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Friday Estimates, November 18, 2011

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1|71.2|4061|NEW|71.2
Happy Feet Two|5.8|3606|NEW|5.8
The Immortals|3.8|3120|-74%|44.5
Jack and Jill|3.4|3438|-65%|32.5
Puss in Boots|2.5|3415|-72%|114.1
Tower Heist|2.1|2942|-55%|48.6
J. Edgar|1.8|1947|-58%|16.6
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas|0.9|1808|-60%|26.3
In Time|0.5|1367|-67%|32.2
Paranormal Activity 3|0.3|1402|-78%|101.9
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The Descendants|0.3|29||
Sri Rama Rayjam|39,800|35||
Hero Hitler in Love|11,900|9||
Eames: The Architect & the Painter|7,200|5||
Punch |3,700|1||
Another Happy Day|2,900|2||
Tomboy|2,250|2||
Tyrannosaur|2,200|5||

Tags: a very harold and kumar 3D Christmas, another happy day, eames: the architect and the painter, happy feet two, hero hitler in love, In Time, J. Edgar, jack and jill, paranormal activity 3, punch, Puss in Boots, sri rama rayjam, The Descendants, The Immortals, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, tomboy, Tower Heist, Tyrannosaur
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Box Office Hell — November 10

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

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

Tags: Immortals, J. Edgar, jack and jill, Puss in Boots, Tower Heist
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Bill Simmons, At Length, On Eddie Murphy’s Career Arc

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

Bill Simmons, At Length, On Eddie Murphy’s Career Arc

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Critics Roundup — November 3

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Tower Heist |Yellow||||Yellow
A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas |||||Yellow
The Last Rites of Joe May (limited) |||Yellow||Green
Dragonslayer |||Green||
Young Goethe in Love (NY, LA) |||||

Tags: a very harold and kumar 3D Christmas, killing bono, the last rites of joe may, Tower Heist, young goethe in love
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Box Office Hell — November 3

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

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

Tags: a very harold and kumar 3D Christmas, In Time, paranormal activity 3, Puss in Boots, Tower Heist
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“Rat” Ratner Talks The Talk

Friday, October 28th, 2011

“Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I’m 60. But I’m not Hal Ashby, I’m not Roman Polanski. I’m true to myself. Whether you like it or not.”
“Rat” Ratner Talks The Talk

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Smaller Exhib Chains Voice Anti-VOD Sentiment On Tower Heist

Monday, October 10th, 2011

Smaller Exhib Chains Voice Anti-VOD Sentiment On Tower Heist

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It’s Academic: Cinemark Will Ban Tower Heist From Its 3,800 Screens Over VOD Experiment

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

It’s Academic: Cinemark Will Ban Tower Heist From Its 3,800 Screens Over VOD Experiment

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Oscar Producer Ratner’s Tower Heist Set For VOD Three Weeks After Theatrical Opening For A Mere $59.99

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Oscar Producer Ratner’s Tower Heist Set For VOD Three Weeks After Theatrical Opening In Atlanta And Portland For A Mere $59.99

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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

Posts Tagged ‘Tower Heist’

Friday Estimates, November 18, 2011

Box Office Hell — November 10

Bill Simmons, At Length, On Eddie Murphy’s Career Arc

Critics Roundup — November 3

Box Office Hell — November 3

“Rat” Ratner Talks The Talk

Smaller Exhib Chains Voice Anti-VOD Sentiment On Tower Heist

It’s Academic: Cinemark Will Ban Tower Heist From Its 3,800 Screens Over VOD Experiment

Oscar Producer Ratner’s Tower Heist Set For VOD Three Weeks After Theatrical Opening For A Mere $59.99

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