Weak reviews, cranky fans, a pirated version: none of it mattered. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” kicked off the spring-summer blockbuster season with $87 million in ticket sales, continuing the year’s box office boom and keeping a core franchise alive for 20th Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment.
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The creators of “Watchmen” call it a new, psychologically complex version of the superhero movie, but they are banking on it to conquer the box office the way conventional comic book movies have done. To do that, “Watchmen”, which opens around the world this week, must attract those who have never heard of characters...
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For the actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, filming Zack Snyder’s latest — the eagerly awaited adaptation of the Watchmen graphic novel — was memorable. And scary. Wrapped in $100,000 worth of neoprene, plastic and leather, with a flamethrower strapped to his beefed-up body, Morgan filmed a scene in which he doused a stuntman with flames....
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Slumdog Millionaire’s wins should send a huge message to Hollywood: Don’t overlook the little guy. With small distributors going out of business and major studios shuttering their specialty divisions, Slumdog is a success story that almost inevitably will become — indeed already has become — increasingly rare. Even Slumdog almost didn’t make it to...
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Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his movie career. His work includes nineteen films, most notably 10 Things I Hate About You...
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Anabel Solis
Kill Theory – 2009