ALICE IN WONDERLAND Box Office: Record-Breaking Weekend
Alice in Wonderland has shattered a number of box-office records after grossing an estimated $116.3 million this weekend, according to figures provided at Box Office Mojo. Tim Burton’s revamped version of Lewis Carroll’s fantasy tale far surpassed Disney’s pre-release expectations, while delivering the best opening weekend ever for a 3D film. For comparison’s sake, James Cameron’s sci-fi adventure Avatar grossed $77 million on its opening weekend in mid-December 2009. (Though, admittedly, Avatar had a fierce winter storm on the East Coast to contend with.)
Alice in Wonderland, which stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp (top photo), Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, and the voices of Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman, Barbara Windsor, and Michael [...]
by Michelle Hutton | March 7, 2010
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Tags: 300, Alice in Wonderland, Avatar, Box Office, Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Planet of the Apes, The Passion of the Christ, Tim Burton
Cinema Audio Society Awards 2008
2008 Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards
2008 Cinema Audio Society nominations: January 9, 2008
2008 Cinema Audio Society winners: Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on February 16, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men (Richard Foreman / Miramax Films)
Motion Pictures
The Bourne Ultimatum
Production Mixer Kirk Francis, CAS
Re-recording Mixers Scott Millan, CAS, David Parker
Into the Wild
Production Mixer Edward Tise
Re-recording Mixers Michael Minkler, CAS
Lora Hirschberg
* No Country for Old Men
Production Mixer Peter Kurland, CAS
Re-recording Mixers Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Gregg Orloff, CAS
300
Production Mixer Patrick Rousseau
Re-recording Mixers Chris Jenkins, CAS, Frank Montano
Transformers
Production Mixer Peter Devlin, CAS
Re-recording Mixers Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, [...]
by Andre Soares | February 20, 2008
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Tags: 300, Cinema Audio Society Awards, Craig Berkey, Film Awards, Gregg Orloff, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men, Peter Kurland, Skip Lievsay, The Bourne Ultimatum, Transformers
300 – Gerard Butler – d: Zack Snyder
300 (2007)
Direction: Zack Snyder
Screenplay: Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad, Michael B. Gordon
Cast: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Rodrigo Santoro
300 may not be the most sophisticated war epic to hit the big screen, but with its series of mesmerizing tableaux and extreme graphic violence the film unquestionably succeeds in dazzling its audience. In other words: Watching 300 is like watching a video game that plays itself.
Set in 480 B.C.E., 300 recounts the fate of King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) of Sparta, as he led three hundred of his men to battle the superior Persian army of Xerxes the Great (Rodrigo Santoro). The battle was fought at Thermopylae, where Leonidas and his outnumbered soldiers struggled to block the only route [...]
by Franck Tabouring | March 14, 2007
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Tags: 300, Film Reviews
Berlin 2007: 300, THE COUNTERFEITERS, YELLA
300 by Zack Snyder (top); Nina Hoss in Yella (middle); In Memory of Myself by Saverio Costanzo (bottom)
Berlin Film Festival 2007: Part I
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Inspired by Frank Miller’s drawings and directed by Zack Snyder, 300 depicts the battle of Thermopylae in the year 480 B.C.E. At that decisive battle, King Leonidas of Sparta and a mere 300 followers confronted invader King Xerxes‘ brush-stomping Persian army. If the film looks even half as good as the stills, it’ll win every cinematography and production design award for 2007. But I wonder if 300 will display anything resembling intelligent storytelling, or if it’ll simply be a series of extended battle sequences glorifying bravery, honor, sadism, and all those great [...]
by Andre Soares | January 26, 2007
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Tags: 300, Berlin 2007, Berlin Film Festival, I'm a Cyborg But That's Ok, In Memory of Myself, Nina Hoss, The Counterfeiters, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Yella