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Coen brothers stories: 6 news summaries

 Lakeview Bullies Box Office 

Samuel L. Jackson thriller beats Coen brothers for top spot

Sep 21, 08 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Samuel L. Jackson thriller Lakeview Terrace debuted at number one over a soft box office weekend, Variety reports. Banking $15.6 million, it ousted Burn After Reading ($11.3 million) and outpaced My Best Friend’s Girl ($8.3 million), Igor ($8 million), and Righteous Kill ($7.7 million). Ricky... More »

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Brad Pitt • Righteous Kill • box office • thriller • Samuel L. Jackson • Kate Hudson • Coen brothers • movies • Burn After Reading • Dane Cook • Lakeview Terrace

 Burn Leads 
 Box Office 
 Boom 

Comedy thriller records biggest opening ever for Coen brothers

Sep 14, 08 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Coen brothers' Burn After Reading led an unexpectedly strong box office weekend by nabbing top spot with $19.4 million, Variety reports. With overall sales up 35% over this frame last year, Tyler Perry’s The Family that Preys took second with $18 million, followed by Righteous Kill ($16.... More »

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Brad Pitt • film • box office • George Clooney • Tyler Perry • Coen brothers • Joel and Ethan Coen • Tilda Swinton

NEW RELEASE

 Burn Flares Up, Flames Out 

Critics love and hate new Coen brothers film with top-flight cast

Aug 29, 08 3:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Burn After Reading, a dark comedy about Washington bureaucrats and other buffoons, “tries to mate sex farce with a satire of a paranoid political thriller, with arch and ungainly results,” Todd McCarthy writes in Variety. The Coen brothers dial everything up to “an almost grotesquely exaggerated extent... More »

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Brad Pitt • movie review • George Clooney • Coen brothers

Box Office Enchanted

Disney princess flick owns Thanksgiving weekend

Nov 25, 07 4:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Enchanted charmed moviegoers out of $50 million this weekend, one of the best turkey weekend scores ever, Variety reports. Its magic veiled a strong debut by Sony-Screen Gems’ This Christmas, which banked $27.1 million. Newcomers August Rush and The Mist fizzled in seventh and... More »

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Jerry Seinfeld • Sony • Disney • box office • Coen brothers • movies

Bee Movie Goes to Head
of the Class

Seinfeld vehicle passes American Gangster for number one spot

Nov 11, 07 5:20 PM CST
(Newser) - In a rare second-week coup, Bee Movie topped the weekend box office and passed fellow sophomore American Gangster, Variety reports. The Denzel Washington flick dropped 44% after leading last week, while Bee fell just 32%. Newcomer Fred Claus took third, with a less than stellar $19.2 million, while Lions ... More »

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entertainment • film • Tom Cruise • Jerry Seinfeld • audiences • box office • Denzel Washington • Russell Crowe • Coen brothers • United Artists • movies

No Country Is Thriller Heaven

Coen brothers adapt McCarthy novel to good effect

Nov 9, 07 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - It's a far piece from their Oscar-winning Fargo, but No Country for Old Men, the new thriller from Joel and Ethan Coen, is generating the same kind of buzz. Set in a West Texas border town in 1980, No Country, an adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel about a... More »

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movie review • Tommy Lee Jones • Coen brothers • Joel Coen • Ethan Coen • Fargo • Javier Bardem • Josh Brolin • Cormac McCarthy

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