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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: August 21st, 2011

Niall Browne — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:20:40 +0000

This week:

The Help cleans up at the box office and moves to the top spot. Meanwhile Conan laments and the Spy Kids may have all the time in the world – but they don’t have the cash, and Fright Night‘s box office sucks; Phillip Noyce gives up the Hunt; Bill Paxton saddles up and joins Kevin Costner in The Hatfields and McCoys; great Scott – it’s The Wild Bunch and Michael Fassbender takes Prisoners.

Box Office

A slew of new entries saw disappointing results as The Help took the top spot over the weekend. The drama grossed an additional $20 million and upped its gross to almost $72 million, making it one of the biggest sleeper hits of the summer.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes dropped to second place after grossing another $16.3 million. This latest instalment of the Planet of the Apes franchise is holding very well, ...

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: April 24th, 2011

Sandy Schaefer — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:07:29 +0000

This week:

The Easter box office goes to the birds, elephants, and Madea; Bob and Harvey Weinstein find something to Crow about; Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin look to become members of the Gangster Squad; Emile Hirsch has joined the Savages; Relativity Media sets a date for House at the End of the Street; and Denis Villeneuve will take charge of Prisoners.

Box Office

Rio reigned triumphant for a second time over the Easter weekend, dropping only 32% to an estimated $26.6 million over the holiday frame, and upping its total cume to $81.1 million. Twentieth Century Fox is almost undoubtedly developing plans for a sequel to the kid-friendly toon, with the hopes that this will be the beginning of a new franchise that could match the popularity of Blue Sky Animation’s Ice Age series. More colorful, celebrity-voiced animal characters in 3D, anyone? Anyone?

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Will Leonardo DiCaprio Take Prisoners?

Niall Browne — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:31:54 +0000

After his critical and financial success with Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island comes news that Leonardo DiCaprio is now attached to star in the long-gestating thriller Prisoners for Alcon Entertainment.

The film has seen a revolving door of talent since it was first announced last year. Bryan Singer and Anton Fuqua both flirted with directing the film and Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale were at one point both set to star in the film that is being pitched as Taken meets Mystic River.

According to Deadline:

“DiCaprio wants to play a small-town carpenter who takes matters into his own hands when his daughter and her friend are kidnapped.”

The producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson had hoped to start shooting Aaron Guzikowski’s script this month for an October release date (the run up to awards season) but it looks like they’ll have to wait ...

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Screen Rant’s 2010 Movie Preview

Kofi Outlaw — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:46:40 +0000

As 2010 approaches, it’s time to bid farewell to the cinematic happenings of 2K9 – but what does the near-future hold for movie lovers? Luckily for you guys, we here at Screen Rant are dusting off our crystal ball and looking ahead… all the way to the year 2010.

Be sure to read through our entire 2010 movie preview (of over 70 movies!) to get the scoop on when you’ll be able to catch big flicks like Iron Man 2, Christopher Nolan’s Inception, Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Shutter Island, Freddy Krueger’s return to Elm Street, a comic book adaptation that’s sure to Kick-Ass, an animated showdown between Dreamworks’ Shrek Forever After and Pixar’s Toy Story 3 – and for the ladies, a second helping of Sex In The City and an obscure little film called ...

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Antoine Fuqua Set To Take ‘Prisoners’

Ross Miller — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:27:16 +0000

Risky Biz Blog is reporting that Training Day director, Antoine Fuqua, is in negotiations to helm Prisoners, (no longer “The Prisoners”) a film taken from a “hot spec script” written by Aaron Guzikowski. The script was said to have created a stir when it first appeared earlier this year, with high-profile actors Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg once attached to star, X-Men helmer Bryan Singer eyeing the director’s chair and a number of different studios looking to pick up the project.

However, soon after the producers of Prisoners sold the film to Alcon, reconfigured the project to have a lower budget (around the $30-40 million mark) and went forward without a cast for the time being, so that they could get things in motion faster. And it appears that the approach is working; the film ...

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Bale & Wahlberg Take No “Prisoners”

Niall Browne — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:35:29 +0000

Several months ago we told you about The Prisoners (the “The” is new), a thriller with Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale attached to star, while X-Men director Bryan Singer was eyeing the directors chair. Well, the film has now been put on the fast-track for a fall 2010 release.

There’s just one problem – Wahlberg, Bale and Singer are no longer attached to the film.

So what does this mean?

With Wahlberg and Bale out of the picture the field is now wide open for casting. The irony being that Wahlberg and Bale are now starring together in David O. Russell’s The Fighter. Maybe the duo didn’t want to re-team (maybe Wahlberg walked into Bale’s eyeline while they were shooting?) or this new fast-tracking didn’t align with their respective schedules (might Bale ...

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Movie News Wrap Up: April 6, 2009

Niall Browne — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:10:00 +0000

This week:

The box office is Furious; Jack Bauer leaves 24 for Joel Schumacher’s Twelve; Paul Weitz looks at Little Fockers; Rosemarie DeWitt and Chris Cooper are Company Men; Aaron Eckhart and Nicole Kidman stare into the Rabbit Hole; we make a date for Sex and The City 2 and Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg are Prisoners.

Box office
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker raced into the number one position with Fast and Furious. The action sequel banked a massive $72 million over the weekend – showing that there is plenty of gas left in the Fast and Furious franchise. Maybe Vin Diesel will get those Riddick movies made after all.

Monster vs. Aliens dropped to second place but it still managed to gross $33 million giving the animated film a gross of over $100 million.

The Haunting in Connecticut took another $9.6 million bringing the total gross to a pretty decent $37 ...

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: March 22, 2009

Niall Browne — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:18:54 +0000

It’s Sunday and therefore it’s Wrap Up time. This week:

We Know who is top of the box office; Cage and Bruckheimer make a date; Beatty fights over Dick Tracy; George Lucas’s Red Tails gets Wild(s); get ready for Demonkeeper; Segal meets Little Fockers and Universal knows the Rites of Men.

Box Office
Nicolas Cage is king of the box office with Knowing. The Alex Proyas (I Robot) directed film should manage about $24-25 million over the weekend. Put it this way, Knowing made more on Friday than Bangkok Dangerous made on it’s opening weekend.

The Paul Rudd- Jason Segal comedy I love You, Man should cash in $18 million over the weekend. The R-rated comedy was similar to the weekend starts of the stars previous film like Role Models and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Julia Roberts re-teams with Clive Owen for Duplicity. The comedy-caper film should steal $14.5 million from audiences over ...

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: March 8, 2009

Niall Browne — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:01:46 +0000

In this weeks Wrap Up:

Watchmen watches the top of the box office; Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan are A Couple of Dicks; we may not get Three Stories About Joan but we will get a lot of suing; Wahlberg takes Prisoners; Steve Carrell brings us the worlds first “Testosterone comedy” in Hi-T; Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck knows The 28^th Amendment (and breaks my spell check).

Box Office

As predicted Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Watchmen captured the top spot at the box office with an estimated $55 million opening weekend. A pretty substantial sum considering the near three hour running time and the R rating. Time will tell if the film has legs and the mainstream crossover appeal to the general public.

Madea Goes to Jail banked another $8.5 million to keep acquire the runner-up spot. So far the Tyler Perry film has netted $76 million.

Liam Neeson’s sleeper hit Taken has ...

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