Weekend Box-Office: January 29-31, 2010
WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE
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Bigelow wins Directors top award for “Hurt Locker”
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the best director award from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday with her Iraq war thriller “The Hurt Locker,” a low-budget film gathering awards steam ahead of the Oscars.
SUNDANCEdaily | Controversial Doc “Catfish” Divides Sundance
This week’s biggest noise came not from a film in competition. The festival’s Spotlight section premiered the new documentary “Catfish.” Over the week since its premiere, though, many critics and audience members doubted the film’…
Roadside Warms to “Winter’s Bone”
Roadside Attractions has picked up all North American rights Sundance 2010 U.S. Dramatic Competition feature “Winter’s Bone” by Debra Granik. Roadside will open the film theatrically this summer, with Lionsgate handling all ancillaries later in t…
Protests during Veer screening in Jaipur
Protestors disrupted the screening of Salman Khan-starrer Veer in two theatres here Saturday, alleging that the film had twisted facts and hurt the sentiments of the Rajput community, police said.
Friday Box Office – Mel Gibson and EDGE OF DARKNESS Pale Beside AVATAR
Another week, another record-shattering haul for James Cameron’s Avatar. After becoming the highest-grossing film of all-time at the worldwide box office last Monday, Avatar continued its occupation of the top spot on Friday with an estimated …
Wyclef Jean Wants His Footage Of Haiti Hell To Become A Film
Wyclef Jean wants to turn Flip camera footage of the horror in his native Haiti into a hard-hitting movie, so the world will understand the earthquake relief effort there will be a long one.[...] Read more!
Brandon’s Sundance Review: Joost & Schulman’s Catfish
Immediately after the end credits completed, I tweeted: “Catfish is mind-blowing. Seriously one of the most odd, funny, weird, terrifying, sad, unique films I’ve ever seen. Honestly speechless.” I still kind of am. Good thing all of this is in writi…
Get Ready for Shyam Benegal’s ‘Well Done Abba’
Shyam Benegal film stars Boman Irani, Minissha Lamba in pivotal roles along with Sammir Dattani, Ila Arun, Sonali Kulkarni, Ravi Kishen, Rajit Kapur, Ravi Jhankal and Yashpal Sharma.
Brandon’s Sundance Review: Bryan Poyser’s Lovers of Hate
Awkwardness makes me laugh. And if the awkwardness is so awkward that it kind of hurts, that it’s shocking how awkward the situation has become, it makes me laugh even harder. Lovers of Hate, at times, is that awkward. And it’s also hilarious. The f…