Back Seat Producers

Happy Halloween. This is a special episode that we’ve been planning for a while.  We’ve got a few other episodes recorded before this one, but we wanted to release this for Halloween. This is a full commentary track for the movie The Sixth Sense. There is a lot of dead air toward the end of [...]

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DreamWorks Animation announced Tuesday that David Geffen has resigned from its board of directors but will remain a major shareholder. Jeffrey Katzenberg issued a statement saying that he looked forward “to working with David as a trusted adviser going forward.” It is unclear what role, if any, Steven Spielberg continues to play in the affairs [...]

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#1 High School Musical 3: Senior Year from Buena Vista debuts at #1 this weekend bringing in $42 million. Musical showed in 3623 theaters and cost $11 million. #2 Saw V from Lions Gate debuts at #2 this weekend bringing in $30.5 million. Saw showed in 3060 theaters and cost $10.8 million. #3 Max Payne [...]

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Gonna Change Your Way of Thinking Joel Gilbert’s documentary on Bob Dylan’s sudden conversion to Christianity is an authentic, detail-oriented and thought-provoking work. It is a must see for fans and casual viewers alike. The subject-matter alone is fascinating and remains, thirty years from its occurrence, a little told story about the already mythic and [...]

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With the events of Saw IV now past, it’s believed that the killer known as Jigsaw has finally been put to rest, but those of us who’ve seen the movie know better because of another protege of the famed killer. One lone FBI agent, Peter Strahm (also seen in Saw IV) believes he’s still out [...]

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Steven Soderbergh is developing a 3-D live-action rock ’n’ roll musical about Cleopatra to be called “Cleo” and he is asking Catherine Zeta-Jones to play the Egyptian queen and Hugh Jackman to play her lover, Marc Antony. Projected to cost $30 million “Cleo” will be shopped for financing and distribution within the next two weeks. [...]

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Yeah, so we talked about the Count of Monte Cristo. We probably talked almost as much about Man in the Iron Mask. This episode also features a Booster Seat Producer review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Don’t forget to join us on Wednesday nights at about 9:00 PM Central on Ustream.tv (Follow BetterintheBack or [...]

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#1 Max Payne from Fox takes #1 this weekend bringing in $18 million. Hills showed in 3376 theaters. Budget is $35 million. #2 Beverly Hills Chihuahua from Disney drops to #2 this weekend bringing in $11.2 million, bringing its total earnings to $69 million. Chihuahua showed in 3239 theaters, up 21. Budget for Chihuahua is [...]

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Detective Max Payne lost his wife and child to a brutal killing. And though now, Payne is bound to a desk, he still continues to try and solve the murder himself and soon he finds the clues that leads him to the pharmaceutical company that his wife had worked for, currently trafficking in a super-soldier [...]

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#1 Beverly Hills Chihuahua from Disney takes #1 again this weekend bringing in $17.5 million, bringing its total to $52.5 million. Hills showed in 3218 theaters, up 3. Budget is unknown. #2 Quarantine from Screen Gems debuts at #2 this weekend bringing in $14.2 million. Quarantine showed in 2416 theaters and cost $12 million. #3 [...]

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