adding that "the deep-sea community had lost two of its finest" with the deaths of the underwater documentary specialists.
David Bennett, president of Australia's South Coast Recreational Flying Club, said the men had set off to film a documentary when they crashed.
DeGruy, 60, of Santa Barbara, California, had won multiple Emmy and Bafta awards for cinematography. »
Awards Box Office Update: Weinstein Releases Struggle
40 minutes ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Oscar-nominated films grossed around $21 million this weekend, the lowest total for the second weekend after the nominations announcement in the last few years; the decline from last week was on a par with most of those years. Only “The Descendants” is enjoying clear success on a broad level, as “The Artist” continues to struggle. In more limited release, Iranian Oscar entry “A Separation” is showing clear appeal as it reaches more markets. New Openings: “W.E.” (Weinstein) – Metacritic score: 34 $45,000 in 4 theaters; PSA (per screen average): $11,250 After its stealth qualifying run (for which it snared a »
'The Avengers' extended Super Bowl trailer: 'I have an army.' 'We have a Hulk.'
54 minutes ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
The 30-second version of the new trailer for The Avengers that ran today on the Super Bowl gave us just the barest of glimpses at the Hulk. The extended, 60-second version doesn’t show us much more of the angry green giant, but we do get to see the lovable rageaholic from the front, at least.
Even more tantalizing: Blink and you’ll miss a couple shots that appear to feature the mysterious alien army that Loki (Tom Hiddleston) brags about to Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). They’ve been long rumored to be the Skrulls, and the seemingly dark »
- Adam B. Vary
Daniel Radcliffe ends support for Liberal Democrats
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Harry Potter star describes Nick Clegg 'whipping boy' of Tories and says he will vote Labour
Daniel Radcliffe has announced that he is no longer a supporter of the Liberal Democrats after emerging as one of the party's most high-profile celebrity backers ahead of the last British general election, and will probably vote instead for Labour under its "genuinely leftwing" leader, Ed Miliband.
In what is turning into a hemorrhaging of support for the Lib Dems among a list of celebrity backers it unveiled in the run-up to last year's vote, the star of the Harry Potter franchise described party leader Nick Clegg as a "whipping boy" for the Conservatives. He also hit out at the "homophobia" of some of the Us Republican presidential candidates.
Colin Firth, another actor and A-list Hollywood star declared in December that he was ending his support for the Lib Dems. The party has also »
- Ben Quinn
The Avengers Extended Super Bowl Trailer Has A Hulk
1 hour ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Going on anecdotal evidence alone-- i.e., the group of people sitting in my living room right now-- The Avengers is the trailer to beat for Super Bowl ads tonight. It showcased a lot of action, a tiny character beat or two and most importantly, the best look we've gotten yet at Mark Ruffalo's take on The Hulk. That shot of him flying in the air and swatting away flying alien crafts is the most rewind-worthy thing I've seen tonight. In the extended version of the trailer posted to the Marvel Facebook, you get to see even more of it. Check it out below. Tony Stark's line "We have a Hulk" brought down the house at New York Comic Con earlier this year, and his growing legion of fans should be thrilled to see Tom Hiddleston finally show up as Loki near the end. Without giving much of anything »
John Carter Super Bowl Trailer: You Will Remember This Name
2 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Disney really wants you to remember the name "John Carter." They made the contentious decision to drop "Of Mars" from their adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, and are now stuck marketing an epic, enormous sci-fi film with a generic title that could mean just about anything. And with a pricey advertising spot during the Super Bowl, the studio decided not to elaborate so much on the movie's plot or themes, but make sure that you knew the movie's title at all costs. See what I mean when you watch the Super Bowl spot below. You get some new footage in the later half of the commercial, but I swear that part didn't air when I saw it-- am I the only one who thinks it was just the letters of the name getting bigger and bigger and then fading to black? But while the effects and the visuals »
Battleship Super Bowl Trailer Really, Really Wants To Pretend It's Transformers
2 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
If you were upset there's no new Transformers movie coming this summer, Universal is trying to reassure you by making their own blockbuster Battleship look as much like a Transformers movie as humanly possible. We had gotten hints of this in previous trailers, including the 15 second Super Bowl teaser that showed up two days ago, but the splashy new ad that debuted tonight showed of a lot more of the aliens, the fighting, the explosions, and everything else that seems 100% Michael Bay-- even though he's not involved with this movie at all. Check out what I mean in the trailer below. I honestly didn't even realize the extent to which the aliens were involved in the story before seeing this. I knew, of course, that Peter Berg's adaptation of the board game would involve the soldiers on a battleship facing off against aliens, but I kind of figured »
How many Oscars will 'Hugo' win?
2 hours ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
As any Oscarwatcher knows, Martin Scorsese’s ode to film preservation, Hugo, earned the most Academy Award nominations this year. But how many of its 11 nods will it actually win? It’s up for the following awards: Best Picture, director, adapted screenplay, editing, art direction, cinematography, costume design, original score, visual effects, sound mixing, and sound editing. Last night it won one of the three Art Directors Guild prizes for feature-film work (along with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2), so it has a great chance in that category. I’d also »
- Dave Karger
Back to the Future, the musical? How will that work?
2 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The people behind the film are all on board. But how on earth will they get the DeLorean to do 88mph on stage?
Anyone who has seen Back to the Future as many times as me (43,672, roughly) might be supposed to feel aggrieved at the idea of the best ever film getting the Ghost treatment and being turned into a musical. But we aficionados are open-minded types, wise to the surprises of the space-time continuum. We've been raised on a story that teaches you responsible libertarianism; that every action (such as bumping into your mum after you've accidentally travelled 30 years into the past) has a consequence, but also that free will is always an ally (perhaps that mad scientist can return you to 1985 if the DeLorean going at 88mph hits the bolt of lightning that strikes the clock tower at 10.04pm precisely).
And so the news that director Robert Zemeckis, »
- Catherine Shoard
David Cronenberg: analyse this
2 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Exploding heads, Ballardian pile-ups – and a spot of spanking with Keira Knightley. Does David Cronenberg need therapy? No, he says: he's just a regular guy
It's always tempting to imagine you can psychoanalyse a film-maker on the basis of their movies, especially so when it comes to David Cronenberg. What should we make of a director who has seared on to our collective unconscious images of exploding heads, rapist slugs coming up through the plughole, video cassettes being inserted into vaginal stomach openings, avant-garde gynaecological instruments? The fact that his new movie deals with Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and the infancy of the psychoanalytic movement only adds to the urge.
Cronenberg is sitting opposite me, on a comfortable couch, but there's little prospect of getting him to lie down on it. If anything, it's he who puts me on the couch. I tell the 67-year-old director that Scanners (its aforementioned »
- Steve Rose
'Transformers' Super Bowl ad resurrects Megatron for ride promo
2 hours ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Seriously, how many times does Megatron have to die? I guess that’s one of the perks of being a robot — replacement parts.
The leader of the villainous Decepticons muscles into this Super Bowl spot, which begins like a glitch in the telecast and turns into an urgent message from Optimus Prime about Transformers: The Ride 3-D, opening at Universal Studios Hollywood in May.
Speculating about whether the deep scars on Megatron’s face indicate that the ride takes place between the end of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (when he got his dome bashed in) and the beginning of the most recent movie, »
- Anthony Breznican
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