Les Miserables

Zero Dark Thirty Hunts Down Top Spot; A Haunted House & Gangster Squad Follow

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9:24 am, January 12th, 2013

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Zero Dark Thirty, about the CIA manhunt for Osama bin Laden, is expected to top the weekend box office.

The Oscar-nominated thriller, starring Jessica Chastain, is tracking toward $26 million in its first week of expanded nationwide play.

That would be enough to beat Gangster Squad, the new mob period piece featuring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin and Sean Penn, which is projected to earn $18.5 million.

A Haunted House, the horror spoof, should be right behind with $17.5 million.

Django Unchained ($11 million) is at #4, followed by Les Miserables ($9.5 million) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ($8 million).

The family comedy Parental Guidance and the historical drama Lincoln are battling for seventh place, with both movies at approximately $6 million.

Last week’s champ, Texas Chainsaw 3D, has tumbled all the way down to #9 with $5.5 million, just ahead of the Tom Cruise movie Jack Reacher ($5 million).

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Texas Chainsaw 3D Slashes Its Way To #1

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4:26 pm, January 5th, 2013

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Texas Chainsaw 3D is expected to slash its way to a surprise #1 box office debut.

The sequel/reboot of the classic horror flick Texas Chainsaw Massacre is projected to earn roughly $23 million in theaters this weekend, which should place it above a trio of holdovers — Django Unchained, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and Les Miserables — all tracking toward just under $20 million for the weekend.

Billy Crystal and Bette Midler’s family comedy Parental Guidance should finish #5.

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Adam Lambert Slams Les Miserables Movie Stars for “Pretending to be Singers”

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Truth rating: 10

7:20 pm, December 30th, 2012

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Les Miserables is doing big business at the box office, but Adam Lambert is one moviegoer who left the theater far from satisfied.

The “American Idol” runner-up slammed the movie’s A-list cast on Twitter, accusing its stars — which include Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe — of “pretending to be singers.”

“Les Mis: Visually impressive w great Emotional performances,” Lambert began on Sunday evening, “But the score suffered massively with great actors PRETENDING to be singers.”

Noting that the musical version of Les Miserables was intended to be an opera, he wrote, “Hollywoods movie musicals treat the singing as the last priority.”

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Lambert went on to acknowledge that “Anne Hathaway as Fantine and Enjolras [Aaron Tveit] were the exceptions for me,” and that some other cast members, including Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen, “were great too,” but argued that having the stars sing live (as opposed to dubbing the vocals) wasn’t a successful choice

“With that cast, they should have studio recorded and sweetened the vocals,” wrote the singer, adding, “I felt like I should ignore the vocals and focus on the emotional subtext- but the singing was so distracting at times it pulled me out.”

Lambert continued, “The industry will say ‘these actors were so brave to attempt singing this score live’ but why not cast actors who could actually sound good?”

“Sorry for being so harsh but it’s so True!” he concluded.

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