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Box Office Reports: ‘Gravity’ holds, ‘Fifth Estate’ folds
On the strength of 3D/IMAX, incredible word of mouth and the fact that very little of note opened this weekend, Gravity took the top spot at the box office for the third weekend in a row with $31 million, a 28 percent drop from the previous weekend, bringing i...
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Birthday Wishes: Danny Boyle (57)
Danny Boyle is one of the steadiest working filmmakers and he is always mixing up genres every film out. Boyle is one of my favorite directors, even if this year's Trance was probably his weakest effort. I first became a fan of his when I saw The Beach in thea...
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Birthday Wishes: Viggo Mortensen (53)
Viggo Mortensen is most well known for his role of Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings, that was the first time I became aware of him, but he had a pretty interesting before LOTR and since. I've tried to keep up on his films since 2001 and if you missed out on hi...
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’12 Years A Slave’ Dissenters Serve As Another Reminder that Oscar Season Is Here
It happens like clockwork every year. A film comes out of a festival sitting on a cloud boosted by the word of critics that are left speechless post screenings. The filmmakers receive standing ovations, Oscar pundits run off to their hotel rooms to write their...
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Charlie Hunnam: Hollywood’s Winner of the Week
Charlie Hunnam's decision to drop out of Fifty Shades of Grey may end up saving his career.
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Live National In-Theatre Screening Series Launches
Not everyone has the chance to go to a film festival and watch films before their release or with the cast and crew in attendance, but there may be an opportunity for this type of screening to become all the more frequent and accessible for American movie-goer...
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Bong Joon-ho Not So Pleased with Cuts to ‘Snowpiercer’
A few months ago The Weinstein Company announced that the U.S. theatrical release of Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer would be significantly shorter than the overseas finished product with 20 minutes cut from the film's 126 minute runtime. In August, Bong seemed unp...
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BFI’s Nick James Laments More Critic Layoffs
This year has been a bad one for film critics between the mass layoffs at MSN and the number of trimmed staffs that have taken place at countless publications. Last Sunday saw a good deal of critics let go when The Independent removed all its arts critics alon...
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BFI’s Nick James Laments More Film Critic Layoffs
This year has been a bad one for film critics between the mass layoffs at MSN and the number of trimmed staffs that have taken place at countless publications. Last Sunday saw a good deal of critics let go when The Independent removed all its arts critics alon...
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