Celeb News Aggregate
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Somewhere, there is a crime happening.
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Nicole Kidman Gets a Public Apology, Mikhail Baryshnikov Woos on Sex and the City, Stones Headlined Toronto's "SARSstock" Jude Law Sarah Jessica Parker Bob Hope Wayne Brady William H. Macy Kim Basinger Susan Sarandon Marisa Tomei
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Box Office Analysis for May 18: The Matrix Reloaded. Daddy Day Care, X2: X-Men United, Down With Love, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Anger Management, Identity, Holes, A Mighty Wind, Bend It Like Beckham
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Mutants proved victorious as the highly anticipated sci-fi sequel X2: X-Men United took in a mind-bending $85.8 million at the box office this weekend. Top 10: X2: X-Men United The Lizzie McGuire Movie Identity Anger Management Holes Malibu's Most Wanted Confidence It Runs in the Family Bend It Like Beckham Bulletproof Monk
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Moviegoers were still feeling angry this Easter Weekend, keeping Anger Management at the top of the box office with $25.6 million. Top 10: Anger Management Holes Malibu's Most Wanted Bulletproof Monk Phone Booth What a Girl Wants Bringing Down the House A Man Apart Chicago House of 1,000 Corpses
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The new comedy Anger Management expectedly beat the bejeezus out of the competition with a whooping $44.5 million*, making it the highest opener of 2003. Phone Booth What A Girl Wants Bringing Down the House A Man Apart Head of State House of 1,000 Corpses Chicago The Core Basic Better Luck Tomorrow
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Box Office Analysis for Feb. 2 Top 10: The Recruit Final Destination 2 Biker Boyz Darkness Falls Kangaroo Jack Chicago Just Married The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Catch Me If You Can About Schmidt
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Box Office Analysis: Dec. 22
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The Fox network hopes to produce a sequel to the hit reality series American Idol: The Search for a Superstar in time for a January or February bow. Also, Lizzie Grubman Jonathan Frakes Thuderbirds Ek Hasin Thi Bollywood Ram Gopal Varma The Simpsons Mystikal
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Noah Davis takes a stab at some Oscar picks, despite the fact that he hasn't seen many of the movies. (He did see Lord of the Rings 20 times, though.)
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Box office analysis: Feb. 17
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Box office analysis Feb 24 Queen of the Damned Aaliyah John Q Denzel Washington
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Oscar Watch on who will get nominated for an Academy Award when they are announced Feb. 12 Russell Crowe Gene Hackman Billy Bob Thornton Will Smith Denzel Washington Halle Berry Judi Dench Nicole Kidman Sissy Spacek Renee Zellweger Cate Blanchett Helen Mirren Kate Winslet Jennifer Connelly Marisa Tomei Jim Broadbent Steve Buscemi Hayden Christensen Jon Voight Ben Kingsley Ron Howard Robert Altman Baz Luhrmann Peter Jackson Ridley Scott
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Miramax tops studios with 15 Oscar nominations In the Bedroom Receives 5 Nominations Including Best Motion Picture issy Spacek for Best Actress Tom Wilkinson for Best Actor Marisa Tomei for Best Supporting Actress Rob Festinger and Todd Field for Best Adapted Screenplay Amelie Receives 5 Nominations Including Best Foreign Film
Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet for Best Original Screenplay Best Sound (Vincent Arnardi, Guillaume Leriche and Jean Umansky) Best Cinematography (Bruno Delbonnel) Best Art Direction (Aline Bonetto and Marie-Laure Valla) Iris Receives 3 Nominations Including Judi Dench for Best Actress Kate Winslet for Best Supporting Actress Jim Broadbent for Best Supporting Actor Bridget Jones's Diary Nominated for Renée Zellweger for Best Actress Until... by Sting Nominated for Best Original Song from Kate & Leopold
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Box Office Analysis: Feb. 10
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Box office report Feb 3 Black Hawk Down Slackers Birthday girl A Walk to Remember Snow Dogs Count of Monte Cristo
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A barrage of Hollywood celebrities descended on Berlin for the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival, which runs for 12 days starting Feb 6 and will screen almost 400 films
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Shrek stars Mike Myers Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy have agreed to voice the sequel to last years animation mega blockbuster Treasure Planet Robert Redford William Shatner Harry Hamlin Marisa Tomei Ted Danson Mariah Carey Paul McCartney Mick Jagger Phil Collins Aretha Franklin Stevie Wonder Isley Brothers Percy Sledge Eddie Holman Aretha Franklin Marvin Gaye the Supremes Dionne Warwick Michael Jackson Internet Fan Club The Dave Matthews Band Bananarama Hugh Hefner
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Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny) and Sissy Spacek (A Coal Miner's Daughter) have more in common that just their latest film, In the Bedroom; both are Oscar winners who haven't come near the podium in at least a decade, but who now have legitimate shots at a second golden statue.
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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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Noah makes 20 BOLD PREDICTIONS for 2002, some of which may even come true! Tom Cruise & Penelope Cruz Disney & Pixar Freddie Prinze Jr. Sarah Michelle Gellar Steven Spielberg Tom Hanks Angelina Jolie Renee Zellweger Kevin Spacey The Shipping News Halle Berry Monster's Ball Bandits Collateral Damage The Fast and the Furious Deuces Wild Vin Diesel Stephen Dorff Gwyneth Paltrow Colin Hanks Dan Aykroyd George Clooney ER Dr. Susan Lewis/Sherry Stringfield Friends The Sopranos Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Snoop Dogg Eminem We Were Soldiers
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An analysis of the weekend's box office results.
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Box Office Analysis: Dec. 30
Top ten films for December 30 Lord of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Rings Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Vanilla Sky How High Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Not Another Teen Movie The Majestic Joe Somebody Monster, Inc. Charlotte Gray I Am Sam
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The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring has already been deemed imperfect by eagle eyed Rings fans Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone Anna Nicole Smith Sopranos star Edie Falco Marisa Tomei Peter Tork Mickey Dolenz Davy Jones Stewart Adamson
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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: Dec. 2
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Box Office Analysis: Nov. 18 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Monsters, Inc. Spy Game Black Knight Shallow Hal Domestic Disturbance Heist Sidewalks of New York The One K-PAX
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Keanu Reeves, who was at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend to promote his new movie Hardball, had a lot to say--and not just about baseball.
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PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 23, 2000 -- So, what's it like when you sell your movie at Sundance? Like this: You drive through the streets whooping, yelling, cranking up the stereo and tossing black Adidas ski hats to the unwashed (and un-picked-up) masses.
The groovesters of "Groove" are, yes, grooving. A day after Sony Pictures Classic snapped up the low-budget slice-of-rave-life flick, the film's players were partying in the streets here this afternoon. And to hear one of its stars tell it -- this was situation normal, big-time movie deal or no.
"We've been partying since Day One of shooting and that's all it was, was 28 days in a warehouse, dancing 18 hours a day," actor Steve Van Mormer told Hollywood.com while dancing atop the SUV-anointed "Groove" Mobile. "And we haven't stopped since."
Not that the Sony deal hasn't made the day of even the most veteran party anim
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 31, 2001 -- Cate Blanchett is in negotiations to join co-star Kevin Spacey in Miramax's "The Shipping News," the film adaptation of Annie Proulx's 1994 Pulitzer prize-winning novel. The film is to be directed by Lasse Hallstrom ("Chocolat").
The story centers around a man (Spacey) who must rebuild his life after his wife runs off with his two daughters and sells them into prostitution. Blanchett will be playing the role of the ex-wife, Petal Bear.
Principal photography is scheduled to start before the potential strikes occur.
Blanchett, now being seen in the tense drama "The Gift," recently wrapped production on New Line's "Lord of the Rings."
A "DOMESTIC" BUSCEMI: Steve Buscemi ("Fargo") has signed to play a supporting role in Harold Becker's newest film, "Domestic Disturbance," for Paramount. Shooting started Monday in North Carolina.
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Denzel Washington scored a box office touchdown, finally giving Hollywood some ticket sales to "Remember."
Buena Vista/Disney's PG-rated football drama "Remember the Titans," from producer Jerry Bruckheimer, kicked off in first place with a muscular ESTIMATED $21.2 million at 1,865 theaters ($11,383 per theater).
"Titans" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing in wide release last weekend.
"Titans" marks the first $20 million-plus since the arrival of Columbia's "Hollow Man" last Aug. 4. It ranks as Denzel Washington's biggest opening, out-performing the $18.6 million that "Crimson Tide" kicked off with in May 1995.
Despite the strong performance by "Titans," key films in the marketplace continued to under-perform compared to a year earlier. Overall, the marketplace was down over 27% from last year.
Asked what accounted for "Titan
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., September 24, 2000 -- Horror was the word this weekend, both on screen and off as Hollywood suffered yet another under-performing weekend.
Columbia's R-rated horror sequel "Urban Legends: Final Cut" from Phoenix Pictures took the biggest slice of box office pie, placing first with an energetic estimated $8.8 million at 2,539 theaters ($3,466 per theater).
Insiders had anticipated a double-digit launch by "Urban." It was the third consecutive weekend in which the film placing first did not gross $10 million or more.
"The original opened to $10.5 million and went on to do $38 million. We certainly hope we can get to the $25-30 range, which would make it very profitable for us. It's a $14.6 million production cost, so we make money for sure," Sony Pictures Releasing president Jeff Blake said Sunday morning.
Asked about pre-weekend indust
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., September 21, 2000 -- Suburban teens should help cut "Urban Legends: Final Cut" the biggest slice of box office pie this weekend.
"'Urban Legends' can actually do double digits," one insider observes. "It'll be nice to see that again, won't it?"
"Urban," an R-rated horror sequel opening from Columbia Pictures at 2,539 theaters, is heading for first place with $12-13 million.
"Teens, particularly, have to be hungry for something to go see," says a distribution executive. "I think it's got a shot at $12 million."
Directed by John Ottman, "Urban" stars Jennifer Morrison.
Second place should go to DreamWorks and Columbia's critically-acclaimed "Almost Famous," which will expand to about 1,200 theaters in its second week. The R-rated comedy drama should do $7-8 million.
"They're in theaters where it ought to do business," a
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., September 17, 2000 -- There was lots of Olympic Gold but very little box office gold this weekend.
Insiders had anticipated low grosses and a close race for first place, and that's exactly what they got. With ticket sales down over 33 percent from this time last year, it took only $5.7 million for Universal's "The Watcher" to nail down the top spot.
Key films in the marketplace - those grossing $500,000 or more for the weekend - did approximately $47.58 million. Distribution sources said Sunday morning they believed that was the lowest total since the weekend of Sept. 11-13, 1998, when key films took in $48.85 million.
Was it the Olympics that killed the movie business this weekend? Key distribution executives share some thoughts about that in today's report (see OLYMPICS IMPACT below).
The weekend's biggest success story was DreamWor
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., September 14, 2000 -- Hollywood will suffer from the box office blahs this weekend.
In fact, insiders anticipate so little moviegoer enthusiasm for the weekend's new wide releases that it won't take much to capture first place.
Warner Bros. and Castle Rock Entertainment's R-rated action comedy "Bait" has the best shot at topping the chart thanks to a very wide opening at 2,352 theaters and its likely appeal to urban moviegoers.
"I'm sure it's going to play well to African-Americans, but after what happened to 'Turn It Up' last week (you can't expect much)," a source points out. "Bait' is probably $6-8 million, just because it's going out so wide and should have strong black appeal. Depending on what happens to 'The Watcher,' either film could be number one."
"I would say 'Bait's got a shot at number one. I would say in the high end of
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., September 10, 2000 -- Moviegoers' eyes were on "The Watcher" as Hollywood's fall season got off to an unexciting start.
Box office levels across the board were considerably less than insiders had anticipated going into the weekend. With many studio executives out of town attending the Toronto Film Festival, few insights were offered as to what went wrong. Overall, key films were estimated to have grossed about 22 percent less than this time last year.
With televised coverage of the Olympics expected to provide stiff competition from Sept. 15 through Oct. 1, Hollywood is holding back on opening high-profile films in September. That will almost certainly be reflected in ticket sales for the month.
"With the Olympics and everything else, I think it's going to be a lousy fall," predicted one insider.
"Watcher," an R-rated psychological th
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 15, 2000 -- Move over, Grinch, for Mel Gibson is in the house.
That said, looks like Jim Carrey's "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" will finally meet its match this weekend in the form of Gibson's romantic comedy "What Women Want."
With a big opening (playing on 3,000-plus screens) and "The Grinch's" natural decline, Mel and his "Women" should be able to take the box office crown this weekend.
Here's a look at the films opening this weekend .
"What Women Want"
THE SKINNY: After playing a stuffy revolutionary-type in this summer's "The Patriot," Mel Gibson switches gear in a comedy about a guy (Gibson) endowed with the ability to hear what women think. Helen Hunt plays one of those lucky females he mind-reads, and the cast also includes Marisa Tomei, Bette Midler and Delta Burke. THE UPSIDE: Pun intended: Women want Mel Gi
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LOS ANGELES, April 14, 2000 - Who are Gary Walkow, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, and Adrienne Shelly? They are among some of the unknown to little-known to cult-known filmmakers hoping to get noticed, publicize their low-budget films, and in some cases, find distributors, at the 6th Annual Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, which kicked off Thursday night at a low-watt event here at the Director's Guild of America.
Through Tuesday, 35 feature films and 45 shorts will be screened at the fest -- with the majority of the works directed, produced and starring mainstream unknowns.
The caliber of these upstarts notwithstanding, the LAIFF also will feature films featuring (relatively) more recognizable names. For instance: hip-hop impresarios Black Thought, DJ Cut Chemist and Mos Def in the music documentary "Freestyle;" John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez and Marisa Tomei in "King of the Ju
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 9, 2000 -- Ashley Judd is in "Double Jeopardy" no more.
According to last Friday's Hollywood Reporter, the non-singing Judd is in talks to star in the romantic comedy "Animal Husbandry," based on the 1998 novel by Laura Zigman about the mating rituals of urban professionals in New York City. Judd's paycheck reportedly will be $4 million.
The movie will be helmed by actor-director Tony Goldwyn ("A Walk on the Moon").
WHAT HELEN WANTS: It's not easy for a woman to turn down Mel Gibson twice. As Helen Hunt is learning. Hunt is reconsidering a starring role opposite Gibson in the romantic comedy "What Women Want," Daily Variety says. The Oscar winner turned down the project last month due to scheduling conflicts. She's gearing up to shoot the drama "Pay It Forward," starring Kevin Spacey and That "Sixth Sense" Kid (a k a Haley Joel Osment) i
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Mar. 24, 2000 -- Does an Oscar win equal prestige? Yes. How about a career jump-start? Gwyneth Paltrow Well, er ... Most of the time.
For every, say, Kevin Spacey who escapes indie fringedom to Hollywood stardom after bagging an Oscar (for 1995's "The Usual Suspects"), there's a Marisa Tomei whose film career seems jinxed following a win (for 1992's "My Cousin Vinny").
That said, let's take a look at what the Oscar has done for last year's winners. Or they Marisa Tomeis or Kevin Spaceys?
ROBERTO BENIGNI: After accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of sugarcoating the Holocaust with humor in "Life is Beautiful" and taking two Oscars (including the Best Actor trophy) for his feat, the larger-than-life Italian comic seems to be taking a smaller-than-life approach to things these days. After staking a supporting role in the comic-boo