Read more Coen brothers stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/16640/coen-brothers.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 19:00:10 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73976/a-look-back-at-movies-of-the-00s.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 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," New...http://www.newser.com/story/73976/a-look-back-at-movies-of-the-00s.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 14 Nov 2009 11:50:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/51928/coen-brothers-ad-knocks-clean-coal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 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 "Clean Coal" around...http://www.newser.com/story/51928/coen-brothers-ad-knocks-clean-coal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 27 Feb 2009 3:59:13 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/38022/lakeview-bullies-box-office.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSamuel 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 Gervais...http://www.newser.com/story/38022/lakeview-bullies-box-office.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 21 Sep 2008 18:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37426/burn-leads-box-office-boom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 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 ($16.5...http://www.newser.com/story/37426/burn-leads-box-office-boom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 14 Sep 2008 16:57:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37231/coens-burn-but-not-brightly.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBurn 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 trying to sell supposed secrets...http://www.newser.com/story/37231/coens-burn-but-not-brightly.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 12 Sep 2008 17:11:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/36818/jones-sues-for-10m-in-no-country-pay.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagActor 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 critically...http://www.newser.com/story/36818/jones-sues-for-10m-in-no-country-pay.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 07 Sep 2008 7:57:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/36074/burn-flares-up-flames-out.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBurn 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 … making for...http://www.newser.com/story/36074/burn-flares-up-flames-out.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 29 Aug 2008 15:02:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35706/dude-why-lebowski-is-still-big.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA 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 than...http://www.newser.com/story/35706/dude-why-lebowski-is-still-big.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 26 Aug 2008 18:13:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/19981/non-mainstream-seduced-oscar.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor 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...http://www.newser.com/story/19981/non-mainstream-seduced-oscar.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 25 Feb 2008 7:35:00 CST