Nikki Finke Articles

Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton’s revamping of Lewis Carroll’s fantasy, has decimated the competition at the Friday box office, reports Nikki Finke at Deadline.com. The film grossed an estimated $45 million on Friday, a staggering amount that easily beat Avatar’s opening day take (which was affected by a winter storm that covered much of the Eastern US). [Updated Alice in Wonderland box-office report.] Finke estimates [...]

James Cameron’s Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox) (top); Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr in Sherlock Holmes (Alex Bailey / Warner Bros.) (bottom) Probably because of both the enormous publicity surrounding its production costs and the nearly mythical place of Titanic in box-office history, Avatar’s box-office fate has been a major topic among film-related publications, whether online or elsewhere. So, here we go again. According [...]

The Los Angeles Westside may not be getting a new suburb, after all. James Cameron’s sci-fi spectacle Avatar seems to be doing quite well at the box office, after grossing $3.5 million at midnight screenings on Friday. According to Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood, Avatar was earning on a par with Star Trek earlier in the day, but later pulled ahead. It’s now expected to gross [...]

Brook Barnes in the New York Times: "So it goes for Brüno, a movie that, in mercilessly exploiting the discomfort created when straight men are ambushed by aggressive gayness, happens to (surprise!) expose homophobia. Gay groups are reacting with deeply mixed emotions, heightened by the recent triumphs (Iowa) and losses (California) in efforts to legalize gay marriage. Is the film then vulgar, inappropriate and harmful? [...]