AP - The star-studded romance "Valentine's Day" wooed audiences with a $52.4 million opening weekend, easily grabbing the No. 1 spot over the holiday that shares its name, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Reuters - In its ninth round on the foreign circuit, "Avatar" defiantly stared down the overseas openings of three films from major studios, emerging as No. 1 for the weekend with $59 million.
Reuters - Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" is a remarkable high-wire act, performed without a net and exploiting all the accumulated skills of a consummate artist. It dazzles and provokes. But when did Scorsese become a circus performer? -- read full article
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:44:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
Reuters - Advertised as the first Russian film about drag queens, writer/director Felix Mikhailov's "Jolly Fellows" vaunts the brash, in-your-face liveliness of a debut film on a naughty topic. -- read full article
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:44:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
Reuters - Roman Polanski is a filmmaker who could envelop an old lady's stroll along a boulevard with a sense of anxiety and dread, so it's a little odd that he hasn't made more thrillers in his career. "The Ghost Writer," an out-and-out thriller with international politics and war crimes as its background, gives him a springboard to take a deep dive into all the moody atmosphere, breathtaking betrayals, words loaded in double meanings and heart-stopping threats that make the genre so cinematic. -- read full article
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:45:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
Reuters - The star-studded comedy "Valentine's Day" shot to the top of North American box office charts during the long U.S. President's day weekend, which is poised to land in the record books for ticket sales. -- read full article
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:16:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
Reuters - Roman Polanski can enjoy a break from sensational headlines about his arrest and misdemeanors and bask in the glow of mostly positive reviews for his latest movie "The Ghost Writer." -- read full article
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:13:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News
AFP - Hollywood actor Ben Stiller abandons his familiar funny man persona to play a lost soul in Los Angeles in the new drama "Greenberg" which joined the competition Sunday at the Berlin Film Festival.
AP - Celine Dion's new movie, "Celine: Through the Eyes of the World," does more than highlight her performances during her last world tour; it also allows fans rare glimpses of her offstage life.
Reuters - A Chinese remake of the American thriller "Blood Simple" probably could not have been made two decades ago because of restrictions on filmmakers at the time, director Zhang Yimou said on Sunday.
Reuters - Ben Stiller ditches the slapstick comedy and gets more serious in "Greenberg," a low budget drama about a man in mid-life crisis struggling to deal with painful truths about himself and his failures. -- read full article
Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:17:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Movie News