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December 12, 2011
New Year’s Eve earned only $13.7 million in its first three days of release, but in a weekend where its […]
December 8, 2011
Every once in a while a movie comes along with an ensemble cast so improbably spectacular that you just have […]
December 7, 2011
In Real Steel, Hugh Jackman plays ex-boxer Charlie Kenton who, along with his estranged 11-year-old son, enters into the world […]
December 5, 2011
Following last week’s dual Sundance announcements (of its competition and much of its out-of-competition lineup), the Sundance Institute has today […]
December 5, 2011
Amidst a slew of fairly weak competition, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1‘s weekend gross of $16.9 million […]
December 1, 2011
Following on the heels of yesterday’s announcement of the films selected to screen in the four competition categories of the […]
November 30, 2011
With less than two months to go until the annual electrification of the indie film scene that occurs courtesy of […]
November 29, 2011
With the Gotham Awards having taken place last night, awards season is now in full swing, and will stay that […]
November 21, 2011
Jack. Popeye. The Last Airbender. When a director of serious adult fare decides to helm a kid’s flick, let’s just […]
November 21, 2011
Breaking Dawn – Part 1, the latest movie in The Twilight Saga, came in at number one at the box […]
November 18, 2011
Today sees Breaking Dawn: Part 1, the fourth installment of The Twilight Saga, hitting movie theaters worldwide. Even before the […]
November 17, 2011
A commercially successful screenwriter friend of mine recently attended a showing of my film, The Lie. Afterwards, as folks were […]
November 16, 2011
In the darkly comic film Another Happy Day, hitting theaters this Friday, Ellen Barkin plays Lynn, a high-strung woman whose […]
November 14, 2011
Tarsem Singh’s swords and sandals epic Immortals came out on top at the box office last weekend, earning $32 million […]
November 10, 2011
Director Lavinia Currier’s (Passion in the Desert) film Oka! is based on the unpublished memoir of ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno, a […]
November 7, 2011
New releases Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas were unable to topple last week’s number one […]
November 3, 2011
In Killing Bono, based on Neil McCormick’s 2005 memoir I Was Bono’s Doppelganger, all Neil McCormick (Ben Barnes) wants to […]
October 31, 2011
A week after Paranormal Activity 3‘s unexpectedly high $52.5 million opening weekend gross thoroughly trounced the competition, the box office […]
October 20, 2011
Strap on your boots, moviemakers… award season’s back in town. Nominations for the 21st Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, the […]
October 17, 2011
Last weekend, Real Steel managed to beat out George Clooney’s Oscar contender The Ides of March for the top spot […]
October 6, 2011
Today marks the first day of the 34th annual Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF), an 11-day celebration of film that […]
October 3, 2011
This year’s New York Film Festival (NYFF), which kicked off on Friday, September 30th and runs through Sunday, October 16th, […]
October 3, 2011
The reign of The Lion King has come to an end, but it wasn’t a new release that stepped into […]
September 28, 2011
In Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, all best friends Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Tyler Labine) want to do is […]