Sunday, January 13, 2008
Weekend Box Office (Jan 11 - 13) Estimates
"The Bucket List” opens this week widely in almost 3000 theatres in the U.S. and moves to top spot.
“Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything” did not do much at the box-office.
1 - The Bucket List $19,540,000
2 - First Sunday $19,000,000
3 - Juno $14,000,000
4 - National Treasure $11,482,000
5 - Alvin and the Chipmunks $9,100,000
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Friday, January 11, 2008
This Week's Film Reviews (Jan 11)
Movies opening this week are:
First Sunday
In the Name of the King
The Pirates who Don’t Do Anything
Persepolis
Best bet is “Persepolis”. All films are reviewed except “Pirates” as there was no press/promo screening for this one.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2007
The Critics’ Choice Awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Nominees for 2007 selected by written ballots in a week-long voting period and announced on December 11th. Winners revealed at the 13th annual Critics’ Choice Awards ceremony on January 7, 2008 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, broadcast live on VH1.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Illuminated Texts
"Elder’s work is without equal in the history of cinema. At a time when nearly all cultural statements partake of the moral and cultural relativism of the post-modern experience, in his films as in his writings, Elder champions and recreates with extreme courage the profound questionings of the European philosophical tradition. In this way his work is intensely Canadian.” - Peter Harcourt
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
White Pine Pictures - News
Toronto – “If our film gets nominated, writers like myself will be unable to cross the picket line of our colleagues to attend the ceremony,” observed author Ariel Dorfman, on his way to New York for a special screening of the feature documentary A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman Tuesday January 8 at IFC Center at 8 pm. (http://www.ifccenter.com).
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