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Entries from August 2008

Theatrical Review: Babylon A.D.

August 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

In the near future, a mercenary based in Russia, Toorop, is contracted to make sure that he gets a mysterious young woman named Aurora from the ravages of a post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City. He picks the girl up at a Mongolian monastery where she’s accompanied by her guardian, Sister Rebekah. [...]

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News Briefs

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

 
The 65th annual Venice Film Festival opens on Wednesday with a screening of the Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading. Stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt are expected to attend. The film, however, is not among the 21 films entered in the official competition. Also expected to attend the festival — and screenings of films they’ll [...]

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Weekend Box Office For August 22 - 24

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

#1 Tropic Thunder from Paramount/Dreamworks takes #1 this weekend bringing in $16,100,000 thats up 37% over last week. Thunder showed in 3352 theaters up 33 and has earned a total of $65,668,000. Thunder cost $92 million to make.
#2 The House Bunny from Sony debus at #2 taking in $15.1 million in 2714 theaters. Bunny cost %25 million.
#3 Death Race from [...]

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Theatrical Review: Death Race

August 24th, 2008 · No Comments

In the year 2012, the United States economy has collapsed and the crime rate is now at an all time high. Prison populations are growing and now large corporations have assumed the running of these prisons and have decided to use them for televised gladiatorial combat as an opiate for the masses, and yet [...]

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Cage Signs On As “Kick Ass” Moves Ahead

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

According to the Playlist Nicolas Cage has signed on to the lead in Matthew Vaughn’s (Stardust, Layer Cake) adaptation of the Mark Millar comic book Kick Ass. Also signed on are Aaron Johnson (The Illusionist, Baker Street Irregulars) and Lyndsy Fonseca (Heros, Desperate Housewives).
Kick Ass, originally written by Mike Millar and illustrated by the venerable John [...]

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Affleck To Work With Judge

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Variety reports that Ben Affleck has signed on to the new Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-head, Office Space) vehicle Extract. 
Affleck, who turned 36 last week, will be playing an ambulance chasing attorney opposite Jason Bateman (Hancock, Juno) who will be playing a down on his luck flower extract factory owner. 
Also starring is Clifton Collins Jr [...]

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BSP Episode 073: Taxi Driver

August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In this week’s episode, we discuss Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver.

Be sure to let us know if there are any movies we should add to the List o’ Movies.
And while we won’t announce this on the show for a few weeks, make sure you visit our page at Myxer.com.
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News Briefs

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments

The BBC reports that Twentieth Century Fox has applied to a Los Angeles court to block the release of Watchmen, based on the comic books written by Alan Moore. Fox, which says it bought film rights to the series in the 1980s, has been given the go-ahead to launch an injunction against rival Warner Bros. Fox said [...]

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Variance Films Launches

August 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In an effort to establish a new theatrical distribution model for independent filmmakers Dylan Marchetti has announced the formation of VARIANCE FILMS. The former THINKFilm director of distribution and marketing, says that Variance Films will allow lesser-known films to bridge the gap between self-distribution and traditional theatrical distribution.
 ”Variance Films will represent the best of the old thinking and [...]

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Weekend Box Office For August 15 - 17

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

#1 Tropic Thunder from Paramount/Dreamworks debuts at #1 this weekend bringing in $26 million from 3319 theaters. Thunder cost $92 million to make.
#2 The Dark Knight from Warner Bros. takes the #2 spot this weekend bringing in $16.8 million for the weekend, thats down 35%, putting its total earnings at $471,493,000. The Dark Knight [...]

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Theatrical Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars

August 17th, 2008 · No Comments

In the midst of Episodes 2 and 3 of the Star Wars films and shown even further in Genndy Tartavoksy’s animated Clone Wars shorts from The Cartoon Network, there’s a period that allows for even further stories within the Clone Wars milieu itself, and that period is where the new CGI animated series Star Wars: [...]

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Theatrical Review: Mirrors

August 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Police detective Ben Carson is on suspension due to the accidental shooting of another police officer. Ben is separated from his wife and children and now he’s starting to feel the strain of all of his pressures. In order to help keep himself going, he takes on the job of a night watchmen [...]

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News Briefs

August 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Cloverfield producer and Lost co-creator J.J. Abrams is working on a new disaster movie for Universal according to The Hollywood Reporter. Abrams and David Seltzer, the screenwriter of the original “Omen,” are working together on an earthquake movie for the studio.
Hecklerspray reports that Sony execs have sacked the current Venom script and are calling for an [...]

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Weekend Box Office For August 8 - 10

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

#1 The Dark Knight from Warner Bros. takes the top spot for a 3rd weekend bringing in $26 million for the weekend, thats down 39%, putting its total earnings at $441,541,000. The Dark Knight showed in 4025 theaters, down 241 and cost roughly $185 million.
#2 Pineapple Express from Sony debuts at #2 this weekend bringing in $22.4 million. Express [...]

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BSP Episode 072: Animal House

August 8th, 2008 · No Comments

In this episode, we are pretty much worn out from the review of The Dark Knight, the Chat with Tee and Pip and the 8 other episodes we released over the last 4 days.

We start of with the intention of talking about Animal House and that quickly goes out the window.
We ramble a bit here, [...]

 
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