Over the weekend we posted two new interviews with those people from The Wrestler whose names are not Mickey Rourke: co-star Marisa Tomei and director Darren Aronofsky.
Rourke has gotten the lion’s share of the press — and yep, we’ll be coming out with an interview with him soon — but the movie is a successful [...]
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Interviews with The Wrestler’s Marisa Tomei and Darren Aronofsky
January 19, 2009 – 3:11 pm
Box Office Jan. 16-19: Blart Cleans Up, but Everything Does Well
January 19, 2009 – 2:50 pm
Kevin James was the surprise winner at the box office this weekend with Paul Blart: Mall Cop, which scored an estimated $39 million over the four-day Martin Luther King Day weekend. The studio was smart to go with a PG rating as the film was able to tap into family audiences.
The even bigger surprise, though, [...]
Box Office December 12-14: ‘Day the Earth’ Takes Off
December 15, 2008 – 1:26 pm
The Day the Earth Stood Still landed this weekend with $31 million. That was on the low end of predictions (most were in the $30-$45 million range), but it was still high enough to easily take the #1 spot for the weekend. #2 went to the three-week-old Four Christmases, which declined only 21% from last [...]
Golden Globe nominations!
December 11, 2008 – 6:12 pm
The short version: Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, and Kate Winslet do well, while Milk and The Dark Knight get snubbed except for one nomination apiece. On the TV side, Lost and Grey’s Anatomy are shut out completely, while House and Mad Men both score big.
You want more? Okay, here are the nominations:
BEST PICTURE – DRAMA
The Curious [...]
The Wrestler Gets a Knockout Trailer
November 21, 2008 – 6:12 pm
The pun was unavoidable.
No, seriously, everybody online is raving about the new trailer for The Wrestler out today, and that’s because it’s great. People have been talking about this movie like crazy since it won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, to the point where Mickey Rourke is a (if not the) frontrunner [...]
Warner Bros. Releases the Dark Knight Screenplay, No Strings Attached
November 12, 2008 – 4:13 pm
Big movie studios aren’t usually this cool…but Warner Bros. is publicly releasing the full final draft of The Dark Knight’s screenplay, by Christopher and Jonathan Nolan, from a story by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer. No strings attached. So if you’re a student of screenwriting (like me), or you just want to see what a [...]
Trailer for Cadillac Records! Is it Dreamgirls 2.0 or Something More?
November 5, 2008 – 11:13 pm
The new trailer for Cadillac Records was just released to the masses via TrailerAddict, and the early look is very encouraging. Starring Adrien Brody, Beyonce Knowles, Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def, and a number of other famous names, the flick chronicles the rise of music legends like Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Etta James in the Chicago [...]
The 5 Biggest Oscar-Baiting Movies of 2008
October 22, 2008 – 1:46 pm
Let’s get one thing straight: there are way more than five movies that will be in play at the upcoming Oscar ceremony in February. And there are way more than five movies that deserve to be in play. But when I say “Oscar bait,” you know what I’m talking about: movies that, ever since they [...]
The Soloist ditches 2008; is The Road next?
October 19, 2008 – 4:22 pm
A number of high-profile big blockbusters have already fled late 2008 for warmer climates, Star Trek and the sixth Harry Potter movie being the two biggest. Now it seems the trend has shifted to Oscar-bait movies.
The Soloist, a drama starring Jamie Foxx as a homeless violin prodigy and Robert Downey Jr. as the reporter [...]