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Blind Side Tackles The Box Office

32 minutes ago | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Bad news if you were behind one of the new movies released this weekend at the Us box office - The Blind Side and New Moon clung on to the top spots, though they swapped places.After three weeks on release, Blind Side - starring Sandra Bullock as the matriarch of a family who takes in a poor black kid and help him realise his potential as an American Football player - finally overcame the Tween-beloved vamps to snatch the top spot with $20.4 million to New Moon's $15.7 million. Still, Summit won't worry - New Moon is still holding strong, and performed well enough to see the highest new entry, Jim Sheridan's Brothers. The drama, which finds Natalie Portman turning to brother-in-law Jake Gyllenhaal for support after she thinks soldier hubby Tobey Maguire has been killed in action, notched up $9.7 million. Going further down the list, A Christmas Carol took in $7.5 million, »

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Portman's Real Brotherly Bond With Maguire And Gyllenhaal

2 hours ago | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Natalie Portman felt a real brotherly bond with her Brothers co-stars Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal during filming because they all grew up together in the movie industry.

The Star Wars beauty, 28, appears in the drama as Maguire's wife, who falls for his brother, played by Gyllenhaal, after her marine husband is presumed dead while on a tour of duty in Afghanistan.

And the actors felt so close to one another, they turned rehearsal sessions into social get togethers by relocating from the movie studio to one another's houses.

She tells Star magazine, "This is the first time I've worked with actors I knew before! I met Tobey when I was 14 and Jake when I was 18. We rehearsed in each other's houses, so there was familiarity from the first day." »

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Sandra Bullock Blindsides Werewolves, Vampires! "The Blind Side" Beats "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" at Box Office! See Complete Top 10 List!

5 hours ago | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

The true-to-life football drama "The Blind Side" scored a touchdown over "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" with a victorious $20.4 million weekend. "The Blind Side" stole the No. 1 position from werewolves and vampires.

For the past two weekends, "The Blind Side" starring Sandra Bullock, had been the No. 2 film under "New Moon." But now, the vampire romance starring Kristen Stewart, Rob Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner slid to second place with $15.7 million.

Many insiders are saying that great word of mouth from fans helped make "The Blind Side" the box office winner.

The other great story for the box office weekend belonged to the George Clooney dramedy "Up in the Air." In just 15 theaters, the film took in nearly $1.2 million for a whopping per screen average of $79,000! Wow!

(Take a look at my review of "Up in the Air" and my interviews with director Jason Reitman, and stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick)

Meanwhile, »

- Manny

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Box Office Report: 'The Blind Side' is No. 1 with $20.4 mil

5 hours ago | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »

Proving that Sandra Bullock is having the best year of her career, the football drama The Blind Side rose to first place at the box office this weekend with $20.4 million, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office. After settling for second place behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon the past two weeks, Blind Side showed its legs by dropping only 49 percent and overtaking the vampire phenomenon. Blind Side, which received mediocre reviews but obtained a rare "A+" rating from CinemaScore moviegoers, has reached a cumulative gross of $129.3 million. It should have no trouble passing The Proposal's $164 million »

- John Young

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Blind Side Overshadows New Moon

5 hours ago | newser.com | See recent newser news »

Building on strong word-of-mouth and an unexpectedly lucrative Thanksgiving weekend, The Blind Side caught and passed New Moon at the weekend box office. The Sandra Bullock vehicle pulled in $20.4 million to $15.7 million for the teen vampire sequel. Both dwarfed Brothers, which underperformed despite stars Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tobey Maguire, the Los Angeles Times reports. Another big name, George Clooney, has reason for optimism after Up in the Air raked in $1.2 million in only 15 locations. The top five: The Blind Side, $20.4 million The Twilight Saga: New Moon, $15.7 million... »

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Weekend Box Office - New Moon Gets Blindsided

5 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw, stars of The Blind Side have had to play second fiddle to the 90210 of the vampire world The Twilight Saga: New Moon, since both movies opened two weeks ago. But this week the moon has waned heavily, giving the based-on-a-true-story football flick it's moment at center field. The Blind Side took in $20 million over the first weekend of December, pushing New Moon into second with only $15 million. Despite having been in theaters for two weeks already, both movies handily topped out the new competition. Oscar-bait Brothers, which teams Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman, debuted at third place with $9 million, not bad for a rated-r flick that only has bitterness and dramatic tension, and shirtless Gyllenhaal to offer holiday audiences. Limply marketed Armored bowed in at a depressing seventh place with only an estimated $6.5 million, but that's better than Robert DeNiro's attempt at »

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Weekend Box Office - The Blind Side Scores Another $20.4 Million

6 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

After two weeks of solid second-place finishes, Alcon Entertainment’s The Blind Side posted its first number one win this weekend, taking the lead with an estimated $20.4 million from its 3,326 locations. After two weeks of steroid-pumped box office dominance New Moon could not catch up - closing its third weekend with another $15.7 million domestically. All in all it was kind of a dull weekend, with new releases failing to drum up much interest. But that is all about to change with the official start of the holiday movie season next weekend. Let’s just call this week the calm before the storm.

Title Weekend Total 1 The Blind Side $20,440,000 $129.2 2 New Moon $15,700,000 $255.6 3 Brothers $9,700,000 $9.7 4 A Christmas Carol $7,520,000 $115 5 Old Dogs $6,900,000 $33.9 6 Armored $6,600,000 $6.6 7 2012 $6,600,000 $148.7 8 Ninja Assassin $5,030,00 $29.7 9 Planet 51 $4,300,000 $33.9 10 Everybody’s Fine $4,000,000 $4

I’m going to take the opportunity this weekend has presented me to be succinct and, well, brief, on the subject of the top box office performers. »

- Nicole Pedersen

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The Blind Side Rules a Slow Weekend at the Box Office

7 hours ago | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

Warner Bros. Pictures will be opening their eyes in delight as The Blind Side not only continues to perform well beyond expectations, but managed to topple box office gorilla The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

Weekend box office estimates have The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock pulling in $20.4 million from Friday through Sunday for a domestic gross of approximately $130 million and counting. New Moon came in second with $15.7 million which might be disappointing until you look at the worldwide gross which has passed $570 million which is hardly worth Summit barking about.

A trio of newcomers had a rough time keeping pace in the typically sluggish weekend after Thanksgiving. Brothers with stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman took third place with $9.7 million, Armored mustered $6.6 million and Everybody's Fine with Robert DeNiro wasn't so fine with $4 million.

Not in the top 10 but worth mentioning is the strong performance of Jason Reitman »

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: December 6, 2009

9 hours ago | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

It’s Sunday and that means that it’s Wrap Up time.

This week:

The box office is Blind Sided; if you go down to the woods today you might see Tom Cavanagh in Yogi Bear; Leonardo DiCaprio knows Jack Frost in The Guardians; Have you ever heard Gun, With Occasional Music? Beautiful Creatures say P.S I Love You; John Madden will Dolittle directing with My Fair Lady and it’s all in the double barrel name as Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman find religion.

 

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Sandra Bullock’s The Blind Side just keeps doing better and better. The uplifting sports drama has took the top spot with an impressive $20 million after three weeks on the charts. 2009 has been a great year for Bullock and if Warner Bros. gives the actress the expected Oscar push then 2010 shouldn’t be too bad either.

Twilight’s New Moon »

- Niall Browne

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'Brothers' Wrenching, But the Performances Are Top Notch

20 hours ago | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Sibling rivalry is a common theme in films, but Brothers takes that universal subject and places it in a new context. There's more at play — and at stake — in Jim Sheridan's awards hopeful than just family interaction. Grief, guilt, and identity lie at the torn heart of this sometimes disturbing but always moving film.

At the beginning of Brothers, the family of Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire, Spider-Man 3) is reluctant to see the Marine return to Afghanistan for another tour of duty. His wife, Grace (Natalie Portman, The Other Boleyn Girl), jokingly asks to come with him, and his daughters (Bailee Madison and Taylor Geare) plead with him to stay. He has an uneasy relationship with his brother, Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal, Zodiac), who has just been released from prison in time for Sam to leave. Trouble-making Tommy has always stood in his brother's shadow, and it's never been »

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Brothers

5 December 2009 4:58 PM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

Brothers

Directed by: Jim Sheridan

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire

Running Time: 1 hr 50 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: December 4, 2009

Plot: A marine (Maguire) returns home from war only to have anxieties about the loved ones around him (Portman and Gyllenhaal).

Who’S It For?: This heavy modern drama could be a pretty difficult watch for some, especially those who are personally connected with someone serving overseas. Though using a cast of relatively young actors, the film’s speed and tone is catered towards mature audiences.

Expectations: With its flash-cut editing and unraveling of what felt like the whole movie, Brothers has the worst trailer of 2009. I was hoping the film wouldn’t be an intense melodramatic mess, as made out to be by the almost laughable ad. At the very least, I was glad Hollywood had finally done something with the very brotherly appearances of Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal. »

- Nick Allen

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Full of the strange

5 December 2009 4:09 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

In September Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland. He faces extradition to the Us, having fled the States in 1978 to avoid being sentenced for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. The debate about the case has raged ever since. Martin Amis was the first writer to interview Polanski after his flight, meeting him in Paris in 1979 for a magazine article. Here, we publish the encounter in full

When I was being driven to the police station from the hotel, the car radio was already talking about it. The newsmen were calling the police before I was arrested to see whether they can break the news. I couldn't believe… I thought, you know, I was going to wake up from it. I realise, if I have killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls. »

- Martin Amis

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King of cool

5 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Jacques Audiard's new prison thriller is the most stylish film to come out of Europe for years, following up on the promise of his previous movies Read My Lips and The Beat that My Heart Skipped and confirming his place among the greats of French cinema. Jason Solomons talks to a director who wants his audience to fly with him

Jacques Audiard wears a hat. It's a trilby that, the 57-year-old director says, keeps him warm in the winter and cool in the summer. He was wearing it in the heat of Cannes last May when I first met him, on a blazing roof terrace; and he's wearing it again today, in London, on an autumnal Monday when I catch him smoking his pipe outside the hotel where we're due to meet. 

With horn-rimmed glasses, smart jacket and a cravat, he looks a bit like an English gentleman, a »

- Jason Solomons

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'The Blind Side' Beats 'New Moon' In The Saturday Box Office Report

5 December 2009 12:52 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

1. "The Blind Side" ($6.8 million)

2. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" ($5.2 million)

3. "Brothers" ($3.57 million)

5. "Armored" ($2.4 million)

4. "Old Dogs" ($2.06 million)

Who would have ever thought that Sandra Bullock could give Edward Cullen and Bella Swan such a run for their money? The reputable actress' latest film has given the supernatural romantic pairing more trouble than Jacob Black ever could as "The Blind Side" beat "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" at the box office on Friday evening.

"The Blind Side" and "New Moon" have been neck-and-neck for quite a while now, which is pretty surprising considering the record-breaking success of the vampire romance franchise. Last week, "The Blind Side" was able to take first place on Thanksgiving day, a victory that was repeated on Wednesday of this past week and, of course, last evening when Bullock's family drama surpassed "New Moon" $6.8 million to $5.2 million.

While first and second place were claimed by "The Blind Side »

- Josh Wigler

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New Moon Blindsided at Friday Box Office

5 December 2009 10:51 AM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

Last weekend's Thanksgiving leftovers box office results saw The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock go up in its second weekend of release while The Twilight Saga: New Moon dropped 70% from its big $140 million plus opening. New Moon being eclipsed by The Blind Side seemed an inevitability that has now come to fruition.

The Blind Side brought in $6.8 million to kick off this weekend's box office battle on Friday, easily besting New Moon's $5.2 million. Both films are running at more than a 50% dropoff from last weekend's pace with The Blind Side having the best chance of crossing $20 million by weekend's close.

Brothers with Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire generated $3.6 million on pace for around $10 million for the weekend. Other newcomers Armored managed $2.4 million while Everybody's Fine with Robert DeNiro registered a dismal $1.3 million and will be lucky to cross $5 million through Sunday.

Full weekend box office estimates for »

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Portman: 'Black Swan role is a challenge'

5 December 2009 7:18 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Natalie Portman has claimed that her latest film role has proven to be a challenge. The Oscar-nominated actress, who plays a ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, has admitted that she hasn't retained any of the dancing skills that she learned as a child. The 28-year-old told Parade: "I'm in full ballet mode right now playing a ballerina in Black Swan. I danced until I was like 13, but I definitely remember being better than I am. I was like, 'Wow, I was pretty good as a kid'. Then I went into ballet class, and I was like, 'I'm not good at all. I really suck'. So it's been challenging." Portman also reveals that she has had a difficult time reading the script to her other new movie Thor (more) »

- By Marcell Minaya

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'Thor' to Begin Rehearsals Next Week

4 December 2009 8:31 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

The cast and crew for "Thor" will soon start preparing for the production of the film. On Thursday, December 3, actress Jaimie Alexander posted an update on her Twitter page, informing that she will begin rehearsals for the superhero film next week. "Is excited to start rehearsals next week! :) :)" the depicter of skilled Asgardian warrior Sif wrote.

The shooting of "Thor" itself is believed to be kicked off in the middle of January 2010. According to Production Weekly, the principal photography will first take place in Los Angeles. Then, in March, cast and crew will move to Santa Fe in New Mexico to continue filming until late April.

Meanwhile, the set of the action movie project has been built in November. Revealing the news was editor in chief of Marvel Comics Joe Quesada who tweeted, "Cast is in place, sets are being built and screenplay is brilliant." Additionally, comic book »

- AceShowbiz.com

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Sundance 2010: First images of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Spencer Susser’s Hesher

4 December 2009 1:54 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

We’re pretty anxious to take a look at Spencer Susser’s full length feature (he’s the man behind the excellent zombie short I Love Sara Jane) Hesher and really, who can blame us? Not only does Susser show great talent but any film which stars the awesome Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a must see in my books.

So what’s this sucker about? If you missed it last time:

Tj Forney is 13-years-old. Two months ago his mother was killed in an accident, so he and his broken dad, Paul, move in with Tj's grandmother to pick up the pieces. Hesher is a loner. He hates the world and everyone in it. He has long greasy hair, a baby moustache, a Metallica t-shirt and homemade tattoos. He is malnourished and smokes a lot of cigarettes. He likes to get into fights, start fires and blow things up. He lives in his van. »

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Brothers Producer Matt Battaglia Lines Up a Few New Projects

4 December 2009 1:42 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

With Jim Sheridan's drama Brothers starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman set to hit theaters on Friday, THR reports that co-producer Matt Battaglia has a plethora of upcoming projects on his plate. Potential projects include adaptations of the novels Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff and Or I'll Dress You in Mourning by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, as well as The Marlboro Marine, based on the story of Cpl. Blake Miller and a Los Angeles Times article by Luis Sinco. One project, an untitled Hunter Scott project, even has Battaglia working with J.J. Abrams. Read on for more specific details. Bad Monkeys centers on a female protagonist who struggles with her alter ego and, after being arrested for murder, claims to belong to a secret society that fights evil. The New York Times called the novel "a science fiction Catcher in the Rye. " So if you check »

- Ethan Anderton

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First Look: Hesher - I Love Sarah Jane director Spencer Susser’s Feature Debut

4 December 2009 12:12 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Last year, we featured a beautiful zombie short film titled I Love Sarah Jane. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out right now. It was screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and many regional film festivals around the world. And aside from being awesome, it is notable for featuring Mia Wasikowska, who has gone on to become Alice in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Writer/director Spencer Susser has been working in commercials and music videos , but has finally completed his first feature film, an indie dramedy titled Hesher starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, and Natalie Portman. Susser has been developing Hesher for the last four years, as well as a feature film adaptation of Sarah Jane (which I hope someday gets made). The film, co-written with David Michod, tells the story of a 13 year old boy named T.J.. Full details and photos after the jump. »

- Peter Sciretta

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