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More of a handy PR opportunity than an actual festival honor, Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood” has secured the opening night slot at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, two days ahead of its US and UK release date. Like last year’s Cannes opener, “Up,” the film will premiere out of competition, affording it […]
‘Robin Hood’ to open Cannes
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:50 am · March 26th, 2010
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SUNDAY CENTS: Holy hit
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 12:19 pm · May 18th, 2009
God is so 2006. “Angels & Demons” was the number one movie at the box office this weekend but the $48 million it raked in is barely more than half of the $84.5 million registered by “The Da Vinci Code” in its opening frame. What happened? Three things. First, the free publicity generated by the […]
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Realization: Dan Brown is tailor made for TV
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:06 pm · May 7th, 2009
I’m not going to review “Angels & Demons.” Sometimes the idea of tearing a film apart just doesn’t quite appeal to me, believe it or not. But watching the expected unfold on the Sony lot last night, it suddenly occurred to me that Dan Brown’s bloated if intriguingly researched fiction has no place on the […]
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More thrilling than…
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:32 am · December 5th, 2008
Happily for Universal, the majority of US critics seem to like “Frost/Nixon” significantly more than I did. It’s currently sitting on a healthy Metacritic score of 80, with ringing endorsements from such estimable names as David Denby, J. Hoberman and Kenneth Turan. As a side note, however, on reading Turan’s review, his parting shot struck […]
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