Peter Rainer Articles
Hugh Jackman/REAL STEEL Easily Tops Box Office, THE IDES OF MARCH on a Par with DRIVE
Hugh Jackman, Real Steel The North American box office has been in the doldrums of late. Well, apart from Disney's The Lion King 3D, this year's late summer/early fall sleeper hit. One that happened to have been originally released in 1994. What would the late Jack Valenti and the current folks at the Motion Picture Association of America have to say about that? Simply that [...]
Box Office: Roman Polanski Controversy
Controversy sells. At least sometimes it does. Roman Polanski (above, lower photo), under house arrest in Switzerland while fighting extradition to the United States on charges of having had sexual intercourse with a minor in the late 1970s, was named Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival for The Ghost Writer, starring Ewan McGregor (above, top photo), Pierce Brosnan, and Kim Cattrall. This weekend, the [...]