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    2006 at the Box Office

    Last Stand could concevably make less, but it does look like it's going to make more than the last two--if it can make it to 260 million, that would put it on the level of the Harry Potter films--very impressive, considering the fist one made half what Stone did. A lot of casual moviegoers...
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    2006 at the Box Office

    1) You can't really compare other Cruise openings to this because, besides being different in genre and tone--they weren't sequels. If this number was for Collateral, people would be jumping for joy. But it's a sequel--and the rule of thumb is; Sequels open bigger and fall harder. The latter...
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    2006 at the Box Office

    I think the public recognizes that as more of an urban legend thatn a movie plot device.
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    Jobs sells Pixar to Disney! See Post#34

    I don't think the corporate heads at Disney ruined Mirimax. Wienstien's head was growing a bit, and a lot of tensions were caused by bigger budgets...meaning the Mirimax of old was dissapearing anyways. Likewise, Pixar's made some great movies, but from the vibe I'm getting off Cars...the...
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    Evan Almighty? Bruce Almighty Sequel WITHOUT Jim Carrey

    Except the slump seems to be the result of a lack of sequels. I think it's a funny idea for a movie, (A Modern Day Noah's arc) but making it center around a secondary character who has baggage, but baggage that doesn't really help with anything, makes one wonder why you'd make it a sequel...
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    2005 at the Box Office

    I'm not saying CA wasn't a success, I'm just saying for a 90 million movie in 2000 with the attention was not the alias for money that many people seemed to think it was. There was sort of a "one that got away" to its box-office. It made about as much as The Patriot, which was generally...
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    2005 at the Box Office

    I think people seriously overestimated the potency of the franchise. While the first was considered a surprise in light of the production budget, there may well have been no movie that was more highly hyped that year. While many found it to be a pleasant guilty pleasure--you don't get money...
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    2005 at the Box Office

    Pirates of the Carribean wasn't that huge a risk. Johnny Depp does a lot of off-beat projects to the point that people don't realize when he does something reasonably mainstream, it does well. In addition to Bruckheimer, there was the nominal but still tangible property it was based on, a PG-13...
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    2005 at the Box Office

    Just like The Island should have been released in May, they made a huge mistake not releasing Cinderella Man at this point. After more child and family themed movies, and a lot of special effects glut...releasing Cinderella Man aright after something like Stealth would have gotten it a lot of...
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    2005 at the Box Office

    Looking at the Box-Office chart this year...I've noticed with all the 100 million movies, with the possible exception of Robots, we don't have any commercial mixed bags like The Hulk or Van Helsing...some films may not have lived up to expectations, but they're all essentially hits. We seem to...
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    LOONATICS...or How I Started Worrying and Skinned the Bunny

    Considering the tactics Saturday Morning cartoons have for recycling classic icons into trend tailgating, and Warner Brother's insatiable hunger for doing anything so as their characters are altered to be as unnapealing as possible, the question isn't "Why?" so much as "Why has it taken them...
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    Iron Man (New Line sets 2005 release date)

    To be fair, Cruise has been wanting to play the character since at least the late nineties, well before the "trend".
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    Fat Girl banned in Ontario

    Now what in the statute constitutes "artistic purposes". If the movie starred Vin Diesel, was directed by Michael Bay and had a budget of more the twenty million dollars, would it no longer be artistic enough to show underage girls in sex scenes? Will they not be able to use topless minors in...
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    The Growing Trend of Creepy Kids In Horror Movies

    The Sixth Sense popularized for the new millenium, but it something that's been going on since ebfore many of us were born.
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    Chow Yun-fat joins cast of sequels to "Pirates of the Caribbean"

    Chow Yun Fat also had a relatively non-action role Anna and the King. And yeah, i don't get how Pirates of the Carribean is considered a guilty pleasure. I mean, I thought it was severely overrated but its not bad at all, and its reputation is fairly respectable. In fact, to heck with...
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    *** Official HOSTAGE Discussion Thread

    Chris, whether Bruce Willis needs a comeback or not (though I will say this-a cameo does not a career make, and Hart's War and Bandits were pretty big flops) there's no way Willis is doing better then Dennis Quaid on any level. Dennis Quaid has been doing allright except for The Alam. The Day...
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    2005 at the Box Office

    It's not just that Fox wanted to make a quick buck from Daredevil, the property has been shopped around Hollywood on its own for quite a while. And Elektra movie was inevitable if Daredevil was a successs. Marvel is not doing spelndidly right now. After the performance of this and Blade...
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    2004 Box Office Predictions And Discussions

    As a genre movie, The Forgotten could certainly drop, but keep in mind that sometimes a crappy supernatural-based movie with a female protagonist can have good legs, i.e. What Lies Beneath.
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    Is it Right to Digitally Place a Dead Actor in a Modern Movie?

    Ebert also said the World Trade Center should be digitized back into movies that take place in New York, as oppossed to 2001-shot movies done in reverse. So sometimes, a critic can be a little silly when getting on the "computers are EVIL" bandwagon. Whether its ethical or not, Olivier quite...
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    2004 Box Office Predictions And Discussions

    Worked soooo well for Gigli. And Proof of Life.
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    HOLLYWOOD/THE MPAA and MOVIEGOERS: The buck MUST stop here!

    I still don't get what's so realistic about Aliens vs. predators. Both franchises have been, at times anyways, smarter then average action movie, they still exist in a hyper-reality. One may argue that "cleaner looking violence" compromises the viewer's interpretation of violence as a serious...
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    HOLLYWOOD/THE MPAA and MOVIEGOERS: The buck MUST stop here!

    The MPAA are idiots. No doubts there. But let's face it, this is a case of crying over spilt, curlded milk. Paul Anderson makes crappy films. More gore wasn't going to helpt it. In fact, to complain about this rating is to say classic Horror films are no good, since they are tame by today's...
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    2004 Box Office Predictions And Discussions

    I think "helped [box-offic]e tremendously" and "[Penelope] Cruz" belong in the same sentence as much as "bonfire" and "drowned to death." I think Vanilla Sky is a testament to Cruise's staying power. It's impressive that Shamylan can open a film on his name alone, but in true Twiighlight Zone...
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    2004 Box Office Predictions And Discussions

    Well, one can argue that Mann's track record ffrom the early nineties to this point has been roughly 50 million, which would be a good number, if his movies weren't so expensive. (He had a big commercial misfire with The Insider, but that movie was a hard sell) I don't know Collateral's budget...
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    Anyone have old cemetaries in their town?

    Now only does my town host a garveyard, but one of the tombstones has my name on it!
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    I saw KRULL on TV last week... Why don't they make these movies anymore?

    Well, the first Terminator may have been cheap, but the sequel set new records in production cost. I don't think we'll see a cost-cutting Cameron in the future.
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    So far this year movies,in particular summer movies are uninspiring.

    Yeah, seriously, we got through this on every movie site every year. By this time next ear people will be referring to pider-Man 2 as a classic, King Arthur as a brave effort, Anchorman as genius, Troy as gorgeous, and Van Helsing as "charming", talking about how Hollywood has hit a new low.
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    Can Hollywood really DO Comic Book movies properly?

    Well, considering it wasn't a Hollywood production, the question may not apply. I think we often forget comic book companies can screw up their own creations. Remember The Spider-Clones saga? Superman turning blue? Mishandling has gone all the way back to the sixities, including stripping...
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    *** Official A CINDERELLA STORY Discussion Thread

    Let me guess, this thread is some kind of Police Sting isn't it?
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