Film Reviews: Opening This Week (Aug. 5-9, 2013)
A critical digest of the week's latest U.S. theatrical releases. Where applicable, links to longer reviews have been provided. Elysium Distributor: Sony So close and yet so far, the colony of Elysium…
Dan Mazer
'I Give It a Year' Has Its Day in Hollywood
Minnie Driver's character in romantic comedy “I Give It a Year” spends much of the film hilariously throwing out insults and negativisms about the pic's central couple and marriage in general…
Magnolia Takes U.S. on 'I Give It a Year'
Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Dan Mazer's romantic comedy “I Give It a Year,” two weeks after its U.S. premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The British movie is produced…
Review: 'I Give It a Year'
Skillfully customizing a traditional chassis and then souping it up with bawdy, "Bridesmaids"-style humor, "I Give It a Year" is a racy British laffer that updates shingle Working Title's…
Kirsten Dunst joins 'Two Faces of January'
MADRID Two of Europe's primo production players, Studiocanal and Working Title, are teaming to produce thriller "Two Faces of January," the directorial debut of "Drive" scribe Hossein Amini.
Global shoots for world auds
Studiocanal and its partners film on several continents, pursuing the best location for the story and often taking advantage of generous local tax incentives
Review: 'The Dictator'
Having pulled the improv equivalent of streaking through a mosque with "Borat's" ambush tactics, Sacha Baron Cohen retreats behind the veil of scripted comedy in "The Dictator."
Deschanel, Gleeson on 'Time' for Working Title
"New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel and Irish thesp Domhnall Gleeson are in talks to star in Working Title Films' low-budget time-travel dramedy "About Time," which "Love Actually" helmer Richard Curtis…
Byrne, Faris join 'I Give It a Year' cast
Top comediennes Rose Byrne ("Bridesmaids") and Anna Faris ("The Dictator") are set to join Rafe Spall and Simon Baker in Working Title's romantic comedy "I Give It a Year."
Simon Baker to 'Give it a Year'
Simon Baker looks to have found his next project during his hiatus as "The Mentalist" star is set for the Working Title's "I Give it a Year."
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300: Rise of an Empire
300: Rise of an Empire
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Daily:$11.5M Cumulative:$45.0M Warner Brothers -28.56% -
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
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Daily:$9.8M Cumulative:$32.2M Fox / DreamWorks Animation -31.73% -
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Daily:$4.0M Cumulative:$52.6M Universal Pictures -43.54%
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