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Natalie Portman & Benjamin Millepied Make it Official; Marvel Sued for Avengers Briefcase: Biz Break

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Also in Monday morning’s round-up of news briefs, a slew of stars and moguls expected in an Obama fundraiser. Celeste and Jesse Forever triumphs at the specialty box office and a rom-com heads to Phase 4 Films. Harvey Weinstein, Aaron Sorkin and Anne Hathaway to co-Host Obama Fundraiser Weinstein’s Westport, CT home will be the site for the $35,800 per ticket fundraiser, billed as an intimate dinner for 50 people including Hathaway, Paul Newman’s widow Joanne Woodward, Deadline reports . Natalie Portman Marries Benjamin Millepied The couple married in a nighttime ceremony along the California Central Coast are of Big Sur following a 14 month engagement. They have a son, Aleph. The couple met in the fall of 2009 while prepping for their 2010 film, Black Swan , which made $329 million worldwide and earned Portman an Oscar, THR reports . Specialty Box Office: Celeste and Jesse Forever Hot in Debut; Killer Joe Solid in 2nd Weekend Most specialty newcomers had a rough go in their rollouts over the weekend, but one film Celeste and Jesse Forever managed a spectacular debut. Magnolia Pictures’ 360 also enjoyed a respectable opening, while others failed to gain traction, Deadline reports . Marvel Studios Sued over Avengers Briefcase German company Rimowa GmbH apparently gave its permission for the Disney-owned film studio to use its Topas briefcase in the film. However, the company claims Marvel took the look of its design for a plastic replica case that is due to be sold as part of a forthcoming Blu-ray box set, The Guardian reports . Phase 4 Films Nabs Miss Dial The company picked up U.S. and Canadian rights to David H. Steinberg’s romantic comedy Miss Dial . The pic is the feature directorial debut of Puss in Boots writer Steinberg and stars Robinne Lee and Sam Jaeger, Variety reports .

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Stars of "Snow White and the Huntsman" at "Live! with Kelly" – Hollywood.TV

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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The Avengers Sink Battleship at the Box Office

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Another Monday morning, and thus another look at what carnage The Avengers has wrought at the weekend box office. And while things aren’t as bad as they may look at first for Battleship and the rest of the competition, they’re not what you’d call pretty. Your Weekend Receipts are here. 1. The Avengers Gross: $55,057,000 ($457,078,000) Screens: 4,249 (PSA $12,958) Weeks: 3 (Change: -46.6%) Marvel’s megahit settled into No. 10 all-time in terms of domestic gross, No. 6 all-time in terms of global gross, and became the highest-grossing US release ever for Disney… in three weeks . It should wind up in top three in all the major box-office categories by the time it’s done, leaving unanswered only the question of where it will stand two months from now against The Dark Knight Rises . Which I’m sure is a question you are very much preoccupying yourself with. Anyway, hats off to all. 2. Battleship Gross: $25,300,000 (new) Screens: 3,690 (PSA: $6,856) Weeks: 1 Did Hasbro and Universal want a better domestic turnout for their huge-budget board-game spectacular? Of course they did. Is this the worst-case scenario for either/or/both? Hardly, especially after a foreign run that has already pulled in $215 million. John Carter it’s not , though don’t be surprised if you happen to see at least one head rolling around the studio lot sometime in the next or two. Whose will it be? Place your wager in the comments! 3. The Dictator Gross: $17,415,000 ($24,456,000) Screens: 3,008 (PSA $5,790) Weeks: 1 On the one hand, not a terrible showing on a congested weekend for an R-rated comedy full of Sacha Baron Cohen’s usual shtick. On the other, shtick aside, we finally get an original script not based on a board-game, a self-help book, a ’60s TV show, etc., and it lurches quietly into third place. I feel like we need to support these things on principle, folks. So what if you only laugh four times in 80 minutes? It’s better than throwing up in your mouth four times or renouncing moviegoing altogether, no? OK, don’t answer that. 4. Dark Shadows Gross: $12,770,000 ($50,908,000) Screens: 3,755 (PSA $3,401) Weeks: 2 (Change: -57.0%) Oy: A 57 percent drop in week two for a Johnny Depp film — his worst since Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End plunged 61.5 percent in 2007. Of course, that was after a $139 million Memorial Day opening , so… yeah. Perspective. Not good. 5. What to Expect When You’re Expecting Gross: $10,500,000 (new) Screens: 3,021 (PSA: $3,476) Weeks: 1 Yikes! And the reviews were so good , too. [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Chris Pine Wrote a Movie Called Mantivities

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

That’s right, Mantivities . Star Trek ‘s Chris Pine , along with five of his buddies, wrote the comedy script; he’ll produce and star under director Michael Patrick Jann ( The State , Reno 911! ). Writes Deadline : “The comedy focuses on a group of friends in their early 30s, all in various stages of permanent adolescence. They get together with the aim of helping one of them grow up… ‘I couldn’t be happier to begin the adventure of making Mantivities knowing how much fun we all had writing it,’ Pine said. ‘Somehow I get to laugh with my friends and call it work.’” [ Deadline ]

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Guess Robert Downey Jr.’s Projected Avengers Payday

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Marvel Studios front office may be notoriously loaded with cheapskates who’ve built a multibillion-dollar empire from the ground up in less than five years thanks to thrifty dealmaking, but at least one star has done enough franchise grunt work to get paid for the record-shattering blockbuster that is The Avengers . And when I say “paid,” I mean paid . Let’s hear it for Robert Downey Jr.! Or at least for Robert Downey Jr.’s agents, according to THR : According to multiple knowledgeable sources, Iron Man/Tony Stark is set for a highflying payday of about $50 million once box-office bonuses and backend compensation are factored in. (Two sources claim the number could go higher than $50 million once the ultimate box-office haul of Avengers is known, but another cautions that it could be years before the final number is known.) While on par with the upper echelon of franchise movie stars, that number blows away his superhero co-stars, all of whom will make a small fraction of Downey’s total, even as Avengers has a shot at topping the final Harry Potter film’s $1.32 billion global haul. Why the difference? When Marvel’s Iron Man grossed a surprising $585 million worldwide in 2008, Downey’s reps at CAA and the Hansen Jacobson law firm renegotiated a deal to include what multiple sources say is a slice of Marvel’s revenue from future movies in which he plays Iron Man (one source puts it in the 5 percent to 7 percent range; another source disputes the percentage. Marvel and Downey’s reps declined comment). Of course, profit participation is nothing new — Jack Nicholson probably just earned another $1,000 for Batman in the time it took to write this post — but compared to Marvel’s deals with Jeremy Renner (roughly $2 million-$3 million plus bonuses), Samuel L. Jackson (roughly $6 million plus bonuses) and the rest, Downey is far and away the Avenger with the mostest. Or… however that phrase goes. No wonder Captain America wants to kick Iron Man’s ass. [ THR ]

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Dark Shadows Slumps Behind History-Making Avengers

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Johnny Depp wanted his and Tim Burton’s gothic vampire comedy Dark Shadows to be anything but Twilight . Mission accomplished, I suppose: The film fizzled into a very distant second place behind another jaw-dropping performance by The Avengers , which continued to rewrite the blockbuster history books in its second weekend. Your Weekend Receipts are here. 1. The Avengers Gross: $103,163,000 ($373,182,000) Screens: 4,349 (PSA $23,721) Weeks: 2 (Change: -50.3%) This week in record-breaking: En route to the $1 billion threshold — which it reached Sunday — Disney’s superhero juggernaut stole the distinction of best second weekend ever from Avatar (whose own mark was $75.6 million) and experienced the best-ever second-weekend hold by a film that opened to more than $120 million. (We’ll no doubt get obscurer and obscurer as this thing rolls on.) It also became the fastest movie to reach $300 million and then $350 million domestically. Most observers conclude that a top-three all-time berth is likely on the domestic front — displacing The Dark Knight — but perhaps more mind-blowing is the likelihood of Joss Whedon’s film to rocket all the way to No. 4 all-time globally — behind Avatar, Titanic and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 — within the the next week . And it’s still got Tuvalu’s GDP beat . What can one say, other than, “Good luck, Battleship “? 2. Dark Shadows Gross: $28,805,000 (new) Screens: 3,755 (PSA: $7,671) Weeks: 1 The long-gestating Burton/Depp reimagining of the ’60s/’70s supernatural cult-soap darling performed pretty much as well as you might expect a long-gestating Burton/Depp reimagining of the ’60s/’70s supernatural cult-soap darling to perform: Soft — at least soft by Burton/Depp standards , which have been good for at least twice Dark Shadows ‘ opening two of the last three times they got together (2010’s Alice in Wonderland and 2005’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ). Meanwhile, from atop its mountain of Avengers cash, Disney snickers knowingly in anticipation of the sixth installment of the lucrative Depp/Verbinski franchise it has on the way next summer in the way of The Lone Ranger AND the potential for Burton/Depp to rekindle their box-office fire with an Alice in Wonderland sequel. John Carter who ? 3. Think Like a Man Gross: $6,300,000 ($81,917,000) Screens: 2,052 (PSA $3,070) Weeks: 4 (Change: -22.3%) Meanwhile, how about that lucrative Tim Story/Taraji P. Henson partnership?! What? No? OK. 4. The Hunger Games Gross: $4,400,000 ($386,902,000) Screens: 2,531 (PSA $1,738) Weeks: 8 (Change: -21.3%) Gary Ross/Lenny Kravitz ? Ugh, fine . 5. The Lucky One Gross: $4,055,000 ($53,721,000) Screens: 2,839 (PSA: $1,428) Weeks: 4 (Change: -24.5%) Someone had to finish fifth. [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Trailer for Ben Affleck’s Argo Teases Bizarre Slice of Hollywood-CIA History

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ben Affleck , director, makes his most ambitious movie yet in this fall’s Argo , the crazy true (and until recently, secret) story of how the CIA attempted to rescue six American diplomats during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis by disguising them as a film crew working on a science fiction movie. The first trailer for Argo ranks up there with the best we’ve seen all year, setting up the stranger-than-fiction premise with juicy moments from veteran thesps (John Goodman! Alan Arkin!) and up-and-comers (ladies and gentlemen, Scoot McNairy) alike as Affleck serves up a bizarre slice of history. Affleck directs from a script by Chris Terrio (based on Joshuah Bearman’s engrossing 2007 Wired article “How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran”), casting himself as CIA officer Tony Mendez, the orchestrator of the so-called “Canadian Caper.” He’s joined by Goodman as Planet of the Apes Oscar-winner John Chambers, the Hollywood make-up artist who helped Mendez set up the operation, and Arkin as a producer delivering choice zingers (“If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s going to be a fake hit!”). In addition to folks like Goodman, Arkin, Victor Garber, Bryan Cranston, Michael Parks, Zeljko Ivanek, Affleck tapped a few rising actors to fill out his cast: Scoot McNairy ( Monsters ), Christopher Denham ( Sound of My Voice ), and Kerry Bishe ( Red State ) join Tate Donovan, Clea Duvall, and Rory Cochrane as the six imperiled diplomats. Add in the muted ’70s palette and sense of humor tempered by life-and-death stakes and you’ve got what promises to be an intriguingly layered ride, if Affleck the director can pull it off. Argo is slated for release on October 12, gunning for awards season. Verdict: If it measures up to the true story and the article it inspired, this could be great. Thrill me, Affleck.

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U.S. Military SHIELD-ed from The Avengers Collaboration

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The U.S. military has a history of joining forces with Hollywood. Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise and Peter Berg’s Battleship have cozied up to the military to take advantage of defense material, while the Pentagon gets to market itself to moviegoers. (To say nothing of the recent Navy SEAL showcase Act of Valor .) So how did The Avengers not make the cut? It seems that the Joss Whedon superhero spectacle was “too unrealistic” for military brass get involved. At the end of the day, it was Nick Fury’s SHIELD that clinched the decision (perhaps if they just stuck to the superheroes and alien invaders it would have been OK?) “We couldn’t reconcile the unreality of this international organization and our place in it,” said Phil Strub, the DOD’s Hollywood liaison. “To whom did SHIELD answer? Did we work for SHIELD? It just got to the point where it didn’t make any sense. We hit that roadblock and decided we couldn’t do anything [with the film].” [ WorstPreviews ]

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Iron Man 3: Jessica Chastain Finally Passes on a Film

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The influential , Oscar-nominated talent whose breakout year included six roles has taken to her Facebook page to officially pass on Iron Man 3 : “My schedule is jammed packed and I can’t fit anything else in. The press announced my possible attachment far too soon. I know many of you wanted me to be involved, and I’m so sorry to disappoint you. Hopefully there’ll be another Marvel film in my future. Shane Black and everyone on the IM3 team are really wonderful. I’m very excited to see the film when it comes out.” Asked for their reactions, every other young actress in Hollywood sighed in unison, ” Finally. ” [ Facebook via ComicBookMovie ]

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Avengers Makes Even More $, Kick-Ass 2 Coming, Mark Ruffalo’s Twitter Hacked: Biz Break

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Avengers had an even better weekend than initially thought . The Academy sets up a new outdoor screening venue and it looks like Kick-Ass is getting a sequel . Those are among the spotlights in Monday afternoon’s Biz Break round up. Also in the mix, Arnold Schwarzenegger picks up a gig and actor Mark Ruffalo ‘s Twitter account gets hacked. Avengers Sails Passed $207M Marvel’s The Avengers took $207.4M at the North American box office over the weekend, higher than the $200,329,000 estimated Sunday morning . The film crossed the $600 million mark globally in just 12 days. Its worldwide cumulative count is now $654.8 million. Academy Announces Slate of Outdoor Events The Academy unveiled a new outdoor screening venue and a slate of summer movies set for June 15th through August 18th. The “Oscars Outdoors” series will devote every Friday night to classics and contemporary favorites aimed at adult audiences, and every Saturday night to family-friendly fare. The final Friday night presentation, on August 17, will be an “Audience Choice” selection, determined by fans who cast votes on www.oscars.org/outdoors. Most features will be preceded by surprise animated or live-action short subjects. Around the ‘net… Kick-Ass Sequel Set for Summer Shoot Kick-Ass comic series illustrator John Romita Jr. is promising a Summer 2012 start date for the movie sequel with a planned May 2013 release, Screen Rant reports . Action Thriller Ten to Team David Ayer and Arnold Schwarzenegger Open Road has picked up U.S. rights to action thriller Ten which David Ayer will direct and former CA governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will star. Deadline reports . Imelda Staunton, Miranda Richardson Board Maleficent Imelda Staunton and Miranda Richardson are joining Angelina Jolie in Maleficent , Disney’s live-action re-tell of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. THR reports . Catfish Team Join for The Monkey Wrench Gang Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the team behind the 2010 Sundance Film Festival documentary Catfish and Paranormal Activity 3 , will write and direct an adaptation of the Edward Abbey novel The Monkey Wrench Gang , Deadline reports . Avengers Star Mark Ruffalo’s Twitter Account Hacked The actor who plays Bruce Banner in smash hit The Avengers had his account taken over and even changed his username from @MRuff221 to @Mark_Ruffalo and proceeded to add some peculiar posts. “The women of Hollywood sure have some great boobs,” read one. E Online reports . Checking in with Debra Granik’s Latest Filmmaker Debra Granik earned four Oscar noms for Winter’s Bone , starring Jennifer Lawrence. Now she’s taking on a possible HBO project, This American Highlife , her film version of Russell Banks’ novel Rule Of The Bone and a doc about U.S. war veterans inspired by an actor in Winter’s Bone . Thompson on Hollywood reports . Culkin & Czuchry Take on Gabriel Rory Culkin ( Scream 4 ) and Matt Czuchry ( The Good Wife ) are set to star in indie project Gabriel by writer/director Lou Howe. Culkin will star as the title character, Variety reports . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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