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8 July 2008 3:07 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Top Ten Best Movies Midway Through 2008 Figuring out the ten worst films over the course of the first six months of 2008 was difficult because there were so many. Unfortunately, figuring out the best films of the first six months wasn't nearly as difficult as it turns out there was really only one film left on the outside along with one major exception. First off, Cloverfield didn't make the list and for what I believe are obvious reasons. As much as Cloverfield is a fun movie to watch the first time you see it there isn't much to enjoy after that. The first 18 minutes or so are worthless set-up pieces that you never want to watch again and the last 60 minutes of the film are still a bit fun, but the mystery behind the film has already been revealed and the unexpected deaths are no longer unexpected and you begin to

Brad Brevet

8 July 2008 2:51 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Will Smith, box-office hero!

Photo: Columbia Pictures As Steve Mason points out in his early Friday box-office estimate article, July 4th falling on a Friday is not the best of news. The chances the same number of people heading out to the theater for a movie on a July 4th Friday aren't the same as say a Wednesday. However, that isn't stopping Will Smith's poorly reviewed Hancock from scoring over $100 million in it's five-day weekend along with scoring the second best July 4th performance just behind Spider-Man 2. Hancock scored $41.3 million in its first two-and-a-half days of release thanks to a limited number of screenings on Tuesday, July 1st. The early estimate for Friday are $18 million, playing July 4th number two to Spider-Man 2, which amassed $21.95 back in 2004. Mason's predictions for the rest of the weekend have Hancock bringing in about $103.23 million for the five-day weekend. This will give Will Smith 12 films reaching $100 million,

Brad Brevet

5 July 2008 3:48 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Seen on: July 3, 2008

The players: Director: Patricia Rozema, Writers: Ann Peacock, Vincent Ngo, Cast: Abigail Breslin, Stanley Tucci, Glenne Headly, Jane Krakowski, Julia Ormond

Facts of interest: Based on the American Girl doll line.

The plot: The film mainly focuses on the Great Depression as seen through the eyes of a young, aspiring writer named Kit Kittredge.

Our thoughts: “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” proves that casting Abigail Breslin as the lead character in a kids’ film doesn’t automatically guarantee a masterpiece. Although the film based on the popular doll line isn’t exactly a total bore, it clearly neglects its need for entertainment by overloading its viewers with historical information.

Franck Tabouring

2 July 2008 10:37 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Parents will have plenty of choice when it comes to family films over the July 4th holiday. In addition to last weekend's hit Wall-e and the earlier release Kung Fu Panda, the Abigail Breslin starrer Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is opening wide today, after showing in a handful of theaters during the previous two weeks. The movie, aimed at girls who have latched on to the books, magazines, and dolls associated with the character, is not expected to become any sort of threat to the earlier releases, even though it's receiving some surprisingly strong reviews. Indeed, Roger Ebert concedes that since he was aware that the movie was based on the American Girl products, he had expected "some kind of banal product placement." What he got instead, he says is a "miracle" -- a movie that "has a great look, engaging performances, real substance and even a few whispers of political ideas, all surrounding the freshness and charm of Abigail Breslin, who was 11 when it was filmed." Several critics observe that parents are likely to enjoy the film as much as -- or even more than -- their kids. Rafer Guzmán in Newsday calls it "a kiddie film that's worth an adult ticket, too." Lou Lumenick in the New York Post even goes further, calling it "one of the 10 best American movies released so far this year." Not all critics are so pleasantly stricken. Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer says that the film is "admirable, always, pleasant in passages, but never fully engages ... episodic and pleasant instead of emotional and poignant."

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20 June 2008 8:45 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Julia Roberts may be a global superstar, but Thursday night Abigail Breslin was the focus of screaming fans – hordes of little girls, that is – at the premiere of Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. Roberts, as one of the film's executive producers, made an appearance on the red carpet at Manhattan's Ziegfield Theatre, along with Julianne Moore and her kids, and Jada Pinkett Smith and daughter Willow, who appears in the movie. But it was 12-year-old Breslin, the lead in the film inspired by the American Girl doll phenomenon, who drew the star worship, with packs of girls – many of them

Jeffrey Slonim and Jennifer Wren

19 June 2008 2:03 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Making a movie based on an elite line of dolls sounds like a cynical marketing tool, but say this about Kit Kittredge, the scrappy li'l Depression-era reporter from Cincinnati: She stands to do more to advance the hobo cause than anyone this side of John Hodgman. After witnessing the silver-screen outing of the consumerist, cliquish Bratz dolls, parents will probably be happy with young Kit, who exhibits compassion, selflessness, and a prim, impeccable sense of style, even in a dress fashioned from a chicken-feed sack. Trouble is, such noble qualities rarely make for invigorating cinema, and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl languishes in G-rated earnestness, content to promote decency while soft-pedaling the outside forces that challenge it. It's all message, no tension. What energy the film does muster is owed mostly to Abigail Breslin's plucky turn as Kit, a 10-year-old girl whose dreams of being a reporter are simultaneously.

Scott Tobias

17 June 2008 9:37 AM, PDT | From newser.com | See recent newser news

Pint-sized Abigail Breslin swears that her Oscar nod and whirlwind career have barely changed her life, Vanity Fair reports. She will admit that her best supporting actress nomination for Little Miss Sunshine “was really exciting," but so are the 12-year-old's veterinary dreams. “I got to ride a sea lion, and I got to play with pelicans and lizards" in her latest film, she said. "It was awesome."

16 June 2008 8:33 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer and Alison Willmore

This week on the IFC News podcast, we're inspired by the upcoming release of "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," starring current reigning child star Abigail Breslin, as well as the recent passing of "It's a Wonderful Life"'s Bobby Anderson and the arrest of Tatum O'Neal, to take a look at child actors on screen, how to best make the leap into adult stardom and what happens when you can't.

Download now (MP3: 34:07 minutes, 31.2 Mb) Podcast feeds: [Xml] [iTunes]

[Photo: Tatum O'Neal in "Paper Moon," Paramount Pictures, 1973]

Alison Willmore

16 June 2008 7:56 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

While Steve Carell and Mike Myers face off at the multiplexes this week, indie theaters fight back with a wide range of quirk, including a meter maid romance, a doc on balloon animals and a horror flick about killer hair extensions.

"Brick Lane"

"Brick Lane" in London's East End might be just a relatively short jaunt down the M1 from Salford, but it's still a million miles (and a decade) away from the careful multi-ethnic empathy of another film that dealt with south Asian refugees in England, the 1970s-set "East is East." This story follows 18-year-old Nazneem (Tannishtha Chatterjee), who steps off a plane from Bangladesh and into an arranged marriage with middle-aged Chanu (Satish Kaushik). Bored and lonely, she's forced to question her beliefs when the charismatic and secular Karim (Christopher Simpson) knocks on her door. Director Sarah Gavron landed herself a Bafta nomination for this

Neil Pedley

5 June 2008 12:16 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin refuses to watch medical TV shows - because she is a hypochondriac.

The child star admits the programmes make her fear she will be struck down by an illness.

She tells New York gossip column Page Six, "I'm not allowed to watch medical TV shows. (Once), I was worried that I was going to step on glass, so I wore shoes even in bed... I thought I had bird flu, so for a long time I wouldn't go near any birds."

And Breslin, who recently filmed Nim's Island in Australia, feared she had been bitten by a poisonous spider, so she made sure she was pals with the set's first aider.

She adds, "My best friend on the set was the medic."

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3 April 2008 2:07 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

A kiddie adventure film set in motion by a horrifying act of neglect, Nim's Island casts Gerard Butler and Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin as a father/daughter team who enjoy an idyllic existence on an otherwise uninhabited South Pacific island. Butler conducts research on microplankton; Breslin befriends local animals and reads voraciously, especially the pulpy tales starring, and apparently written by, an Indiana Jones-like adventurer named Alex Ryder (also played by Butler in fantasy sequences). All seems to be going well until Butler decides to take a two-day research jaunt at sea, only to hit a storm that leaves him stranded, while Breslin wonders whether her dad is ever coming back. By sheer coincidence, she receives an e-mail from Ryder, asking a question about her island's inactive volcano. Not realizing that Alex Ryder is actually Alexandra Ryder (Jodie Foster), an agoraphobic San Francisco author, Breslin asks her for.

Keith Phipps

1 April 2008 10:28 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin gave Australia's animals something to smile about - thanks to a swear box on the set of her new family film Nim's Island.

Appalled by Scottish actor Gerard Butler's cursing, the child star insisted that all cast and crew pay $2 (GBP1) every time they swore in front of her - and she gave the cash to animal charity the Royal Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals (Rspca).

She says, "All together, with everybody contributing to the swear jar, we made $150 and we donated it to the Rspca."

Breslin admits co-star Butler was responsible for much of the cash she raised.

She adds, "It built up to, like, $12 really quickly and then he said to me, 'I'm gonna give you $20, and the next four times that I swear I don't have to pay you. I get them for free.'

"I'm like, 'That's not the way it works.'"

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31 March 2008 8:17 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

This week is something of a nostalgia trip with a period comedy, Freddie Prinze Jr. and a concert documentary about a group of men who, by all the laws of man and nature, should not still be alive and walking around.

"The Flight of the Red Balloon"

After being nominated for the Palme d'Or an incredible five times at Cannes, it's no wonder that director Hou Hsiao-hsien has become a Francophile. In his first film outside of Asia, the "Three Times" auteur directs the country's first lady of cinema, Juliette Binoche, in a story about an overburdened mother who receives a much-needed lift from her son's Chinese nanny (Song Fang) as they turn the City of Lights into a magical playground for the 7-year-old Simon . a tribute to Albert Lamorisse's 1956 short. In French with subtitles.

Opens in limited release.

"Jack and Jill vs. the World

Neil Pedley

26 March 2008 6:26 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Oscar-nominated child star Abigail Breslin has a celebrity crush on teen boy band The Jonas Brothers.

The Little Miss Sunshine star is only 11, but already has her sights set on the clean-cut trio, who recently revealed they were virgins - and will remain so until they wed.

She reveals, "I love the Jonas brothers... I love them all. But Nick's my favourite."

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9 March 2008 4:01 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Pamela Anderson's soon-to-be ex-husband Rick Salomon has landed a role in Cameron Diaz's new movie My Sister's Keeper.

While Anderson is seeking an annulment to end her brief marriage to the poker player, Salomon is using his notoriety to land film roles.

As well as marrying the Baywatch babe, Salomon also starred in the One Night In Paris sex video, which he shot with then-girlfriend Paris Hilton.

And now he's set for the big screen, according PlanetGossip.Eonline.com.

Salomon is set to play a courtroom bailiff in the drama, in which a mum, played by Diaz, is sued for emancipation by her daughter. Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin will play the Charlie's Angels star's girl.

And sources tell the website that Salomon has a speaking role.

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15 articles from 2008