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[637] February 19th - Valentine's Day Los Angeles Premiere[035] February 19th - Valentine's Day Los Angeles Premiere - After Party
[069] February 21st - 12th Annual I Have A Dream Foundation's Los Angeles Gospel Brunch
VALENTINE'S DAY
Posted on 16 Feb 2010 by jess / Add a comment? 0
[009] Stills[001] On Set
[008] Promotional Photoshoot
'Valentine's Day' takes Friday b.o.
Posted on 15 Feb 2010 by jess / Add a comment? 0
Warner Bros.' ensemble romantic comedy "Valentine's Day" delivered a sweet $14.6 in estimated first-day boxoffice Friday to start the four-day President’s Day weekend in first place.The New Line-produced ensemble romancer is sure to pad its lead big-time during Sunday's titular holiday. A four-day bow north of $50 million is likely.
Elsewhere in the daily rankings, Universal debuted the Benicio Del Toro starrer "The Wolfman" with $9.8 million, good for second place among the daily rankings. The horror pic's daily grosses will be closely watched for the balance of the holiday-stretched session, as patron word of mouth will be key to its success after many critics snapped at "Wolfman."
Fox's family adventure "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" saw $9.7 million in opening-day coin to launch in third place, with prospects of more robust b.o. once the weekend's kid-filled matinees kick in.
Fox-distributed "Avatar" rung up $4.5 million on Friday, taking up fourth place following its first frame of inhabiting anywhere but the top spot. The sci-fi epic totes $642.1 million in cumulative domestic b.o.
Entering its sophomore session, Sony/Relativity's romantic drama "Dear John" scribbled $4.1 million in fifth place for with an eight-day cume of $43 million.
Lionsgate's John Travolta starrer "From Paris With Love" -- another soph-session holdover -- fetched $2.7 million in seventh place Friday for a $13.8 million cume.
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Posted on 11 Feb 2010 by jess / Add a comment? 0
[104] January 17th - 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals[025] January 17th - 11th Annual Warner Bros.InStyle Golden Globes After Party
[006] February 1st - Valentine's Day Press Conference
'Valentine's Day' Sort-Of-Sequel Underway
Posted on 11 Feb 2010 by jess / Add a comment? 0
Little wonder Warner Bros' New Line is in love with the Garry Marshall-directed Valentine’s Day because of its formula of cramming more than a dozen stars into a film and keeping the budget below $50 million. Now I'm told there's a sort-of-sequel underway. Valentine’s Day scribe Katherine Fugate has turned in a draft of New Year’s Eve, which Toby Emmerich and Richard Brener are reading this weekend, with Warner Bros bosses to follow shortly.I'm told that, during production, New Line execs Sam Brown and Michael Disco started brainstorming with producers Mike Karz, Wayne Allan Rice and Josie Rosen as well as writer Fugate on how to use the ensemble formula again. New Year's Eve was the logical choice. They agreed the holiday possibilities are endless. (I wouldn't be surprised if the franchise in the future is focused not just around major ones but even secondary ones like Arbor Day.)
Execs will enlist Valentine's Day director Garry Marshall on the new pic, as well as bring in some VDay characters for continuity. Those actors will segue into the new New York-set relationship ensemble story that uses December 31st and a little after midnight on January 1st as the plotline’s ticking clock. So these days, when most films can barely afford even 2 major stars, how did Valentine’s Day keep down costs for the cast including Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba, Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway, Patrick Dempsey, Taylor Lautner, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah and Emma Roberts? I've learned most worked for discounted quotes and some back-end because they were able to film their parts quickly and then leave for other projects. All that talent makes for an impressive trailer (the one-sheet is so crowded that only thumbnails of the stars in the shape of a heart was possible), giving the illusion that the stars are in the pic from start to finish.
If Valentine’s Day opens the way Dear John did, the studio will be thrilled. And Toby Emmerich will be on a romance roll. The Warner Bros-based shingle gets 7.5% of Dear John’s first-dollar gross receipts, the reward for Emmerich having bought the Nicholas Sparks novel first and then completely packaging the love story (except he hired Miguel Arteta to direct). But his former bosses, Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, didn’t like the project as much as he did. That's when Dear John was snapped up by Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity and distributed by Sony's Screen Gems.
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Posted on 04 Feb 2010 by jess / Add a comment? 0
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