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New Moon makes box-office history

The biggest single opening day in Hollywood history ... The Twilight Saga: New Moon A year ago the runaway success of Twilight put Summit Entertainment on the map as a North American distributor. This weekend the Santa Monica-based company, which for ...

From JEREMY KAY, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sony,  James Bond,  Brad Pitt,  Miley Cyrus,  John Travolta

2012 achieves world domination

The winner Roland Emmerich and Sony know how to put on a show and the pair wreaked (controlled) havoc as the disaster movie 2012 opened top of the class on an estimated $65m (£39m). Sony holds worldwide rights and unleashed the movie on the same day ...

From JEREMY KAY, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sony,  Roland Emmerich,  Michael Jackson,  Richard Kelly,  Cameron Diaz

Vilmos Zsigmond: From Hungary with Cameras

The visionary Hungarian-born cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond does not care, I suspect, to dwell in the emotional terrain of the past. Perhaps the roots of that lie in the dying embers of 1956, when Soviet troops invaded his homeland and crushed the ...

From JEREMY KAY, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dennis Hopper,  Peter Fonda,  Robert Altman

Precious little joy for Disney's A Christmas Carol at US box office

Not your average novel adaptation … scene from Precious: Based On the Novel By Sapphire, which scored the highest screen average ever at the weekend The winner Disney's A Christmas Carol may have opened at No 1 on $31m (£18m) but that's a small chunk ...

From JEREMY KAY, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sony,  Michael Jackson,  Oprah Winfrey,  Tyler Perry,  Jason Reitman

Michael Jackson's This Is It tops the global box-office chart, but is this it?

Moonwalking all over its rivals … Michael Jackson's This Is It The winner Even in death Michael Jackson has a knack for drawing crowds. The late entertainer's posthumous career echoed that of his chart-topping life as the tribute movie This Is It ...

From JEREMY KAY, Guardian Unlimited,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Jackson,  Sony Pictures,  Jeff Blake,  Oren Peli,  Harry Potter

Spike Jonze takes US box office Where the Wild Things Are

The winner Warner Bros and Spike Jonze will be delighted with the $32.5m (£19.9m) No 1 launch for their adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. After dozens of reports about production woes (including that, at one point, the heads on the beasts were ...

From JEREMY KAY, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Spike Jonze,  Maurice Sendak,  Gerard Butler,  Jamie Foxx,  Oren Peli

Couples Retreat advances to US box-office triumph

The winner Couples Retreat gets the official gold medal for its clear No 1 launch at the US box office this weekend. The comedy, which grossed $35.3m (£22.3m), reunites Vince Vaughn with his Swingers co-star Jon Favreau as two halves of four ...

From JEREMY KAY, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Vince Vaughn,  Jon Favreau,  Oren Peli,  Lars von Trier,  Sony Pictures

Roman Polanski arrest: Hollywood unites in his defence

Roman Polanski in front of a giant chessboard in Munich in 1972. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The surprise detention of Roman Polanski has been met with indignation in Hollywood and sparked a flurry of media speculation over the real reason behind ...

From JEREMY KAY, Guardian Unlimited,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Harvey Weinstein,  Thierry Fremaux,  Anne Applebaum,  HBO

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs weathers US box-office doldrums

The winner It's a pretty dull forecast when Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs stays on top at the box office, but that's the name of the game this time of year. Late September/early October is a strange period of changeable weather when Hollywood ...

From JEREMY KAY, Guardian Unlimited,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Sony,  Bruce Willis,  Woody Harrelson,  Alan Parker,  Michael Moore

Sun shines on Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs at US box office

The winner was always going to top the weekend box office but Sony surely couldn't have expected it to win by such a margin. The family animation was the No 1 picture on an estimated $30.1m (£18.6m) haul and finished almost $20m ahead of Warner Bros' ...

From JEREMY KAY, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Sony,  Quentin Tarantino,  Brad Pitt,  Steven Soderbergh,  Matt Damon

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