Los Angeles (Reuters) - "Burn After Reading," a comedy about spies crazy and funy filmed by Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen, is perched on Sunday to top the U.S. box office film of helping a recovery in sales coming from minimum of 5 years. The film, with a cast headed by George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich, debuted at the top of the list of view after selling more, according to estimates, tickets by $ 19.4 million in the United States and Canada, said the distributor Focus Features. The figure represents a record for both the Coen for Focus, the art film unit of NBC Universal. The previous best debut of the brothers filmmakers of "Fargo" was "Ladykillers," with $ 12.6 million in 2004. Pitt interprets a hyperactive gym instructor who tries to extort a CIA analyst dismissed (Malkovich), whose memoirs compromising found by accident. Clooney is an officer of justice womanizer. "Burn After Reading" is the first realization of Coen in February after he stayed with the Oscar for best film drama "No Country For Old Men."
lunes, septiembre 15, 2008
BURN AFTER READING WIN AMERICAN BOX OFFICE
Los Angeles (Reuters) - "Burn After Reading," a comedy about spies crazy and funy filmed by Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen, is perched on Sunday to top the U.S. box office film of helping a recovery in sales coming from minimum of 5 years. The film, with a cast headed by George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich, debuted at the top of the list of view after selling more, according to estimates, tickets by $ 19.4 million in the United States and Canada, said the distributor Focus Features. The figure represents a record for both the Coen for Focus, the art film unit of NBC Universal. The previous best debut of the brothers filmmakers of "Fargo" was "Ladykillers," with $ 12.6 million in 2004. Pitt interprets a hyperactive gym instructor who tries to extort a CIA analyst dismissed (Malkovich), whose memoirs compromising found by accident. Clooney is an officer of justice womanizer. "Burn After Reading" is the first realization of Coen in February after he stayed with the Oscar for best film drama "No Country For Old Men."
