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Movie Awards Production Meeting Teases Nudity, Strange Duets, and Boffo Opening

2008-05-31 00:23:19 by Shawn Adler in MTV Movies Blog
 
...boffo opening, you should check out who appears with host Mike Myers But thats it. I promised. Tune in on Sunday at 8 PM ET to see what for yourself what all the excitements about (and remember that the fun starts with the key-word Miley Cyrus. Seriously Share This
 
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Jeffrey M. Anderson's 400 Screens 400 Blows - The Fate of Family Films

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2008-01-17 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
...boffo box office and the third of which is in DVD oblivion, I thought it might be fun to evaluate some of the current below-400-screen family movies and consider their fates. Mainly, I wanted to concentrate on the differences between Fred Claus (240 screens) and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (248 screens). Mr. Magorium has a devastating 34%...
 
Tags: screens, box office, boffo box office, fred claus, movies, magorium, family movies, blows, family films permalink
 
 
 
 
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Oscar Films Not Exactly Box Office Boffo

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2008-01-29 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
Filed under: Box Office , Oscar Watch This may be the strongest batch of Oscar nominees in some time, but general audiences don't care, according to a recent look by the Associated Press . The five Best Picture nominees combined have grossed about $246 million to date, compared with $297 million last year and $245 in 2005. ( Juno is the sole...
 
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Katyń in Berlin

2008-02-16 08:42:02 by michael in Kinoblog
 
...boffo biz domestically last year, and should make a victory lap around arthouses offshore Other substantial English-language pieces include one in The Economist , and especially Anne Applebaums magnum opus , A Movie That Matters in the New York Review of Books The film will be opening theatrically in Britain in April, but its out on DVD in...
 
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Creeps

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2008-02-29 17:36:00 by math in And another Thing.
Brief-ly: the loathsome Victor Salva has signed to write and direct Jeepers Creepers 3: The Creeper Walks Among Us (that title will get changed). Ray Wise will return as whatever guy I don't remember Ray Wise playing in the second one The first two made money despite an almost total lack of quality; though I remember thinking the first one had...
 
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*pant pant pant* NEW *pant pant pant*

2008-03-04 00:06:33 by Editor in The Watchtower of Destruction: The Ferrett's Journal
 
...BOFFO HERE STILL HASN'T GOTTEN HIS FILLS BACK IN SHAPE YET" is nigh-impossible. Yes, you can lay rubber over the drumheads, but then it's hard to hear how you're playing when you play along to music. Yes, you can pay a lot of money for electronic drums, but a) I don't have a lot of money to space, and b) at least a decade ago, the feel of...
 
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'Stop Loss' in camo

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2008-03-17 11:34:31 by Glenn Kenny in In The Company Of Glenn
...boffo box office as well. So I can understand why Paramount might want to retool its campaign, down to the desperate (and never particularly effective) ploy of slapping "MTV Films Presents" in front of its title. (We should recall that Election became a cult classic in spite of rather than due to said ploy.) The movie's also got a MySpace...
 
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The "Enchanted" Home Screening Room

2008-03-17 23:19:00 by Paul Hall, Common Guy's Film Reviews in Common Guy's Film Reviews Blog
 
...boffo box office that followed. Looks like some great extras on the DVD release...so check that out, available Tuesday Then there is the Oscar and Critcs ' Choice nominee and BAFTA winner Atonement . Keira Knightley is lovely, Saorise Ronan is a breath of fresh air and James McAvoy shines in this epic story of romance amidst the lies. Joe...
 
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Film Biz Plans To Stomp Through Apocalypse

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2008-03-17 18:47:21 by Fred Schruers in Portfolio.com: Hollywood Deal
...boffo box office that's making the industry forget the bad old days of say, mid -2005 From Black Friday in 1929 through the waning days of the Great Depression as it gave way to the start of World War II, Hollywood production surged to levels unheard of today. A huge appetite for double features meant, as pointed out by Otto Friedrich in...
 
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Judd Apatow Alert: Four Comedies Coming

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2008-03-19 15:46:38 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood