MOST-PIRATED MOVIES ARE ALSO BOX-OFFICE HITS

The most-pirated movies of all time are also some of the biggest box-office winners, according to TorrentFreak.com, which tracks BitTorrent use on the Internet. According to the website, Avatar, with 21 million downloads, is the most pirated movie ever, with The Dark Knight and 2007′s Transformers tied for second place with about 19 million. Avatar, [...]

AVATAR THEME PARK RIDE COMING TO DISNEY WORLD

Get set for Avatar: The Theme-Park Ride. The Walt Disney Co. announced on Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with director James Cameron, his producing partner Jon Landau, and 20th Century Fox to develop a theme-park ride based on Cameron’s movie at Disney’s Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL. Work on [...]

CHINA FALLS UNDER POTTER’S SPELL

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 made an impressive debut in China where it earned $25.5 million in about 4,200 theaters over the weekend. The Chinese haul kept the Potter finale ahead overseas, where it is now playing in 61 countries, for the fourth weekend in a row. Its worldwide total now stands [...]

DEATHLY HALLOWS ENTERS $1-BILLION CLUB

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 joined the billion-dollar club over the weekend, the club’s ninth member. Through Sunday the franchise finale had earned $1.01 billion worldwide ($318.5 million domestically; $690 million internationally). It’s the first Warner Bros. film to pass the $1-billion mark. The club is due to be joined by a [...]

HARRY TRIUMPHS OVERSEAS

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 continued to dominate the overseas box office for the second week in a row. It amassed $121.3 million in 59 countries to bring its foreign total to $560.4 million and a worldwide total of $834.6 million. Coming in second was Transformers: Dark of the Moon with $62 [...]

PROFITS AT FOX PLUNGE 50 PERCENT

Without Avatar, operating profits for 20th Century Fox fell 50 percent to $248 million against $497 million during parent News Corp’s third quarter last year, the company said in an SEC filing on Wednesday. The steep drop contributed to a 24-percent plunge in overall News Corp revenue to $639 million from $839 million, even though [...]

3D PORN MOVIE MAY RECEIVE ADDITIONAL STEAMY SCENES

Appearing to borrow a page from the Justin Bieber playbook, the producer of the recently released 3D porn film that has become a hit in Taiwan and Hong Kong is planning to add 15 minutes of additional steamy scenes in hopes of generating repeat business. Agence France-Presse, the French news agency, quoted Stephen Shiu, the [...]

BERTOLUCCI RETURNING WITH 3D DRAMA

After an eight-year absence from filmmaking, legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor) is planning to return in the fall with a drama using 3D technology. In an interview with Agence France-Presse, the French news agency, on his 71st birthday Wednesday, Bertolucci said, “I want to use 3D in a [...]

WHAT DID 20TH EXECS REALLY THINK OF AVATAR?

It may have turned out to be 20th Century Fox’s most profitable film – what with gross revenue of $2.8 billion worldwide and counting — but studio executives were less than enthusiastic when they screened Avatar for the first time, according to director James Cameron. As reported by the London Independent, Cameron was asked about [...]

JANUARY BOX OFFICE: COLD AS THE WEATHER

Fewer tickets were sold at North American theaters in January than during any January since 1991, BoxOfficeMojo said on its website Tuesday. Just 94 million tickets were sold, the first time that ticket sales had fallen below 100 million since 1995, the website said. Thanks to 3D and IMAX surcharges, total revenue fell to only [...]

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