Saturday, August 6, 2011

Chace Crawford Boards South African Murder Drama

Are you mocking Chace Crawford dramatic in good faith, when you can see, it was as a leader in efforts Gossip Girl Drama Emmy? Maybe this will convince you that it is serious: LAT reports that Crawford will be a South African man charged with the murder of the Gun House, which stars Pierce Brosnan as his father. The funding is still working in the film, but my fingers are crossed, especially as we look forward to hearing the accent.


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Super 8 Tops the Box Office

After much talk about his potential at the box office, scoring JJ Abrams is the Super 8 first place at the box office, earning a cool $ 37 million during its weekend debut. Meanwhile, the X-Men: First Class took the second place, earning $ 25 million, bumping its total revenue to 98.8 million. Part II Hangover slipped to third place, earning $ 18500000 in its third week, bringing its total earnings to $ 216.5 million. Kung Fu Panda 2 came in fourth place, earning $ 16.6 million, bumping its total gross domestic product to $ 126.9 million. And Pirates of the Caribbean: The Fountain of Youth came in fifth place, earning another $ 10800000, bumping its total revenue to 208.7 million.


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The Coen Brothers Are Working on a Movie With ‘Quite a Bit of Live Music’

At the opening of the Film Society of Lincoln Center a new facility on Friday, Joel and Ethan Coen, filmmakers liked True Grit, some details slip in his next project while talking on stage with director Noah Baumbach. "You work in a movie now has a bit of music on it," said Baumbach, apparently aware of certain information confirmed Ethan Coen:. "Yes, it will be mostly live, think," said Joel said. "We are working on a film that has music on it now, but that's all done live instrument, unique," he said. Details remain sketchy, but here are some other things. "Ethan suggested that his new film was" a bit like Margot at the Wedding, "Baumbach 2007 film," reports Indiewire later, Joel said: "In the stories come with us, write to someone specific, but I have to say, the [music-related] What we do now, not written specifically for either party, which is unusual for us.

"Indiewire, considers it" a new project, "but not the first Coen Brothers film is rumored that they will not mature.


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Navy SEALs Movie Starring Navy SEALs Officially Announced

As first reported Vautour, Relativity Media publishes a film about Navy SEALs, featuring real Navy SEALs. The film scripted, bravery, was officially announced Sunday, and the studio is a 2012 release date target. Mike "Mouse" McCoy and Scott Waugh will direct and Kurt Johnstad (300) wrote the script. Bravery following a platoon on a mission to recover a CIA abducted and take the terrorists. The filmmakers had "unprecedented access shipbuilding," according to a press release, and the film will feature fight sequences composed of real events in the lives of men in the film.


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Your Box Office Explained: How Super 8 Overcame Its Bad Tracking




This weekend the winners of the Super 8 (asterisk). It 'an estimated 38000000 8000000 The gap between the dollar and $ 13 million more than was expected, as the film follow-up anemic. Who do not have a star in Woody Allen's midnight in Paris, is now moving towards the $ 14 million in its second week of Grosses. This weekend took in $ 6100000 to take less than a thousand screens - Allen, the best showing of Hannah and Her Sisters 25 One year ago (!)

Losers this weekend: And here comes the star. In a week without opening the competition to save Judy Moody and her summer without bummers, we need to put the Super 8 in this category, too. Although better than many expected, the opening of its $ 38 million $ 3 million less than in 2008, Cloverfield. Now there was a monster in America was dying to see!

How it all went down: The Super 8 does not end up more losers than winners is impressive due to the eleventh hour push from Paramount, new, flashy advertisements, the projections of Thursday morning, and a drum beat from the word anima Twitter very positive word of mouth keeps all stakeholders considerable shame not to open at No. 1 when it was the only major new film in theaters. Until last week, despite (or perhaps because?) Trucks in its descent, the Super 8 seemed to be doing their best, not the plot from its explosive trailer began last summer. Unlike the now iconic, the Statue of Liberty decapitated that came to define Cloverfield, Super 8 is posters and print ads with a landscape that is boring, leaning to one side, we say ... nothing. While Super 8 sin, then his head was a transgression implicit "Abrams. Spielberg. Monster Alien.

Will you be there, "the arrogance of his position, which left the film almost forgotten, overshadowed by bombastic show-you-all superhero trailers for summer events.

The report stresses that the whole enchilada costs $ 75 million, haters insist on two occasions, but in any case, the real obstacle in Super 8 was the marketing that could have been. In the winter of 1996, after Roland Emmerich flew to the White House during the Super Bowl XXX Independence Day ad, I remember my girlfriend and with emphasis, half serious: "I do not care if I have to sell my body night: We'll be at the first screening of this "When he reached the Super 8 in trailers instead of awakening interest in the film itself, the first Spielberg-nostalgic atmosphere. . just let eager to rush out and rent Close Encounters of the Third Kind Determined to close the mystery box, never gave Abrams abroad and accused of luring the public: This approach has worked better than mock Cloverfield, but open in February, far from the height of the season special effects.

Meanwhile, the well-examined X-Men: First Class held fast, losing 53 percent of its audience. It's pretty standard for the spandex-heavy movie recording, but it's better than almost every film X-Men save the other. They never imagined a day when a film of Marvel Comics would depend on the review of the movie offended for their livelihood. Ah, the bitter irony!

But as opening day approached, later, Super 8 television commercials became more flamboyant, traditional blockbuster-y, and creation of it. And they seemed to have worked to revitalize interest.


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Review Super 8 in One Sentence

This weekend fell JJ Abrams is the Super 8 mystery and hit theaters, land surprisingly good box office returns and Reviews sterling (82 per cent in Tomatometer). But what do you think? Was the final product worthy of the initial secrecy and hype? Were you more into the drama or foreign relations giant killer? And most important: In retrospect, how did you feel Super 8 about Felicity Abrams?



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Downey Jr., Favreau Raise Iron Man 3 Red Flags

It is said that Jon Favreau was so frustrated by the attempt by Marvel to promote cross over The Iron Man 2 The Avengers, he refused to direct the third film, but Favreau showed no hard feelings, which appear alongside Robert Downey Jr. in a screening of two films Iron Man last weekend. "The most difficult to three Iron Man Jon Favreau will be to negotiate a job," Downey Jr. joked Festival Hero Complex in Los Angeles. "It will be huge, and I will see that they pay." Yet, although Favreau has passed the reins to Shane Black, he reiterated that the Iron Man 3, may be hampered by the insistence of Tony Stark Marvel push on duty with his other heroes this summer for The Avengers. "I think in the comics, you can say it's an individual story, and you can break into a group. But in the film, it is difficult not to see What Just Happened, "said Favreau.

"What you say?" [The other superhero] all just lost his cell phone and can not get help? So it will take much ingenuity to make sense of a film of the general public audience and an audience of comics.


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