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Kirsten Dunst made her breakthrough Hollywood performance opposite
Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in 1994s Interview With the Vampire;
Neil Jordan's screen adaptation of the Anne Rice novel, which earned
her a Golden Globe nomination and an MTV award for Best Breakthrough
Performance. An impressive but not too surprising induction for an
eleven year old who, born in New Jersey in 1982, had amassed over
seventy television commercial appearances and a slot in Woody Allen's
New York Stories (1989) before she moved to Los Angeles with
her mother and brother in 1989.
Soon after Dunst made appearances both
for and alongside some of her more established Hollywood counterparts
including Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder in Gillian Armstrong's
ensemble piece Little Women (1994); Robin Williams in Jumanji
(1995); and later Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Denis Leary
in Barry Levinson's Wag The Dog (1997). She also continued
her work for television including, in 1999, a series of appearances
in ER playing a runaway who is taken under the wing of George Clooney's
Dr. Doug Ross.
The same year marked a great deal of
critical success for Dunst for her role in Sophia Coppola's haunting
debut The Virgin Suicides, where she appeared alongside
James Woods, Kathleen Turner and Josh Hartnett. In the film, Dunst
plays Lux, one of five sisters whose unexplained suicide haunts
a group of local boys in an otherwise sleepy American suburb. With
the most well drawn character out of all of the sisters, Dunst's
Lux is enigmatic and sensuous, perfectly embodying the girl/woman
duality of the entrancing sisters. 1999's mockumentary Drop Dead
Gorgeous conversely saw Dunst playing comedy opposite Denise
Richards when small town beauty pageant turns nastily competitive.
With a prolific career (thirty one movies
all together) already behind her, Dunst graduated from Notre Dame
High School in 2000 and demonstrated her star power by landing the
lead part in teen cheerleading comedy Bring It On in the
same year. Based on A Midsummer Night's Dream, Get Over It
followed the next year along with /Crazy/Beautiful,/ for which she
shot her first sex scene.
In Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's
Meow Dunst plays Randolph Heart's philandering wife, silent
film star Marion Davies, in a tale of Hollywood scandal. And having
landed the female romantic lead to Toby Maguire's Spiderman
in the upcoming blockbuster, Dunst appears to be that rare actress
who is making a successful transition from child star to leading
lady with ease. Couple this with Wooden Spoon - her production company
in partnership with her mother - and this leading lady has come
a long way since her ingénue days.
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Released
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Title
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VHS
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DVD
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1st wknd
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Total Gross
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5/3/2002
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Spider-Man
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Coming Soon
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6/29/2001
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crazy/beautiful
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VHS
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DVD
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$4,715,060
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$16,929,123
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3/9/2001
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Get Over It
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VHS
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DVD
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$11,560,259
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2000
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Deeply
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DVD
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8/25/2000
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Bring it On
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VHS
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DVD
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$17,362,105
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$68,353,550
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4/21/2000
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Virgin Suicides, The
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DVD
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$144,028
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$4,859,475
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8/4/1999
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Dick
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VHS
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DVD
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$2,210,267
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$6,276,869
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7/23/1999
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
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VHS
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DVD
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$3,986,269
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$10,571,408
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All I
Wanna Do
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DVD
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8/21/1998
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Strike
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$307,763
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$968,506
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7/10/1998
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Small Soldiers
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VHS
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DVD
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$14,047,592
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$55,143,823
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12/25/1997
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Wag the Dog
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VHS
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DVD
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$7,778,122
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$43,057,470
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1997
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Tower
of Terror
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VHS
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11/14/1997
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Anastasia
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VHS
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DVD
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$14,104,933
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$58,403,409
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11/1/1996
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Mother Night
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DVD
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$48,661
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$363,905
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12/15/1995
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Jumanji
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VHS
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DVD
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$11,084,370
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$100,458,310
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12/21/1994
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Little Women
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VHS
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DVD
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$5,303,288
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$49,776,665
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11/11/1994
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Interview with the Vampire
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VHS
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DVD
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$36,389,705
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$105,264,608
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3/4/1994
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Greedy
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$4,805,115
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$12,428,935
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12/21/1990
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Bonfire of the Vanities
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$4,216,063
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$15,432,314
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Editor Mike J Freni - Text By Laura Bushell
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 Release Date: April
12th, 2002 (LA/NY
Synopsis: Based on a true
scandal story at the heart of 20's Hollywood, The Cat's Meow
is a glorious wallow in high society Tinseltown and the Jazz
Age.
Centring on a weekend soiree,
hosted by multi-millionaire newspaper magnate, William Randolph
Hearst, on his luxury yacht, The Cat's Meow follows the business
and sexual intrigues that occur between invited guests. The
guests range from Hearst's own employees, such as legendary
gossip columnist, Louella Parsons (played with unpleasant
excellence by Jennifer Tilly), Charlie Chaplin (Eddie Izzard
- a revelation in the role), British novelist Elinor Glyn
(Joanna Lumley, a model of elegance) and Hearst's mistress,
the actress Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst).
These, together with other assorted
starlets, a famous Hollywood film producer and associated
servants and functionaries engage in various revels and prohibited
activities. This louche atmosphere, combined with simmering
tension between Hearst and one of the guests, who he suspects
of paying rather too much attention to Marion Davies, starts
off as decadent fun and then leads to accidental tragedy.
A significant comeback for veteran
director and cinephile, Peter Bogdanovich (Last Picture Show,
Mask), The Cat's Meow is sophisticated, adult entertainment,
revelling in its period and gallery of real-life characters.
Its glittering cast work perfectly together as an ensemble
and this is destined to be loved by anyone with the vaguest
interest in Hollywood's darker side.
Cast: Kirsten Dunst (Marion Davies), Cary Elwes (Thomas
H. Ince), Edward Herrmann (William Randolph Hearst), Eddie
Izzard (Charlie Chaplin), Joanna Lumley (Elinor Glyn), Jennifer
Tilly (Louella Parsons);
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Written by Steven Peros
Distributor: Lions Gate Films
Studio Lions Gate
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexuality, a scene of violence,
and brief drug use)
Genres: Historical, Thriller
SOUNDTRACK Various
Artists
Official Distributor Synopsis: Lions Gate Films
Official Site: CatsMeowtheFilm.com
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Comparison Films for The Cat's Meow
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Opening
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Screens
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PSA
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Chaplin
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1066
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3977
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Shadow of the Vampire
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1/26/01
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1.89
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513
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3684
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8.28
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Cradle Will Rock
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1/21/00
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0.59
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506
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1166
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2.9
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 Harry Potter is coming on DVD and VHS!
One of the most popular movies to hit the big screen in years,
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, is finally coming
to DVD and VHS. This spectacular two disc set with never-before-seen
footage can be preordered today, so give them what they want.
Click to order the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
DVD
or VHS
today!
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 David
Mamet's Heist
is--not unlike many of his previous films--amusing, manicured,
and fraught with an awkward tension. If your customers have
seen The Spanish Prisoner or House of Games, they're by now
familiar with the plot-subverting gambit of the double-cross
turned triple- and then quadruple-cross. Heist sticks to the
formula, and it's selling!
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 We
congratulate all the wonderful artists who contributed to the
O
Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, which garnered the
best album and best soundtrack awards at this year's Grammys.
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 2nd
Chance
by James Patterson, This is a beautiful work of art filled with
shart witty prose and intriguing Ideas. I recommend it fully
to anyone with a heightened sensibility for the injustices of
this world and the subtle nuances of existence.
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