Indiewire Browse the indiewire network

The Playlist

The obsessives' guide to contemporary cinema via film discussion, news, reviews, features, nostalgia, movie music, soundtracks, DVDs and more.

Interviews

Actors

Directors

Archives

The Playlist

Box Office: 'Twilight' Rings Up $140 Million For #1, 'Skyfall' Becomes Biggest Bond Ever

  • By Gabe Toro
  • |
  • November 18, 2012 12:14 PM
  • |
  • 10 Comments
Box Office
Decline of western civilization, moviegoers aren’t smart, cinema is dead, bla bla bla. Edward and Bella performed yet another hit-and-run on the box office this weekend, and while “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2” closes this particular story with a $140 million three-day opening, you’d have to be a Grade-A Moran to think that a series that consistently produces $100 million plus weekends is going to be put into storage by Lionsgate, even if the studio now has a new ATM machine in “The Hunger Games” films.
Read More »
More: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Skyfall, Lincoln, The Silver Linings Playbook, Weekend Box-Office

What Are You Seeing This Weekend? 'Lincoln' Will Be 'Breaking Dawn' If All Goes According To The 'Silver Linings Playbook'

  • By Emma Bernstein
  • |
  • November 16, 2012 6:22 PM
  • |
  • 4 Comments
News
A week away from the official start to the holiday season release bonanza, there's more than a sprinkling of great flicks to choose from. A few indie comedies, two very intense documentaries, and another solid adaptation of a classic novel. And, of course, we say goodbye to a franchise that has sparked excited squeals and irritated groans in equal measure. As always, let us know where you'll be headed below!
Read More »
More: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, The Silver Linings Playbook, Anna Karenina, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, In Our Nature, Barrymore

Review: Big-Hearted & Hilarious 'Silver Linings Playbook' A Touchdown From David O. Russell

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
  • |
  • November 15, 2012 11:56 AM
  • |
  • 3 Comments
Reviews
Life hasn't been too kind lately for Pat Solitano. He's just been released from a court ordered stint in a mental hospital after severly beating the man he caught cheating with his wife. Diagnosed as bipolar with mood swings, Pat has a difficult journey ahead of him but he's optimistic. With a rallying cry of "Excelsior," he believes that you can take "all negativity and make it a silver lining." His outlook is positive and he hopes to rebuild himself to win his wife back who has a restraining order out on him. And so begins David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook," an enormously entertaining, crowd-pleasing winner from the director whose comedic edge has never been sharper.
Read More »
More: The Silver Linings Playbook, Review, David O. Russell, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro

David O. Russell, Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Lawrence Talk 'Midnight Meat Train,' Dancing & More In 'Silver Linings Playbook'

  • By Jen Vineyard
  • |
  • November 15, 2012 10:04 AM
  • |
  • 8 Comments
News
"Silver Linings Playbook" is one of those rare films that embraces all of life's messy contradictions. It's romantic, but not schmaltzy. It's about sports fans -- the really obsessive ones -- but it's also for non-sports fans who've never watched a football game (or would never want to). It's about mental illness, but without turning anyone living with or recovering from one into a caricature, contrasting bipolarity with so-called normal obsessive emotional states, without compromising what any of them really are. Writer/director David O. Russell achieves a tricky balancing act, thanks to the performances of his cast (Bradley Cooper as a bipolar man with anger management issues fresh out of a mental institution, Jennifer Lawrence as a recovering sex addict, and Robert De Niro as an obsessive-compulsive and superstitious gambler, also with anger management issues).
Read More »
More: The Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro

Watch: 4 New Promo Spots For 'Silver Linings Playbook'

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
  • |
  • November 8, 2012 5:32 PM
  • |
  • 1 Comment
News
Is Chris Tucker about to star in a Best Picture winner? That's the main takeaway we got from a quartet of new TV spots for "Silver Linings Playbook," the new comedy-drama for David O. Russell. Tucker hasn't appeared in a film without the words 'Hour' and 'Rush' in the title since 1997's "Jackie Brown," but he's chosen a pretty good time to come back, with Russell's film having been touted for awards galore since it premiered at TIFF back in September.
Read More »
More: The Silver Linings Playbook

Watch: New TV Spots For 'Les Miserables,' 'This Is 40,' 'The Hobbit' & 'Silver Linings Playbook'

  • By Joe Cunningham
  • |
  • November 7, 2012 12:33 PM
  • |
  • 0 Comments
News
Okay, now that the small matter of electing a new leader of the free world is over and done with, we can get back to focusing on movies again. Hurray! And handily, we’ve got three new TV spots for some of the most anticipated films on the winter calendar.
Read More »
More: Les Miserables, This Is 40, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Silver Linings Playbook

The 10 Best Films To See In November

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
  • |
  • November 7, 2012 10:59 AM
  • |
  • 2 Comments
Features
If September and October can still be considered the fallow season after blockbusters like "Taken 2" and "Argo," and critically acclaimed films like "The Master," that fallow season is certainly over; the box office saw a huge upswing last weekend with "Wreck-It Ralph" and "Flight," and that's set to continue through Christmas, with tentpoles and awards hopefuls arriving ever single week. To help you sort the wheat from the chaff, we've put together a list of the 10 best films to see over the rest of November. Check it out below, and let us know what you're looking forward to most.
Read More »
More: Features, Killing Them Softly, The Silver Linings Playbook, Rise Of The Guardians, Life Of Pi, The Central Park Five, Anna Karenina, Rust And Bone, Skyfall, Lincoln, Hitchcock

'Silver Linings Playbook' Soundtrack Features Stevie Wonder, Eagles Of Death Metal, Jessie J & More

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
  • |
  • November 5, 2012 5:09 PM
  • |
  • 6 Comments
News
Having been just bumped up a week because of great word of mouth, David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook" is one you're going to be hearing lots about over the next few weeks. And it's soundtrack packs a pretty decent punch too.
Read More »
More: The Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Soundtrack, Bradley Cooper

7 New Photos From 'Silver Linings Playbook'; Film Gets Released One Week Early In Limited Release Thanks To Strong Buzz

  • By Edward Davis
  • |
  • November 5, 2012 1:56 PM
  • |
  • 0 Comments
News
It's unquestionable at this point. Even if you haven't seen David O. Russell's dramedy "Silver Linings Playbook" about mental illness, marital failure and more (which is the boat most of the writers of this site are in), it's pretty damn clear that the film, which won the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival, is super crowd-pleasing, while sharp, funny and biting (our review from Toronto called it "hilarious and heartfelt"). Russell seemed to perfect the winning ratio of comedy to drama in "The Fighter" and it seems he's done the same with his latest. To wit: word of mouth on the film is evidently so high -- it's played virtually every film festival of the fall to huge accolades -- The Weinstein Company are moving up the film one week in limited release in 10 markets, including NY, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, DC, Miami, San Diego and Austin, who will all get to see the film before its wide release on November 21st.
Read More »
More: The Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence

We Don't Have To Talk About It: New Clip & TV Spot For 'Silver Linings Playbook' With Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Lawrence

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
  • |
  • October 31, 2012 7:53 PM
  • |
  • 3 Comments
News
After premiering at TIFF where it snagged the Audience Award, the buzz around David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook" has perhaps dipped a little as the awards season conversation has turned to "Argo," but don't expect that to last for long. The picture opened the Savannah Film Festival over the weekend, Jessie J's (terrible) song for the film has hit the web, and with the movie now a few weeks away from hitting theaters, you can expect The Weinstein Company to turn up the heat.
Read More »
More: The Silver Linings Playbook, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence

Follow Us

Email Updates

What's Poppin'

Recent Comments

Blog Roll

Around The Network

the network

indiewire

categories