Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Still Strong
Ron Clements and John Musker’s The Princess and the Frog (top); Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (bottom)
Walt Disney’s 2D-animated adventure The Princess and the Frog took the North American box office by storm this weekend with a solid $25 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Disney’s anticipated return to hand-drawn animation expanded to 3,434 locations Friday, earning a weekend average of $7,280 per theater. The film’s total gross currently stands at $27.8 million.
Sandra Bullock’s surprise hit drama The Blind Side slipped to No. 2, taking home another $15.4 million. The story of a conservative family helping out a poor football hopeful reached [...]
by Franck Tabouring | December 14, 2009
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Tags: Box Office, Brothers, Invictus, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kristen Stewart, Matt Damon, Natalie Portman, Robert Pattinson, The Princess and the Frog, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner Settle for 2nd Place
Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side (top); Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (bottom)
With $20 million, Sandra Bullock’s The Blind Side did indeed lead the pack at the domestic box office last weekend, earning nearly $5 million — or about 30% — more than The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Robert Pattinson’s vampire, Kristen Stewart’s teen, and Taylor Lautner’s werewolf had to settle for the second spot after three weeks at the top.
Among other box-office news were the results for five new movies:
Brothers, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, and Natalie Portman in a love triangle that is an indirect result of the war in Afghanistan (Now, get real. Don’t expect any Hollywood portrayals — romantic [...]
by Anna Robinson | December 8, 2009
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Tags: Armored, Box Office, Brothers, Everybody's Fine, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, The Blind Side, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Transylmania, Up in the Air
2004 San Sebastián Film Festival Award Winners
Shot a mere month after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly won the Golden Shell at the 52nd edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival.
According to Reuters, Peruvian author and chairman of the jury Mario Vargas Llosa stated that although the decision was not unanimous, Turtles Can Fly had "moved us all, not only because of the terrible conditions in which it was filmed, but also because … despite the tragedy which it recounts, it is filled with humanity, poetry and even humor."
Set in Iraq’s Kurdistan right before the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion of that country, Turtles Can Fly tells the story of several Iraqi villagers who struggle to set up a [...]
by Andre Soares | September 30, 2004
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Tags: Bahman Ghobadi, Brothers, Connie Nielsen, Film Awards, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Mario Vargas Llosa, San Sebastian Film Festival, Turtles Can Fly, Ulrich Thomsen