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'Ice Age,' 'Transformers' Reign in Photo Finish

5 July 2009 5:44 PM, PDT | From Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news

In a clash between dinosaurs and giant robots over Independence Day weekend, the result was a draw... for now, based on studio estimates. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen each weighed in with an estimated $42.5 million. As always, the weekend estimates were based on estimates for Friday and Saturday plus the studios' projections for Sunday, but it is highly unusual for two studios to claim the same number: the last time that comes to mind was The Man in the Iron Mask versus Titanic eleven years ago. Breaking the weekend down, the Transformers sequel was tops on Friday, while the Ice Age sequel led Saturday. Which movie ultimately lays claim to the weekend crown will rest on the studios' accuracy in predicting Sunday (actual grosses will be reported Monday) as only about $200,000 separated them from Friday and Saturday combined. With Public Enemies debuting solidly in third,

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Brandon Gray

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New 'Couples Retreat' Trailer with Vince Vaughn

1 July 2009 11:29 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

With the fairly surprising box office bonanza that was Four Christmases, producers rushed into action to recapture that ol' Vince Vaughn comedy magic. For a while, Vaughn's stuff has been pretty sub-par, but the hope is if you surround him with a lot of talent maybe the old Vince - the Wedding Crashers and not Fred Claus Vince - would come back to us.

Couples Retreat certainly should give Vaughn fans hope. In addition to reuniting with Jon Favreau, the new comedy co-stars Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, and Faizon Love. The story has promise, too, and even if it doesn't sound like much, remember the basic premise to The Hangover doesn't exactly leap off the page.

In the film, four couples head to the islands for a big vacation, but one of the four tandems is there to work on their relationship, and what the other

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Colin Boyd

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Katherine Heigl's 27 Dresses outfit named best movie wedding look

30 June 2009 3:18 AM, PDT | From Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news

Wedding photographs often tell the same story – the glowing, gorgeous bride in a gown to die for surrounded by bridesmaids in lesser dresses gallantly grinning through the pain. And in last year’s rom-com 27 Dresses, poor, obliging Jane Nichols (Katherine Heigl) doesn’t put up with just one nasty outfit, not two, but (there’s a clue in the title, people!) 27 atrocious dresses. There’s a Little Bo Peep one, a Gone with the Wind one and an olive-green one that James Marsden’s cynical journalist Kevin dubs “an instrument of torture”. However thankfully, when Jane finally gets to upgrade from being the perpetual bridesmaid to the blushing bride she gets to wear a stunning sleeveless V-neck dress so dazzling that it’s been voted the best movie wedding look in a new poll by Blockbuster.

Jane’s sunny ensemble worn to her beach wedding narrowly beat that worn by

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Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic

29 June 2009 8:46 AM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

Isla Fisher racked up the credit card bills as Rebecca Bloomwood in the romantic comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic, which was just released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 23. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment recently provided us with an interview Fisher gave, and here's what she had to say.

Are you a Shopaholic?

Isla Fisher: No I am not a Shopaholic, I don't shop very well at all. I tend to buy things which end up not being quite right - whether it is a clothing item that does not match anything in my wardrobe, or some cooking apparatus that is utterly useless. I am just not that good at it.

Are you an impulse buyer?

Isla Fisher: I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.

In what way

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Ghost Whisperer Heart and Soul Clip

25 June 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

CBS recently released this new clip from Episode 408 “Heart and Soul” from the hit series “Ghost Whisperer” starring Jennifer Love Hewitt (Delgo), Jamie Kennedy and David Conrad (Wedding Crashers). Synopsis: Ghost Whisperer is an episodic series that follows the life of Melinda Gordon, a young woman who has the ability to see and communicate with the dead. Each episode deals with one or more ghosts seeking Melinda’s help in relaying a message or completing a task that will put the spirit to rest, and allow them to “cross over” into The Light, a metaphor presented by the show as its conception of Heaven. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest “Ghost [...]

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Weekend Box Office: 'The Proposal' Wins a Busy Weekend

22 June 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

It may have seemed like an "off" week by summer standards in terms of releases, but two debuts and two strong holdovers meant that four films grossed $20 million or more, which is rare for a non-holiday weekend. The top dog, surprisingly, turned out to be The Proposal, which rode a genial marketing campaign and a set of sneak previews to $34 million dollars -- Sandra Bullock's best opening weekend ever, by far. (Related question: did Bullock "open" this movie? I'm inclined to think not, though it's a perfect role for her.)

Year One is a bit tougher to read. Certainly with the Cera/Black/Ramis combination, it was expected to open bigger. Generally poor reviews didn't help; I haven't seen the film, so I'm a bit handicapped in the analysis. If I had to guess, I'd say that people saw it as a bit of a novelty item. Silliness can

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Eugene Novikov

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Bollywood 'inspired by Hollywood profits'

21 June 2009 5:32 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Bollywood directors are copying Hollywood films in order to make quick profits, according to Indian film critic Omar Qureshi. A recent rash of Bollywood remakes includes versions of My Cousin Vinny, The Italian Job and Wedding Crashers. The forthcoming remake of the Michael Caine film will be a joint project between the Indian Tifc-Studio 18 and the American company Viacom. In an interview with Ians, (more)

By Zakia Uddin

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Six of the Worst Movie Proposals

20 June 2009 6:21 PM, PDT | From newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news

This weekend Sandra Bullock returns for more romantic comedy in The Proposal, this time dragging along Ryan Reynolds for the other half of the “will they or won’t they” formula.  You can probably already guess the generic ending even before stepping foot in a theater, so it’s mostly just sit back and hope Reynolds pulls off another one-liner.

The predictable plot is par for the course with director Anne Fletcher, who walks down the aisle of another wedding rom-com after last year’s 27 Dresses.  However, this proposal is a working world pun on office offers and engagement exchanges.  Maggie (Bullock), a Canadian, has to get married in order to avoid being deported and losing her job at a New York City publishing firm.  She comes to a mutual agreement (well, blackmail) with Andy (Reynolds) to play up the nuptials until she secures her citizenship.  The rest of the

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Jeff Leins

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Wilson Romancing Young Hudson Look-a-like?

17 June 2009 9:01 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Owen Wilson is dating a Kate Hudson look-a-like who is half his age, according to a U.S. report.

The Wedding Crashers star enjoyed an on/off romance with Hudson after appearing alongside one another in 2006 comedy You, Me and Dupree, but the couple split for good earlier this year.

The actress has allegedly moved on to date New York Yankees baseball ace Alex Rodriguez, and Wilson is getting over the failed romance by stepping out with a blonde doppelganger, reports the New York Daily News.

The new lovers made their relationship public by holding hands during a recent night out in the Big Apple, and eyewitnesses claim Wilson's girlfriend appeared to be years younger than the 40-year-old funnyman.

A source tells the publication, "Owen's new girl was a dead ringer for Kate Hudson, aside from the fact that she looked young enough to be his daughter. She looked to be just over the legal drinking age!"

And Wilson's representative has refused to confirm or deny the rumours, saying: "We do not comment on his personal life."

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'The Hangover' Will Get Oh-So-Close to $200 Million

15 June 2009 7:27 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Because it's the clear surprise hit of the summer - and may wind up being one of the top ten movies of the year at the box office - we thought we'd look ahead and try to predict how much coin The Hangover will make. We're on track with our $257 million domestic estimate for Star Trek, so we'll use the same approach to see where the finish line is for the comedy of the summer.

One problem with determining how much it will make is how unusual its production has been to this point. Its opening weekend was only the 20th best in the month of June, but after ten days, it's ahead of better than half the films in front of it on that list. And as far as its second weekend drop (27%), it's the best ever for a movie with a $40-million weekend in June, with the exception of Jurassic Park.

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Colin Boyd

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Hangover, Up Keep Their Top Slots While Imagine That Flops...

15 June 2009 2:24 PM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news

The official number one film this weekend was again The Hangover. One of the unlikeliest films to open at number one this summer is now arguably the least predictable contender to hold onto the top spot for two weekends running (a feat accomplished this year only by Madea Goes to Jail and Paul Blart: Mall Cop). It dropped a shockingly low 27% for a weekend total of $32.7 million. Its ten day total is now about $105 million. $200 million+ is all but certain and the film may in fact threaten the all-time comedy champs (Home Alone, Meet the Fockers, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, at $285 million, $279 million, and $241 million respectively). At this point in the game, even The Wedding Crashers (a far inferior film in every way, I might add)...

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Weekend Report: Lush 'Hangover,' 'Up' Linger Over Typical 'Taking'

15 June 2009 1:23 PM, PDT | From Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news

The good times continued to roll for The Hangover and Up, though not so much for the new movies and the box office as a whole. Hangover kept its buzz going with $32.8 million, while Up maintained its slow descent with $30.8 million. While those pictures were bustling, overall business was down 24 percent from the same weekend last year and had the lowest attendance for the timeframe in over a decade. Imbibing an exceptional $104.8 million in ten days, The Hangover saw the smallest dip among nationwide releases, down 27 percent. The ribald comedy held better than Knocked Up at the same point, but not quite as well as Wedding Crashers. Regardless of the percentage drops, though, it's grossed significantly more than those pictures at the ten-day mark, even when adjusted for ticket price inflation, and has flown way above genre norms. Up eased 30 percent and its tally climbed to $187.4 million in 17 days, the

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Weekend Box Office: 'The Hangover', 'Up' Hang On

15 June 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

The Hangover is officially the summer's biggest breakout hit. Its closest analogue is Wedding Crashers, which, four summers ago, was carried by positive word-of-mouth to a final gross nearly seven times its opening weekend. The Hangover has bigger raw numbers, but its second weekend drop -- 25% -- is comparable. For a film that opened to $45 million, and without any sort of holiday boost, that's pretty remarkable. It will have some competition next weekend in the form of Year One, but it may not matter much; its word-of-mouth appears to be the stuff that dreams are made of.

Pixar's Up is also going gangbusters in second place. It is now running a mere $4 million behind Pixar box office champion Finding Nemo. At this point it's anybody's game.

The weekend's two wide openers -- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and Imagine That Imagine That opened pretty much to expectations. Pelham did a respectable $25 million,

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Eugene Novikov

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The Hangover Stays On Top for 2nd Weekend

14 June 2009 9:22 PM, PDT | From www.canmag.com | See recent CanMag news

Every once in a while R-rated comedy reminds us that the genre can be a box office giant. The perfect example is The Hangover, which saw a second weekend as number one at the box office.

Box Office Report: Hangover Tough to Beat

As expected, The Hangover and Up took the top two spots at the box office over the weekend. Showing incredible staying power, Hangover dropped a minuscule 26% to earn an estimated $33.4 million over the weekend. Bringing its total 10-day box office take to $105.3 million. The Todd Phillips-directed comedy is the first R-rated laffer to match the box office success of 2005.s The Wedding Crashers.

Following suit, Up dipped 31% in its third frame to an estimated $30.5 million, bringing it's total domestic gross to $187.2 million. With a number such as that, Pixar can proudly say that Up is the second-best earner of this year's summer films, behind Paramount's Star Trek.

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Box Office Still Has a ‘Hangover’

14 June 2009 12:06 PM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

The story of the weekend box office is that the box office is having a Hangover -- in every which way. For the second weekend in a row the box office goes to The Hangover, and by an even bigger margin. According to the Sunday morning estimates it hauled in $33.4 million, well ahead of the $30.5 million hauled in by Up. What can I say? The Hangover , rated R, has to rank as the biggest box office surprise of the summer -- it has to be the Wedding Crashers of 2009. What I find interesting is that this movie came in totally under the radar. Everyone was talking about these other movies out there, but The Hangover still managed to win not one weekend, but two weekends in a row. And against significant competition, no less. I gotta say, if you were a betting man, and you had bet that The Hangover would have been the first movie this

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John Cairns

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Friday Report: 'Hangover,' 'Up' Stay on Top

13 June 2009 4:53 PM, PDT | From Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news

The party didn't stop for The Hangover, which led Friday with an estimated $10.4 million. The comedy was off 38 percent from last Friday, increasing its gross to $82.4 million in eight days. By comparison, Wedding Crashers saw a smaller drop at the same point (28 percent) but was grossing less with an eight-day tally of around $70 million, adjusted for ticket price inflation. Hangover's trajectory suggests a weekend of around $32 million, which would be enough for the top spot. Coming in second with the smallest dip of all nationwide releases (32 percent), Up generated an estimated $8.9 million, growing its total to $165.5 million in 15 days. Pixar's comedy adventure has set a course for a third weekend in the vicinity of $29 million. Debuting in third, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 brought in an estimated $8.2 million on approximately 4,400 screens at 3,074 sites. The action thriller featuring Denzel Washington and John Travolta was within the typical range for a Washington thriller

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Brandon Gray

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‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ Trailer is All McAdams, All the Time

13 June 2009 10:53 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

Who can get enough of Rachel McAdams? I certainly can't. Ever since she stole our hearts in Wedding Crashers -- yes, I realize that she really stole hearts with The Notebook, but I need to look manly here so just go with it (I've got a rep to uphold) -- she's been able to light up just about any screen she's on, even my elderly neighbor's old black and white console TV. And even though we're counting down the days until we get Ms. McAdams in here corset in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, she does have a few other projects in the works for 2009. One is The Time Traveler's Wife, in which she stars alongside Eric Bana. Based on a popular novel by Audrey Niffenegger, it tells the story of an adventurous librarian (Bana) who travels involuntarily through time and his relationship with the woman that he loves, an artist (McAdams) whose life must be lived

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The Fonz's Son Gets Ready To Crash A Wedding

10 June 2009 8:05 AM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

Here's your least shocking but most frustrating news of the day: being the child of a celebrity means you can get your movie made without much real effort. When Max Winkler, son of Henry, finished his script Ceremony, he simply showed it to his friend Jason Reitman, son of Ivan and Oscar-nominated director of Juno. And voila! Winkler will write and direct his script about two young men crashing a tony wedding, and Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Angarano are likely to star. The movie, as described by Winkler in a super-long THR article, sounds more The Graduate than Wedding Crashers-- "tonally funny and sad at the same time but of a manageable scale." Eisenberg can definitely pull that off; he was the emotional heart of both this year's Adventureland and The Squid and the Whale, and has that Michael Cera awkwardness without the self-aware cuteness that Cera has developed

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Weekend Report: 'Hangover' Gets High, 'Up' Hangs On

8 June 2009 1:50 PM, PDT | From Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news

The Hangover hit the jackpot over the weekend, narrowly edging out Up for the top spot. The ribald comedy had been projected to trail the Pixar adventure in Sunday's studio estimates, but was revised upward once actual grosses poured in. Hangover's Friday dominance combined with a better-than-expected Sunday haul cinched its position, despite Up soaring past it on Saturday as well as being marginally ahead on Sunday. Both pictures were highly successful for their genres and wound up less than two percent apart. Less fortunate was Land of the Lost, which debuted at a distant third. The weekend as a whole came in at $165.5 million, off six percent from the same period last year when Kung Fu Panda opened. The Hangover packed a much greater wallop than the norm for its genre, taking in $45 million on around 4,500 screens at 3,269 sites. It was hyped as the preordained raunchy comedy hit of the season,

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Brandon Gray

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'The Hangover'

8 June 2009 12:05 PM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news

In America, there is the soft R rating for films like Michael Clayton, Shakespeare in Love and The Station Agent; all critically approved films that, but for a few profanities or some brief nudity, would be safe for the PG-13 viewing masses. And then there is The Hangover, a film that gleefully gives the finger to the MPAA and anyone with a sense of propriety.

My conservative parents would weep knowing that their daughter saw such a film, and they’d be even sadder to know that she really, really liked it.

Old School director Todd Philips undoubtedly ups the ante with this raunchy comedy. For anyone who was disgusted by shots of a running, naked Will Ferrell in the director’s previous film, The Hangover shows far more of bearded comedian Zach Galifianakis than should be legally allowed. And the alcohol-fueled, frat-boy humor of Old School looks like Hannah Montana: The Movie

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