While Hollywood felt comfortable dismissing Sex and the City, Mamma Mia, and even Twilight, there is no way that the numbers for New Moon could be dismissed as a fluke.
Mail Online | Posted 09.01.2009 | Entertainment
From a distance, everything looks just as it should. The teeny, white-washed Agios Ioannis chapel is perched 202 steps up a winding path on top of a r...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 06.17.2009 | Entertainment
The multi-talented Phyllida Lloyd has attached herself to the development of a feature fiction film based on the spread of microcredit around the world.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living
No one can crush the spirit of those who are doing what they love to do, and sharing it with us.
The Independent | By Chris Green | Posted 03.12.2009 | World
During his time as a Russian political heavyweight, Vladimir Putin has earned a reputation as one of the world's most uncompromising leaders, a tough-...
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 02.28.2009 | Entertainment
Women need to get out and support films they are interested in on opening weekend so they get counted in Hollywood terms.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 01.29.2009 | Entertainment
Let's discuss certain scenes, moments, character beats, and what-not that worked in 2008, regardless of the quality of the films that contained them.
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 12.18.2008 | Entertainment
As of today, there are two women-centric films -- Sex and the City and Mamma Mia! -- in the top 10 at the box office for the year.
Variety | Posted 11.06.2008 | Entertainment
Foreign sensation "Mamma Mia!" stayed unstoppable at international multiplexes, racking up its fifth consecutive weekend victory with $14.1 million at...
USA Today | Posted 07.29.2008 | Entertainment
There was another record-breaker at theaters this weekend, and it didn't involve men in bat suits. Mamma Mia!, the ABBA-inspired film starring Meryl ...
Hugh Hamilton | Posted 07.27.2008 | Entertainment
The two images will dominate the American media this weekend are for once not Obama and McCain, but rather the competing movies at the box office, the images of which dare I say it, can be seen to represent the dichotomy of the American landscape.
Michael Melcher | Posted 07.27.2008 | Entertainment
Last night I saw Mamma Mia, the ABBA movie musical. Mamma Mia is basically a Bollywood musical, only with themes, actors and cultural mores that are highly accessible to Americans. I offer my own experience.
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment
The irony is that this fun musical about a wedding bucks every Hollywood convention, making Mamma Mia one of the most feminist movies of the year -- way more so than SATC.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 07.24.2008 | Entertainment
I want to have something to say when others talk about Mamma Mia!, so I did some remedial reading about its history. Let what I learned about ABBA serve as a primer.
This is London | Posted 07.23.2008 | Entertainment
As a new generation of fans discover Abba thanks to the phenomenal success of the hit film Mamma Mia, one of the foursome has revealed he is suffering...
Variety | Posted 07.22.2008 | Entertainment
Universal's "Mamma Mia!" came out singing overseas ahead of its domestic launch, dominating in English-speaking markets with $24 million on just 1,368...
Telegraph | Posted 07.12.2008 | Entertainment
Meryl Streep has written only one fan letter in her life, but it landed her what she calls her "dream role". The Oscar-winning actress was moved to wr...
The Hollywood Reporter | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment
No matter how many blockbusters there are, Universal Pictures' screen version of the global hit stage musical "Mamma Mia!" is the most fun to be had a...
Daily Mail | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment
Filmed last summer in Pinewood Studios and on location on the picturesque island of Skopelos in Greece, the movie version is a glorious and deeply si...
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment