The US summer movie season opens with a blast Friday as Disney's much-anticipated, $220 million "The Avengers" storms onto more than 4,000 domestic screens with expectations that it could earn between $150 million and $170 million in its first weekend. The record is held by last year's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" at $169.2 million.
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A novel approach to making blockbuster movies
Wednesday 25 April 2012
The Lucky One, starring Zac Efron and out next week, is not just another Hollywood romance, it's another Hollywood romance from author Nicholas Sparks.
Also showing: A Cat in Paris, Le havre, Titanic 3D and Gang Story
Sunday 08 April 2012
A Cat In Paris (61 mins)
Exhibitions, superstitions a 3D film and now stamps mark Titanic anniversary
Thursday 05 April 2012
Events, exhibitions, films and TV shows will all mark the anniversary of ill-fated voyage
Winslet sails again as Titanic gains a new dimension
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Kate Winslet signed autographs as she walked the red carpet at the re-launch of the film that made her a star.
Simon Carr: Disgrace! Ker-ching! Rowdy Labour indignation as 'ashamed Dave' fails to show
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Sketch: Cameron had made his shameful statement in the morning and was cowering in a feculent hole counting £50 notes
Hollywood director James Cameron's sub reaches deepest point of the ocean
Monday 26 March 2012
Hollywood director James Cameron has completed his journey to the deepest point of the ocean.
Titanic expected to fetch ad rates of close to £60,000 for ITV
Sunday 25 March 2012
ITV could bank as much as £4m in advertising this weekend thanks to the launch of Britain's Got Talent and new Sunday night drama Titanic, its two most important shows of the year so far.
Into the abyss... James Cameron sets sail on voyage to bottom of the sea
Wednesday 21 March 2012
Titanic director set to become first person in 50 years to reach foot of the Mariana Trench
The forgotten victims: How the Titanic tragedy handed a devastating legacy to the people of Southampton
Sunday 04 March 2012
Of the 700 crew who perished on the Titanic, 550 came from Southampton. Their stories have rarely been told – until now.
Archie Bland: Let's make the Oscars a ceremony you can sit through
Wednesday 25 January 2012
I've always viewed the Oscars roughly the way I view Formula One: I'm quite interested in knowing the results, but the process by which they're produced is basically unwatchable. Over here, where things are still amateur enough that something is liable to go wrong – see Freddie Starr's recent inscrutable performance at the Comedy Awards – they're still reasonably entertaining.
Coriolanus, Ralph Fiennes, 123 mins (15)
J Edgar, Clint Eastwood, 137 mins (15)
Sunday 22 January 2012
Can you all please stop going back to the future?
Duel for the crown of Screen Queen
Thursday 22 December 2011
Hollywood's patriarchal power structure is being challenged by two women whose scripts have grossed $5bn
How To Survive the Titanic (or The Sinking of J Bruce Ismay), By Frances Wilson
Sunday 04 September 2011
All washed up: The man who jumped ship
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