The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Twilight Saga: New Moon got off to a fang-tastic start at the box office.
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The film pulled in an estimated $26.3 million from its midnight showings, breaking the record previously held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ($22.2 million), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The second film in the Twilight series opened in 3,514 theaters, earning approximately $7,476 per screen. The film will expand to 4,024 theaters for the weekend.
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Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson has been tapped to play Winnie Mandela, the former wife of South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, in the upcoming film Winnie.
Jennifer Hudson locks in Christmas special
The film is based on ...
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Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is set to star in Mad Max: Fury Road — the fourth film in the postapocalyptic franchise.
According to Variety, George Miller (Happy Feet, Babe) will be producing and directing, and Theron will star opposite British actor Tom Hardy. Filming begins next August in Australia.
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This Is It
From Will Smith to Neil Patrick Harris, Hollywood's A-listers came out in droves to attend the lavish red carpet premiere of Michael Jackson's This Is It, which is already receiving positive reviews.
Elizabeth Taylor: Michael Jackson film the "most brilliant piece of filmmaking"
Distributor Sony, which paid $60 million for the film, pulled out all the stops for the premiere, transforming the plaza in front of Nokia Theater with an elegant array of crystal chandeliers, displays of ...
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Halloween is almost here, and that can only mean one thing: the next installment in the Saw movie franchise. TV Guide Network caught up with Tobin Bell, who plays the films' deranged serial killer, Jigsaw, to get a preview of Saw VI, find out which torture scene is Bell's favorite and learn about his surprising off-screen passion. (Lionsgate, the production company behind the horror films, is the parent company of TVGuide.com)
Saw VI hosting sixth-annual blood drive
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Rebecca Mader
Rebecca Mader, Lost's feisty-but-doomed redhead anthropologist, has booked two film roles, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
VIDEO: Meet Lost's Rebecca Mader
In the romantic comedy Ceremony, Mader will play a married bridesmaid who makes a pass at a young man (Michael Angarano) who crashes the wedding of a 30-something woman (Uma Thurman) with whom he's ...
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National Lampoon's Vacation
New Line is ready for a Vacation — with a new generation of Griswolds.
The studio is developing a follow-up to the classic 1983 comedy National Lampoon's Vacation, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will focus on an adult Rusty Griswold, son ...
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Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg have nabbed the leads in The Social Network (aka "the Facebook movie"), a drama written by Aaron Sorkin , according to Variety.
Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster who became Facebook's first president. They are joined by...
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Johnny Depp
Shiver me timbers! Another Pirates of the Caribbean is coming.
To announce the big news, Johnny Depp sailed onstage upon a pirate ship at the Anaheim Convention Center on Friday to announce the upcoming fourth installment of the Disney franchise ...
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Harry Potter, The Hangover
Recession or not, the box office had a big summer, pulling in a total of $4.35 billion, a 5 percent increase over last summer.
The big winner this summer was Warner Bros., which earned just over $1 billion, 59 percent of which came from two films: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the surprise hit comedy The Hangover.
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Paramount scraped up $848.8 million with only nine releases. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen did most of the heavy lifting, earning $400.7 million during its run, the highest of any other flick domestically this summer.
Fox and Disney, which both ...
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