Hunger Games opens on Friday, 3.23, or at 12:01 midnight that morning. I won’t be seeing it in Los Angeles until Monday night. Boxoffice.com is projecting an opening Weekend tally of $95 million and a total domestic gross of $235 million. Fandango says more than 1000 showtimes are already sold out across nationwide, and that theater owners are adding showtimes — some as late as 3:00 a.m. on Friday morning — to meet the demand for tickets.
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
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Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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