Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: March 6th, 2011

Niall Browne — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:01:49 +0000

This Week:

Johnny Depp’s Rango wrangles to the top of the box office, while Matt Damon makes a minor Adjustment; Kevin Spacey and David Fincher stack a House of Cards; Beware The Ides of March – in October; Tony and Ridley Scott speak Pigeon English; Joel Silver has A Line of Sight, It’s A. Mann’s World for Kelly Hu, Caitlin Crosby, Sandra Vergara and J.R. Bourne and more.

Johnny Depp’s Rango (read our review) topped the box office over the weekend. The ILM animated film, which reunited the A-list star with his Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski, grossed an estimated $38 million.

Matt Damon was in second place with The Adjustment Bureau (read our review). The Phillip K. Dick adaptation surpassed expectations and banked an estimated $21 million – the film was heavily marketed as Bourne meets Inception.

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Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up – March 19, 2009

Niall Browne — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:38:47 +0000

This week:
Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman look at Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry; Justin Long is Going the Distance; Joel Silver knows an Unknown White Male; Lionsgate, Rhys Meyers and Travolta love Paris and Harris hangs in Dante’s Inferno.

1. Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman will star in and produce Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry.

According to Variety:

“The book takes the form of a Sotheby’s-like estate auction catalog, with 325 entries and photographs depicting items that reveal the private moments and the rise and fall of a four-year relationship between the fictitious couple Hal Morris (a 40ish photographer) and Lenore Doolan (a New York Times food columnist in her late 20s).”

The film, which will be a romantic comedy is based on a novel by Leanne Shapton.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and ...

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: March 6th, 2011

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