'Pearl' Hits $200 Mil Overseas After Cracking China!
Sydney, Australia (Top40 Charts) - "Pearl Harbor's" record-busting premiere in China helped propel the foreign total for the WWII epic past $200 million last weekend, while "Planet of the Apes," "Jurassic Park III" and "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" saw strapping, but not dazzling, debuts in other territories. ...
| Edinburgh film festival opens
Edinburgh (BBC) - Film stars gathered in Edinburgh on Sunday night for the launch of the city's Film and International festivals. The festival openings follow a successful first week of the Fringe and Book festivals which saw record advance tickets sales. The Film Festival opened with the international ...
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'Pie' takes box office cake...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - "American Pie 2" grabbed the biggest slice of the box office, debuting as the top weekend film with $45.1 million, the best opening ever for an R-rated comedy. Last weekend's top film, "Rush Hour 2," slipped to No. 2 with $31.5 million, pushing its 10-day total to $131.9 million, ...
| Matrix Reloaded Delayed Until 2003
NY (Top40 Charts) - Fans of The Matrix will have to wait even longer than expected for the film's first sequel, The Matrix Reloaded. The sci-fi sequel is now unofficially set for May 2003, more than four years after the original debuted. Despite expectations that the next installment of the franchise ...
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Spielberg considering playing with Gorillaz
Hollywood (Top40 Charts) - Steven Spielberg, fresh from the robots of AI, is apparently negotiating with British band Gorillaz about the possibility of making a full-length animated feature film. Top40 Charts reports that the animated group, which includes Blur frontman Damon Albarn, are currently garnering ...
| Hollywood production in UK down by 65%
London (Guardian) - Investment by Hollywood productions filming in the UK has dropped dramatically this year and an upturn is not expected until the beginning of 2002. According to figures from the British Film Commission, the total value of overseas productions shooting in the UK from January to June ...
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Upcoming Film Releases: Weeks of August 6 & August 13
HOLLYWOOD (Reuters) - An update of the U.S. film calendar for this week and next. Dates are subject to change, and films initially may open only in select cities, mentioned wherever possible. AUGUST 8 Wide Spy Kids (special edition) (Dir: Robert Rodriguez. Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino) Limited The ...
| Some Teen Movies Smarter and Edgier!
LOS ANGELES (AP) - While Hollywood serves up a second helping of gross-out humor this weekend with "American Pie 2,'' the industry also has been offering a broad mix of smarter, sweeter, more true-to-life or provocative films about teen-agers. Although they have played in far fewer theaters than "American ...
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Pierson Voted to Head Academy
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Oscar-winning screenwriter Frank R. Pierson has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Pierson succeeds "Clear and Present Danger'' producer Robert Rehme, who had served the maximum four consecutive one-year terms in the office, the organization ...
| Matrix Reloaded Delayed To 2003!!!
NY (Top40 Charts) - Joel Silver, producer of the two upcoming Matrix sequels, told SCI FI Wire that the release of the first sequel, The Matrix Reloaded, likely won't happen until 2003. "It's going to be summer now, summer 2003," Silver said in an interview at the premiere for Osmosis Jones, in which ...
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Russell Crowe to make directing debut
Hollywood (top40 Charts) - After conquering ancient Rome and the Oscars (not to mention Meg Ryan), Russell Crowe's next assignment will be helming a war movie. Variety reports Crowe will make his directing debut with "The Long Green Shore," a Second World War drama due to begin shooting in the South ...
| Woody Allen Turns Out for Rare L.A. Gig
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Woody Allen, who once complained that the only cultural advantage to Los Angeles was that you could make a right turn on a red light, made the city the venue for a rare musical appearance this week. The filmmaker, on the road to promote his new film, ``The Curse of the Jade Scorpion,'' ...
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UK Box Office: Family comedy 'Cats and Dogs' has beaten Rush Hour 2 to the top!
London (BBC) - Dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park III - number one for the last fortnight - dropped to third place. Cats and Dogs took �3,707,358 in its first weekend, beating Rush Hour 2's �2,286,253, according to figures from Screen International. A mixture of live action and animation is used in ...
| Next 'Star Wars' Movie Dubbed 'Attack of the Clones'
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - "Star Wars'' creator George Lucas revealed Monday that the next installment of his sci-fi franchise will be titled "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones.'' The picture is set to bow next summer. Lucas used the franchise's official Web site, https://www.StarWars.com, to make ...
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Ben Affleck in Rehab
LA (AP) - Ben Affleck is the latest high-powered celeb with sobriety problems. The Oscar winner and Hollywood scenester has entered the Malibu-based Promises--the same facility where Paula Poundstone is a current patient--for treatment for alcohol abuse, his publicist announced Friday. Affleck, who ...
| Mariah's Movie Delayed...
LA (AP) - All that glitters is just gonna have to wait until September. With its star still in the hospital, 20th Century Fox announced Monday that the release date for Mariah Carey's new movie Glitter will be postponed nearly a month - from August 31 until September 21. The troubled songbird still ...
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'Rush Hour 2' caused serious traffic jams at movie theaters.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The buddy-cop sequel starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker grossed $66.8 million in its first three days, the biggest comedy debut ever and the third-best non-holiday opening on record, according to studio estimates Sunday. The top non-holiday debut came just last weekend when "Planet ...
| New Movie Material for the Material Mom
NY (AP) - Madonna and her ever-shifting appearance, attire and artistic ventures could make a chameleon's multiple changes seem monotonous. Right now, she's a pop diva touring the world but -- BLINK! -- and she's an actress on silver screens everywhere. Although the exact production date is hazy right ...
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Wolper whipping up Page bio
NEW YORK (Variety) - She was often photographed in kinky poses replete with whips and leather. She was even hauled before a Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquency. A mythic showbiz figure, Bettie Page may now reappear in a biopic produced by Mark Wolper for Warner Bros. following a ...
| Spielberg Scales Equestrian Plan
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, have drastically scaled back plans to build an Equestrian Center in an upscale neighborhood after neighbors said neigh. The project had included a five-story, 27,000-square-foot domed horse facility with a retractable roof, a three-story ...
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