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Weekend Box Office: Audiences Stay Home In Droves As 'The Help' Defeats Weak New Releases

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • August 21, 2011 4:53 AM
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  • 6 Comments
Credit a canny expansion strategy that nabbed “The Help” the number one spot at the box office in its second weekend of release. Disney wisely banked on the film having more buzz than the slate of underwhelming new releases (not all of it positive), and after two weekends, it’s easily one of the season’s big success stories, as the picture has crested $70 million after only twelve days of release. The establishment has been encouraged - stories of the struggles of minorities highlighted by the heroism of a plucky white person of higher social strata are surefire earners, particularly if you market to families. Institutionalized racism at its most efficient.
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More: Films, Actors, Film Studios, Genre Films, The Help, One Day, The Smurfs, Fright Night, Conan The Barbarian, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Universal, The Weinstein Company, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Sony, Paramount, Dreamworks, Focus Features

In Theaters: 'Conan' Battles 'Fright Night,' 'Spy Kids 4' & 'One Day' At The Box Office

  • By Katie Walsh
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  • August 19, 2011 5:30 AM
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  • 6 Comments
Hi kids! Didya miss me? I have to first apologize for slandering "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," that movie was great! More cartoon faces of apes played by Andy Serkis please! Who was your favorite ape? Mine was Maurice the orangutan. Okay, so there's a ton of crazy stuff opening this weekend so let's get right to it! "Conan!" "Fright Night!" "One Day!" "Spy Kids 4" in Smell-o-vision (I'm glad 'Apes' wasn't in smell-o-vision, nah mean?)!
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More: Films, Genre Films, One Day, Fright Night, Spy Kids 4, Conan The Barbarian

Anne Hathaway Explains How Bon Iver & Dirty Projectors Helped Her Land The Lead In 'One Day'

  • By Kimber Myers
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  • August 18, 2011 2:19 AM
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  • 1 Comment
The Influence Of 'Once Upon A Time In America' & More From Lone Scherfig & Jim Sturgess About The FilmThere’s the average romantic comedy with the meet cute or initial hatred between the inevitable lovers, and then there’s “One Day.” Rather than featuring a traditional love story narrative, set over days, weeks, or even months, “One Day” visits Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) on July 15 every year, starting in the ‘80s. The audience gets a glimpse of where they are--and where they are in relation to each other--each year on that day, creating 23 mini-films in one. They’re friends who are constantly bordering on being much more, even as others enter their lives.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Interview, Lone Scherfig, One Day, Upside Down, Jim Sturgess, Jessica Biel, Bon Iver

Jim Sturgess Says The Book Was All He Needed To Get Prepared For 'One Day'

  • By Kimber Myers
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  • August 17, 2011 9:58 AM
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In “One Day,” Jim Sturgess’ Dexter is kind of an asshole, though certainly the kind of asshole that some women are irresistibly and illogically drawn to. He says and does things to Anne Hathaway’s Emma that would make him irredeemable if played by a less charming actor, but because it’s Sturgess who’s doing the heartbreaking, we’re content to watch--and would likely volunteer to be the victim as well. Based on David Nicholls’ book (and the author’s screenplay), the Lone Scherfig film follows the pair dipping into each others' lives for one day a year across three decades. They perform a dance where they’re alternately joining together and pushing each other away as their lives and selves change from their twenties through their forties.
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Review: 'One Day' Essentially An Overwrought Nicholas Sparks Movie With Dodgy English Accents

  • By The Playlist
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  • August 17, 2011 2:05 AM
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  • 4 Comments
Treacly, oftentimes predictable, lacking real chemistry and sporting a narrative conceit that never really serves the movie well, if you thought the only thing missing from movies based on Nicholas Sparks novels was questionably convincing English accents, “One Day” may be the movie for you. While there’s something to be said for any film that takes relationships between young adults even semi-seriously, Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess discover plenty of melodrama in their characters’ two-decade, on-off romance, but they unfortunately fail to fill out the other 364 days of those years with much depth.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Review, Lone Scherfig, One Day, Jim Sturgess

'One Day' Soundtrack Features Elvis Costello, Tricky, Fatboy Slim, Primal Scream, James & More

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • August 1, 2011 3:28 AM
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  • 7 Comments
Yes, this is a decades spanning love story set in Britain, so we're not surprised the forthcoming soundtrack to Lone Scherfig's "One Day" reflects that, but man, we definitely had a time warp/flashback when we saw James was on this thing. It has been a long time since we heard those guys.
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Watch: New Trailer For 'One Day' Reveals Jim Sturgess Is Kind Of A Jerk

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • June 23, 2011 5:37 AM
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  • 3 Comments
Oh, romance. Sometimes you end up chasing your true love for decades even if he's kind of a rakish cad and insensitive jerk which seems to be the message in this new trailer for "One Day."
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Watch: New U.K. Trailer For 'One Day' A Slight Improvement

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • May 27, 2011 12:59 PM
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Lone Scherfig's followup to her acclaimed "An Education" is not lacking in talent. Starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, and based on the best-selling novel by David Nicholls, our expectations that were once running were somewhat dashed when the first trailer for the film dropped last month.
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Elvis Costello Pens New Song "Sparkling Day" For Anne Hathaway Romance 'One Day'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • May 24, 2011 6:23 AM
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Entering on the fringes of punk and new wave scene, mining seemingly the entirety of pop history for his diverse array of work, and now settling into a late stage persona of a rocker that even your grandma could love, Elvis Costello has seemingly done it all. But the music legend continues to surprise and his latest move is one that we didn't anticipate.
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More: Films, Musicians, One Day, Elvis Costello

Which Summer Films Won't Make You Feel Like You've Been Lobotomized? The May-August Movies: Part 1

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • May 3, 2011 6:03 AM
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  • 12 Comments
Something's in the air. The days are getting longer. The weather's getting warmer. Your IQ is dropping by the day. That's right, it's the start of the summer movie season! The critical darlings that get you through the winter moments are a thing of the past, replaced by CGI-packed blockbusters, comedies and the occasional kids' flick, designed principally as a way of tempting you into an air conditioned theater to spend money on ice cream and nachos.
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More: Films, Feature, Super Hero Films, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Genre Films, Super 8, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Modern Horror, Animated Films, Friends With Benefits, Cowboys & Aliens, Apollo 18, Horrible Bosses, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two, One Day, Priest, Fright Night, Captain America: The First Avenger, X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern, Thor, Spy Kids 4, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Final Destination 5, Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom Of Doom, Cars 2

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