The Hot Blog Archive for October, 2006
Sorry it's so slow out there… but it is…
Open Space
Running all day today… discuss what you like… be kind to one another…
33 Comments »Note…
I just went into comments to check something and saw that there were 47 entries that had been flagged by the system.
I had no idea.
So if you ever post and don’t see it come up, please let me know. There were a few penis enlargement ads in there too, but there werre also a bunch of Jim Emerson One is always welcome and the other not. But I don’t really check very often because it really doesn’t occur to me to do so. So if there is a problem, please shoot me an e-mail.
DP
P.S. Congrats to J-Mc on his record 4000th Hot Blog comment. He must be tired.
Change Of Name
The Dartees are now The Wu Four Two Posse, as the name is changing to 42 West.
I know many of your don’t care. But many of the silent lurkers do.
Killing It Softly
I know that Fox Marketing doesn
44 Comments »Cha CHING!!!
Fox Searchlight got Little Miss Sunshine to Academy members first, but Tony Angellotti and Universal Studios gets the prize for the first massive, lavish effort to overspend its way back into the Oscar race with the United 93, which did $31.5 million domestically and $42.5 million, but got excellent reviews when it arrived back in April.
Three full olive green pages in a local newspaper today recreated a promotional piece that was sent out with the DVD, arriving on doorsteps of guild members over the last few days. (Added Note: Academy members, of course, do not get the insert, as The Academy continues to maintain the illusion that their members are not being solicited, ut only received gently marked DVDs for their convenience.)
(The inside and close-up of pull quotes after the jump.)
The big question is whether U has shot the majority of its U93 budget here and now. Could the studio really spend the millions and millions it dropped on buying Seabiscuit a Best Picture nomination in the face of hundreds of layoffs, primarily on the TV side of the company? Will they really spend more in the chase than they donated to the family charities and building funs of the victims of United 93?
Hmmmm
Seriously Dumb
Who allows this to happen?
The L.A.Times, which owns Gold Derby and is desperately trying to sell more advertising by printing a weekly Envelope pullout (Yes, now you can read all that weak content you ignored on the web in print! Wahoo!!!) lost its mind last week and & allowed Tom O’Neill to sell the idea that Diana Ross, who made 3 films in her entire career, the last one 28 years ago, is a potential danger to the awards hopes of Dreamgirls.
There are a lot of arguments that can be made against any film’s award hopes. Some are smart. Some are stupid.
But some, especially when stretched to four pages, make you wonder just how far we are willing to go to court non-existent controversy in journalism. This, of course, comes on the heels of O
Lunch With David – Caicos Edition
Lunch Is Served On The Outer Reef
Friday Estimates By Klady
Movie | Friday | Screens | % Chg | Cume
The Prestige | 5.1 | 2281 | New | 5.1
The Departed | 4.2 | 3005 | -26% | 67.7
Flags of our Fathers | 3.4 | 1876 | New | 3.4
The Grudge 2 | 2.7 | 3214 | -73% | 26.4
Flicka | 2.1 | 3379 | New | 2.4
Open Season | 2.4 | 2877 | -23% | 61.6
Man of the Year | 2.1 | 2522 | -48% | 17.6
Marie Antoinette | 1.9 | 859 | New | 1.9
Texas Chainsaw Mass | 1.2 | 2569 | -59% | 33.4
Nightmare Before X /3D | 1.1 | 168 | New | 1.1
Also Debuting
Don | 0.22 | 113
Running with Scissors | 67,000 | 8
Jaan-E-Mann | 28,500 | 40
Sleeping Dogs Lie | 3,000 | 6
51 Birch Street | 2,800 | 2 –
Jonestown | 2,650 | 1
Return To Epagogix
As it turns out, I had saved a page from Michael Adams & Associates, which as discussed the other day, claimed to be able to project profitability and grosses via script analysis. And so, here are the six films they projected grosses on… (the exact wording of their document can be found after the jump.)
ICE PRINCESS
MP4I
