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Weekend
gross
gross
Total gross
to date
to date
Weeks on release
1 (2)
Safe House
$24.0m
$78.2m
2
2 (1)
The Vow
$23.6m
$85.5m
2
3 NEW
Ghost Rider/ Vengeance
$22.0m
$22.0m
1
4 (3)
Journey 2/Mysterious Island
$20.1m
$53.2m
2
5 NEW
This Means War
$19.2m
$19.2m
1
6 (4)
Star Wars: Episode 1 3D
$7.87m
$33.7m
2
7 (5)
Chronicle
$7.5m
$51.0m
3
8 (6)
The Woman in Black
$6.64m
$45.3m
3
9 NEW
Arrietty
$6.38m
$6.38m
1
10 (7)
The Grey
$3.03m
$47.9m
4
Woman in Black in the top spot
The UK and US Box Office Weekend Feb 17-19
Weekend
gross
gross
Total gross
to date
to date
Weeks on release
1 (1)
The Woman in Black
£3.501m
£10.488m
2
2 (2)
The Muppets
£3.412m
£10.672m
2
3 NEW
Ghost Rider / Vengeance
£1.340m
£1.340m
1
4 (3)
Star Wars Episode1 3D
£1.077m
£5.205m
2
5 (6)
Journey 2 / Mysterious Island
£1.062m
£5.206m
3
6 (4)
The Vow
£953,165
£3.641m
2
7 (5)
Chronicle
£727,871
£5.949m
3
8 (7)
The Descendants
£564,536
£6.978m
4
9 (11)
The Artist
£527,358
£6.826m
8
10 (8)
War Horse
£450,073
£17.694m
6
British funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen has been warned not to turn up to the Oscars on Sunday as the Dictator, the subject of his forthcoming film.
Reports in the US said he is planning some sort of stunt in an echo of his appearance at the MTV Movie awards in 2009, where he was lowered bottom first onto an apparently shocked Eminem while dressed as flamboyant gay Austrian fashionista Brüno. The rapper was later revealed to be in on the joke.
But a spokesperson for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said: "We would hope that every studio knows
Don’t turn up as the Dictator,
Oscar chiefs tell Baron Cohen
Oscar chiefs tell Baron Cohen
resulting in moving performances from a mostly untrained cast.
The Silver Bear award for best actress went to Rachel Mwanza, a 14-year-old girl plucked from obscurity in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to star in War Witch as a young girl who is raped and brutalised by rebels who force her to join them in an unnamed African conflict.
The Jury Grand Prix prize, effectively the runner-up to the best film, went to the
Hungarian drama Just the Wind, based on the real-life murder of a Roma gipsy family.
Christian Petzold took home the best director prize for the German Cold War drama Barbara, which had been many festival goers' tip for Best Film.
Seven BAFTAs for The Artist
It was a magnificent seven for The Artist at this year’s British Film Academy Awards, matching last year’s runaway winner, The King’s Speech.
It was a magnificent seven for The Artist at this year’s British Film Academy Awards, matching last year’s runaway winner, The King’s Speech.
The silent black-and-white French-made, Hollywood-based, comedy snared Film, Direction, Actor (Jean Dujardin), Original Screenplay, Music, Costume Design and Cinematography.
Hugo (Sound, Production design), The Iron Lady (Actress, Make Up & Hair), Senna (Documentary, Editing), and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay) each won two BAFTAs.
Tinker and Artist top at the RAFAs
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Artist took top honours at the prestigious 2012 Richard Attenborough Film Awards, named after the legendary British filmmaker Lord Attenborough and voted for by regional film critics and the general public.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Artist took top honours at the prestigious 2012 Richard Attenborough Film Awards, named after the legendary British filmmaker Lord Attenborough and voted for by regional film critics and the general public.
Tinker picked up three awards bBt it lost out to the internationally- acclaimed French silent film The Artist as the critics’ Film of the Year. The Artist’s director Michel Hazanavicius, also picked up the critics’ award for Filmmaker of the Year.
UK box office passes £1bn mark
The UK box office hit £1 billion for the first time last year, thanks to successes for the final film in the Harry Potter series and independent blockbusters such as The King's Speech and the TV spin-off The Inbetweeners.
The UK box office hit £1 billion for the first time last year, thanks to successes for the final film in the Harry Potter series and independent blockbusters such as The King's Speech and the TV spin-
Total earnings were up 5% to £1.04 billion, while total admissions rose 1.4 % to a total of 171.6 million tickets sold.
Stanley Kubrick’s assistant for almost 30 years, Anthony Frewin, is calling for the Kubrick Exhibition, originated by the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, to come to London next year. He has helped set up a petition to bring the exhibition to the capital.
While France has always heralded the work of Kubrick – a restored print of A Clockwork Orange, currently celebrating its 40th anniversary, was shown as part of the Cannes Festival
Classic series last May – Frewin feels that the country where Kubrick shot so many of his films and resided for much of his life should finally host the Kubrick Exhibition.
He said: “Stanley lived in England, near Elstree Studios, for 40 years, brought thousands of dollars into the country and helped launch many careers. It’s high time he got the recognition here that he deserves.”
Bid to bring top Kubrick exhibition to London
Hollywood star Chloe Sevigny has ruled out a move to Northern England, calling it the "grimmest" place she has ever visited.
Sevigny, 38, told Interview magazine she was miserable while she filmed the forthcoming British TV drama Hit and Miss in Manchester last year, saying it was a struggle to endure five and a half months without sunshine or friends.
“It was very hard being in Manchester. It was one of the grimmest places I'd ever been in my entire life, and I was there for so
long. I hardly had any visitors. I was so alone. It rained every single day I was there," she said.
After shooting on the drama wrapped, Sevigny immediately returned home to New York, despite discovering that one of her favourite bands, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, was due to play in Manchester the next day.
She added: "I was like, 'I've gotta get the hell out of here. I'm not staying one more night just to hear them', so I left. And I was such a die-hard fan."
Chloe: It’s grim up North
SO ALONE: Chloe
that this is a bad idea. The red carpet is not about stunting."
Baron Cohen, 40, has been invited to attend the Oscars as part of the cast for Martin Scorsese's 3D fantasy Hugo, which is up for 11 awards. He was invited to present an award in 2007 but dropped out after he was refused permission to do so while dressed as Borat, his best-known creation.
The Dictator, described as "the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed", sees the comic as the Saddam Hussein/Muammar Gaddafi-style autocratic leader of fictional Middle Eastern nation the Republic of Wadiya.
Favourites The Artist, The Descendants, The Help, Hugo and War Horse are among the nine nominees for Best Picture, a category, which also includes Midnight in Paris, Tree of Life, Moneyball and the post 9/11 drama Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close from British director Stephen (Billy Elliot) Daldry.
Caesar scoops Berlin Golden Bear
Caesar Must Die, a docudrama about murderers and mafiosi acting out a Shakespearean tragedy in a high-security Italian jail, won the Golden Bear award for best picture at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday night.
Caesar Must Die, a docudrama about murderers and mafiosi acting out a Shakespearean tragedy in a high-
The black-and-white movie, directed by veteran brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, aged 80 and 82 respectively, was one the favourites to scoop the coveted honor.
It follows a group of convicts in the Rebibbia jail in Rome as they rehearse Julius Caesar for a prison production.
The play's themes of power and corruption, murder and vengeance clearly resonate with hardened convicts serving sentences of between 14 years and life,
WARNING: Sacha Baron Cohen as
The Dictator
The Dictator