Celeb News Aggregate
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Dreamworks Animation will likely wrap up the weekend with its All-Time Third-Best Opening with Kung Fu Panda (Paramount).
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Warner Bros. ha told me this morning that Sex & The City scored an estimated $17.7M on Saturday, and they are calling for $55.7M for opening weekend. The truth is that anything more than $30M for the weekend would have been a triumph.
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Sex and the City (Warner Bros), which enjoyed a meteoric $27M in sales in its first 24 hours, had a much quieter Saturday. At least 25 percent quieter. It looks like Sunday could add at least $14M for a truly remarkable $60M opening weekend.
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Former Felicity star Keri Russell tied the knot with her long-time boyfriend Shane Deary in New York City on Valentine's Day.
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Box Office Analysis for Sept. 28: The Rundown takes the top spot followed by Under the Tuscan Sun Underworld Secondhand Lions The Fighting Temptations Once Upon a Time in Mexico Duplex Cold Creek Manor Matchstick Men Lost In Translation.
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Vampire warrior Selene not only slayed werewolves this weekend, she executed the competition and helped the supernatural thriller Underworld garner a nefarious $22 million at the box office. Top Ten: Underworld Secondhand Lions The Fighting Temptations Once Upon a Time in Mexico Cold Creek Manor Matchstick Men Cabin Fever Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Lost In Translation
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The live-actioner Daredevil challenged four new wide releases and won hands down with a superlative $18.9 million take at the box office this weekend. Top Ten Daredevil Old School How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days The Jungle Book 2 Chicago The Life of David Gale Shanghai Knights Gods and Generals Dark Blue The Recruit
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2000 -- In case you haven't heard, another big budget, big boat flick is about to set sail in Hollywood.
Nope, it's not a sequel to "Titanic." But given its eye-popping $135 million upfront budget, it'd better be like one at the box office.
The film in question is Disney's grandiose World War II opus "Pearl Harbor," and the big boat in particular is the battleship Tennessee (which was once the film's working title) -- the Pearl Harbor-docked vessel where the bulk of the film's eponymous Japanese bombing attack sequence takes place.
Reuniting "Armageddon" producer-director team Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay and written by "Braveheart" scribe Randall Wallace, the flick follows the tenuous love triangle involving two buddy pilots and a nurse stationed at Pearl Harbor during and after the attack.
Despite the emphasis on the
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 1, 2000 -- Will "Felicity" be flunked by the WB? And if it is, will it be granted the equivalent of a summer-school reprieve by ABC? That's the latest buzz, according to today's Hollywood Reporter. The sophomore college-life series, starring Keri Russell, Scott Foley and Scott Speedman, is ranked No. 144 for the season to date, which even by the WB's generous standards is -- how should we say? -- lousy.
The Reporter says if the WB brings down the ax on the show, ABC might be of a mind to pick it up. It could be a karma thing -- the WB previously stole "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" from the alphabet network.
All will be revealed the week of May 15, when all the networks unveil their schedules for the 2000-2001 season.
"South Park" KENNY LIVES (STAN, TOO): "South Park" duo Matt Stone and Trey Parker have inked a new three-year deal with
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HOLLYWOOD, June 23, 2000 -- Admit it, you've done it. Rolling down the highway, humming that theme song to yourself: "Go Speed Racer, Go-oo!" Well, if you've got six figures to spare, you can roll down the highway (or an off-road track, anyway), singing that song, in the real deal: Speed Racer's powerful Mach 5 race car. But you'd better hurry, the car's up for auction on eBay, and bidding closes Thursday.
That's right, we're talking about a real-life version of the Mach 5 -- Speed's nifty car that could jump over canyons, drive under water, fly -- everything but cure cancer.
"It's awesome, it's an absolute rocket, and it sounds just like it does on the cartoon series. The engineer spent five hours tuning the carburetor so it sounds just like it does when Speed Racer revs it up at the beginning of the show," Ward Leber, CEO of the Child Safety Network, tells Hollywood.co