A light week in new releases yielded an opportunity for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 to claim its third consecutive Friday crown, all while The Muppets , Hugo and Arthur Christmas fought for what remains of holiday table scraps. Your Friday Box Office is here.
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Friday Box Office: Breaking Dawn Heads For Threepeat
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn might have held onto the #1 slot during the Thanksgiving frame, but holiday buzz lifted those plucky Muppets to a strong second place showing; with $24.7 million over three days, Jason Segel, Kermit, and Co. should ride the Rainbow Connection all the way to a very nice pile of green by weekend’s end. Meanwhile, Happy Feet Two continues to slide and Aardman Animation’s fellow wintry offering Arthur Christmas opened with a modest $4.5 million Friday. Martin Scorsese’s 3-D fall family flick Hugo , on the other hand, enjoyed a strong debut on a fraction of the screens. Maybe audiences weren’t quite ready to ring in the yuletide cheer?
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Friday Box Office: Muppets Chomp at Twilight’s Heels
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Thank God it’s Wednesday. Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Aaron Sorkin inches closer to Steve Jobs… Jeremy Renner shares his Bourne name… David Fincher doesn’t want to do The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (for now)… Jimmy Fallon apologizes to Michelle Bachmann… and more.
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Taylor Lautner’s Dude Problem, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today
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God help filmmakers who become legendary: Even if they manage to avoid becoming prisoners of their own high standards, there’s no escaping those of their audience. And so Martin Scorsese has taken perhaps one of the biggest risks of his career — bigger, even, than making a radiant, low-key movie about the origins of the Dalai Lama — in adapting Brian Selznick’s subtle and wondrous children’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret . You just know there’s going to be some asshole at the dinner party asking, “Yes, but how does it compare with Taxi Driver ?”
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REVIEW: Scorsese’s Hugo Melds Modern Filmmaking with a Glorious Sense of the Past
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Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: A Pixar alum gets the closest of close reads… Tortured Oscar logic… Awesomely ridiculous new reality stars… The $24 million Korean humanist marathoner WWII film you have (or haven’t) been waiting for… and more.
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Drive Faces Dumbest Lawsuit Ever, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today
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You might’ve realized it by now, but Real Steel is a ridiculous premise for a movie. So ridiculous it worked , in fact. Twitter blew up this weekend with comments about Hugh Jackman’s and the sweet science of robo-jousting, and Ryan Gosling’s effectiveness in The Ides of March . We tally the best five tweets after the jump.
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Twit Wit: The 5 Best Tweets About Real Steel and Ides of March
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“[T]he veneration accorded to Paris by Americans is puzzling. Like other grand cities, this one certainly has an aura — yet its cultural credentials are hardly the world’s most impressive. If anything, its most enduring characteristic is a distinct whiff of merde de taureau . It wasn’t Paris that delivered Bach, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Leonardo, Marx, Michelangelo or the Beatles. Instead, the city has given us the likes of bohemianism, deconstructionism, symbolism and the nouvelle vague. All of these were quite fun at the time, but in retrospect seem somewhat less than the real deal. The city’s aesthetic soul appears to have more to do with Gitanes, cafe society and elegant posturing.” Wait — symbolism is over? And Roman Polanski lives there? Sacrebleu! [ The Guardian ]
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Critic: Midnight in Paris Lied to You
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings probably wasn’t prepared for the earful (or Internetz-full) he received last month when he announced plans to spin-off Netflix’s DVD rentals into a new company called Qwikster. “It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult,” he wrote in a blog post today. “So we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVD s.” Read on for more flip-flopping, and rejoice?
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Qwikster is Dead; Long Live Netflix?
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Our sister blog Deadline is reporting that the surprise sneak screening tonight at the New York Film Festival — showcasing a “work in progress from a master filmmaker” — will be Martin Scorsese’s Hugo . If true, it would be Scorsese’s second film to screen at this year’s NYFF (after George Harrison: Living in the Material World ) and a considerable risk for Paramount, which would be exhibiting the uncompleted 3-D film in one of the tougher filmgoing environments known to man. Movieline will be there in any case; check back with us later on for a report. [via @NikkiFinke ]
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Report: Martin Scorsese’s Hugo to Screen at NYFF
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