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| ‘Neighbors’ grabs top spot at North American box office Posted: 11 May 2014 07:14 PM PDT Starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as new parents who find themselves living next door to a raucous fraternity, Universal Pictures' "Neighbors" raked in $51.1 million (RM165 million) from Friday to Sunday, figures from Exhibitor Relations showed. "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," the sequel featuring Andrew Garfield, settled for second, taking in $37.2 million for a total $148 million in the two weeks since release. In a distant third was "The Other Woman," the romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz, which had ticket sales of $9.25 million in its third week at movie theatres. In fourth place was "Heaven Is for Real," starring Greg Kinnear as the father of a four-year-old boy who wakes up from emergency surgery with a story about going to heaven and back. It pulled in $7 million as it slipped down the charts. Fifth was "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," based on the iconic Marvel superhero and starring Chris Evans, with $5.6 million. It has earnings of $245 million since release. Next up was animated flick "Rio 2," about a family of blue Macaw parrots with voices by Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway. It registered sales of $5.1 million. Seventh was PG-rated comedy "Moms' Night Out," pulling in $4.2 million on its first weekend. Rounding out the top 10 was another newcomer, "Legends of Oz" ($3.7 million), followed by "Divergent" ($1.7 million) and "Brick Mansions" ($1.5 million). – AFP, May 12, 2014. |
| Actor Hartnett takes on mystery and monsters in ‘Penny Dreadful’ Posted: 11 May 2014 05:31 PM PDT "Penny Dreadful", premiering on the CBS Corp cable network on Sunday, follows wealthy explorer Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton) on a quest to find his kidnapped daughter Mina, as a terrifying creature wreaks havoc by devouring humans in the nighttime shadows of London. Murray enlists the help of eclectic outsiders, some mined from British literature like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray and Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein, while others, such as Eva Green's mysterious Vanessa Ives or Hartnett's Ethan Chandler were developed by the show's creator John Logan. Hartnett, who makes his return to television after a breakout role 17 years ago in the short-lived series "Cracker", said he drew inspiration for the gun-slinging charmer Ethan from gunfighters of the old American West, such as Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. "He's a Russian doll of a character, and I wanted that to come across immediately," he said. "In that first scene, he's wearing a costume over a costume, he's wearing a mustache over a mustache. It's important to me that you know from the get-go that he's not what he seems." The term "penny dreadful" refers to cheap Victorian-era books containing tawdry, graphic stories of monsters and murder, and the show is loosely inspired by the tales of horror that thrilled working-class readers. "Penny Dreadful" is the latest US television show drawing from Victorian England after shows such as NBC's "Dracula" and Fox's "Sleepy Hollow" also resurrected gothic literary characters for the modern-day audience. Hartnett said he saw similarities in the social changes of 19th century England and today, accounting for why audiences may relate to the bygone age. "It was a time that was on the cusp of something new, which I think is kind of an equivalent to what's happening now, there's reverberation of change in everything," he said. The role of Ethan is a welcome return to the spotlight for the 35-year-old Hartnett, who became one of Hollywood's in-demand young stars in the early 2000s, with leading roles in 2001's "Pearl Harbor" and "Black Hawk Down". But after 2006's "The Black Dahlia", Hartnett – who opted not to take superhero roles for Spider-Man, Batman and Superman – stepped away from Hollywood's bigger budget fare, instead focusing on independent film projects such as 2008's "August". "There were a lot of the top directors in Hollywood that I had projects with that we were developing, and for one reason or another, things fell apart," he said. "Instead of doing lesser versions of those projects with other people or just doing something to keep my name out there, I pursued directors that were making really interesting projects that were off the beaten path." Hartnett is the latest actor to embrace television as part of a recent wave of shows that have drawn film-level talent, as networks are now financing mid-level budget productions of US$20 million (RM64.57 million) to US$50 million that Hollywood struggles to make. The actor hopes to step behind the camera himself to direct, saying filmmakers with smaller movies have more options now for releasing through different on-demand platforms. "I worked at a video store when I was younger, and I've always had a fascination with the two-hour format, that's why I've done a lot of film over the last few years," he said. "I would love to take some of the ideas that I come up with and put them into a film, and it's something that I'll hopefully will do in the future when the time is right." – Reuters, May 12, 2014. |
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