Celeb News Aggregate
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Oscar favorites No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood continued their awards glory over the weekend by taking home top prizes at the Art Directors Guild's Production Design Awards.
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Atonement won the top prize at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs) on Sunday, landing the gong for Best Film at the London ceremony.
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No Country for Old Men and Juno have been honored with the top prizes at the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards this weekend.
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Acclaimed Coen brothers movie No Country for Old Men picked up another top film prize in Hollywood on Saturday when it claimed gold at the Producers Guild of America gala.
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Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have been hotly tipped to win the Best Director Oscar at next month's Academy Awards--after their movie No Country for Old Men scooped the same prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday.
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Hollywood's striking writers have halted their picketing to announce the nominees for their annual awards show.
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The Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men has scooped six awards at the 11th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards.
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Ethan and Joel Coen's movie No Country for Old Men has triumphed at the 2008 Critics' Choice Awards in Los Angeles.
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British film Atonement leads the nominations for the 2008 Golden Globe Awards with nods in seven categories.
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Actor Jake Gyllenhaal and his sister Maggie escaped without injury after being caught up in a fire early on Wednesday at a California hotel.
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George Clooney enjoys such a good working relationship with film-makers Joel and Ethan Coen, he's signed up to star in a third movie written, produced and directed by the brothers.
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Box Office Analysis, Oct. 12: Kill Bill opens in the top spot followed by School of Rock Intolerable Cruelty Good Boy! Out of Time House of the Dead The Rundown Under the Tuscan Sun Secondhand Lions Lost In Translation Mystic River
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News Roundup for June 3: Rapper Jay-Z and mogul Russell Simmons stage a protest on NY's City Hall. Other celebrities and movies mentioned Gene Simmons Bernie Mac Cameron Diaz Lucy Liu Drew Barrymore Jessica Alba Joel Coen Cedric the Entertainer Catherine Zeta-Jones George Clooney Jack Nicholson Adam Sandler
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The rumor mill started circulating soon after Sandra Bullock showed up at the 74th Annual Academy Awards with British beau Hugh Grant on her arm
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The WGA announces screen nominees: Best Original Screenplay: Gosford Park, Written by Julian Fellowes, USA Films, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA Films, Monster’s Ball, Written by Milo Addica & Will Rokos, Lions Gate Films, Moulin Rouge, Written by Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce, Twentieth Century Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums, Written by Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson, Touchstone Pictures. Best Adapted Screenplay: A Beautiful Mind, Written by Akiva Goldsman, Universal Pictures, Black Hawk Down, Screenplay by Ken Nolan, Columbia Pictures,Bridget Jones’s Diary, Screenplay by Helen Fielding and Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis, Ghost World, Written by Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Screenplay by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
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The Coen Brothers will produce a Super Bowl commercial for H&R Block
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box office report Jan. 13 Lord of the Rings A Beautiful Mind The Royal Tenenbaums Orange County
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Pierce Brosnan, Geena Davis,Dudley Moore, Albert Hague, Robert Downey Jr., Robert DeNiro stunt double, Screen Actors Guild, Howard Stern, Mick Jagger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, more.
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Box Office Analysis: Dec. 9 Ocean's Eleven Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Behind Enemy Lines Spy Game Monster's Inc Black Knight Shallow Hal Amelie Domestic Disturbance
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Box Office Analysis: Nov. 18
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Box Office Analysis: Nov. 11
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Box Office Analysis: Nov. 4
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News Roundup: Broadcasters still screen Bin Laden
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HOLLYWOOD, May 15, 2000 -- CANNES, May 15, 2000 -- There are two sides (at least) to everything, right? For example, at the exact same time you want to keep dancing at the tres late rooftop party, you also want to fall asleep for the next 18 hours. At the same time you want to do yoga, you long for a warm chocolate crepe. Marlon Wayans wants to be here to celebrate his role in Darren Aronofsky's (his post-"Pi" flick) new movie, "Requiem for a Dream" at the same time he has to be in Los Angeles for the birth of his new baby. But that's the Cannes Film Festival. The French keep the eternal paradox alive and well.
Other festival tidbits:
-- "A wise man once said everyone would be famous for 15 minutes..." mumbles a voice as Griffin Dunne's new movie, "Famous" starts. Okay, so we all know about that 15 minutes thing, but what co-writing co-stars Laura Kirk and Nat DeWolf and
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'Save' Tops Holiday Box Office
"Save the Last Dance" kicked off in first place to a record-setting $28 million for the four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend.
Distribution executives had anticipated that Paramount's PG-13-rated teen appeal dance drama would end 20th Century Fox's three-week chart-topping reign with "Cast Away," but they were only thinking in terms of an opening of about $20 million. Instead, "Dance" came in swinging to the tune of an ESTIMATED $28.00 million at 2,230 theaters ($12,556 per theater). (For the three-day period Friday through Sunday, Paramount estimated "Dance" at $24.00 million.)
"Dance" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing at over 1,000 theaters last weekend.
"$20 million was kind of the benchmark (estimate going into the weekend)," Paramount distribution president Wayne Lewellen said Sunday morning.
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Moviegoers will "Cast" most of their box office votes for Tom Hanks this weekend.
"Cast Away," 20th Century Fox's PG-13-rated drama reteaming Hanks and "Forrest Gump" director Robert Zemeckis, opens at nearly 2,800 theaters.
"Sunday is going to be off because its Christmas Eve, but with Christmas on a Monday this year it's going to be a four-day weekend," an insider explains. "Based on what 'What Women Want' did last week (opening to $33.6 million), 'Cast Away' could open to $30 million-plus for four days. They'll be number one."
"A lot of business is going to happen over the four days," predicts another studio source. "I assume 'Cast Away' is going to be number one. I think it's going to do around $35 million."
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, "Cast Away" stars Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt.
Second place could see competition between Paramount's PG-13-rate
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As the 300 guests at the Salon des Ambassadeurs dined on a Mediterranean fish plate with assorted mushrooms, Piper-Heidsieck champagne and a Palme d'Or strawberry delight, the 54th Cannes International Film Festival handed out its top honors Sunday.
Jodie Foster, who bowed out earlier this year as jury president, fulfilled her obligation as the closing ceremony's host. The awards were characterized as oddly conventional, with the 10-member jury sticking to more established filmmakers rather than the fresher talent from the 23 films in competition. In contrast, last year's jury came under fire for giving the top prize - the Palme d'Or - to Lars von Trier's controversial and divisive Dancer in the Dark.
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As film festivals have become ubiquitous, status and distinction have become increasingly important. And no festival has the status and distinction that the Cannes International Film Festival has.
Nothing can beat the mix of midwinter sun, Cannes cachet, bonhomie, expensive sunglasses and the eclectic smorgasbord of big-bucks productions and auteur-driven independents.
The 54th edition of the film festival, which began Wednesday, doesn't disappoint.
The festival's festivities will kick off - literally - with a lavish and luscious flick, Moulin Rouge. A cancan revue, backed by the film's interior sets, will take place near Cannes' old port, starting the party, and the film's buzz should dominate the first day.
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"The Wedding Planner" marched down theater aisles this weekend, celebrating in first place with $14 million.
The PG-13-rated romantic comedy from Columbia Pictures and Intermedia Films easily captured the top spot on Super Bowl Weekend with a sexy ESTIMATED $14.0 million at 2,785 theaters ($5,027 per theater).
"Planner" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing in over 1,000 theaters last weekend.
"Great news for us this weekend," Sony Pictures Entertainment worldwide marketing & distribution president Jeff Blake said Sunday morning, noting that Sony had four of the top ten films ("Planner," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Finding Forrester" and "Snatch").
"$14 million is allowing for an over 50% drop on Sunday because we (should) do a little better than the rest of the world (against) the Super Bowl," Blake explained. "We got a real clear mi
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 6, 2000 -- "Scary Movie" has a good shot at scaring up this weekend's biggest grosses.
"I think it's going to open to north of $20 million, maybe $25 million," a studio executive speculates in view of its 27 percent overall first-choice tracking. "It's going to be between 'Scary Movie' and 'Perfect Storm' for first place. Both could be in the mid-twenties, but 'Scary Movie' could take it."
"It skews very high for the under 25 group," another insider adds. "It's 43 percent first choice for males and 45 percent for females. So it's obviously young teenagers. It could open to $25-30 million."
The R-rated teen appeal comedy from Miramax's Dimension Films label combines gross-out comedy with a spoof of classic horror flicks. It is opening very wide; Dimension was still doing its final tabulations, but insiders figure it will go into 2,800-plu
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"Scary Movie" has a good shot at scaring up this weekend's biggest grosses.
"I think it's going to open to north of $20 million, maybe $25 million," a studio executive speculates in view of its 27% overall first-choice tracking. "It's going to be between 'Scary Movie' and 'Perfect Storm' for first place. Both could be in the mid-twenties, but 'Scary Movie' could take it."
"It skews very high for the under 25 group," another insider adds. "It's 43% first choice for males and 45% for females. So it's obviously young teenagers. It could open to $25-30 million."
The R-rated teen appeal comedy from Miramax's Dimension Films label combines gross-out comedy with a spoof of classic horror flicks. It is opening very wide; Dimension was still doing its final tabulations, but insiders figure it will go into 2,800-plus theaters.
Directed by Keenan Ivory