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Box Office Update: Sith Pulling Up From Behind
Filed under: RumorMonger », Box Office »
No one's going to call this weekend's box office winner until tomorrow, but Saturday numbers are in, and the stats are incredibly close. Star Wars made $20.8 million yesterday, bringing it to $36.3 over two days; that's against about $32 million for Madagascar, and $33.8 for The Longest Yard. The Adam Sandler flick started out strong on Friday, but failed to pick up much business on Saturday and came in third for the day. The studios won't release actual numbers until Tuesday, but we should have estimates up tomorrow as soon as they come in. New in Theaters: The Longest Yard in Madagascar
Filed under: New Releases », New in Theaters »
The Longest Yard: Don't pay any attention to the reviews! That Burt Reynolds is craaayyyzeeee! You saw what happened when we asked him to promote the movie - he cannot be contained!- Madagascar: Tony Scott calls it "at least in part, a movie about what a bad idea it is to leave New York City." By the second paragraph he's wistfully referencing Bringing Up Baby - always a sure sign that the critic is bored. David Denby says it's a film "mismanaged pretty much from start to finish."
- Saving Face: "As a romantic dramedy, Saving Face sort of, kind of works, despite the fact that it’s basically a roundelay of recurring cliches and ancient movie conventions that have been recycled countless times." Ryan Stewart reviewed the Chinese-American lesbians-in-crisis indie earlier this week.
- Bomb the System: Teenagers, graffiti, Manahttan. According to Stephen Holden, it "might be described as soulful pulp; cult recognition awaits it."
- The Fearless Freaks: "An all-access fan's valentine" to the Flaming Lips - but, says Dennis Lim, it's "as artfully scrappy and likably wide-eyed as its subjects".
Ingmar Bergman vs. Burt Reynolds vs. ... Dom DeLuise?
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy »
Via Movie City Indie: Sports columnist Bud Poliquin points to the possible start of an unlikely feud between Ingmar Bergman and everyone's favorite journalist slapper, Burt Reynolds, who apparently told Esquire magazine that he'd rather "be shot in the leg" than watch a Bergman film. Hmmm. That's "an opinion to which [Reynolds] is certainly entitled," Poliquin says. But, he continues, "my guess, and it's just that, is that the old Swede might prefer to
pour some burning charcoal into his skivvies and then take a seat upon
a rusty spike" to watching the remake of The Longest Yard. One more hint as to where his review might be going: "Apparently, it wasn't bad enough that Hollywood has made a star out of Ashton
Kutcher ... [n]ow, it's remaking old Burt Reynolds flicks, which,
I suppose, is one way to channel Dom DeLuise." Not that a Dom DeLuise reference doesn't guarantee instant comedy but ... what?_thumbnail.jpg)
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