Box Office Weekly #090 (MP3 - 13.8 MB - 20 min)
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In todays scary Halloween show: a list of corpses who make more money than you do… Lionsgate doesn’t just want your ticket money, they want your blood… and in this week’s commentary, Pied Piper fun facts. All this and the scary writer’s strike, today [...]

I miss The Spice Girls.
In my opinion, pop music has been going downhill steadily ever since they broke up.
That’s it. No lengthy exegesis. Just miss ‘em. Or I miss the late 90s.
And yeah, I know The Spice Girls are regrouping and touring. Not the same.
In other hot girl news, a new installment to the Underworld [...]

WRITER’S CONTRACT NEARS DEADLINE
Actors with improv training finally in demand!
SEX PISTOLS REUNITE
Never mind the bollocks - but get regular colonoscopies
ANOTHER ACTOR ON “LOST” ARRESTED FOR DRUNKEN DRIVING
It’s a shame the show doesn’t shoot on Maui - there is only one road there.
FEMA APOLOGIZES FOR FAKED PRESS CONFERENCE
The “reporters” were FEMA staffers. Intrepid reporters uncovered the [...]

They would have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for those kids and their Daily Variety.
The venerable showbiz oracle reports that the biggest project to make it under the wire if there is a writer’s strike next week will be ANGELS AND DEMONS, the sequel to THE DA VINCI CODE again starring Tom Hanks, [...]

Martian Child is slated to come out November 2 in the US. It’s a comedy-drama which tells the story of a sci-fi novelist and widower (John Cusack) who adopts a child (Bobby Coleman) who believes he is from Mars. Soon into the film, the love interest appears in the lovely form of Amanda Peet. Oddly, [...]

Box Office Weekly #089 (MP3 - 14.2 MB - 20.7 min)
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In todays show: this city’s on fire, baby!… more movies open wide than ever before, but they all do bad business… and in this week’s commentary, musicals on TV – is two episodes one too many? All this and giant robots invade your home, [...]

After only two airings, CBS has cancelled VIVA LAUGHLIN, a TV series in that most disgraced of genres, the Musical. Viewers hoping to see a show that resembled VEGAS, only set in a smaller town and boasting characters who might break into song at any moment, will be disappointed because CBS is going to take [...]

This converted railway carriage in South Wales, England, has been showing movies for over fifty years. Or rather, HAD been. Maintenance costs finally outstripped potential income from the 23 seats within, and Wales’ smallest cinema house has been shuttered for good.
The BBC gives us the small picture:
The cinema was founded by electrician Gwyn Phillips, who [...]

This is an entertainment blogsite, and as such it is not in our charter or interest to speculate on spiritual or theological matters. For instance, questions such as the existence of absolute good and evil, evidence of the spark of the divine and predetermination versus freewill are only indirectly expressed here, as the philosophical underpinnings [...]

OBAMA AND CLINTON TOP RECIPIENTS OF ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY DONATIONS
Where is Fred Thompson? Perhaps he’s been given enough already.
BRITNEY SPEARS RUNS OVER PHOTOGRAPHER’S FOOT
Foot to appear for full hour on Larry King Live.
ROGER EBERT TO BE HONORED BY GOTHAM AWARDS
Actually half will honor him, half will give him a thumbs down.
AMY WINEHOUSE ARRESTED IN NORWAY FOR [...]