Burn After Reading is #1 at box office with $19.4 million
Coen Brothers film was loaded with stars: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. Tyler Perry's film The Family That Preys was #2 with $18 million. boxofficemojo.com   

At the Movies: Sept. 12
“Burn After Reading” - the Coen brothers return with George Clooney in tow, along with Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. The spy-thriller spoof revolves around a disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent that end up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees (McDormand and Pitt). The duo use their discovery to blackmail a demoted government worker (Malkovich) and heads off on a dark romp. Really the only thing any movie goer needs to know about this movie is th

Burn After Reading: TV Spot - Dangerous
Last year, the Coen Brothers took you on a dangerous journey in No Country for Old Men. On September 12th, they'll take you on a journey where national security meets total stupidity. Tags: focus features, comedy, drama, tv spot, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton Embed Trailer <object width="360" height="235"><param name="movie" value="xhttp://www.trailer

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

Brad Pitt's Comedy No. 1 at Box Office!
Brad Pitt is box office gold. His latest comedy, Burn After Reading, debuted at No. 1, with $19.4 million, making it the Coen Brothers' most successful opening ever. (The writing-directing team's The Ladykillers, with Tom Hanks, opened with $12.6 million in 2004. Last year's No Country for Old Men, which grossed $73.3 million, only made about $1.2 million in its opening weekend.) The comedy also stars George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys opened

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

Stars in Rewind: McDormand and the Coens, 'Blood Simple' '80s-Style
The latest wacky work from Ethan and Joel Coen, Burn After Reading, is headed to screens next week. As you might have seen from the trailer, the flick has brought together the awesome collection of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormand. But this is certainly not the first Coen movie that Frances has graced. In fact, they jump-started her career in 1984 with Blood Simple. Above, you can check out the trailer for the film, which follows love triangles and murder. McD

'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

Review: Spy vs. morons in 'Burn After Reading'
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Burn After Reading: Comedy. Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. With George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins. (R. 91 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie...

At the Movies: Sept. 12
“Burn After Reading” - the Coen brothers return with George Clooney in tow, along with Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. The spy-thriller spoof revolves around a disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent that end up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees (McDormand and Pitt). The duo use their discovery to blackmail a demoted government worker (Malkovich) and heads off on a dark romp. Really the only thing any movie goer needs to know about this movie is th

Movie Review: Burn After Reading
Boys will be boys.  The same goes for how the Coens will always be the Coens.  Following their most successful movie in their career, No Country for Old Men, they return to their quirky selves with this goofball, spy-thriller, comedy… or something like that.  I don’t know, I can never quite categorize a Coen brothers film.  Anyway, here’s the plot in a nutshell and I promise not to give too much away.  CIA agent Osborne Cox (Malkovich) quits his job after being demoted because of a d

Review: "Burn After Reading"
Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, Extra thought: I'd say the style of "Burn After Reading" comes close to that of "The Ladykillers" and "Intolerable Cruelty." The plot: Two gym employees try to get rich after accidentally stumbling across the classified files of a CIA analyst. Our quick thoughts: After taking home four Oscars and countless other wins around the world with last year’s spectacular “No Country For Old Men,” Joel an

'Burn After Reading' is goofy fun
Burn After Reading is a spoof of the American way of stupidity, narcissism and paranoia, a shaggy-dog tale set in the spy-vs.-spy community of Washington, D. C. All the characters in the story believe themselves to be living in the rarified world of national security; they are adept at justifying their own need to lie, cheat and betray. It's laugh-out-loud funny. John Malkovich plays a CIA middleman who gets fired, and subsequently decides to write his memoirs. His cold, tough wife (Tilda Swinton)

Frances McDormand is a scene stealer in "Burn After Reading"
You might have heard about how funny Brad Pitt is in his new film, Burn After Reading; or perhaps you've seen coverage of George Clooney gracing the red carpet for the movie's premiere. It's the same old song and dance in the press (is this Ocean's 14?), but the real reason to see the new Coen Brothers film is its two female stars: Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand. We've given a lot of credit to Swinton the blog in the past, but McDormand (in general) gets overlooked a lot. Some might say she's not y

Live from TIFF: Burn After Reading, Burn Out After Watching
Burn After Reading, the latest from the Coen Brothers, makes its North American debut this year, following last year's rapturous Toronto reception for the Oscar-winning success of the tense, terse No Country for Old Men. After making No Country for Old Men, in perverse Coen-logic, the timing is clearly right for a messy, mean-spirited, profane punchy comedy. Burn After Reading is built around a classic Coen plot -- there's a valuable something out there, and various ill-equipped, dimwitted people see it as

'Burn After Reading' web reviews
Joel and Ethan Coen are finally back in action, and while I have not had the chance yet to see "Burn After Reading," I have to admit I am really looking forward to it. Starring Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney and John Malkovich, among others, this silly comedy centers on two gym teachers who stumble across and then try to sell a CIA agent's secret memoirs. Let's see what the online film fans have to say about it: • Josh Tyler at Cinema Blend: "More than anything, Burn feels like the Coen brot

Coen Brothers' Tale Of Idiots
The Coen brothers wrote their dark comedy, "Burn After Reading," with stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand in mind. Not necessarily a compliment. The movie, which premieres Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, is a tale about idiots - and what happens when their worlds collide. Pitt and McDormand are a pair of hapless gym employees who get in way over their heads when the memoirs of a failed CIA analyst (John Malkovich) fall into their hands and they try to peddle them as classified int

TIFF Review: Burn After Reading
When the worlds of Washington, DC political intrigue, infidelity, fitness centers and internet dating intersect and collide in a darkly hilarious fashion, you must be watching a film by the Coen brothers. Burn After Reading, Joel and Ethan Coen's follow-up to last year's critically lauded award winner, No Country for Old Men, was actually written by the duo as they were adapting No Country, but the two films couldn't be more different. The colliding worlds in Burn After Reading involve a CIA analyst name

Burn After Reading Ignites a Box Office Fire
HOLLYWOOD, CA (RUSHPRNEWS) 9/15/08 - Restoring much-needed heat to a frigid box office, “Burn After Reading”, the new comedy from the Coen Brothers ignited an estimated $19.4 million at 2651 gyms to narrowly beat Tyler Perry’s latest, The Family That Preys taking $18 million from 2070 domestic squabbles. Both Righteous Kill - the De Niro/Pacino mix n’match - and The Women collected returns that were welcome, but neither spectacular nor encouraging. Fresh from their success at the

Brad Pitt’s Comedy No. 1 at Box Office!
(The writing-directing team’s The Ladykillers, with Tom Hanks, opened with $12.6 million in 2004. Last year’s No Country for Old Men, which grossed $73.3 million, only made about $1.2 million in its opening weekend.)   The comedy also stars George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. See Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s bromance. 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 mill

Burn After Reading
The Coen Brothers reteam with George Clooney for this blackly comic film set in the world of a former spy. John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, and Tilda Swinton are along for the sure-to-be wild ride filled with the Coens' trademark humor.

Which Coen Brothers Idiot Movie Is the Best?
Photo-illustration: Everett BogueThe Coen brothers' Burn After Reading has not been met this week with the critical hosannas that greeted No Country for Old Men. Why? Because unlike the smart and serious Oscar winner, Burn's been described by star George Clooney as the completion of the Coens' informal "idiot trilogy" — following O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty as comedies in which Clooney plays preening dummies. That is to say, instead of being one of the Coens' serious movies

10 Underappreciated Coen Bros. Actors
Everybody remembers the bigger name Coen Bros. regulars, such as John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Frances McDormand, Billy Bob Thornton and now George Clooney. And of course, there are the one-shot stars, like Nicolas Cage, Gabriel Byrne, Jeff Bridges, William H. Macy, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman, Albert Finney, Woody Harrelson, Tim Robbins and now Brad Pitt and John Malkovich. But who ever talks about Michael Lerner? He received an Oscar nomination for his supporting role i

Burn After Reading: A Smart and Sinister Spy Comedy
As the opening credits of Burn After Reading blip across a satellite image of Washington, DC, viewers may find themselves wondering if they've wandered into the wrong movie — a Bourne Identity type thriller filled with high-tech secrets and evil intentions. But for every spook with high-security clearance in DC, there is a goofball at Jamba Juice, waiting for his afternoon smoothie. And when that iPod-wearing dude wanders into the tropes of a spy movie, the results are wonderfully absurd and fraught with