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3-D Alice in Wonderland takes top spot in US weekend box office
Tim Burton’s 3-D fantasy Alice in Wonderland has tumbled into the No 1 spot in the US weekend box office with takings of $116.3 million.
Alice, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp, opened on Friday and was followed by a cop flick Brooklyn’s Finest, which took in $13.5 million over the weekend, and Shutter Island, which took $13.3 million.
Next came Cop Out ($9.14 million), Avatar ($7.7 million), The Crazies (more than $7 million) and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief ($5.1 million).
Rounding out the top 10 were the ensemble rom com Valentine’s Day ($4.27 million), Crazy Heart ($3.35 million) and Dear John ($2.85 million).
Source: Splash News
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Director Tim Burton planning new movie about President Lincoln and vampires
Alice In Wonderland director Tim Burton is reportedly planning a new movie about President Lincoln’s battle to wipe out vampires.
The 51-year-old is to team up with Timur Bekmambetov to produce a movie adaptation of the book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with Jim Lemley, according to website Deadline.
The novel by Seth Grahame-Smith was recently released by Grand Central Publishing and tells the fictitious story of Lincoln’s desire to rid the world of vampires after his mother is killed by a supernatural creature.
The author has previously taken classic tales and changed its genre with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which mixes the well-known Jane Austen story with zombies.
This novel has also been signed up for a movie adaptation and is being adapted by Lionsgate and will star Natalie Portman.
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Angelina Jolie’s movie character Lara Croft has street named after her
Angelina Jolie’s most famous movie character has been honoured.
Lara Croft, brought to life in two movies by the actress, has had a street named after her in the UK.
The town of Derby in England had a new road to name and it turns out that Core Design, the company that created the Tomb Raider video games featuring treasure-hunting Brit archaeologist Lara Croft, is based in Derby.
So, after a vote by the local residents, it was decided the street will now have the name Lara Croft Way.
There is no word yet if Jolie, who is currently in Paris filming her new movie The Tourist, will make the trip to the UK for the dedication ceremony.
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Matt Damon disappointed with Obama
Matt Damon, up for the role of a Kennedy, is not satisfied with Barack Obama’s performance.
The actor said Obama’s health-care proposal and Afghanistan track record have left him disappointed.
Damon, who campaigned for the Democrat in 2008, said: “Politics is compromise. I’m disappointed in the health-care plan and in the troop build-up in Afghanistan.”
Damon, meanwhile, confirmed he was in talks for a role as Robert “Bobby” Kennedy, the brother of the late President John F Kennedy, in a yet-to-be-titled biopic. Robert was assassinated in 1968 in Los Angeles.
He added: “Everyone feels a little let-down because, on some level, people expected all their problems to go away.
“But real change comes from everyday people. You can’t wait for a leader.”
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Matt Damon and best buddy Ben Affleck to reportedly play wife-swappers in new movie
Hollywood actors and real-life best friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have reportedly signed up to play wife-swappers in a new movie, according to reports.
The best buddies are reportedly being lined up to play two baseball players, who caused a scandal in America in the 1970s by swapping their wives.
The State Of Play star and Damon have set up a deal with Warner Brothers to make the movie The Trade, which is based on two real-life New York Yankees players, according to US reports.
Team-mates Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich disclosed their secret in 1973, after Peterson fell in love with Kekich’s wife Susanne and Kekich fell for his wife Marilyn Peterson.
Affleck is said to be linked to directing the film and may also star as Peterson, while Damon could play Kekich, according to reports.
Seinfeld writer Dave Mandel is reportedly writing the script.
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Harrison Ford takes top presidential actor laurel
Harrison Ford was named Best Presidential Actor in a new website poll.
The laurel comes for Ford’s performance in Air Force One, a 1997 flick in which he played a “President James Marshall”.
Ford, 67, is working on a fifth installment of the smash-hit Indiana Jones action franchise. Other contenders for the award included Michael Douglas and Bill Pullman.
Douglas, who played a “President Andrew Shepherd” in the 1995 film The American President, came in second with 21 per cent of the 30,000 votes cast in the movietickets.com survey to mark Presidents Day, digitalspy reports.
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Avatar actress Zoe Saldana is pleased there will be a sequel to the movie
Avatar actress Zoe Saldana says she is glad there will be a sequel to the movie as she knows she still has a job.
The 31-year-old plays the role of Na’vi princess Neytiri in James Cameron’s new movie and the director has confirmed that there will be a sequel.
Saldana also starred as Uhura in the Star Trek re-make earlier this year and that has also had a sequel confirmed.
She told E! Online: “I mean, I’m just grateful that between Star Trek II and Avatar II, I’m employed.
“Jim [Cameron] has proven once again that even though he takes a decade between his projects, he promises to deliver you the most amazing adventure ever.”
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50 Cent’s unpleasant surprise
Upon showing up to the set for his upcoming movie, “Twelve”, 50 Cent was met by a horde of screaming girls. However, the rapper found out, much to his dismay, that it was actually Chace Crawford the screaming girls were there for. 50 Cent related the incident: “I made a fool of myself the first day of shooting. I got to my trailer and I saw this huge crowd of girls screaming. I stopped and was kind of having a moment. Then I turned around, and Chace was behind me, and that’s who they were freaking out for. I remember thinking, ‘What kind of bull—– is this?’” Hopefully this did not affect 50 Cent’s acting prowess… after all, he has to be in tip-top shape for his first day on the new job.
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Clive Owen ‘cried’ while shooting scenes for Boys Are Back
Boys Are Back star Clive Owen has admitted he ‘cried’ while shooting touching scenes for the new movie.
Owen, 45, took on the real-life role of British journalist Simon Carr in the new flick.
The movie is based on Carr’s memoirs of losing his wife and taking care of their two sons.
Owen said: “Every time I read the scene where I’m telling a boy his mother may not be around much longer, I cried.
“Just the whole idea of that conversation was really painful.
“The film is an exploration of grief, loss and parenting from a guy’s perspective but it’s never heavy or sentimental, just beautifully rough.”
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Matt Damon hints that the next Bourne movie could be a prequel
Hollywood star Matt Damon has hinted that the next Bourne movie could be a prequel.The 39-year-old actor plays the lead role of Jason Bourne in the movie trilogy and said the next one could take a different approach.
Talking at the UK premiere of new movie Invictus, he said: “There’ll probably be a prequel of some kind with another actor and another director before we do another one.
“We’re probably five years away from another one. We’ve got to get a script.”
Damon has previously said he would not return to the film series unless the director Paul Greengrass returned as well.
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Sly scotches Rocky rumours
Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone has revealed that his 2006 movie Rocky Balboa was the last Rocky movie he will ever make.
The 63-year-old star played the underdog boxer in five of the original movies before heading back to the ring for his sixth Rocky movie in 2006.
However, he has now denied reports that he will make a seventh flick.
He said: “Rocky Balboa is the last Rocky I’ll ever do.
“I did plan to use footage of Apollo in Balboa, but Carl [Weathers, who played boxer Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky movies] refused to let me use his likeness. Ever since Rocky IV, he’s been aggravated that he died.
“Even at the time he was like, ‘Why do I have to die? Why can’t I just be in a coma?’ He’s never forgiven me. But I had my own worries.”
He added: “With Rocky Balboa, I was concerned people would think an older Rocky fighting was one step too far. To some people, it was like Al Pacino doing The Godfather VIII.”
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Quentin Tarantino to receive ‘excellence’ gong at awards
Inglourious Basterds director Quentin Tarantino is to pick up an ‘excellence’ gong at the London Film Critics’ Circle Awards next year.
The British flick An Education is nominated for seven gongs at the bash and its star, Carey Mulligan, has been nominated for actress of the year as well as British actress of the year.
Dame Helen Mirren is also up for a gong in the best British actress category for her role as Leo Tolstoy’s wife in film The Last Station.
In the category for Film of the Year, James Cameron’s much-anticipated movie Avatar has been nominated as well as The Hurt Locker.
Speaking about his prize, Tarantino said: “This is such an honour. I have always relished discussing my work with film critics and I totally respect their differences of opinion about my work.
“Debate is what keeps cinema alive.”
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New Moon star Taylor Lautner has reportedly signed up to star in a new action movie Cancun
New Moon star Taylor Lautner has reportedly signed up to star in a new action movie Cancun.
The 17-year-old is best-known for playing the role of werewolf Jacob Black in the popular movie series and Summit Entertainment, who are behind the hit vampire movies, has picked up Cancun.
The movie will be a starring vehicle for Lautner and will be the first project from the production company he shares with his dad, Dan Lautner.
Dan Lautner is reportedly in talks to produce the flick with Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hills.
The story sees an out-of-place college student travel with a girl to Cancun on a break. The girl and her friends are taken hostage while on the trip and Lautner is forced to save them.
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Demi Moore fumes at raunchy stills from hubby Ashton Kutcher’s new movie
Demi Moore reportedly wanted raunchy stills from hubby Ashton Kutcher’s new movie Spread banned.
The 47-year-old allegedly asked for the stills from his new movie banned so she didn’t have reminders of the steamy action that occurs in the film.
Kutcher, 31, gets naked with actress Anne Heche, 40, in the new movie as he plays a man who targets rich and lonely women.
A source said: “Demi doesn’t mind cinema fans ogling her toyboy hubby but she did NOT want these pictures in the press forever reminding her he got so hot with someone else.
“But after all his usual goofy roles, Ashton wanted to show there’s a lot more to him.”
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Kiss fires up Downey in Iron Man 2
Gwyneth Paltrow gives Robert Downey Jr a kiss on the helmet in the first scenes from Iron Man 2.
The new trailer for the film – set to hit cinemas in May – gives a sneak peek at what fans can expect from the comic book sequel.
It certainly doesn’t disappoint, with never-before-seen scenes featuring Mickey Rourke as Whiplash, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Don Cheadle as War Machine.
Downey has said the new film will stick to the formula that made the first such a box office smash – describing it as a high-tech James Bond.
He says he wanted to make sure the plot of the second film remained grounded and was lucky that, thanks to the success of the first film, producers allowed him to give plenty of input.
“Once you tell a story pretty well, that’s usually where things start to get dull, and one or two or three things start to happen over and over again,” he said.
“So, we made Tony Stark’s challenges very much outside the usual realm of activity. As much as anything else, it’s much more of a side job for him the second time around.
“It would be so easy to go so far out it would be intergalactic and nothing would be grounded in reality any more.
“But I think what worked for ‘Iron Man’ is that it almost seemed like something from the cover of Popular Mechanics.
“These kinds of suits were starting to be made in the States and Japan, so people were responding to Iron Man almost as though it was a more of a high-tech James Bond.”
The film hits cinemas on May 7, 2010.
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Avatar star Zoe Saldana says the cast worked hard during two-year shoot
Avatar star Zoe Saldana said the cast worked so hard during the two-year shoot for the movie they didn’t know what to do during breaks in filming.
The 31-year-old actress, who played Uhura in Star Trek earlier this year, plays Neytiri in James Cameron’s much-anticipated movie.
Cameron first had the idea for the film 15 years ago and it features state-of-the-art special effects.
Talking about preparations for shooting, she said: “We did archery and movement. We worked with an amazing choreographer to create a specific walk and mannerisms for the Na’vi because we just couldn’t be human.
“We also did martial arts. Because of who we are, the movement needed to be smooth. We also worked on horseback and there was a lot of training in the gym, so we could sustain rigorous legwork.
“It was important because I am crouching for half the movie. We would have to wear the tail throughout all our movement training in order to allow it to dictate how we were going to swing and movie.”
She added: “We worked for a period of two years off and on and, at one point, we had 15 days with no break.”
Avatar star Zoe Saldana says the cast worked hard during two-year shoot
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Twilight rakes in $231m – and counting
The Twilight Saga: New Moon followed on from its record-breaking first weekend to bring in a record-making $42.5 million over the three-day Thanksgiving weekend.
The takings drove its cumulative box office to $230.7 million, which is the sixth highest of the year, just behind Star Trek, which took in $257.7 million.
Sandra Bullock’s The Blind Side – which took $40.1 million over three days – did well in second spot, holding its own for overall single-day ticket sales on Thanksgiving before Twilight took first place on Friday.
Many fans flocked to see Twilight more than once. Sarah Weiner, a young professional from of Marina Del Rey past her teens, has already seen it three times. She said:”The first time the girls in the theatre were so loud, screaming for their character as Edward or Jacob came on the screen. So the second time I heard more dialogue and really got into the story. Then, the third time I went with my girlfriends so we could discuss the entire movie over dinner afterward.”
She was speaking as she waited in line for a fourth showing.
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New Moon scores third biggest box office opening ever
The Twilight Saga: New Moon has recorded the third biggest opening in box office history grossing $140.7million.
The second film in the vampire series scored the record for single day performance earning $72.7 million in ticket sales on Friday.
The Dark Knight ($158 million) and Spiderman 3 ($151 million) are the only two movies to have scored bigger box office figures.
The Twilight series, based on Stephenie Meyer’s four best-selling novels, tells the story of a teenage girl named Bella who falls in love with a vampire.
The first Twilight film made $384 million in global ticket sales. Closely held Summit has the rights to all four books in Meyer’s series, and has already completed the third film, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
New Moon stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner and is about a small-town girl caught in a love triangle between a vampire and a werewolf.
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Martha Stewart dreams about Robert Pattinson
Martha Stewart had one thing in mind when she invited Kristen Stewart onto her homemaking show: Robert Pattinson.
Kristin said she soon realised Martha kept steering their chat back to her Twilight co-star and rumoured lover.
Martha, 68, admitted said she had a dream about Pattinson.
Kristen, 19, said: “All she wanted to do was talk about Rob! She told me she had a dream that she hung out with him. I was like, ‘That’s awesome!’ There was a whole pie segment and I assumed that’s what we were gonna talk about. And she was like, ‘You know, I’m such a fan and I had a dream about Robert the other night.’ I was like, ‘Dude, I should hook you guys up!’”
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Johnny Depp to pocket $55m for fourth Pirates movie
Hollywood actor Johnny Depp will reportedly be paid $55m to return as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie.
Depp’s fee is reportedly more than double the amount usually paid to A-list stars such as Tom Cruise, Will Smith and Harrison Ford.
It is claimed that Disney executives believe the deal will save them money, as The Sweeney Todd star, 46, had originally wanted a percentage of the movie’s profits.
One Disney boss said: “These returns might seem like astronomical figures, but the recession has driven production costs up and profit margins down for everyone.”
He added: “Percentage deals are a thing of the past. They have proved to be so open-ended that, while talented actors have earned fortunes, studios can no longer afford such budget-busting agreements.”
The fourth movie, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is due to be released in the summer of 2011.
Hollywood actor Johnny Depp will reportedly be paid $55m to return as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie.
Depp’s fee is reportedly more than double the amount usually paid to A-list stars such as Tom Cruise, Will Smith and Harrison Ford.
It is claimed that Disney executives believe the deal will save them money, as The Sweeney Todd star, 46, had originally wanted a percentage of the movie’s profits.
One Disney boss said: “These returns might seem like astronomical figures, but the recession has driven production costs up and profit margins down for everyone.”
He added: “Percentage deals are a thing of the past. They have proved to be so open-ended that, while talented actors have earned fortunes, studios can no longer afford such budget-busting agreements.”
The fourth movie, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is due to be released in the summer of 2011.
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