Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I have experienced a total slump in correctly predicting weekend box office numbers as of late. Two weeks ago, I decided to stick with the general consensus on Dark Shadows rather than going with my gut, which told me to predict a more […]
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Nearly 40 years after The Exorcist convinced millions that all a psychopathic child needs is a priest, the property is making a leap to TV. Sean Durkin, the writer-director of last year’s critical favorite Martha Marcy May Marlene, is adapting The Exorcist into a TV series. The series, paid for by Morgan Creek and produced
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On tap this week: five new home viewing options. Here are our capsule reviews… Certified Copy was the cinephile’s head-scratcher of 2011, a beautiful film about the afternoon spent between a man (opera singer William Shimell) and a woman (the incomparable Juliette Binoche). What first appears to be a cerebral character piece along the lines
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The continued adventures of G.I. Joe, despite what a plethora of ads have been telling you, won’t be coming to screens this summer. In a shocking move, Paramount has pushed back G.I. Joe: Retaliation‘s release date by a whopping nine months. Originally due on June 29, the film will now be storming theaters March 29,
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The Dark Knight Returns, the classic 1986 comic from Frank Miller that influenced the Batman mythology more than any other work, is finally getting the movie treatment, and it has its Bruce Wayne. Peter Weller has been announced as the voice of Bruce Wayne/Batman in Warner Brother’s upcoming animated adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns.
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When 23-year-old River Phoenix died of a drug overdose in 1993, he was working on a movie entitled “Dark Blood,” directed by George Sluizer. The project, which Sluizer said was 80 percent finished, was put to rest. The insurance company wanted all the footage destroyed, but Sluizer refused and kept it for himself. Now 79
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When Baz Luhrmann announced that he would be helming a new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”–in 3-D, no less–nobody expected it to be a straightforward, classical treatment of the material. (That was already attempted in 1974 by Jack Clayton and Francis Ford Coppola, and the result was less than satisfactory.) Nonetheless, I
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Tom Cruise seems to be in a hurry to film as many potentially huge movies as possible lest one of them tanks and his semi-comeback comes to a halt. Cruise, who had a rough few years but scored a hit with the latest Mission: Impossible, has attached himself to a remake of the 1960 Western
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Most Hollywood films are made for profit, not artistic reasons, but rarely do they make their financial motives as transparent as Kirk Jones’ “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” does. The film’s desire to win ticket-buyers, rather than admirers is evident in every element of its existence, right down to the title — which, taking
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Today, teasers for two of the most anticipated upcoming films–which couldn’t be more different from one another–hit the web. The more exciting of the pair is the one for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, starring Joaquin Phoenix in his return to formal acting. The teaser does exactly what it should — it doesn’t let you
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