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Friday Box Office: Avengers consistent, Dark Shadows disappoints, Girl in Progress surprises

It would be appropriate to begin this post with another photo of The Avengers, which trounced all competition at the box office again yesterday, but frankly, I’m tired of heading posts with photos of The Avengers. By now, everyone’s aware of the record-breaking going on. Instead, I’m highlighting Girl in Progress, starring Eva Mendes, which yesterday, out …

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Weekend Box Office: The Avengers smashes record, tops $200M

Bringing new meaning to the term “Hulk smash!”, The Avengers was once again able to surpass expectations at the box office, not only posting the highest weekend gross of all-time, but doing so with a berth of over $30 million from the former-record holder (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part Two). The movie held up …

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Friday Box Office: The Avengers on pace to break all-time opening weekend record

As everyone expected, yesterday was an Avengers blowout at the box office. But what few predicted (I didn’t) was that the Marvel Comics adaptation could achieve the biggest opening weekend of all-time. That’s almost certainly going to happen now. With a Friday gross of $80.5 million and a likely first weekend of $180 million–over $10 million …

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Review: “The Avengers”

“The Avengers” should please just about everyone looking to see a group of Marvel characters battling it out with aliens and each other. As for everyone else, it should at least amuse them, too. And it’s the film’s accessibility that becomes a hindrance, as pleasing just about everyone inevitably means thrilling no one. The characters …

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Samuel L. Jackson Twitter-bitches about New York Times review of The Avengers, gets called out

It all started with a tweet: Samuel L. Jackson decided that even though The Avengers had already amassed $200 million internationally and was one day away from pleasing millions of fans in the United States (many of them already lined up for midnight shows), he needed to declare war on longtime New York Times film critic …

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Joss Whedon’s mini “Avengers” director’s commentary

Two weeks ago, I lambasted MTV and Rian Johnson for publishing a “director’s commentary” for the trailer for “Looper”, which seemed ridiculous and unnecessary, killing the beautiful aura of mystery surrounding the film. I’m more open to the clip above, in which Joss Whedon records a sort of mini director’s commentary track, voicing over one …

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