"box-office" Articles & Blogs:
Julia Roberts's 'Duplicity' Comes in Third at the Box Office — Why?
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The actress gets great reviews for ‘Duplicity,’ her first big role in years. But does she still have star power?Julia Roberts | Today 11:40 am
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Usually when a big Julia Roberts movie opens, you expect it to rule the box office. And &q...[Read on] |
Precious kills at the box office
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This weekend catapulted Precious to the top of the Oscar list with a record setting debut in theatres. Let me say that again- RECORD SETTING DEBUT. It made $1.8 million dollars on a total of 18 screens. That is an average of $100,000 per screen whic...[Read on] |
Sandra Bullock makes Box Office history
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Sandra Bullock started out 2009 pretty much off the Hollywood radar screen. She hadn’t made a movie for two years, and since most people never thought a woman over 40 could score box office successes, her upcoming films weren’t taken very seriously....[Read on] |
September's Recycling Project: Printer Cartridges
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It's now September. How are your green goals for the year going? Yeah, me too.
So here's an idea. There are just four months left until the end of the year. I'm going to make a commitment to do one major recycling project every month:
September: G...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office This Weekend
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There are a several movies opening this weekend in limited release and both American Violet and Lemon Tree open wider.
American Violet opens in Boston; Philadelphia; San Francisco; Houston; Austin and Seattle. Here’s my interview with Regina Kelly wh...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office This Weekend
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Julia- Opens in NY & LA
Tilda Swinton is one of those actresses of tremendous talent. I always find her fascinating to watch and am amazed at how completely different she is in all her roles. But sometimes her talent outweighs the film she is in, and...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office This Weekend- May 29
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Opening This Week
Pressure Cooker- directed by Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker (at the IFC in NY)
Here’s the description from the press materials: Three seniors at Philadelphia’s Frankford High School find an unlikely champion in the kitchen of Wil...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office – A look back and a look ahead
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While most Americans (and the world) are struggling financially, Hollywood had a great year. Box office revenue topped $10.6 billion, up 10 percent from 2008 (according to Hollywood.com) and many of the year end stories have talked about women both at...[Read on] |
Women’s films kicking butt at the box office
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So Precious rolled out further this past weekend and continued to astound at the box office. The movie made it to number three for the week grossing over 5.8 million in just 174 theatres.
A little perspective: The Men Who Stared At Goats starring Georg...[Read on] |
Women Matter at the Box Office
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The LA Times takes a look at the summer season so far. Things started off very hot (Star Trek) but have cooled off considerably. Here’s what they’ve learned:
Women make a difference
Female ticket buyers made up nearly half of the audience for th...[Read on] |
Dissecting Amelia
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Amelia grossed about $ 4 million at about 818 theatres this weekend at the box office. Not that good. But the fact that it grossed almost $5,000 per screen even with the bad reviews shows that there is a desperate need for films that appeal to older w...[Read on] |
Champion of diversity and academic reform: NCAA President Myles Brand dies at 67
| Myles Brand, the first university president to head the NCAA and a champion of academic reform died Wednesday after battling pancreatic cancer this past year. Brand, a former Indiana University President, championed academic reform, fiscal responsibility ...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office- April 3
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No wide women-centric releases this week, but Sunshine Cleaning continues to roll out across the country. (Disclaimer: I worked on outreach to women for the film)Â New locations include: Omaha; Grand Rapids; Lansing; Flint; Kalamazoo; Richmond; Norfolk; ...[Read on] |
Update: President Obama Will Renominate Dawn Johnsen
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by Rachel Peck, Fellow, National Women's Law CenterÂ
As we just wrote yesterday, because of unwarranted delaying tactics in the Senate, Dawn Johnsen’s nomination to head the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel did not receive a vote bef...[Read on] |
Can Feminism and Box Office Mix?
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So Jennifer’s Body tanked at the box office. From what I can tell the word of mouth among women is way better than the word of mouth among men. Vic Holtreman at Screen Rant took a unscientific look at the breakdown of the what reviewer thought and f...[Read on] |
Will New Moon be the biggest film of the year?
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I spend a lot (too much) time in the twittersphere and the blogopshere and from the people I follow and read (lots of movie, TV and pop culture people and feminists) you’d never think that New Moon is opening next week. Granted all the movie folks hav...[Read on] |
Studio films are directed by white men
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In a no shit sherlock moment, The NY Times took a look at who has been in the director’s seat for the major studio releases this year.
Of the 85 or so live action films to be released by the big studios in 2009 — Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Ent...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office This Weekend- May 22
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Opening This Week
It’s a good thing the weather will be nice in the east cause there are slim pickings at the movies this weekend. I have no interest in the new Terminator and if I see Night at the Museum 2, and that’s a big if, it will be to see Am...[Read on] |
Anticipation Grows for Julie & Julia
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This summer as usual is full of big action packed blockbusters AND for the second year in a row (and the last 3 out of 4 years) a Meryl Streep flick. I still wish we would get over the whole counterprogramming and fluke discussion. The thing I love mo...[Read on] |
Memo to Hollywood: Women go to movies
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We talk about this issue on this site all the time, but I love it when a woman in Hollywood gets down and dirty about how Hollywood treats women.
I love it even more when that woman is Nia Vardalos the keeper of one of the highest grossing romantic comed...[Read on] |
Proportion of Women Assaulted Higher than Proportion of Women Serving in Elected Office
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By WCF Fellow: Trish Calvarese
After being held captive and repeatedly raped for 18 years, a young girl bore two children from the man who kidnapped her. After being strangled to death and...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politics fo...[Read on] |
Women! Money! Power!
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This post submitted by WCF Fellow, Stephanie Glover.
Many of us in the WCF office spent Sunday and Monday at the Feminist Majority’s amazing summit on Women, Money, and Power. The two days...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politic...[Read on] |
TV Pilot Pickups and Renewals - May 19
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Fox
Is moving Fringe to Thursdays at 9 opposite Grey’s Anatomy, The Office and CSI making that hour a serious problem for us TV addicts.
Dollhouse will be back on Friday nights.
CBS
The Good Wife will star Julianna Margulies as a politician’s wife...[Read on] |
FLASH! Meryl Streep's Newfound Hollywood Bankability
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‘It’s completely improbable, and no one in Hollywood can understand it!’ according to a new interviewFLASH! FROM LIZ SMITH | Today 2:15 pm
FLASH! Here’s some good news. Meryl Streep, the woman insiders thought would be totally “ruinedâ...[Read on] |
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