Mama Scares Up Box Office Victory; Zero Dark Thirty #2, Silver Linings Playbook #3

11:08 am, January 19th, 2013

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Jessica Chastain is Queen of the Box Office.

The Oscar nominee’s new horror movie Mama is expected to open at #1 for the long holiday weekend with approximately $30 million, while the actress’ manhunt thriller Zero Dark Thirty should hit second place at about $20 million for the Friday-Monday period.

Silver Linings Playbook, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, is on pace for $13 million and a Top 3 finish.

Things get very crowded after that.

Gangster Squad will probably be #4 with a projected $11 million, followed closely by a pack of films all expected to earn between $9 and $10 million: Broken City, A Haunted House, Django Unchained, and Les Miserables.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is tracking toward $8.5 million and ninth place, following by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comeback The Last Stand, which is expected to earn $6 million.

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Mama Scares Up Box Office Victory; Zero Dark Thirty #2, Silver Linings Playbook #3

11:08 am, January 19th, 2013

BOX OFFICE

(Sony)

(Universal)

Jessica Chastain is Queen of the Box Office.

The Oscar nominee’s new horror movie Mama is expected to open at #1 for the long holiday weekend with approximately $30 million, while the actress’ manhunt thriller Zero Dark Thirty should hit second place at about $20 million for the Friday-Monday period.

Silver Linings Playbook, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, is on pace for $13 million and a Top 3 finish.

Things get very crowded after that.

Gangster Squad will probably be #4 with a projected $11 million, followed closely by a pack of films all expected to earn between $9 and $10 million: Broken City, A Haunted House, Django Unchained, and Les Miserables.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is tracking toward $8.5 million and ninth place, following by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comeback The Last Stand, which is expected to earn $6 million.

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Jessica Chastain Dating Tom Hiddleston?

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1:17 pm, January 15th, 2013

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Is Jessica Chastain dating Tom Hiddleston?

The Daily Mail seems to think so.

“The flame-haired, porcelain-skinned Hollywood star, who has just been nominated for an Oscar for spy thriller Zero Dark Thirty, is the actor’s new object of affection,” reports the outlet.

According to a source for the Daily Mail, “Tom is taken with Jess and it’s serious. Before Christmas she visited Britain to stay with him and meet all his family for the first time.”

The Daily Mail notes that the “couple” are “at pains to keep their new union quiet.”

Actually, there’s no “union” to keep quiet at all.

The story is not true.

Even though the rumor is being picked up widely, Chastain and Hiddleston are not dating.

“This isn’t true,” a source close to Chastain tells Gossip Cop.

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