Boy meets girl, grandpa meets robot in quirky Sundance comedies (omg!)
omg! - PARK CITY, Utah, Jan 22 (TheWrap.com) - Saturday's substantial snowfall may have slowed the Park City shuttle buses that take Sundance audiences from screening to screening, but the film festival kept on keeping on, with two afternoon world premieres that -- like previous Sundance hits "Little Miss Sunshine" and "The Kids Are All Right" -- tweak genre conventions while remaining exceedingly audience-friendly. ...
Fourth "Underworld" film leads domestic box office (omg!)
omg! - (Reuters) - Vampires and werewolves lured moviegoers to theaters this weekend as the fourth "Underworld" film topped domestic box office charts and brought in an estimated $38.8 million around the world. "Underworld: Awakening" stars Kate Beckinsale as a vampire leading the charge in a battle against humans trying to drive her species and the werewolves to extinction. The fourth movie opened stronger than two of the three earlier films in the franchise, which opened in 2003. "Awakening" pulled in $25.4 million at North American (U.S. and Canadian) theaters from Friday through Sunday, plus $13. ...
How Kourtney Kardashian Celebrated Mason Disick’s 2nd Birthday (omg!)
omg! - Kris, Bruce, Kendall and Kylie Jenner also showed up for the tot's bday held in Hidden Hills, Calif. in December
"Invisible War" exposes widespread rape in U.S. military (omg!)
omg! - PARK CITY, Utah, Jan 22 (TheWrap.com) - Rape in the American armed forces is an issue that has quietly been gathering attention over the past decade. But it exploded with the power of suppressed fury at the Sundance festival's Friday afternoon screening of the documentary "The Invisible War," a devastating indictment of the government's inaction on the issue. Director Kirby Dick brought a powerful weapon to his film: victim after eloquent victim, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, Army and Air Force veterans who were assaulted by fellow officers, supervisors or recruits. ...
`Underworld’ sinks teeth into box office with $25M (AP)
AP - Kate Beckinsale is back with a vengeance, with her latest "Underworld" movie opening at No. 1 this weekend.
Eugenides, Lethem among critics’ awards nominees (AP)
AP - Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, science-technology writer James Gleick and the late historian Manning Marable were among the nominees announced for the National Book Critics Circle awards
‘All My Children’s’ Lucci to host ‘real-life soap’ (AP)
AP - "All My Children" veteran Susan Lucci is returning to the world of soap operas. But this time, the stories will be real.
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