

Columns By Leonard KladyKlady@moviecitynews.com
Healthy, Wealthy and Vice
The box office pundits were on the money as the debut of Miami Vice emerged the weekend’s top draw with an estimated $25.1 million. The frame also included a passable $14.1 million bow for the teen comedy John Tucker Must Die and a very potent limited launch for the Sundance favoriteLittle Miss Sunshine. However, it…
Read the full article »KAOS Stands For Nothing
The other day I was asked by William Goldman whether I had seen the documentary Boffo!? I hadn’t. He hadn’t seen it either. However, he’s been told that somewhere in the middle of this exploration of Hollywood’s blockbuster movies there was five minutes with him that were “brilliant.” I groaned but before I could rally,…
Read the full article »All Shook Up
The weekend film going landscape wasn’t quite what had been predicted by pundits. Industry tracking was ready for a heated competition between the third weekend of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and the debut of the spooky M. Night Shyamalan thriller Lady in the Water. However, as Friday matinee figures trickled in, one…
Read the full article »Summer Movie Review Miami Vice

This is not your father’s Miami Vice. Or it’s not my Miami Vice, which premiered 22 years ago in my 19th year. And it’s certainly not Michael Mann’s old Miami Vice, which Michael Mann never directed. (The pilot was directed by hour-long pilot directing king, Thomas Carter.) Mann & Yerkovich’s Miami Vice TV show was…
Read the full article »The Squid and the Wayan…and Dupree
The question was not whether Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest would lead weekend film going but how steep would be its box office drop. The secondary concern were the performances of debuting pictures Little Man and You, Me and Dupree. And, of course, there was the issue of how well everything else in…
Read the full article »If 'Pirates' wore 'Prada' all of the demographic bases would have been covered
7/10/06 If there were any single place on Earth for a crowd-phobic adult to avoid Saturday night, it would have been the local multiplex. Only 24 hours old, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” had already grown to juggernaut proportions, and I feared downtown Monrovia – that’s in the “other” Valley, for you west-siders…
Read the full article »Yo, Ho, Ho and a Magnum of Dough!
Wow! Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest debuted to a staggering $132.9 million and effectively rewrote the box office record book. The film’s opening day gross of $55 million surpassed Star Wars: Episode III by roughly $5 million and its weekend was about $18 million better than that of former champ Spider-Man. Overall weekend…
Read the full article »World Trade Center Movie Review

Years ago, when I ever so briefly worked in Market Research for a TV network, we measured people’s feelings about a show by having them push one of two buttons, depending if they felt good or bad as each moment of the show passed. Watching World Trade Center, I had a similarly distinct way of…
Read the full article »Up… Up… and Oy Vey!
Superman Returns flexed its pecs with an estimated $52.3 million to lead weekend movie going. The frame also saw the bow of The Devil Wears Prada with a steelier than expected $26.8 million in an overall session with slight box office improvement from 2005. Though the Independence Day holiday is officially on Tuesday, much of…
Read the full article »In Las Vegas, all they'll need is 'Love' … and lots and lots of Beatlemaniacs
July 2, 2006 LAS VEGAS – Ever since George Jessel, Jimmy Durante and Xavier Cugat opened the showroom of the Flamingo Hotel, 60 years ago this Christmas, little more has been expected of audiences than a willingness to tip the maitre’d for a decent table. The performers did all the heavy lifting, and, for 90…
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