Fri Nov 20, 2009, 1:57 pm EST
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Source: Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
Vampire romance movie "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" raked in $26.3 million at North American box offices in midnight showings, breaking the record set by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," studio officials said on Friday.
Box office analysts expect the widely-anticipated "New Moon" to make around $100 million in its opening weekend, Friday through Sunday, including the midnight screenings.
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Fri Nov 20, 2009, 3:57 am EST
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Source: Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -
"Dark Void" will yield movie development matter.
Indian giant Reliance BIG Entertainment and Brad Pitt's Plan B shingle are developing a film version of the upcoming video game, and Pitt could well star as the lead combatant.
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Fri Nov 20, 2009, 2:42 am EST
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Source: Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -
Warner Bros. is going to the dogs, signing on to acquire and develop "Nubs," a feel-good story of a pooch and a U.S. Marine based on a publishing sensation.
"Nubs" tells the story of a stray dog that Maj. Brian Dennis rescued while on a tour of duty in Iraq. After nursing the dog back to health and caring for it as his own, he arranged to have him shipped back to the U.S. and was reunited with the dog when his tour ended.
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Fri Nov 20, 2009, 2:39 am EST
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Source: Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -
Idris Elba has joined the cast of "Thor," Marvel Studios' film centering on the Norse god of thunder.
Kenneth Branagh is directing the adaptation of the Marvel comic. Chris Hemsworth will star as Thor; Tom Hiddleston will play Loki, and Natalie Portman is the love interest, Jane Foster.
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Fri Nov 20, 2009, 2:33 am EST
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Source: Reuters
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) -
Staten Island is regarded as New York's bastard stepchild of a borough, and unfortunately, this film is unlikely to enhance its reputation. A Tarantino-influenced crime drama featuring a tripartite story line that is far too precious for its own good, "Staten Island" will do nonexistent business in theaters after it opens Friday (November 20), but should garner video and television exposure thanks to its reasonably well-known cast.
Actually, the film is less reminiscent of Tarantino than Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," thanks to its time-shifting chronology and the presence of Ethan Hawke, playing yet another grungy lowlife. (For his next film, this talented actor really needs to shave and perhaps don a tuxedo.)
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Fri Nov 20, 2009, 2:31 am EST
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Source: Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -
The moon may be new, and the director may be different (Chris Weitz takes over the reins from Catherine Hardwicke), but otherwise, the second installment of the "Twilight" saga remains, for better or worse, exceptionally faithful to its 2008 beginnings.
Understandably not wanting to mess with that $350 million worldwide success, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," is content to stay within those tonal parameters rather than venture out in potentially more intriguing or substantial directions, which should suit its ferocious adolescent female fan base just fine.
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Fri Nov 20, 2009, 2:29 am EST
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Source: Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -
Uma Thurman soon will be making time with Rob Pattinson.
The actress has signed to star opposite the "Twilight" star in an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story "Bel Ami." Kristin Scott Thomas also has joined the cast.
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Thu Nov 19, 2009, 9:13 am EST
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Source: Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
Hollywood watchers think vampire romance "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" could take a nearly $100 million bite from movie theater box offices when it debuts this weekend, and score one of the biggest openings ever for a non-summer film.
"New Moon," which debuts in the United States and Canada on Friday, is independent studio Summit Entertainment's sequel to last year's "Twilight," which surpassed expectations by making $69.6 million in its first weekend.
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Thu Nov 19, 2009, 8:51 am EST
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Source: Reuters
BERLIN (Reuters) -
German director Werner Herzog will head the jury at the 2010 Berlin film festival, organizers said on Thursday.
The 67-year-old is considered one of the leaders of the New German Cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and has made more than 50 films in a career spanning five decades.
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Thu Nov 19, 2009, 8:07 am EST
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Source: Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) -
U.S. actor Zac Efron takes another step away from the world of high school musicals that made him famous with a part in "Me and Orson Welles," which also features British newcomer Christian McKay in the title role.
In the movie, which hits British theatres on December 4, 22-year-old Efron plays a teenaged student who fortuitously stumbles into a minor role in the 1937 Mercury Theater production of "Julius Caesar" directed by the young Welles.
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