Benoît Poelvoorde Articles

Daniel Radcliffe in the biggest domestic hit of 2011: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 In 2011, Hollywood movies should earn the major studios $10.2 billion at the North American box office. That's down 3.5% from 2010, according to Hollywood.com. An estimated 1.28 billion tickets have been sold this year, which represents a 4.4% decline from 2010 and the lowest figure since 1995, [...]

Gérard Depardieu, one of the greatest icons of French cinema, has dismissed claims that he has been miscast as mixed-race author Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou's big-budget production L'Autre Dumas / The Other Dumas. In Depardieu's words at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, those arguments are "ridiculous" and "unnecessary," while the issue itself is "not interesting" and "not a problem." A number of reviewers [...]

Via Zeitgeist Films, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar's stop-motion animated feature A Town Called Panic will open in New York City on Dec. 16 (at Film Forum) and in Los Angeles (at the Nuart in West LA) on Jan. 29. Other US markets will follow. (The film will have a Los Angeles Oscar qualifying run in Dec., but the "official" opening date is Jan. 29, [...]