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"Semi-Pro" looking at $40 million plus?
That "easy" $25 million that Semi-Pro was expected to earn yesterday has swollen into $40 million-plus, in the view of Fantasy Moguls' Steve Mason.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 29, 2008 at 09:51 AM
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BurmaShave ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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Looks like New Line is back on track!
Posted by BurmaShave at February 29, 2008 10:06 AM
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gradystiles says ...
Steve Mason is on crack. He's so off-the-mark on this one that it's not even amusing.
Posted by gradystiles at February 29, 2008 10:18 AM
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Gordie Lachance says ...
I don't know why anyone would be shocked by this. It's February. There's no football. No baseball. It's a dumping ground for bad movies. Semi Pro is reviewing well everywhere... even the NY Times liked it. Should do 50 million.
Posted by Gordie Lachance at February 29, 2008 10:24 AM
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gradystiles says ...
...and now Gordie Lachance is on crack. An R-rated comedy doing $50 million in February?! Riiiight...And where are all these good reviews? It's at 27% positive on Rotten Tomatoes.
Posted by gradystiles at February 29, 2008 10:31 AM
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George Prager says ...
Here's that 'tard Mitch Albom explaining it all for us:
And the Oscar for most depressing
http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080224/COL01/802240635/1082/COL01
A TOUCH OF CLASS is a good guys win movie? Two annoying losers have and extra-marital affair and then end it badly?
Posted by George Prager at February 29, 2008 10:41 AM
Posted by actionman at February 29, 2008 10:46 AM
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JHRussell says ...
More $ in one weekend for a steaming pile Ferrell flick than 8 time Oscar nominated TWBB has earned in 2 months?
Sounds about right to me from Jeff's "Gorilla Nation"...
Posted by JHRussell at February 29, 2008 10:56 AM
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BurmaShave says ...
Here's the most bizzare pan of SEMI-PRO up on Metacritic so far:
"But basketball … basketball doesn’t deserve the Ferrell treatment. Basketball is a sport of kings, a thing of beauty and elegance, America’s game." -Josh Rosenblatt, Austin Chronicle
Uh huh. March Madness, indeed.
Posted by BurmaShave at February 29, 2008 11:15 AM
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Pelham123 says ...
Re: Albom's column --- where the hell has this guy been the past 30-40 years? This reads like a column from someone just discovering the "New" Hollywood of 1968. God help him when he works his way up to "Skidoo".
Posted by Pelham123 at February 29, 2008 11:19 AM
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BurmaShave says ...
"If movies were meant to reflect only the real-life worst in us, why would we need them? We could use mirrors." -Mitch Albom
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Posted by BurmaShave at February 29, 2008 11:51 AM
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Terry McCarty says ...
"If movies were meant to reflect only the real-life worst in us, why would we need them? We could use mirrors." -Mitch Albom
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Mitch has to protect his feel-good book-and-TV-movie franchise.
Posted by Terry McCarty at February 29, 2008 12:37 PM
comment #12
gradystiles says ...
By the way, NRG's lawyer just posted a cease-and-desist letter on Fantasy Moguls. Jeff, you should take heed, too:
"I am the attorney for The Nielsen Company (US), Inc., doing business as Nielsen NRG (“Nielsen”), and it has recently come to our attention that your web site, FANTASYMOGULS.COM, is publishing Nielsen NRG’s valuable proprietary tracking data (“Data”) without any authorization or license from Nielsen. Specifically, on your web site you are publishing NRG’s proprietary tracking information as of February 28, 2008, without permission at web address: http://news.fantasymoguls.com/originalcontent/2008/02/weekend-track-1./html.
Nielsen NRG’s tracking Data is the valuable, exclusive, proprietary, copyrighted property of Nielsen and your organization's blatant disregard of Nielsen’s ownership in and to the Data is a serious infringement of Nielsen’s intellectual property rights under Federal and State copyright laws, and can result in your organization paying statutory damages in excess of $150,000 per infringement.
Notice is hereby given that Nielsen views this copyright infringement with the utmost seriousness and, unless you immediately cease and desist from using Nielsen’s Data and remove the Data from your web site, and confirm that you have, and will continue to desist from this and any other infringement of Nielsen’s rights in the future, Nielsen shall pursue all of its legal and equitable remedies against you.
Michael J. Duffy
Associate General Counsel
The Nielsen Company (US), Inc."
Posted by gradystiles at February 29, 2008 03:19 PM
comment #13
Balthazar says ...
More good news: Mr. Comedy Will Ferrell begins principal photography on "Land of the Lost" on Monday. No joke.
Posted by Balthazar at February 29, 2008 09:08 PM
Posted by FEEG at March 1, 2008 08:50 AM
comment #15
corey3rd says ...
how can Semi-Pro be better than the greatest basketball movie of all time "The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh?" Dr. J was twice the actor on the court as Will. Although I'm going to guess that putz from San Fran has never seen that movie either.
Posted by corey3rd at March 1, 2008 08:59 AM
comment #16
George Prager says ...
DRIVE, HE SAID is the greatest basketball movie of all time.
Posted by George Prager at March 1, 2008 02:04 PM
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