HANNAH MONTANA Tops Box Office
Walt Disney’s Hannah Montana: The Movie soared to the top of the North American box office this weekend with $34 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Directed by Peter Chelsom, the film is based on Disney’s popular television series and stars Miley Cyrus as an energetic teenager who gets to reexamine her hectic life as a famous pop star during a trip to her hometown.
Last week’s winner, Fast & Furious, collected another solid $28.7 million in second place, reaching a cumulative gross of $118 million after a strong two-week run. In the Justin Lin-directed action flick, Paul Walker and Vin Diesel team up to infiltrate the [...]
by Franck Tabouring | April 12, 2009
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Tags: Adventureland, Billy Ray Cyrus, Box Office, Clive Owen, Dragonball Evolution, Duplicity, Fast and Furious, Hannah Montana: The Movie, I Love You Man, Jason Segel, Julia Roberts, Justin Chatwin, Knowing, Miley Cyrus, Monsters vs. Aliens, Nicolas Cage, Observe and Report, Paul Rudd, Paul Walker, Ryan Reynolds, Seth Rogen, The Haunting in Connecticut
FAST & FURIOUS Races to the Top of the Box Office
Fast & Furious easily outraced its competition at the North American box office this weekend with a stunning $72.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The return of Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in the lead roles proved to be quite lucrative, as the fourth installment in the popular series delivered a better opening weekend than any of its three predecessors.
Also doing pretty well was DreamWorks Animation’s Monsters vs. Aliens, which took home another $33.5 million for a domestic total of $105.7 million after only two weeks in release.
At No. 3, The Haunting in Connecticut pulled in $9.5 million, reaching a total gross of $37.2 million. [...]
by Franck Tabouring | April 5, 2009
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MONSTERS VS. ALIENS Soars to the Top of the Box Office
Monsters vs. Aliens easily destroyed its competition at the North American box office this weekend with a whopping $58.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
DreamWorks Animation’s latest 3D-animated adventure follows a group of monsters assisting the U.S. government in the destruction of a ruthless alien leader. The film’s voice cast includes Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen and Hugh Laurie.
Debuting at No. 2 this weekend with $23 million was Peter Cornwell’s horror thriller The Haunting in Connecticut. Starring Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner and Amanda Crew, the film follows a family experiencing supernatural events in their new home.
Last week’s winner, Knowing, dropped to third place, collecting [...]
by Franck Tabouring | March 29, 2009
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NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS Tops Box Office
National Treasure: Book of Secrets topped the North American box office this past three-day weekend with an estimated US$45.5 million.
The Jon Turteltaub-directed sequel to the 2004 smash hit National Treasure opened at 3,832 theatres on Friday, beating the opening weekend gross of its predecessor by $10 million. Starring Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris and Helen Mirren, the film follows the adventures of treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates, who travels the world to uncover the truth behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Last week’s box office winner I Am Legend dropped to No. 2, collecting $34.2 million from ticket sales at 3,620 locations. The post-apocalyptic thriller directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith lifted its cumulative gross to $137.5 million after [...]
by Franck Tabouring | December 25, 2007
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CLOSER – Julia Roberts, Jude Law
Closer (2004)
Direction: Mike Nichols
Screenplay: Patrick Marber, from his 1997 play
Cast: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman
THE PERFECT DYSFUNCTIONAL DATE MOVIE
Mike Nichols‘ first feature film, an adaptation of Edward Albee’s acclaimed play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is a harrowing dissection of two married couples whose inner demons are let loose during a night of game playing, drinking, and screaming. That was nearly forty years ago. Fast forward to 2004 and to Nichols’ newest film adaptation of an acclaimed play, Patrick Marber’s Closer, another look at two dysfunctional heterosexual couples, this time in the age of cyberspace and AIDS.
On the surface, not much has changed since 1966: although the action has been stretched out from one night [...]
by Andre Soares | December 1, 2004
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