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Venice 2009: Eva Mendes, Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes

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Venice 2009: Eva Mendes, Werner Herzog, Nicolas Cage

Producer Edward R. Pressman with actors Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes, and director Werner Herzog at the Jaeger-LeCoultre Host Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans Dinner held at Cipriani during the 66th Venice Film Festival.
Photo: François Durand / 2009 Getty Images. Courtesy: Jaeger-LeCoultre

Eva Mendes

Edward R. Pressman, Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Jaeger-LeCoultre International Public Relations Director Isabelle Gervais, Werner Herzog

Zac Efron’s 17 AGAIN at the Top of the Box Office

Zac Efron’s latest teen comedy, 17 Again, beat the competition at the North American box office this weekend with $24 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Directed by Burr Steers, the film follows a 37-year-old man who despises his existence and gets to relive his past as a 17-year-old. Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon and Michelle Trachtenberg co-star.

Debuting in second place with $14 million was Kevin Macdonald’s thriller State of Play, which stars Russell Crowe as a print journalist who launched his own investigation into the murder of a congressman’s assistant. Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren and Rachel McAdams round out the lead cast.

Things didn’t turned out as well [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

KNOWING Tops Box Office

Knowing emerged as the champion at the North American box office this weekend with $24.8 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Alex Proyas’ apocalyptic thriller celebrated the widest release this week at 3,332 locations, taking the No. 1 spot as early as Friday. In the film, Nicolas Cage tries to prevent a series of global disasters. 

Debuting in second place was John Hamburg’s latest comedy I Love You, Man, which picked up $18 million. Starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, the movie centers on a man who doesn’t have male buddies and heads out to find the perfect best man for his wedding.

Duplicity, the weekend’s third [...]

Kathleen Turner’s Autobiography SEND YOURSELF ROSES

Below are excerpts from Kathleen Turner’s upcoming autobiography Send Yourself Roses, as reported in several online venues.
On William Hurt, her co-star in Lawrence Kasdan’s atmospheric 1981 neo-noir (in color) Body Heat (right):
"In those days, he was pretty wild. He drank a great deal and took a lot of recreational drugs — he loved those magic mushrooms. He loved women, too; I don’t know how many he went through during filming. Bill always wanted to stay in character . . . [He] thought I wasn’t taking my acting seriously enough."
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Regarding Nicolas Cage on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1986 hit Peggy Sue Got Married, for which Turner received a best actress Oscar nomination:
"Everything Francis wanted him to do, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

MOONSTRUCK Screening with Olympia Dukakis

Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis and TCM host Robert Osborne will take part in an onstage discussion following a screening of Moonstruck (1987) on Monday, December 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City. The screening is part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Monday Nights with Oscar" series.
Directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, the fluffy Moonstruck follows the unlikely blossoming of romance between, of all people, Cher and Nicolas Cage.
Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello, John Mahoney, and Feodor Chaliapin Jr. round out the cast of this romantic comedy that isn’t all that romantic or all that funny.
Moonstruck was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture (Patrick [...]

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