The Twi-Hards turned out in record numbers to catch the first showings of The Twilight Saga: New Moon early Friday money. The second installment of Bella and Edward’s love story outperformed boy wizard Harry Potter, who previously held the record for midnight box office.
According to box office numbers released by Summit Entertainment Friday afternoon, New Moon pulled in a record-breaking estimated gross of $26.27 million playing in just 3,514 theaters across the nation — that’s an average of $7,476 per theater!
The wildly-successful midnight opening “portends an opening weekend that could be one of the biggest of the year,” says Paul Dergarabedian, a box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.
UsMagazine has some exciting news for those of us who grew up cracking our sides at the National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise. Series stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo will reprise their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold for a TV ad premiering at next year’s Super Bowl.
The duo, who played the disaster-prone pair in four Vacation hits in the ’80s & ’90s, will star as The Griswolds again in a new commercial for HomeAway vacation rentals. Read the rest of this entry »
Teen starlets Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart will share a steamy snog in their upcoming film The Runaways.
Dakota plays blonde rock star Cherie Curie in the biopic about the rise of the ’70s rock band The Runways, while Twilight’s Kristen, 19, is lesbian legend Joan Jett.
“Yes, it happens in The Runaways,” Dakota, 15, told Access Hollywood this week in response to the lesbian kiss whispers — which have been gaining momentum online since July.
“It was passionate. We’re playing Joan Jett and Cherie Curie and they’re best friends in the film and became really close in real life. And that’s something that went down back in the ’70s,” Dakota added. “We were so into the scene and into the script and the characters.”
Trouble-prone actress-singer Lindsay Lohan is in chats to play a character loosely based on herself in a big screen romantic comedy currently in development.
Producers John Edmonds Kozma and Richard O’Sullivan are working on a new dating comedy called One Night With You and they hope to land Lohan as their star, IMDB.com reports. LiLo is up for the role of a scandal-ridden former child star who goes to rehab and revamps her career by appearing on a reality dating show.
The new trailer for Robert Pattinson’s new romantic movie Remember Me has been released. The Twilight heartthrob spent much of last summer shooting scenes for the film on the streets of the Big Apple. In fact, Pattz was hard at work on the set of Remember Me when a mob of crazed fans chased him into the path of a big yellow taxi!
Rob plays Tyler, a rebellious young man in New York City who has a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan). Tyler didn’t think anyone could possibly understand what he was going through until the day he met Ally (Emilie de Ravin) through an unusual twist of fate. But soon, hidden secrets are revealed, and the circumstances that brought them together slowly threaten to tear them apart.
Looks promising! Remember Me debuts in theaters Feb. 12.
Miley Cyrus and Lindsay Lohan are going toe-to-toe in a battle to voice Dorothy in John Boorman’s upcoming CG-animated update of the 1939 motion picture classic The Wizard of Oz, ZackTaylor.ca is reporting. Boorman’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is scheduled for a summer 2010 release and will deviate greatly from the signature song-and-dance slant featured in the original Oz.
Anne Hathaway has been offered a role in Spider-Man 4.
The former Disney star, who earned an Oscar nod for her role in the 2008 film Rachel Getting Married, is the latest actress rumored to be up for the role of vampy villain Black Cat in the hotly-anticipated fourth Spider-Man; Julia Stiles, Rachel McAdams and Romola Garai have all been linked to the project in recent weeks.
According to Deadline Hollywood, Anne has been approached by producers to appear in the latest installment in the superhero saga, opening in May 2011.
Hot off the presses, TwiHards. Hollywood producers are plotting a plan to continue cashing in on the unprecedent mega-success of The Twilight Saga film franchise by producing a brand-new spinoff series starring one of music’s most beloved tween sensations — country blondie Taylor Swift!
Hey guys, have you had the chance to check out the new full length trailer for Miley Cyrus’ first non-Disney film, The Last Song?
Word is this the movie where the 16-year-old actress met and enjoyed a fling with on-screen love interest Liam Hemsworth.
In the coming-of-age movie, based on the popular book by Nicholas Sparks, Miley plays Ronnie, a gifted by troubled teen girl who reconnects with her estranged dad (Greg Kinnear) and falls in love during a summer vacation on Tybee Island, Georgia.
Check out the smoldering new movie poster for the upcoming espionage action-thriller Salt, starring Liev Schrieber and Angelina Jolie.
In the film helmed by lensman Phillip Noyce Angelina Jolie plays Evelyn Salt — a CIA officer accused of being a Russian sleeper spy. Initially, the lead role in Salt was given to Tom Cruise, but was later rewritten for Jolie when Cruise dropped out.
