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Why has the new Star Trek not beat the first one's opening weekend, even with 3D and Imax premiums and an 87% critics rating? It had the best trailer of the year. (No spoilers!)
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What does everyone think about the bloodbath at NBC today?
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Those sequences where he becomes the killer and "relives" the murder have a big supernatural vibe to them. And he woke up wandering on a highway in one scene, which really gave it a supernatural vibe. If that's not the case and it's just supposed to be his intuition, sorry but I think it's overproduced nonsense. Not to mention grisly because not only do we see the aftermath with the hacked bodies, but then we get to relive the murders from the POV of the killer! Yuck.
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AMC is bringing back THE KILLING for a 3rd season. Whyyyyy?!!
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Rubicon can't hold Carrie Mathison's jock! I mean, seriously, the pilot opens with these guys trying to unravel some kind of secret code found on the front pages of three major newspapers? Firstly, um, get back to your f*&king job because there's terrorists out there, and secondly, huh? If this was answered later in the season, the ponderous scenes and glacial pace made sure I had already checked out.
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Olympus Has Fallen trailer: http://youtu.be/vwx1f0kyNwI Ummm...yeah.
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Elliott, I too am baffled that Gerard Butler keeps getting big roles. He was great in 300...and everything else has pretty much sucked/bombed. He's the new Colin Farrell -- keeps getting cast, despite bomb after bomb or even much likeability. He seems like a nice guy, but give us a break already. :-0
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Dudes, seriously watch The Americans tonight and tell me if I'm wrong that it has huge potential.
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Glenn Mazzara's out on The Walking Dead, anyone know the deets? He asked for Matt Weiner money and they told him to hit the road? That would be ironic, considering that TWD will make 10 times the profit that Mad Men will over the next 20 years.
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Based on AMC's track record with hiring new talent for their shows, the replacement will not be a good one. They hired the guy from Falling Skies to do Hell on Wheels season 3. Falling Skies was a mess and whoever was showrunner needed to be fired, not hired for another series. AMC has been making a lot of questionable calls (esp. in regards to the Killing) to the point where their brand is starting to erode. With Breaking Bad gone after this season and Mad Men the season after this (?),...
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Mazzara's one of the best guys I have ever worked with or for before in my career and I know that no matter what, he'll land on his feet and march on. The comment above about him being hired because he was cheap and bottom of the barrel is wrong. He helped helm "The Shield" which was an amazing show and has done other incredible shows before and after that. TWD has had a HUGE pile of turnover from the very first season on...this is just par for the course. Remember the gre...
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"The New Girl" is a great show. Respect.
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This is 40: Agree it's too long, but the big problem for me is that it's just NOT FUNNY. Sorry, but Apatow's style is just played out. If this exact same movie had come out in 2007, I would have been laughing uproariously. You gotta know when to move on.
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It had some laughs, of course, just...not enough. And too much reliance on improv. I took classes at the UCB Theater in NYC years ago, so I've watched a number of people come up and noticed the influence of improv on tv and features and it's getting out of hand, IMHO. I notice now most of the "tags" on the ends of sitcoms are just actors improv'ing and it often pulls me out because it's not natural to the character or the logic of the show. I get the sense that the sho...
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Just as I suspected: "...an excuse for ostensibly grown men to drink their own urine, kick around a guy’s severed head and have long, drawn-out arguments about their autoerotic habits in “This Is the End.”" from Variety's review. Pass.
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As a lover of "The Prestige," my immediate reaction is to hate Now You See Me.
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"Seventh Son" looks like it cost $250 million based on the trailer, but it's opening in early January? Is WB dumping it because it's Legendary or is it just a turkey?
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Please remind me, what is the quest in The Hobbit? Why do they put together this group of dwarves and where are they initially going? I'm psyched to see it, but I read the book so long ago I can't remember. I only remember Smaug and Smeagol.
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Dark Knight Trilogy Blu-Ray box set is here! What great packaging, can't wait to fire up the discs.
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WOW (sorry for the caps, this is copied from a press release): AMC’S “THE WALKING DEAD” IS THE FIRST CABLE SERIES TO BEAT EVERY OTHER SHOW OF THE FALL BROADCAST SEASON IN ADULT 18-49 RATING “THE WALKING DEAD” ATTRACTS 15.2 MILLION VIEWERS FOR THE NIGHT SERIES DELIVERS 10.5 MILLION VIEWERS AT 9PM PREMIERE, UP 58% OVER LAST YEAR’S MID-SEASON FINALE
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Is Sony going forward with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy?
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This Woody Allen documentary is fantastic. Streaming it on Netflix. Part 1 goes into a lot of detail about his writing evolution.
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Got the Mad Men screener and I ain't sharing!!!
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Why does the Cap America costume in The Avengers look so cheap now? http://tinyurl.com/3snczxj
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How does weekend tracking work? Where/how do they poll people and gauge this information? I've never been asked at a movie theater if I was aware of an upcoming movie. As we all know, the tracking is often wrong, but it's usually pretty darn accurate so...pull back the curtain,please?
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It's all about comparisons and keeping a straight face when you guess wrong.
The pre-release numbers come from data gathered from focus groups and/or test screenings. Sometimes your focus group is a bunch a people in a room or sometimes they're online or polled over the phone. Who they are reflects what you want to find out -- age, geography, income, whatever.
From the groups you end up with data on movie awareness, how good your advertising was and demographic ...
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reaction to the film. You then take all the data, ticket pre-sales and compare it to how similar films opened. Then you guess.
Once the tickets start selling on Friday you get more data and you compare it to past releases to try to figure out Saturday and Sunday.
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Check out the comments: http://www.deadline.com/2013/09/apa-signs-screenwriter-daniel-turkewitz/#comments
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I've also got a lot of kudos for my articles on INCEPTION http://tinyurl.com/3mnbzpv and THE DARK KNIGHT http://tinyurl.com/3hd7fex. Agree, disagree, hate Nolan?
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I believe The Dark Knight is in fact two 1 hour and Twenty Minute Movies... there are two mini movies that are all linked together by the common thread/theme of sacrifice. Bruce Wayne/Batman sacrifices his life/company/family/friends for the city. Even Bruce Wayne sacrifices his Lambo to save the guy who was going to turn him in/expose him. The joker was sacrificing his life and money to prove he was the best. Even the prisoners on the boat had to make a choice as to who was going to sacri...
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How 'bout that Obama movie? You know, the one you didn't know existed until two minutes ago when you learned that it's kicking butt at the box-office? :-0
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Magnets, bitch!
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Is anyone else unable to add House of Cards to your Netflix queue? It's there on the home page to stream, but there's no button to add to queue. Odd.
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I think Fincher will win Best Director for Dragon Tattoo but there's no way the film can win Best Picture. Speaking of, does anyone know what's the deal with the title sequence in the film? It felt totally removed from the story, whereas the iconic titles in "Seven" were directly related to the story (John Doe constructing one of his journals).
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Thanks for the link, SciFiGuy, which includes a video embed of the full sequence. For the record, I'm fine with the IDEA of a title sequence like that -- not only is it a trademark of Fincher's style but if a Bond film can do it, why not another? And it's an incredible sequence, technically, and as a stand-alone piece of art -- but I'm still not sold on it adding to the story and establishing the tone of the movie -- when we come out of it, we've got what is essentially a ...
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...what is essentially a standard Act One at a normal pace (for lack of a better term). But it's already growing on me, having seen it twice now, I must say. Ultimately, I admire its boldness and it is a part of the film, for better or worse, so should be considered in any future analysis, I suppose.