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Theater Counts, February 29

posted on: Feb, 29 2008

Title (Distributor) / Theater Count (Change) / Week #

NEW

Semi-Pro (New Line) / 3,121

Penelope (Summit Entertainment) / 1,196

The Other Boleyn Girl (Sony / Columbia) / 1,166

Bonneville (SenArt/Scranton-Lacy Films) / 101

City of Men (Miramax) / 75

Chicago 10 (Roadside Attractions) / 14

EXPANDING

Vantage Point (Sony / Columbia) / 3,150 (+1) / 2

Step Up 2 the Streets (Buena Vista) / 2,528 (+48) / 3

No Country for Old Men (Miramax) / 2,037 (+936) / 17

Witless Protection (Lionsgate) / 1,354 (+21) / 2

Be Kind, Rewind (New Line) / 810 (+2) / 2

I Am Legend (Warner Bros.) / 343 (+188) / 12

In Bruges (Focus Features) / 232 (+69) / 4

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Warner Bros.) / 6 (+1) / 22

NO CHANGE

Charlie Bartlett (MGM) / 1,122 / 2

Deep Sea 3-D (IMAX) (Warner Bros.) / 10 / 105

DECLINING

The Spiderwick Chronicles (Paramount) / 3,654 (-193) / 3

Jumper (Fox) / 3,128 (-302) / 3

Fool’s Gold (Warner Bros.) / 2,845 (-230) / 4

Definitely, Maybe (Universal) / 2,187 (-33) / 3

Juno (Fox Searchlight) / 1,631 (-96) / 13

The Bucket List (Warner Bros.) / 1,565 (-337) / 10

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (Universal) / 1,393 (-480) / 4

There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage) / 1,248 (-154) / 10

27 Dresses (Fox) / 796 (-571) / 7

The Eye (Lionsgate) / 624 (-587) / 5

Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Concert Tour (Buena Vista) / 531 (-82) / 5

Atonement (Focus Features) / 480 (-280) / 13

U2 3D (National Geographic Cinema Ventures) / 451 (-235) / 6

Rambo (Lionsgate) / 402 (-325) / 6

Cloverfield (Paramount) / 346 (-279) / 7

The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything (Universal) / 252 (-85) / 8

Sweeney Todd (Paramount (DreamWorks)) / 207 (-21) / 11

Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.) / 200 (-225) / 22

P.S. I Love You (Warner Bros.) / 138 (-102) / 11

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Miramax) / 131 (-30) / 14

One Missed Call (Warner Bros.) / 123 (-65) / 9

The Golden Compass (New Line) / 112 (-40) / 13

The Savages (Fox Searchlight) / 108 (-19) / 14

Charlie Wilson’s War (Universal) / 97 (-38) / 11

The Kite Runner (Paramount Vantage) / 94 (-11) / 12

Strange Wilderness (Paramount Classics) / 88 (-106) / 5

Over Her Dead Body (New Line) / 58 (-27) / 5

Into the Wild (Paramount Vantage) / 54 (-21) / 24

Mad Money (Overture Films) / 50 (-41) / 7

George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead (Third Rail Releasing) / 47 (-1) / 3

The Great Debaters (MGM (Weinstein)) / 47 (-28) / 10

The Mist (MGM (Weinstein)) / 39 (-45) / 15

The Orphanage (Picturehouse) / 34 (-5) / 10

I’m Not There (Weinstein Company) / 32 (-5) / 15

Lars and the Real Girl (MGM) / 23 (-35) / 21

How She Move (Paramount Vantage) / 20 (-15) / 6

Awake (MGM (Weinstein)) / 6 (-17) / 14

ESTIMATES FOR MARCH 7

10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros.) / 3,300+

College Road Trip (Buena Vista) / 2,500

The Bank Job (Lionsgate) / 1,350+

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus Features) / 450

CJ7 (Sony Classics) / 12

Married Life (Sony Classics) / 8

Paranoid Park (IFC) / 6

Snow Angels (Warner Independent) / 2

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New Iron Man Trailer is Here and it’s AWESOME!

posted on: Feb, 29 2008

New Iron Man trailer is finally here and my Lord, it looks awesome.

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Wall-E Poster Revealed

posted on: Feb, 29 2008

Finally, Disney/Pixar has revealed official WALL-E One-Sheet Poster.

Enjoy in watching it.

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Breaking News: NEW LINE CINEMA IS DEAD

posted on: Feb, 28 2008

Here’s the official press release:

February 28, 2008

To: New Line Colleagues

From: Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne

Subject: Our Company

This afternoon, Time Warner is announcing that New Line will become a unit of Warner Bros. This is, of course, a very difficult and emotional time for all of us who have worked at New Line. While there is not much we can say that can lessen the impact of this announcement, we did want you to know about the decision before you read about it in the press.

New Line will maintain its own identity and will continue to produce, market, and distribute movies. But New Line will now do so as part of Warner Bros. and will probably be a much smaller operation than in the past. Time Warner hopes that operating New Line as a unit of Warner Bros. will allow New Line to focus on the creative side of movie-making, while reducing costs and taking advantage of Warner Bros.’ distribution systems. The company will be holding group meeting with New Line employees tomorrow in Los Angeles and New York to discuss this announcement, and is committed to letting employees know as soon as possible about how this change affects them individually.

For our part, we will be stepping down as Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOS of New Line. This was a painful decision, because we love New Line and the people who work here have been like our second families. But we will be leaving the company with enormous pride in what all of us at New Line have accomplished together. From its humble beginnings 40 years ago, our studio has created some of the most popular and successful movies of all time. Those movies are a tribute to the amazing creative energy and entrepreneurial abilities of the talented people at New Line. They are a legacy that will endure forever.

Although we are stepping out of New Line, we intend to remain actively involved in the industry in an entrepreneurial capacity, and will keep you advised of developments.

We thank all of you who have worked so hard to make New Line such a success. We are very proud of every one of you.

Bob & Michael

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Takashi Miike’s ‘Sukiyaki Western Django’ Poster

posted on: Feb, 28 2008

It’s here and I have only one question… why is Quentin Tarantino name first at the list!?

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Photo Alert @ Richard Kelly’s The Box

posted on: Feb, 27 2008

USA Today gives us our first look at the cast of Richard Kelly’s The Box. The new production photo features stars James Marsden and Cameron Diaz as Arthur and Norma Lewis, sitting around the mysterious box.

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Superhero Movie Poster

posted on: Feb, 27 2008

Dimension Films has released the movie poster for Superhero Movie.

Click on the image to enlarge.

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5 Ways To Improve The Oscars

posted on: Feb, 26 2008

5 serious, and 5 not so serious great ways to improve the Oscar Telecast.

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The 2008 Academy Awards in 60 Seconds

posted on: Feb, 25 2008

Here it is,  the Oscars in 60 seconds:

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80th Annual Academy Awards - Winners

posted on: Feb, 24 2008

Here is a listing of the 80th Annual Academy Awards winners, followed by some commentary. Tell me what you think of the winners and losers in the comments below.

Best Picture

No Country for Old Men
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood

Best Director

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman for Juno
Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
George Clooney in Michael Clayton
Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises

Best Supporting Actor

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson’s War
Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie in Away From Her
Laura Linney in The Savages
Ellen Page in Juno

Best Supporting Actress

Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton
Cate Blanchett in I’m Not There
Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
Amy Ryan in Gone, Baby, Gone

Best Original Screenplay

Diablo Cody for Juno
Nancy Oliver for Lars and the Real Girl
Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird for Ratatouille
Tamara Jenkins for The Savages

Best Adapted Screenplay

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Christopher Hampton for Atonement
Sarah Polley for Away From Her
Ronald Harwood for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood

Best Animated Feature

Ratatouille
Persepolis
Surf’s Up

Best Documentary Feature

Taxi to the Dark Side
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
War/Dance

Best Art Direction

Dante Ferretii and Francesa Lo Schiavo for Sweeney Todd
Arthur Max (Art Direction); Beth A. Rubino (Set Decoration) for American Gangster
Sarah Greenwood (Art Direction); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) for Atonement
Dennis Gassner (Art Direction); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) for The Golden Compass
Jack Fisk (Art Direction); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) for There Will Be Blood

Best Cinematography

Robert Elswit for There Will Be Blood
Roger Deakins for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Seamus McGarvey for Atonement
Roger Deakins for No Country for Old Men
Janusz Kaminski for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Costume Design

Alexandra Byrne for Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Albert Wolsky for Across The Universe
Jacqueline Durran for Atonement
Marit Allen for La Vie En Rose
Colleen Atwood for Sweeney Todd

Best Film Editing

Christopher Rouse for The Bourne Ultimatum
Juliette Welfling for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jay Cassidy for Into the Wild
Roderick Jaynes for No Country for Old Men
Dylan Tichenor for There Will Be Blood

Best Foreign Language Film

The Counterfeiters
Beaufort
Katyn
Mongol
12

Best Makeup Oscar Nominees 2008

Didier Lavergne, Jan Archibald for La Vie en Rose
Rick Baker, Kazuhiro Tsuji for Norbit
Ve Neill and Martin Samuel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Best Original Song

Once for “Falling Slowly” Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Enchanted for “So Close” Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Enchanted for “That’s How You Know” Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Enchanted for “Happy Working Song” Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
August Rush for “Raise It Up” by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas

Best Original Score

Dario Marianelli for Atonement
Alberto Iglesias for The Kite Runner
James Newton Howard for Michael Clayton
Michael Giacchino for Ratatouille
Marco Beltrami for 3:10 To Yuma

Best Sound Mixing

Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis for The Bourne Ultimatum
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland for No Country for Old Men
Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane Ratatouille
Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe for 3:10 To Yuma
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin for Transformers

Best Sound Editing

Karen Baker Landers, Per Hallberg for The Bourne Ultimatum
Skip Lievsay for No Country for Old Men
Randy Thom, Michael Silvers for Ratatouille
Matthew Wood for There Will Be Blood
Ethan Van der Ryn, Mike Hopkins for Transformers

Best Visual Effects

Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood for The Golden Compass
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier for Transformers

2008 Honorary Academy Award

Robert F. Boyle (For career in Art Direction)

Best Animated Short Film

Peter & the Wolf
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Même les Pigeons vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go To Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)

Best Live Action Short

Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

Best Documentary Short

Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari’s Mother

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