I’m proud of TPN:: Box Office Weekly. I believe the editorial and critical content on these pages is of a generally higher level than most media-news blogsites. At the end of the film Ratatouille, the food critic Anton Ego put forth a splendid little summary of what criticism truly is. I’ll excerpt it here:
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Due to a few minor technicals involving the ENTIRE PODCAST NETWORK, I’m not going to try to upload a show this week. Smart people within the organization believe the trouble will be ironed out by next week, so I recommend that you simply go to boxofficemojo.com, dig up the weekend chart, and read it aloud [...]

Having seen “Arrangements,” I soon saw the importance of getting the film ready for it’s life on the festival circuit. The first step to this end is preparing a definitive tape master: the other is showing those who actually made the film the need to do so.
Really, nobody needed convincing: the short was shot and [...]

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In today’s show, weekend box office figures, TV ratings and these stories: Britain truncates an American television series… Warner Brothers truncates New Line… and in this week’s commentary I go all Cassandra on you about the industry. All [...]