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What Hollywood Learned This Summer
 What Hollywood 
 Learned This Summer 
analysis
Jul 9, 2009 10:11 AM CDT

What Hollywood Learned This Summer

(Newser) - Hollywood is in the middle of an illuminating summer. The season started strong, with Star Trek, The Hangover, and Up, before things seriously cooled off, reports the Los Angeles Times. Some big releases await, but here are some of the lessons learned so far:
  • Playability has eclipsed marketability: Films with
...

This Summer's Top Trailers
 This Summer's Top Trailers 
Jul 8, 2009 1:38 PM CDT

This Summer's Top Trailers

(Newser) - Summer may not always yield the best movies, but it never fails to deliver the year’s best trailers. Wired celebrates this sacred art by picking out the trailers that managed to throw the most hype onto the screen in 3 minutes or less. We’ve helpfully compiled them in...

Box Office Records Are Bunk
 Box Office Records Are Bunk 
OPINION
Jul 6, 2009 6:53 PM CDT

Box Office Records Are Bunk

Measuring a film's success in dollars is misleading

(Newser) - Not a year seems to go by without a film breaking a box-office records: Dark Knight a contender for biggest all-time earner! Bourne Ultimatum the top August opener! But that’s not because the films actually draw more viewers than the previous record-holders; it's because the figures are in dollars,...

Rate Outdoor Movies 'P,' for 'Pain in the Neck'

(Newser) - Outdoor screenings of cinema classics have spread across the nation’s cities and even its smaller towns. “But why would anyone willingly attend such an event?” wonders Juliet Lapidos of Slate. Prattling lawn-mates, necking teenagers, and too-bright city streets send Lapidos straight to the theater. “The cost of...

Transformers Will Soon Rule World Box Office

(Newser) - The Transformers juggernaut rolls on. The Revenge of the Fallen sequel is about to become the biggest grossing film of 2009 worldwide, reports Variety. After only 2 weeks, it's grossed $448 million around the globe, just shy of the $469 million haul by Angels & Demons, which opened in...

Transformers Sequel Stuns Box Office

 Transformers 
 Sequel Stuns 
 Box Office 
box office roundup
Jun 28, 2009 3:38 PM CDT

Transformers Sequel Stuns Box Office

Michael Bay robot-romp could be biggest movie of 2009

(Newser) - Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen nearly toppled the 5-day opening record by earning $201.2 million since Wednesday, Entertainment Weekly reports. The Dark Knight remains unbeaten at $203.8 million, but Transformers still crushed the weekend competition with a $112 million gross. Filling out the top...

Film's Most Sinister Villains
 Film's Most Sinister Villains 
Jun 25, 2009 7:30 PM CDT

Film's Most Sinister Villains

(Newser) - Movie heroes may get the girl, the fans, and the happy ending, but villains have all the fun. With the summer lineup under way, moviegoers will see evil in many forms—from a megalomaniacal robot/tank to a sinister British sorcerer. But what performances by their predecessors will they have to...

Transformers' $60.6M Is Biggest Mid-Week Debut

(Newser) - The new Transformers flick had a stellar start, raking in $60.6 million on opening day to make it the biggest Wednesday debut ever, Variety reports. For all-around opening days, the Michael Bay shoot-em-up lags just behind record-holder Dark Knight, which took in $67.2 million on a Friday last...

Proposal Scores at Box Office
 Proposal Scores at Box Office 
box office roundup
Jun 21, 2009 3:28 PM CDT

Proposal Scores at Box Office

(Newser) - Audiences fell for The Proposal this weekend, sending Sandra Bullock's comedy down the aisle with $34.1 million, USA Today reports. Banking $12 million more than pundits predicted, the romcom claimed yet another box office win for summer comedies. The Hangover hung onto second with $26.9 million, Up finished...

Curb Star in Woody's Latest ... Eh, Whatever

 Curb Star in Woody's 
 Latest ... Eh, Whatever 
Movie Review
Jun 19, 2009 10:00 AM CDT

Curb Star in Woody's Latest ... Eh, Whatever

(Newser) - Woody Allen! Larry David! It sounds like a match made in comedy heaven, but the results are more like purgatory, according to the critics. Here’s what they’re saying:
  • Whatever Works is one of Allen’s worst movies, writes Claudia Puig of USA Today. David’s Boris “is
...

Sony Armageddon Hoax in Crashing Bad Taste

World will end in 2012: Sony site

(Newser) - The latest Armageddon hoax has a marketing spin that LiveScience's Robert Roy Britt describes as a "sick twist." Sony Pictures went to elaborate lengths to disguise its movie plug on the "Institute for Human Continuity" website, which warns of "cataclysmic events that will devastate our planet"...

Hangover Hangs Out at No. 1
 Hangover Hangs Out at No. 1 
BOX OFFICE ROUNDUP
Jun 14, 2009 1:40 PM CDT

Hangover Hangs Out at No. 1

(Newser) - Audiences couldn’t shake The Hangover as the crude comedy stayed on top for the second weekend in a row, gulping down $33.4 million, USA Today reports. Up held on tight with $30.5 million, while The Taking of Pelham 123—the weekend’s only debut in the top...

Bullock: I Hate Romcoms
 Bullock: I Hate Romcoms 
interview
Jun 12, 2009 1:11 PM CDT

Bullock: I Hate Romcoms

(Newser) - Sandra Bullock made a name for herself in romantic comedies but “can’t stand” them now, America's Sweetheart tells the Wall Street Journal. “I always read scripts and go, ‘I want to change the role of Sam to Samantha because it’s written better,’” Bullock...

Vegas' Craziest Movie Moments
 Vegas' Craziest Movie Moments 
Jun 5, 2009 11:59 AM CDT

Vegas' Craziest Movie Moments

(Newser) - With The Hangover hitting theaters today, New York magazine looks at the high points of the insane genre the “Las Vegas movie” has become.
  • Swingers: The blackjack scene is probably the best anti-Vegas-glamour-scene ever.
  • The Amazing Colossal Man: This B-movie features the second-best scene in which Vegas
...

Game, Aykroyd Bring Ghostbusters Back From Dead

(Newser) - Dan Aykroyd has been trying to get the Ghostbusters to cross streams again for 15 years, and now it’s finally happening—in video-game form. Unlike most movie tie-in games, Ghostbusters isn’t an afterthought—Atari’s giving it blockbuster treatment, complete with voices from Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and...

Haneke Wins at Cannes for His Finest Work
Haneke Wins at Cannes for His Finest Work
APPRECIATION
May 25, 2009 5:50 AM CDT

Haneke Wins at Cannes for His Finest Work

White Ribbon 'will be discussed for decades to come'

(Newser) - Even in a vintage year for Cannes, Michael Haneke's new film The White Ribbon stood head and shoulders above the competition, writes Xan Brooks of the Guardian. The Austrian director has time and again missed out on the festival's top prize, but his "icy black-and-white" pastoral  set in pre-WWI ...

Chace Will Be Footloose —Maybe Miley, Too

(Newser) - And this generation's Kevin Bacon will be ... Chace Crawford of Gossip Girl. The 23-year-old heartthrob has been picked to star in the remake of Footloose, which launched Bacon's career 25 years ago. Crawford will portray the teenage I-just-want-to-dance rebel who shakes up a small town. So who will be his...

Lohan Vows to Producer: I'll Be a Good Girl

Tabloid queen promises to change her ways for next film

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan promises to get her act together for her next film, People reports. “She said, ‘I really want to get serious. I'm committed,’” recalled Kent Parker, producer of indie comedy The Other Side, which begins filming this fall. “I’m not worried whatsoever,”...

Summer Hours a Bittersweet Time
 Summer Hours 
 a Bittersweet Time 
movie review
May 15, 2009 10:28 AM CDT

Summer Hours a Bittersweet Time

Critics charmed by simple piece

(Newser) - Critics are enchanted by Summer Hours, a French story of three siblings (including a splendid Juliette Binoche) weighing what to do with their mother’s estate in a simple yet thought-provoking tale:
  • Don’t be fooled by the apparent modesty of its ambitions, writes AO Scott in the New York
...

Pixar's 3-D Up Opens Cannes on Cheery Note

(Newser) - Cannes opened in an unusual way tonight—with the animated 3-D film Up from Pixar. It’s the first time either an animated movie or a 3-D flick got the honored spot, and Timothy M. Gray of Variety reports an “enthused” response from both audience and critics. The movie—...

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