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'How To Train Your Dragon' capsizes 'Alice'; grosses $43.3M

Mon, 03/29/2010 - 12:28 by Ishita Sood

DreamWorks Animation’s 3-D adventure flick ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, toppled Tim Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ to become the top film at U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend. The movie recorded $43.3 million in ticket sales.

Cusack happy fans still love 'Anything'

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:08 by shalini.bahadur

New York -- U.S. film star John Cusack says he is happy people still love his classic teen romance "Say Anything" two decades after he made it.

A 20th anniversary edition DVD version of the movie, co-starring Ione Skye, Lili Taylor, Jeremy Piven and Joan Cusack, was released this week.

"I have great fondness for it," Cusack told UPI in New York Thursday. "It was a great collaboration with (writer-director) Cameron Crowe and I was really proud of the movie, so it's really nice that people are still remembering it this many years later. I'm always kind of delighted that people still like it."

'2012' television series in the works

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 12:47 by shalini.bahadur

New York-- German-born director Roland Emmerich says a U.S. television series is being planned to follow up his new global disaster flick "2012."

Co-starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet and Oliver Platt, the science-fiction movie was penned by Emmerich and Harald Kloser. The pair produced the film with Mark Gordon and Larry Franco.

"(The idea for a series) was just born out of, in a way, like Harald and I and Mark Gordon, who is big in TV, saying, 'Wouldn't it be an incredible TV show like 'Lost?'" Emmerich told UPI in New York Thursday.

Asked if the "2012" series will follow some of the surviving characters introduced in the movie, Emmerich replied: "No, no. It would have to be new characters.