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*It was two years ago when The Film Strip first met director Tom Hooper and basically asked him the same question when referring to his current film, “Les Miserables.” Hooper was asked back then how did he know a period piece such as “The King’s Speech” would be such a success. With “Les Miserables” Hooper [...]
*Box office estimates through Saturday are now available. According to Nikki Finke at Deadline, Les Misérables placed behind Quentin Tarantino’s controversial Django Unchained, which is quite a feat for an R-rated pic. “We are having a really big day on Django!” a TWC (The Weinstein Company) exec gushes to me Saturday. “From what I can [...]
*The Jamie Foxx film “Django Unchained” finished its Christmas box office at No. 2 behind the critically-acclaimed musical “Les Miserables,” which pulled $18 million, according to Deadline. Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western, which stars Foxx as a freed slave looking to recover his wife from a plantation, earned an impressive $15.5 million. Third was Peter Jackson’s [...]
*“Django Unchained” has already received recognition in the film world, and it hasn’t even been released to the public yet. The Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC) voted Christoph Waltz Best supporting actor in the new Quentin Tarantino flick. “Zero Dark Thirty” was chosen as the Best Film of 2012. Others recognized included “Flight,” “Les Miserables,” [...]
*On Christmas Day, moviegoers have a choice between two opening films – the slave-revenge, spaghetti-Western “Django Unchained,” or the film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Les Miserables.” Beginning today, on the website Funny or Die, Samuel L. Jackson of “Django Unchained” and Anne Hathaway of “Les Miserables” go head to head in a battle over [...]
*There are lots of good reasons to go see Les Miserables at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. One of those good reasons is the fact that it’s a classic celebrating its 25th anniversary with an incredibly reworked production. But one of the best reasons is Chasten Harmon, 25, a ball of talented energy, whose [...]
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