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03 Dec 2009 10:23

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Culture: Anyone hate babies as much as we do? If so, don’t watch this trailer


  • It’s like “Look Who’s Talking” for the indie set. A documentary on babies shot in four different global locales, this movie strikes us as kinda cute in that rip-hair-out-our-skulls kind of way. Two minutes of this is OK, but could you imagine an hour and a half of these babies?
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30 Nov 2009 10:42

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Culture: Another movie remade in Lego – this time, “The Matrix”

  • Somehow, this trick never gets old. Doing a movie scene – or any scene, honestly – up in Legos gives it instant cultural currency, as in the case of this shot-by-shot remake of a scene from “The Matrix.” We credit The White Stripes. source
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30 Nov 2009 09:57

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Culture: “New Moon” has surprisingly strong competition in “The Blind Side”

  • $40.1 million the amount Sandra Bullock’s latest made in its second week – just behind “New Moon”
  • 17% increase the boost in box-office receipts it saw between week one and week two source
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15 Nov 2009 21:03

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Culture: “2012,” despite meh reviews, isn’t a disaster at the box office

  • $65 million to see Roland Emmerich blow !(&@ up again source
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13 Nov 2009 10:49

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U.S.: Coshocton, Ohio and the MPAA are really pissed at some pirate

  • 1 movie-downloading bastard ruined the free wi-fi for EVERYBODY! source
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27 Oct 2009 10:42

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Culture: We will do everything in our power to stop Kate Gosselin

  • I’ve done enough years on TV that I feel like it’s a normal, comfortable, natural place to be. I’d love to be in a movie at some point, I’d love to be the voice of a cartoon character in a movie for my kids. I think that would be fun.
  • Kate Gosselin • Describing her desire to become a movie star as “Jon & Kate Plus 8” ends by force of Jon’s douchebaggery. Kate, you’re not the reason we hate everything about you. Really, it’s Jon. But because of that, we’re going to stand in front of any studio, any movie set, and opening, any theater that would have the words “Kate Gosselin,” “movie” and “starring” in the same paragraph. Host a talk show or something. But do not sully a second field in your quest to become a multimedia icon. • source
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14 Oct 2009 23:14

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Culture: Jail can’t keep Roman Polanski from making movies

  • Whether the film can rise above the circumstances in which the director now finds himself I don’t know. We will test to the upper limits the notion that there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
  • Writer Robert Harris • Who is working with Roman Polanski on the upcoming film “The Ghost.” Harris says that while Polanski doesn’t have a phone, he can communicate and make decisions about the film while he’s fighting extradition. He’s totally using Skype, isn’t he? • source
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12 Oct 2009 21:17

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Culture: “Paranormal Activity” is doing some paranormal box-office numbers

  • $11,000 the amount it cost to make the Twitter-buzzed low-budget horror flick “Paranormal Activity,” which is using the “Blair Witch” model
  • $44,163 the amount of money it made per theater this weekend, in just 200 theaters. At a $7.1 million take, that’s a freaking record source
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27 Sep 2009 19:57

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Culture: “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” has a sunny box-office outlook

  • -19% week-two dip, good enough for a second week on top in a week with a lot of wide releases
  • -30% average week-two dip for the average Pixar film; Entertainment Weekly credits the solid writing source
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24 Sep 2009 08:54

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Culture: Matthew McConaughey gets by with a little lean from his friends

Matthew McConaughey shoulder lean
  • It’s totally not Matthew McConaughey‘s fault that his career has evolved in such a way that he has to lean on the strength of his romantic comedies to have any standing in Hollywood. Though we wonder if he wobbles. source
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