Blue love: Derek Cianfrance chronicles a turbulent marriage in bittersweet 'Valentine'
The aptly named Blue Valentine, 12 years in the making and just a few months of actual shooting, eluded the “Return to Sender” snub as well as all the various sundry pitfalls of production and goes into a limited U.S. release the last day of 2010. More »
Somewhere up in the Chateau: Sofia Coppola returns with a Hollywood father-daughter story
Films as distinctive as The Long Goodbye, Chinatown and Shampoo have been set in Los Angeles, that city of the fallen angels, with its sun-drenched, anomie-filled glamour and often druggy, self-absorbed, self-destructive denizens. You can add Sofia Coppola's Somewhere to this list... More »
Winning combination: Mark Wahlberg and David O. Russell champion 'The Fighter'
In the real-world Rocky story The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams, light welterweight "Irish Micky" Ward goes from being a once-promising palooka to contender for the title. More »
Reviews
Film Review: Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift’s witty 18th-century satire becomes a witless 21st-century star vehicle for Jack Black and his by-now stale shtick. More »
Film Review: Little Fockers
Third go-round for the Focker family recycles gags from the earlier two films while playing up sensitivity over raunchiness. More »
Film Review: True Grit
The Coen Brothers hit the bull’s-eye with this captivating western where the good guys fight with words first and guns second. More »
Film Review: TRON: Legacy
The long-awaited sequel to the 1982 cult favorite retains the original’s visual splendor, but not its endearingly geeky spirit. More »
Film Review: Somewhere
A movie star and his neglected daughter bond while partaking in the celeb-filled glamour of the Chateau Marmont. More »
Film Review: How Do You Know
Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd give winning performances in an otherwise vapid, expensive romantic comedy that just tries too hard. More »
Reel News
James Tupper, Clark Gregg in Jim Carrey film
"Men in Trees" star James Tupper and "Iron Man's" Clark Gregg are moving on to penguins in penthouses. More »
Megan Fox joins Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig film
Megan Fox is joining "Friends With Kids," an ensemble comedy from Jennifer Westfeldt. More »
Disney nabs comedy spec 'Father Figures'
Disney has picked up the comedy spec "Father Figures" from Laurie Craig. Andrew Panay is producing via his Disney-based Panay Films. More »
Spotlight
The buzz network: Online marketing finds new ways to engage moviegoers
When it comes to using anything digital to advertise movies, the buzzword is “engagement.” More »
Digital dateline: China sets the pace for Asia-Pacific conversion
Across the Asia-Pacific markets, from the remote edges of western China to the major metropolitan cities in New Zealand and Australia, digital conversion is underway at a rapid pace, frequently being limited only by the ability of the hardware manufacturers to supply enough digital projectors, servers and related equipment to meet the demand. More »
Filmmakers
TRON'S Legacy: A new generation of filmmakers revives Disney's groundbreaking CGI thriller
From Clash of the Titans to The Karate Kid, A Nightmare on Elm Street to Predators and The A-Team to a second Wall Street, this was the year that the ’80s took back the multiplex in a big way. So it’s fitting that 2010 ends with the belated return of another piece of the Me Generation’s cinematic history. More »
Rendezvous in Venice: Johnny Depp meets Angelina Jolie in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's romantic thriller
What do you do for a second act when your first feature opens to overwhelming critical acclaim and is showered with awards in Europe, South America, Australia, Canada, Japan and the United States? Well, you could do worse than take a call from Angelina Jolie. More »
Braving the storm: Julie Taymor brings a female perspective to Shakespeare's 'Tempest'
The Tempest, which opens Dec. 10 from Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films, is Julie Taymor’s fourth feature film, and her second Shakespeare adaptation. More »
Speak the speech... trippingly: Director Tom Hooper delivers an Oscar-worthy royal drama
The King’s Speech, currently in limited release from The Weinstein Company, is one of the most buzzed-about pictures of the 2010 awards season. More »
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
1. | LITTLE FOCKERS | $30.83 |
2. | TRUE GRIT | $24.85 |
3. | TRON LEGACY | $19.15 |
4. | CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: VOYAGE OF THE DAWN | $9.47 |
5. | YOGI BEAR | $7.83 |
Weekend of 12/27/2010 Estimates in millions |
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