“Cloud Atlas,” starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant leads the offerings this week in DVD releases. If that’s not to your taste, there’s “Texas Chainsaw.” Dan Brown’s “Inferno” hits the bookshelves.
Gatsby looks almost as great as a superhero at the weekend box office. Leonard DiCaprio’s “The Great Gatsby” partied like it was the Roaring ‘20s with a $51.1 million debut that made it a surprisingly strong runner-up to comic-book blockbuster “Iron Man 3.”
After some exhilarating, genre-melting moments in director Baz Luhrmann’s wildly anachronistic take on “The Great Gatsby,” things settle down and more closely resemble F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic tale of love and loss amid the opulence of the roaring ’20s.
Iron Man reigns as the standard-bearer of Hollywood superheroes with a $175.3 million domestic opening weekend for his latest sequel and an overseas haul of a half-billion dollars in less than two weeks.
Four decades after he first sent the fur flying with 1971’s “The Corpse Grinders,” Las Vegas-based cult auteur Ted V. Mikels is back with “The Corpse Grinders 3.”
Much like that initial glimpse of your neighbor’s pasty white legs or the arrival of your first quadruple-digit cooling bill, Tony Stark has come to represent the start of summer.
LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan has checked into a rehab facility to comply with her sentence in a misdemeanor driving case, but her arrival there was not without drama.
ATLANTA — Reese Witherspoon recalled that she panicked, said some “crazy things” and even claimed to be pregnant the night she was arrested in Atlanta on a disorderly conduct charge.
When Deirdre Clemente watches “The Great Gatsby,” which premieres May 10, it won’t strictly be for entertainment purposes. It won’t necessarily be because she feels she knows F. Scott Fitzgerald, either.
“Iron Man 3” was the heavy-lifter at theaters with a colossal overseas debut that overshadowed a gang of mercenary bodybuilders in a sleepy pre-summer weekend at the domestic box office.
Given the prevalence of smartphones, tablets and those screens in the back of every other minivan, watching a movie in your car isn’t the novelty it once was.