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Weekend Box Office: 'Puss In Boots' Keeps Number One From Thieving 'Tower Heist'

Could the Hollywood marketplace be changing? Are studios no longer banking on bigger openings, instead shifting expectations to a long and healthy shelf life? They’d better hope so, as softer openings for recent efforts like “Footloose,” “The Ides of March,” “Mone...

Weekend Box Office: 'Puss In Boots' Keeps Number One From Thieving 'Tower Heist'

Could the Hollywood marketplace be changing? Are studios no longer banking on bigger openings, instead shifting expectations to a long and healthy shelf life? They’d better hope so, as softer openings for recent efforts like “Footloose”, “The Ides of March”, “Mone...

Weekend B.O. (Nov. 4-6) - "Tower Heist" Under-performs

OOPS! It wasn't supposed to happen like this.It wasn't supposed to happen like this. All the insiders and experts were predicting that Tower Heist was, without question, going to be No. 1 this weekend making somewhere between $35-40 million. But it didn't work out that way. The film got ...

Weekend Media Watch: Andy Rooney Dies at 92, Pandora Seeks More Ad Revenue, Facebook Adds Ads

The consistent thing about Facebook’s constant changes: the levels of frustration they cause. Today, TechCrunch reports that the social media site will begin placing advertisements in the real-time updates portion of the homepage. Events, ticker, and birthday announcements have been placed bel...

Benicio Del Toro In Tractor Beam for Villainous 'Star Trek 2' Role

Set Pics Of Ryan Gosling & Rooney Mara Shooting Terrence Malick's 'Lawless'

While it's not nearly as sexy as the video footage of Terrence Malick in action, directing Christian Bale at the Austin City Limits music festival in September, it's still something. And given how tightly everything else is kept under lock and key for Terrence Malick's films, we'll take what we can ...

Liam Hemsworth, James Badge Dale & D.J. Cotrona All Vie For 'A Good Day To Die Hard'

Wait a minute? Didn't we have a shortlist on this already? Sort of. A couple weeks back it was reported that Ben Foster, Paul Dano, Aaron Paul and Milo Ventimiglia were all going to be reading for the part of Bruce Willis' offspring in "A Good Day To Die Hard." Well, none of those ...

Why Berneys Left FilmDistrict; What’s Next?

As New York indie distributor Bob Berney leaves FilmDistrict, which is consolidating operations in Los Angeles, he and marketing chief Jeanne Berney will be able to do what they should have done all along. Go into business for themselves. Why manage egos, seek credit and deal with others’ prod...

Leonardo DiCaprio & Sean Penn Have Their Eye On Alejandro González Iñárritu's 'The Revenant'

It looks like the wheels are turning on the next film by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Late this summer it was announced the helmer behind “Amores Perros,” “21 Grams,” “Babel” and "Biutiful" was setting up his next picture, "The ...