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'Iron Man 3' finishes with $174.1M opening weekend
Disney's Marvel Studios continues to mine precious metal with a $174.1 million opening weekend for "Iron Man 3," the second-biggest domestic debut ever behind the $200-million-plus launch of "The Avengers" a year ago. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters from Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, ...
'Pain & Gain' leads US box office with $20.2M
Mark Wahlberg's true-crime romp "Pain & Gain" led the domestic box office with $20.2 million over a quiet weekend that preceded the start of Hollywood's summer blockbuster season. Summer's first big debut, "Iron Man 3," arrives in U.S. theaters Friday, with anticipation stoked by an overseas debut a week earlier ...
Big growth likely for Georgia's film industry
A few years ago, Georgia was locked in a bidding war with North Carolina over the Disney movie, "The Last Song," starring Miley Cyrus. Both states wanted the movie to film in their state, and North Carolina was close to sealing the deal with an attractive tax incentive package. But ...
Tyler Perry meets the neighbors
Tyler Perry Meets the Neighbors. Sounds like a Tyler Perry television show, huh? Only this actually happened. Atlanta's hardest working man in show business popped by the Atlanta Symphony Associates' Decorators Show House on Tuesday afternoon.The 18,000-square-foot estate, decorated some of the Southeast’s most talented designers, will be on through May ...
'Oblivion' blasts off with $37M at box office
"Oblivion" cruised to the top of the weekend box office. The Tom Cruise science-fiction thriller led Hollywood with a $37 million debut. Though many people Friday were caught up in coverage of the manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosions, it seems to have had little effect on ...
Jackie Robinson Day: '42' wins weekend with $27.5M
The Jackie Robinson drama "42" led the domestic box office with $27.5 million in its opening weekend, 66 years after he became the first black player in Major League Baseball. Monday was Jackie Robinson Day, when all big-leaguers wear No. 42 in his honor to mark his debut with the ...
'42' scores at home, Cruise dominates overseas
Baseball has scored a rare hit in Hollywood, while another American institution — Tom Cruise — has delivered his latest hit overseas. The Jackie Robinson tale "42" took in $27.3 million to claim the weekend box-office championship domestically, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film has yet to open overseas, ...
'Evil Dead' revival possesses fans with $25.8M
The horror remake "Evil Dead" has opened as the top draw at theaters with a first weekend of $25.8 million. The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of ...
'Evil Dead' rises again with $26M box-office stake
Resurrected demons and resurrected dinosaurs are helping to put some life back into the weekend box office. The demonic horror remake "Evil Dead" debuted at No. 1 with $26 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. In a tight fight for second-place were two holdovers, the animated comedy "The Croods" and ...
Oprah, Tyler Perry use iconic characters to promote OWN alliance
To promote Tyler Perry's first two OWN series, he dressed up as Madea and paired with Oprah Winfrey, reprising her "Color Purple" character for a teaser 60-second commercial. Madea is lost, looking for "OWN." This teaser was shot in Atlanta and began airing tonight. Perry's drama “The Haves and the ...
How much longer will NeNe and Kandi remain "Housewives?"
Kandi Burruss and NeNe Leakes were among the notables on the red carpet for Tyler Perry's new movie, "Temptation," over the weekend. Both ladies have plenty going on outside their "Real Housewives of Atlanta" gig so we asked them both how much longer they'll stay. "I don't know," Kandi said. ...
Tyler Perry's private party
Following the red-carpet screening of "Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor" on Saturday night, writer/director Tyler Perry welcomed invited guests to his home for a party. No photos were allowed, so I'll just have to tell you about it. First, Perry stood at the door and personally welcomed every person ...
Kim Kardashian to appear at Tyler Perry screening?
Tyler Perry plans a red-carpet screening for his new movie, "Tyler Perry's Temptation," at 5 p.m. Saturday at the AMC Parkway Pointe theater in Cobb County. Red carpet celebs scheduled to appear include Perry, the film's writer/director, and cast members Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Lance Gross, Robbie Jones, Renee Taylor and Ella ...
Video: Celebrity Apprentice, For Better or Worse, Walking Dead
CineStars' Brittany Umar and I discuss "Celebrity Apprentice," "Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse" moving to OWN and "The Walking Dead."
OWN picks up Tyler Perry's "For Better or Worse" from TBS
There were rumors in 2011 into 2012 that Atlanta super media mogul Tyler Perry would launch his own cable network. But instead, he decided to help out an even bigger media mogul's burgeoning network: Oprah Winfrey. OWN has not only placed two new Atlanta-based Perry series in production ("Love Thy ...
TV bits: John Schneider working with Tyler Perry; TBS cancels 'Wedding Band,' profile of Brett Butler
- Atlanta-based TBS cancels "Wedding Band," according to an exclusive story in The Hollywood Reporter. It seemed like the Brian Austin Green vehicle was never given a real vote of confidence from TBS, especially when the network scheduled the show on Saturday night, known as Death Valley for most original ...
Tyler Perry replaces disabled Decatur woman’s stolen van
Imagine her surprise when Alicia Day’s father handed her the phone. It was Tyler Perry calling, and he wanted to replace her stolen van. “God is good, and Tyler Perry is just wonderful,” Day told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday. The Atlanta movie mogul had heard a Channel 2 Action ...
Spidey, Batman lead huge summer lineup
As superhero summers go, this one is truly super. Amid one of the most-promising box-office seasons Hollywood has ever served up, three movies stand above the rest. The first weekend in May brought "The Avengers," the ensemble adventure teaming Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man with such fellow Marvel Comics heroes ...
Ice Cube talks ‘21 Jump Street,' Tyler Perry and new music
There was a time when Ice Cube defined rap.In the late '80s, the debut of his N.W.A. crew, “Straight Outta Compton,” effectively launched the gangsta rap genre and shined a spotlight on West Coast hip-hop.Throughout the next decade, after a nasty split with N.W.A., Cube, born O'Shea Jackson, expanded his ...
Tyler Perry helps memorialize Whitney Houston
“Today is your day, Whitney. Today is your day.”And so Pastor Joe A. Carter of New Hope Baptist Church opened the multi-hour “home going” ceremony of pop superstar Whitney Houston, a singer celebrated for her unparalleled vocals and humanized by her public struggles with addiction.Houston was a New Jersey girl ...
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