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The Best of the Decade: 2000-2009
23 December 2009 9:56 AM, PST
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A best of the decade list is an incredible thing to consider. The Aughts were ripe with imagination and originality. The past ten years also came jam packed with many new visionary directors that changed the cinematic landscape forever. Yet, at the same time, it was also a decade wrought with remakes, rip-offs, ten-year late sequels, and films based on preexisting toy properties, comic books, and amusement park rides. George Lucas offended almost everyone by dusting off his Star Wars mythos and adding copious amounts of CGI to it. And Batman, a caped figure in tights who last flourished in the trippy sixties, managed to crawl head and shoulders above the rest at the box office to be crowned king. Thus proving that the so-called "geek" or "fanboy" truly ruled the silver screen over the course of this tumultuous past decade. Today, we look at the ten films that ruled
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'Avatar' Timeline: The Film's Long Journey From Dream To Screen
21 December 2009 6:31 AM, PST
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James Cameron's boundary-breaking film has experienced ups and downs for 12 years.
By Larry Carroll
"Avatar"
Photo: 20th Century Fox
The love, the hate, the hubris and drama! Sure, all those elements are within the story line of "Avatar," but they've also played into the behind-the-scenes hype surrounding the film over its 12-year development.
Now, the proof is finally in the pudding, and you can judge for yourself as you slip on those 3-D glasses and escape into the world of Pandora. But, for old times' sake, let's take one final look back at the unique timeline that has followed "Avatar" from script to screen. After all, where else are you going to find an up-and-down story involving Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone, FernGully, Adolf Hitler and our own Josh Horowitz?
1995: James Cameron writes his first draft for "Avatar" as an 80-page treatment heavily influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs and his "John Carter" series.
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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Should 'Avatar' Be Considered for Best Animated Oscar?
14 December 2009 9:56 AM, PST
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Zoe Saldana in Avatar
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I'm not going to ask why Avatar isn't on the Academy's short list for Best Animated Oscar because the answer to that question is obvious... it wasn't submitted. Perhaps that's just the problem though. Why not? And don't go jumping to a quick decision. Let me give you a little food for thought. I might be able to make a case that will have you considering it much more than you may think.
First off, let's look at a few details to help the discussion along. Here are four of the 20 films that were submitted for consideration in the Best Animated Feature Film category:
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Disney's A Christmas Carol
Monsters vs. Aliens
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Keep those films in the back of your mind for a second while I ask (and try to answer) a few questions you may
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New Moon destroys the competition
23 November 2009
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Released this week around the world, "Twilight 2" continues to establish new records as it destroys the competition.
During its first weekend in the United States, "Twilight 2 - New Moon" took in close to $140 million, which marks the 3rd best premiere in movie history, after "The Dark Knight" and "Spider-Man 3", and before "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest".
The box office number shrunk significantly from Friday to Saturday, however, which indicates the word-of-mouth buzz is in agreement with that of professional reviewers not so good.
Various indicators do show that the sequel to "Twilight" was without a doubt one of the most anticipated movies of the last few years. The American advance ticket sites Fandango and Movietickets.com report that "New Moon" also broke records in ticket sales, with numbers beating those of "Batman", "Star Wars", "Harry Potter" and "The Lord of the Rings": on Friday, 10 tickets were sold every second!
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Weekend Box Office - Audiences Moon The Box Office
22 November 2009 8:54 PM, PST
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There's good news and bad news this weekend. The good news is that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is no longer one of the top three biggest opening movies of all time. The bad news is, it was replaced by lullaby humming emo vampires and werewolves cast for their muscle tone, not their acting abilities.
I'll admit to having read Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga. I'll even admit to having enjoyed most of the four book series. But, as books go they really don't have much to offer for a movie maker except undeliverably whiny teenage inner monologue and opportunities for Abercrombie and Fitch product placement. And yet, despite the fact that only 3 out of 10 critics thought the movie was any good, audiences turned out to hand over enough cash to make New Moon the film with the third highest grossing domestic debut ever.
Easily number one over
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'New Moon' Rises on Box Office, Breaks Other Records
22 November 2009 7:06 PM, PST
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After breaking midnight record in its first day screening, "The Twilight Saga's New Moon" has topped the North American box office chart. This weekend, the "Twilight" sequel grossed an estimated $140.7 million domestically, making it the third biggest opening weekend of all time. Internationally, the film earned an approximately $118.1 million from 25 foreign markets.
Still, the amount raked by the second installment of the vampire drama movies from local theaters in the opening weekend was lower than the $158 million bowed by "The Dark Knight" and the $151 million summoned by 2007 "Spider-Man 3". Meanwhile, the third place initially belonged to "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" with $136 million.
Though so, "New Moon" has surpassed the previous November opening record for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" which collected $101.4 million in its debut weekend. Moreover, it gathered almost exactly twice the opening weekend gross of the first film, "Twilight", which earned only $69.6 million
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'New Moon' Exceeds Expectations In The Sunday Box Office Report
22 November 2009 1:35 PM, PST
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1. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" ($140.7 million)
2. "The Blind Side" ($34.5 million)
3. "2012" ($26.5 million)
4. "Planet 51" ($12.6 million)
5. "A Christmas Carol" ($12.2 million)
The only thing a vampire craves more than blood is box office gold, as proven by the decisive success of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" in theaters this weekend. The second installment of the "Twilight" series exceeded expectations by opening to record-smashing numbers, easily paving the way for a first place finish of $140.7 million domestically, $118.1 million from international markets and a worldwide total of $258.8 million.
"New Moon" successfully captured several records, including but not limited to: the best single opening day for a film at $72.7 million, outgrossing the previous record held by "The Dark Knight" at $67.2 million; the best gross for midnight showings at $26.3 million, a record previously held by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" at $22.2 million; and the biggest November opening in history, surpassing "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" at $102.7 million.
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Box Office Explosion: 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'
22 November 2009 9:07 AM, PST
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Marking the third best weekend opening of all time (thank god it wasn't the first), Summit Entertainment's sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon grossed an estimated $140.7 million from 4,024 theaters at the domestic B.O., according to insiders close to the numbers.
Not only that, New Moon led what's expected to be the second-best weekend ever at the domestic B.O. in terms of overall ticket sales, trailing only the weekend that Warner Bros.' "The Dark Knight" opened, and that was in summer. "New Moon's" boffo opening trails only Warners' "The Dark Knight" ($167.2 million) and Sony's "Spider-Man 3" ($151.1 million). "New Moon" bumped Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" ($135.6 million) from the No. 3 spot in terms of top opening for a three-day weekend.
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Monster Smash; $140.7M Opening for 'New Moon'
21 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST
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By Daniel Frankel
Sunday box-office update:
Summit Entertainment monster-mash sequel "Twilight Saga: New Moon" got off to the third biggest three-day start in domestic box office history this weekend, taking in $140.7 million at 4,024 theaters, according to studio estimates.
Surpassing "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," only "The Dark Knight" and "Spider-Man 3" have had bigger openings. The film cost Summit $50 million to produce, studio officials said.
The film, which also opened in 25 markets internationally, took
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Big Surprise: Top Grossing Movies of the Decade Are Basically All Franchise Films
17 November 2009 3:14 PM, PST
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Here's another list for you to digest as we approach the end of the decade. Jason Kottke [1] recently took a look at the list of highest-grossing films from 2000-2009 courtesy of Wikipedia [2], and makes the observation that only one movie in the top 20 is based on an original screenplay. The rest of the movies are all adaptations of books or sequels to existing franchises.
Now, it's pretty easy to jump on this list and whine and moan about how it means there is nothing original in Hollywood anymore. While I agree that there is a problem with studios valuing brand over concept, don't forget, we are talking about the movies that made the most money here. Of Course familiar characters and titles are going to attract more viewers than strange and unfamiliar ones... doesn't that make sense? A lot of people don't even see movies at the theatre, so they
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Top-Grossing Films of the Decade
17 November 2009 2:21 PM, PST
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Thanks to a Wikipedia contributor who put together a list of the 50 highest-grossing films of the decade, it’s easy to see Hollywood’s—and, apparently, America’s—obsession with rehashing old material. As The Wrap points out, only nine aren't sequels or adaptations, and you have to reach No. 15 before finding an original. Gawker says "only five are not terrible." The first 15: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: $1.12 billion Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: $1.07 billion The Dark Knight: $1 billion Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: $974.7 million
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Johnny Depp to Play Tonto in Lone Ranger Movie
4 November 2009 5:26 AM, PST
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As long ago as March 2008, there was news that Jerry Bruckheimer was producing a live-action Lone Ranger movie and that Pirates of the Caribbean writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio were working on the screenplay. Not much else was heard of the project until rumors started circulating in May of this year that Jack Sparrow, himself, Johnny Depp, would be starring in the film as Tonto, the Ranger's Native American partner.
In September, during a huge Walt Disney Pictures media blitz, Depp was officially announced to play Tonto. Recently, in a group interview in Santa Monica, Bruckheimer said that the project is still moving forward.
Elliot and Rossio worked on that also with some other writers and with Johnny. So they're creating something that has a kind of true-to-the-western [feel], but adding other additional elements like we did with Pirates so it won't be just a straight-ahead western.
According to some reports,
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Exclusive: Riley Steele on 'Piranha 3-D'
28 October 2009 5:50 PM, PDT
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Riley Steele is best know for her work in adult films like Pirates 2: Stagnetti's Revenge, but the gorgeous twenty-two-year-old may soon win a bunch of new fans, and some mainstream success, with her supporting role in Alexandre Aja's upcoming 3-D remake of Joe Dante's cult classic Piranha. I met Steele on the Lake Havasu, Arizona set of Piranha this summer, on a day when she was filming her climactic scene – and swallowing a lot of water in the process. Needless to say she wasn't feeling very good that day. Being a trooper, however, she offered to chat with me later on the phone. Read on for the conversation that followed, in which Steele discusses making the transition from adult film star to
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Uncertainty Looms Around 'Pirates of the Caribbean 4'
23 October 2009 12:55 AM, PDT
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Ever since Walt Disney Studios former Chairman Dick Cook took the D23's stage to announce "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides", reports after reports have come in about the development of this fourth "Pirates" movie. But, during a press event for "Astro Boy", actor Bill Nighy told Sci Fi Wire that any announcement about the movie is premature.
"I understand that there was an announcement that there was going to be a fourth, and now I've been told since that that was not a reliable announcement," the actor who plays Davy Jones in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" said. Though so, he didn't completely rule out the possibility of a fourth film. "I'm pretty sure that there will be [a fourth]," he said. "I would be amazed if there weren't, given the success of the first three."
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Michael Jackson's This Is It takes on Lord of the Rings
12 October 2009 1:07 PM, PDT
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The power of Michael Jackson lives on - and it's proving enough to conquer the mystical might of the Lord of the Rings.
The late singer's upcoming concert movie Michael Jackson's This Is It has overtaken Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - the first film in Peter Jackson's trilogy - in a league table of films with the highest advance ticket sales of all time.
MovieTickets.com said This Is It had knocked The Fellowship of the Ring of the 25th place in the chart.
The Jacko film documents the star's preparations for his planned 50-date concert series and will be released on October 28. Sony Pictures edited hundreds of hours of rehearsal footage to create the movie after paying $60million for the film rights.
A Michael Jackson single and album with the same title are also set to be released.
The highest grossing concert film
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Johnny Depp Not as Enthusiastic About Pirates 4
19 September 2009 3:53 AM, PDT
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Just last week at Disney's D23 Expo, actor Johnny Depp appeared on stage in full Captain Jack Sparrow costume and persona to help announce the next sequel in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. However, with the sudden departure of Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook this past week, Depp has admitted to feeling less enthusiastic about reprising the Pirates role because of his strong working relationship with Cook.
Depp said that he was "in" on the first movie "before there was a script or anything" after he had a conversation with Cook about the project. Depp also credited Cook with being "supportive" of his portrayal of Jack Sparrow when he was first formulating the character.
When things went a little sideways on the first Pirates movie and others at the studio were less than enthusiastic about my interpretation of the character, Dick was there from the first moment.
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Johnny Depp Confirmed in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
11 September 2009 10:40 AM, PDT
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Actor Johnny Depp hovered near the top of the list of Hollywood leading men for years, but it wasn't until his blockbuster portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow in Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean that he became a worldwide superstar. Now, his character is so linked with the franchise, it would be hard to imagine a Pirates movie without him. Thankfully, Depp's return to the role is no longer a concern, at least for one more movie.
In a rare public appearance in costume, Depp sailed into Disney's D23 Expo in Anaheim, California, to help announce that the fourth installment in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, was beginning production and that he would be returning as Captain Jack Sparrow. The film is slated for a summer 2011 release.
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'Pirates Of The Caribbean 4' Gets A Title At Disney Fan Convention
11 September 2009 3:53 AM, PDT
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Johnny Depp sails onstage as Captain Jack Sparrow to promote 'On Stranger Tides'; plus Miley Cyrus, Nicolas Cage and more at D23.
By Larry Carroll
Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl"
Photo: Touchstone Pictures
Anaheim, California — Nobody puts on a show like Walt Disney, a point proven once again Friday morning (September 11) in a massive event featuring appearances by Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Miley Cyrus and big news on the future of the "Pirates of the Caribbean," "National Treasure" and other franchises.
Walt Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook took the stage after a live orchestra presented a tribute to Disney films new and old, addressing a crowd of 5,000 people at the Anaheim Convention Center as part of the studio's massive D23 fan convention.
Among the big news announced by Cook as he looked into the crystal ball at Disney's next several years on film:
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