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Movie News Wrap Up: January 03, 2010

7 hours ago | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Welcome to the first Wrap Up of 2010. It’s been a quiet week movie news wise, so there isn’t a great deal to report except:

Avatar is still number one at the box office; Mel Gibson is involved in Mad Max 4; Whitaker, Winstone and Li visit St Vincent with Mickey Rourke.

 

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James Cameron must be a very happy man. Avatar has now crossed the $300 million marker at the U.S. box office – with $350 million now in the bank. The film now has $1 billion in global ticket sales and even with the budget for the film and marketing being mooted as high as $500 million it has now sailed into the waters marked profit on the map.

Sherlock Holmes was number 2 again with a respectable $38 million gross, giving the Robert Downey Jr adventure film an impressive $140 million total.

Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel banked another $37 million for a huge $158 million total. »

- Niall Browne

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Viggo Mortensen talks about being 'naked from the inside' in The Road

2 January 2010 5:07 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »

Rumours had claimed that Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen had lived on the streets in preparation for his latest role in The Road, released in the UK on January 8.

The intense method actor actually only spoke to and studied the homeless but he lost a dramatic amount of weight to play an ill, unkempt, unwashed figure in John Hillcoat's film based on Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel.

The film sees The Father (Mortensen) and his son, The Boy (13-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee) on the road in a dead, barren landscape, fighting for survival among the last few remaining humans, many of whom have turned to violence and even cannibalism for survival.

Mortensen, 51, revealed: "There were certain things [I needed to change] externally - obviously I couldn't look extremely well-fed. So I lost some weight, ate less, was more careful about what I ate and so forth.

"But after a certain point it »

- David Bentley

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The Road | Film Review

2 January 2010 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

A stark adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel brings out all its harrowing yet ultimately life-enhancing qualities, writes Philip French

In the past, some of it not too distant, people the world over have thought during times of plague and famine that they were living in the last days of our planet. For most of us today, such visions are of a future where a nuclear holocaust, global warming or some other man-created calamity threaten the imminent end of life on earth. In his masterpiece, The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman brought together both experiences by projecting the nuclear angst of the 1950s (a major cinematic subject at the time) on to a Sweden of the Middle Ages visited by the black death. Earlier, the 1936 film based on Hg Wells's Things To Come foresaw a world war in 1940 that would return Britain to a dark age of tribes battling for depleted resources. »

- Philip French

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The best films of the decade

2 January 2010 8:18 AM, PST | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »

"Synecdoche, New York" is the best film of the decade. It intends no less than to evoke the strategies we use to live our lives. After beginning my first viewing in confusion, I began to glimpse its purpose and by the end was eager to see it again, then once again, and I am not finished. Charlie Kaufman understands how I live my life, and I suppose his own, and I suspect most of us. Faced with the bewildering demands of time, space, emotion, morality, lust, greed, hope, dreams, dreads and faiths, we build compartments in our minds. It is a way of seeming sane.

The mind is a concern in all his screenplays, but in "Synecdoche" (2008), his first film as a director, he makes it his subject, and what huge ambition that demonstrates. He's like a

novelist who wants to get it all into the first book in case he never publishes another. »

- Roger Ebert

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