Box Office Weekly #103 (MP3 – 13.5 MB – 19 min)
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In today’s show, weekend box office figures, TV ratings and these stories: $715 thousand dollars per buttock… The second week numbers for CLOVERFIELD suggest that for JJ Abrahms, all is LOST… and in this week’s commentary I tell [...]

January – it’s the no man’s land of moviegoing, a vortex, a Scylla and Charybdis. I know that last one probably doesn’t apply, but I like the sound of it. See, the thing about January is that it’s bad for movies. Theatre attendance is down as school gets back in and adults tighten their belts [...]

The IMDb’s studio briefing featured a chilling little article, buried second-to-bottom:

TV PRODUCTION HALTS IN L.A.
As of this week, there are no scripted television series remaining in production in Los Angeles, Daily Variety reported today (Monday), citing figures from Film L.A., an intermediary between film producers and permitting agencies. At the time of the writers’ walkout [...]

I was talking last week on the podcast about, among other things, the extras on the DVD of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. One of those sparked a connection that I’m ashamed about not getting sooner.First, look at this YouTube clip from Lolita. I’d embed it for you here, but the Podcast Network just doesn’t do [...]