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Portman's Real Brotherly Bond With Maguire And Gyllenhaal

1 hour 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!

3 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

4 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

4 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

4 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

5 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

6 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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Will 'Twilight' Taylor Lautner's 'Max Steel' spark teen superhero casting?

7 hours ago | Zap2It - The Dish Rag | See recent Zap2It - The Dish Rag news »

Hollywood insiders are buzzing about "Twilight: New Moon" star Taylor Lautner being cast as "Max Steel" in a superhero movie about a teen recruited by a secret agency after (the usual story) an accident gifts him with super powers.

Many are wondering if the casting of 17-year-old Taylor signals the end of the old fart superhero and the reign of the hot teen heartthrob superhero.

Fact: the majority of superhero film fans who  go to the theaters are young. Oh, sure, there are still some old superhero geeks like Kevin Smith (joke, Kev). 

But most movie-goers are not baby boomers or even baby boomers' kids. They are teenagers and young twentysomethings who like to see actors their own age. Not their dads or grandpas.

And judging by the success of "Twilight's" squeaky-clean romance, these young-uns don't even want/need to see sex scenes.

And fact: Thanks to Taylor's addition of »

- editorial@zap2it.com

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: December 6, 2009

8 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.

 

Box Office

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

23 hours ago | 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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Right now on Cinematical

5 December 2009 3:05 PM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

The folks at our sister site Cinematical are working hard to give you news and reviews of the best -- and worst -- the silver screen has to offer. Here are some of their musings on the latest blockbusters, indies, and everything in between:

I'll probably end up seeing it on DVD, but Everybody's Fine isn't really making me rush out to the theater in the way I feel a De Niro movie should. You can read Cinematical's review of it here. I like Michelle Williams well enough, but I have nearly no desire to see her play Marilyn Monroe. Tobey Maguire looks positively terrifying in Brothers. I can't decide if that makes me want to see it more or less. You can read Cinematical's review of Brothers here. In Up in the Air, George Clooney plays a man who basically fires people for a living. In his honor, Cinematical »

- Kona Gallagher

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Maguire 'impersonates Gyllenhaal, Wood'

5 December 2009 2:28 PM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Tobey Maguire has reportedly admitted to impersonating other actors. The 34-year-old has claimed that he has been mistaken for his Brothers co-star Jake Gyllenhaal and never corrects movie fans when they mistake him for another actor. Maguire told Parade: "I've been mistaken for so many different actors, it's just wild. I've gotten Jake Gyllenhaal a few times like, 'Loved you in Brokeback Mountain. I've had that. I can't remember all of them, but Elijah Wood is another. "When people ask me for my autograph and say, 'Oh you were so great in such and such', which I wasn't in, I usually just sign the other actor's name and say, 'Thank (more) »

- By Marcell Minaya

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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.

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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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Tobey Maguire on the Importance of Being Present

4 December 2009 1:00 PM, PST | People - CelebrityBabies | See recent People - CelebrityBabies news »

Anthony/Pacific Coast News

The end of the year is often a time for reflection, and Tobey Maguire says in a new interview that he’s been reflecting on what he can do to simplify his life. The 34-year-old actor tells Parade that making a list of the various ways he spends his time has motivated him to “edit some things out” in order to make more room for what is truly important.

“It’s kind of a process of self-reflection on how I’m living and spending time with my wife and children, which is a number one priority. »

- Missy

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'Brothers' Stars Natalie Portman And Tobey Maguire On Off-Screen Transformations

4 December 2009 11:30 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

From MTV.Com: "Brothers" is all about transformation: Tobey Maguire's from doting father to scarred former prisoner of war; Natalie Portman's from loving wife to grieving widow and back again; and Jake Gyllenhaal's from familial black sheep to man on whom everyone begins to rely.

The transformations, though, weren't solely the territory of these fictional characters. As Portman and Maguire told MTV News recently, their decisions to take on the roles required significant changes in their own lives.

Continue reading Natalie Portman Opted For 'Brothers' Over 'Cute And Girly' Roles

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- Eric Ditzian

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Crowded Weekend At Box Office

4 December 2009 11:22 AM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Four films open wide at the box office this weekend, but each of them faces tough competition from several films that are already there -- especially The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Blind Side, Disney's A Christmas Carol and 2012. They also will come up against Paramount's Up in the Air, which is opening in limited release in 14 markets. On Thursday the National Board of Review named it the best film of the year. Of the newcomers, Jim Sheridan's Brothers, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire is given the best chance of breaking out. Also opening this weekend is the Robert De Niro-Drew Barrymore comedy Everybody's Fine, the action flick Armored, starring Matt Dillon, Jean Reno and Laurence Fishburne, and the vampire spoof Transylmania. The latter two films were not screened in advance for critics. »

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Review: Brothers

4 December 2009 11:21 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

If there were ever a milieu made for Jim Sheridan, a military town amid the current war in Iraq is it. Throughout his prestigious career, in movies as different as In the Name of the Father and In America, the Irish filmmaker has specialized in portraits of families under siege and the male psychology pushed to the brink. In Brothers, the David Benioff scripted remake of the 2004 Susanne Bier film, the two elements blend with such natural precision it’s a wonder Sheridan hadn’t set out to chronicle a small sliver of the American home front before. In a narrative rife with emotions both heightened and subtle, Sheridan and Benioff zero in on an everyday military family facing an all too common burden. Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) leaves his wife Grace (Natalie Portman) and his daughters behind when he’s sent to Iraq. His body disappears after a terrible helicopter crash, leading »

- Robert Levin

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Movie Reviews: "Brothers"

4 December 2009 11:20 AM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Critics are bestowing much brotherly affection on director Jim Sheridan's Brothers, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman but are stopping short of acclaiming it. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times awards it 3 stars and praises the performances, the direction, and the script. His principal reservation: "It is too finished." A.O. Scott in the New York Times also reveals mixed sentiments about the movie, saying that it "lurches between moments of fine, subtle realism and more frequent instances of blunt, blocky overstatement." In the end his conclusion is the opposite of Ebert's: "It has a vague, half-finished feeling," he writes. Claudia Puig in USA Today awards it faint praise when she calls the movie "thought-provoking." Virtually all the critics note that the film is a remake of an award-winning 2004 Danish film and several say that the earlier film was more potent. Peter Howell in the Toronto Star, although praising the actors, nevertheless warns: "Anyone contemplating whether to see Jim Sheridan's domestic drama Brothers would be wise not to see its ... predecessor beforehand." And Lisa Kennedy comments in the Denver Post: "The original was likened to a Greek tragedy. This reworking has enough tin-eared scenes to suggest a night of overheated theater." Yet the Washington Post's Michael O'Sullivan, who also finds many faults with the production, nevertheless concludes, "Like most war movies these days, it ends on a note that's far from hopeful. But it's good, and wise, and it feels true. Meaning, it hurts." »

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