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It was cute of the Annies to throw “Tangled” and “Toy Story 3” a bone in the Best Animated Feature, directing and screenplay categories this year, but the absence of Disney product in virtually every other field is clearly evidence of a reaction to the studio withdrawing from the organization earlier this summer. Credibility: out [...]
‘Dragon’ dominates Annie Award nominations
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:52 am · December 6th, 2010
Filed in: Daily
SUNDAY CENTS: ‘Karate’ top
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 2:32 pm · June 13th, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. After weeks of disappointing returns and underperforming titles, the box office was saved once again by Will Smith. Only this time he did it not by putting out a new film, but by having unprotected sex with his wife twelve years ago. His fairy dust box [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
FRIDAY FORECAST: Hey, remember the 80s?
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 1:03 pm · June 11th, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. A thousand apologies for being off the grid for a little over a week. I was in Germany for a screening of my film and was happily without internet or phone for most of the trip. Sadly, I returned to the news that “Shrek Forever After” [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Friday Forecast
MONDAY CENTS: Uh-oh
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 4:05 pm · May 31st, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. The number one movie over the long Memorial Day weekend is “Shrek Forever After” with $55.7 million. That’s the lowest amount for a chart-topping film over Memorial Day since “How to Train Your Dragon” at least. The runner-up spot is a toss up. “Prince of Persia: [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
FRIDAY FORECAST: Disrespect the Middle East edition
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 2:44 pm · May 28th, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. There’s a mild controversy every time a “Sex and the City” movie comes out where it is mercilessly trashed for existing by male critics who, the accusation goes, often let comparable trash starring men get off easy. Well, you all know that I can not be [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Friday Forecast
OFF THE CARPET: Taking the temperature
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:28 pm · May 23rd, 2010
Now that we’re on the other side of Cannes, I felt it was a good time to put a finger to the wind, stare into the tea leaves, shake the magic 8-ball and basically just take stock of where we’re at roughly three months away from the start of the 2010-2011 film awards season. The [...]
Filed in: Off the Carpet
SUNDAY CENTS: Pain in the ‘Shrek’
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 1:51 pm · May 23rd, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. We did it guys! Collectively, we have decided that the Shrek property, after three dreadful installments, is no longer an untouchable juggernaut, but just a regular old extremely profitable movie. We have also decided that summer 2010 is going to give movie theater owners a lot [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Sunday Cents
FRIDAY FORECAST: Is it ogre yet?
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 2:16 pm · May 21st, 2010
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. That fat, green face to the right is the most successful animated character in the history of film. You guys have made him an icon of cinema greater than Don Corleone, Marty McFly and Jack Sparrow as far as box office receipts are concerned. Whatever hilarious [...]
Filed in: Box Office · Friday Forecast
