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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

DELLAMORTE’S BOX OFFICE WRAP 11/25/07

Film Weekend Per Screen Film Total 1 Enchanted $35,332,000 $9,472 $50,048,000 2 This Christmas $18,600,000 $10,010 $27,100,000 3 Beowulf $16,240,000 (-41.0%) $5,046 $56,361,000 4 Hitman $13,035,000 $5,303 $21,000,000 5 Bee Movie $12,010,000 (-14.3%) $3,424 $112,069,000 6 Fred Claus $10,735,000 (-9.9%) $2,979 $53,070,000 7 August Rush $9,430,000 $4,082 $13,330,000 8 American Gangster $9,207,000 (-28.5%) $3,289 $115,774,000 … Continue reading

BE KIND, REWIND, LOG IN

The basic concept behind Michel Gondry’s new film, Be Kind Rewind, is a touch of genius – when Jack Black accidentally erases all the videotapes at the video store where he and Mos Def work, they have to rerecord all the movies, but featuring themselves. Apparently in the film this process is Sweding, and the … Continue reading

SPEECHLESS RUINS

There’s finally reason to get almost tepidly excited about Paramount’s screen version of Scott Smith’s The Ruins: he’s revealed to USA Today that the novel’s malevolent foliage won’t be making like John Moschitta. The conceit of talking vines didn’t collapse my suspension of belief on the page; I mean, I figured if I was able … Continue reading

GREEN RACER

The big news about the Wachowski Bros’ adaptation of Speed Racer was originally that they were shooting the film in such a way that everything in the frame would be in focus, just like how everything in a cartoon is in focus. I was under the impression that this would require heavy duty camera skill … Continue reading

BRAD PITT WILL NOT PLAY

I want to program a ‘Brad Pitt dropped out of a movie’ macro on my computer*. The guy seems to always be pulling out of projects, from Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain to Almost Famous to The Departed, and now he’s added another to the list of ‘Could Have Been**’ movies: State of Play. This was … Continue reading

DELLAMORTE DOES BOX OFFICE 12/9/07

Happy Thanksgiving, or as Canadians call it, Thursday.THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR:-We’ve got a movie from the Coen Brothers and a movie from Todd Haynes hitting theaters! Both are great, and both are worth seeing as soon as you can get to them.-Los Angeles has a 70mm print of Lawrence of Arabia at the Egyptian … Continue reading