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Disney's groundbreaking "The Princess and the Frog," which features the hit-making studio's first African-American animated heroine, topped the weekend North American box office, according to final industry figures Monday.
Los Angeles - Leonardo DiCaprio is to star in a Viking era drama directed by Oscar winner Mel Gibson, Variety reported Monday. The as-yet-untitled movie is being penned by William Monahan, who won an Oscar for Departed. Filming is to start in the sec...
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- “The Princess and the Frog” was the top film in the U.S. and Canada this weekend with $25 million in ticket sales after Walt Disney Co.
Filed under: Movies , News Disney's new animated feature 'The Princess and the Frog' was tops at the box office over the weekend. The new film, which opened nationwide Dec. 11, brought in $25 million at the domestic box office, making it the highest-grossing start ever for an animated movie in December. According to studio estimates, its worldwide total is currently $32 million. FOLLOW The ...
"The Princess and the Frog" earned a big wet kiss from family audiences as the animated musical leaped to No. 1 with $25 million in its first weekend of nationwide release, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Clint Eastwood makes a rare journey outside America for his latest drama, Invictus, to a country whose history of discrimination against its black population mirrors our own. As such, one can't help but feel that the same impulse that drove Eastwood to direct and star in last year's over-praised Gran Torino, about racial tensions in contemporary Detroit, was at work when he decided to helm this ...
EDITORS NOTE: Leah Abrahams of Green Bay, an organizer of an interfaith womens group, traveled to Melbourne, Australia, for the International Parliament of World Religions conference Dec. 3-9. The conference included talks by Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Hindus, Buddhists and indigenous faith keepers from more than 80 nations. The Parliament of the Worlds Religions was first held in ...
Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tenn. on June 1, 1937, but raised from infancy in Charleston, Miss. by his paternal grandmother. Every summer as a young child, he would visit his parents who had moved to Chicago, which is where he developed his love of the cinema.
Los Angeles gets a bad rap. It's assailed for being shallow and rarely acknowledged for its good heart. But Los Angeles has a huge heart - at the center of which is pulsating non-stop activism.
Once the sniggering is over and the king of Norway has had his smoked salmon spit-take toweled off, everyone will realize that giving Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize was an inspired choice.
Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman), newly elected President of South Africa, faces a divided nation. Whites distrust him; blacks reject everything associated with the previous white government. “He can win an election, but can he run a country?” asks a newspaper headline.
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers from their cash?The latest version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" features Jim Carrey as Scrooge. Coming on Ebenezer's coattails will be everything from vampire romance ("The Twilight Saga: New ...
South Africa's Greenpoint stadium, which has been chosen to host a 2010 World Cup semi-final, was on Monday declared complete.
LOS ANGELES — Academy Awards organizers have shaken up their show by doubling the best-picture category to 10 nominees in hopes of a broader range of films, mainstream movies mixing with the sober dramas that Oscar voters often favor.
For those who have tried, people know how nice it is to SUP (Stand Up Paddleboard) in Alamitos Bay in Long Beach. Even better now with the Christmas Lights!
With 10 Best Picture Nominations, The Field Is Wide Open and Handicappers Are Flummoxed
