How Did 'Skyfall' Get Back on Top?
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The awards for bad movies have nominated the Twilight franchise in every single category, which has led a lot of people — even those who wouldn't normally defend Twilight — to wonder whether the Razzies are just trolling all of us this year.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're watching dreck like Red Dawn until the prestige pictures get here.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where Brad Pitt is the star of our movies, our Chanel commercials, our television shows, and our dreams.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we always take a bowl full of stuffing into the theater with us. Why do you think that's crazy? You're crazy.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we will forever support RPatz and KStew because we remember how heartbroken everyone was when Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams broke up. No one should suffer that kind of heartbreak, not even teenagers on Tumblr.
Neither the Twilight books nor movies have been particularly well-received by critics. So why are they such a sensation? The fans. Now that the last movie has been released, we look back on this fandom and memorialize some of its most important and ridiculous moments.
The final movie in the Twilight series is out this week, and the eldest of the four books is now going on 7 years old. My how they grow up fast! What has the equally maligned and adored—yet, either way, incredibly successful—series left us? And what might be next in hyper-popular Y.A.?
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is the final film in the franchise and the only one that really entertains.
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Today in celebrity gossip: Bieber and Gomez are both in New York but at a safe distance from one another, the last Twilight film has sexily premiered, and a Bachelorette will soon be homeless.
Today in books and publishing: Simon & Schuster hopes fanfic will bring 50 Shades of profit; Orhan Pamuk recommends Zen for Obama; Google doodles Bram Stoker; Ellen Hopkins has two new books on the way.
Today in showbiz news: Good god there might be more Twilight books, Long Island Medium will continue its huckster ways, and Skyfall is already a big hit.
Today in showbiz news: Fox has an insane new celebrity competition show planned, Bradley Cooper is striking a devil's bargain, and the last Twilight movie is gonna be big.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2 marketing machine churns, Michael Bay's upcoming pirate drama gets itself a lead buccaneer, Tom Hanks and Bill O'Reilly unite over Abraham Lincoln, more Matt LeBlanc as Matt LeBlanc, and more.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Today in celebrity gossip: LiLo is in financial trouble again, Prince Harry might not be in as much trouble as we thought, and Matthew McConaughey sure is skinny.
Today in show business news: A little infidelity scandal will not derail Twilight, Margo Martindale scores a plum role, and it seems there will be a Prometheus sequel.
Today in books and publishing: Dennis Rodman writes a children's book; doubts cast about Ryszard Kapuściński; Gore Vidal dies; another seven-figure Twilight fan fiction book deal.
The Fifty Shades-ing of publishing continues. What began as Twilight fan fiction is making a lot of people a lot of money — again — as someone who goes by Sylvain Reynard just made a seven-figure deal with Penguin for Gabriel's Inferno.
A 53-year-old Twilight fan who spent the last two days waiting in line for Thursday's Twilight Comic-Con panel was tragically killed when she tried to cross the street on Tuesday morning.
Today: We'll be seeing this year's weirdest movie scene this fall, Jim Carrey drops out of a dumb thing, and a glimpse at this year's classiest movie.
Today: Sacha Baron Cohen is not getting deported, Britney and Mittney have something in common, and Andy Cohen has a new fella
Today: Justin Bieber's new song sounds awfully grown-up, ABC Family makes a big buy, and Will Ferrell is trying to get his kid into college.
Despite advance tickets selling like crazy and hype for the books and film rivaling that of Twilight and the Harry Potter franchise, Lionsgate is worried that young men won't see The Hunger Games.
A peek at Johnny Depp as Tonto, Amy Poehler goes to war with Catherine O'Hara, and Jeremy Piven heads back in time.
The best thing about the Goosebumps books -- or at least the best thing we remember about reading them 15 years ago -- is how irresistably scary they are.
Independent film studio Summit Entertainment, famous for wooing many a teenage girl with its Twilight films, has been wooed itself, as it reportedly will be bought by Lionsgate for $700 million.
Today in books: Pippa Middleton will receive £400,000 for her party-planning book, Amazon's Kindle sales numbers remain infuriatingly vague, and The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik offers a theory on the appeal of fantasy novels.
With the latest cinematic installment on the Twilight saga in theaters, literary social network Goodreads pulls together its own data from the U.S. to figure out which states love young-adult vampire series the most.
Showtime wants more killing, Twilight makes a killing, and Amanda Seyfried wants to stop a killing.
Today we review two new releases, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part1 and The Descendants.
Today in books: The 2009 Man Booker winner is the latest prestigious literary property to be gobbled up by HBO, Diane Keaton's inventive memoir has some great Woody Allen stories, and the late Michael Crichton's scribbles have become a book about killer bugs and an evil CEO.
It's almost time to go nuts about Twilight again, it's almost time to be civilly excited about The Hunger Games, and Ricky Gervais wants back in.
Brett Ratner is as unpleasant as ever, perhaps even more so; Kristen Stewart just gets too into it sometimes; and Megan Mullally gets a gig.
The Players: Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series which features sparkly vampires who long for people to love; Anne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire which features conniving vampires who long for people to kill.
The Players: GQ Australia, which "prides itself on offering readers the best possible advice and insights that help you be modern, successful gentlemen"; Dustin Lance Black, gay, Oscar-winning screenwriter (Milk) who might be working with Taylor Lautner.
The likely presidential candidate read "Twilight" on his granddaughter's recommendation
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