La Mission Articles

Michael Caine in Daniel Barber's Harry Brown (top); Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet in Nicole Holofcener's Please Give (middle); Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, Dakota Fanning as Cherrie Curie in Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways (bottom) Michael Caine's Harry Brown opened with a solid $180K at 19 theaters, averaging a good — though hardly exceptional — $9,474 per screen, according to studio estimates found at Box Office [...]

Ben Hollingsworth, Amber Heard, Demi Moore, David Duchovny, The Joneses (top); Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darin, The Secret in Their Eyes (upper middle); Benjamin Bratt, La Mission (lower middle); Anthony Hopkins, The City of Your Final Destination (bottom) Miley Cyrus, AVATAR: Box Office Letters to God's box-office take has been anything but heavenly. According to Box Office Mojo, the "inspirational" drama grossed only $615K following a [...]

Gabriel Bologna's The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (top); Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan in Allen Coulter's Remember Me (middle); Benjamin Bratt in Peter Bratt's La Mission (bottom) Also in limited release, Gabriel Bologna's horror-thriller The Black Waters of Echo's Pond opened at #23 with $250K at 204 theaters. Average per screen: a very low $619. At 338 theaters, Robert Pattinson's Remember Me [...]

Peter Bratt's family drama La Mission, about the relationship between an ex-con (Benjamin Bratt, above) and his gay son (Jeremy Ray Valdez), will open the 2009 edition of the Artivist Film Festival, which runs Dec. 1-5 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The synopsis below is from the Artivist website: "Set in the colorful, seedy streets of the San Francisco district that bears its name, [...]