April 28, 2011
Jodie Foster Talks Elysium
Up until now, we haven't known much about Neill Blomkamp's "Elysium" -- but thanks to this new interview with Jodie Foster, we have a few details.
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January 20, 2011
Sony Picks Up Blomkamp's Elysium
Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" follow-up "Elysium," a sci-fi project taking place 100 years in the future and starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, and Sharlto Copley, has found a home at Sony.
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September 24, 2010
Polanski Plots All-Star God of Carnage
Roman Polanski has started casting for his next project, an adaptation of the play "God of Carnage," and it's a pretty impressive list: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, and Christoph Waltz are currently attached.
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June 29, 2010
Jodie Foster and Carey Mulligan are Stoker's Aces
Carey Mulligan and Jodie Foster are in talks to star in "Stoker," a Fox Searchlight drama about "an eccentric teenager whose enigmatic and estranged uncle returns to the family after the death of the girl's father." Wentworth Miller (star of "Prison Break") wrote the script.
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February 19, 2009
Georgia Groome - Fresh Talent on RT
She was 13 when she made her big screen debut in Paul Andrew Williams' affecting drama London to Brighton, and drew stellar notices from critics as a young victim of child prostitution. A few years later, and with a string of roles under her belt, Georgia Groome, who celebrated her 17th birthday last week, is preparing to take to the London stage and return to the medium that launched her career. "I started out in theatre and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage," she enthuses to RT, "I start rehearsals in the next 2 weeks." RT continues our Fresh Talent series by exploring her ever-evolving career.
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February 4, 2008
RT on DVD: The Brave One, Assassination of Jesse James Fire Onto DVD
It's a week of bravura performances among new releases, so pick your favorite headliner and go: Jodie Foster going vigilante (The Brave One), Casey Affleck turning traitor (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), or Cate Blanchett reigning supreme (Elizabeth: The Golden Age).
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September 27, 2007
Box Office Preview: Kingdom Hopes to Win Box Office Crown
After two weeks of rule by Jodie and Milla, the boys come charging back in what could be a fierce fight for the number one spot. With little to no overlap in customers, both Jamie Foxx's The Kingdom and The Rock's The Game should have room to breathe.
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September 20, 2007
Box Office Guru Preview: Jovovich vs. Alba in Multiplex Mayhem
Jodie Foster will find herself in the middle of a catfight over the number one spot this weekend. The star of current chart-topper The Brave One will face challenges from Milla Jovovich's new action sequel Resident Evil: Extinction, Jessica Alba's romantic comedy Good Luck Chuck, and the Amanda Bynes college laugher Sydney White.
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September 16, 2007
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Jodie Struggles But Still Hits #1
For the second straight weekend, a star-driven action drama aimed at adult audiences opened at number one with $14M in ticket sales from roughly 2,700 theaters. This time it was Jodie Foster's The Brave One which topped the charts bumping former champ 3:10 to Yuma to the runner-up spot.
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September 13, 2007
Box Office Guru Preview: Jodie's Got A Gun!
Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster returns to the big screen this weekend in the vigilante thriller The Brave One which has its sights set on an easy top spot debut. The frame's only other wide openers, the comedy Mr. Woodcock and the fantasy adventure Dragon Wars, bring with them less buzz and look to make less of a dent into the North American box office.
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September 13, 2007
Critical Consensus: Brave One Isn't Tops, Mr. Woodcock is Flaccid, Hunting Party is Busted
This week at the movies, we've got vigilantes (The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster), gym teachers (Mr. Woodcock starring Billy Bob Thornton and Susan Sarandon), war correspondents (The Hunting Party, starring Richard Gere and Terrence Howard), and dragons (Dragon Wars, starring Jason Behr). What do the critics have to say?
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October 5, 2006
Box Office Guru Preview: "Departed" Arrives with a Bang
Movie studios are offering something for every age group over the Columbus Day holiday weekend. Mature adults will go undercover with Martin Scorsese's cop thriller "The Departed," twentysomethings looking for a scare get the horror prequel "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning," while teenagers have a chance to laugh with the new comedy "Employee of the Month."
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September 28, 2006
Box Office Guru Preview: Ashton vs. Ashton - This Time It's Personal
Ashton Kutcher fans get two chances to see (or hear) their favorite star this weekend as the Hollywood prankster takes on reigning box office champ "Jackass: Number Two" by voicing a mule deer in the animated comedy "Open Season" and going up against Kevin Costner in the action drama "The Guardian."
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February 8, 2006
"Flightplan" Soars on Sales, Rental Charts
It was a smooth DVD landing for Buena Vista Home Entertainment's "Flightplan," as the Jodie Foster-starring thriller topped both the national DVD sales and rental charts for the week ended Jan. 29.
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December 9, 2005
Trailer Bulletin: Inside Man
Looking for a good cop thriller from Spike Lee that stars Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Willem Dafoe? I know I sure do. But for now, this all-new theatrical trailer will have to suffice.
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November 24, 2005
A Day to Give Thanks (for Good Thanksgiving Movies!)
The Newsday column gets to take a few days off during the big holidays, but I couldn't let today go by without offering our friends a handful of Turkey-day treats. If you're looking for a holiday-appropriate movie to watch with the family while all your turkey and stuffing is digesting, feel free to pick one (or more) of these Thanksgiving-centric flicks.
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October 10, 2005
Wallace & Gromit are Big Cheese at the Weekend Box Office
DreamWorks' clay-mated "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" snagged the #1 spot at the weekend box office with a decent haul of $16.1 million from over 3,600 theaters, handily bumping Jodie Foster's "Flightplan" (and its third weekend tally of $10.8 million) into second place.
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October 3, 2005
Foster's "Flight" Tops "Serenity" Start
For the second weekend in a row, Jodie Foster's air-thriller "Flightplan" was #1 at the North American box office. The Disney flick made an estimated $15 million in its sophomore session, and its grand total now stands at $46.1 million. Debuting in second place, with a not-awful but coulda-(shoulda)-been-better tally of $10.1 was Joss Whedon's "Serenity."
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September 19, 2005
Lotsa Pennies for "Heaven" at the Weekend Box Office
As expected, the Reese Witherspoon romantic comedy "Just Like Heaven" handily snagged the #1 spot at the weekend box office, grossing an estimated $16.5 million from 3,500 theaters. Based on the early returns from Ms. Witherspoon's last vehicle, "Sweet Home Alabama," the tally is seen as somewhat of a disappointment, but hey, first place is still first place.
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September 15, 2005
Toronto Film Fest: ?Flightplan? with Jodie Foster and ?Shopgirl? with Steve Martin
Today, we cover two films at the Toronto International Film Festival in which the central characters are women. Jodie Foster follows her 2002 mother-daughter, claustrophobic thriller "Panic Room" with another -- "Flightplan." Steve Martin returns to independent filmmaking with "Shopgirl" co-starring Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman.
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September 14, 2005
Tour "Flightplan"'s State-of-the-Art Plane
IGN FilmForce has obtained a "Flightplan" exclusive -- a flash tour of the state-of-the-art E-474 aircraft featured in the movie. "Flightplan" stars Jodie Foster as Kyle Pratt, a recently widowed mother whose daughter vanishes during a trans-Atlantic flight.
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July 26, 2005
Jodie Foster to be the Queen of "Sugar"
Jodie Foster will direct "The Sugar Kings" for Universal Pictures, says Variety. The story is about "a young lawyer who teams with a veteran public-interest attorney to take on powerful sugar barons who are exploiting cane-cutting migrant workers."
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May 6, 2005
Trailer Bulletin: "Flightplan"
We haven't seen much of Jodie Foster since "Panic Room," but here she comes a nifty-looking thriller that asks the question: How can a child vanish during a cross-country airline flight? Check out the first trailer over at Yahoo! Movies, but be warned ...
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