Coen brothers light up US box office with 'Burn' comedy
The Coen brothers conquered the weekend box office in the United States and Canada with their farcical "Burn After Reading" only six months after winning an Oscar for a much darker film, industry figures showed Monday.
Starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton, the spy comedy earned 19.1 million dollars from Friday to Sunday in its opening weekend.
The successful debut of the latest film from sibling directors Ethan and Joel Coen come
'Burn After Reading' is No.1 at the box office
LOS ANGELES - Joel and Ethan Coen scored their biggest opener to date by raking in $19.4 million in ticket sales for "Burn After Reading" and helping end a seven-week attendance slide at theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
In this image provided by Carlo Allegri for Focus Features, the cast and crew from "Burn Before Reading," clockwise from first row left, directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, actors John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt and Frances M
'Burn After Reading' is No.1 at the box office
LOS ANGELES - Joel and Ethan Coen scored their biggest opener to date by raking in $19.4 million in ticket sales for "Burn After Reading" and helping end a seven-week attendance slide at theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
In this image provided by Carlo Allegri for Focus Features, the cast and crew from "Burn Before Reading," clockwise from first row left, directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, actors John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt and Frances M
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'Burn After Reading' is No.1 at the box office - AP
Joel and Ethan Coen scored their biggest opener to date by raking in $19.4 million in ticket sales for "Burn After Reading" and helping end a seven-week attendance slide at theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The madcap comedy starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney and John Malkovich raked in $7 million more than the writing-directing duo's last box-office hit, the 2004 comedy "The Ladykillers" according to box office tracker Media by Numbers.
"Burn After Reading's" success comes just a year after
Coens' "Burn After Reading" lights up box office - Reuters
"Burn After Reading," a spy comedy
from Joel and Ethan Coen, narrowly won the weekend box office
derby in North America on Sunday, setting a sales record for
the Oscar-winning filmmakers.
"Burn," whose cast includes George Clooney, Brad Pitt and
John Malkovich, sold an estimated $19.4 million worth of
tickets across the United States and Canada during the three
days beginning September 12, distributor Focus Features said.
It represents a new record not only for the Coens but also
f
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Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys opened at No. 2 with $18 million, while Robert DeNiro’s Righteous Kill came in third with $16.5 million. Meg Ryan’s The Women opened at No. 4 with $10.1 million.
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Review: ‘Burn After Reading’
The Coen Bros. latest is an exercise in pitch black humor and absurdity that, after a bit of adjustment, is a solid comedy with some great work by the actors involved.
Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) is a recently demoted CIA agent who decides quit and writes his memoirs instead. His wife, Katie (Tilda Swinton), is cheating on him with Harry (George Clooney), who is a Treasury agent that trolls the internet dating world for quick sex between, “getting a run in.” In Katie’s preparation to fil
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'Burn After Reading' Is No.1 At The Box Office
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Joel and Ethan Coen scored their biggest opener to date by raking in $19.4 million in ticket sales for "Burn After Reading" and helping end a seven-week attendance slide at theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The madcap comedy starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney and John Malkovich raked in $7 million more than the writing-directing duo's last box-office hit, the 2004 comedy "The Ladykillers," according to box office tracker Media by Numbers.
"Burn After Reading's" success c
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Coens' "Burn After Reading" ignites box office
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Burn After Reading," a screwball spy comedy from Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, fired up the weekend box office in North America on Sunday, helping overall sales rebound from the five-year low plumbed a week earlier.
"Burn," whose cast includes George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich, opened at No. 1 after selling an estimated $19.4 million worth of tickets across the United States and Canada, distributor Focus Features said.
The three-day tally s
'Burn After Reading' lights up box office
LOS ANGELES - "Burn After Reading" has given filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen their biggest opening to date, leading the weekend box office by raking in $19.4 million and helping end a seven-week attendance slide at theatres in Canada and the United States, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The madcap comedy starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney and John Malkovich took in $7 million more than the writing-directing duo's last box-office hit, the 2004 comedy "The Ladykillers," according to box offic
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Pitt, Clooney Dumb Down For 'Burn After Reading'
TORONTO (AP) - Joel and Ethan Coen know their idiots. They've written every sort of bonehead, nitwit and lamebrain imaginable in both comic and tragic form in such films as "Raising Arizona," ''Fargo," ''The Big Lebowski" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Yet they may have topped themselves for siring simpletons with the dark comedy "Burn After Reading," which stars usual Coen suspects George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins and new pals Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton.
They're
