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It’s so common these days that I’ve stopped thinking about it as unusual: Lots of movies simply are not screened for critics before they open. (I’ve even stopped bothering to keep a list of these movies, which I did last year and started this year before it just got too depressing.) So I didn’t think … more…
Today, Tim Burton’s baroque and pointless adaptation of Alice in Wonderland will cross the $1 billion mark in worldwide box office receipts, as The Hollywood Reporter noted the other day. It’s notable, too, as the first of the billionaire movies to have opened not in the summer season or at Christmastime but in spring. (The … more…
Yes, it’s one more Lost post, one more instance of me talking more about a show I said I was done talking about. Hey: it’s my site. I was intrigued this morning to come across a post at the L.A. Times blog Show Tracker about those final shots of the Lost finale. You know, the … more…
Most of us in North America won’t see Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time until Thursday-midnight screenings begin — and I won’t see it till then either, because Disney is still refusing to acknowledge my existence. But the film opened last week in the U.K. to a pathetic £1.37 million, and didn’t even win … more…
I wish I had taken a clean break from Lost, like I was on the verge of doing a couple of seasons back. Cuz I feel cheated by that ending. What? So they were all dead all along. So the island was purgatory. Or not really. But sorta. And so nothing really needs to make … more…
A recent study revealed that: – 24.5% of adults only have cell phones – almost 50% of adults age 25 to 29 only have a cell phone – 14.9% of U.S. homes have a wired phone that is rarely or never used I’ve been cell-phone only for maybe five years now, and in fact I … more…
Yesterday I posted a trailer for the Bollywood film Kites, which opens today all over the planet on the same day it also opens in India: it’s an attempt to drum up some love outside India and Indian ex-pat communites among mainstream moviegoers for the movies that are often seen by more people than many … more…
A few days ago, reader JoshDM emailed me a suggestion for a QOTD: Will Lost end as (un)satisfyingly as Battlestar Galactica? I responded that maybe it would be better to wait until after the finale and then ask what everyone thought of the ending. And that was my plan: to wait. And then, last night, … more…
I skipped the Tribeca Film Festival again this year because most, if not all, of the films there worth seeing will be available eventually in some format — some are already available on demand. Cannes is in progress right now — as Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net describes it: Although I love Sundance, there’s really no … more…
Iron Man 2 held on to the top spot of the North American box office this past weekend, adding another $52 million to its coffers and handily trouncing the No. 2 film, Robin Hood, which earned $36 million, even though the Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe adventure was new. (They jointly did much better a few years … more…
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