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Here's a record no movie studio wants to break: Lowest gross for a movie that was released on more than 1,000 screens.
The college kids-vs.-vampires comedy "Transylmania," which opened last Friday, just broke that record, according to Box Office Mojo. It scored $263,941 at 1,007 sites — ...
Horror
The Box
The slate of films in the Sundance Film Festival is, as Donald Rumsfeld used to say, a matter of "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns."
There are the films that look promising (like "Blue Valentine," pictured, with Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams), with familiar names attached that give ...
Drama
Sundance Film Festival
Good
Ryan Gosling
Michelle Williams
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival announced the 70 short films selected for this year's festival — including four that will screen on opening night, Jan. 21.
The four for the opening-night show, set for the Egyptian Theater in Park City, includes one U.S. dramatic short, a U.S. ...
Adventure
Sundance Film Festival
Shorts
The Cricket hasn't had a new name on his list of The Departed - a chronicle of movie critics losing their print-publication jobs since January 2006 - since July.
(The Cricket didn't count Scott Foundas jumping ship at LA Weekly last month to work for the Film Society of Lincoln Center. For ...
Drama
Jamie Bell
Josh Brolin
The National Board of Review has preserved for itself the annual honor of being the first critics' group to announce its year-end awards.
This year, NBR chose Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" as the year's best movie. They also gave half of the best-actor honor to the film's star, George ...
Comedy
Jason Reitman
George Clooney
Academy Awards
Up In the Air
Anna Kendrick
Maverick Utah filmmaker Trent Harris will make his acting debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Harris, who directed the offbeat Sundance entries “Plan 10 From Outer Space” and “Beaver Trilogy,” shows up in “Memories of Overdevelopment,” a surreal ...
Animation
Sundance Film Festival
Up
The Beaver
Nothing like stirring up the locals to get some attention for your film festival.
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival guaranteed local interest when it announced Thursday that among the 113 films on its slate will be Reed Cowan's documentary "8: The Mormon Proposition," an expose of the LDS ...
Other
Sundance Film Festival
Six movies opening this week in the semi-doldrums after Thanksgiving — but, for various reasons, only three of them were made available to Utah critics.
The best of the lot is "The Messenger," an engaging drama that marks the directing debut of screenwriter Oren Moverman ("Married ...
Drama
Here's the rest of it: The non-competition slate for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
This includes the star-studded Premieres, the low-budget "Next" program, the Spotlight films, the genre Park City at Midnight sidebar and the avant-garde New Frontier program.
Premieres Abel • ...
Comedy
Sundance Film Festival
So what's the consensus of the blogosphere about the competition slate for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, which was announced Wednesday?
As usual, all over the map.
Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere — before the battery on his laptop went dead — picked out five titles that ...
Action
Sundance Film Festival
James Franco
Wednesday
Mark Ruffalo
Ryan Gosling
Here they are, folks: The 58 titles in the four competition categories of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival:
U.S. Documentary Bhutto • Directors Duane Baughman and Johnny O’Hara profile of the assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Casino Jack & The United ...
Action
Sundance Film Festival
At 2 p.m. today, organizers of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival will announce the competition slate, the dramatic films and documentaries that will be up for awards. (Check back on this blog at 2 p.m. sharp.)
For those who are going to Sundance, either with a film or just to watch, Jacques ...
Other
Sundance Film Festival
After winning top prizes at Sundance and Toronto, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" may be getting another honor: An Independent Spirit Award or two.
"Precious," the harrowing drama about a Harlem teen (Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe) and her hard life, got five Spirit nominations, ...
Comedy
The Spirit
Sundance Film Festival
Academy Awards
500 Days of Summer
On Wednesday afternoon, the world will learn what movies made into the 64 competition slots for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. (The non-competitive titles will be announced Thursday afternoon.)
But, thanks to Mark Olsen's fascinating article in Sunday's Los Angeles Times , we know of at ...
Horror
Sundance Film Festival
Wednesday
The studios released their big guns — "Fantastic Mr. Fox," "Old Dogs" and "Ninja Assassin" — on Wednesday, but there are a couple of titles opening today worth a mention.
One, opening at the Tower Theatre, is a re-release of Federico Fellini's 1973 classic "Amarcord," which won ...
Action
Wednesday
Boondock Saints II
The Cricket wishes you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving holiday.
As a gift, here's something you may have seen elsewhere around the Web — but it's so good it deserves repeating. And it's got several chickens (one of them rubber) and one turkey. Enjoy:
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Other
If you want a bellwether of how the economy is going, look at the sponsorship announcement of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
The top tier of "presenting sponsors" remains intact — Entertainment Weekly, HP and Honda — though the Sundance Channel (last year listed as a "group ...
Adventure
Sundance Film Festival
Family fare comes in two forms this Thanksgiving weekend — great or terrible.
The great family movie opening today in Utah is "Fantastic Mr. Fox," an adaptation of Roald Dahl's story of a resourceful and urbane fox trying to outwit three nasty farmers. Director Wes Anderson ("Rushmore," ...
Action
Wednesday
This is the week that will make or break thousands of up-and-coming — or down-and-out — filmmakers across America.
This is the week that the programmers from the Sundance Film Festival call the filmmakers whose movies have made it onto the 2010 slate.
For those who get the call, ...
