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Box Office Guru Wrapup: Brüno Struts To The Top SpotSacha Baron Cohen scored another number one hit with his latest shockfest comedy Brüno which opened atop the North American box office bumping two-time champ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to third place. The hit toon Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs remained in second while the new teen comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper was rejected and debuted in seventh. Overall ticket sales slipped from a year earlier. Fans hit the multiplexes and drove Brüno to the top spot with an estimated $30.4M in tickets sold this weekend. Playing in 2,756 theaters, the fewest for a number one pic this summer, the R-rated film about the Austrian fashionista's quest for fame averaged a strong $11,040 per location. However, the daily breakdown signaled trouble ahead. Brüno banked an impressive $14.4M on its opening day on Friday, but collapsed by 39% on Saturday to $8.8M. Sequels and films with built-in audiences routinely suffer Friday-to-Saturday drops on opening weekend, but the Universal release plunged by an unusually hefty amount. |
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First pic from Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. FoxHere's the first image from Wes Anderson's forthcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox -- featuring Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney), Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep) and Badger (Bill Murray). |
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Tomatometer Watch: How Good is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?The Harry Potter franchise gets its sixth film adaptation next week, and early buzz on the wizarding saga is... fantastically fresh! As Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and Co. experience the first tremors of teenage love -- and all the hormonal shifts that come with puberty, (Hog)warts and all -- the battle between good and evil is also heating up. Can Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and returning helmer David Yates withstand the series' growing pains? By the looks of things, Half-Blood Prince not only might maintain the franchise's track record of Certified Freshness (all five previous installments won the honor), it may also conjure up the best reviews of the entire series. As a wizard might say, "Merlin's Beard!" |
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Deconstructing Harry, Day 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanThe third installment of the Harry Potter series marks the franchise's shift into darker territory than we've previously seen. And although he's still producing, Chris Columbus has now handed over the directing reins to Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien) and that's a great move for the series. Cuarón's film is bit darker, a bit more sinister, and even a bit more wistful, which is as much a function of his direction as it is Rowling's development as a writer. The action, as always, starts off at the Dursleys' home in Surrey, but Harry quickly gets fed up with them, and basically packs his bags and leaves the house. In Prisoner of Azkaban, even the suburban streets of Surrey are dark and lonely; we can already tell that under Cuarón's direction, Harry's world is going to be a much darker place. |
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Weekly Ketchup: T.J. Hooker Film in DevelopmentThe film development news leading up to the 4th of July was relatively slow, but this week's Ketchup is overflowing hot news items, including several superhero movies, two TV show adaptations, the requisite relaunch of a 1980s movie, a SNL skit-turned-movie and new projects for Will Smith, George Clooney, Mel Gibson and Jason Statham. #1 T.J. HOOKER TO RIDE A WINDSHIELD RIGHT INTO YOUR LOCAL MOVIE THEATER Although Hollywood is still mostly infatuated with remakes, the industry hasn't forgotten old TV shows, with the latest wave coming mostly from the 1980s (The A-Team, MacGyver, Magnum P.I.), following the previous batch of TV show adaptations that was mostly from the 1970s (Charlie's Angels, Starsky & Hutch, The Dukes of Hazzard). The latest 1980s TV show to get put into development as a movie is the 1982-1986 ABC (and then CBS) cop drama, T.J. Hooker. |
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Friday Harvest: Harry Potter, Jennifer's Body, and more!Happy Friday Harvest, a weekly round-up of the best pictures, posters, and videos that have become available for viewing/download on Rotten Tomatoes. Each section features the favorite or most interesting item we've added for the week, along with several other new highlights. Enjoy! Picture Gallery of the Week: Harrry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince London premiere Our editor-in-chief Matt started his Harry Potter watching series on Wednesday, and seeing those images from The Sorcerer's Stone has got us saying, "Has it REALLY been eight years already?" Believe it: the Hogwarts kids are all grown up as they enter the final stretch of filming, and walk the red carpet for next Wednesday's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. |
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Warners Shortens Green Lantern WishlistWarner Bros. has reportedly narrowed its list of potential Green Lanterns to three names: Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds, and...Justin Timberlake. |
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Harold Ramis Talks Ghostbusters 3In a new interview with Natalie Portman's MakingOf.com, Harold Ramis opened up about "Ghostbusters 3," his experiences making the first chapter in the series, and the disappointment of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." |
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Six Weeks of Reshoots for The WolfmanReportedly in an effort to make the title character look scarier, Joe Johnston's "The Wolfman" has undergone six weeks of reshoots. |
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Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster Reunite for The BeaverMel Gibson has agreed to star in "The Beaver," a Blacklist-topping script about "a depressed man who finds solace in wearing a beaver hand-puppet." Jodie Foster will direct and play Gibson's wife. |
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Zooey Deschanel Joins David Gordon Green's Your HighnessZooey Deschanel has joined the cast of "Your Highness," the David Gordon Green comedy about "an arrogant, lazy prince" (Danny McBride) who embarks on a quest to save his father's kingdom with his brother (James Franco) and a warrior princess (Natalie Portman). |
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Tomas Alfredson to Direct Le Carre Adaptation"Let the Right One In" director Tomas Alfredson has found his next project, an adaptation of the John Le Carre novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." |
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Lindsay Lohan Launches Production CompanyTaking advantage of being "plugged into so much mobile media," Razzie Award-winning actress Lindsay Lohan has announced plans to launch a production company to create "some unforgettable TV and movie content." |
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Eli Roth Promises Thanksgiving FeastHe won't be getting to work on it right away, but Eli Roth promises a full-length "Thanksgiving" movie will happen -- in fact, "the money is in a bank account." |
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First pics of Ellen Page in Drew Barrymore's Whip ItUSA Today has a look at the first images from Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It, starring Juno's Ellen Page as -- shock! -- "an indie-rock loving misfit" who joins the roller derby league. The film releases October 9. |
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Deconstructing Harry, Day 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsI'm going to borrow the title of a 4 Non Blondes album for my summation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: "Bigger, Better, Faster, More." The set pieces are larger, the chemistry between the actors has vastly improved, the film moves along much quicker than the first film, and it's simply a lot more fun to watch. I will say that this movie doesn't really stand on its own though. That's not really a knock against the film -- there are plenty of franchise installments that require knowledge gained from previous entries (The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Back to the Future, etc). I'm just pointing out that this chapter, and others, can't stand alone the same way a James Bond movie does. |
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Critics Consensus: Bruno is Certified FreshThis week at the movies, we've got Austrian audacity (Bruno, starring Sacha Baron Cohen) and graduation gratification (I Love You, Beth Cooper, starring Hayden Panettiere and Paul Rust). What do the critics have to say? Sacha Baron Cohen has become one of cinema's most daring provocateurs - and astute social critics. Critics say his latest vehicle, Bruno, is at once laugh-out-loud funny, teeth-grittingly awkward, and disarmingly intelligent - though it's a few notches below his last gonzo doc, Borat. I Love You, Beth Cooper attempts the same high-wire act as many wild teen comedies - it promises raunchy laughs, but also tries to something to say about the teenage condition. Unfortunately, the pundits say Beth Cooper fails on both levels. |
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Box Office Guru Preview: Audiences in Style with BrünoTwo comedies hit North American multiplexes hoping to steal audiences away from fighting robots and animated mammoths. Looking to become box office prince is Universal's raunchy shockfest Brüno which reunites the Borat team of actor Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles. The buzzworthy pic stands to kick Transformers out of the number one spot after its two-week reign. Also opening on Friday, although with much less hype, is Fox's high school tale I Love You, Beth Cooper. The overall marketplace will struggle to match up to year-ago numbers. Bursting into multiplexes demanding to be noticed is Brüno, an equal opportunity offender that will attract a large audience this weekend. |
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Total Recall: Mock Docs That RockSacha Baron Cohen has made a career of blurring the lines between reality and fiction. The British-born Cohen gained a cult following in the states with his cult hit Da Ali G Show, then went on to big-screen fame with the gut-busting, wince-inducing gonzo mock doc Borat. This week he's back with another of his alter egos: the flamboyant Austrian fashionista Bruno. And since Bruno toys with narrative while tweaking real life, we at RT decided to run down a brief history of the mockumentary. Here, you'll find classics Like This Is Spinal Tap alongside some lesser-known but still important examples of the genre. |
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Spider-Man 4 Gets Its Third WriterGary Ross has been hired to rewrite the script for "Spider-Man 4," coming aboard after drafts by James Vanderbilt and David Lindsay-Abaire. |
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