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Tron Trounces Box Office With $43.6M

Sci-fi sequel sends Yogi Bear to No. 2

(Newser) - The much-hyped sci-fi sequel Tron: Legacy trounced its closest competition at the box office this weekend, notching $43.6 million in an opening weekend some 28 years after the original cult hit debuted. Its $200 million budget let filmmakers "do some incredible things," says the director of the...

Mel's Gibson's Beaver Fallout Begins

Puppet in altered YouTube trailers screams in his own Oksana rants

(Newser) - Mel Gibson seemed to be begging for it, and now it's come: his Beaver fallout begins. The actor's bid to resurrect his career playing a depressed dad who cures himself by talking to his beaver hand puppet has taken a hilarious turn on YouTube. Altered trailers for Gibson's new...

John Waters Picks the Best Films of 2010

And, yes, Jackass 3D makes the list

(Newser) - Cult filmmaker John Waters offers up his 10 favorite movies of 2010, and the list is as interesting as you'd expect:
  • Domain: He describes his favorite movie of the year thusly: "A 40-year-old alcoholic aunt (played by Béatrice Dalle—'Betty Blue' herself!) and her gayish teenage nephew
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Mel Tries to Salvage Career With Beaver Puppet

'Crazy' film may be an odd choice just now

(Newser) - Mel Gibson hopes to shore up his fading career with his latest role as a depressed dad who cures himself by talking to a beaver puppet that lives on his own hand. Sounds pretty pathetic, but word is that the movie—directed by Gibson friend and fellow actor Jodie Foster—...

Similar Sex Scenes Earn Different Ratings

MPAA under fire again after lesbian encounter gets tamer 'R'

(Newser) - Hollywood's rating system is coming under fire again after two Oscar contenders, Black Swan and Blue Valentine, received R and NC-17 ratings, respectively. Debate is raging because both films depict oral sex scenes in essentially the same way, for the same time and with no nudity, reports the Los Angeles ...

Harry Potter Has $125M Weekend
 Harry Potter 
 Has $125M 
 Weekend 


ALL-TIME No. 6
Nov 21, 2010 11:20 AM CST

Harry Potter Has $125M Weekend

No. 6 opening weekend of all time

(Newser) - Harry Potter has cast his biggest box-office spell yet with a franchise record $125.1 million domestically over opening weekend. In terms of revenue, that puts Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 ahead of the series' best previous debut of $102.7 million for 2005's Harry Potter and ...

15 Books That Will Never Hit Theaters

Thomas Pynchon's 'Gravity's Rainbow'? Not likely

(Newser) - The Great Gatsby is about to get the celluloid treatment again . And while we can only hope that Baz Luhrmann does it justice, a great book does not automatically equal a great film. (The Scarlett Letter much?) The Huffington Post lists 15 novels that it considers "unfilmable":
  1. Pale Fire,
...

Netflix Streamers Are Hogging Bandwidth
 Netflix Streamers 
 Are Hogging Bandwidth 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Nov 7, 2010 3:02 PM CST

Netflix Streamers Are Hogging Bandwidth

They eat up 20% in peak hours

(Newser) - People streaming movies from Netflix are eating up a ton of bandwidth, and it's only going to get worse, writes Farhad Manjoo in Slate . He notes the takeaway stat from from a new report : Netflix watching accounts for 20% of web traffic in North American homes during peak usage hours....

How Franco Cut Off His Arm, and Other Movie Secrets

Binging, smoking crack, playing twins, and more

(Newser) - James Franco's self-amputation (using a blunt pen knife, no less) in 127 Hours is apparently so realistic that audiences are fainting and vomiting at the sight of it. How'd Hollywood pull that off? At first, by using makeup to create a decaying arm, explains one of the film's makeup artists....

Actor in Action Scene Shot Dead by Guard

Filipino watchman thought actor was real gunman

(Newser) - An overzealous village watchman in the Philippines shot and killed an actor he mistook for a real gunman. Police say the guard—who had been informed that reports of gunmen in the area were probably linked to film production—jumped on the actor's motorcycle and shot him in the back...

10 Terribly Named Sequels
 10 Terribly Named Sequels 
the dark knight ... rises?
Oct 31, 2010 8:52 AM CDT

10 Terribly Named Sequels

'The Dark Knight Rises' is lame ... but far from the worst

(Newser) - Drum roll, please: The sequel to The Dark Knight will be named ... The Dark Knight Rises. "How thoroughly underwhelming," complains Katie Calautti for Newsweek —while acknowledging it could be much, much worse. She runs down the 10 most pathetic attempts at creativity in the last 20 years...

Ron Howard: Gay Joke Will Stay in Movie

'I believe in sensitivity but not censorship'

(Newser) - The trailer for Ron Howard's upcoming movie The Dilemma caused a flap because it showed Vince Vaughn mocking an electric car as "gay." Universal pulled the trailer when gay rights groups complained, but the joke will remain in the full movie, Howard tells the Los Angeles Times : "...

Ebert: Why I Won't Share My Top 10 Halloween Flicks

The film critic explains why movie lists are awful

(Newser) - Lots of critics have dutifully supplied their top-10 lists of horror movies in time for Halloween. Not so Roger Ebert, who instead used the time to compile an essay on why he hates the exercise, at this time of year or any other. "No list of films has the...

New Zealand Will Keep The Hobbit

Government works out a deal with Warner Bros.

(Newser) - The protests full of people who wanted to keep The Hobbit in New Zealand apparently worked: The country’s government worked out a deal with Warner Bros. to ensure the Peter Jackson-directed endeavor will film there. A labor dispute threatened to kill filming two months ago, and Jackson threatened to...

Movie Quotes: Where Have Classic One-Liner Film Quotations Gone?

 What Happened 
 to the Movie 
 One-Liner? 
'luke ... i am your father'
Oct 20, 2010 12:03 PM CDT

What Happened to the Movie One-Liner?

The great, repeatable lines have fallen off since the '90s

(Newser) - Think about it: When was the last time you, and everyone you know, went around quoting an unforgettable line from a movie? We all remember the classics—“Go ahead, make my day”; “You talking to me?”; “Hasta la vista, baby”—but such one-liners have fizzled out...

Meet the Real-Life Heroine of Conviction

Betty Anne Waters went to law school just to save wrongly-convicted brother

(Newser) - Betty Anne Waters is about to be one of the most famous lawyers in America thanks to Conviction, the new movie about her quest to free her wrongly convicted brother, Kenny. But she doesn’t have a law practice. Instead, she runs a pub. “She did not become a...

Romantic Movie Moves That Can Land You in Prison

Tying him to the bed is not a good idea

(Newser) - Everything we need to know about life we can learn from studying the repertoires of Katherine Heigl and Hugh Grant, right? Maybe not. Cracked points out six romantic acts that are a staple of cinema—and can saddle get real-life imitators jail time.
  1. Tearing through the airport: It worked in
...

Summer Movie Attendance: Lowest Since 1997

Summer movie revenue, on the other hand, is up

(Newser) - This summer saw the release of some beloved films, but that wasn’t enough to keep theaters packed. Even as studios and theater owners saw record revenues (thanks to an average ticket price of $7.88), attendance fell to its lowest level since 1997, Bloomberg reports. The number of tickets...

YouTube Working on Pay-Per-View
YouTube Working on Pay-Per-View
Aug 30, 2010 7:19 AM CDT

YouTube Working on Pay-Per-View

In talks with studios for movies, TV

(Newser) - Pay-per-You-Tube? Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to watch all the goofy home movies and webcam confessions you can stomach for free, but Google is hoping to launch a new, paid section of its video behemoth by the end of the year, the Financial Times reports. Google executives...

Formulaic Expendables a Tired Retread
 Formulaic 
 Expendables 
 a Tired Retread 
review roundup
Aug 13, 2010 12:41 PM CDT

Formulaic Expendables a Tired Retread

Action flick less than the sum of its all-star parts

(Newser) - Sylvester Stallone directed and co-stars, alongside a Magnificent Seven-style roster of action-film legends—Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, and Jason Statham—but critics have some issues with The Expendables.
  • James Verniere (and a friend), Boston Herald : "Hulk like Expendables. It SMASH. Guns go BANG-BANG.
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