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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Coen brothers stories: 16 news summaries
AO SCOTT

 A Look Back at 
 Movies of the '00s 

Which films will be remembered, and which ones deserve it?

Nov 14, 09 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - The shifting sands of entertainment technology make a look at the past decade's movies a tricky proposition simply because standing the test of time means something different almost daily. "The possibility of a digital, on-demand afterlife guarantees at least a theoretically universal long-tail immortality to blockbusters and curiosities alike,... More »

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entertainment • Steven Spielberg • independent film • film • Coen brothers • Joel Coen • Ethan Coen • Joel and Ethan Coen • movies • film criticism • indie film • 2000s

 Coen Brothers' Ad
Knocks 'Clean Coal'

Filmmaking duo mock coal industry in ad for Al Gore green group

Feb 27, 09 3:59 AM CST
(Newser) - The Coen brothers chuck the notion of "clean coal" into the woodchipper in a new ad commissioned by Al Gore’s Reality Coalition, the Guardian reports. The ad, which the filmmaking duo directed for the anti-coal environmental group, features a salesman spraying black smog from a can marked "... More »

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coal • film director • advertisements • Coen brothers • Joel Coen • Ethan Coen • clean coal

 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

MOVIE REVIEW

 Coens Burn, But Not Brightly

No Country follow-up funny, but not the brothers' best

Sep 12, 08 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Burn After Reading is your standard Coen Brothers comedy: It’s black, clever, and zany, and David Ansen writes in Newsweek that he “enjoyed just about every heartlessly jolly minute of it.” The film is nominally a spy/thriller spoof, its sidewinder plot involving airhead gym employees... More »

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Brad Pitt • movie review • George Clooney • Coen brothers • Tilda Swinton • Burn After Reading

 Jones Sues
 for $10M in
 No Country Pay

Paramount hasn't coughed up promised bonuses, he argues

Sep 7, 08 7:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Actor Tommy Lee Jones has sued the producers of Oscar Award-winning No Country for Old Men for $10 million he claims is owed him. The suit charges Paramount Pictures failed to pay Jones a promised chunk of "significant box-office bonuses" and other compensation linked to the success of the... More »

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film • Paramount Pictures • Tommy Lee Jones • Paramount • Coen brothers • No Country for Old Men • movies

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

GLOSSIES

 Dude: Why Lebowski Is Still Big

Cult classic 'symbolic of a whole way of life'

Aug 26, 08 6:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - A decade after its disappointing box-office release, The Big Lebowski endures as a cult classic, inspiring academic papers, annual festivals, and hot new comics like Seth Rogen. To find out why, Rolling Stone tracked down the cast and a few hardcore fans who say Lebowski is more a movement... More »

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Rolling Stone • pop culture • Jeff Bridges • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Coen brothers • The Big Lebowski

Non-Mainstream Seduced Oscar

Non-Americans are dominating as increasing revenue comes from overseas

Feb 25, 08 7:35 AM CST
(Newser) - For a Hollywood award, Oscar wasn't too fond of Tinseltown last night. The Academy Awards were dominated by a crew of crack European actors—and a pair of maverick brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, operating far from the Hollywood mainstream. It was a record year for the number of Oscars... More »

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Hollywood • Academy Awards • Coen brothers • Joel Coen • Ethan Coen • No Country for Old Men • Javier Bardem • Joel and Ethan Coen • There Will Be Blood • Marion Cotillard • Daniel Day-Lewis • Tilda Swinton • Bardem • Oscars

Critics Pick Top Flicks for '07

Juno, I'm Not There, and No Country take top spots

Jan 1, 08 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Film critics offer their top picks for 2007, ranging from quirky dramedy (Juno) to drama (Michael Clayton) to foreign fare (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).                                                ... More »

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film • movie review • Roger Ebert • George Clooney • Sidney Lumet • Coen brothers • movies

Smith Is Box Office Legend

Pic banks top December gross of all time; Chipmunks also wows

Dec 16, 07 3:03 PM CST
(Newser) - I Am Legend rocked the box office for $76.5 million this weekend, the highest gross for a December pic ever, Variety reports. Twentieth Century Fox also surprised with Alvin and the Chipmunks, which scored $45 million, second ever for G- or PG-rated December debuts. Together they boosted a sluggish... More »

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Hollywood • film • box office • Coen brothers • Will Smith

America's Still Enchanted

Disney pic holds at top spot as Jessica Alba's debuts a tepid fourth

Dec 2, 07 6:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Jessica Alba's Awake slept this weekend as Enchanted kept top spot and the African American family pic This Christmas nabbed second, Variety reports. Three-D glam film Beowulf snatched third, and Awake met expectations by banking $6 million in fourth. Hitman shot up $5.8 million in sales and took fifth... More »

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Sony • Disney • Denzel Washington • Coen brothers • Jessica Alba • movies

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

Beowulf Hath Brought Low Ye Box Office

Holdovers Bee Movie and American Gangster claim second and third spots

Nov 18, 07 4:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Beowulf reaped $28.1 million and claimed top spot this weekend in the best debut ever for a digital 3D film, Variety reports. Other newcomers fumbled, as Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium landed fifth and Love in the Time of Cholera banked a sickly $1.9 million in tenth.... More »

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Nicole Kidman • box office • Denzel Washington • Russell Crowe • Coen brothers • movies • movie theaters

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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