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: 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

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

Coens' 'Burn After Reading' opens at No. 1
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

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

'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
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

Coens' latest is sizzling hot
Joel and Ethan Coen scored their biggest opener to date by raking in $19.4-million (U.S.) in ticket sales for Burn After Reading and helping end a seven-week attendance slide at theatres, according to studio estimates yesterday. 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 af

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

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

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

Brad Pitt's Kids Make Him Laugh, Long for Sleep
Brad Pitt will have audiences laughing out loud as a knucklehead fitness employee in Burn After Reading, but what makes PEOPLE's two-time Sexiest Man Alive chuckle in real life? "My kids," Pitt, 44, told PEOPLE at the Toronto International Film Festival gala screening Friday for his new Coen Brothers comedy also starring George Clooney. Speaking of his kids with Angelina Jolie, newest additions, eight-week-old twins, Knox and Vivienne, are great, he added. "Everyone is healthy," said Pitt. "No s

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 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

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 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” ignites box office
“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 set a new recor

'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. 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&rsquo

'Burn After Reading' is No.1 at the box office
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
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 af