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‘Breaking Dawn 2' Drives Stake into B.O.
The vampires and werewolves of Breaking Dawn Part 2 had a field day at the box office this past weekend. The final outing of the record-breaking Twilight series brought in a estimated $141.3 million, exceeding the $138.1 million of last year’s Part 1, but falling slightly behind the series’ record [...]
Phil Tippett Prepares a New Stop-Motion Movie
Visual effects visionary Phil Tippett (Star Wars, Robocop, Twilight series) is working on a new passion project called Mad God. In an interview with the San Francisco Gate, he said he used Kickstarter to raise funds for the movie. He was surprised when fans of his traditional animatronics and puppet [...]
China’s Xing Xing Digital Buys Canada’s Rainmaker Ent.
Only a couple of days after the departure of president Catherine Winder from Vancouver’s Rainmaker Entertainment, the company was sold to China’s Xing Xing Digital Corp. The assets are being acquired in consideration for the assumption of existing Rainmaker book liabilities in an approximate amount of $7 million and the [...]
‘Puss in Boots’ Has Many Lives Overseas
While Twilight Breaking Dawn, The Muppet Movie, Hugo and Arthur Christmas and Happy Feet Two were entertaining movie audiences in the U.S., Paramount/DreamWorks’ feisty feline Puss In Boots performed quite well overseas, landing in the No. 2 spot (after Twilight) with $23 million from a total of 2,740 venues in [...]
Happy Feet Sequel Not as Popular As First Pic
The second time is too much of a charm for the dancing penguins of Happy Feet Two, which opened to a $22 million box-office total domestically. The first outing of George Miller’s Oscar-winning feature made $41.5 million over the same weekend in 2006. The CG-animated birds had tough competition from [...]
Twilight’s Stewart Offered ‘Akira’ Role
Warner Bros. has offered the role of Ky Reed—an anglicized take on the young revolutionary love interest Kei from the animated film—in its live-action remake of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira to Kristen Stewart. Stewart is best known for the role of Bella Swan in the popular Twilight series, and is set [...]
Halloween-Themed ‘Phineas and Ferb’ Scares Up Stars
Michael J. Fox, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Michael Douglas are part of the all-star guest voice list for this Friday’s (Oct. 7) special Halloween-themed episode of Phineas and Ferb. Airing at 7 p.m. on Disney Channel, “That’s the Spirit!” finds the boys enlisted to help a strange boy named [...]
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