BRÜNO Tops Box Office
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno jumped to the top spot at the North American box office with a solid $30.4 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Larry Charles-directed comedy debuted at 2,756 locations Friday, beating the opening weekend gross of Borat by $4 million. (It should be noted that Borat opened in considerably fewer theaters.) In Brüno, Cohen plays a flamboyant gay Austrian fashionista heading to Los Angeles to become the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler.
This week’s second wide release, the comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper, debuted at No. 7 with only $5 million. Directed by Chris Columbus, I Love You, Beth Cooper stars Hayden Panettiere as [...]
by Franck Tabouring | July 13, 2009
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Tags: Box Office, Brüno, I Love You Beth Cooper, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Public Enemies, Ryan Reynolds, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sandra Bullock, The Proposal, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
TRANSFORMERS / ICE AGE Tie at the Box Office?
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (above, top photo) and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (above, lower photo) tied for the No. 1 spot at the North American box office this weekend with $42.5 million each, according to studio estimates Sunday.
While Michael Bay’s sequel lifted its domestic total to an impressive $293.4 million after only a little more than a week in release, the third installment in the Ice Age series brought its total to $67.5 million.
Playing at 4,099 locations, Dawn of the Dinosaurs scored an average of $10,360 per theater, while Revenge of the Fallen pulled $10,038 per theater at a total of 4,234 locations.
Michael Mann’s [...]
by Franck Tabouring | July 5, 2009
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Tags: Box Office, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Johnny Depp, Public Enemies, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, The Proposal, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: CARMEN MEETS BORAT, 35 SHOTS OF RUM, PUBLIC ENEMIES
Carmen Meets Borat (top); 35 Shots of Rum (middle); Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard in Public Enemies (bottom)
Los Angeles Film Festival, Tuesday, June 23:
In Mercedes Stalenhoef’s Carmen Meets Borat (The Regent, 2 pm), a Romanian teenager dreams of going to Spain to escape the backwards town in which she lives. (The place is so backwards that she’s called "granny" because she remains unmarried at 17.) Inadvertently, Sacha Baron Cohen and his Borat crew change her life after they arrive in town to portray the locals as backwards Kazakhs. TV crews follow suit, and so do lawyers with the promise of hefty lawsuits. Will the adolescent’s Spanish Dream be able to come true?
Brent Meeske’s Branson, about struggling artists in the "Entertainment Capital [...]
by Andre Soares | June 22, 2009
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Tags: 35 Shots of Rum, Carmen Meets Borat, Claire Denis, Film Festivals, Jean-Marie Téno, Johnny Depp, Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival 2009, Los Angeles Screenings, Marion Cotillard, Mercedes Stalenhoef, Public Enemies
PUBLIC ENEMIES: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale Photos
Johnny Depp
Christian Bale, Billy Crudup
Christian Bale
Johnny Depp
PUBLIC ENEMIES Photos I
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by Deborah Arthur | June 19, 2009
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Tags: Billy Crudup, Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann, Photos, Public Enemies
Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard in PUBLIC ENEMIES Photos
Johnny Depp
In Michael Mann’s period crime drama Public Enemies, Johnny Depp plays John Dillinger, the Depression Era bank robber who became the top target of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. Christian Bale plays Dillinger’s nemesis, investigator Melvin Purvis; Marion Cotillard is Dillinger’s gal, Billie Frechette; and Billy Crudup is Hoover the (Gay?) Man. (Previously, Leonardo DiCaprio had been connected with the project.)
Also in the cast: Channing Tatum as Pretty Boy Floyd, plus Leelee Sobieski, Emilie de Ravin, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff, James Russo, and Lili Taylor. (And I’m assuming that Myrna Loy will be spotted in Manhattan Melodrama somewhere in the film.)
Previous versions of Dillinger’s story, include those starring Lawrence Tierney (1945, directed by [...]
by Deborah Arthur | June 19, 2009
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Tags: Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard, Michael Mann, Photos, Public Enemies
