BACK TO THE FUTURE SELECTED FOR PRESERVATION BY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
“Great scott! The image is completely faded and scratched! Marty, we have to go back to 2007 and save the prints!”
PRODUCERS CLAIM WRITERS HAVE LOST MORE IN THE STRIKE THEY HOPED TO GAIN WITH THEIR TERMS
What’s that Darth Vadar breathing sound I hear?
MIDNIGHT OIL LEAD [...]

Box Office Weekly #098 (MP3 - 9 MB - 13 min)
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In today’s abbreviated show, Weekend Box Office Figures! … and in this week’s commentary; I tell you what Las Vegas is like during the Christmas weekend.

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I just flew back from Vegas and boy is my liver tired.
This is a report of my second annual Vegas Christmas crawl, in which I ditch everyone I know and head for the only town in America where Christmas is the elephant in the room that we’d rather all ignore. Unlike everywhere else, you can [...]

Hello from my room at the Golden Nugget downtown. It’s very cold in Vegas this week (40s) and surprisingly crowded for Xmas eve. It takes an hour by bus to get from here to the Luxor!
I have little else to report except to say that the hookers here appear surprisingly classy for downtown. What’s next, [...]

BORAT AND ALI G CHARACTERS TO BE RETIRED
Sacha Baron Cohen says they’re too famous to fool people. Now of only we could get that guy who plays “Chris Matthews” to do the same thing.
COURT ALLOWS R. KELLY TO REMAIN FREE ON BAIL PENDING COURT APPEARANCE
They believe he won’t fly.
DAILY SHOW AND COLBERT TO RETURN IN JANUARY, [...]

Most people are concerned that the writer’s strike will go on too long - here’s an item that will make you worry that it will end too soon.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is said to be considering a return to his other lucrative career when his term ends in 2010. According to The Hollywood Reporter just before [...]

Box Office Weekly #097 (MP3 - 15 MB - 21 min)
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In today’s show: The failure of THE GOLDEN COMPASS has a magical side effect… we might as well have the Price-Waterhouse guys HOST the Oscars this year… and in this week’s commentary; Skot drills down into the writers strike and comes up with Bones. [...]

A few brief notions:
The Lead Compass: The Golden Compass took in just under $26M when it opened last weekend. It’s probably headed to the basement as more holiday movies, I Am Legend in particular, open. For a film that costs upwards of $180M to make that’s south of bad news.
A few months ago I bemoaned [...]

Today’s take on the WGA strike originates from an essay on SFGate by Noah Hawley, a novelist and writer for “Bones.” The piece is called “What the writers strike is really about,” and like all op-ed columns written by striking writers it conveys a certain veracity. In fact, Mr. Hawley makes one of the most [...]

Box Office Weekly #096 (MP3 - 15 MB - 22 min)
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In today’s show: At least the writers strike allows me to throw in a Terri Nunn and Berlin reference… if the ground feels cold, perhaps it’s because NBC gave back money to advertisers… and in this week’s commentary; I discover the Coen Brothers secret [...]