Celeb News Aggregate
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box office analysis for weekend of Dec. 8
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the Thanksgiving weekend 2002. Includes a retrospective of the holiday weekend at the box office over the last 10 years.
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Box Office Analysis: Nov. 24
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for the weekend of Nov. 15, 2002. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 8 Mile The Santa Clause 2 The Ring Half Past Dead
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Box office analysis, Nov. 10
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for Nov. 3, 2002, featuring The Santa Clause 2, I Spy, Jackass: The Movie, The Ring, and more.
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Box Office Analysis: Oct. 27. Jackass: The Movie The Ring Ghost Ship Sweet Home Alabama My Big Fat Greek Wedding Punch-Drunk Love The Truth About Charlie Paid in Full Frida
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The Sixth Annual American Black Film Festival made its hot debut in Miami Beach last week. The five-day festival, which started Wednesday and wrapped Sunday, attracted many celebs, including Eriq LaSalle, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Jamie Foxx and John Singleton.
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Box Office Analysis: Sept. 9 Happy Accidents L.I.E. Rock Star Soul Survivors The Iron Ladies The Musketeer Two Can Play That Game
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Box Office Analysis: Sept. 2 Jeepers Creepers Rush Hour 2 American Pie 2 O Jay and Silent Bob Strike Captain Corelli's Mandolin Summer Catch Rat Race The Princess Diaries
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This week He Said, She Said on O with Makhi Phifer, Julia Stiles, and Josh Hartnett.
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HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 6, 2001 -- In these turbulent times, films dealing with high school violence are being shelved -- presenting a serious problem for the film, "O," a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's "Othello" that takes place in a high school.
Dimension Films and its Miramax parent completed the film in the summer of 1999. As in the play, the tragedy ends with four characters brutally killed, one wounded and the others left asking "Why?" The movie stars Julia Stiles, Mekhi Phifer, Josh Hartnett and Martin Sheen.
When executives screened the film, it was a little more than a month after the Columbine High School shootings, and the violence depicted sent up warning flares. Unsure of what to do, Dimension postponed the film's Oct. 17, 1999 release.
Even after more than a year, politicians' anti-violence campaigns, especially those of former vice-presidential candid
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Inside.com reports that Miramax has paid the producers of O about $1 million to settle a complaint alleging the studio breached its distribution agreement by failing to release the film before March 17.
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Sean Maher, Mekhi Phifer and Ben Gazzara have been cast in ABC's Wonderful World of Disney's Sunday showcase Brian's Song, a remake of the Emmy-winning 1971 TV movie starring James Caan and Billy Dee Williams.
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 18, 2001 -- Sales may have been weak for mid-January, but the Beatles are still going strong, holding on to the No. 1 spot in the album sales chart for the seventh week in a row.
The Beatles’ "1," a compilation album featuring all 27 of the Fab Four’s No. 1 hits, sold more than 260,000 units in the week ending Sunday, Daily Variety reports. The chart topper has practically revived the financial kitty for its record company, Capitol Records and its parent, EMI. “1” has sold more than 7 million units to date.
Reggae guy Shaggy took the No. 2 spot, selling 191,000 units of his latest effort, “Hot Shot.” The rest of the Top 10 remained the same, among them Creed’s “Human Clay” at No. 4, Sade’s “Lovers’ Rock” at No. 6 and Snoop Dogg’s “Tha Last Meal” at No. 8.
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