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“Twilight” finale leads Razzies worst-of list

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:00:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The "Twilight" finale had better reviews than the franchise's previous four movies, but you'd never know it from the Razzie nominations singling out Hollywood's worst of the year.

"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2" led the Razzies lineup Tuesday night with 11 nominations, including worst picture, lead-acting slots for Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and supporting-acting nominations for Taylor Lautner and Ashley Greene.

Other worst-picture nominees are the naval action tale "Battleship," the family flick "The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure," Adam Sandler's raunchy dud "That's My Boy" and Eddie Murphy's comedy flop "A Thousand Words."

A spoof of the Academy Awards, the Razzies announcement comes a little more than a day before the Oscar nominations. Razzie winners will be announced Feb. 23, the night before the Oscar ceremony.

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Kristen Stewart: The thinking person’s movie star

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:00:00 +0000

I met Kristen Stewart somewhat unexpectedly. And I really liked her! I mean, she’s a cagey, cautious person; you can feel her sizing you up while she decides whether you’re an idiot or a nutjob and discerns how much she should stick to polite, neutral remarks. You might be like that, too, if you were 22 years old and the highest-paid actress in the history of Hollywood, and if you had seen an ordinary domestic spat with your boyfriend – the sort of thing a whole lot of 22-year-olds go through, if I remember correctly – become an international front-page tabloid story.

I did not ask her anything about Robert Pattinson or the current state of her love life. Because it’s not my business, and I really don’t care! So if that’s what you want to read, you might have to look elsewhere. But even in a brief and necessarily superficial conversation, I got a few flashes of real personality: Stewart is a young woman with a mischievous wit and a penchant for murmured, foul-mouthed asides who is enthusiastic about her work and also aware that her rocket-like ascension from the little-known indie ingénue of “Into the Wild” and “Adventureland” to a huge superstar has been an incredibly strange story.

“Twilight” rakes in $141 million in debut weekend

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:53:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Twilight" didn't fade out.

"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" earned $141 million domestically over opening weekend, putting the final "Twilight" in the eighth position on the list of all-time domestic debuts, leaving the supernatural series with three of the top-10 openings, joining 2009's "New Moon" (No. 7 with $142.8 million) and last year's "Breaking Dawn - Part 1" (No. 9 with $138.1 million).

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2," Summit, $141,067,634, 4,070 locations, $34,660 average, $141,067,634, one week.

2. "Skyfall," Sony, $41,104,513, 3,505 locations, $11,727 average, $160,941,621, two weeks.

3. "Lincoln," Disney, $21,049,406, 1,775 locations, $11,859 average, $22,468,242, two weeks.

4. "Wreck-It Ralph," Disney, $18,582,937, 3,622 locations, $5,131 average, $121,750,227, three weeks.

5. "Flight," Paramount, $8,802,881, 2,612 locations, $3,370 average, $61,523,691, three weeks.

David Cronenberg: How I seduced Rob Pattinson

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Whatever you make of the twists and turns of David Cronenberg’s career, which now encompasses 18 feature films going back to 1975, including such disruptive or subversive classics as "Crash," "Naked Lunch" and "A History of Violence," he has steadfastly refused to repeat himself. With “Cosmopolis,” his hypnotic, minimalist adaptation of Don DeLillo’s allegorical 2003 novel, whose only plot and action involve an ultra-rich currency trader driving across Manhattan in a stretch limo, Cronenberg once again forges into unexplored terrain. This dreamlike vision of a 1 percenter – or more like a one-tenth-of-1-percenter – facing moral, existential and financial meltdown is a flawed, strange and undeniably powerful creation, with a hallucinatory and apocalyptic undertow that DeLillo’s novel (to my taste) mostly lacks.

Kristen Stewart’s stunning apology

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:50:00 +0000

What's more surprising: That a celebrity publicly apologized for cheating within 24 hours of a report going public, or that that celebrity happened to be Kristen Stewart?

Considering Hollywood's cheaters are about as common as actors who lie about their age, in the wake of Us Weekly's cover photo of the "Twilight" star cuddling her “Snow White and the Huntsman” director Rupert Sanders, Stewart could have easily responded the way the rest of Tinseltown does. She could have either ignored the accusations, denied them (Photoshop!) or asked for her privacy to be respected. Instead, the 22-year-old, who in the four years she has supposedly been dating Robert Pattinson has never publicly admitted they are an item, issued a public mea culpa.

"I’m deeply sorry for the hurt and embarrassment I’ve caused to those close to me and everyone this has affected," she said in a statement to People the day after Us' scoop broke. "This momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the most important thing in my life, the person I love and respect the most, Rob. I love him, I love him, I’m so sorry."