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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Titanic</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/titanic/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:07:03 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>TITANIC 3D: Highly Positive Early Reactions</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/titanic-3d-highly-positive-reviews/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/titanic-3d-highly-positive-reviews/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:04:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35581</guid> <description><![CDATA[TITANIC 3D: James Cameron Presents 8-Scene Preview Early reactions to Titanic 3D have been highly favorable James Cameron directed. Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart star. See below: &#34;The footage I saw this morning left me speechless. I’m not joking around when I say it’s the best post conversion I’ve ever seen and it looks like they originally shot it in 3D back in 1997. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/titanic-3d-highly-positive-reviews/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>TITANIC 3D: James Cameron Presents 8-Scene Preview</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/titanic-3d-preview-james-cameron-scenes/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/titanic-3d-preview-james-cameron-scenes/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:04:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35580</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Titanic James Cameron and producer Jon Landau presented 8 scenes (or about 18 minutes) from Titanic 3D earlier today at the Paramount studios in Hollywood to highly positive reviews. Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment reportedly spent 60 weeks and $18 million on the 2D-to-3D conversion and full restoration of the 1997 blockbuster and multiple Oscar winner. (Cameron says [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/titanic-3d-preview-james-cameron-scenes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Box Office: THE LION KING Surpasses THE GODFATHER, FORREST GUMP Inflation-Adjusted Grosses</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/box-office-the-lion-king-the-godfather-forrest-gump/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/box-office-the-lion-king-the-godfather-forrest-gump/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:34:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35215</guid> <description><![CDATA[Musafa, Simba, Disney's The Lion King Thanks to The Lion King 3D, the top ten movies on the North American box-office chart were up an impressive 33% compared to the previous weekend. That's the largest increase since the +72% registered when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 came out on the July 15-17 weekend, and the fourth highest weekend-to-weekend increase so far in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/box-office-the-lion-king-the-godfather-forrest-gump/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Leonardo DiCaprio, Screenwriter James Cameron – TITANIC: Biggest Oscar Snubs #6</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/leonardo-dicaprio-james-cameron-titanic-oscar-895/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/leonardo-dicaprio-james-cameron-titanic-oscar-895/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:40:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20790</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Titanic HOOP DREAMS: Biggest Oscar Snubs #7c The absence of Leonardo DiCaprio and James Cameron's Titanic screenplay from the list of 1997 Oscar nominations deserves its own slot because Titanic wasn't just a movie. As the biggest worldwide grosser ever until Avatar (not taking inflation into account), Cameron's romantic adventure-melodrama was a cultural and financial phenomenon. DiCaprio's failure to get a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/leonardo-dicaprio-james-cameron-titanic-oscar-895/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gloria Stuart: TITANIC, Later Career</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gloria-stuart-titanic-old-rose/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gloria-stuart-titanic-old-rose/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:22:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25218</guid> <description><![CDATA[Boris Karloff, Gloria Stuart in James Whale's The Old Dark House Gloria Stuart Dies: TITANIC, THE OLD DARK HOUSE, THE INVISIBLE MAN In the '40s, Gloria Stuart did stage work and later retired from acting altogether, devoting her time to painting and fine printing. Her comeback in front of the camera took place in the mid-'70s, a few years prior to the 1978 death of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gloria-stuart-titanic-old-rose/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gloria Stuart Dies: TITANIC, THE OLD DARK HOUSE, THE INVISIBLE MAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gloria-stuart-dies-titanic-the-old-dark-house-the-invisible-man/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gloria-stuart-dies-titanic-the-old-dark-house-the-invisible-man/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:22:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25217</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gloria Stuart in a publicity shot from the 1930s (top); Gloria Stuart as Old Rose in Titanic (bottom) Gloria Stuart, the pretty, blonde leading lady in the Universal horror classics The Old Dark House (1932) and The Invisible Man (1933), and the elderly Rose in James Cameron's megablockbuster Titanic (1997), died on Sunday, Sept. 26. Stuart had turned 100 last July 4; a breast-cancer survivor, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gloria-stuart-dies-titanic-the-old-dark-house-the-invisible-man/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscars&#039; Box-Office Bump: TITANIC &#8211; SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/oscar-box-office-bump-titanic-slumdog-55981/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/oscar-box-office-bump-titanic-slumdog-55981/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:14:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22615</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire received a phenomenal boost during the year-end awards season, especially as a result of its eight Academy Award nominations and subsequent eight wins. Fourteen Oscar nods and eleven wins certainly didn't hurt James Cameron's Titanic, either, while Rob Marshall's musical Chicago collected nearly two-thirds of its grosses and Clint Eastwood's Million [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/oscar-box-office-bump-titanic-slumdog-55981/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR vs. TITANIC: International Box Office</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-titanic-worldwide-revenues-87129/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-titanic-worldwide-revenues-87129/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:33:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22358</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet in Titanic (top); Sam Worthington in Avatar (bottom) AVATAR Box Office: #15 on Inflation-Adjusted Chart Avatar has just beaten Titanic's worldwide box-office record in inflation-adjusted US-dollar terms. As per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator, Titanic would have grossed $2.450 billion in 2010 US dollars, or about $16 million less than Avatar, a blockbuster that continues to break box-office [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-titanic-worldwide-revenues-87129/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR #1 All-Time Domestic Box Office (But Not #1 re: Tickets Sold)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-all-time-domestic-473/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-all-time-domestic-473/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:18:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21628</guid> <description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Feb. 2, James Cameron’s Avatar flew past Cameron's own Titanic to become the #1 blockbuster ever at the domestic box office &#8212; as long as you choose to ignore both inflation and 3D/IMAX surcharges &#8212; with $601.6 million as per Box Office Mojo. Avatar had already overtaken Titanic at the worldwide (including North America) box office about a week ago. To date, Avatar [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-all-time-domestic-473/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Box Office: TITANIC&#039;s Domestic Record Broken</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/avatar-box-office-titanic-record-broken-119/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/avatar-box-office-titanic-record-broken-119/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:21:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21618</guid> <description><![CDATA[On Monday (Feb 2), Avatar earned $2.7 million at the North American box office, falling below the $900 per screen mark ($879 to be exact), according to Box Office Mojo. That represents a relatively small 14.3 percent drop from the previous Monday. After 46 days out, Avatar’s domestic total is $598.4m. Once Tuesday figures are tallied, Avatar will have passed James Cameron’s own Titanic at [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/avatar-box-office-titanic-record-broken-119/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Crosses $2 Billion Mark; Tops 7th Weekend</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-crosses-2-billion-mark-mel-gibson-902/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-crosses-2-billion-mark-mel-gibson-902/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:21:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21492</guid> <description><![CDATA[Zoe Saldana in Avatar (top); Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness (bottom); Josh Duhamel, Kristen Bell in When in Rome (bottom) Avatar's estimated weekend (Jan. 29-31) gross was at the higher end of expectations: $30 million, according to Box Office Mojo. That represents a relatively small 14.1 percent drop from last week. After 45 days in release, Avatar’s domestic total is $594.4m. If weekend estimates [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-crosses-2-billion-mark-mel-gibson-902/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR: #26 All-Time Domestic Box Office (Inflation-Adjusted)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-domestic-inflation-adjusted-190/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-domestic-inflation-adjusted-190/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:19:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21447</guid> <description><![CDATA[Stephen Lang in Avatar (ILM / 20th Century Fox) Avatar keeps forging ahead. James Cameron’s sci-fi epic has grossed $564.4 million after 42 days out. The #2 movie at the domestic box office (not taking inflation or higher 3D/IMAX ticket prices into account), currently about $55 million behind Cameron's own Titanic, will almost surely be #1 after next weekend's revenues are tallied. Worldwide (not adjusted [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-domestic-inflation-adjusted-190/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR: No Record-Breaking This Weekend</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-no-record-breaking-weekend-489/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-no-record-breaking-weekend-489/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:45:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21433</guid> <description><![CDATA[Zoe Saldana in Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox) James Cameron's Avatar has grossed $546.4 million after 42 days in release. It's now the #2 movie on the domestic box office chart (not taking inflation/higher 3D/IMAX ticket prices into account), according to Box Office Mojo. It'll likely remain the #2 movie until next weekend, right behind Cameron's own Titanic, which earned $600.7m. Yet, the 3D [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-no-record-breaking-weekend-489/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Box Office: #2 in the US, #1 Worldwide (But NOT in Terms of Ticket Sales)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-worldwide-455/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-worldwide-455/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:52:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21293</guid> <description><![CDATA[On Saturday, James Cameron's Avatar overtook Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight at the domestic box office. On Monday, it overtook Cameron's own Titanic at the worldwide (including the US) box office. Avatar has been out for about six weeks. It has grossed $1.292 billion overseas and $551.7 million domestically (US/Canada). Titanic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, grossed $1.242 billion overseas and $600.8 million domestically. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-worldwide-455/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>16</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Box Office: #34 All-Time (Inflation-Adjusted)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-all-time-inflation-881/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-all-time-inflation-881/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:55:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21093</guid> <description><![CDATA[Avatar's total domestic gross to date stands at $504.8m. James Cameron's sci-fi extravaganza is now the third biggest blockbuster ever at the domestic box office (not taking inflation or higher 3D/IMAX ticket prices into account), less than $30 million behind Christopher Nolan's The Dark Night ($533.3m) and less than $100 million behind Cameron's own Titanic ($600.7m). When you're talking of small movies, $30 million is [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-all-time-inflation-881/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>19</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Has Passed STAR WARS, #3 All-Time Domestic</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-star-wars-119/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-star-wars-119/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:22:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20958</guid> <description><![CDATA[Giovanni Ribisi, Sigourney Weaver in Avatar (Mark Fellman / 20th Century Fox) James Cameron's Avatar has grossed an estimated $41.3 million over the weekend, a modest 17.9 percent drop from a week ago, according to figures provided by Box Office Mojo. Its average per theater was a great $12,572 (last week: $14,173); among the weekend's top 12 films, the nearest competitor was the post-apocalyptic Denzel [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-star-wars-119/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Breaks Records in Spain, Australia</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-breaks-records-spain-australia-894/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-breaks-records-spain-australia-894/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:48:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20610</guid> <description><![CDATA[Zoe Saldana in Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox) According to the Spanish site Tio Oscar, in its fourth week out Avatar has earned 4.59 million euros at the Spanish box office. Its total in that country is 39.94 million euros (US$57m) vs. 38.06 million (US$54.3m, current exchange rate) for Titanic. Avatar, however, still has a long way to go in order to pass Titanic's [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-breaks-records-spain-australia-894/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Box Office Grosses: More Than $350m Domestic, $1 Billion Worldwide</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-grosses-billion-world-489/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-grosses-billion-world-489/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:40:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20278</guid> <description><![CDATA[According to figures in The Hollywood Reporter, James Cameron's Avatar has earned (or rather, is earning &#8212; the weekend isn't over) $68.3m on its third weekend, breaking another record (not accounting for inflation and higher 3D/IMAX ticket prices). The previous record holder for weekend 3 was Spider-Man which earned $45m in 2002 (approx. $52m in 2008/9). After 17 days, Avatar has taken in a total [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-grosses-billion-world-489/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Box Office: More Than $300m Domestic; $800m Worldwide</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-crosses-300-million-567/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-crosses-300-million-567/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:25:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20257</guid> <description><![CDATA[Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington in Avatar Avatar grossed an estimated $25 million at the domestic box office on Friday, New Year's Day, surpassing the $300 million mark, reports Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood. The total domestic gross of James Cameron's sci-fi epic currently stands at $308.8m. Worldwide, it's at more than $800m. For this weekend, estimates have been hovering around $60m. Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-box-office-crosses-300-million-567/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Has Best Christmas Eve</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-has-best-christmas-eve-894/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-has-best-christmas-eve-894/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:38:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19995</guid> <description><![CDATA[According to the Box Office Mojo single-day chart for Thursday, James Cameron's sci-fi adventure Avatar grossed an estimated $11.3 million on Dec. 24. Looking at their charts, Avatar had the best non-weekend (Mon.-Thu.) Christmas Eve earnings ever (not adjusted for inflation). When it comes to single-day rankings, Avatar's Thursday grosses were enough to land it in the #39 slot. The Thursday record holder remains Star [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-has-best-christmas-eve-894/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR vs. TITANIC Box-Office Comparison</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-vs-titanic-box-office-comparison-4345/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-vs-titanic-box-office-comparison-4345/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:33:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19827</guid> <description><![CDATA[Avatar by James Cameron According to various online sources, James Cameron's Avatar made $27 million at the domestic box office on Friday. (That figure includes the $3.5 million the 3D futuristic epic earned at midnight showings Thursday night.) Sounds impressive? Well, it is. Cameron's prior blockeviscerating epic, Titanic, made a mere $28.6 million on its opening weekend. Sounds unimpressive for little Titanic? Well, think again. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-vs-titanic-box-office-comparison-4345/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>27</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR: No Robert Pattinson, Zac Efron</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-no-robert-pattinson-zac-efron-454/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-no-robert-pattinson-zac-efron-454/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:46:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19327</guid> <description><![CDATA[Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington in Avatar (top) Fox says James Cameron's Avatar is its most expensive production ever. That's quite something, coming from the studio behind Cameron's own Leviathanesque Titanic in the late 1990s, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Galleonesque Cleopatra in the early 1960s, and Richard Fleischer's brontosauresque Doctor Dolittle later that decade. Both Titanic and Cleopatra went on to make a fortune at the box [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-no-robert-pattinson-zac-efron-454/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Douglas Kirkland Photo Exhibition</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/douglas-kirkland-photo-exhibition/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/douglas-kirkland-photo-exhibition/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:49:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/douglas-kirkland-photo-exhibition/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brigitte Bardot (top); Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! (bottom) The photo exhibition &#34;Freeze Frame: 5 Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland,&#34; opens today in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Grand Lobby Gallery in Beverly Hills. Admission is free. &#34;Freeze Frame&#34; features more than 125 color and black-and-white images of old and new motion picture celebrities, including Anne Bancroft, Antonio Banderas, Brigitte Bardot, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/douglas-kirkland-photo-exhibition/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1943</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1943/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1943/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:03:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4343</guid> <description><![CDATA[Set in a 17th-century Danish village, Carl Theodor Dreyer's masterful Vredens dag / Day of Wrath is a stark, but deeply felt indictment against religious fanaticism and intolerance. Moving performances by ingénue Lisbeth Modin and accused witch Anna Svierkier add a touch of humanity to the horrors shown on screen. It is not a coincidence that Vredens Dag was made in 1943, a time when [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1943/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
