New Riddick movie: Vin Diesel. New ‘Riddick’ movie: Vin Diesel has underwhelming domestic debut Universal’s distribution chief Nikki Rocco may have called Riddick‘s opening-weekend figures “a great result,” but an estimated $18.7 million from 3,107 North American theaters – $2.5…
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Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg movie 2 Guns: Disappointing box office pairing. Denzel Washington Mark Wahlberg movie ‘2 Guns’: Below par box office receipts Aug. 3: A limp “low $20 million” range, is what 2 Guns U.S. distributor Universal claims…
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April 2 update: Featuring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, and America Ferrera, How to Train Your Dragon was back at the top of the North American box office chart on Thursday. The animated 3D fantasy grossed…
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Sandra Bullock. Best Actress Sandra Bullock’s Oscar acceptance speech “Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down? I would like to thank the Academy for allowing me in the last month to have the most…
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Crips and Bloods: Made in America. In the 1980s and into the first half of the 1990s, gang violence in American urban centers grabbed nightly news headlines with a distant sensationalism that appears almost quaint in the era of the…
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The 2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Award winners were announced this evening at a ceremony held in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children at the Dorchester Hotel. London Film Critics’ Awards chair Marianne Gray…
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Julie Andrews: British dames top SAG Awards. “If my life is any guide,” SAG Life Achievement winner Julie Andrews remarked backstage at the 2007 SAG Awards ceremony, “the chances are if you work very hard, a piece of good fortune…
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Pan’s Labyrinth with Doug Jones as the Faun. Whereas Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver received on single Academy Award nomination – Penélope Cruz is up for Best Actress – Guillermo del Toro’s Spanish-Mexican dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth / El Laberinto del fauno…
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What are the Golden Globes? Babel set with Alejandro González Iñárritu and Gael García Bernal. What are the Golden Globes? One possible answer: An awards season ceremony that, at least in 2007, opted to embrace (admittedly, mostly English-language) multinational and…
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James McAvoy in The Last King of Scotland. This year, the British Academy decided to support two (at least part-) British “royal movies”: Stephen Frears’ The Queen, starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, and Kevin Macdonald’s The Last King…
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Pan’s Labyrinth: The Pale Man (Doug Jones) in underground, dark fantasy. Guillermo del Toro’s post-Spanish-Civil-War-set Pan’s Labyrinth / El laberinto del fauno was the National Society of Film Critics’ surprise Best Film winner. Perhaps even more surprising, its two runners-up…
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The Dixie Chicks vs. U.S. President George W. Bush: Shut Up & Sing. Curiously, the Southeast Film Critics Association selected Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck’s political documentary Shut Up & Sing as the recipient of this year’s Wyatt Award, which…