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Box Office Power Rankings: October 30-November 8, 2009
As people tell us time and time again, box-office performance is in the eye of the beholder. Box Office Mojo wrote that Michael Jackson's This Is It , in its debut weekend, did "exceptionally well for a concert picture or music documentary." On the other hand, Disney's A Christmas Carol  ...
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Economical Storytelling in Movies: A Case Study
Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell exists mostly to remind the world that Sam Raimi made The Evil Dead and can still make The Evil Dead , which is good to know because Sam Raimi is re-making The Evil Dead . But amid all the giggle-inducing grossness are a few grace notes — unnecessarily ...
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Box Office Power Rankings: October 16-25, 2009
Should we consider Spike Jonze's and Dave Eggers' adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are a disappointment? It is certainly not a miserable failure. It received good reviews , won the box office when it debuted, and also topped the Box Office Power Rankings in its opening weekend. But ...
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