Top of the Box Office

This weekend at the box office saw Iron Man holding steady for the second week in a row despite anticipated competition from the newly-released Speed Racer, starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci and Susan Sarandon. The first movie from Marvel Studios took in over $50 million dollars this past weekend, bringing its total gross up to $175 million. Speed Racer finished second with a cool $20-plus million.

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May 12th, 2008 | Category: Top of the Box Office | By Mallory Potosky

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Kodak at Cannes

Since 1987 Kodak has been the official partner of the Cannes Film Festival, sponsoring the Camera d’Or prize that is awarded yearly to the best feature film by a first-time director. The tradition continues in 2008 when, for the fifth consecutive year, the festival will also hand out the Kodak Discovery Prize for Best Short Film.

“Cannes draws a huge number of filmmakers from all over the world every year, which gives Kodak a great opportunity to host our customers and show them how committed we are to the industry and to motion picture innovation,” says Kim Snyder, Kodak’s president and general manager of the Entertainment Imaging Division.

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May 8th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Mallory Potosky

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Who’s Your Favorite Indy Sidekick?

After 27 years and what will soon be four movies in the franchise, Indiana Jones has introduced audiences to his fair share of sidekicks. Which of Indy's co-stars has scored the biggest response from audiences? The folks at MovieTickets.com asked that very question of site visitors--and determined that 37 percent of them preferred Short Round, Jonathan Ke Quan's character in the franchise's second entry, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Sean Connery took a quarter of the votes for his portrayal of the elder Jones, Professor Henry Jones, Sr., in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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May 7th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Jennifer M. Wood

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