Archive for November, 2007
The Red Awn wins at Thessaloniki Film Festival
The 48th annual Thessaloniki International Film Festival closed on Sunday. The main prize, the Golden Alexander for Best Film, went to Chinese drama The Red Awn, written and directed by Cai Shangjun. The Red Awn had previously won the FIPRESCI prize, awarded by a jury of international film critics, at the Pusan Film Festival in [...]
U.S. weekend box office November 23-25
Top ten movies at the U.S. box office this weekend and their ratings at Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Enchanted – $34,440,317 – 93% fresh
2. This Christmas – $17,958,183 – 55% rotten
3. Beowulf – $16,538,666 – 70% fresh
4. Hitman – $13,180,769 – 11% rotten
5. Bee Movie – $11,813,502 – 51% rotten
6. Fred Claus – $10,575,400 – 23% rotten
7. [...]
U.S. weekend box office November 16-18
Top ten movies at the U.S. box office this weekend and their ratings at Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Beowulf – $28,000,000 – 70% fresh
2. Bee Movie – $14,300,000 – 50% rotten
3. American Gangster – $13,200,000 – 79% fresh
4. Fred Claus – $12,000,000 – 22% rotten
5. Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium – $10,000,000 – 37% rotten
6. Dan in Real [...]
WGA strike update: talks to resume after Thanksgiving
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) issued a joint statement last night, 12 days into the strike, saying that they will resume talks on November 26, after the Thanksgiving break, reports Variety.
The writers stopping the strike is no longer a condition for new talks to [...]
U.S. weekend box office November 9 – 11
Box office earnings over the weekend and the ratings at Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Bee Movie – $25,565,462 – 51% rotten
2. American Gangster – $24,028,445 – 79% fresh
3. Fred Claus – $18,515,473 – 23% rotten
4. Lions for Lambs – $6,702,434 – 26% rotten
5. Dan in Real Life – $6,002,717 – 64% fresh
6. Saw IV – $4,949,812 – [...]
Festival of Eastern European Cinema ends
The 17th Festival of Eastern European Cinema closed yesterday in Cottbus, Germany, after a five-day run. The leading event in promoting films from the region, the Cottbus Festival both lends international exposure to the best films that come out of film industries in Eastern Europe, provides financial support to the most promising filmmakers and serves [...]
Bruce Greenwood, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Morrison aboard Star Trek
Bruce Greenwood (Capote, 13 Days, Being Julia) has signed on to play Captain Christopher Pike and Winona Ryder will appear as Spock’s mother in the upcoming J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek prequel. Pike is the captain who commanded the Enterprise before the legendary James Kirk and Spock’s mother, Amanda Grayson, is a schoolteacher (on Earth, [...]
U.S. weekend box office November 2-4
Box office earnings and Tomatometer ratings:
1 American Gangster - $43,565,135 - 77% fresh
2 Bee Movie - $38,021,044 - 53% rotten
3 Saw IV - $10,348,646 - 17% rotten
4 Dan In Real Life - $7,870,196 - 64% fresh
5 The Game Plan - $3,931,491 - 28% rotten
6 30 Days Of Night - $3,741,763 - 51% rotten
7 Martian Child [...]
Cahiers du cinema: 100 most beautiful films in the world
Cult French film magazine Cahiers du cinema has published the list of the 100 most beautiful films in the world. Here they are:
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles
The Night of the Hunter – Charles Laughton
The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) – Jean Renoir
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (L’Aurore) – Friedrich Wilhelm [...]
The writers’ strike fallout and what viewers can do about it
Michael Ausiello reports that the cast and crew of Heroes are filming an alternate ending to the episode scheduled to air on December 3. If an agreement is not reached between the writers and Hollywood film and television studios by that time and the writers’ strike continues, the episode will serve as the early season [...]
