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Twilight: Breaking Dawn Sucks in $62.3M
 Twilight Sucks in $62.3M 
BOX OFFICE
Nov 27, 2011 1:04 PM CST

Twilight Sucks in $62.3M

'Muppets' hit No. 2 with $42M

(Newser) - Breaking Dawn was busily sucking the life out of the box office for a second weekend, taking in another $62.3 million between Wednesday and today. That performance brings its total to $221.3 million, reports the LA Times. But Twilight wasn't the only draw at the box office,...

Breaking Dawn Sucks Box Office Dry

Twilight sequel easily beats Happy Feet Two

(Newser) - Bad reviews ? Ha! The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 1 sunk its teeth into the weekend box office, raking in $139.5 million and notching the fifth-best domestic opening ever, the Los Angeles Times reports. (Its only financial failing: missing the $142.8 million opening record set by...

Director Releasing River Phoenix's Last Movie

'Dark Blood' has been re-edited

(Newser) - The film River Phoenix was shooting at the time of his death will finally be released, likely next year. Dutch director George Sluizer has re-edited the 18-year-old footage and plans to finish Dark Blood by making a few additional adjustments, like adding a voice-over. He intends to ask Phoenix’s...

Avatar Tops List of Most Pirated Movies

'Dark Knight' and 'Transformers' aren't far behind

(Newser) - The 2009 3D blockbuster Avatar ranks No. 1 on the list of most pirated movies, reports MovieFone via TorrentFreak . Despite director James Cameron's prediction that 3D would discourage illegal copies, pirates still downloaded Avatar 21 million times. (It's still the highest-grossing movie of all time.) Runners-up for...

5 Classic Films Funded in Nutty Ways

The Quaker Oats Co. funded 'Willy Wonka'

(Newser) - Producers have long writhed in agony seeking ways to fund feature films. Cracked lists five of their weirdest schemes:
  • El Mariachi. Robert Rodriguez, the future director of Machete and Sin City, paid for this low-budge action flick by submitting himself to medical experiments that included removing chunks of flesh from
...

Jagger to Play Murdoch-esque Mogul in Tabloid

Rolling Stone set for first major acting role since 2001

(Newser) - Mick Jagger is returning to the big screen to play "a global media mogul with dubious morality," according to Deadline . The Rolling Stone reportedly came up with the idea for the movie—working title Tabloid—and plans to produce it himself through his company Jagged Films. A History ...

Lion King Keeps Crown, Beats Moneyball
 Lion King 
 Keeps Crown, 
 Beats Moneyball 
Box Office
Sep 26, 2011 3:46 AM CDT

Lion King Keeps Crown, Beats Moneyball

But Brad Pitt flick still biggest-opening baseball movie ever

(Newser) - Moneyball may have scored a homerun with critics , but at the end of the weekend the only number that mattered was 3D, as Disney's souped-up re-release of its 17-year-old The Lion King topped the box office for the second weekend in a row. The Lion King earned another $22....

Next Up in the Remake Dept: Scarface

Just don't call it a remake...

(Newser) - Say hello to my little friend ... again. Sort of. Universal Pictures is preparing to make (but not remake) a third Scarface, which it says will not be a rehashing of or sequel to either the 1932 or 1983 films, but a new version, reports Deadline . It'll share the same...

Bizarre Contagion Sign Made of Bacteria

From Petri dish to advertisement

(Newser) - The producers of the sick new thriller Contagion came up with a creepy way to promote their product. Warner Bros. Pictures Canada hired microbiologists to culture bacteria on two signs that grew to spell out the name of the movie in a most disgusting way, reports Adweek . Scientists inoculated two...

Your New Oscars Host: Eddie Murphy

He gets the nod for telecast in February

(Newser) - The rumor mill proved true this time: Eddie Murphy will host the Oscars in February, reports the Huffington Post . One connection that likely helped, as noted by Deadline : This year's show is being produced by Brett Ratner, who directed the soon-to-open movie Tower Heist, starring Murphy and Ben Stiller....

Netflix Losing Starz, Big Source of New Movies

It's another dose of bad news for the red-envelope company

(Newser) - More grief for Netflix, already stung by a customer backlash over its decision to split its mail and streaming services and jack prices . Starz said today it won't renew its contract in February to supply newly released movies and TV shows, reports the LA Times . It's a big...

Reminder to Irate Americans: Netflix Prices Rise Tomorrow

Will the 'Netflixodus' happen? We'll see...

(Newser) - It's the day millions have been dreading, the day that many swore would be the end of red envelope-packed mailboxes, the day in which hordes of Americans might be forced to read a book instead of streaming Season Two of Party Down: Netflix jacks up its prices tomorrow. The...

Comedies Are Heart-Healthy, But Horror Movies Aren't
 Comedies Are 
 Good for Your Heart 
study says
Aug 29, 2011 6:56 PM CDT

Comedies Are Good for Your Heart

But war movies aren't

(Newser) - To give your heart a boost, turn on The Hangover—but make sure you avoid Halloween. Movies that make you chuckle are good for your vascular function, while stressful war and horror movies hurt your system, a study finds. Researchers showed bits of funny movies one day and the opening...

Dolphin With Prosthetic Tail Goes Hollywood

'Winter' stars in soon-to-be-released film with Morgan Freeman

(Newser) - If you've never heard of Winter the dolphin, get ready. She's about to be a movie star, reports the Huffington Post . Dolphin Tale, with Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd, tells the true-life story of how Winter lost her tail in a crab trap at age 3 months. Doctors...

Ridley Scott to Direct New Blade Runner

Alcon Entertainment slated to produce upcoming sequel or prequel

(Newser) - "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..." But would the infamous replicant leader in Blade Runner believe that director Ridley Scott is making a new version of the 1982 sci-fi classic? Sequel or prequel, nobody seems to know—and Harrison Ford's participation is a question...

Incessant Hype Changes How We Watch Movies

We're more interested in next year's films than current ones: Darren Franich

(Newser) - Feeling a little underwhelmed by the summer movie season? Darren Franich at Entertainment Weekly has a theory. "It’s not that the movies are necessarily worse than they were 10 years ago," he writes. "It’s just that very few of the movies were even half as...

Will Netflix Changes Make Us Dumber?
 Will Netflix Changes 
 Make Us Dumber? 
OPINION
Aug 3, 2011 3:17 PM CDT

Will Netflix Changes Make Us Dumber?

Convenience could kill off quality: Sam Adams

(Newser) - Netflix probably only had its bottom line in mind when it announced the separation of its streaming and DVD services, but does it signal something more sinister? "It increasingly seems like we’re moving toward a world in which the success of a given work of art is determined...

Alfred Hitchcock's First Film Found

Silent movie from 1923 discovered in New Zealand vault

(Newser) - Here's a plot twist Alfred Hitchcock likely never envisioned: The earliest feature film he worked on has finally been discovered in the vaults of a New Zealand archive. A nitrate film expert found the long lost 1923 British movie White Shadow, which credits the then-24-year-old Hitchcock as writer, assistant...

Captain America Vanquishes Harry Potter
 Captain America  
 Vanquishes 
 Harry Potter 
BOX OFFICE RESULTS
Jul 24, 2011 1:59 PM CDT

Captain America Vanquishes Harry Potter

Superhero trounces boy wizard at the box office

(Newser) - Just a week after the final Harry Potter movie smashed all kinds of records, Captain America unceremoniously unseated the boy wizard, reports the LA Times. The 3D comic book extravaganza raked in $65.8 million, while Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 took a dive to $48.1...

Harry Potter Zaps Box Office Record, Nabs $168.6M

Deathly Hallows Part 2 collects $475.6M globally in massive opening weekend

(Newser) - Harry Potter went out with a true bang: The final installment in the wizarding saga, the Deathly Hallows Part 2, notched almost half a billion dollars internationally, with an opening weekend take of $475.6 million. That shattered the previous record, Harry Potter and the Half -Blood Prince, which the...

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