Star Trek has been illegally downloaded around 11 million times this year - that's more than any other movie. Experts from TorrentFreak say the J.J. Abrams sci-fi flick was the most pirated film of 2009, ahead of things like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Twilight. Other popular BitTorrent downloads included The Hangover, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Guy Ritchie's crime movie RocknRolla was the third most downloaded film of the year -- you... Read Full Story
Jerry Bruckheimer 's latest major push will be or is already Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time . It'll be out on Memorial Day weekend, but once upon a time it was supposed to be released in June of this year, the week before Transformers , in fact. The upcoming Tooth Fairy was also a June 19th film at one time, if you can believe it.
The extra time Bruckheimer and Disney gave Persia allows for things like this, the second in what promises to be a long line of featurettes related to the... Read Full Story
British director Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” set a Christmas Day sales record at the box office in North America, taking a narrow lead over last weekend’s champ, “Avatar,” according to early estimates released on Saturday.
“Sherlock Holmes,” in which Robert Downey Jr. reinvents the ascetic Victorian sleuth as a dashing superhero, earned $24.9 million during its first day of release on Friday, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said.
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For a while there, Sherlock Holmes had James Cameron outwitted. But only for a while.
Cameron's Avatar ended up the biggest, fattest movie of a big, fat box-office weekend, with an estimated $75 million Friday-Sunday. The Robert Downey Jr. -ized Sherlock Holmes finished, but didn't settle for, second, with a bigger-than-expected $65.3 million.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ($50.2 million) and Meryl Streep 's It's Complicated ($22.1 million) got... Read Full Story
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For a while there, Sherlock Holmes had James Cameron outwitted. But only for a while.
Cameron's Avatar ended up the biggest, fattest movie of a big, fat box-office weekend, with an estimated $75 million Friday-Sunday. The Robert Downey Jr. -ized Sherlock Holmes finished, but didn't settle for, second, with a bigger-than-expected $65.3 million.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ($50.2 million) and Meryl Streep 's It's Complicated ($22.1 million) got... Read Full Story
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Golden Globes are still three weeks away, but it's never too early to map out the afterparty attack. The awards will be given out on January 17 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel -- the Big Top under which the various celebrity circuses sparkle and whirl, spilling one into the next. Here's a partial list of locations for all your cocktail and canoodling needs. 1. WARNER BROS./INSTYLE MAGAZINE -- OASIS COURTYARD You get the most bang for your buck at the WB... Read Full Story
It sounds as though DC Entertainment, the newly reassembled DC film outfit over at Warner Bros., may have turned a real corner on its Justice League of America movie. According to producer Dan Lin , who spoke to Collider , "[It] seems like they're building to Justice League instead of going with the team movie first and doing individual movies after that."
It's the same method crosstown rival Marvel Comics is approaching its Avengers arc with Paramount, but a different approach than the one... Read Full Story
Science-fiction adventure "Avatar" topped the North American box office this weekend, scooping 77 million dollars in a stellar debut for the effects-laden epic, final figures showed Monday. Director James Cameron's first film since the 1997 Oscar-winner "Titanic" is a 3-D spectacular with a reported budget of 300-500 million dollars, which would make it the most expensive movie ever. The film, a love story set on a distant planet, accounted for about 59 percent of the weekend box office... Read Full Story
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Peter Jackson is making the Hobbit sequels with Guillermo del Toro, we know that. And he's making Tintin with Steven Spielberg, we know that too. But now word has come that he may also be working on a super-secret sci-fi project...
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Batman Begins (Limited Edition Gift Set) [Blu-ray] ( Blu-ray ) By Christian Bale 24 used and new from $16.90 Customer Rating: First tagged by MicHaeL H. Customer tags: batman (37), blu-ray (37), christian bale (18), high definition (17), playstation 3 (7), christopher nolan (6), adventure (3), defectivebydesign (3), drm infected (2), best on hd dvd , bad extras , batman begins blu-ray product review Product Images Review & Description Batman Begins explores the origins of the Batman legend... Read Full Story
