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'2012' Forecasts The World's End In This Week's Box Office Poll
22 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Before we delve into this week's releases, I want to take a second to give "Precious" a shout. Opening on just 18 screens, the Sundance favorite and Oscar buzzer still managed to take in just shy of $2 million. It's not a movie I intend to see again anytime soon, but it's a compelling work of fiction. And even if it wasn't, I'm a person who is impressed by cold, hard facts. And the big fact here is that "Precious" enjoyed a monster opening weekend as a limited release.
Moving on, this week's star is director Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic disaster flick, "2012." John Cusack and his pals fly around the world, bearing witness to scenes of mass destruction as humanity crumbles all around. Sounds super-uplifting, doesn't it? I'm guessing that this will be the big weekend winner; it's definitely on my "must see" list.
Opening alongside "2012," though in a not-quite-as-wide release, is "Pirate Radio, »
- Adam Rosenberg
'A Christmas Carol' Defeats 'This Is It' At Box Office
9 November 2009 7:01 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Michael Jackson documentary moonwalks into second place behind big-budget retelling of classic Christmas story.
By Josh Wigler
Ebenezer Scrooge (voiced by Jim Carrey) in "A Christmas Carol"
Photo: Disney
Box-Office Top Five
#1 "A Christmas Carol" ($31 million)
#2 "Michael Jackson's This Is It" ($14 million)
#3 "The Men Who Stare at Goats" ($13.3 million)
#4 "The Fourth Kind" ($12.5 million)
#5 "Paranormal Activity" ($8.6 million)
Despite the first-place finish of Robert Zemeckis's 3-D representation of "A Christmas Carol," yuletide cheer seemed halfhearted at the weekend box office. Given Jim Carrey's star power, the movie's $200 million budget and the potential family-crowd draw, the $31 million debut from "A Christmas Carol" is a disappointing result for the Disney version of the Charles Dickens classic.
Second place went to "Michael Jackson's This Is It," which earned less than half as much as the first-place finisher. Winding down Friday evening in fourth place, "This Is It" wound up in the #2 slot thanks »
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 ‘Pirate Radio’ Chicago Screening Passes With Philip Seymour Hoffman
8 November 2009 5:23 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – In our latest comedy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Pirate Radio”! The film was formerly titled “The Boat That Rocked”.
“Pirate Radio” from writer and director Richard Curtis (“Love Actually,” “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Notting Hill”) stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge, Rhys Darby, Talulah Riley and January Jones. The film opens everywhere on Nov. 13, 2009.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Pirate Radio” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer our question below. That’s it! This screening will be held on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
“Pirate Radio” stars Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Image credit: Universal Pictures
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Box Office Beat Down: Disney's a Christmas Carol Celebrates the Holidays Early with $31 Million
8 November 2009 1:55 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Weekend Box Office
1) Disney's a Christmas Carol - $31 million
2) Michael Jackson's This Is It - $14 million
3) The Men Who Stare at Goats - $13.3 million
4) The Fourth Kind - $12.5 million
5) Paranormal Activity - $8.6 million
6) The Box - $7.8 million
7) Couples Retreat - $6.4 million
8) Law Abiding Citizen - $6.1 million
9) Where the Wild Things Are - $4.2 million
10) Astro Boy - $2.5 million
Robert Zemekis' 3D performance capture retelling of the classic Charles Dickens' story, Disney's a Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carey as the immortal villain Scrooge took the top spot this weekend in it's first week of release grossing an estimated $31 million at the box office. The film, which cost an estimated $200 million to make, was released on 3,683 screens for an average of $8,417 per screen. While last weeks number one film, Michael Jackson's This Is It, fell nearly 40% earning an additional $14 million this week in the box office. Playing on an estimated 3,481 screens, the »
Insert Caption: Pirate Radio
6 November 2009 1:10 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Welcome back to another edition of Insert Caption -- the game that whole-heartedly congratulates the New York Yankees on their 27th (!) World Series title! Last week we asked you to join a little staring contest with a few our of goat friends in honor of the new comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats (in theaters now). Congrats go out to our three animal-loving winners, all of whom have admitted to staring at Cinematical all day long (because we're just that cool).
1. "Part of a secret government program to... bake me a cake as fast as you can." -- Kurt P.
2. "The mirror game is a fun acting game to play in Army Acting Class...as long as you know and trust your partner implicitly." -- John R.
3. "Little did the woman know, but an electrifying rendition of the Ymca was about to break out." -- Ben M.
See full »
- Erik Davis
Free Pirate Radio screening in Baltimore! Nov. 12th
5 November 2009 10:19 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
Atomic Popcorn would like to invite you to set sail on an exciting journey. Rock & Roll will live forever – but can it float? Pirate Radio, the newest ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis (screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill), is ready to make your belly ache. The film has an all-star cast that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy. Tickets to the screening will be handed out at the door on Thursday, Nov. 12th at 730 pm at a local AMC theater.
Check out more about the film below:
Pirate Radio is the newest ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis (screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, and writer/director of Love Actually), spinning the irreverent yet fact-based tale of a seafaring band of rogue rock and roll deejays whose “pirate radio” captivated and inspired 1960s Britain. Playing the music that rocked a nation and a decade, »
- Matthew
Cs Video: Richard Curtis on Pirate Radio
5 November 2009 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
The history of rock 'n' roll was forever changed in the '60s by the British Invasion, and the influence of bands like The Beatles and The Stones and The Who and The Kinks and others are still felt today. And yet, in England, the government-run radio stations only allowed an hour of popular music on air a day, forcing music DJs to take their show to the sea, broadcasting rock music from boats off the coast of England 24 hours a day for anyone who wanted to listen. That's the musical history at the center of Pirate Radio , the new ensemble comedy from Richard Curtis that features an illustrious cast including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Rhys Darby ("Flight of the Conchords") and Rhys Ifans and others playing DJs on just such a ship. The story is told... »
Monthly Movie Preview – November 2009 … A Christmas Carol, 2012, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and more
3 November 2009 5:34 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
It’s the holidays. We know this because the movies tell us so. This year they waited exactly one week after Halloween to start the Christmas fare with Jim Carrey’s A Christmas Carol. But even though the month starts with Christmas, the movie month plays out just like Thanksgiving.
At first, we’re given an array of wonderful treats that’s we’ll happily gobble up like George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats or George Clooney in the stop-motion Wes Anderson movie Fantastic Mr. Fox. Plus, teenage girls and a few others, will have their vampire appetites filled with The Twilight Saga: New Moon. But then, just like Thanksgiving, you gorge a little too much. And even though you’re full, you look around for something more to eat … and that’s when Old Dogs seems to be your only option.
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- Jeff Bayer
Twitter Giveaway: ‘Pirate Radio’ Official Soundtrack
30 October 2009 11:15 AM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
It’s a crime that there are only a dozen or so films about, or involving, the world of broadcast radio. Not too many actually deal with the tribulations of censorship, though, which is where the upcoming film Pirate Radio comes in.
The film is about a group of rogue DJ’s on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic who broadcast a pirate radio station in the 1960s, despite the laws forbidding Rock and Roll…all for the love of music. Given the fact that the film is all about 60’s Rock, you can believe that the soundtrack is pretty killer, and you may get to win a copy!
Starting today, keep an eye on our Twitter account every week for a trivia question involving “Radio in The Movies.” The question may be the name of the radio station from Grosse Point Blank or the name of the epic band in Airheads, »
- Matt Raub
Pirate Radio Soundtrack Giveaway!
30 October 2009 5:20 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
Richard Curtis’ upcoming Pirate Radio is getting a lot of attention for having a great cast (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gemma Arterton, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy and others) as well as having real-life subject material that is so great, one might think it is fictional. The film revolves around a group of rock deejays who took to the seas in 1960s Britain to keep the music alive.
And now, AtomicPopcorn.net is giving away 5 copies of the official soundtrack for the film! Each soundtrack has two discs chock full of music from great bands, including The Kinks, The Turtles, John Fred and the Playboys, Martha Reeves, The Beach Boys, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Jeff Beck, The Who, The Troggs, The Hollies, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Otis Redding, Easybeats, and more! It’s a great compilation of period music.
To get your chance at being one of five »
- John Cooper
‘Pirate Radio’ - Nick Frost flys solo on the Boat that Rocked the UK
29 October 2009 11:34 AM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
When you see Nick Frost in films, often it’s alongside his buddy Simon Pegg in flicks like the zombie comedy ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ or action spoof ‘Hot Fuzz,’ but for his upcoming film ‘Pirate Radio,’ Frost breaks free from his comrade comfort zone to embrace a new character.
In the film, Frost plays Dr. Dave, a member of a band of rogue deejays who captivated British radio listeners in the ’60s, playing the music that defined a generation and boldly defying the government that tried to shut them down.
Nick Frost stars as 'Doctor' Dave in Richard Curtis' rock and roll comedy Pirate Radio, a Focus Features release.
“…It was good for me that I didn’t have the safety harness of being with my two best friends,” notes Frost, referring to Pegg and Wright. “And, I really had to pinch myself knowing that I have an acting »
- Shannon
Four Funny Clips from Mary and Max
26 October 2009 12:13 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
IFC Films has sent over four clips from Adam Elliot’s animated “Mary and Max”, which follows the tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary (Bethany Whitmore), a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the movies it’s cute, but in real life the cops kick down your door for it. Go figure. Mary And Max is a clayography feature film from Academy Award® winning writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, featuring the voice talents of Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries and Eric Bana. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary And Max tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man »
- Nix
January Jones and Diane Kruger join Liam Neeson in Unknown White Male
26 October 2009 4:19 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Now we’ll be able to say “Mad Men” and Inglourious Basterds are just one step away from The A-Team.
Variety reports that January Jones (Betty Draper from “Mad Men”) and Diane Kruger (Bridget von Hammersmark from Basterds) have joined the man set to play Col. John ‘Hannibal’ Smith in a new thriller by Dark Castle called Unknown White Male.
A man wakes up from a coma (of course he does) to find that someone else has assumed his identity, and no one, including his wife, believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
Jones will play Neeson’s wife, Kruger will play his new ally.
The screenplay is written by Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell and Karl Gajdusek.
Need your January Jones fix before this? She’ll be on the big screen with Philip Seymour Hoffman in Pirate Radio.
Source: Variety »
- Jeff Bayer
Ciff 2009: The winners! And our reviews
22 October 2009 6:39 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor, »
- Roger Ebert
Amelia Reviews
22 October 2009 9:31 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Does this Earhart biopic soar or crash and burn? (Thanks. We'll be here all week!)
"...ranks with recent real-life portrayals of Ray Charles by Jamie Foxx and Truman Capote by Philip Seymour Hoffman and could be similarly awards-bound."
— Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter
"...Amelia doesn't seem to have a clue about who Earhart really was."
— Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
"The fact that Amelia's plane and body were never found remains a lasting mystery. The only mystery about this waxwork of a movie is why it was ever made."
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"If Amelia has any value (which is a dubious proposition), it's as an object lesson in the follies of the conventional biopic, which puts mindless recapitulation of historical data above analysis or insight."
— Sam Adams, Onion Av Club
"To say that Amelia never gets off the ground would be an understatement; it barely makes it out of the hangar. »
- reelz reelz
Trailer: Pirate Radio
22 October 2009 2:20 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
In the 1960s a group of 8 rogue DJs on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music. The songs they played united and defined an entire generation and drove the British government crazy. By playing rock 'n roll they were standing up against the British government who did everything in their power to shut them down. Directed by Richard Curtis of Love Actually, the cast of the film includes Nick Frost, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge, Bill Nighy and Talulah Riley. »
- Ricky
Rt on DVD: Land of the Lost and Hannah Montana
21 October 2009 9:13 AM, PDT | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »
This week, Will Ferrell and Danny McBride's bizarro comedy Land of the Lost arrives on DVD (surely bound for a possible cult following among stoners), as does Miley Cyrus' first big screen adventure as Disney songstress Hannah Montana. Plus, John Malkovich heads to South Africa for Disgrace and an Oscar-winning stop-motion animator cranks up the quirk for his feature debut Mary and Max -- starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in puppet form. »
Hitting Theaters This Week
21 October 2009 7:23 AM, PDT | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
A two-time Oscar winner climbs into the cockpit, a popular manga is fodder for an animated family-friendly tale, vampires look to continue their current hot streak, and a horror franchise is looking to trap more fans in this week's new releases:
Amelia starring Hilary Swank and Ewan McGregor
Astro Boy featuring the voices of Freddie Highmore and Kristen Bell
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant starring Chris Massoglia and John C Reilly
Saw VI with Tobin Bell and Tanedra Howard New and Expanded Photo Galleries
A Single Man Photos - Colin Firth/Julianne Moore
Edge of Darkness First Photo - Mel Gibson/Shawn Roberts
The Fourth Kind Photos - Milla Jovovich/Elias Koteas
The Men Who Stare at Goats Photos - George Clooney/Ewan McGregor
Pirate Radio Photos - Philip Seymour Hoffman/Bill Nighy
Spike TV's Scream 2009 Photos - Alexander Skarsgard/Johnny Depp And a Couple of New Posters »
Pirate Radio interviews with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy and Nick Frost
21 October 2009 3:53 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy and Nick Frost star in this Richard Curtis directed comedy that used to be called The Boat that Rocked. Kenneth Branagh and Rhys Ifans also star. But really, from early peaks it looks like the reason to see Pirate Radio is for that thick goatee Hoffman is sporting. This is a period piece set in the 60s about an illegal radio station and the emerging pop music.
Richard Curtis is the man behind Love Actually, a film I watch every year with my wife. It’s surprising, but this is only the second film Curtis has directed.
Philip Seymour Hoffman talks about being The Count, and his approach to being a DJ.
Bill Nighy (who also starred in Curtis’ Love Actually) talks about how he got involved in the project.
Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) is not Gregor Fisher who played opposite Nighy in Love Actually. »
- Jeff Bayer
Swank's 'Amelia' Performance Gets First Oscar Kiss
20 October 2009 3:02 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Twelve women have earned 26 of the 82 Academy Awards for Best Actress, but only one of them - Katharine Hepburn - has more than two Oscars in that category. Her fourth win was for On Golden Pond. It is not outside the realm of possibility that Hilary Swank could make history with her third Oscar in ten years thanks to her work in Amelia, due in theaters this weekend.
While Hepburn was nearly 62 when she picked up Oscar number three (The Lion in Winter), Swank is only 35 and seems likely to receive a nomination for portraying the legendary Amelia Earhart, although I had not really considered her a front runner, precisely because she's won twice already. If Meryl Streep can't win three...
But in its review of Amelia, The Hollywood Reporter says Swank just might have the inside track:
"Freckle-faced, prairie-voiced and fiercely independent, Hilary Swank's depiction of aviator Amelia »
- Colin Boyd
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