The Hollywood Stock Exchange has reopened the Music Market® to allow traders to buy and sell the biggest Grammy nominees with these exclusive AristStocks® centered around the 53rd Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 13th. Five ArtistStocks will be issued for nominees in these three categories:
Album of the Year
Record of the Year
Best New Artist
The ArtistStock for the winner in a category will cash out at H$25.00, while...
Seemingly following the real life news announcement that Natalie Portman [NPORT] is pregnant and engaged to her Black Swan choreographer, the first trailer for her next film The Other Woman [LVIOP], has surfaced online. In the drama previously titled “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits", Portman plays a woman grieving for the lost of her newborn child, while having a difficult time relating to an older stepson. IFC Films will debut The Other Woman first on VOD before its limited...
Competing with real family get-togethers over Christmas, the make-believe family comedy Little Fockers [MPRN3] grossed an estimated $34.0 million over the holiday weekend and $48.3 million since opening on Wednesday.
The western remake True Grit [TGRIT] banked a strong $25.6 million over the weekend and $36.8 million over 5 days.
Tron: Legacy [TRON2] declined 54% to $20.7 million in its second weekend. The Disney sequel has totaled $88.3 million thus far.
Opening on Saturday, Gulliver's...
What would a horror film coming from comedic director Kevin Smith [KSMIT] look like? The teaser trailer for Red State [REDST] has been uploaded onlline. The film premieres at the 2011 Sundance Festival, while the trailer teases a general release in March.
The Christmas holiday weekend brings a bundle of new releases to the multiplex. Little Fockers [MPRN3] and True Grit [TGRIT] open on Wednesday to lead the way. Universal has reunited the cast from Meet the Fockers for its sequel Little Fockers. The previous installment also opened on a Wednesday in 2004 and grossed $70.5 million in its first five days with $46.1 million for the weekend. While the reviews have been terrible, audiences often take comfort with a familiar broad comedy over...
After the sucess of The Hangover, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and now Ed Helms [EHELM] have all cashed in on their newfound fame. Helms toplines Fox Searchlight's comedy Cedar Rapids [CEDRP], which is basicallyThe 40-Years-Old Virgin meets The Hangover as seen in the firat trailer up on Apple.
After first debuting with a redband trailer online, Universal has unveiled the green band theatrical trailer for Your Highness [YURHI] on Apple. The fantasy comedy stars James Franco [JAFRA] and Danny McBride [DMCBR] as a pair of brothers on a quest to save a princess from an evil wizard. Natalie Portman [NPORT] shows up into the trailer without any explanation, other than to show her undressing to reveal a bikini (who knew they were already fashionable back in medieval times).
Focus Features has released the first trailer for the thriller Hanna [HANA1] starring Saoirse Ronan [SRONA] as a teenage assassin. A teenage girl assassin is believable when protrayed realistically by Natalie Portman in The Professional or as comic fantasy by Hit-girl in Kick-Ass. But when you try to combine the two, the resulting action borders on unintentional comedy as seen in this trailer. Eric Bana [EBANA] and Cate Blanchett [CBLAN] co-star in the film directed by Joe Wright [JOWRI].
...With three new openers and two wide expansions, Disney's Tron: Legacy [TRON2] earned the high score with an estimated $43.6 million. The sci-fi sequel attracted primarily an older audience that was 66% male, but should open up as the holiday rolls around.
Yogi Bear [YOGIB] finished second with a less than expected $16.7 million. The family audience should bring in more business over the holidays.
Last week's top film The Chornicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [NARN3]...
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