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Here’s this week’s box office report. I did see a couple of these movies this weekend, Sky High and The Island. Both were good popcorn flicks but The Island had a lot more action than I anticipated, which is a good thing. Of the rest of the movies on the list, I’ve […]

Michael Moore says his next documentary already has HMOs quaking in their boots. Moore has not yet begun shooting the film, “Sicko,” but his planned critique of the nation’s health care system, he says, is making “freaked-out” HMOs warn employees what to do if approached by the filmmaker.
“At this point we haven’t shot anything yet […]

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, Sunset Boulevard, is slated to be made into a movie. So far, Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman are attached to the project; plus Glenn Close is scheduled to reprise her role as “Norma Desmond.” The movie is expected to be released in December 2006. I, for one, am […]

Ooh, I’m so jealous:wink::
If only Bo Bice had cut down on the ribs. Carrie Underwood, who beat out Bice to win the “American Idol” crown in May, was voted the “World’s Sexiest Vegetarian” in PETA’s annual online poll. She shares the honor with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.
More than 13,000 votes were cast in the contest […]

It is not “Fahrenheit 9/11″ or “The Passion of the Christ,” but low-budget film “The Aristocrats” is fast becoming this summer’s controversial movie because of only one thing — a joke… In “The Aristocrats,” which debuts in U.S. theaters on Friday, comedians Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette, who is part of the team Penn […]

There seem to be so many award shows these days. Does anyone even care anymore?
U.S. punk-pop band Green Day captured eight nominations for “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “American Idiot” on Monday to lead nominees for the MTV Video Music Awards.
Rocker Gwen Stefani and rap artist Missy Elliott each won six nominations and the […]

It seems that the moviemakers’ theme song should be “cry me a river.”
The only thing scary these days about horror movies is the state of their box office grosses.
Since May 6, when “House of Wax” was released, five horror films have been unveiled — and they have consistently under-performed. Warner Bros. Pictures’ much-hyped “Wax” remake […]

Rank Movie Title Estimated Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross
1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $28,300,000 $114,106,000
2. Wedding Crashers $26,200,000 $80,901,000
3. Fantastic Four $12,275,000 $122,560,000
4. The Island $12,100,000 $12,100,000
5. Bad News Bears $11,500,000 $11,500,000
6. War of the Worlds $8,825,000 $208,321,000
7. Hustle & Flow $8,100,000 $8,100,000
8. The […]

Wow, hard to believe it but Bruce Springsteen is still cool. He was around when I was kid and now I’m old. Everyone always talks about the youth movement but the old-timers are still definitely in the game:
Bruce Springsteen’s recent turn on the VH1 series “Storytellers” will emerge on DVD Sept. 6 via […]

Woot!!
Fans of a certain animated tribe of small, blue woodland creatures haven’t gotten a lot of love lately: No new TV episodes, no old TV episodes on DVD (outside of a couple of import releases), no real news on a long-rumored movie.
Now, finally, things are looking rather smurfin’.
A 3-D, CGI-animated Smurfs feature film will […]