nymag.com - 2/1/2009
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The success of some movies is easy to account for maybe it's star power, or good reviews, or the fandom associated with a popular franchise. Others benefit from appealing to niches or being released on slow weekends during which moviegoers have no better options. But, sometimes there's another ...
latimes.com - 1/30/2009
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latimes.com —
Audience tracking surveys are hardly perfect, but rarely
are they as far off the mark as when...
Paul Blart: Mall Cop arrived in theaters three weeks ago. Having studied the various appraisals of moviegoer interest, executives at Sony Pictures concluded ...
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'Paul Blart: Mall Cop' was underestimated - Los Angeles ...
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Define "Blart" "Sometimes there's a [kind] of blockbuster whose grosses can't be predicted by even the wisest of box-office sages," writes Vulture 's Lane Brown . "For example, who could possibly have anticipated Paul Blart: Mall Cop 's explosive $39 million opening weekend? Certainly not Sony Pictures, who admitted in yesterday's LA Times that they barely thought it'd make half that. And now, as their movie Segways speedily toward $100 million, it's finally helped give a catchy name to all films with outsize profits and similarly awfulsome premises: Blarts . "How does ...
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... When my family and I saw the trailer for Paul Blart Mall Cop over the holidays, we all knew it would be a hit. But this big? New York Mag defines a new genre: the Blart. And Stephen Schaefer commends both ...
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