Celeb News Aggregate
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Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan has signed up to test her comedy skills alongside Jack Black in romantic comedy Ye Olde Times.
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Box Office Analysis for February 9, 2003. How To Lose a Guy in 10 days, Shanghai Knights, Chicago, The Recruit, Final Destination 2, Deliver Us From Eva, Kangaroo Jack, Biker Boyz, Darkness Falls, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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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 for the weekend of Dec. 29: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Catch Me If You Can Two Weeks Notice Maid in Manhattan Gangs of New York Drumline The Wild Thornberrys Movie Harry Potter and the Chamer of Secrets The Hot Chick Die Another Day
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Box Office Analysis: Dec. 22
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Martin Grove's box office analysis for Dec. 15, 2002, featuring Maid in Manhattan, Star Trek: Nemesis, Die Another Day, The Hot Chick, Drumline and more.
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Celebrities such as Tony Shalhoub Martin Sheen Kim Basinger Helen Hunt and Susan Sarandon are banding together to try and get President Bush to stop a possible war with Iraq. Pamela Anderson Tommy Lee Lorenzo Lamas My Big Fat Greek Wedding Nia Vardalos Orlando Jones The Sopranos
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Universal Studios is getting ready for a third helping of American Pie, which is set to begin filming in January.
American Pie 3 Jesse Dylan Jason Biggs Alyson Hannigan Eugene Levy Lance Bass Jeremy Irons Demi Moore Charlie's Angels 2: Halo Jonathan Demme Jodie Foster Barbershop sequel Biker Boyz Lisa Bonet
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Originally scheduled for release on Dec. 13, space epic Solaris by director Steven Soderbergh is moving to an earlier launch date of Nov. 27. Also George Clooney.
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 5, 2000 -- Most of the country will have to wait 21 more days to see “Thirteen Days.”
New Line Cinema has pushed back the wide release of Kevin Costner’s historical drama by nearly a month to avoid the high-profile competition it would have gone up against on its original launch date, Dec. 22.
"Days" will now be released on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, Jan. 12, Variety reports. The film will instead get a limited release Dec. 22 in New York and Los Angeles for Oscar consideration.
The Cuban Missile Crisis thriller still faces tough competition on Jan. 12 by films such as “Traffic” with Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, “Finding Forrester” with Sean Connery, “Antitrust” with Ryan Phillippe and Tim Robbins, Disney’s action comedy “Double Take” with Orlando Jones, and “O Brother, Where Art Though?” starring George Clooney.
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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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Box Office Analysis June 10
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 14, 2001 -- The hip-hop teen romance "Save the Last Dance" starring Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas dethroned box office champion "Cast Away," earning an estimated $24 million during the Friday-through-Sunday period of the Martin Luther King Jr. four-day weekend, according to estimates by Hollywood.com's box office analyst, Martin Grove.
After three weekends on top, Tom Hanks' "Cast Away" finds itself in the runner-up spot. The film earned $17.2 million, bringing its total to $168 million.
Steven Soderbergh's Golden Globe frontrunner "Traffic" remained in the No. 3 spot with an estimated $11.2 million (its total stands at $35.1 million). Taking two steps down from last week is the Mel Gibson comedy "What Women Want," which took in $10.5 million and has thus far grossed $153.9 million.
The fifth and sixth spots saw a close race between the week
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12, 2001 -- Looks like Tom Hanks has finally met his match.
And believe it or not, it is in Julia "Teen Beat" Stiles.
That's right. Hanks' seemingly invincible "Cast Away" withstood the test of supremacy last week with the wide release of "Traffic" (although "Traffic" played in many less theaters). But this weekend (a four-day weekend for most kids due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday), it's likely that the bubble gum flick "Save the Last Dance" could knock "Cast Away" off the No. 1 spot.
Then again, it might not.
OK, you got us. We're not definite about anything this weekend. But before you go throwing your popcorn at us, hear us out.
"This is a very crowded marketplace," Brandon Gray, editor of boxofficemojo.com, told Hollywood.com. "It's going to be a busy weekend, with all the new releases and the expanding releases."
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 22, 2000 -- "Evolution" is starting to evolve. Julianne Moore and Orlando Jones are in the final stages of negotiations to appear in the Ivan Reitman comedy with David Duchovny, Daily Variety reports. Seann William Scott ("Road Trip") also has signed up to appear in the film about a group of misfits who encounter an alien organism that lands in the New Mexico desert.
GERE UP: Richard Gere and "Arlington Road" director Mark Pellington have committed to "The Mothman Prophecies," a film revolving around the real-life paranormal activities that took place in West Virginia in the late 1960s.
BRUCKHEIMER'S 'BLACK SHEEP': Walt Disney Co. has given a thumbs-up to the Jason Richman-written action comedy "Black Sheep," Variety also reports. Jerry Bruckheimer ("Coyote Ugly") will produce, with possible directing by Jon Turteltaub ("Phenomenon").
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2000 -- The two faces of Don Corleone may be reunited in the upcoming crime drama "The Score." Daily Variety reports that Marlon Brando is in negotiations to co-star alongside Robert De Niro in the Frank Oz-helmed project. Also starring in the film is Edward Norton ("American History X").
Brando and De Niro last appeared in the same movie as the younger and older faces of Corleone in "The Godfather: Part II." Their collaboration on "The Score" marks the first time they will appear together in the same scenes.
The story involves a young con played by Norton who seeks out De Niro's veteran thieving skills to pull off one last heist. Brando will play De Niro's fence. Shooting on the Mandalay/Paramount project is set to begin in late April in Montreal.
AH-NULD SEEKS 'DAMAGE': Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed up for action in "Collateral
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2000 -- The report on "Minority Report?" Likely a go.
We told you Sunday that Tom Cruise hopes the sci-fi thriller will be his next project. Now it looks like Steven Spielberg is confirming the same.
Cruise, a Golden Globe winner over the weekend for "Magnolia," addressed the project backstage, saying, "We're gonna make that movie -- Steven and I have been meeting and talking about it, and we really want to work together and we really want to make 'Minority Report.'"
And Spielberg's response? There're two versions. While trade papers report today that "Minority Report" is among the likely candidates (the children's book "Harry Potter" and the sci-fi flick "A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)" being the others) the acclaimed director is considering to tackle, the New York tab, on the other hand, is reporting that a Spielberg/Cruise "Report" i
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Hollywood is expecting Warner Bros. and Castle Rock Entertainment's opening of "The Green Mile" to walk off with the most box office green this weekend.
The R-rated drama, written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tom Hanks, kicks off at more than 2,850 theaters.
"'Toy Story [2],' if it's down in the neighborhood of 35-40%, is $16-18 million. And I think 'Green Mile' beats that based on the tracking. They're sitting there with an 18% first choice right now," one studio executive said earlier this week."
"It is high," he said of the tracking results. "Although I understand the reviews are not very good, with Tom Hanks (starring), that's $20 million-plus."
While a $20 million-plus opening is certainly very attractive, it's not spectacular. One of the factors working against a bigger first weekend for the adult appeal "Green" is that adults are bu