Sunday, January 29, 2012
Weekend Box-office Estimates (Jan 27-29)
1 - The Grey ORF $20,000,000
2 - Underworld Awakening SGem $12,500,000
3 - One For the Money LGF $11,750,000
4 - Red Tails Fox $10,400,000
5 - Man on a Ledge Sum. $8,300,000
6 - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close WB $7,145,000
7 - The Descendants FoxS $6,550,000
8 - Contraband Uni. $6,500,000
9 - Beauty and the Beast (3D) BV $5,345,000
10 - Haywire Rela. $4,000,000
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Best Bets of the Week
Best Film Opening: Monsieur Lazhar
Best Film Playing: Carnage
Best Action: Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol
Best Drama: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Best Foreign: A Separation
Best Comedy: The Artist
Best Family: The Adventures of Tin Tin
Best Documentary: Pina
Avoid: Sherlock Holmes and The Devil Inside
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Opening the Week of Jan 27
Chick flick ONE FOR THE MONEY and macho movie THE GREY both open that would satisfy both sexes.
Smaller films TYRANNOSAUR and MONSIEUR LAZHAR are also worth a look.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
TIFF BELL Lightbox - Yilmaz Guney
THE WAY HOME: The films of Yilmaz Guney
(Full review of his most successful film: YOL below!)
Organized by Erju Ackman in collaboration with the Güney Foundation and travelling to select film institutions in North America, this retrospective offers the rarest opportunity to encounter the body of work of Yilmaz Güney, the greatest star and most celebrated director of Turkish cinema.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Oscar Nominations 2012
Here are the complete list of Academy Award nominations.
THE ARTIST and HUGO both surprised by winning the most nominations in all. As in the Golden Globes, the British thriller TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY was completely left out!
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