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Entries from July 2008

BSP Special Episode 06: A Chat with Tee and Pip

July 31st, 2008 · 7 Comments

Strap in folks, this is a long and glorious ride.

We chatted with Tee Morris, author of… well, you know all the books he’s written, and Philippa Ballantine, author of Chasing the Bard.
Tee and Pip are promoting their books that are just about to be released and asking all of us to purchase them at Amazon.
Philippa [...]

 
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BSP Episode 071: The Dark Knight

July 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Tony, Tony and Adam have a mega discussion of the record breaking film, The Dark Knight.

Themes, implications, analysis, and the future of the franchise are just a small portion of the lengthy discussion of the film.
Also discussed: Green Porno Seriously… we didn’t believe it either until we saw it.
And another episode of the Booster [...]

 
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News Briefs

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

OK Magazine reports that Shia Labeouf’s recent DUI may cost Transformers as much as $200,000 a day while they await his recovery from hand surgery brought on by the accident.
Kung Fu Panda’s earnings have helped buoy Dreamworks’ second quarter earnings according to the NY Times. Panda earned $210 million domestic and over $500 million international [...]

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BSR Episode 002:Big Brother S10 W2

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Hello again.

In this episode, Tony and Julie bring you their thoughts on week two of the current season of Big Brother.

For those of you who might be wondering, within the next episode or two, these episodes will branch off into a new website/feed. If you are one of our regular listeners, but don’t watch [...]

 
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Weekend Box Office for July 25 - 27

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

#1 The Dark Knight from Waner Bros. dominates the box office for the second weekend in a row, despite a 52% drop in reciepts for the film, bringing in $75,630,000 from 4366 theaters bringing its total earnings to $314,245,000. Dark Knight cost $185 million.
#2 Step Brothers from Sony debuts in the #2 spot this weekend bringing in $30 million from 3094 theaters. [...]

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Theatrical Review: The X Files: I Want To Believe

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments

After six years, former FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are brought out of hiding to aid the FBI in a case involving a missing agent. Because of their involvement with the paranormal, their expertise is needed especially seeing that the FBI is using the talents of a psychic in their search. [...]

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BSP Episode 070: Eight Days a Week

July 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Tony and Adam discuss the film Eight Days a Week.  This is the unofficial kick-off of our support for Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine’s Double Trouble promotion.  (more to come on this next week)

This is a short discussion, so we included a bonus.
Tony gave his review of the new Get Smart film to Adam and [...]

 
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News Briefs

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Directors Darren Lynn Bousman of the Saw franchise,  Zack Snyder from the most recent Dawn Of The Dead and Andrew Douglas from Amityville Horror have all signed deals with Microsoft to make a series of shorts for the Xbox Live to be produced by the Safran Group, a French technology company based in Paris.
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BSP Episode 069: Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

July 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

In tribute to the late George Carlin, we discuss the 1989 film, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Phil (The Red Earth Saga) joins us for a few drinks and a conversation about George, the film, and a few other tangential topics.
Be excellent to each other!
Party on, dudes!

 
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“The Dark Knight” Breaks Records And Shores Up Summer Sales

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

“The Dark Knight,” the sixth in Warner Brothers’ franchise of “Batman” movies, set a record with three-day ticket sales of $155.3 million over the weekend.
By Warner’s estimate, the film outstripped opening-weekend ticket sales of last year’s “Spider-Man 3,” which took $151.1 million for Sony Pictures and was the previous record holder. “The Dark Knight” also [...]

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Weekend Box Office For July 18 - 20

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

#1 The Dark Knight from Waner Bros. steamrolls into the #1 spot this weekend bringing in $155.3 million from 4366 theaters and setting at least 5 box office records in the process. Dark Knight cost $180 million.
#2 Mamma Mia! from Universal debuts in the #2 spot taking in $27.6 million from 2976 theaters. Mamma Mia! [...]

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BSR Episode 001:Big Brother S10 W1

July 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

Tony and Julie have been threatening to do this for a while and finally put their voices where there mouths are… um something like that.

We turn our review and analysis skills on Big Brother, CBS’s summer filler for the past nine years (and last spring during the writer’s strike.
Let us know what you think [...]

 
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Theatrical Review: The Dark Knight

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s been about a year since The Batman made his debut in Gotham City and in that time, crime has gone down and imitators to Batman have sprung up, much to Batman’s own consternation. Organized crime has had it though, and realizes that they need to turn to a new method to combat against [...]

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New Releases For The Week of
July 14th, 2008

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Tuesday July 15
Asylum: Rated R. A group of beautiful coeds discover that their dorm was once a mental hospital where unspeakable experiments were performed by a deranged physician trying to “cure” troubled teens. But now the mad doctor’s ghost is back to continue his torturous work…and he’s running out of patients! Sarah Roemer (Disturbia) and [...]

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News Briefs

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Danny DeVito is set to direct Oscar-nominated “Atonement” actress Saoirse Ronan, Morgan Freeman and Pierce Brosnan in the family adventure “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.” The 19th century tale of a young girl who joins in a shipboard rebellion.
“Hancock” led the foreign box office for a second weekend, earning $70.4 million from 67 markets, [...]

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