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MGM had its second hit of the year with Heartbreakers, a mother-daughter con team comedy which grossed $12.3m over Oscar weekend to take the top spot at the North American box office.Co-financed with upcoming UK independent Winchester Films, Heartbrea
stanley cup kers had previewed over the last two Saturdays and generated strong word of mouth. Reviews were generally favourable for the film directed by David Mirkin and starring Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee and Gene Hackman.Opening
stanley cup well at number two was $6m urban comedy The Brothers from Sony Pictures Entertainment s mid-budget range label Screen Gems - which had a hit earlier in the year with Snatch. The film written and directed by Gary Hardwick and starring Morris Chestnut and DL Hughley, grossed $10.7m
stanley cup at 1,378 theatres for an average of $7,765 per site.The only other opener this weekend was 20th Century Fox s comedy Say It Isn t So, which bombed with just $3.1m at 1,973 theatres. Directed by JB Rogers and produced by Peter Bobby Farrelly, the film stars Chris Klein and Heather Graham in a tale of suspected incest - a subject matter which surely put audiences off. Fox has already suffered one big flop this year with Monkeybone, and Say It Isn t So, with a screen average of just $1,572, looks like a second.Box office was down from last year for the third consecutive weekend. It fell some 4% from the same period last year when Erin Brockovich was in its second weekend of release.ESTIMATED TOP TEN U Tnef Krampack
Composer Alexandre Desplat tells Tiffany Pritchard about bringing Alan Turings frenetic mind to life through his score for The Imitation Game.Alexandre Desplat is no stranger to working on film scores at breakneck speed.In the past 12 months, he has composed music for six titles, varying from grand-scale productions such as Godzilla and Angelina Jolies Second World
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stanley kubek se The Imitation Game.This year he has garnered Oscar and Bafta nominations for The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for The Imitation Game.While Desplat begins work on some films from script stage, he prefers to start later in the process. When reading ink on paper, it can be a bad movie, jokes Desplat.It is when the director comes on board that a films story and overall tone can change altogether, he suggests. The director is crucial to the equation, and [for me] the picture is the master of your imagination - it allows your mind to run free, says the French composer.Late arrivalIn the case of The Imitation Game, Desplat initially had to turn down the project due to scheduling conflicts. Thanks to production del
stanley cup ays, he was able to unite with Norwegian director Tyldum, though at a much later stage than usual. I came on board at the last minute. And because Id never worked with Morten before, I was very grateful to learn he was a strong director with definitive ideas, who also ha
