Didn’t the “Scary Movie” films used to be parodies? It has been 13 years since the first one came out, so my memory is admittedly a bit foggy, but I seem to remember the Wayans Brothers taking pointed jabs at “Scream,” “The Blair Witch Project,” “The Sixth Sense,” and other ‘90s horror staples. They made […]
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Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, the column in which I predict the upcoming weekend’s box office results. Apologies for my unannounced absence last week; I was out of town at my graduate school orientation, so I barely had time to choke out reviews of “The Croods” and “The Place Beyond the Pines,”
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Many of novelist Bret Easton Ellis’ works have been adapted into feature films, but up until now, he hasn’t been heavily involved in movie-making himself. Ellis worked to develop certain projects, like “American Psycho,” and co-wrote the screenplay for the critical and box office failure “The Informers,” based on his book, but he otherwise remained
Lindsay Lohan is set to play a famous, volatile woman with alcohol and drug problems. Do you think she can imagine what being an unstable addict is like? Lohan has signed on to play Elizabeth Taylor in Liz and Dick, a Lifetime movie about the late movie star’s romance with English actor Richard Burton. The
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