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Puss in Boots

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Director:

  • Chris Miller

Writer:

    Cast:

    • Antonio Banderas

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    Articles

    Friday Estimates, November 18, 2011

    As anticipated, Part One of the final entry in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, strongly leads the pack, while kiddie entry Happy Feet Two battles for space against Puss in Boots. Meanwhile, The Immortals and Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill arm wrestle for the third and fourth place slots.

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    Box Office Hell — November 17

    Our Players|Coming Soon|Box Office Prophets|Box Office Guru|EW|Box Office . com The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1|146.8|n/a|148.0|n/a|150.0 Happy Feet Two |36.2|n/a|37.0|n/a|42.5 Immortals|15.0|n/a|13.0|n/a|13.0 Puss in Boots|14.0|n/a|13.5|n/a|10.7 Jack and Jill|13.0|n/a|11.0|n/a|10.5

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    Box Office Hell — November 10

    Our Players|Coming Soon|Box Office Prophets|Box Office Guru|EW|Box Office . com Puss in Boots|23.5|n/a|26.0|n/a|26.5 Jack and Jill |23.0|n/a|24.0|n/a|21.5 Immortals|21.3|n/a|20.0|n/a|23.5 Tower Heist|14.0|n/a|13.0|n/a|11.8 J. Edgar|11.5|n/a|11.0|n/a|12.5

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    Box Office Hell — November 3

    Our Players|Coming Soon|Box Office Prophets|Box Office Guru|EW|Box Office . com Tower Heist|30.3|36.5|29.0|31.0|29.0 Puss in Boots|22.0|20.2|22.0|23.0|26.0 A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas |17.5|16.4|16.0|17.0|15.5 Paranormal Activity 3|8.5|7.6|8.0|7.0|8.0 In Time|5.8|7.3|5.5|6.0|7.7

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    Weekend Estimates: October 30

    Puss in Boots|33.2||33.2 Paranormal Activity 3|18.5|-65%|81.3 In Time|11.8||11.8 Footloose|5.3|-49%|38.4 The Rum Diary|5.1||5.1 Real Steel|4.7|-56%|73.9 The Three Musketeers|3.4|-61%|14.8 The Ides of March|2.7|-45%|33.5 Moneyball|2.3|-42%|67.3 Courageous|1.7|-30%|27.6

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    The Weekend Report: October 30, 2011

    The Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots was initially expected to open north of $40 million but expectations were pared back to $35 million to $40 million as opening day loomed. The audience skewed 59% female and 55% were 25 years old and up according to exit polls (family stats were unavailable). Once again 3D underperformed with those engagements accounting for roughly two-thirds of the compliment and 51% of the box office while Imax dates were 7% of the total.

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    Critics Roundup — October 27

    Puss in Boots |||||Green In Time |||Green|| Like Crazy (limited) |Yellow||Green|Green|Yellow The Rum Diary |||Yellow||Green Anonymous (limited) |Yellow||||Red

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    Box Office Hell — October 27

    Our Players|Coming Soon|Box Office Prophets|Box Office Guru|EW|Box Office . com Puss in Boots|42.1|44.6|44.0|42.0|42.0 Paranormal Activity 3|20.2|20.4|23.0|25.0|22.0 In Time|12.5|13.6|13.0|14.0|13.5 The Rum Diary|7.4|10.7|9.0|9.0|8.5 Real Steel|7.1|6.5|6.5|n/a|5.8 Footloose |7.1|6.3|6.5|6.5|6.0

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    It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

    So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

    And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

    There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

    I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

    So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

    But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

    My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
    ~ Hampton Fancher

    “That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

    ~ David Simon