If ever anyone was in need of a little levity, it was Jennifer Hudson this weekend. Which is no doubt why, the day after a Chicago jury found William Balfour guilty of the triple murders...
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If ever anyone was in need of a little levity, it was Jennifer Hudson this weekend. Which is no doubt why, the day after a Chicago jury found William Balfour guilty of the triple murders...
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"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" --"Ozymandias," Percy Bysshe Shelley "You should read the rest of that poem, you boob," Stan Rizzo (Jay R. Ferguson) tells Michael Ginsberg (Ben Feldman) after the latter quotes Shelley in triumph when it's his work that gets chosen to be pitched to the Sno Ball execs....
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With Dark Shadows providing little in the way of competition, The Avengers had no trouble at all extending its stranglehold on the box office this weekend. Marvel's superhero team-up fell 50 percent to an estimated $103.2 million, which is by-far the best second weekend ever ahead of Avatar's $75.6 million. It also topped The...
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Midnight Update: Dark Shadows scored an estimated $550,000 from midnight showings, which is about on par with John Carter and Think Like a Man from earlier this year. Those movies wound up opening to $30.2 million and $33.6 million, which now looks like a good target for Dark Shadows. Dark Shadows, the eighth collaboration...
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This weekend brings us the mother of all holidays, and what better way to spend some quality time with your mom than sitting down together for a movie? With that in mind, the Indiewire team decided to offer up both our ideal scenarios for mother-child cinematic sitdowns, and the opposite. Presenting the movies we'd...
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Thanks to your votes, the memory loss film noir "Remember O Goddess" won this weekend’s Project of the Week contest! Congratulations to “Remember O Goddess" director Yoon Jung Lee. The filmmaker will receive a digital distribution consultation from SnagFilms and the film is now officially a candidate for Project of the Month. That winner...
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Where was the rest of his team when Mark Ruffalo was getting his Twitter account hacked this weekend? (Besides saving the world and killing it at the box office, of course.) The actor,...
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It's been clear for a while that The Avengers would be a box office success, though few people could have foreseen this opening. The superhero team-up got off to an unprecedented $207.4 million start this weekend, which obliterates the previous all-time weekend record set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 last...
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Marc saw “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” last night and is looking forward to interviewing the cast this weekend. Submit your questions on Twitter! See the original post: Send In Your "What to Expect" Questions!
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The 2012 Summer movie season officially gets underway this weekend with what is easily one of the biggest releases of the year. After five movies that in many ways functioned as prequel material, some of Marvel's most-popular superheroes finally team up in The Avengers, which has the seventh-widest opening ever at 4,349 locations. Thanks...
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