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Chick-Flick Trailers Tweaked Toward Men

RaptorFan — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:56:57 CDT

Making a chick-flick can attract a large audience. But why not try to make them "boyfriend worthy"? Hollywood studios are doing just that by modifying titles, trailers, and marketing in general so as not to alienate men. Case in point: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse trailer is intentionally manly, and doesn't...

Mobbed Sex and the City 2 Stars Get More Security

Jane Yager — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:31:52 CDT

New York went so wild for the return of Carrie Bradshaw that security on the set of Sex and the City 2 had to step up its game. "Teenage girls were practically trampling each other trying to get to Sarah Jessica" Parker, an onlooker tells the New York Daily News...

Shopaholic Not So Addictive

Rob Quinn — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:19:20 CST

Chick-lit flick Confessions of a Shopaholic is one victim the credit crisis should have claimed, say critics. Isla Fisher stars as a credit card addict who lands a job at a financial magazine, but her considerable comic gifts are wasted by a script that turns her into a "babbling ninny,...

Sorry, Chick Flicks: We're Just Not That Into You

Wesley Oliver — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:10:02 CST

Where have all the Carrie Bradshaws and Bridget Joneses gone? The women of flicks like Bride Wars and Confessions of a Shopaholic are pale imitations of those relatively feisty heroines, “variously neurotic, idiotic, label-obsessed, weight-obsessed, man-obsessed or wedding-obsessed, and often all at the same time,” Kevin Maher complains in the...

Twilight Draws Box Office Blood

Ambreen Ali — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:04:22 CST

Twilight sucked the box office dry this weekend by banking nearly $71 million and claiming top spot, Entertainment Weekly reports. That makes it the best-grossing film by a female director and among the top 30 premieres of all time. Filling out the weekend's top five: Quantum of Solace , $27.4...

Rodanthe Heavy on the Syrup

Rob Quinn — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:04:57 CDT

Tearjerker novel Nights in Rodanthe left some critics sobbing and others scowling. Now Unfaithful co-stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane are reunited for the movie version of the Nicholas Sparks romance, with a similar divide. The actors' "natural rapport" makes for a movie "one either utterly succumbs to or stubbornly...

Women Has Little to Like

Rob Quinn — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:56:01 CDT

The modern update of 1930s socialite satire The Women is meeting scorn from critics. Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, and the rest of the big-name cast do their best, Peter Travers writes in Rolling Stone , but they struggle "with a script that resists being crowbarred into the 21st century."

Palin's Story: A Political Chick-Flick

Matt Cantor — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:07:36 CDT

Sarah Palin’s rise to the national stage makes for a great political chick-flick, Maureen Dowd observes in the New York Times . The plot: “the 2-year governor of an oversized igloo becomes commander in chief after the president-elect chokes on a pretzel on day one.” And experience, schmexperience —“The PTA is...

Baby Mama No Bundle of Joy

Marcia Greenwood — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:50:18 CDT

Critics don't seem thrilled about the arrival of Baby Mama , which tells the story of an overachieving, infertile career woman (Tina Fey) who hires a rough-around-the-edges high school dropout (Amy Poehler) to bear her a child. The movie's not "laugh-out-loud funny," writes Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post . "It's more...