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Earlier this year, Forbes magazine named Angelina Jolie the most powerful celebrity of the year. Now, coming to show that recession too makes some exceptions every once in a while, The Hollywood Reporter informs that Jolie remains the highest paid actress in Hollywood, as well as the only one who can actually get the... |
8 December 2009
05:14 GMT |
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“New Moon,” the second film in “The Twilight Saga,” may have been trashed by critics upon release (and even by some fans later on), but it continues to make a lot of money, remaining atop of the North American box-office for the second consecutive week. As MTV informs, the film made an additio... |
30 November 2009
10:06 GMT |
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Earlier this month, as the promo campaign for “Avatar,” one of the most anticipated releases of this winter, was kicking into high gear, reports started to emerge as to how the film stood little chances of actually making a profit at the box-office, especially since it became possible because of an estima... |
24 November 2009
12:12 GMT |
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They’re so popular they can command multi-million dollar paychecks for a single movie. Their name alone, until not long ago, was enough to sell movie tickets and merchandise and turn a big-budget movie into a smashing hit that makes history. They are the most overpaid actors in Hollywood at the moment, accordin... |
20 November 2009
05:30 GMT |
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This December, James Cameron and fantasy-film fans will be treated to what is deemed one of the most ambitious and potentially successful projects of almost two decades: Cameron’s “Avatar.” However, boasting an estimated budget of about $500 million and almost no star power, while neither a story wi... |
9 November 2009
11:39 GMT |
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Sony Pictures’ docu-film made under the direction of Kenny Ortega as he handled rehearsals at Los Angeles’ Staples Center for Michael Jackson’s London series of shows took the number one at the North American box-office over the weekend, moving past faux-documentary horror “Paranormal Activity... |
2 November 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Paramount has a certified, albeit surprising, winner on its hands with the low-budget, faux-documentary “Paranormal Activity.” Now on its fifth weekend, the horror expanded to more theaters and has managed to take the top spot at the box-office in the US in the process, the Los Angeles Times informs. As e... |
26 October 2009
05:19 GMT |
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2009 marks the sixth year that audiences are invited to the scarefest that is the imagining of the undertakings of the Jigsaw killer, “Saw.” As a rule, the film opens strong each year around Halloween time and then slowly slips down the box-office chart to become a cult classic, kept alive by a very stron... |
23 October 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Critics often say it’s harder and harder these days to count on a good scare at the cinema because Hollywood is either too afraid to take any chances or fixated on remakes, reboots and sequels to be able to come up with something new. “Paranormal Activity” seems to be the one movie that will finally... |
12 October 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Just a couple of years ago, the names on movie posters were sometimes enough to sell tickets and pack large theaters with fans, not just for the premiere weekend, but throughout the entire theatrical run of a film. These days, moviegoers are easier and easier deterred from coming out of the house to go and catch a fi... |
24 August 2009
03:08 GMT |
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Over the weekend, critics rushed to trash the latest Paramount action movie “G.I. Joe,” saying that the very move on behalf of the studio not to screen it for all critics was a sign that it did not have any faith in the project. As we were also saying then, in the end, it’s audiences who decide what... |
10 August 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest mockumentary “Bruno” opened in US theaters this Friday and, over the weekend, it has proved that it stands to become a serious “Borat” contender in terms of box-office gross. Still, that does not mean that the film is necessarily good in terms of tackling the t... |
13 July 2009
10:42 GMT |
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Going to show that what movie critics say is not always what the audiences want to hear, or see in a film for that matter, Beyonce’s critically panned “Obsession” swept all competition at the US box-office over the weekend. Grossing $28 million, the thriller starring the singer has proved to have a ... |
27 April 2009
10:05 GMT |
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While acts like the Jonas Brothers are and will always be extremely popular with a certain demographic, as also will be the movies or related products they put out, the unthinkable has happened. The Brothers’ “3-D Concert Experience,” expected to rake in millions in its first week, tanked at the US ... |
2 March 2009
09:21 GMT |
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This was the summer of box-office hits - that much is for sure. But the summer of 2007 was more than that: it was the best period of the year for threequels to come out, among which 'Pirates of the Caribbean', 'Shrek', 'Spiderman' and 'Ocean's' were only the most profitabl... |
13 August 2007
04:51 GMT |
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Everyone talked last week about the "Transformers" movie and how much of a success that was and how it's gonna be the beginning of a beautiful franchise and all that. Well I say the "Transformers" movie didn't quite stand out to the task because it was topped by a children's film. Although Harry Potter... |
16 July 2007
10:57 GMT |
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