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Friday Box Office: The Help On Track to Snag Labor Day Crown, Of Course

Posted on September 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

How appropriate: Your Labor Day holiday is on track to be owned by The Help , a movie about domestic workers. The female-driven, ’60s-set lit adaptation has been dominating the charts for three weekends in a row, plowing through the end-of-summer competition left and right, and you know what? Not even sharks and astronauts and spies can slow down the Help train. The pic’s on track for The Blind Side -esque awards buzz and an estimated $121M cume by the end of the four-day weekend. Is it crazy to imagine franchise potential here? Drop your The Help 2 sequel pitches below on your way to those Labor Day BBQ s!

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REVIEW: Deep Cast Can’t Make The Debt Pay Off

Posted on August 30, 2011 by | Leave a comment

No one comes out looking good in The Debt , a grim thriller from director John Madden: Not the Nazi purveyor of concentration camp atrocities, which is a given, but not the trio of young, dedicated Mossad agents sent to bring him to justice after the war either. The film’s a remake of a 2007 Israeli effort that never made it to US theaters, but that presumably carried with it a sense of self-critique, of taking on national mythologizing. Forgoing that focus, The Debt comes across as critical of human nature in general, as a tale of self-interest winning out over the greater good. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, particularly when the character who first offers up this assessment is the aforementioned Nazi monster.

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Brad Pitt Thought Angelina Jolie’s First Screenplay Was ‘Not That Bad’

Posted on August 30, 2011 by | Leave a comment

One of the more mysterious curios of the fall movie season is Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey . In an interview with Vanity Fair (on newsstands in New York and Los Angeles this week), Jolie says that she wrote the script for the Bosnian War-set romance while she was ill and quarantined from her children. “I don’t watch TV and I wasn’t reading anything. So I started writing. I went from the beginning to the end. I didn’t know any other way.” Afterward, she passed the draft to Brad Pitt; what did her super-famous husband think? “He called and said, ‘You know, honey, it’s not that bad.'” Oh. Maybe leave that one off the poster. [ VF. com ]

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5 Oscar-Worthy Female Roles This Fall and Their Place in Academy History

Posted on August 30, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Though the Oscars aired just six months ago, we’re already gearing up for next year’s decadent — perhaps Gervais-aided — ceremony. In scanning the release list for this fall, Movieline picked out five female roles that are shoo-ins for Academy attention. How can we be so sure, you ask? Because every role is a combination of past nominees and winners. Let’s divvy up the gold!

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Weekend Forecast: Dog Days Trio Hopes to Stay Out of Hurricane Irene’s Way

Posted on August 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

While the weather forecast for much of the East Coast looks like a storyboard from Day After Tomorrow thanks to Hurricane Irene, the box office forecast is decidedly more calm. As summer continues to crawl toward Labor Day, three genre films hit theaters, all with the diminished expectations that come with their late August release dates. What movie will you probably ignore this weekend? To the forecast!

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Friday Box Office: Help!

Posted on August 20, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Hoo boy. The late-summer movie bottleneck has caught up with Hollywood, relegating this weekend’s trio of new wide releases to the bottom of the top five at the box office. Above them, a pair of leggy holdovers scrap for the top spot, with the ladies of The Help putting some distance between themselves and James Franco’s tenacious Rise of the Planet of the Apes . Your clinically lethargic Friday box office is here.

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Weekend Receipts: Apes Holds Off The Help in Close Battle; Glee Flops

Posted on August 14, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Hail Caesar! Again! Rise of the Planet of the Apes was the top choice for ticket buyers at the multiplex, becoming only third film this summer to lead the box office for two weekends in a row ( Thor and Transformers: Dark of the Moon were the other two). Outside of the strong runner-up showing for The Help , the frame wasn’t as kind to newcomers: Final Destination 5 disappointed, 30 Minutes or Less lived up to diminished expectations and Glee: The 3D Concert Movie couldn’t even crack the top- ten . Your Weekend Receipts are here.

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Look At me Now – Justin Bieber and Chris Brown – Sydney Australia Surprise

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

3 years ago I sang WITH YOU by Chris Brown in my living room. Since then thanks to the help of the fans we have been on an incredible journey. Thank you because we are just getting started. NEVER SAY NEVER. Look At Me Now! -Justin http://www.youtube.com/v/_U0UaRYXwBQ?f=user_uploads&app=youtube_gdata Original post: Look At me Now – Justin Bieber and Chris Brown – Sydney Australia Surprise

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The Help Poster: Viola in Violet

Posted on April 21, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The trailer for The Help worried us with its Blind Side y condescension, but the new poster for the film presents Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, and Bryce Dallas Howard (who looks a lot like Ellie Kemper here) in a more positive, yellow-and-purple sorta light. Watch and judge.

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Help Movieline Caption These Befuddling Stills from Tower Heist, The Help, and Abduction

Posted on January 17, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Another day, another set of publicity stills from upcoming movies for all of us to wrap our snarky heads around. Peek into the distant future (all the way to fall 2011) and help Movieline figure out what’s going on in these images from Brett Ratner’s tower heist flick Tower Heist , Tate Taylor’s period novel adaptation The Help , and John Singleton’s Abduction , AKA Taylor Lautner Gets $7.5 Million to Play Tom Cruise .

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