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THE CONSPIRATOR: Court In Session

> Watch It At Home:  Scrupulously accurate, to a fault. In an era that so recently gave us “The Kennedys,” possibly the worst piece of pop culture history ever produced for American television, it seems downrig...
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RIO: Cartoon Carnival

> Worth A Ticket; Birds Fly High Enough for Kids, and Adults Too. Click For More Reviews: THOR    PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4    MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Animation has, over the past decade, passed beyond ...
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WEEKDAY UPDATE MON-TUE APR 11-12: The Weak Get Weaker

> The magic number for mid-week box office (Monday-Tuesday combined) is 20% of the opening weekend.  None of the films opening this past weekend hit that mark this week, indicating soft long-term playability for what was a...
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WEEKEND ACTUALS: Hanna Sneaks Into Second Place at the Wire

>  Compared to the Sunday Studio Estimates, the actual weekend numbers were actually a touch higher for Hanna, while lower (which is more typical as studios often “round up” on Sundays) for Soul Surfer, Arthur, an...
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LIMITED RELEASES: “Queen to Play,” “Ceremony” and “Meet Monica Velour”

> Today, 3 films from first-time directors: Caroline Bottaro’s marvelous QUEEN TO PLAY is, in a sense, a sports movie.  We have the out-of-nowhere player whose newly-discovered talent shakes up her whole life, the wi...
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ARCHIVE REVIEW: Sidney Lumet’s “Prince Of the City”

> On Homevideo:  See It On Any Screen One of the great things about growing up in New York during the 1970s was experiencing the films of Sidney Lumet, who died today at the age of 86.  Lumet had been making great pic...
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Box Office Footnotes and Weekend Review Roundup – 4/8/11

> Hop and Universal should enjoy this weekend while it lasts:  on Friday, the 3D Rio arrives and that’s probably the end of Hop‘s big numbers. As Mitch Metcalf explained elsewhere on this page, the agents for R...
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FRIDAY APR 8 NUMBERS: Other Than Hop, Ouch

> Based on Friday’s numbers, Hop will continue to be the #1 movie playing, while none of the openers this weekend will make much of an impact.  Hop’s expected decline of 44% is good but not as solid as for...
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YOUR HIGHNESS: Ye Olde Disaster

> Not Even For Free Let’s give a little love to the devious people at Universal who cut the trailers.  The masterminds behind the red-band for YOUR HIGHNESS managed to find, in its 102 dull minutes, roughly 3 and a h...
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HANNA: Children’s Hour

> Worth a Ticket. HANNA may be the first movie not based on a graphic novel to feel like it is.  Written by Seth Lochhead and David Farr (the first film for both) and directed by Joe Wright, it has the feel of a film conce...
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NOW PLAYING: SHOWBUZZDAILY

> Today is the first day of operations for ShowbuzzDaily, and we are its humble proprietors, Mitch Metcalf and Mitch Salem.  We’ve been in the entertainment business for a long time (you can find out more by clicking...
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ARTHUR: 12-Step Programmer

> Watch It At Home. Were the executives at Warner Bros so desperate to be in business with Russell Brand that they huddled together in a conference room one day, frantically going through their library titles in search of alcoh...
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SOUL SURFER: Charlie Don’t Surf

> Not Even For Free. There’s a key scene in the new SOUL SURFER where the one-armed teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who’s had her other arm chewed off by a shark and who despairs of her career in competition, is in Th...
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WEEKDAY UPDATE MON-TUE APR 4-5: Hop Similar to Rango

> Over the combined Monday through Tuesday period (April 4-5), Hop leads the way with $4.9 million.  Source Code ($2.6 million) and Insidious ($2.2 million) follow in the same order they did in their collective opening wee...
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ZOOM IN: Saoirse Ronan in Joe Wright’s “Atonement”

> Saoirse Ronan stars in Joe Wright’s HANNA, opening April 8. See It On Any Screen Saoirse Ronan only appears in the first 50 minutes or so of Joe Wright’s film of the Ian McEwan novel ATONEMENT, playing the young B...
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