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Sandra Bullock's new film blind-sides New Moon at Us box office

1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The Blind Side rose to No 1 in its third weekend on release, giving Sandra Bullock her second box-office chart-topper this year

The winner

It's rare that a movie climbs up to No 1 in its third weekend, so hats off to The Blind Side for pulling it off. True to its name, Warner Bros' true-life drama snuck up and slipped past Summit's leviathan New Moon, adding an estimated $20.4m (£12.4m) to boost its running total to $129.3m. Sandra Bullock plays the mentor of a homeless African-American kid who helps him become an accomplished American footballer. Now there's talk of an Oscar nomination. With the five most likely contenders at this stage being Helen Mirren (The Last Station) Carey Mulligan (An Education), Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) and Abbie Cornish (Bright Star), Sandy Bullock has a shot. Blimey.

Bullock is enjoying the best box-office year of her career when you »

- Jeremy Kay

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John Lithgow on 'The Early Show,' Jason Bateman on 'Fallon' & 'Alexa Chung'

2 hours ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »

Lots of good stuff today: Lithgow, Bateman, Zach Braff on 'Ellen,' Ray Romano on 'Regis' and 'Letterman' and, oh, I hope Bonnie Hunt yells at Jon Tenney for scamming Nora Walker out of a hundred grand last night...

Daytime:

"Good Morning America": Tom Ford, Jenny McCarthy, Ray Romano, Bill O'Reilly

"The Early Show": John Lithgow, the winning team from "The Amazing Race"

"Live with Regis and Kelly": Ray Romano, John Lithgow, guest co-host Bryant Gumbel

"The View": Kyra Sedgwick, Dr. Mehmet Oz

"The Bonnie Hunt Show": Patton Oswalt, Jon Tenney, Christian Siriano

"The Ellen DeGeneres Show": Zach Braff, Allison Iraheta, the latest castoffs from "So You Think You Can Dance"

"Rachael Ray Show": Sofia Vergara

"The Martha Stewart Show": Cheryl Hines

"It's On with Alexa Chung": Jason Bateman, Gossip

"The Tyra Banks Show": Kimberley Locke

Late Night:

"The Jay Leno Show": Susan Sarandon, »

- editorial@zap2it.com

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Brothers - Movie Review

4 hours ago | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Brothers is a remake of the Danish film by Susanne Bier by Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan, an avowed fan of the American Story. He places two brothers in an unidentified snowy locale somewhere in the Midwest or slightly more west; but the gripping story loses nothing in the shift. The Cahill brothers are Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) just released from a prison for bank robbery, and Sam, the family hero/military man. Sam is four days from deployment to Afghanistan the day he goes to fetch his brother. Tommy is on high alert against recrimination, in stark contrast to Sam.s loving, calm acceptance and joy at seeing his brother free again. A celebratory family dinner that night is difficult. The »

- Anne Brodie

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'The Blind Side' Finally Tackles 'New Moon' on Box Office

10 hours ago | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

After sitting firmly on the top spot of North American box office for two weeks, "The Twilight Saga's New Moon" had to lose its crown to "The Blind Side". The Sandra Bullock-starred film scored an estimated $20.4 million and jumped one position after sitting on the second place since it was debuted on November 20. So far, it has collected $129.3 million domestically.

According to Associated Press, the football drama got a stunning rise as a result of glowing reviews and strong word-of-mouth endorsements from satisfied filmgoers. Meanwhile, Jeff Goldstein of Warner Bros. Pictures claimed he was surprised with "The Blind Side" achievement. "The movie has already done more than twice what we expected," he stated.

Goldstein additionally admitted the studio intentionally released the movie opposite "New Moon" to give an alternative choice for those not interested in a vampire romance. "We knew 'Twilight' was going to get the younger females. So »

- AceShowbiz.com

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Bullock Blind Sides The Twilight Crew

11 hours ago | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Sandra Bullock's real-life football movie The Blind Side has scored another touchdown - toppling the vampires and werewolves of the Twilight sequel to claim the top film spot in the U.S.

The film, chronicling the well-to-do Touhy family's decision to adopt homeless African-American Michael Oher and help steer him to glory on the sports field, has been second to The Twilight Saga: New Moon for the past two weeks, but now it has taken it's place at number one on the box office countdown.

The movie, which also stars country singer Tim McGraw, made an estimated $20.4 million (£12.75 million) over the weekend to take it's three-week tally to a staggering $129 (£80.6 million).

The Twilight sequel has slipped to second with $15.7 million (£9.8 million) and Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire's hard-hitting new movie Brothers debuts at three with a $9.7 million (£6 million) opening weekend.

Robert De Niro's new movie, Everybody's Fine, has become the latest box office flop - it just made the top 10 at nine with a disappointing $4 million (£2.5 million) opening. »

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Blind Side Tackles The Box Office

11 hours ago | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Bad news if you were behind one of the new movies released this weekend at the Us box office - The Blind Side and New Moon clung on to the top spots, though they swapped places.After three weeks on release, Blind Side - starring Sandra Bullock as the matriarch of a family who takes in a poor black kid and help him realise his potential as an American Football player - finally overcame the Tween-beloved vamps to snatch the top spot with $20.4 million to New Moon's $15.7 million. Still, Summit won't worry - New Moon is still holding strong, and performed well enough to see off the highest new entry, Jim Sheridan's Brothers. The drama, which finds Natalie Portman turning to brother-in-law Jake Gyllenhaal for support after she thinks soldier hubby Tobey Maguire has been killed in action, notched up $9.7 million. Going further down the list, A Christmas Carol took in $7.5 million, »

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'The Blind Side' drops 'New Moon'

13 hours ago | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Blind Side" topped the box office with $20.4 million in its third weekend at play. Sandra Bullock starrer has turned in over $129 million thus far. With Summit's "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" showing big changes in numbers posted domestically, the result was as anticipated. Pic has been an uber-success for the distributor, earning over $570.1 million in worldwide numbers so far. "Brothers" from Lionsgate debuted in third spot with a solid $9.7 million from 2,088 venus, averaging $4,646. Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal frontline the Jim Sheridan-directed film. David Benioff adapts the screenplay for the remake. Disney's "A Christmas Carol" added $7.5 million in its fifth weekend at play, making the Robert Zemeckis' film's total over $115 million from a hefty $200 million budget. Ending the top five spots this week was "Old Dogs" with $6.9 million. John Travolta, Robin Williams, Seth Green, Kelly Preston, Matt Dillon and Justin Long »

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Portman's Real Brotherly Bond With Maguire And Gyllenhaal

14 hours ago | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Natalie Portman felt a real brotherly bond with her Brothers co-stars Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal during filming because they all grew up together in the movie industry.

The Star Wars beauty, 28, appears in the drama as Maguire's wife, who falls for his brother, played by Gyllenhaal, after her marine husband is presumed dead while on a tour of duty in Afghanistan.

And the actors felt so close to one another, they turned rehearsal sessions into social get togethers by relocating from the movie studio to one another's houses.

She tells Star magazine, "This is the first time I've worked with actors I knew before! I met Tobey when I was 14 and Jake when I was 18. We rehearsed in each other's houses, so there was familiarity from the first day." »

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Sandra Bullock Blindsides Werewolves, Vampires! "The Blind Side" Beats "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" at Box Office! See Complete Top 10 List!

16 hours ago | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

The true-to-life football drama "The Blind Side" scored a touchdown over "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" with a victorious $20.4 million weekend. "The Blind Side" stole the No. 1 position from werewolves and vampires.

For the past two weekends, "The Blind Side" starring Sandra Bullock, had been the No. 2 film under "New Moon." But now, the vampire romance starring Kristen Stewart, Rob Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner slid to second place with $15.7 million.

Many insiders are saying that great word of mouth from fans helped make "The Blind Side" the box office winner.

The other great story for the box office weekend belonged to the George Clooney dramedy "Up in the Air." In just 15 theaters, the film took in nearly $1.2 million for a whopping per screen average of $79,000! Wow!

(Take a look at my review of "Up in the Air" and my interviews with director Jason Reitman, and stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick)

Meanwhile, »

- Manny

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Box Office Report: 'The Blind Side' is No. 1 with $20.4 mil

16 hours ago | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »

Proving that Sandra Bullock is having the best year of her career, the football drama The Blind Side rose to first place at the box office this weekend with $20.4 million, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office. After settling for second place behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon the past two weeks, Blind Side showed its legs by dropping only 49 percent and overtaking the vampire phenomenon. Blind Side, which received mediocre reviews but obtained a rare "A+" rating from CinemaScore moviegoers, has reached a cumulative gross of $129.3 million. It should have no trouble passing The Proposal's $164 million »

- John Young

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Blind Side Overshadows New Moon

16 hours ago | newser.com | See recent newser news »

Building on strong word-of-mouth and an unexpectedly lucrative Thanksgiving weekend, The Blind Side caught and passed New Moon at the weekend box office. The Sandra Bullock vehicle pulled in $20.4 million to $15.7 million for the teen vampire sequel. Both dwarfed Brothers, which underperformed despite stars Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tobey Maguire, the Los Angeles Times reports. Another big name, George Clooney, has reason for optimism after Up in the Air raked in $1.2 million in only 15 locations. The top five: The Blind Side, $20.4 million The Twilight Saga: New Moon, $15.7 million... »

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Weekend Box Office - New Moon Gets Blindsided

17 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw, stars of The Blind Side have had to play second fiddle to the 90210 of the vampire world The Twilight Saga: New Moon, since both movies opened two weeks ago. But this week the moon has waned heavily, giving the based-on-a-true-story football flick it's moment at center field. The Blind Side took in $20 million over the first weekend of December, pushing New Moon into second with only $15 million. Despite having been in theaters for two weeks already, both movies handily topped out the new competition. Oscar-bait Brothers, which teams Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman, debuted at third place with $9 million, not bad for a rated-r flick that only has bitterness and dramatic tension, and shirtless Gyllenhaal to offer holiday audiences. Limply marketed Armored bowed in at a depressing seventh place with only an estimated $6.5 million, but that's better than Robert DeNiro's attempt at »

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Weekend Box Office - The Blind Side Scores Another $20.4 Million

17 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

After two weeks of solid second-place finishes, Alcon Entertainment’s The Blind Side posted its first number one win this weekend, taking the lead with an estimated $20.4 million from its 3,326 locations. After two weeks of steroid-pumped box office dominance New Moon could not catch up - closing its third weekend with another $15.7 million domestically. All in all it was kind of a dull weekend, with new releases failing to drum up much interest. But that is all about to change with the official start of the holiday movie season next weekend. Let’s just call this week the calm before the storm.

Title Weekend Total 1 The Blind Side $20,440,000 $129.2 2 New Moon $15,700,000 $255.6 3 Brothers $9,700,000 $9.7 4 A Christmas Carol $7,520,000 $115 5 Old Dogs $6,900,000 $33.9 6 Armored $6,600,000 $6.6 7 2012 $6,600,000 $148.7 8 Ninja Assassin $5,030,00 $29.7 9 Planet 51 $4,300,000 $33.9 10 Everybody’s Fine $4,000,000 $4

I’m going to take the opportunity this weekend has presented me to be succinct and, well, brief, on the subject of the top box office performers. »

- Nicole Pedersen

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The Blind Side Rules a Slow Weekend at the Box Office

19 hours ago | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

Warner Bros. Pictures will be opening their eyes in delight as The Blind Side not only continues to perform well beyond expectations, but managed to topple box office gorilla The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

Weekend box office estimates have The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock pulling in $20.4 million from Friday through Sunday for a domestic gross of approximately $130 million and counting. New Moon came in second with $15.7 million which might be disappointing until you look at the worldwide gross which has passed $570 million which is hardly worth Summit barking about.

A trio of newcomers had a rough time keeping pace in the typically sluggish weekend after Thanksgiving. Brothers with stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman took third place with $9.7 million, Armored mustered $6.6 million and Everybody's Fine with Robert DeNiro wasn't so fine with $4 million.

Not in the top 10 but worth mentioning is the strong performance of Jason Reitman »

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: December 6, 2009

20 hours ago | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

It’s Sunday and that means that it’s Wrap Up time.

This week:

The box office is Blind Sided; if you go down to the woods today you might see Tom Cavanagh in Yogi Bear; Leonardo DiCaprio knows Jack Frost in The Guardians; Have you ever heard Gun, With Occasional Music? Beautiful Creatures say P.S I Love You; John Madden will Dolittle directing with My Fair Lady and it’s all in the double barrel name as Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman find religion.

 

Box Office

Sandra Bullock’s The Blind Side just keeps doing better and better. The uplifting sports drama has took the top spot with an impressive $20 million after three weeks on the charts. 2009 has been a great year for Bullock and if Warner Bros. gives the actress the expected Oscar push then 2010 shouldn’t be too bad either.

Twilight’s New Moon »

- Niall Browne

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'Brothers' Wrenching, But the Performances Are Top Notch

5 December 2009 9:05 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Sibling rivalry is a common theme in films, but Brothers takes that universal subject and places it in a new context. There's more at play — and at stake — in Jim Sheridan's awards hopeful than just family interaction. Grief, guilt, and identity lie at the torn heart of this sometimes disturbing but always moving film.

At the beginning of Brothers, the family of Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire, Spider-Man 3) is reluctant to see the Marine return to Afghanistan for another tour of duty. His wife, Grace (Natalie Portman, The Other Boleyn Girl), jokingly asks to come with him, and his daughters (Bailee Madison and Taylor Geare) plead with him to stay. He has an uneasy relationship with his brother, Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal, Zodiac), who has just been released from prison in time for Sam to leave. Trouble-making Tommy has always stood in his brother's shadow, and it's never been »

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Brothers

5 December 2009 4:58 PM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

Brothers

Directed by: Jim Sheridan

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire

Running Time: 1 hr 50 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: December 4, 2009

Plot: A marine (Maguire) returns home from war only to have anxieties about the loved ones around him (Portman and Gyllenhaal).

Who’S It For?: This heavy modern drama could be a pretty difficult watch for some, especially those who are personally connected with someone serving overseas. Though using a cast of relatively young actors, the film’s speed and tone is catered towards mature audiences.

Expectations: With its flash-cut editing and unraveling of what felt like the whole movie, Brothers has the worst trailer of 2009. I was hoping the film wouldn’t be an intense melodramatic mess, as made out to be by the almost laughable ad. At the very least, I was glad Hollywood had finally done something with the very brotherly appearances of Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal. »

- Nick Allen

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Maguire 'impersonates Gyllenhaal, Wood'

5 December 2009 2:28 PM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Tobey Maguire has reportedly admitted to impersonating other actors. The 34-year-old has claimed that he has been mistaken for his Brothers co-star Jake Gyllenhaal and never corrects movie fans when they mistake him for another actor. Maguire told Parade: "I've been mistaken for so many different actors, it's just wild. I've gotten Jake Gyllenhaal a few times like, 'Loved you in Brokeback Mountain. I've had that. I can't remember all of them, but Elijah Wood is another. "When people ask me for my autograph and say, 'Oh you were so great in such and such', which I wasn't in, I usually just sign the other actor's name and say, 'Thank (more) »

- By Marcell Minaya

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'The Blind Side' Beats 'New Moon' In The Saturday Box Office Report

5 December 2009 12:52 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

1. "The Blind Side" ($6.8 million)

2. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" ($5.2 million)

3. "Brothers" ($3.57 million)

5. "Armored" ($2.4 million)

4. "Old Dogs" ($2.06 million)

Who would have ever thought that Sandra Bullock could give Edward Cullen and Bella Swan such a run for their money? The reputable actress' latest film has given the supernatural romantic pairing more trouble than Jacob Black ever could as "The Blind Side" beat "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" at the box office on Friday evening.

"The Blind Side" and "New Moon" have been neck-and-neck for quite a while now, which is pretty surprising considering the record-breaking success of the vampire romance franchise. Last week, "The Blind Side" was able to take first place on Thanksgiving day, a victory that was repeated on Wednesday of this past week and, of course, last evening when Bullock's family drama surpassed "New Moon" $6.8 million to $5.2 million.

While first and second place were claimed by "The Blind Side »

- Josh Wigler

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New Moon Blindsided at Friday Box Office

5 December 2009 10:51 AM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

Last weekend's Thanksgiving leftovers box office results saw The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock go up in its second weekend of release while The Twilight Saga: New Moon dropped 70% from its big $140 million plus opening. New Moon being eclipsed by The Blind Side seemed an inevitability that has now come to fruition.

The Blind Side brought in $6.8 million to kick off this weekend's box office battle on Friday, easily besting New Moon's $5.2 million. Both films are running at more than a 50% dropoff from last weekend's pace with The Blind Side having the best chance of crossing $20 million by weekend's close.

Brothers with Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire generated $3.6 million on pace for around $10 million for the weekend. Other newcomers Armored managed $2.4 million while Everybody's Fine with Robert DeNiro registered a dismal $1.3 million and will be lucky to cross $5 million through Sunday.

Full weekend box office estimates for »

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