UP and THE HANGOVER Top Box Office
Pixar’s Up topped the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend with $44.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Playing at 3,818 locations, the Pete Docter-directed animated adventure brought its domestic gross to $137.3 million after a strong two-week run. The plot follows a 78-year-old widower who takes his entire house on a trip to South America.
Debuting in second place with $43.2 million from 3,521 locations was Todd Phillips’ latest comedy, The Hangover. The R-rated film stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helm and Zach Galifianakis as three guys who lose their best friend on a night out in Vegas.
Following at a distant No. 3 was Brad Silberling’s [...]
by Franck Tabouring | June 7, 2009
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T-Rex in LAND OF THE LOST
Will Ferrell attempts to look tough in Land of the Lost
T-Rex stars in Land of the Lost
Will Ferrell and moons in Land of the Lost
Will Ferrell in LAND OF THE LOST
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by Deborah Arthur | May 29, 2009
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Will Ferrell in LAND OF THE LOST
Land of the Lost ruins
Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, Danny McBride in Land of the Lost
Sleestak in Land of the Lost
T-Rex in LAND OF THE LOST
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by Deborah Arthur | May 29, 2009
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LAND OF THE LOST Photos
Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, and Danny McBride star as, respectively, has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, research assistant Holly, and redneck survivalist Will in the big-screen remake of the mid-70s television series Land of the Lost, a campy delight after all these years. (Spunky Cha-Ka to Holly after she messes things up: "Cha-Ka half-monkey. You whole monkey.")
The new Land of the Lost was directed by Brad Silberling, best known for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and written by Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas.
Land of the Lost opens in the US on June 5.
The original TV series starred Spencer Milligan, Wesley Eure, Kathy Coleman, and Philip Paley (as Cha-Ka).
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by Deborah Arthur | May 29, 2009
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Tags: Adventure Movies, Anna Friel, Brad Silberling, Cha-ka, Danny McBride, Fantasy Movies, Jorma Taccone, Land of the Lost, Photos, T-Rex, Will Ferrell
Abel Gance’s LA ROUE on DVD
"There is cinema before and after La Roue as there is painting before and after Picasso."
That’s none other than Jean Cocteau, referring to the mammoth 1923 drama (original running time: nearly 8 hours) directed and written by Abel Gance — he of Napoleon.
Gance worked for three years on La Roue / The Wheel, which revolves around a locomotive engineer (Séverin-Mars, who died in 1921, two years before the film’s official release), his obsession with his adopted daughter (Ivy Close, mother of director Ronald Neame), and her (romantic) love for the engineer’s son (Gabriel de Gravone), who also happens to have fallen in love with her.
The director and his cinematographers (Gaston Brun, Marc Bujard, Léonce-Henri Burel, and Maurice Duverger) worked [...]
by Andre Soares | April 17, 2008
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Tags: Abel Gance, Blaise Cendrars, Classic Movies, DVDs, Flicker Alley, La Roue, Robert Israel, Silent Films, Will Ferrell
San Sebastián Film Festival 2004
This year, the San Sebastián Film Festival will present a retrospective dedicated to Woody Allen, whose Melinda and Melinda (above, with Will Ferrell and Radha Mitchell) will have its world premiere on opening night. American actors Jeff Bridges and Annette Bening, for their part, will be honored with lifetime achievement awards.
The festival, which takes place on Spain’s Basque coast, is currently being used as a launching pad for movies made in Latin America via its fifteen-film sidebar Horizontes Latinos.
The 52nd edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival kicks off on September 17; nine days later, a jury headed by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa will give out the Golden Shell to one [...]
by Andre Soares | September 11, 2004
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