http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com Covering weekly box office grosses in the US and TV ratings. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:04:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Los Angeles was, in 1879, a city of about 11,000 people. The roads were dirt, the buildings were wood. But there were oranges there, and later on they found a way to harvest and market people's fantasies, and the city grew from this: to this. This is the story told in Historic ... http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/07/06/the-family-album-of-the-city-of-dreams/ Box Office Weekly #121 (MP3 - 16 MB - 23 min) In today's show, weekend box office figures, TV ratings and these stories: news of the news... you thought it was annoying when they put forced real soft drinks in the hands of movie characters, this summer it's the other way around... ... http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/07/02/box-office-weekly-121/ Ah, Invasion from Inner Earth. Never sat all the way through it, and growing up there were ample opportunities to do so. Some correction to Dan's fine and funny previous article: Invasion From Inner Earth is not Canadian, visual evidence to the contrary. It was made in and around Rhinelander, Wisconsin, ... http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/07/02/invasion-from-upper-wisconsin/ Skot managed to get out to a movie theatre and catch WALL-E; me, I been busy. Okay, not so much, but I'm not going to surround myself with kids under any circumstances, no matter how good the movie is. And anyway, I managed to get my paws on something that ... http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/30/the-most-canadian-science-fiction-movie-ever/ Just checked out WALL-E. It was a wonderful animated film, maybe the best one to date from Disney/Pixar. It does something no Pixar film has yet done: mix live-action inserts into the realistically animated scenes. WALL-E, the incredibly cute robotic protagonist of the piece, has a job compacting garbage in the ... http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/29/pixars-unauthorized-sequel/