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Sandra Bullock Offered Role In Holocaust Insurance Drama ‘Never Forget’

Kevin Jagernauth — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:46:00 +0000

Following her box-office smashing, Academy Award winning 2009, Sandra Bullock is being very careful before choosing her next project. She’s already turned down roles in Peter Hedges’ “The Odd Life Of Timothy Green” (the project now has Jennifer Garner attached) and “Wild Life” (aka “Elephant Orphanage”; last we heard, Julia Roberts was in talks with Walter Salles directing). She’s also been linked as one of the candidates for Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity,” has a potential re-team with Ryan Reynolds in “Most Wanted.” And, on top of all of this, she’s currently in negotiations to join Stephen Daldry’s “Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close” with Tom Hanks also linked.

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UPDATE: Weekend Box Office: ‘Takers’ Triumphs In Box Office Actuals

Gabe Toro — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:50:00 +0000

UPDATE: Such is the nature of estimates. Final numbers were revealed on Monday, and while it originally looked like “The Last Exorcism” defeated “Takers” by about $300,000, both were a victim of overzealous bean counters. The weekend goes to “Takers” with a $20.5 million take, over “Exorcism”‘s $20.4 take. Keep supporting your local art house, people.

Kudos to Lionsgate for absolutely owning August. Their $20 million purchase of the domestic rights to “The Expendables” was a can’t-miss expenditure, and the film’s poised to crest $100 million.

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Weekend Box Office- When Does ‘Avatar’ Come Out Again?

Gabe Toro — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:00:00 +0000

The holiday movie season is about to become very busy, so the first weekend of December was looking like a weak sister for awhile now. Still, the beat goes on for “The Blind Side,” which continued its improbable run by landing at #1 in its third week. The hooray-for-institutionalized-racism drama has been surging since a pretty good opening, but it probably owes its success to a wide-open marketplace and the diminishing returns of huge opener “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.” “Blind Side” might stop short of $200 million if the legs drop out in coming weeks, but who knows?

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Chris Brown “Removed” From ‘Bone Deep’ Promotion?

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:24:00 +0000

Slapping your girlfriend is not cool. Beating her within an inch of her life is even more deplorable and worse if you’re a public figure. Chris Brown who allegedly assaulted his girlfriend Rihanna — not sure who his PR people are, but they’re terrible — has been feeling the brunt of advertisers, sponsors and any business associated with him turning and running and pretending they never met. His “Got Milk” campaign was pulled (even though it was ending, the company had to throw him under the bus and rightly deplore his behavior), a Wrigley’s campaign vanished and now apparently the movie business is following suit.

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