Jet Li
Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Welcome to Judd Country
Universal, Lions Gate, Sony
What Judd Apatow backlash? For every New Yorker who happily proclaimed the end of the producer/director’s run of luck after the flops of Walk Hard and Drillbit Taylor, there was one (if not two, three or four) who ran out to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall (no. 1) this weekend. The comedy racked in $382,590 dollars of its total $17.5 million take here in the city with an incredibly strong $42,510 per screen average. Those are 21 numbers! read more »
Unforbidden Kingdom: Weintsteins Set $285 M. Slate of Asian Films
The Seven Samurai, then.
Bob and Harvey Weinstein have activated a $285 millon fund for the acquisition and development of a slate of 21 films and 10 direct-to-video titles shot and directed over the next six years in Asia. read more »
Two Queens, Dreamgirls, And Craig Attempts Bond
Sony Pictures
Kirsten Dunst is Marie Antoinette.
Despite some attempts to set the record straight, the story persists that Sofia Coppola’s Mari read more »
Kids II: The Murderers
After A.I. , Steven Spielberg's extravagantsummer banquet, everything else at the movies is scraps. read more »
