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'New Moon' Breaks Midnight Record
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon shattered the midnight opening record, raking in an estimated $26.27 million at 3,514 sites showing the movie starting at 12:01 a.m. Friday. The previous benchmark was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which conjured $22.2 million at 3,003 sites for its midnight opening. That accounted for 38 percent of the picture's $58.2 million full opening day.
The full opening day record is held by The Dark Knight, which earned $67.2 million on its first day. Its midnight-only opening was $18.5 million at 3,040 sites.
The first Twilight drew around $7 million for its midnight opening and, by the close of its opening day, it had made $36 million on around 6,000 screens at 3,419 sites. The picture experienced a tremendous fan rush on that Friday, but Saturday and Sunday did not keep pace, leading to an opening weekend of $69.6 million.
New Moon shows on approximately 8,600 screens at 4,024 sites this weekend.
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- Brandon Gray
Winfrey's Emotional Farewell
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Media queen Oprah Winfrey held back tears in a televised emotional farewell on Friday - as she confirmed she's quitting her U.S. talk show.
Holding back tears, Winfrey told her studio audience she will end The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011, when its 25th season draws to a close.
The talk show queen said "prayer and careful thought" led her to her decision.
She continued, explaining, "I love this show ... this show has been my life and i love it enough to know when it's time to say goodbye. Twenty five years feels right in my bones and my spirit. It's the perfect number, the exact right time."
New reports suggest Winfrey, 55, will to start up a new talk show on Own: The Oprah Winfrey Network, which is projected to debut in 2011. However, she has yet to confirm those rumours. »
Heidi Klum Officially Takes Seal's Last Name
7 hours ago | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
The bond between Heidi Klum and husband Seal just got a little closer. On Friday, a Los Angeles commissioner approved Klum's legal name change to Heidi Samuel, her husband's surname. In her filing, Klum, 36, gave a one-word reason for the change: Marriage. The couple tied the knot more than four years ago, and Klum gave birth to their fourth child last month. This week, the model made a surprise appearance when she walked the runway in the Victoria's Secret fashion show in New York just six weeks after giving birth. A rep for Klum did not comment when asked if »
- Ken Lee
Snipes Appeals Overly Taxing Prison Sentence
10 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »
Not paying your taxes for five years? Understandable. Going to prison for three years as a result? Totally unreasonable. At least according to Wesley Snipes' crack (but not that crack) defense team. Attorneys for the Uncle Sam-dodging Blade star have filed an appeal against the actor's would-be imprisonment, calling the sentence "unreasonable" and claiming that his tax-evasion trial—which came to a close last February after Snipes was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a return—should have taken place in New York and not Florida. Nevermind that the 47-year-old actor's housing records showed that he lived in both states or that his legal team had ample time prior... »
Movie Reviews: “The Blind Side”
7 hours ago | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Lou Lumenick in the New York Post describes The Blind Side as "part football movie and part Precious with a happy ending." It's the true story of a wealthy Southern couple, played by Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw, who take in Michael Oher, a homeless black teenager played by Quinton Aaron, and encourage him to play football. He ends up being signed by the Baltimore Ravens. It's the kind of movie you'd expect it to be, A.O. Scott suggests in the New York Times -- "shedding nuance and complication in favor of maximum uplift." Indeed, says Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News, the movie turns "Oher's remarkable life into a Hollywood fable that trades difficult truths for easy clichés." And Linda Barnard in the Toronto Star concludes that the movie winds up being "as Southern as pecan pie and twice as gooey." On the other hand, several critics bestow high praise on the performance of Sandra Bullock. "Bullock gives her best performance in years," writes Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel. And Claudia Puig in USA Today says, "This is Bullock's movie, and it is perhaps her best role." »
10 Animated Shorts Advance For Oscars
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category. The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company: “The Cat Piano,” Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’s Republic of Animation) “French Roast,” Fabrice O. Joubert, director (Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films) “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty,” Nicky Phelan, director, and Darragh O’Connell, producer (Brown Bag Films) “The Kinematograph,” Tomek Baginski, director-producer (Platige Image) “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la [...] »
- Nikki Finke
'Project Runway' Ends Season on High Note
9 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Lisa Horowitz
Thursday night's season-six finale of "Project Runway" was the highest-rated episode of the season among key demos, Lifetime Television said.
In its first season on Lifetime after five on Bravo, "Runway" is cable's highest-rated reality show among women and households this year, as well as most watched, the network said.
For Thursday's finale, in which 27-year-old New York native Irina Shabayeva was crowned the winner, the show earned a 3.2 rating among women... »
- Lisa Horowitz
Bill Moyers Announces Retirement From Weekly TV
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By New York Times
Bill Moyers said he is retiring from weekly television and will end his PBS public affairs show “Bill Moyers Journal” on April 30. That date will also be the last for “Now on PBS,” which has been canceled.
Moyers, who is 75, said he is not quitting television, although he has no new projects planned.
Read more in the New York Times. »
- Lisa Horowitz
CSI: NY Murder Mystery: Is Kim Kardashian the Killer?
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Those Kardashians sure know how to drum up some mighty big ratings, so why wouldn't a prime-time series want in on the action? E!'s reigning reality queen Kim Kardashian is working her acting chops in an upcoming episode of CSI: NY, and we were there to see all the action—including some additional guests like former MTV VJ (and Kim K. pal) Vanessa Minnillo and lead singer of Train Pat Monahan. "Someone is murdered today, and somehow I'm involved," Kim tells us. "It's cool to get in this mindset and really be this heavily involved in such a crazy crime." Hmmm, should we have prefaced that with a spoiler alert? Something tells us the CBS spinoff wouldn't have dished... »
'Project Runway Talk': Althea talks Sweatergate, embarrassment over losing her temper with Logan and more!
2 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Holy smokes is Althea tall. She's 5'11″ to be exact, but when she came to the EW offices this morning, she looked more like 7'11″ thanks to the fierce-ass stilettos she was sporting. Of course, I'm barely 5'6″ in my highest heels, so even Tom Cruise looks like a skyscraper to me. Anyway, what was I saying? (Sorry, brain still fried from staying up late writing my TV Watch and getting up early. Tough life, Schwartz.) Ah yes, Althea. She was a great sport during her Project Runway Talk segment. We covered Sweatergate, Smokey Eye-gate and Zippergate. (She's pretty embarrassed about the last one. »
- Missy Schwartz
Beating the Crap Out Of Robert Pattinson Edward
5 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »
The thought of Robert Pattinson getting hurt is just too much too bear, isn't it? But that's exactly what could have happened if anything had gone wrong during his and Daniel Cudmore's big, violent fight scene in New Moon. Cudmore, the Tom Brady-esque hunkster who plays Volturi vampire Felix, said some of the stunts got a little too close for comfort when he and Pattinson went at it. "Because of my contacts, my peripheral vision was off, so there were a couple of times where I thought I was going to really hit him," Cudmore recalled at the New Moon premiere in L.A. "Luckily, I didn't." Maybe that's why Pattinson seemed a bit nervous when they first began working... »
'Young and the Restless' star Peter Bergman on Eric Braeden: 'We all thought he was going to be gone'
5 hours ago | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »
On Nov. 27, Peter Bergman will celebrate his 20th year playing Jack Abbott on CBS's top-rated The Young and The Restless. The veteran soap star (he previously played Dr. Cliff Warner on ABC's All My Children) talked exclusively to EW.com about what it was like to originally assume the role, how he felt about his character talking to a ghost, and whether he and the cast believed that Eric Braeden would ever really quit the show. EW: What was it replacing Terry Lester, who had previously played Jack Abbott, 20 years ago? Peter Bergman: He had burned every bridge he could burn before he left. »
- Lynette Rice
'Project Runway Talk' with Carol Hannah: 'I don't think I've been that depressed in a really long time'
5 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
She didn't trash talk. She accused no one of cheating. She never indulged in gratuitous self-aggrandizing. In fact, unless you consider crushing out on the hot guy or barfing on camera as high-stakes drama (okay, well the last thing kinda is), it's fair to say that Carol Hannah sailed through her season remarkably crisis-free. The self-taught designer from Charleston, S.C. made it all the way to Bryant Park with her head down and her mind focused on one thing: her work. Well, and maybe a little bit on Logan, too. As Dalton and I learned this morning, season six's »
- Missy Schwartz
Dobbs in 2012?
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By Reuters
A week after abruptly quitting his longtime job as a CNN television news host and commentator, Lou Dobbs said on Thursday he is considering career options including possible runs for the White House or U.S. Senate.
"Right now I feel exhilaration at the wide range of choices before me as to what I do next," Dobbs, whose outspoken views on immigration and other topics often angered liberals, told Reuters in a telephone interview from New York on Thursday.
Read more at Reuters. »
- Brent Lang
Elba Joins 'Thor'
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Idris Elba has joined the cast of "Thor," Marvel Studios' film centering on the Norse god of thunder.
Chris Hemsworth will star as Thor; Tom Hiddleston will play Loki, and Natalie Portman is the love interest Jane Foster.
Elba will play Heimdall; as the guardian of Asgard, he stands on the BiFrost Bridge ready to defend the city from intruders.
Read more at the Hollywood Reporter. »
- Brent Lang
Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray & More Continue Singing Oprah's Praises
5 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »
Before everyone and his mother had a daytime talk show, there was Oprah Winfrey. And the news that in less than two years there won't be an Oprah Winfrey Show as we know it has prompted an outpouring of well wishes and appreciations from those whose stars have shined a little brighter thanks to Oprah's warm glow. "I am going to enjoy every episode between now and 2011," offered Food Network star turned syndicated talk-show host Rachael Ray, who waited until Oprah had discussed the matter "one-on-one" with her audience today to comment. "Oprah opened the door for me to move into daytime television and I can't thank her enough. I look forward to seeing what she does... »
10 Things I Learned This Week
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1. Sam's Boots Were Made for Walking
With just a month to go until “Avatar” makes him one of the biggest -- and bluest -- stars in the movie world, Sam Worthington's having himself a fun victory tour of his native Australia. This week he was named “Man of the Year” by the Down Under version of GQ magazine and lauded at the Inside Film Awards. Showing he's keeping it real, Sam wore his “lucky” old workboots -- the ones he kept o... »
- Lew Harris
SAG Probing Motion Capture Work
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By Variety
With motion capture becoming increasingly popular production technique, the Screen Actors Guild is investigating how actors perform the work -- a signal the issue may emerge as a factor in next year's contract negotiations.
The guild this week invited members and non-members who do the work to a Dec. 3 session at the guild's Hollywood headquarters to discuss the impact of performance capture.
Read more in Variety. »
- Lisa Horowitz
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