November 3, 2010
Bart Scott Biopic in the Works
New York Jets defensive star Bart Scott could get the "Blind Side" treatment thanks to Unique Pictures, where a biopic about the linebacker is in the works.
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March 23, 2010
RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: Blind Sides and Fantastic Foxes
Coming out this week on home video, we have a couple of multiple-Oscar nominated films (one featuring the winner of the Best Actress award), as well as the usual list of new releases. Luckily, while some of them are Rotten, we don't have any outright stinkers in this week's roundup, which is a refreshing change. Then, we've also got a couple of little-seen films from the international market, as well as a few Blu-Ray reissues of classics, ranging from a couple of Kurosawa essentials to Pixar's perhaps best-loved franchise. So dig in, make your list, and pick these up for your next Friday night.
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December 6, 2009
Box Office Guru Wrapup: The Blind Side Takes the Lead
This weekend audiences across North America cheered on Sandra Bullock as she defeated all her opponents to clinch the number one spot at the box office with her runaway hit drama The Blind Side which spent the last two weeks in second place. Flip flopping positions, The Twilight Saga: New Moon finished in the runnerup spot while new releases were met with moderate to dismal results. It was typical for the frame as the weekend after the Thanksgiving holiday session always sees huge declines and unimpressive openings from new titles. But overall, the marketplace remained strong with sales up double digits over last year and 2007.
Crowd favorite Sandra Bullock scored her second number one of the year with The Blind Side which climbed from second to first place with an estimated $20.4M for a relatively light 49% decline.
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November 29, 2009
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Vampires and Football Break Thanksgiving Records
Audiences feasted on leftovers and drove the North American box office to a new record for the busy Thanksgiving holiday frame. Moviegoers were almost evenly split been vampire love and football heroics as The Twilight Saga: New Moon remained at number one while Sandra Bullock's The Blind Side held steady in second place with just $2.4M separating the two. That was a far cry from the $108.7M gap between the pair last weekend when they both opened as Twilight tumbled and Blind Side rose this weekend. The disaster film 2012 placed third as no new release managed to make it into the top three. The Top 20 over Thanksgiving weekend has consistently delivered $150-160M over the last six years but this time it soared to $181M, a new industry high.
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November 24, 2009
The Blind Side Springs Hancock from Movie Jail
All the positive buzz surrounding "The Blind Side" must be nice for Sandra Bullock, but it's particularly liberating for director John Lee Hancock, who's been in "movie jail" ever since "The Alamo" flopped in 2004.
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November 19, 2009
Critics Consensus: New Moon Wanes
This week at the movies, we've got hot teen vampires (The Twilight Saga: New Moon, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson); a football family (The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron); and some interplanetary mishaps (Planet 51, with voice work by Dwayne Johnson and Jessica Biel). What do the critics have to say? So far, it looks like the latest installment of the Twilight Saga is failing to resonate with the critics, but that didn't stop the first movie from doing gangbusters at the box office, pleasing all of the book's fans in the process. Sandra Bullock hasn't had much luck this year on the Tomatometer, and that doesn't look to change. And lastly, Planet 51 seems as though it doesn't carry much narrative weight behind those flashy visuals. Read the full article for all the details.
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November 5, 2009
Oscar Buzz for Sandra Bullock?
Could Sandra Bullock possibly earn an Oscar nomination the same year that "All About Steve" came out? She will if the Los Angeles Times' Pete Hammond has anything to say about it.
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