Celeb News Aggregate
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Australian actress Naomi Watts has been offered the lead role in the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror classic The Birds.
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The box office preview of the weekend beginning April 12 Ben Affleck Samuel L. Jackson Roger Mitchell Changing Lanes Cameron Diaz The Sweetest Thing Bill Paxton Frailty Best New Friend Human Nature Charlie Kaufman Tim Robbins Tim Allen Rene Russo Big Trouble Barry Sonnenfeld Ashley Judd Morgan Freeman High Crimes Tara Reid National Lampoon's Van Wilder Jodie Foster David Fincher Panic Room Robin Williams Danny DeVito Death to Smoochy Clockstoppers Jonathan Frakes Dennis Quaid The Rookie E.T. Steven Spielberg Blade 2 Wesley Snipes Ice Age Showtime The Time Machine We Were Soliders Mel Gibson The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring A Beautiful Mind
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Fearing audiences would deem their content offensive, many Hollywood studios postponed the release of films after the Sept. 11 attacks on America. But as Disney's Big Trouble proved last week, the move seems to have hurt studios more than anything
Big Trouble Gangs of New York Windtalkers Collateral Damage Sidewalks of New York The Last Castle Training Day Spy Game Black Hawk Down Disney Miramax Universal MGM Warner Bros. Paramount Classics DreamWorks
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Box office analysis: April 7
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Box office analysis: March 31
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The box office preview of the weekend beginning April 5 Tim Allen Rene Russo Big Trouble Barry Sonnonfeld Ashley Judd Morgan Freeman High Crimes Ryan Reynolds Tara Reid National Lampoon's Van Wilder Jodie Foster David Fincher Panic Room Robin Williams Danny DeVito Death to Smoochy Clockstoppers Jonathan Frakes Dennis Quaid The Rookie E.T. Steven Spielberg Blade 2: Bloodhunt Wesley Snipes Ice Age Showtime Eddie Murphy Robert De Niro Resident Evil The Time Machine We Were Soliders Mel Gibson The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Peter Jackson A Beautiful Mind
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Box office analysis: March 24
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News Roundup for March 18 -- Steven Spielberg reworks E.T. The Extra Terrestrial for its 20th anniversary release; Elton John Ian McKellen Emma Thompson defend gay rights in Egypt Rene Russo supports Rosie O'Donnell a movie is being done about Prince William Julia Louis-Dreyfus' new show is failing in the ratings Madonna will do the new theme to next James Bond film
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Rene Russo is in Showtime this week but was also inspired by Rosie ODonnells comments about lesbians recently
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Box office analysis March 17
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The box office preview of the weekend beginning March 15 Ice Age Ray Romano Denis Leary Showtime Eddie Murphy Robert De Niro Rene Russo Resident Evil Paul Anderson The Time Machine Simon Wells All About the Benjamins Ice Cube Mike Epps We Were Soliders Mel Gibson 40 Days and 40 Nights Josh Hartnett Kevin Costner Dragonfly Queen of the Damned Denzel Washington John Q Return to Never Land Big Fat Liar Mandy Moore The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Peter Jackson A Beautiful Mind Gosford Park In the Bedroom Ameile Monster's Ball Halle Berry
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Box office analysis Feb 24 Queen of the Damned Aaliyah John Q Denzel Washington
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The box office preview of the weekend beginning Feb. 8 Arnold Schwarzenegger Collateral Damage Rollerball John McTiernan Chris Klein Norman Jewison Big Fat Liar Frankie Muniz Amanda Bynes Paul Giamatti Nicole Kidman Birthday Girl Slackers Devon Sawa The Count of Monte Cristo Kevin Reynolds Richard Gere The Mothman Prophecies Mandy Moore A Walk to Remember I Am Sam Sean Penn Kung Pow: Enter the Fist The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Peter Jackson Black Hawk Down Ridley Scott A Beautiful Mind Ron Howard Robert Altman Gosford Park
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Bandits looks at what happens when two escaped cons decide to go on a bank-robbing spree to finance a getaway to Mexico-and run into a woman who changes both of their lives. Our trusted reporters look at how the film rates as a heist movie and how well the three main actors--Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Willis and Cate Blanchett--got along.
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Box Office Analysis: Sept. 23
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The Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday decided to postpone the December release of the comedy action-adventure Bad Company starring Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock because of its terrorist plot line involving a suitcase bomb on the verge of detonation.
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Big Trouble Tim Allen Rene Russo Warner Brothers Collateral Damage Barry Sonnenfeld Arnold Schwarzenegger Touchstone Pictures Men in Black 2 Jackie Chan The Tuxedo Jennifer Love Hewitt Toronto Film Festival events canceled Steve Martin Danny DeVito Helena Bonham Carter Uma Thurman Nicole Kidman Denzel Washington Anthony Hopkins Sidewalks in New York Ed Burns Heather Graham Brittany Murphy
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Ice Cube is clearly becoming a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. The multitalented rapper-actor will begin filming The Big Ticket for DreamWorks in January. But for Ice Cube, this is just another notch on an otherwise brimming belt.
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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
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HOLLYWOOD, June 29, 2000 -- Mel Gibson's been a post-apocalyptic anti-hero, a half-cocked cop and a rich guy at war with kidnappers. But can he beat the redcoats? Can he beat George Clooney?
It's a historic showdown of sorts at the box office this weekend. Gibson's "The Patriot" and Clooney's "The Perfect Storm" are the first two films with $100 million budgets, gigantic marketing campaigns and big buzz to face off over a summer holiday (namely, July 4 or Memorial Day).
Already, "The Patriot" has the competitive edge. The Revolutionary War action flick opened Wednesday and scored $5 million. But that doesn't guarantee a hit -- last summer, "Wild Wild West" opened on a Wednesday too, with a nice $7 mil, and we know what happened to that one.
Oh, and let's not forget the cute lil' animated moose and squirrel in "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle," who also figu
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HOLLYWOOD, May 23, 2000 -- Looks like another "Saturday Night Live" reunion is in the making. Today's Daily Variety says Will Ferrell, aka the "SNL" guy from those laff-riot comedies "A Night at the Roxbury" and "Superstar," is slated to join Mike Myers in "Dieter," a big-screen project inspired by Myers old skit "Sprockets."
The story will follow Myers' suggestively kinky German talk-show host Dieter as his beloved pet monkey gets kidnapped. Ferrell will play his American cousin who is enlisted to find the missing monkey.
GIRL TROUBLE: "Dawson’s Creek’s" Katie Holmes will join Tom Sizemore, Tim Allen and Rene Russo in "Big Trouble," a Disney comedy about a group of people whose lives are interrupted by a nuclear scare. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Holmes will play Russo’s daughter.
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HOLLYWOOD, May 17, 2000 -- Ain't nuclear weapons funny? Rene Russo and Tim Allen hope so. Russo and Allen have signed to star in "Big Trouble," a comedy from director Barry Sonnenfeld based on a book by newspaper columnist Dave Barry. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it's a story about a nuclear bomb hidden in a suitcase that's rigged to blow up at a Miami airport.
One thing's for certain: It's gotta be funnier than Sonnenfeld's last one, "Wild Wild West." But, will it have a giant robot spider?
OLDMAN AND YOUNG WOMAN: Gary Oldman and Mena Suvari are in "final negotiations" to star in a new thriller by Peter Hyams called "D'Artagnan," according to today's Variety. Hyams' last film was the millennial action-prophecy flick "End Of Days" with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
HIDE YOUR WATCHES: Variety also notes that Christopher Walken will join Hilary Swank in the cast o
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Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" and George Clooney's "The Perfect Storm" should spark big box office fireworks this weekend.
"Patriot," the R-rated period piece drama from Columbia Pictures and Centropolis Entertainment, marched into 3,061 theaters Wednesday. It grossed an encouraging estimated $5.0 million ($1,633 per theater) in its first skirmishes with moviegoers.
"Patriot's" overall first-choice tracking of 26% has most insiders predicting it will win the five-day battle that ends with the Fourth of July holiday. After its $5 million start, it could wind up with a first place finish of $30 million or more for three days (Friday-Sunday) and $40 million or more for five days (Wednesday-Sunday).
"If you extrapolate from other performances on this kind of holiday, it could very well get to $30 million," a studio source explains. "It's a 2 hour 40 minute
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 29, 2000 -- Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" and George Clooney's "The Perfect Storm" should spark big box office fireworks this weekend.
"Patriot," the R-rated period piece drama from Columbia Pictures and Centropolis Entertainment, marched into 3,061 theaters Wednesday. It grossed an encouraging estimated $5.0 million ($1,633 per theater) in its first skirmishes with moviegoers.
"Patriot's" overall first-choice tracking of 26 percent has most insiders predicting it will win the five-day battle that ends with the Fourth of July holiday. After its $5 million start, it could wind up with a first place finish of $30 million or more for three days (Friday-Sunday) and $40 million or more for five days (Wednesday-Sunday).
"If you extrapolate from other performances on this kind of holiday, it could very well get to $30 million," a studio source exp
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 2, 2000 -- "Storm" clouds unexpectedly dominated the July Fourth weekend box office skies, raining on what was expected to be Mel Gibson's parade.
Nonetheless, there was plenty of room in the holiday marketplace for both Warner Bros.' "The Perfect Storm" and Columbia and Centropolis Entertainment's "The Patriot" to do blockbuster business. "Storm" made big waves with ticket sales of nearly $42 million, while "Patriot" marched ahead, grossing nearly $22 million with very encouraging exit polls.
Despite expectations based on tracking scores that "Patriot" would capture the top spot, it was "Storm" that won the battle with an estimated $41.68 million at 3,407 theaters ($12,234 per theater). Its cume for the five days ending with July Fourth should be about $63 million.
"Storm's" per-theater average was the highest for any film playing in wi