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

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' 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 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 New Movie Wins Big At The Box Office
Brad’s latest comedy, the Coen Brother’s Burn After Reading, debuted at No. 1 this weekend with $19.4 million.  The flick also stars George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. 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. Did you see a movie this weekend?  Which one? Share: These icons link to social bookma

'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

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' Is Entertaining But Not Oscar Worthy
The biggest challenge for an Oscar winner, be it a writer, actor, or director, is the first project following the ultimate Hollywood triumph. Expectations are so high and buzz is so great, it can create an almost impossible set of standards to live up to. This is the case with the Coen brothers' latest release, "Burn After Reading." Though an entertaining enough way to kill two hours on a Saturday afternoon, you can be sure this will not be the film to earn the duo their next little gold man. The st

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

'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

'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

Coens' "Burn After Reading" Ignites Box Office
"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,...... <a href="http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/article_212172123.shtml"><b>More</b>

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

'Burn After Reading' Nets Nearly $20M
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" s

De Niro, Pacino get 'Burn'-ed
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 afte

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

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

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...

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

Burn After Reading' Never Ignites
Canada.com Burn After Reading' Never Ignites Washington Post - 31 minutes ago Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Frances McDormand star in this Coen brothers movie about a pair of gym employees who discover the secret memoirs of a CIA agent (John Malkovich). 'Burn After Reading': Mixed Nuts, By Kurt...

Don’t try this at home: Burn After Reading
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a Coen-brothers comedy in the theater. Since the general panning of 2004’s The Ladykillers, the Coens have honing their dramatic voices, and won Oscars for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture for their trouble. Apparently, four years and one utterly chilling serial-killer movie is apparently just enough time for the world to forget the yin and yang of hilarity and brutality that is the Coens’ signature. Thankfully(?), their

'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