Mar 24, 2008 -
After shattering 2008 box office records last week, Horton Hears a Who once again took the top spot over this Easter holiday weekend. Variety reports that Good Friday was the strongest day for Dr. Seuss' Horton which took in $25.1 million over the weekend in addition to the movie's opening weekend earnings of $45 million.
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Dec 31, 2007 -
I said it back in May, and it's still true as the year winds down: Judd Apatow is everywhere. The man whom the Los Angeles Times named "the mayor of comedy" had two of the Summer movie season's biggest hits, signed on for several more highly anticipated projects, had a New York Times Magazine cover story all about him, and generally became a household name — not bad for a self-described schlub in an unglamorous polo shirt. Want to reminisce about Apatow's big year?
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Dec 03, 2007 -
In a recent Vanity Fair interview , Katherine Heigl stated that she didn't really like Knocked Up because she thinks it's sexist. She says, "It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days.
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Sep 25, 2007 -
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue.
Knocked Up
If you somehow missed one of this year's best comedies, now's your chance to laugh and cringe your way through Knocked Up, Judd Apatow's summer success.
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Jun 12, 2007 -
In case there was any doubt that Knocked Up must have had the most fun movie set in recent history, here's more proof: yet another fake on-set fight video. This time, it's not Michael Cera who's been cast in (and fired from) the Seth Rogen role — it's James Franco. He's supposed to whisk Katherine Heigl's character off for a romantic lunch, but instead he launches into a dull story about a dog, leading to a screaming fight between him and director Judd Apatow that covers the demise of "Freaks and Geeks" and pits Apatow against Spider-Man director Sam Raimi.
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Jun 11, 2007 -
Ocean and his cohorts robbed the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie out of their No. 1 spot at the box office. Ocean's Thirteen took in an impressive $37 million its opening weekend while Pirates followed behind in second place with $21 million.
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Jun 07, 2007 -
This week Ocean's Thirteen comes out so we'll have even more options when it comes to summer movies. But so far, between the super-spiders, pirates, ogres and surprise pregnancies, which is your favorite summer movie so far?
If you haven't seen these movies, which are you most excited to see?
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Jun 05, 2007 -
One of my (very few!) beefs with Knocked Up was that it didn't seem like Allison (Katherine Heigl) and Ben (Seth Rogen) were really all that into each other.
Cinematical (by way of Hollywood Elsewhere) has put things a little more bluntly: Would someone who looks like Allison actually get with someone who looks like Ben? Allison's character is not shallow or judgmental, but what she actually likes about Ben is unclear.
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Jun 04, 2007 -
Though suffering a huge dip in sales (earning $43 million this weekend, down from $139 million the previous weekend), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End easily took the No. 1 spot at the box office this weekend, though Judd Apatow's latest baby Knocked Up came in second place with a respectable $29 million. The budget for Knocked Up, by the way, was approximately $30 million, so I'd say they're off to a great start.
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Jun 01, 2007 -
I suppose it's appropriate that the movie that makes me want to have Judd Apatow's babies is called Knocked Up. What's funnier is some of the best moments come from the two little girls in the movie, who are Apatow's real daughters. The girls were apparently filmed just goofing around and their improvisational stylings actually made it into the movie.
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