'Limitless' Tops Weekend Box Office With $19 Million
CHICAGO – There was no stopping "Limitless" at the box office.
The sci-fi thriller opened at No. 1 this weekend with $19 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
CHICAGO – There was no stopping "Limitless" at the box office.
The sci-fi thriller opened at No. 1 this weekend with $19 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
LOS ANGELES – In the gripping thriller "The Lincoln Lawyer," Matthew McConaughey stars as Michael "Mick" Haller, a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Continental sedan.
LOS ANGELES – Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro star in "Limitless," a paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Trace Adkins summed up his role in the new film "The Lincoln Lawyer" in his own succinct way when he gathered friends and media for a screening of it recently.
"I'm in it at the beginning and the end and there's a buncha crap in the middle," Adkins said with a smile of the movie, which opened Friday.
AUSTIN, Texas – Jodie Foster premiered the quirky but dark movie "The Beaver" at the South by Southwest Film Festival on Wednesday night, saying she's grateful for the performance by troubled actor and friend Mel Gibson.
LOS ANGELES – An Iraq war veteran who claims he is the basis for "The Hurt Locker" wrote in a court filing signed in Afghanistan that the movie has placed his life at risk and subjected him to ridicule about his bomb disposal prowess.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – A California startup is making new hit movies such as "The Fighter" available for instant viewing online through a loophole: It lets customers rent a DVD and a player that are actually located in the Silicon Valley.
TOKYO – Early estimates indicate a steep drop-off in box office revenue outside the U.S. immediately following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
LONDON – Robert Redford says he is planning to launch a four-day version of the Sundance Film Festival in London.
LONDON – A British jury on Monday cleared an Oscar-winning special effects supervisor over the death of a cameraman during the making of "Batman: The Dark Knight."
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