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Box Office Briefs: Hop Jumps to Big $38.1M Weekend Subtitles
Im clairvoyant when it comes to CG family films.I cant predict the weather, NBA scores, traffic or my wifes emotions, but I can tell you when a major studio like Universal -- which told me Hop was only going to do around $28 million this weekend -- is sandbagging.I was foolish not to trust my instincts and put those predictions in writing -- I sheepishly went along with the studio and listed $28 mil in our Thursday predictions see below. But I kind of knew, based the reactions of my own kids to the movies outdoor signage over the last few weeks, that the Easter Bunny-themed Hop could very well end up over-performing at the box office this weekend.And that it did, grossing a market-leading $38.1 million, besting competitors including Source Code $15 million and...Read More

Bottoms Up! Say "Cheers" to Our 10 Favorite Movie Drunks Subtitles
The terms drunk, alcoholic, lush, and, well, boozehound, usually bring with them negative connotations, whispers of he’s got a problem or she needs help and the eventual intervention of family and friends. But not so in Hollywood, where the cinematic tradition of booze-soaked antiheroes has been a staple since Charlie Chaplin brought his classic drunk shtick from the stage to screen in the classic short, One A.M.This week, British bad boy Russell Brand steps into the role made famous by Dudley Moore as Arthur, a rich playboy with just a wee bit of a drinking problem. We figured the timing was perfect to raise our glass and toast our favorite drunks of movie history. ?Read More

Box Office Briefs: It's Brand vs. Brand as Hop Looks to Beat Arthur Subtitles
Ah, transcontinental stardom! One day youre tabloid fodder in the U.K., drinking and womanizing into various rehab clinics, while conducting tasteless controversial radio stunts that nearly end your career.Next thing you know, youre Americas top leading man at the box office, with not one, but two films battling for No. 1 this weekend.Yep, its good to be Russell Brand, voice star of last weekends box office champ, Universal family film Hop, and live-action star of Dudley Moore-movie remake Arthur, which will be released into 3,276 theaters this weekend.Also debuting this weekend: The James Franco/Natalie Portman raunchfest Your Highness, the surfer-girl-themed Soul Surfer, and the James Wright Atonement, Pride and Prejudice action film Hanna.The Easter...Read More

8 Great...Scream Moments Subtitles
With Scream 4, the genre-bending, influential horror series that effectively used scares, humor, high school angst and cleverly wrapped movie-within-movie references is back from the dead. Yes, it’s been 11 years since Scream 3 was released. Scary. We feel old.Since the last two Screams never held up to the original, and the Scream series has even been blamed for making horror movies less scary, we’re curious how time, reflection and all the other waves of horror from the Ring movies to Hostel to even the Scream joke films, Scary Movie etc. will factor into the newest nightmare.What follows are 8 great moments in the franchise. And yes, almost all of them contain spoilers and one of them involves Jiffy Pop. Is Jiffy Pop even around anymore? Yep, still feeling old.Read More

Box Office Briefs: Russell Brand Is No Dudley, But His Movie Is Subtitles
I thought about it for a few seconds, while watching a trailer during a Friday matinee presentation of Limitless in Culver City.This Arthur remake actually looks pretty funny, I thought to myself, while entertaining thoughts of making a last-minute switcharoo of my movie-going choice.I thought better of it, choosing to stick with the four-week old thriller featuring Bradley Cooper on powerful psychoactive drugs.To hear friends -- as well as the powerful indicator of the free market -- tell it, I made a wise decision, as Russell Brands take on Dudley Moores iconic English drunkard significantly underperformed at the box office, grossing just $12.6 million.Picked to gross closer to $20 million, Arthur finished second to Universals Hop, which grossed $21.7 million in...Read More

Dialogue: Interviews with the Scream 4 Cast Subtitles
The cast new and old lay out the rules for making this horror franchise, what scares them most, and why the series is such a scream.More than 10 years have passed since the last Scream movie laid the ground rules for horror movies before twisting them around on movie audiences. With the fourth installment of the horror-thriller franchise gearing up for its April 15th release, the original cast members Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette joined director Wes Craven and a new generation of actors to talk about the film.Q: Wes, you seem to hit upon some new rules regarding to the Internet age. How did you and writer Kevin Williamson go about creating them?Wes Craven: Well, we spent a lot of time on the Internet. A lot of our lives revolve around that now. Even old fogeys...Read More

8 Great...Casting Decisions Subtitles
Quite often, film casting decisions are no-brainers; universally praised before the cameras even begin rolling. Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Batman. Meryl Streep in anything requiring drama and an accent. John Wayne in, well, every John Wayne movie that is, except playing Genghis Khan in The Conqueror--what were they thinking?. But sometimes, the powers that be like to take chances. Big, crazy chances. More often than not, they end disastrously et tu, Vince Vaughn in Psycho?. But once in a blue moon, a little bit of cinematic magic happens. Here are 8 great examples.Read More

El Guapo's '10 Things Movie Journalist Should Never Do' Subtitles
To say that the online film journalism community is one big dysfunctional family is putting it mildly. Even though we compete for scoops, interviews, etc., most of us are actually good friends. A lot of my peers I consider close friends. Some I consider lowlifes who will step on you the first chance they get.Its not an easy job. Between set visits, interviews, daily news, junkets, reviews, press lines and conventions, its a lot of work. Im not sure why, though, but film journalists can do some really silly things. If youre a movie journalist and are guilty of one or more of these habits, then hopefully you take this advice and change your unprofessional ways. Lets be honest, you know youre doing something wrong if an idiot like me has to point it out to you.Read More

So Bad, They?re Brilliant: The Number 23 Subtitles
What happens when a dogcatcher gets so freaky-obsessed about a certain number that it takes over his entire life? Well, if it?s Jim Carrey playing the pooch-snatcher in the deeply demented The Number 23 directed by Joel No Trick Too Cheap Schumacher, what happens is that he starts to see the world in violent, color-saturated fetish-y Frederick?s of Hollywood-meets-Victoria?s-Secret-type fashion shoot flashbacks in which he tries to act all sexed-up, sweaty, tattooed and existential ? often while dragging around a saxophone.Carrey is fatally miscast but, really, whats a star to do in a movie that tries to sell such absurdities as a rough sex-loving hottie called Fabrizia whom he ties to a cheap hotel bed and who urges him, Pretend you have a knife! and another bewigged...Read More

Critics? Corner: We Can?t Wait For Summer! Subtitles
And Hollywood understands. They think it starts at the end of April. Grae and Dave thoughtfully consider the implications?Dave: So according to movie release schedules, summer now starts on the first Friday in May. Grae: Obviously you?re paying too much attention to the road when you drive and not enough to billboards for Fast Five, which state, definitively, that ?Summer Begins April 29.? Dave: I like to think that someone just asked Paul Walker a question about the calendar and that was his answer and it just stuck and he got a raise. Grae: That could just as easily have been Jordana Brewster?s response, too. Dave: A fact. Okay so, as proper film critics we are expected to trash the summer movies. And while that can be a great pastime and is often necessary...Read More

Meet Bill Subtitles
 Release: Apr. 4, 2008   Rated: R MPAA   Details  Bill Aaron Eckhart is a total schlub who is married to the beautiful Jess Elizabeth Banks and who works for his father-in-laws Holmes Osborne bank. When Jess starts having an affair with a handsome news reporter Timothy Olyphant, Bill is ready to give up on life until a cocky high school student Logan Lerman encourages him to win her back. To accomplish this feat, Bill pretends to date a hot lingerie salesgirl Jessica Alba in order to make Jess jealous and to finally see him as a real man again.

Hats Off Subtitles
 Release: Mar. 28, 2008   Rated: Rating Pending   Details  Mimi Weddell is the hardest working actress in NYC. She also happens to be over 90 years old. Beginning her acting career at the age of 65 after the death of her husband, Mimi hoofs it all over Manhattan to cattle call auditions and works out regularly doing gymnastics and dance routines. Watch in amazement at this elderly womans stamina while she poses for advertising spreads and magazines and acts in TV series like Sex and the City and Law and Order, as well as movies such as Across the Universe and Hitch.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age Subtitles
 Released: 02/05/2008   Rated: PG-13 - for violence, some sexuality and nudity   Avg. Score: 2.5/5     | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  In this sequel to the hit Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett once again stars as Queen Elizabeth I, who prepares for war against Spain and King Philip II Jordi Mollà. But as she readies for a major fight to save her crown, she also finds herself falling in love with the adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh Clive Owen. While an official relationship is strictly forbidden for the Queen, she comes up with a devious plan to keep Raleigh by her side that may actually end up breaking her heart.

Nim's Island Subtitles
 Release: Apr. 4, 2008   Rated: Rating Pending   Details | Trailers | Photos  Nim Abigail Breslin is a lonely young girl who lives on an island with her father and who passes the time by reading books about a dashing adventurer named Alex Rover. One day, when Nims dad goes missing, Nim begins corresponding with the author Jodie Foster of her favorite books and the two of them draw inspiration from the fictional Rover to find Nims missing papa.

Good Luck Chuck Subtitles
 Released: 01/15/2008   Rated: R - for sequences of strong sexual content including crude dialogue, nudity, language and some drug use   Avg. Score: 0.75/5     | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  Charlie Dane Cook is a single dude who doesnt have any trouble getting women — the problem is keeping them around. After getting intimate with every female he dates, they all eventually move on to find Mr. Right, who never seems to be him. Once his reputation spreads as Good Luck Chuck, every girl in the world tries to sleep with him, which isnt such a bad thing, until he thinks he finds his soul mate Jessica Alba, who is the one person he cant go to bed with or hell risk losing her forever to some other guy.

Girls Rock! Subtitles
 Release: Mar. 7, 2008   Rated: PG MPAA   Details  This documentary profiles four girls whose lives are transformed by rock music. Laura is an adopted Korean girl whos into death metal. Misty is recovering after years of being addicted to meth and being homeless. Palace may only be 8 years old, but she loves heavy metal. Finally, Amelia is also 8 years old and is already hard at work writing a 14 song cycle about her pet chihuahua.

Inkheart Subtitles
 Release: Mar. 19, 2008   Rated: PG - for fantasy adventure action, some scary moments and brief language   Details  Mo Folchart Brendan Fraser has the extraordinary ability to literally bring to life the characters from any book he reads aloud to his daughter Meggie Eliza Bennet. When an evil ruler and his henchman kidnap Mo and Meggie, its up to the fairy-tale characters Mo brought into existence to save the father and daughter.

The Accidental Husband Subtitles
 Release: Mar. 7, 2008   Rated: Rating Pending   Details  Emma Lloyd Uma Thurman is a successful radio talk show host who dispenses relationship advice. She advises a distraught caller named Sofia Justina Machado to dump her fiancé, Patrick Jeffrey Dean Morgan on the eve of their marriage, which Sofia promptly does. To get revenge, Patrick has records altered so it looks like he has gotten married to Emma, which throws a wrench in her plans to wed the man Colin Firth shes already engaged to.

Underdog Subtitles
 Released: 12/18/2007   Rated: PG   Avg. Score: 1.56/5     | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  A normal, everyday beagle is given superpowers — not to mention the ability the speak voice of Jason Lee — during an accident in the laboratory of mad scientist Dr. Simon Barsinister Peter Dinklage. Donning a cape and tights, Underdog protects the citizens of Capitol City, particularly a pretty little spaniel named Polly Purebread voice of Amy Adams, from Barsinisters evil machinations. This update of the classic cartoon series features a real dog in the lead role.

Vitus Subtitles
 Released: 11/27/2007   Rated: PG   Avg. Score: 4/5     | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  Vitus Teo Gheorghiu is a child prodigy and an amazing classical piano player. However, hes tired of his amazing abilities already at a shockingly young age and will do anything to become a normal kid.

Sex and Breakfast Subtitles
 Release: Nov. 30, 2007   Rated: R for sexual content and language   Details | Trailers | Photos  Young and already bored in their respective relationships, James Macaulay Culkin and Heather Alexis Dziena along with Ellis Kuno Becker and Renee Eliza Dushku all decide to experiment with group lovemaking to spice things up. However, the spice they actually end up adding is jealousy, which does add some excitment to their lives, but not the kind they were expecting.

Nanking Subtitles
 Release: Dec. 12, 2007   Rated: Rating Pending   Details | Photos  This documentary takes a look at Japans invasion of Nanking, China in the first days of WWII, during which a group of unarmed Westerners created a safety zone where over 200,000 Chinese were saved from the brutal assault. This tragic tale comes alive again through the stories of the survivors, archival footage and the letters written by the Westerners as read by Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway, Jurgen Prochnow, Stephen Dorff and more.