Back Seat Producers

Written by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue, Directed by Joel Schumacher 
Bravery is shaping up as my theme of the week over at Girls with Glasses.  And this woman tops them all, hands down.  Joel Schumacher (“Lost Boys” and “Batman & Robin”) directs and Jerry Bruckheimer (“Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Pearl Harbor”) produces this serious, [...]

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Brendan Frasier has been signed to star opposite Harrison Ford in an as yet untitled true-story based drama from Double Feature Films. Frasier plays biotech executive John Crowley whose two children were diagnosed with a fatal neuromuscular disorder, Ford plays the oddball scientific genius whom Fraser turns to for the pioneering treatments his kids need [...]

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#1 Paul Blart: Mall Cop from Sony holds the #1 spot for a second weekend. Cop earned $21.5 million in 3144 theaters this weekend. Budget for Cop was $26 million.
#2 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans from Screen Gems debuts at #2 this weekend earning $20.7 million in 2942 theaters. Budget for Lycans was $35 million.
#3 [...]

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In 1941, in Nazi occupied Eastern Europe near the Belarussian Forests, four Jewish brothers, Tuvia, Zus, Asael and Aron Bielski flee to the forests to hide after discovering their parents killed after a hunt for Jews. The brothers survive by their wits and very soon, they take more in with them, beginning construction of [...]

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Howdy!  To all regular (and not-so-easily-categorized) readers of “Back Seat Producers,” I send greetings!  Tony and the gang have invited me, Melanie Young, on as an estrogen-heavy contributor of DVD reviews.  I’ll be attempting to post here a couple times a week, though I also post daily over at my regular blog: http://glassesgirls.blogspot.com - which I [...]

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Korean Western The Good, the Bad, the Weird leads the list of nominations for this year’s Asian Film Awards. The film, about a chase for treasure through the wilderness of Manchuria, collected eight nominations, including best feature film, director and cinematography, as well as a two way nod for Jung Woo-sung and Lee Byung-hun in [...]

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#1 Paul Blart: Mall Cop from Sony debuts at #1 this weekend Cop earned $33.8 million in 3144 theaters this weekend. Budget for was $26 million.
#2 Grand Torino from Warner Bros. drops to #2 Torino earned $22.2 million in 2972 theaters this weekend bringing its gross to $73 million. Budget for Torino was $33 [...]

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Movie Prize Pack Giveaway
From Henry Selick, visionary director of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, and based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling book, comes a spectacular stop-motion animated adventure – the first to be originally filmed in 3D!

Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning) is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door and discovers an [...]

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Still catching up.  As near as we can tell/remember we are releasing these in the order that we recorded them.
We joke about this being the “Recently Dead Guy” podcast.  This is reflected once again as this episode is being released just a few days after news that Ricardo Montalban has passed away.
In this episode we [...]

 

 BSP Episode 082: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (719)

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Randy “The Ram” Robinson is a pro wrestler who’s best days are 20 years past, and now he ekes out a living doing small local shows and working for a store. At one of his shows, he sustains a load of brutal injuries and then has a heart attack and suddenly starts to realize his [...]

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After two months of a dry feed we are back, and we’ll be releasing a TON of content in the next few weeks.
We currently have 6 more episodes that have been recorded and are somewhere in the editing process, with one more set to be recorded tonight!
This episode is a tribute to Paul Newman.  We [...]

 

 BSP Episode 081: Hustler and Color of Money: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (552)

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According to Variety, the Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road) is lining up the starring role in Beat the Reaper, a comic suspense tale about a former hit man hiding out as a Manhattan emergency room doctor whose cover is blown after a mobster recognizes him. DiCaprio, having just wrapped work on Martin Scorsese’s thriller Shutter Island [...]

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#1 Grand Torino from Warner Bros. claws its way to #1 spot after debuting at #20 way back on December 12. Torino earned $29 million in 2808 theaters this weekend bringing its gross to $40 million. Budget for Torino was $33 million.
#2 Bride Wars from Fox debuts at #2 bringing $21.5 million in 3226 theaters. [...]

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As an old woman named Daisy lies in her deathbed, she relates to her daughter, the story of the most important man in her life, a fellow named Benjamin, who began his life in the oddest of ways, displaying all of the effects of old age on an infant’s frame. As Benjamin grows older, [...]

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According to Empire Online McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation) has signed with Disney to direct the update of 20000 Leagues Under the Sea.
In further Disney news from Empire, Garrett Hedlund (Eragon, Friday Night Lights) has signed on to star in Disney’s Tron sequel, now titled simply Tron joining returning cast members Jeff Bridges and Bruce [...]

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