AP - The Nicolas Cage action-thriller "Bangkok Dangerous" needed just $7.8 million to take the top spot at the box office in what was the slowest movie weekend in seven years, according to studio estimates released Sunday.
Reuters - The ABBA-inspired
musical romance "Mamma Mia!" grabbed the No. 1 spot at the
weekend foreign box office for the first time, grossing an
estimated $15 million from 39 markets.
Reuters - Susan Sarandon and Richard
Dreyfuss have signed on to join Edward Norton in "Leaves of
Grass," a comedic thriller from actor-turned-filmmaker Tim
Blake Nelson.
Reuters - Eleven days of red carpet galas, 21
films in competition and countless interviews, photo calls and
parties at the Venice film festival boiled down to just one man
in the end -- Mickey Rourke.
AP - SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tommy Lee Jones is suing the makers of "No Country for Old Men" for more than $10 million that the Oscar-winning actor claims he is owed for starring in the 2007 hit crime thriller. -- read full article
AP - TORONTO (AP) — The Coen brothers' new movie gave John Malkovich a chance to blow off some steam. Malkovich's seething character in "Burn After Reading" bursts out in perpetual tantrums, a nice exercise in anger management, according to the actor.
Reuters - Less than a year after starring in
the biggest movie of his volatile career, Nicolas Cage led the
North American box office to its worst weekend in five years on
Sunday with one of his weakest. -- read full article
Reuters - Everything is relative
in the realm of hyperviolent movies, and compared to this
summer's other assassination thriller, "Wanted," "Bangkok
Dangerous" is a model of restraint and moral rectitude.
Reuters - Spike Lee is working on a
sequel to his 2006 crime thriller "Inside Man," which earned
more than $175 million at the worldwide box office. -- read full article
