Recent content by ToddP

Looks like next weekend will be the weekend for Avatar to sink Titantic. It's at $571mm and change after Friday, so it should get to at least $585mm by Sunday. Give it a conservative $10mm for Mon-Thurs to bring it up to $595mm heading into next weekend. So Friday, February 5th should be the...

So much has already been said in this thread that most of my thoughts are already covered. The one thing I will say, is that these films could have taken much more advantage of the DVD medium than they have, a la Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson so skillfully and artfully made use of the...

I disagree with this completely. I think people have such a distorted view of Miami Vice the show. Everyone thinks it's all glitz, glamour, and bright colors, but that's not what made the show what it was. Miami Vice is a dark cop drama about walking that fine line between crime and justice...

I agree that you can't put much into these midweek numbers. It's at least 1 week and more like 2 or 3 before colleges get out. That's one of the reasons I've been surprised by the studios pushing the summer releases up more and more each year. I really think the 3rd week in May is the earliest...

Letters From Iwo Jima goes in at number 1. What a wonderful film. Clint Eastwood's big risk project pays off in spades. Little Miss Sunshine drops out.

This list has a long way to go, as I have so many more films I want to see. Here's version 1.2: 1. Letters From Iwo Jima 2. Superman Returns 3. Thank You For Smoking 4. Brick 5. Casino Royale 6. The Prestige 7. The Departed 8. Stranger Than Fiction 9. Miami Vice 10. Inside Man...

Guess I was way low. I thought with under 900 theaters it would be held under $20mm.

I see Alpha Dog on your list. What happened to that movie? Wasn't it supposed to come out in April of this year? I like Emile Hirsch.

Any guesses on what Borat does this weekend? I bet it pushes $15mm, and then goes over $30mm next week. I think this is going to make a ton of money.

You're going to start seeing more and more of this kind of thing. Hollywood is moving toward securitizing future receiveables on blocks of films in a big way. It's actually very smart on their part, and will allow MUCH less money to come out of pocket for production purposes.

Well, I didn't grow up watching noir...in fact I was never really into the genre. I loved the film. I thought it was fantastic and extremely well executed. I even ran out the next day and bought the dvd to support the artist.

You don't have to report birthday or grad money (maybe I misinterpreted and this was a joke/sarcasm). Gifts up to $11k in value are exempt from taxation.

It's not meant to be an accurate portrayal of conversations between modern day high school kids. It's a throwback detective story dropped into a high school setting. The dialog is what you would expect to find in a '30s era period piece.

The other thing I loved was the actual sound of gunfire in the movie. Why is it so hard for filmmakers to use accurate sound with gunfire instead of the fake, muffled popping you always get?

I really really enjoyed this movie. After this and Collateral, Mann has become one of my favorites. As for some of the complaints, to each his own I guess. I think some people who are complaining or commenting that the movie isn't enough like the tv show have forgotten what the show was like...