Manhattan Weekend Box Office, Christmas Edition: Nichols Captures City’s...
This weekend, across the country, discerning film-going audiences were able to choose between two types of history: the real kind and the fake. Guess which one won?! National Treasure: Book of Secrets...
View ArticleTim Burton Picks Alice for His Wonderland
Australian teenager Mia Wasikowska will follow the white rabbit into director Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Even wife/muse Helena Bonham Carter probably had to admit she was a little...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie’s Makeup Artist Found Dead
Paul Starr, a makeup artist to celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Garner, was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment yesterday, according to Metro UK. While the cause of Mr. Starr’s death...
View ArticleAnne In Wonderland
Okay, we don’t want to get our hopes up….but this Tim Burton-directed Alice in Wonderland which will combine live action with performance-capture "technology" (meep!) is beginning to sound kinda...
View ArticleWill Tim Burton Take on Pirates 4?
Now that those ridiculous internet rumors about Batman 3 have been completely debunked (says Batman screenwriter David Goyer: "It’s all B.S."), what are enterprising fanboys going to spend their days...
View ArticleNew Trailer for 9 Points to Alarming Trend
The year is only five days old and we’ve already found the statement that will be our bête noir for 2009: from the visionary director of. To be fair, this unhappy turn of events started last year with...
View ArticleDie, Vampires, Die: It’s Time To Bury The Bloodsucker Trend
Vampires don’t really live forever—it just feels like they do. Lately, you can’t turn on the TV, go to a bookstore, see a movie, or go to a high school without being besieged by vampires and their...
View ArticleThe Week in DVR: It’s a Wonderful Life, Taken, and Planet of the Apes
Monday: Garden State You won’t find Garden State on many Best of the Decade lists, and with good reason: Zach Braff’s film nearly suffocates you with hipster twee. But, still, has anything been more...
View ArticleMalice in Wonderland
Alice in WonderlandRunning time 108 minutesWritten by Linda Woolverton (based on the books by Lewis Carroll)Directed by Tim BurtonStarring Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne...
View ArticleOpening This Weekend: Johnny Depp Goes Through the Looking Glass in Alice in...
With the Academy Awards set for Sunday night, you might assume that Hollywood would keep the schedule light this weekend to avoid any possible conflicts of interest. But no! Two films hit theaters...
View ArticleBox Office Breakdown: Alice Times Two
Just how big was the second weekend of Alice in Wonderland? The four new releases—Green Zone, She’s Out of My League, Remember Me and Our Family Wedding—could only account for 65 percent of Alice‘s...
View ArticleBox Office Breakdown: Dragon Slays All Comers
Sobering statistic of the day: There have been 13 weekends in 2010, and in only four was a non-3D film the top choice for ticket buyers. Dreamworks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon was the...
View ArticleTonight in DVR: BBC America Goes to Gotham
'Batman Returns' Look, we don’t claim to understand how TV networks get the rights to movies–the Weather Channel’s movie series stymied us once and for all–but we will just note that BBC America, your...
View ArticleDark Shadows Is Better Off Dead
Dark Shadows is outdated, unwelcome and unbearable. Based on a cornball daytime soap opera from the 1960s about an 18th-century vampire living in a 20th-century town on the coast of Maine, it’s so...
View ArticleMoMA Enacting Timed Ticket Policy to Deal With Massive Crowds for Matisse
Henri Matisse’s Horse, Rider and Clown (Courtesy, the Tate). When “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs” opened at the Tate Modern in April, Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota called it a “once-in-a-lifetime”...
View ArticleArt As Identity Theft: Tim Burton’s Big Eyes Premieres at Art Basel Miami Beach
In director Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, a tiny artist’s studio is filled floor to ceiling with creepy, memorable paintings of tiny waifs with huge dark eyes. The imperious Walter (Christoph Waltz) locks his...
View ArticleArt World Abstracts: Harvey Weinstein Sours on Banksy, Plugs ‘Big Eyes’ and...
Mega film producer Harvey Weinstein was once a Banksy collector but has soured on the anonymous artist.
View ArticleThe Devil and Danny Elfman
Hell looked like a bus station in the former Soviet Union. And Tim Burton was enormously surprised to find himself there.
View ArticleBatman v Superman: Ranking 50 Years of Superhero Movies About These Two Dudes
Wonder Woman comes in a close third with a suggestive thigh shot.
View ArticleAfternoon Bulletin: Biggest Gang Bust in NYC History, New Blizzard Record and...
Nearly 700 New York City Police Officers and federal agents took down two rival gangs yesterday.
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