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Indie Weekend Box Office: French 'Girl Cut in Two' on Top
Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Foreign Language, Thrillers, Box Office, Cinematical Indie  The French are at it again! After last month's unexpected breakout success of French thriller Tell No One, surely it's no surprise that French thriller A Girl Cut in Two opened on top, grossing $9,750 per screens at the two theaters in New York where it opened, according to Box Office Mojo. Claude Chabrol's latest (and perhaps last) has delighted critics, including our own Jeffrey M. Anderson ("superbly made ... highly enjoyable").
Amidst a hailstorm of reviews, interviews, and offers of threesomes, Woody Allen's
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Weekend Box Office: 'Dark Knight' Dethroned at Last
Filed under: New Releases, Box Office  In a weekend glutted with new releases battling the aftershocks of The Dark Knight earthquake, Tropic Thunder debuted below expectations -- but well enough to steal the top spot from The Dark Knight in that film's 5th weekend. The R-rated comedy's $26 million weekend and $37 million 5-day was roughly on par with Pineapple Express' performance the previous weekend, but I think Tropic Thunder was predicted to have broader appeal. In retrospect, the advertising may have emphasized the film's inside-baseball aspects a bit too much.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars did okay in third place with $15 million -- weak for a...
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Box Office: Mirrors, Clones and Tropic Thunder
Filed under: Action, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Box Office, Box Office Predictions It's starting to look like the only way we're going to get the bats out of the top five is to call an exterminator. Chalk up another $26 million for billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne and his war on crime as The Dark Knight hangs on to first place for a fourth week in a row. Seth Rogen's stoner comedy came in respectably at second, taking in only $3 million less than the Batman Begins sequel. Here's the break down:
1. The Dark Knight:$26.1 million
2. Pineapple Express: $23.2 million
3. The Mummy: Tomb...
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Jim Emerson Smacks Down 'Tropic' Boycotters
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Awards, Casting, New Releases, Paramount, Celebrities and Controversy, Box Office, Fandom, Images  Whether or not you're offended by the use of the word "retard" in Tropic Thunder, it's hard to deny the difference between the intention of the humor and the ire of the groups protesting it. When Ben Stiller's character, Tugg Speedman, learns that he was mistaken in going "full-retard" with his miscalculated awards-bid performance as a mentally challenged man in Simple Jack, you either laugh or you don't, but you definitely get it. Stiller's point is that self-important...
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Indie Weekend Box Office: Kingsley, Cruz, Roth, and 'Elegy'
Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Box Office, Cinematical Indie  Was it good acting, literary source material, or the prospect of a naked beauty that lured people to this weekend's top box office draw? With a $17,000 per-screen average, Isabel Coixet's drama Elegy easily led all comers, according to estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo. Despite Christopher Campbell's negative review, the combination of Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, and a Philip Roth novel evidently proved to be irresistible. We'll see what happens when the film expands to 25 markets in two weeks.
Another film that resonated well in New...
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Weekend Box Office: Another Weekend on Top for 'The Dark Knight'
Filed under: New Releases, Box Office  The weekend estimates have The Dark Knight taking the top spot for the fourth straight week in another squeaker -- though not as close as last week's victory over The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. It dropped 39% to $26 million, which was good enough to beat the $22.4 million showing for the stoner comedy Pineapple Express. That brings The Dark Knight to $441.5 million, edging out Shrek 2for third place on the all-time domestic charts. By next weekend, it should pull ahead of Star Wars (its unadjusted numbers, anyway) for second place. Titanic still remains out of reach, or at least...
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'Pineapple' Opens to Big Bucks
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Sony, Box Office  Although I'd seen it twice already, I went ahead and accompanied my father to a showing of Pineapple Express last night, only to be greeted with a surprisingly packed 8:10 showing in the theater's largest auditorium. When we exited, the immediate lobby was fairly lined up with those waiting to catch the next showtime, and when I dashed across the hall to peek in on the 9:30 showing that some of my friends had caught, it was in an auditorium half the size and equally packed, down to people actually sitting on the floor space typically reserved for those in wheelchairs...
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Poll: How Much Will 'W.' Make at the Box Office?
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Each day seems to bring us yet another piece of promotional marketing for Oliver Stone's Bush flick, W. Not long after Moviefone debuted the trailer, AICN now has a teaser poster and what you see above is one of two newly-released images from the film. They're definitely pimping it, trying to get folks interested in a movie about the life and times of George W. Bush even though many of us are tired of the man, the jokes, the legend -- all of it. We've spent 8 years with this dude ... can't we just...
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Indie Weekend Box Office: 'Transsiberian' Continues Its Ride at the Top
Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Independent, Thrillers, Box Office, Cinematical Indie  While The Dark Knight battled The Mummy on the mainstream charts, indie fans enjoyed much cooler movies. In its third week of release, Brad Anderson's Transsiberian continued its strong run, raking in $15,100 per-screen at the two locations where it's playing, according to estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo. The film has grossed $125,000 so far. Also set in a cold clime, Frozen River, Courtney Hunt's "single mother smuggles illegal immigrants" drama, took in $10,471 per screen at seven locations on its opening weekend.
Two...
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The Exhibitionist: Repeat Business
Filed under: Action, Magnolia, Warner Brothers, Box Office, Fandom, Exhibition, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Columns 
Behold my 1000-plus words way of asking you this simple question: how many times have you seen The Dark Knight?
Here's a little story I probably tell too often (it's even in my "Meet the Team" bio): Long ago, at an art school that should remain nameless (I hated the place too much to give it any kind of credit), I studied film production, with the crazy notion that I would be the one to bridge the gap between Steven Spielberg and Quentin...
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