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NEWS ABOUT: Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire stories: 7 news summaries
box office roundup

 New Moon Vamps to $141M Haul 

Latest 'Twilight' entry enjoys 3rd-biggest weekend ever

Nov 22, 09 1:54 PM CST
(Newser) - In the third-largest weekend debut ever, The Twilight Saga: New Moon rang up $140.7 million, riding records for a midnight opening and a single day to totals trailing only The Dark Knight and Spider-Man. Audiences were four-fifths female, with the remaining 20% mostly teen boys, USA Today reports.... More »

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 2012 Soars 
 to Top Spot 

Apocalypse flick does $65M as 'Precious' cracks top 5

Nov 15, 09 1:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Apocalypse preview 2012 raked in $65 million domestically at the weekend box office, the high end of the prerelease estimate range, en route to a $225 million haul worldwide. The doomsday action flick handily beat A Christmas Carol, which performed strongly in its second weekend in release. A new entry... More »

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OPINION

 Precious a 
 Perfect Look 
 at Black America 

Tyler Perry's film tells a story buried far too long

Nov 10, 09 1:17 PM CST
(Newser) - At first horrified, political alarms blaring, as she watched the Precious trailer, Erin Aubry Kaplan realized after seeing the film that it’s actually a story that has long needed to be told: “that of a big, black, sullen-faced, illiterate girl who lives in the depths of the ghetto... More »

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 Christmas 
 Comes 
 Early 

'Precious' shatters record for per-location average

Nov 8, 09 1:38 PM CST
(Newser) - The stop-motion version of A Christmas Carol topped the weekend box office, opening with a $31 million haul. The figure is a slight disappointment, on the low end of the projected range for the family-friendly flick, reports Variety . The Michael Jackson documentary This is It lost 40% off last week's... More »

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MOVIE REVIEW

 Precious: Gritty Candor 
 or 'Poverty Porn'? 

Harlem drama brutally honest, some say manipulative

Nov 6, 09 8:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Precious packs a strong emotional punch with its story of an abused, illiterate teen in '80s Harlem, but where some critics see candid greatness, others see "poverty porn."
  • Precious is "a great American film," writes Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times, that finds a believable
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DOWDY DIVA

 Mariah Carey: I Look 
 'Rancid' in Precious 

Carey still embarrassed by her appearance in film

Nov 3, 09 9:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Mariah Carey, who has her very own director of photography tag along to photo shoots to ensure the lighting and frame size are as flattering as possible, still finds her dowdy appearance in Precious “humiliating,” she tells Fox News . “When I first saw the film I thought... More »

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 Precious Director, 
 Star Earn 'Wows' 

Expect astonishing Gabourey Sidibe and director Lee Daniels to stay in the spotlight

Sep 28, 09 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Film festival darling Precious is a breakthrough not just for director Lee Daniels—who collected Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey to champion the movie—but also for star Gabourey Sidibe, who plays the abused main character. Though media reports paint her as “this downtrodden, ugly girl who got... More »

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