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Holiday Box Office: 'Les Mis' Beats 'Django' on Monday for No. 2, 'Hobbit' Safely on Top
3 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Tom Hooper's Les Miserables pulled ahead of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained on New Year's Eve, grossing $6.3 million on Monday to place No. 2 behind The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and pushing its domestic total to $73 million. Peter Jackson's Hobbit took in $7 million for a domestic total of $228.6 million. Django, from The Weinstein Co., took in $5.2 million for a cume of $73 million. Django and Les Mis have been in a relatively close race since both opened on Christmas Day, with Django winning the weekend. The film
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- Pamela McClintock
Mike Hopkins, Oscar-Winning Sound Editor, Dies in Rafting Accident
31 December 2012 7:20 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Mike Hopkins, the Oscar-winning sound editor behind "King Kong" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, died in a drowning accident in New Zealand on Sunday. He was 53. Hopkins (pictured right) was rafting with friends through the Tararua Range on New Zealand's North Island when the raft capsized, throwing him into the Waiohine River, according to the Australian. Hopkins was wearing a wetsuit, lifejacket and a helmet, but the river's fast flow dragged him under, police told the newspaper. The sound editor shared an Oscar with Ethan Van der Ryn for best »
- Alexander C. Kaufman
Jay-Z Composing Original Score for 'The Great Gatsby'
23 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
If you liked the music in the trailer for Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby," you'll be happy to hear Jay-Z isn't just lending a few of his songs to the soundtrack, he's composing the upcoming film's entire original score. The rapper is, apparently, hard at work to accomplish the task with another artist, who goes by the name The Bullitts. The latter broke the news on Twitter in the early morning hours Sunday. "Jay-Z and myself have been working tirelessly on the score for »
- Greg Gilman
'Hobbit' Huge Again, Bond Becomes Billionaire
31 December 2012 11:14 AM, PST | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Overseas business was booming on the final weekend of 2012: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey remained in first place by a large margin, though Life of Pi and Les Miserables also put up strong numbers. Meanwhile, Skyfall became the 14th movie ever to reach $1 billion worldwide, and that's before it even opens in China. The Hobbit grossed an estimated $106.5 million from 62 territories this weekend. Its biggest market was Australia, where it debuted to a massive $18.6 million. That's ahead of all three Lord of the Rings movies by a significant margin. Thanks to a holiday boost, The Hobbit's holdover territories dropped just 12 percent on average (about on par with its domestic dip). It remained in first place in Germany (up 16 percent to $16.7 million), the U.K. (up 12 percent to $10.9 million) and France (up 23 percent to $8.6 million). So far, The Hobbit has earned $464 million overseas and $686.7 million worldwide; while it would seem »
- Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Academy Extends Oscar Nomination Deadline to Jan. 4
21 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Oscar voters get one more day. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended the deadline for members to vote for Oscar nominations by one day to 5 Pm on Friday, January 4. (The original date was Thursday, January 3, 5 p.m. Pt). Members may vote online or via a paper ballot. Any votes received after the deadline will not be counted. “By extending the voting deadline we are providing every opportunity available to make the transition to online balloting as smooth as possible,” said Academy COO Ric Robertson in a release. “We’re grateful
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'Once Upon' scoop: 'Walking Dead' newbie cast in mysterious new role
31 December 2012 12:00 PM, PST | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
A newcomer on AMC’s The Walking Dead is joining the cast of ABC’s Once Upon a Time.
Actress Sonequa Martin-Green is joining ABC’s fantasy hit in the mysterious new role of Tamara. The chracter is is described as a charming and likable woman who’s secretly highly ambitious and a fearless leader driven to get what she wants. Not a lot to go on, but that’s all the information we have right now (I know, rough sledding trying to figure what Tamara’s mythological identity might be from that). Tamara is expected to be a recurring »
- James Hibberd
Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris' First Photo as Newlyweds—See It Here
52 minutes ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris really did tie the knot on New Year's Eve and we've got the first picture of the newlyweds to prove it! The 86-year-old Playboy founder shared the photo of the couple on Twitter with the caption: "Happy New Year from Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hefner!" In the snapshot, Hefner is wearing his iconic captain's hat, while Harris, 26, looks stunning in her light pink gown, which she tweeted a photo of. Hefner shared another photo of the couple, this time standing at the altar with his best man. "Crystal & I married on New Year's Eve in the Mansion with Keith as my Best Man," he wrote. "Love that girl!" Of course, Hefner and »
Happy New Year: Ring in 2013 By Reading Vulture's Best Writing of 2012
55 minutes ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
No humblebragging here, dear readers. We'll be straight up with you — we're very happy with all the work we did last year and we're even happier that you continue to visit us for your daily (hourly?) injection of pop culture goodness. Here's a long look back at our favorite pieces, videos, illustrations and advent calendars (fine, there was just that one) from 2012. We're looking forward to seeing you often in 2013.Movies Vulture’s 100 Most Valuable Movie Stars An Aural History of the Inception Horn How Does Silver Linings Playbook Handle Mental Illness? How Is It Spelled: Les Mis or Les Miz? 12 Movie Posters in Which Denzel is Not Effing Around Vulture Ranks All 28 Steven Spielberg Movies Its Ok For Action Heroes to Get Hurt Movie Trailers Do Not Need Their Own Trailers Can Kate Hudson Escape the Rom-Com Curse? Does Disney Have An Identity Crisis? The »
- Vulture Editors
Dick Clark — Gone But Not Forgotten — On New Year’S Eve
1 hour ago | Studio Briefing - TV News | See recent Studio Briefing - TV News news »
Although Dick Clark died last April, he was certainly not forgotten on New Year’s Eve, as a two-hour ABC special, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Celebrates Dick Clark, averaged 9.35 million viewers — more than twice the number of viewers who tuned in for any other program airing between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Monday night. Then at 10:00 p.m. Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest soared to 13.26 million viewers, clobbering NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly, which captured 3.80 million viewers (although NBC issued a press release observing that »
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Big Bang Theory — Biggest Ratings Bang Since Friends
1 hour ago | Studio Briefing - TV News | See recent Studio Briefing - TV News news »
Unless it falters substantially in the ratings between now and the end of the season in May, CBS’s The Big Bang Theory could turn out to be the most-watched sitcom since Friends went off the air in 2004, according to the website Zap2it.com. The website noted that first-run shows of the comedy are averaging 20.3 million viewers, while, with repeats, it has been averaging 19.05 million. The final season of NBC’s Friends wound with an average of about 20.8 million, Zap2it observed, while the biggest comedy since has been Everybody Loves Raymond, with 17.4 million viewers in its final season. »
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Hannity, O’Reilly See Ratings Plummet
1 hour ago | Studio Briefing - TV News | See recent Studio Briefing - TV News news »
Politico.com media columnist Dylan Byers has taken issue with New York Daily News TV writer Don Kaplan, who on Sunday headlined his column “Political commentator Sean Hannity was one of the big losers in the 2012 election.” Kaplan had written that Hannity’s ratings had “cratered” following the election as he lost around half his audience, while colleague Bill O’Reilly’s audience had dropped by nearly a third. He attributed the loss to viewer disillusionment over Hannity’s repeated forecasts — and those of his guests — that Mitt Romney would defeat Barack Obama by a landslide margin. Byers, on the other hand, »
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Academy Extends Oscar Voting One Day — But Why?
1 hour ago | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended by one day its deadline for members to submit their selections for Oscar nominations. But it was not immediately clear why it had done so. The original date was to have been Thursday of this week at 5:00 p.m. It is now Friday at 5:00 p.m. “By extending the voting deadline we are providing every opportunity available to make the transition to online balloting as smooth as possible,” Ric Robertson, the academy’s COO, said in a statement. This year marks the first year that academy voters have »
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New Technical Snafu Hits Netflix
1 hour ago | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
One week after Netflix’s streaming service suffered a lengthy outage on Christmas Eve, the company’s DVD-by-mail service was hit with its own technical issues. But while last week’s difficulty was blamed on Amazon’s cloud-based storage and computing system, Netflix left unexplained what had caused its DVD site to malfunction on Monday. (The streaming service was not affected.) “We are experiencing some technical difficulty with the Netflix DVD Web site [sic], which as a result may not be available for all members. Our engineers are working to address this issue,” the company said in a statement. Neither outage appeared to faze investors, »
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Netflix CEO Hastings Gets Big Pay Boost
1 hour ago | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who took a 43 percent pay cut after the blowup of his plan to raise subscription rates and divide the company in two — one to handle streaming, the other to handle physical DVDs — will have his pay doubled next year. Essentially he will receive $4 million next year, half in salary, the other half in stock options, according to the company’s latest SEC filing. Shares in the company have risen 29 percent since the beginning of 2012, but they are still way below their 2011 high before Hastings’s much criticized ploy. Net income is down 95 percent. And analysts have »
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Teen Mom 2's Jenelle Evans Tweets Split From Hubby Courtland Rogers After 26 Days? Not So Fast...
1 hour ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
After 26 days of what was surely wedded bliss, fans were lead to believe that Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans had called it quits with her husband Courtland Rogers. The duo were fighting on Twitter on Dec. 30 and hinted that they had split. "First of all why is yr daughter up at 11pm anyways when u were 'talking' to her on the phone?! Haha right," Evans tweeted yesterday about Rogers being on the phone late at night, and then wrote to him, "Im Single." If you're confused about what happened, don't worry; Courtland gave a very lengthy description of his side of the story on the social media site, but then quieted talks of a split just days later. "So I »
Len Goodman, Dancing with the Stars Judge, Marries Longtime Girlfriend
1 hour ago | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
From the judges' table to the altar! Len Goodman of Dancing with the Stars tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Sue Barrett on Sunday in London. The couple exchanged vows during a surprise ceremony in front of 30 family members and friends. Goodman, 68, and Barrett, 47, have been together for more than 10 years. "I've had a marvelous day and now my gorgeous Sue is the new Mrs. Goodman," the ballroom dancing expert tells the Daily Mail. This is Goodman's third marriage. »
- Maggie Coughlan
Ratings: ABC Rocks New Year's Eve Hard — Which Countdown Special Got Your Vote?
1 hour ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
ABC’s Rockin’ block of New Year’s Eve programming dominated the Monday ratings, delivering a few superlatives along the way.
From 8 to 10 pm — and with no rivals breaking a 1.0 rating — the Alphabet network’s tribute to dearly departed Dec. 31 ringmaster Dick Clark averaged 9.4 million total viewers and a 2.6 rating.
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The primetime hour of ABC’s Ryan Seacrest-fronted New Year’s Eve programming at 10 o’clock swelled to 13.3 million (its largest audience ever, since 2000) and a 4.1 demo rating. (By comparison, NBC’s »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
TV Ratings: ABC's 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' ends 2012 on top
1 hour ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Fast National ratings for Monday, December 31, 2012. ABC dominated Monday night with a variety of "New Year's Rockin' Eve" programming, celebrating its biggest New Year's Eve primetime numbers in 12 years. The other networks lagged well behind with their own mix of New Year's Eve programming and fuller like a burn-off episode of "The Mob Doctor," which drew predictably low numbers for Fox. For the night, ABC averaged a 3.1 rating among adults 18-49, topping the combined totals for the other four networks in the key demographic. NBC was second with a 0.9 key demo rating, followed »
- Daniel Fienberg
2013 Preview! Royal Baby, Brangelina Wedding and More Things That Are Totally Happening
2 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Now that the Mayan apocalypse is over, and it's 2013 and everything, what can we expect next? —Troy, Delaware, via Twitter Predicting the future? That's no problem, folks! It's pretty safe to say that the world is going to stick around, at least for another year. How's that for starters? Need more? Here we go. 1. That Royal Baby's Gonna Pop Out: Prince William and wife Kate Middleton haven't said exactly when Britain's future king or queen is due. However, when the couple announced their pregnancy in early December, they indicated that the Duchess of Cambridge wasn't yet out of her first trimester. So, while we're not likely looking at a spring »
Jessica Simpson & Jennifer Hudson Show Off Weight Loss in New Ad
2 hours ago | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Hudson have a lot in common, specifically when it comes to balancing their careers with motherhood. Now Simpson, 32, and Hudson, 31, have one more similarity to add to the list - they've both shed serious pounds thanks to Weight Watchers. The spokeswomen for the weight loss company met when they shot their first joint advertisement - which will be available on People.com on Wednesday - and discussed their lifelong struggles with their weight and body image. Hudson says she figured she was "just born that way," while Simpson added that she was "always on some new life-stopping diet. »
- Maggie Coughlan
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