Memo to Sony Pictures: Leak the footage of Rooney Mara’s screen test as Lisbeth Salander. Here’s why.
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If Sly Stallone and Julia Roberts were among Scott Pilgrim’s evil exes they’d be kicking his butt right about now. Game over, plot pulverized, movie mauled.
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Political opinion makers love movies. They may not be professional film critics but they have opinions like everyone else. Movies draw their attention and resonate in their writing and their voices. Here’s a sample in the first edition of Political Pundits Do The Movies!
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Jack Kerouac’s classic novel, On The Road, is gearing up for filming by Director Walter Salles for release in 2011. Casting includes recent additions Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen.
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The frenzy over who will play Lisbeth Salander in the US remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo now rivals the anticipation over who joins JLo on next season’s American Idol judging panel. A decision (on Lisbeth Salander) is expected this week and multiple reports indicate that Director David Fincher has narrowed the field to four finalists.
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Here are upcoming movies that got play (panels, cast, trailers, clips, etc.) at Comic-Con 2010 in San Diego:
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Battle: Los Angeles (starring Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez) doesn’t open until 2011 but the buzz about this aliens invading Earth flick has begun, both at Comic-Con 2010 and with launch of a website titled W.A.T.C.H. (Worldwide Assessment of Threats Concerning Humankind).
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UPDATE 21 July 2010: Jabcat has ended coverage of movie box office futures now that the Wall Street Reform Bill has been signed into law. For previous coverage of movie box office futures . . .
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One man holds the key to saving movie box office futures.
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Remember that great line of dialogue in the trailer for “Get Him To The Greek”? P. Diddy’s character exhorts his crew for ideas to keep a record label afloat. One clueless fool, slumping in his chair, oozing cool nonchalance beneath his hooded head, offers this gem to his boss: “Two words. Mexican Jonas Brothers.” Funny line, even [...]
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June 2, 2010 A Senate-House Conference Committee will spend June trying to meld two similar yet different financial reform bills into a single piece of legislation. Whether movie box office futures are banned in the merged bill is of prime importance to many, but could be a mere afterthought to the Committee which has much [...]
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May 26, 2010 News broke today about a Disney secretary with a yen for Stella McCartney handbags who was arrested by the FBI (along with her boyfriend) for allegedly trying to sell insider information to hedge funds about the company’s quarterly reports before the information became public. Not surprisingly, it took only a few hours after the news [...]
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Movie box office futures are not the doomsday devices that some opposed to them say they are, according to Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider who has written one of the most insightful articles yet about the topic.
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Can’t get enough Jabcat? Here is a veritable feast for your enjoyment. Jabcat’s Top Ten includes five articles on box office futures and five articles on movies and movie-going.
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May 19, 2010 Ten witnesses and three-and-a-half hours later, here’s what we know:
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May 16, 2010 No, it’s not the tears both can cause, those shed by studio execs when weekend box office numbers come in lower than expected, or the unwanted eye watering cooks struggle to hold back when chopping brown, red, Spanish or other onions. What they really have in common is this.
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The amazing films I’ve seen at art houses and indie theatres through the years only reinforce the importance of maintaining these struggling exhibition halls. My movie-going life would be a shadow of its current self, seriously deficient in quality and impact, if I had missed, for example, the frenetic Hong Kong action flicks that appeared [...]
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May 6, 2010 A real-life drama plays out before our eyes, a storyline worthy of a box office thriller. The hero in this tale of power, influence and greed is, surprisingly, the financial industry, as represented by Cantor Exchange and MDEX (Trend Exchange/TrendEx). These upstarts, pursuing the American Dream, are trying to offer the masses what [...]
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What’s so special about this latest trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse? [Answer below.] The Answer: If it’s playing in a theater, the theater owner may have gotten paid cold hard cash to run it by the studio or film distributor.
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April 19, 2010
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Hundreds of movie palaces were built in England during the 1930′s by Odeon with architecture influenced by the art deco and Ballhaus movements. Many seated more than 4000 people. They were single theaters, not multiplexes, serving the movie-going public in the years leading up to World War II. According to a fascinating article by Chris Michael at the Guardian UK Film [...]
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$100 million in domestic box office gross used to be the benchmark of success that separated giant hits from lesser films. Nielsen’s Gold Reel Awards celebrated films that reached that magic mark, but 2007 seems to be the last year the awards were given. Perhaps they saw the writing on the wall. These days a $100 [...]
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According to one report, British Government funds are being used to upgrade numerous movie theaters for 3D films. Interesting use of public money. If this was happening in the US there would likely be an uproar, at least from some. So far the only outcry across the pond is apparently coming from cinema owners who haven’t gotten their piece of the [...]
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Every TV news report I’ve seen about Corey Haim’s death yesterday at age 38 mentions only two films he made, License To Drive (1988) and The Lost Boys (1987). It’s typical in news reports about an actors death to shorthand their career and identify one or two projects they’re most well-known for. Consider it a mini-eulogy for ten second attention [...]
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Movie Goer Stabbed With Meat Thermometer, Police Seek Suspects With White Aprons And Refined Palates
Meat thermometers always stuck me as pretentious devices reserved for TV chefs and home cooks who know a great deal less than they pretend to about pot roasts and pork tenderloin. Experience with a meat thermometer is limited for most people to Thanksgiving Day, and only then if the store bought turkey roasting in their [...]
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My first impression last night was that the Oscar telecast laid a giant egg, perhaps the worst and most boring Oscars show of the modern era. After sleeping on it, I must agree with myself. The night was utterly forgettable, the show meandering along with very few entertaining moments, as if the giant black cloud [...]
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Shameless promotion? Ratings hijack? Giant head fake? The producers of this year’s telecast of the Oscars have publicly urged viewers to tune in early. They’re not referring to the best supporting actor and actress categories, typically awarded in the first half hour. And Billy Crystal isn’t scheduled to make a surprise appearance, singing and dancing his way though a new [...]
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Try not to gag as you watch a ridiculous and ghastly musical number from the 1989 Oscars. Just mosey on over to the Guardian UK Film Blog and read Peter Bradshaw’s article Oscars 1989: a real horror picture show.
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