Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes
October 13, 2008
Here is Robert Downey Jr. in Victorian costume as Sherlock Holmes. Is this what you expected him to look like? Read more
‘Chihuahua’ still top dog at box office
October 13, 2008
An adorable talking dog remained just the sort of escapist movie hero audiences wanted after a week of awful economic news.
Disney’s family comedy “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” with Drew Barrymore providing the voice of the pooch, was the No. 1 flick for the second-straight weekend with $17.5 million, raising its 10-day total to $52.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Read more
Seth Rogen faces lighter side of “Cancer”
October 10, 2008
Is the world ready for a cancer comedy? Seth Rogen and Mandate Pictures think so.
Mandate, one of the companies behind “Juno,” has optioned “I’m With Cancer,” a comedic autobiographical spec script that Rogen will produce. The “Knocked Up” star also will have a supporting role in the film. Read more
Movie Trailer: Bolt
October 8, 2008
Bolt
Release Date: November 21, 2008
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Yet Rated
Movie Website: Disney.com/Bolt
Actors/Actresses: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton
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Quantum Of Solace Trailer
October 6, 2008
Quantum Of Solace
Release Date: November 14, 2008
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Movie Website: 007.com
Actors/Actresses: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, Jesper Christensen, Joaquin Cosio
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Pride and Glory Trailer
October 6, 2008
Pride and Glory
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Movie Website: PrideandGlorymovie.com
Actors/Actresses: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle, Frank Grillo
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Top Movies Over The Weekend
October 6, 2008
The following are the top 10 films at the North American box office for the three-day weekend beginning on October 3, led by the new release “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” according to studio estimates. Read more
The Secret Life of Bees Trailer
October 3, 2008
The Secret Life of Bees
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Genre: Adventure, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Movie Website: FoxSearchlight.com/TheSecretLifeofBees
Actors/Actresses: Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, Nate Parker, Tristan Wilds, Hilarie Burton, Paul Bettany
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Movie Review: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
October 2, 2008
A film that sets out to demonstrate the shallows of celebrity-obsessed pop journalism should at least offer a few fully fleshed characters, if only as a point of comparison.
“How to Lose Friends & Alienate People” keeps stubbornly to the surface, though, reducing Toby Young’s sharp-eyed memoir of his rise and fall at Vanity Fair to an uninspired romantic comedy punctuated by cheap jokes. Simon Pegg is likably smart and obnoxious as the fish-out-of-water Brit in high-gloss Manhattan, but he’s swimming upstream in a feature that substitutes slapstick for scathing wit. Read more
Philip Seymour Hoffman joins ‘Mary’
October 2, 2008
Philip Seymour Hoffman has signed on to voice the co-lead role of Max in Icon’s Aussie stopmotion claymation feature “Mary and Max.”
The film looks at the unlikely pen-pal friendship between Mary, a chubby lonely 8-year-old girl in Melbourne, Australia, and Max, a 44-year-old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in New York. Read more
