Ryan Murphy Articles

The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer's semi-autobiographical off-Broadway play about a New Yorker confronted with AIDS in the early years of the pandemic, has been a perennial "movie project." In the last couple of decades, Oscar winners Barbra Streisand and John Schlesinger have at some point in time announced they were going to tackle it, but to date no film version of The Normal Heart has [...]

Viola Davis, Julia Roberts in Ryan Murphy's Eat Pray Love Following a disappointing Wednesday debut, the Anton Corbijn-George Clooney psychological/political thriller/drama The American was down 12.2% at the North American box office on Thursday, Sept. 2, taking in $1.46m according to Box Office Mojo. All but one among the chart's top twelve movies were down as well, even though the day-to-day attendance drops weren't as [...]

Julia Roberts, Viola Davis in Ryan Murphy's Eat Pray Love George Clooney's THE AMERICAN: A Late-Summer Box-Office Bomb? Anton Corbijn's The American disappointed on opening day, while the holdovers fared just as poorly. All other movies among the top twelve lost ground on Wednesday, Sept. 1. In fact, things were so bad that eight of them were down more than 20%. Featuring Hayden Christensen, Paul [...]

Javier Bardem, Julia Roberts in Ryan Murphy's Eat Pray Love (top); Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables (bottom) It was bound to happen: on Tuesday, Aug. 31, the Julia Roberts-Javier Bardem-James Franco romantic drama Eat Pray Love earned more money than Sylvester Stallone's violent actioner The Expendables at the North American box office, according to figures found at Box Office Mojo. The Expendables has been doing surprisingly [...]