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James Gandolfini tries to rescue Kristen Stewart in Jake Scott's Welcome to the Rileys Kristen Stewart as a "Hook": Part II Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in North America, Nicole Holofcener's Please Give features no stars, unusual "hooks," or box-office gimmicks. Even so, this extremely well-received R-rated comedy-drama (82% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' top critics) took in $118k at only five theaters when it [...]

Michael Fassbender in Neil Marshall's Centurion (top); Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson in David Slade's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (middle); Vincent Cassel in Jean-François Richet's Mesrine: Killer Instinct (bottom) TAKERS (Not THE LAST EXORCISM) on Top; AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION Fails to Crack $5K Average: Box Office Further down the North American box-office chart for Aug. 27-29, among the top 25 movies M. Night Shyamalan's The Last [...]

2009 Australian Film Institute Awards 2009 Australian Film Institute Award nominations: Oct. 28, 2009 2009 Australian Film Institute Award winners: Regent Theatre in Melbourne on Dec. 11 ("industry" categories) and Dec. 12 (top categories), 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Winner of the 2009 Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Australia's submission for the 2010 best foreign-language film Academy Award, [...]

Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (top photo); Lee Daniels The bizarrely titled Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, formerly known as Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire, was the Audience Award winner at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival. The Toronto win, which follows widespread critical acclaim and a couple of Sundance awards earlier in the [...]