Mother and Child Articles

Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (top); Eric Cantona, Ken Loach on the set of Looking for Eric (middle); Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett in The Runaways (bottom) Below are weekend box-office figures (via Box Office Mojo) for a couple of dozen movies currently playing in North America in less than 1,000 theaters. Still doing well are Juan Jose [...]

Annette Bening (left) in Rodrigo Garcia's Mother and Child (top); Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (bottom) Starring Academy Award nominees Annette Bening and Naomi Watts, the psychological family drama Mother and Child opened on Mother's Day weekend to $44.4K in four theaters as per estimates found at Box Office Mojo. The film's $11,100 per theater average isn't bad, but it's not all that fantastic [...]

The 30th American Film Market (AFM) to be held in Santa Monica between Nov. 4-11 will screen 445 films in 27 languages, including 73 world premieres and 311 market premieres, to an expected 8,000-plus film buyers and industry professionals from more than 70 countries. Films making their world and/or market premieres include Get Low (above, top photo), starring Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Robert Duvall [...]