Box Office: ALICE IN WONDERLAND $116m; BROOKLYN’S FINEST #2; AVATAR #5

The Blue Caterpillar (voiced by Alan Rickman) in Alice in Wonderland (top); Jesse Williams, Richard Gere in Brooklyn’s Finest (bottom)

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, and the voices of Stephen Fry and Michael Sheen, scored a fantastic $31,196 per screen average at 3,728 sites, taking in a total of $116.3 million this weekend according to figures found at Box Office Mojo. That’s good news for Disney, which spent approximately $200-$250 million on the film — not including prints and advertising expenses.
Antoine Fuqua’s Brooklyn’s Finest earned an estimated $13.5 million, or about ten percent less than some early predictions. At a distant #2, the cop drama [...]

by Michelle Hutton | March 7, 2010   
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Berlin 2007: Cinema for Peace

Goodbye Bafana by Bille August

At Berlin’s Cinema for Peace charity event attended by Richard Gere, Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lee, and Bob Geldorf this past Monday, a one-minute segment from a short video by Sergiu Matei was shown. Matei’s film depicts a Sept. 30, 2006, incident in which Chinese border police opened fire on Tibetan refugees attempting to flee the country.
Gere, a relentless Tibet advocate, stated that as this year’s head of the (do-nothing) G8, Germany has the "responsibility to encourage China to become part of the modern world [where] these kinds of actions and policies can not be tolerated." (Considering the atrocities perpetrated in and/or by the "modern world," I’m assuming that Gere must have been joking.)
Cinema for Peace award [...]

by Andre Soares | February 14, 2007   
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