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Archive for January, 2008

Box Office Weekly #103

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

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 [...]

If Only They They’d Struck Sooner

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

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 Big Wheel Stops

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

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 [...]

Lolita and the Troopers Convention

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

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 [...]