For a minute I thought someone in Hollywood had come to their senses by mounting an effort to save audiences from the inevitable pain and suffering to be wrought by Paul W.S. Anderson’s pointless remake Death Race.
It turns out that screenwriter Adam Jones isn’t just being nice, he actually thinks the movie was his idea [...]

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Yesterday, Nikki Finke reported breathlessly on a lawsuit between Fox and Warner Bros. over Warner’s upcoming Watchmen directed by Zack Snyder (300). The project has kicked around Hollywood in one form or another since the original comic was published and Fox is claiming it owns the rights.
The big news yesterday was that the presiding judge [...]

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Several box office number crunchers predicted yesterday that The Dark Knight would top new release Pineapple Express on its way to leading the box office for the 4th weekend in a row. As of Sunday, it appears Batman has pulled it off $26 million to $22.4.
It makes a good headline but it’s meaningless.
Had Pineapple Express [...]

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Hey, remember back when people thought they could practically print money on the Internet? Yeah, the good old days when AOL had the stones (and the market capitalization) to buy Time Warner.
What a difference 8 years makes. In a year that saw Warner Bros. roll out mega-hit The Dark Knight, net income for the parent conglomerate [...]

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