moviecitynews.com - 1/1/2009
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Weeks To Go: The Latest Whine Why aren t these Oscar movies in more theaters?!?! New York Times Variety LA Times yadda, yadda, yadda.. Worst of all, these are all veteran reporters who, if they don t know it like the back of their hand as factual detail, should at least be able to smell the ...
moviecitynews.com - 1/9/2009
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Weeks To Go: Almost There This is the
shortest award season EVER! It is also one of...
the most predictable years ever. It is also the season in which coverage of the awards, from start to finish, jumped the shark into an Ouroboros parade. It is also ...
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MCN: 6 Weeks To Oscar
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Timing and Box Office
Awards Daily —
... David Poland’s latest column looks at Slumdog, which is the favorite to win Best Picture right now, and how it’s faring at the box office: ...
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... “Frost/Nixon” took in $1.4 million from just over 200 theaters and “Revolutionary Road” made just under $1 million is in just 38 theaters, so they are looking for a slow build. (”The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which made a big move with a big expensive roll-out, is chugging along with at No. 3 with an $18 million weekend and almost $80 million in total business.) As Ryan Adams points out, it is a very rare movie that finds gold without making bank . But David Poland has a theory about the contenders playing peek-a-boo with audiences: It works.
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