FINAL BOX OFFICE RESULTS WORSE THAN FEARED

Final figures for the weekend box office turned out to be even weaker than Sunday’s estimates — which themselves were well below analysts’ forecasts. The two top films, Fox’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Sony/Columbia’s The Tourist each came in around a half million dollars below estimates. However, two [...]

SOFT LAUNCH FOR DAWN TREADER

Twentieth Century Fox’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader foundered upon launch this weekend as it earned just $24.5 million domestically, according to studio estimates — a figure well below analysts’ predictions. Overseas ticket sales saved the day, however, as Narnia raked in $81 million abroad. With Disney’s Tangled holding on to [...]

HOLLYWOOD TO BE WELL REPRESENTED AT LONDON FILM FEST

Although Hollywood films have been given short shrift at several leading overseas film festivals in recent years, they dominate the lineup announced today (Wednesday) for this year’s London Film Festival. Of 197 feature films being screened at the festival, which runs from Oct. 13-28, 34 are from the U.S., plus several restored prints of U.S. [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: BLACK SWAN

Several critics have given Darren Aranofsky’s Black Swan the same sort of ecstatic praise that they bestowed on his The Wrestler two years ago. The film opened the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday (to a standing ovation), where The Wrestler won the coveted Golden Lion award when it premiered there in 2008. “Every film festival [...]

VENICE FILM FESTIVAL NOW UNDERWAY

Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman is scheduled to kick off the Venice Film Festival today (Wednesday). Quentin Tarantino, who will serve as jury president, told Reuters on his arrival, “There’s a lot of really exciting movies, exciting directors. It’s a fantastic line-up,” he told Reuters on arrival. “I’m keen with anticipation. I’ve been [...]

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