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7 October 2003 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Almost Famous actor Jason Lee is celebrating the birth of his first child. The star revealed details of his actress fiancee Beth Riesgraf giving birth on the website of director Kevin Smith, who he regularly works with. The Dreamcatcher star writes, "As I write you all this, my beautiful lady is napping soundly with my son. I'm as overjoyed as I am tired. Four nights in the hospital and worth every delirious minute. I could go on forever but I'd rather pass out. So, please help us welcome Pilot Inspektor Riesgraf Lee."

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4 April 2003 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Naughty British actor Damian Lewis has been caught - literally - with his pants down. The Band Of Brothers star got a little carried away while partying at L.A.'s Chateau Marmont hotel with co-stars from his current film Dreamcatcher - and skinny dipped in the hotel pool. He was joined by his girlfriend, Colin Hanks, Jason Lee and a group of thrilled American girls. A source tells British tabloid The Daily Mirror, "They were all partying in Damian's room when about 10 of them headed for the pool. They were swigging champagne from the bottle in the water and were mucking about. Damian's girlfriend was really shy and stood watching them all. He coaxed her in but she refused to strip off and kept her underwear on in the pool." But their high-jinks were cut short when hotel staff told them off for being noisy and ordered them out of the pool.

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1 April 2003 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

DreamWorks' Head of State, starring Chris Rock, headed the box office over the weekend, but its take was only $13.5 million, a startlingly low figure for early spring. Other new films also performed poorly, including Paramount's big-budget sci-fi thriller The Core, which earned only $12.1 million to place third and Columbia-TriStar's Basic, starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, which earned only $11.5 million to place fourth. (Even though he has not had a big hit since 1997's Face-Off, Travolta still reportedly commands a $20-million-per-picture fee.) Disney's Bringing Down the House, which had held the top spot during the previous three weeks, slipped to second place with $12.5 million, bringing its gross past the $100-million mark. Chicago, in its first weekend following its victory as Best Picture at last week's Oscars, moved up the list from sixth to fifth with $7.2 million. In all, the top 12 movies grossed only $86.8 million, 24 percent below what it took in during the comparable weekend a year ago.

The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date): 1. Head of State, DreamWorks, $13,503,484, (New); 2. Bringing Down the House, Disney, $12,481,803, 4 Wks. ($100,068,024); 3 . The Core, Paramount, $12,053,131, (New); 4. Basic, Sony, $11,511,960, (New); 5. Chicago, Miramax, $7,210,721, 14 Wks. ($144,652,474); 6. Dreamcatcher, Warner Bros. $6,638,459, 2 Wks. ($25,641,912); 7. Agent Cody Banks, MGM, $6,419,524, 3 Wks. ($35,166,724); 8. Piglet's Big Movie, Disney, $4,931,308, 2 Wks. ($12,730,591); 9 . The Hunted, Paramount, $3,616,241, 3 Wks. ($29,222,759); 10. View From the Top, Miramax, $3,516,872, 2 Wks. ($12,250,828).

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31 March 2003 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Although the public apparently was no longer glued to television for war news over the weekend, it was not going back to the movies either. Ticket sales were down 20 percent from last weekend and 24 percent from the same weekend a year ago. The top film at the box office was the Chris Rock comedy Head of State, which debuted with just $14 million, according to estimates. Bringing Down the House, starring Steve Martin and Queen Latifah, which had held the box-office crown for three previous weekends, slipped to second place with about $12.5 million. The sci-fi thriller The Core, which reportedly cost $85 million to $100 million to make, opened in third place with around $12.4 million. Another new film, the John Travolta-Samuel L. Jackson thriller Basic, basically flopped with $12.1 million. Sales for the top 12 movies totaled $87.3 million versus $114.2 million for the comparable weekend a year ago.

The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations: 1. Head of State, $14 million; 2. Bringing Down the House, $12.5 million; 3. The Core, $12.4 million; 4. Basic, $12.1 million; 5. Chicago, $7.4 million; 6. Dreamcatcher, $6.4 million; 7. Agent Cody Banks, $6.1 million; 8. Piglet's Big Movie, $4.6 million; 9. View From the Top, $3.8 million; 10. The Hunted, $3.7 million.

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27 March 2003 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

In their latest effort to halt piracy, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox have hired security personnel to monitor media screenings with night-vision binoculars to look for persons trying to use camcorders while the movie is being run, the Los Angeles Times reported today (Thursday). The newspaper said that at a May 18th press screening of Warner's Dreamcatcher, those entering the theater were also scanned with an electronic wand. In January, security personnel using night-vision lenses nabbed a person in the audience using a camcorder to record Fox's Daredevil, the Times said. "We have instituted a variety of measures at screenings, including checking the projection booths," Jeffrey Godsick, Fox's marketing chief, told the newspaper. (Several reports have indicated that many pirated films appear to have been shot with cameras mounted on tripods inside theater projection booths.)

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25 March 2003 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

A slew of lackluster movies, the war in Iraq, and the NCAA basketball tournament conspired to bring down the house count at the nation's theaters over the weekend as Disney's Bringing Down the House, starring Steve Martin and Queen Latifah, held on to the top spot for the third straight week with a gross of only $16.2 million. Warner Bros.' Dreamcatcher debuted in second place with just $15 million. Three other new films experienced what the trade papers generally describe as "disappointing" results, with Artisan's Boat Trip, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., sinking on launch with $3.8 million. Ticket sales for the top 12 movies totaled $82.8 million, a drop of 30 percent from the same weekend a year ago.

The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date): 1. Bringing Down the House, Disney, $16,204,468, 3 Wks. ($83,349,134); 2. Dreamcatcher, Warner Bros., $15,027,423, (New); 3. Agent Cody Banks, MGM, $9,227,614, 2 Wks. ($26,531,584); 4. View From the Top, Miramax, $7,009,513, (New); 5 . The Hunted, Paramount, $6,510,154, 2 Wks. ($23,390,799); 6. Chicago, Miramax, $6,176,021, 13 Wks. ($134,014,534); 7. Piglet's Big Movie, Disney, $6,097,758, (New); 8. Tears of the Sun, Sony, $4,435,782, 3 Wks. ($37,921,775); 9. Old School, DreamWorks, $3,904,358, 5 Wks. ($66,960,634); 10. Boat Trip, Artisan, $3,815,075, (New).

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24 March 2003 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Interest in television's coverage of the war in Iraq, the Oscars, and the NCAA basketball tournament was blamed for a 29-percent drop in the box office this weekend from a year ago. Other analysts blamed a plethora of poorly reviewed films and pointed out that the box office was even lower in 2001 when Heartbreakers was tops in ticket sales with just $11.8 million By contrast, Bringing Down the House, starring Steve Martin (there apparently was no escaping Martin Sunday since he also hosted the Oscars) and Queen Latifah, remained at the top of the list for the third straight week with an estimated $16.2 million. Dreamcatcher, the film many box-office analysts had predicted would take over the top spot -- despite dismal notices on Friday -- wound up in second place with about $15.3 million. Other new films tanked. View from the Top with Gwyneth Paltrow debuted with just $7.6 million; Disney's Piglet's Big Movie opened with $6.1 million; and Boat Trip sank with just $3.7 million.

The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations: 1. Bringing Down the House, $16.2 million; 2. Dreamcatcher, $15.3 million; 3. Agent Cody Banks, $9.3 million; 4. View from the Top, $7.6 million; 5. The Hunted, $6.6 million; 6. Chicago, $6.2 million; 7. Piglet's Big Movie, $6.1 million; 8. Tears of the Sun, $4.5 million; 9. Old School, $4 million; 10. Boat Trip, $3.7 million.

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21 March 2003 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

If moviegoers do decide to sit out the weekend in front of their TV sets to follow developments in the war, they are not likely to miss much, most film critics appear to agree. They have generally meted out low ratings to all four new films. Catching the worst reviews of the lot is the Morgan Freeman starrer Dreamcatcher, adapted from a Stephen King novel by William Goldman and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. I went into Dreamcatcher hoping -- somewhat perversely, given the state of the world outside -- for a good scare," writes A.O. Scott in the New York Times, "and found myself before long howling with laughter." (A few critics suggest that what the movie really needed was Terry Gilliam, of Monty Python and Brazil fame, to direct it.) Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal refers to it as "a horror-free horror flick" The funny business, Scott suggests, was not intended. Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News opines that given the talent that went into the making of the movie "Dreamcatcher has no business being this bad." "Incoherent, inane and interminable," is the way Claudia Puig describes it in USA Today. And Stephen Hunter concludes his review in the Washington Post this way: "All in all -- well, there is no all in all. There are just parts. Some fit, some don't. Some are cool, some aren't. It's the craziest thing you ever saw." (By the way, critics are giving the 14-minute, computer-animated short Final Flight of the Osiris -- part of the Animatrix series plugging the upcoming The Matrix Reloaded -- terrific notices. It precedes the Dreamcatcher feature in many theaters.)

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8 January 2003 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

International fame and fortune could be on the cards for Brit-actor Damian Lewis following the news that movie mogul Steven Spielberg is keen to sign him up for the second series of highly successful American TV program Taken. The star, who teamed up with Spielberg in his TV hit Band Of Brothers, spent an entire day with the director. A source says, "Steven pulled out all the stops to impress Damian. He believes Damian is the man to make the second series of Taken even bigger. It's normally impossible to get to spend a whole day with Steven as he's always busy. But when he heard Damian was in town just before Christmas, he invited him to spend the day at his mansion." Lewis was in Hollywood finishing off new movie Dreamcatcher, in which he stars alongside Morgan Freeman, when he got the call.

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