Alexander loses box-office war
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The Colin Farell film opens with a measly $21.6 million at sixth spot.
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Alexander the movie managed something that Alexander the Macedonian king never did: It lost a battle. The fight for moviegoers over the Thanksgiving holiday was too much for the
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Wild ambition and great achievement sometimes carry the seeds of their own destruction -- a proposition that is both the central subject and dangerous stylistic temptation of Oliver Stone&#39;s vast, riveting, madly audacious movie biography &quot;Alexander.
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Los Angeles - Oliver Stone could face legal action from Greek lawyers for portraying the Greek hero Alexander the Great as gay in the new movie Alexander.
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Director Oliver Stone said he was surprised by the critical reaction to his historical epic "Alexander" &#151; and put the blame on the fundamentalist morality in some parts of the United States.
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To film "Alexander," which opens nationwide Wednesday, director Oliver Stone took his cue from the biopic's subject, Alexander the Great, and set out to conquer several locations around the world.
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For a filmmaker who has built his career on the cutting edge of controversy, Oliver Stone delivers a surprisingly conventional take on Alexander the Great.
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It was a memorable but not completely triumphant Oscar night for black actors as Forrest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson won trophies but Eddie Murphy lost in an upset.
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At a whopping $150 million, his bloated, boring &quot;Alexander&quot; is anything but great. It&#39;s a pathetic tribute to a military genius who by the time of his death at 32 had amassed an empire that stretched across
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Oliver Stone will release a third version of his epic film Alexander, with a running time of three hours and 40 minutes.
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Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie turn out for the UK premiere of their latest film, the historical epic Alexander.
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Not content to direct a mediocre historical epic, filmmaker Oliver Stone marshals all of his talent as a provocateur to direct a colossally bad one in &quot;Alexander,&quot; starring Irishman
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Alexander the Great, who carved out a vast empire east of Greece before his death at age 32, is idolized in this nation as a symbol of its ancient glory. So when Oliver Stone's new epic about the conqueror's life depicted him as a bisexual who has a fling with his childhood friend Hephaestion, the portrayal hit a raw nerve in a nation where homophobic attitudes remain widespread.
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As the movie &quot;Alexander&quot; makes its Greek premiere on Friday, a group of Greek lawyers decided not to take legal action against the film for portraying the Greek leader as bisexual.
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A great botch of a movie that never engages either plot or characters, &quot;Alexander&quot; is a stupefying disaster, the grand turkey of this holiday season so far.
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In Hollywood, box-office  records exist to be broken. Last month saw several records fall  as Sony Pictures&#39; &quot;Spider-Man 3,&quot; and then the Walt Disney  Studios&#39; &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#39;s End&quot; stormed the  multiplex.
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While critics savaged Oliver Stone's long-waited epic "Alexander," novelist and social activist Gore Vidal rallied to the &#36;160 million movie's defense saying it was "barrier-breaking" because of its frank depiction of bisexuality.