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Disney Pixars “Up” to open 62nd annual Festival de Cannes

For the first time in its history the Festival de Cannes will air an animated movie to open the festival.  Disney/Pixar’s “Up” will be screened for the first time on May 13th during the prestigious award festivals opening ceremony.
Directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson and produced by John Lasseter. By tying thousands of balloon …

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The box office from 2008 was just a bit better than ‘07

Now that the holidays are over, the post-mortem for 2008’s box office is also being offered. The clear winner last year was Warner Bros. who had the runaway success of The Dark Knight behind them. With global ticket sales of $997 million dollars, Dark Knight didn’t just prove to be the biggest superhero movie of …

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Twilight sequel slots release date

Summit Entertainment isn’t waiting any time getting the ball moving on its sequel to Twilight, New Moon. The studio has announced that it will release New Moon on November 20, 2008 — the highly coveted American Thanksgiving weekend. Can Summit carve a second slice of box office dinner and dominate that weekend as they did …

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Dark Knight going back to theaters in January

Standing with less than $3 million and change left in ticket sales for it to cross the coveted billion dollar mark in box office, Warner Bros. has announced that it will re-release The Dark Knight theatrically come January 23. “We wanted to provide one more opportunity for moviegoers to experience it on the big screen …

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Four Christmases defeats Twilight

The results are in and Twilight got defeated at the box office this past weekend by Four Christmases, the Vince Vaughn-Reese Witherspoon comedy. While Twilight didn’t perform like I thought it could, it still managed to come in third spot with a gross of $26.3 million, down 62% from its opening weekend performance. Four Christmases …

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Twilight to dominate Thanksgiving box office?

Three new major releases arrived in theaters this week: Fox’s romantic epic Australia, Lionsgate’s third Transporter movie and New Line’s seasonal comedy Four Christmases. Surprisingly, not a single analyst wants to hazard a guess whether any of these three will defeat Twilightat the box office. Early reviews for Baz Lurhmann’s Australia have been mixed-to-negative; the …

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Twilight is #1 at the box office

…much to no one’s surprise but the big news is how much Summit’s emo vamp romance made. It beat Quantum of Solace’s opening which was $69 million. How much? Try $70.5 mil. Twilight took in more than $20K per screening over the weekend, pushing it far ahead of the weekend’s number two movie, Quantum of …

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Twilight nets $7 million in midnight showings

…so says this morning’s edition of Variety. There were around 600 midnight showings ofTwilight early this morning/late last night, and if the early figures hold up that’ll mean that the first showing of Twilight easily beat the $2.5 million advance screening box office that Sex in the City drew this past May. Variety is comparing …

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Twilight fans already lining up

And there it is: photographic evidence that people have begun to line up for Twilight. And they started doing it this past Sunday night. That’s right, as I write these words the Twilight line-up in L.A. has been holding strong for at least 36 hours. According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, there were about 25 people …

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Twilight selling out early

According to THR Twilight tickets are selling out quickly:
Online ticketers Fandango and MovieTickets said Monday that the Summit Entertainment film has sold out hundreds of performances four days before its Friday opening in about 3,400 locations. Fandango has sold out almost 700 shows — including 500 or so midnight Thursday screenings — and MovieTickets counted …

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