MOVIE REVIEWS: TO ROME WITH LOVE

Critics seem to find little to dislike about Woody Allen’s latest film, To Rome with Love. But, they suggest, like the title, it’s more like an amiable postcard from afar than a substantive, homey comedy, like his most memorable New York-based movies. Rex Reed in the New York Observer compares it with a “Hallmark Valentine,” [...]

WOODY ALLEN’S LATEST BEATS BLOCKBUSTERS IN ITALY

Italians are bestowing much love on Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love, which was launched in Italy over the weekend ahead of its North American release on June 22. Daily Variety reported today (Tuesday) that the film collected $3.7 million, more than the combined total of the next five pictures on the list, Battleship, Titanic, [...]

WOODY ALLEN MOVIE TO BE REBOOTED

Sony Pictures Classics, which had to compete with summer blockbusters to line up theater screens for Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, plans to “re-expand” the movie into around 1,000 theaters on August 26. (It is currently still playing in about 250 theaters.) The film, which has grossed about $50 million domestically, received much critical praise [...]

STRONG DEBUTS FOR ART-HOUSE FARE

Two art-house films made impressive debuts over the weekend. Sarah’s Key, starring Kristin Scott Thomas and released by The Weinstein Co., earned $117,045 at four theaters in New York and Los Angeles for a per-theater average of $23,409. (By contrast, Captain America averaged $17,719 per theater.) And Fox Searchlight’s Another Earth also debuted in four [...]

WOODY’S LATEST IS HIS BIGGEST HIT

Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris collected an additional $1.9 million over the weekend, bringing its gross to date to $41.8 million and thereby putting it ahead of his most successful film, Hannah and Her Sisters, which took in $40.1 million over its entire run in 1986. While the earlier figure is not adjusted for inflation, [...]

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS COULD ECLIPSE WOODY ALLEN’S PREVIOUS FILMS

Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris is on track this week to surpass his two biggest domestic moneymakers, Match Point and Vicky Cristina Barcelona and appears likely to become his greatest success ever if it surpasses the $40.1 million earned by Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986, the Hollywood Reporter observed today (Thursday). It also is [...]

BOX OFFICE LIKELY TO BECOME VERY GREEN THIS WEEKEND

How green will the box office wind up being this Father’s Day weekend? Well, look no further than the predictions that Warner Bros.’ The Green Lantern will rake in $50-60 million in its debut. (Fox is also opening the Jim Carrey comedy Mr. Popper’s Penguins, but it’s not expected to earn more than $10-15 million.) [...]

FOR WARNER BROS.: FIRST THE HANGOVER, THEN THE PARTY

TTalk about nursing a hangover! Moviegoers were doing just that in spades over the Memorial Day holiday as they spent $137.4 million between Thursday and Monday on The Hangover Part II, according to an estimate by Warner Bros. It marked the biggest gross for the debut of any R-rated comedy ever. While the film had [...]

HANGOVER II: CURE FOR INDUSTRY’S HEADACHE?

The principal complaint from many critics about The Hangover II was that it lacked the surprise element of the first film and amounted basically to a copy of the original. But the actual surprise came at the box office over the weekend as the movie set an all-time record for a comedy. As reported by [...]

BRIDESMAIDS: WHAT A RECEPTION!

If executives at one studio were wringing their hands over the failure of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to crack the $100-million mark, executives at another were no doubt pumping them in the air after learning that Bridesmaids declined just 20 percent in its second week to $20.9 million. It managed to beat [...]

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