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'Slumdog' most rented DVD of the year

10 hours ago | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Slumdog Millionaire is the year's most rented DVD, a survey has claimed. The Mirror reports that the poll, carried out by rental company Lovefilm, discovered that Burn After Reading and Taken completed the top three. Audiences were most likely to rent drama, but comedy was the next most popular genre. Film fans also preferred movies made locally, with residents of Edinburgh most likely to watch Trainspotting, and The Full Monty most popular with people living in Sheffield. Terry Pratchett's The Colour Of Magic was the most popular television DVD, followed by (more) »

- By Catriona Wightman

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Film review: Machan

19 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

It's no coincidence this waggy-tailed underdog yarn from Sri Lanka puts you in mind of The Full Monty: it's the directorial debut of that film's producer, Uberto Pasolini. And not only does it share the skeleton of a plot with the Sheffield strippers - in this case a motley crew of poverty-stricken pals form a handball team hoping it will prove their ticket to Europe (the championships are in Germany) - but it also has the same curious tonal mix: chirpy with a squeeze of suicidal. Machan comes dripping with plaudits from its world tour of film festivals, and is buoyed up on hype. But it's not a disappointment: this is Slumdog sans songs, but with real soul. It's funny, too.

ComedyWorld cinemaCatherine Shoard

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- Catherine Shoard

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TV ratings - 7 November: The X Factor still steps ahead of Strictly Come Dancing

9 November 2009 7:07 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

BBC dance contest Strictly Come Dancing attracts series high of 8.7 million but is still eclipsed by ITV singing show The X Factor

Strictly Come Dancing enjoyed its biggest audience of the seventh series so far but still lagged far behind ITV1's The X Factor in the ratings battle on Saturday 7 November.

The BBC1 celebrity dance show, which saw the exit of Craig Kelly and his dancing partner Flavia Cacace, pulled in 8.7 million viewers and a 38% share between 6.25pm and 8.15pm, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The X Factor, which clashed with Strictly Come Dancing for just 15 minutes, averaged 11.8 million viewers and a 47% share between 8pm and 9.35pm.

Strictly Come Dancing had the better of ITV1's New You've Been Framed! and Harry Hill's TV Burp, which drew 4 million and 5.4 million viewers respectively, while The X Factor beat BBC1's Casualty, which averaged 4.6 million viewers and an 18% share, between 8.25pm and 9.15pm. »

- John Plunkett

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Mathematicians find formula for a hit sequel

8 November 2009 3:17 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Calculation aims to take risk out of deciding whether follow-ups to cinema hits will be a sure thing, or a disastrous gamble

Ever wondered why Spider-Man 2 triumphed and Basic Instinct 2 bombed? Now a group of academics have come up with a mathematical formula to predict the fortunes of a film sequel.

Hollywood has long known a follow-up is a fairly safe bet and franchises from Pirates of the Caribbean to Star Wars have dominated cinema schedules for years. But until now decisions about what to invest in a sequel or how much to pay for rights to a franchise have been based on some simple rules of thumb and a good dose of gut feeling.

Based on factors such as whether key stars are still on board, how long it has been since the last film and how that performed, the researchers say they can calculate what producers can »

- Katie Allen

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Way Off-Broadway Dinner Theatre Hosts 'Breakfast with Santa Claus,' 12/19, 12/20 & 12/23

5 November 2009 9:14 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

One of the most popular events at The Way off Broadway Dinner Theatre and Children's Theatre is its annual Breakfast with Santa (and Mrs. Claus). Each year, children and their families get to spend a festive morning with Mrs. Claus and the elves waiting for Santa's arrival. This year, the theatre has three scheduled breakfasts: Saturday, December 19th; Sunday, December 20th; and Thursday, December 23rd.

The doors will open at 8:00 a.m. on December 19th and 20th and 9:00 a.m. on December 23rd. All tickets are $16.00 per person. First started in 2002, this has become an event families look forward to every year for the holidays.

Breakfast with Santa (and Mrs. Claus) has become such a popular activity over the years that Way Off Broadway has expanded its Breakfast Series to also include a Magical Princess Breakfast, with a full Fairytale Breakfast in the works for the coming year. »

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Fox Searchlight in trouble? No More Broncos.. I won't see Angarano!

5 November 2009 4:33 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Is today's business of making movies really going through very rough times? In the case of Fox Searchlight, it seems 2009 is their year of 'financial reckoning'. - - -

- - - Come to think of it, the studio was the best performer last year - Take a look: Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.

More about the studio's line up of movies for 2009 and some Box Office reports after the jump!

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Just take a look at this January 2009 report from Reuters:

Independent film label Fox Searchlight Pictures racked up more awards than any other movie studio at the Golden Globes on Sunday thanks to big wins for "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler. »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Fox Searchlight in trouble? No More Broncos.. I won't see Angarano!

5 November 2009 4:33 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Is today's business of making movies really going through very rough times? In the case of Fox Searchlight, it seems 2009 is their year of 'financial reckoning'. - - -

- - - Come to think of it, the studio was the best performer last year - Take a look: Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.

More about the studio's line up of movies for 2009 and some Box Office reports after the jump!

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Just take a look at this January 2009 report from Reuters:

Independent film label Fox Searchlight Pictures racked up more awards than any other movie studio at the Golden Globes on Sunday thanks to big wins for "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler. »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Fox Searchlight in trouble? No More Broncos.. I won't see Angarano!

5 November 2009 4:33 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Is today's business of making movies really going through very rough times? In the case of Fox Searchlight, it seems 2009 is their year of 'financial reckoning'. - - -

- - - Come to think of it, the studio was the best performer last year - Take a look: Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.

More about the studio's line up of movies for 2009 and some Box Office reports after the jump!

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Just take a look at this January 2009 report from Reuters:

Independent film label Fox Searchlight Pictures racked up more awards than any other movie studio at the Golden Globes on Sunday thanks to big wins for "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler. »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Fox Searchlight in trouble? No More Broncos.. I won't see Angarano!

5 November 2009 4:33 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Is today's business of making movies really going through very rough times? In the case of Fox Searchlight, it seems 2009 is their year of 'financial reckoning'. - - -

- - - Come to think of it, the studio was the best performer last year - Take a look: Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.

More about the studio's line up of movies for 2009 and some Box Office reports after the jump!

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Just take a look at this January 2009 report from Reuters:

Independent film label Fox Searchlight Pictures racked up more awards than any other movie studio at the Golden Globes on Sunday thanks to big wins for "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler. »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Fox Searchlight in trouble? No More Broncos.. I won't see Angarano!

5 November 2009 4:33 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Is today's business of making movies really going through very rough times? In the case of Fox Searchlight, it seems 2009 is their year of 'financial reckoning'. - - -

- - - Come to think of it, the studio was the best performer last year - Take a look: Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.

More about the studio's line up of movies for 2009 and some Box Office reports after the jump!

- - -

Just take a look at this January 2009 report from Reuters:

Independent film label Fox Searchlight Pictures racked up more awards than any other movie studio at the Golden Globes on Sunday thanks to big wins for "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler. »

- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)

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Dreamgirls National Tour Kicks Off at Apollo Theater, 11/7 - 12/6

4 November 2009 1:09 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Producer John Breglio and the Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. will bring Broadway uptown for four weeks only with Dreamgirls at the Apollo Theater, prior to the national tour of the new production of the groundbreaking musical. The national tour of Dreamgirls will kick-off at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater (253 West 125 Street) beginning previews Saturday, November 7, 2009, and opening Sunday, November 22, 2009, for 4 weeks only, through Sunday December, 6, 2009.

Dreamgirls is directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom with co-choreography by Shane Sparks, scenic design by Robin Wagner, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design by Ken Billington, sound design by Acme Sound Partners, and media design by Howard Werner for Lightswitch. With music direction by Sam Davis, orchestrations by Harold Wheeler, and Vocal Arrangements by David Chase & Cleavant Derricks, Dreamgirls is produced by John Breglio for Vienna Waits Productions in association with Chunsoo Shin, Jake Productions & Broadway Across America/TBS.

This brand-new production will »

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Kudisch, Skinner, Reichard & More Set for 'Broadway Unplugged' at Town Hall, 11/16

2 November 2009 11:21 AM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

It was announced today that Marc Kudisch (9 to 5, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Assassins, Thoroughly Modern Millie), Emily Skinner (Jekyll & Hyde, The Full Monty), Daniel Reichard (Jersey Boys), William Michals (Beauty & the Beast, South Pacific), Manu Narayan (Bombay Dreams), Lisa Howard (9 to 5, South Pacific, Spelling Bee), Sarah Jane McMahon, and Bill Daugherty will be among the more than fifteen Broadway stars that will be performing this year in the 6th Annual Broadway Unplugged Concert at The Town Hall on Monday, November 16th at 8 Pm. The concert's musical director, for the sixth consecutive year, will be Ross Patterson. Taking the helm as director will be Scott Coulter. »

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Way Off Broadway Theater Presents Another Radio Christmas Runs 11/20-1/9

30 October 2009 2:32 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Four years ago, audiences were first introduced to the zany on-air personalities of the 50's radio station Wwob. Several years have passed and it is time to return to the station to see what has happened as they once again go on the air with their special Christmas broadcast. Closing out the Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's 15th Anniversary Season, Another Radio Christmas begins performances Friday evening, November 20th and runs through January 9, 2010.

Way Off Broadway's holiday production is always the feel good show of the year. Perfect for the whole family, the show brings together songs, dances, and scenes to celebrate the season. Always full of laughs and Christmas spirit, the true meaning of the holiday is never forgotten.

Bringing the cast of characters to life this season are some of the most familiar faces of the theatre including Ann Davis as Annie Pinciotti, A.J. Dorsey as the Announcer, »

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The Full Monty Returns to the West End, 12/2; Thom Sutherland Directs

27 October 2009 12:07 PM, PDT | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Whatsonstage.com is reporting that Thom Southerland will helm a new production of Terrence McNally and David Yazbeck's The Full Monty. The production will make its debut at the Broadway Theatre in Catford from running November 4-29, with a West End transfer to the Players Theatre scheduled for. December 2. The production will run at the Players Theatre through January 2. This production will be the first revival of the show in the West End since 2002, where it played at the Prince of Wales Theatre for only eight months. »

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Review: iTunes 99p Rental – And Now For Something Completely Different

21 October 2009 9:57 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

As well as music, iTunes does films too, to buy or rent. Rentals usually cost £2.50 to £3.50, but every week those nice chaps (or chapesses) hand select one to be available at a much lower 99p. Every week i review the selection, ‘cos quite often it can be a little obscure…

This week, to celebrate 40 years of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, they’ve chosen the first Python movie 1971’s And Now For Something Completely Different.

Straight off, i should mention that, despite the fact it was released as such, it isn’t actually a movie. To capitalise on their popularity, they re-recorded 90 minutes of their sketches, put a title on it, and released it in theatres. As just a longer collection of their usual tv sketches, with no narrative of any kind weaved through it, it’s impossible to review it as a film.

There are three types of people. »

- Barry Steele

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Charlie and his chocolate takes the stage

2 October 2009 10:33 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Reported by THR's Risky Biz earlier today, Warner Bros. is in the works to bring Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the Broadway stage. The spectacle is set to be produced by American Beauty director Sam Mendes' production company Neal Street Productions, with Mendes also rumored to direct. Popular Scottish playwrite David Grieg is set to write the book, with Scott Wittman and Hairspray alumni Marc Shaiman set compose. This is not the first time that a Broadway show has been spun-off from a Hollywood film. In the past, the stage has graced us with faithful and popular adaptations of The Full Monty, The Little Mermaid and Shrek. Let's see if Charlie can hold note. »

- Ricky

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Exclusive: Robert Carlyle on 'Stargate Universe'

29 September 2009 9:40 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Scottish-born character actor Robert Carlyle is one of the most versatile thespians you're likely to meet. He's played a cold-blooded killer on the classic UK crime drama Cracker (1990), a police officer in the BBC drama Hamish Macbeth (1995-97), a psychopath in Trainspotting (1996), a strip-teasing steelworker in The Full Monty (1997), an international terrorist who feels no pain in the Bond film The World is Not Enough (1999), and an intelligence operative in 24: Redemption (2008).

And those are just a few highlights.

Inspired to take up acting after reading Arthur Miller's "The Crucible", the graduate of Glasgow Arts Centre probably never imagined, however, that a journey that began in Scotland's largest city would one day take him to distant worlds aboard an ancient starship. Yet, it is aboard the starship Destiny in a distant corner of the universe where Carlyle now finds himself, as he dons the persona of Dr. Nicholas Rush in Stargate Universe, »

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Carlyle Quits British Cinema

16 September 2009 5:16 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

The Full Monty star Robert Carlyle has vowed to venture away from British cinema - because audiences aren't interested in his movies.

The actor believes he gave the performances of his life in his last two films, Summer and I Know You Now, but he's fed up they received a muted reaction.

He says, "I made two movies about 18 months ago. In my opinion, I think they are the best performances I have ever given. I am very, very proud of these films. But they were only seen by about 20 people and I've had it. I'm not doing it for a while."

The Trainspotting star will now devote time to working in the U.S., where he is currently shooting sci-fi TV series Stargate: Universe. »

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Carlyle Would Work On Boyle's Porno For Free

11 September 2009 1:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Scottish actor Robert Carlyle is desperate for Danny Boyle to film the sequel to cult movie Trainspotting - insisting he would "jump though hoops of fire" to star in an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Porno.

The Slumdog Millionaire director has long been rumoured to be working on taking Porno to the big screen - 13 years after Trainspotting made the cast household names.

Boyle recently insisted he would only start shooting the sequel once the actors started to look older - stating Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner and Jonny Lee Miller were all too well-preserved.

But The Full Monty star Carlyle, who played psychopath Begbie, believes Boyle is "edging closer" to the project after sweeping this year's Oscars - and has even offered to work on it for free.

He says, "For me personally, I would jump through hoops of fire backwards for Danny Boyle. I would do Porno tomorrow for nothing.

"Begbie was probably the only character I would ever want to revisit because I do believe that there's an awful lot more mileage there.

"I think there is lots more entertainment to be had from that group of people so I would be up for it, and I know Danny seems to be edging more towards it. After his success at the Oscars, he should be able to pretty much do as he wants." »

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New 'Stargate Universe' Promo

9 September 2009 11:57 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

It is less than one month until the spaceship Destiny gets underway in Sgu;Stargate Universe and we've got another glimpse of the new show for you, courtesy of Syfy. To watch the action-packed 30-second promo click on the Video tab above.

Sgu premieres on Syfy in the United States and on Space in Canada on October 2 at 9/8c (viewers in the UK can see it on Sky One on October 6). The series is the third in the Stargate franchise, following Stargate Sg-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

The new Stargate series follows a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians, who must fend for themselves after they are forced through a Stargate when their secret military research base is attacked. On the other side of the gate they find themselves on board an ancient ship, the Destiny, which is locked on an unknown path and unable to return to Earth. Faced with »

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