Please Give Articles

James Gandolfini tries to rescue Kristen Stewart in Jake Scott’s Welcome to the Rileys Kristen Stewart as a “Hook”: Part II Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in North America, Nicole Holofcener’s Please Give features no stars, unusual "hooks," or box-office gimmicks. Even so, this extremely well-received R-rated comedy-drama (82% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes‘ top critics) took in $118k at only five theaters when it [...]

Michael Caine in Daniel Barber’s Harry Brown (top); Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet in Nicole Holofcener’s Please Give (middle); Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, Dakota Fanning as Cherrie Curie in Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways (bottom) Michael Caine’s Harry Brown opened with a solid $180K at 19 theaters, averaging a good — though hardly exceptional — $9,474 per screen, according to studio estimates found at Box Office [...]

At Blast Magazine, Brooklyne Kelly Peters does a q&a with Lucas Black of Get Low, which co-stars Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray (above, with Black), and Robert Duvall as an old hermit who may or may not have murdered a man a long while back. "There’s more movies that should be made like Get Low," Black says. "Every movie that’s made these days, it’s gotta be [...]