Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: ZERO BRIDGE, I SELL THE DEAD, WEATHER GIRL
Zero Bridge (top); I Sell the Dead (middle); Weather Girl (bottom)
Los Angeles Film Festival highlights on Wed., June 24:
John Maringouin’s Big River Man, about a middle-aged, pot-bellied Slovenian who decides to swim the length (or rather, the width) of the Amazon River, will have its second screening at the Landmark 8 at 2:15 pm.
The panel "Poolside Chat: Reel Life LA" (W Los Angeles-Westwood Hotel, 7 pm) will feature Martin Landau, Larenz Tate, and others. Moderated by Taylor Hackford.
Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi play versions of themselves in Nicholas Jasenovec’s Paper Heart (Mann Festival Theatre, 7 pm), in which Yi sets out to discover what Americans think about the nature of love. Along the way, she finds herself becoming [...]
by Andre Soares | June 23, 2009
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Tags: Blayne Weaver, Film Festivals, Glenn McQuaid, I Sell the Dead, Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival 2009, Los Angeles Screenings, Michael Cera, Paper Heart, Tariq Tapa, Weather Girl, Zero Bridge
NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS Rules Box Office
National Treasure: Book of Secrets topped the North American box office for the third straight weekend with an estimated US$20.2 million.
Walt Disney’s sequel to the 2004 hit National Treasure continued to slam the competition, lifting its domestic total to $171 million after a strong three-week run. The Jon Turteltaub-directed adventure tale starring Nicolas Cage (above, with Diane Kruger) as an ambitious treasure hunter is just $2 million away from surpassing the cumulative gross of its predecessor.
I Am Legend climbed back up to No.2, collecting $16.3 million from ticket sales at 3,648 locations. The post-apocalyptic thriller directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith reached a cumulative gross of $228.6 million after only four weeks in release.
Jason [...]
by Franck Tabouring | January 7, 2008
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Tags: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Box Office, Edward Burns, Ellen Page, I Am Legend, Juno, Michael Cera, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Nicolas Cage, One Missed Call
