‘Fast’ races past ‘Hangover’ at weekend box office
(Dialogue Magazine) — It’s a blowout at the box office.
“Fast & Furious 6″ is revving past “The Hangover Part III” in the No. 1 position at the Memorial Day weekend box office.
(Dialogue Magazine) — It’s a blowout at the box office.
“Fast & Furious 6″ is revving past “The Hangover Part III” in the No. 1 position at the Memorial Day weekend box office.
(Dialogue Magazine) –”Peeples” uses Jay Roach’s Ben Stiller comedy as a jumping-off point. Wade (Craig Robinson) wants to marry Grace Peeples (Kerry Washington), but first he has to win over her impossible-to-impress daddy Virgil (David Alan Grier).
(Dialogue Magazine) – Iron Man reigns as the standard-bearer of Hollywood superheroes with a $175.3 million domestic opening weekend for his latest sequel and an overseas haul of a half-billion dollars in less than two weeks.
(Dialogue Magazine) — The Laos adventure “The Rocket” and the Afghanistan War documentary “The Kill Team” have taken top honors at the Tribeca Film Festival.
(Dialogue Magazine) — Movie fans slipped into “Oblivion” as the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller led Hollywood with a $38.2 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
(Dialogue Magazine) — If you were offended by the supposedly profligate use of the n-word in “Django Unchained,” it stands to reason you’ll be outraged by a scene in “42” in which Philadelphia Phillies manager Ben Chapman climbs out of the dugout and spews cruel racist epithets at Brooklyn Dodgers rookie Jackie Robinson.
(Dialogue Magazine) — Roger Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation’s most influential thumb, died Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He was 70.
(Dialogue Magazine) — The real-life murder, torture and kidnapping case from South Florida that’s behind the coming movie “Pain & Gain” indeed reads like a script — just not a funny one.
(Dialogue Magazine) — After a nine-month delay, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” deployed to the top spot at the box office.
The action film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum as the gun-toting military toys brought to life marched into the No. 1 position at the weekend box office, earning $41.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Retaliation” opened Wednesday at midnight, which helped bring its domestic total to $51.7 million.
(Dialogue Magazine) — What if the Supremes had been born Down Under? A very conventional story of a ’60s Australian girl group gains extra power from its context and setting in this fact-based story set to the beat of Motown soul.
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