Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Biggest box office earners for 2009

It’s the end of the year, movie lovers, and that means the box office numbers are in. Can you guess what the biggest earner of 2009 was, coming in with more than $402 million? Hint: It was a summer blockbuster, and you probably didn’t even see it. Thanks to our friends at Box Office Mojo, [...]

Vote for The Take Three in “Tweet Me a Story” contest

The Take Three needs your help! We entered a fun story-writing contest put on by NYC Midnight, and we’ve made it to the second round. We were asked to write a story (or screenplay…but that’s just semantics) in 140 characters, being sure to use an assigned word. Two of our Take Three writers have two [...]

Brittany Murphy dead at 32

Actress Brittany Murphy was found dead Sunday morning at her home in Los Angeles after suffering cardiac arrest, police said. Murphy was most famous for her role in “8 Mile” with Eminem and for her “I’ll never tell” catchphrase from 2001′s “Don’t Say a Word.” In 1995 at just 18 years old, Murphy became a pop [...]

Top Golden Globe praise for “Inglourious Basterds,” “Hangover,” “(500) Days”

Hello lovelies! We haven’t forgotten about you– our apologies for being such absent bloggers recently. December has been busy, but soon we’ll be back to our normal posting selves. In the meantime and in case you missed it, the Golden Globe nominations came out today. Time to catch up on any movies you may have [...]

Weekend box office top five

We here at The Take Three have been so preoccupied this past week, that we’ve neglected our wonderful readers– millions of apologies! J-school graduation looms, and we just can’t keep up. Please grant us your forgiveness, and accept this small token: Some headlines of this weekend’s top five at the box office. Hey, it’s the [...]