Festive favourites as college marks festive season 11:00am Thursday 26th December 2013 in News FEELING FESTIVE: Student Emma Morrison performs a reading at Carmel College’s Christmas liturgy FESTIVE favourites and religious readings celebrated the wonder of Christmas as a North-East academy marked the holiday season. Carmel College, in Darlington, invited friends and family into College […]
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First look: Ben Affleck in ‘Gone Girl’
Entertainment Tonight. The highly anticipated book-turned-movie “Gone Girl” finally revealed a first look at Ben Affleck in the coveted lead role. Twentieth Century Fox tweeted a movie still from the upcoming drama thriller, showing Affleck as Nick Dunne, the husband to a missing woman. “Gone Girl” is adapted from the wildly popular novel of the same […]
How Disney’s ‘Frozen’ turned into a $500 million-box-office avalanche
By Todd CunninghamTheWrap “Frozen” has become a force of nature at the box office, and on Monday crossed the $500 million mark globally. The 3D animated film from Disney Animation was edged out for the top spot over the long Christmas weekend by “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” — but no one at the […]
Italian distributor apologizes for "Slave" posters
MILAN (AP) — The Italian distributor of the film “12 Years a Slave” has apologized for promotional posters attacked as racist for featuring Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender, despite their relatively minor roles, and not the film’s star, Chiwetel Ejiofor. BIM Distribuzione said in a statement Monday the “inappropriate materials have now been withdrawn” and […]
Netflix to Sink "Titanic" and Dozens of Other Movies on January 1
In just a few days, Netflix will reportedly purge around 90 movies and TV shows from its streaming library. Without a time machine, it would be impossible to watch all of them between now and then, though there are some notable flicks worth queuing up while you still have the chance. James Cameron’s 1997 movie […]
’12 Years a Slave’ posters featuring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender will be taken down
By Todd CunninghamTheWrap Lionsgate was scrambling Tuesday to take down posters for “12 Years a Slave” from Italian movie theaters, after complaints that they subjugated black star Chiwetal Ejiofor in favor of the better-known and white stars Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender. Some of the posters had Pitt front and center, others featured Fassbender; in […]
Marilyn Manson reveals next movie character
By Jeff SneiderTheWrap Has director Quentin Dupieux found his movie muse in Marilyn Manson? Manson co-stars in Dupieux’s latest opus “Wrong Cops” and the director has cast the shock rocker as a fashion photographer in an upcoming comedy that has already been shot in secret. Manson revealed the news, among other things, in a recent […]
‘Hobbit’ holds off ‘Frozen’ as nail-biter caps record 2013 at box office
By Todd CunninghamTheWrap “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” beat out “Frozen” in a battle as tight as the last lap of a NASCAR race to win its third straight weekend and cap a record year at the 2013 box office. Peter Jackson’s second movie in his “Hobbit” trilogy, a prequel to the “Lord of […]
Swedish man sentenced to pay more than $650000 for sharing movie online
A 28-year-old man convicted of sharing hundreds of movies online has to pay 4.3 million Swedish kronor (US$658,000) in civil damages for sharing one of them, the Västmanlands District Court ruled Tuesday. The sum must be paid to Nordisk Film, a developer, producer and distributor of films, for “Beck, Levande begravd,” (“Beck, Buried Alive”), a […]
Box Office (Specialty): ‘Her’ Scores Weekend’s Top Theater Average
Spike Jonze’s critically acclaimed Her — starring Joaquin Phoenix in an attention-grabbing performance — opened to pleasing numbers at the domestic box office, scoring the best theater average of the weekend as it rolled out in six theaters. Her: Film ReviewThe Past: Cannes ReviewInside Llewyn Davis: Cannes ReviewPersonal Tailor (Shi Ren Ding Zhi): Film ReviewDhoom […]