Things are changing. The old models of entertainment distribution and consumption have already undergone a sea change in the last decade, and Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban think this is just the beginning. Their 2929 Productions is looking to change the whole paradigm of how new movies are released, getting rid of the window of … Continue reading
Rank Title WeekendGross CumulativeGross Weeks in Release 1 Big Momma’s House 2 $28,000,000 $28,000,000 1 2 Nanny McPhee $14,000,000 $14,000,000 1 3 Underworld: Evolution $11,100,000 $44,300,000 2 4 Annapolis $7,700,000 $7,700,000 1 5 Hoodwinked $7,300,000 $37,600,000 7 6 Brokeback Mountain $6,300,000 $50,800,000 8 7 Glory Road $5,100,000 $34,700,000 3 8 Last Holiday $4,800,000 $32,700,000 3 … Continue reading
I tend to avoid the local news broadcasts because they generally make me want to seal myself in a small cube and never visit the outside world, but last night I had one of the Boston stations on and caught something I hadn’t heard before (and unfortunately it wasn’t "the Big Dig is completed!"). Apparently … Continue reading
Saying this column was on a hiatus would be a slight understatement, I think. Nevertheless, it’s back. With this edition, I wanted to try out a new format similar to CHUD’s popular Tag Team reviews or the It Said, It Said columns from the days of yore, only with this I wanted to include some … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
It looks like me placing The Squid and The Whale at the top of my Best of 2005 list really worked out for writer/director Noah Baumbach – he’s got a new dramedy in the works at Paramount Classics and it will star Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Leigh is Baumbach’s newlywed wife, by the … Continue reading
I was in the bookstore a few weeks back and a copy of Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog caught my eye. It’s a book by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist John Grogan, about his dog Marley, a Labrador retriever who was very poorly behaved. I flipped through the book and came … Continue reading
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story is brilliant, hilarious, wonderful and warmly entertaining. The concept is simple and complicated – Tristram Shandy is known as a book that is impossible to adapt for film because of its purposefully jumbled structure (it’s an autobiography that gets so sidelined by tangents and asides that the author … Continue reading
The strangest thing about Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble isn’t that it was shot on a shoestring budget with non-actors in all the roles, or that it’s being released essentially simultaneously in theaters, on cable and on DVD. It’s that what begins as a meditation on the lives of small town people suddenly veers into a murder … Continue reading