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Real Steel and Footloose are at a near-dead-heat for first-place at the North American box office this weekend (Oct. 14-16), according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. The gap between the two movies is about $200,000: Real Steel with $16.3 million and Footloose with $16.1 million. Their positions may be reversed when weekend box-office actuals are released tomorrow. [Right: Kenny Wormald in Footloose.] [...]

Kenny Wormald, Footloose If early, rough estimates are correct, the Footloose remake will not reach the $20 million mark as some had been expecting. As per The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.com, Footloose collected approximately $5.7 million on its Friday debut, which would translate into a $17 million weekend. Directed by Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan's Craig Brewer, the Paramount release stars relative newcomer [...]

Diane Keaton, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Father of the Bride (1991) What would be my top five Father's Day movies? That's a hard call. In fact, I don't think I can answer that. There are countless movies about fathers and/or featuring fathers of various inclinations, sizes, and shapes. Those range from the entertaining, e.g., the 1950 version of Cheaper by the Dozen starring [...]

James Cameron is ecstatic that Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker was the night's big winner First the good news: the Adam Shankman-Bill Mechanic-produced 2010 Oscar telecast drew 14% more viewers than last year, when Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture. Whether that was because of Avatar, the Super Bowl Ratings Effect, Sandra Bullock, The Twilight Saga: New Moon's Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, and Robert Pattinson (who [...]