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Unfrozen Dinosaurs and Manic, Raging Robots Broker Tentative Peace Accord
We have a tie! For now. The actuals will come out soon and one film will beat the other. But now! Ambivalence or equality or peace or something. How perfect, as we stand in the smoky ashes of Freedom's birthday. More »
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Comment by MeanMadMargaret: I enjoyed Public Enemies mostly because of the actors. But I can't make up my mind about the High Definition... more » | Other threads
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Nobody Puts Sandra Bullock In a Corner
Sandy Bullock is back in the game, folks! At a lean, mean 45 the actress has pulled off a huge opening. Some credit should go, we suppose, to costars Ryan Reynolds and Betty White. But mostly, yeah, this is Sandy's. More »
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Comment by BowlingForDollars: I lurve me some Sandra Bullock. She's hawt and still got it, and I bet she'd be fun to have... 7 Responses | Other threads
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No Amount of John Travolta-Brand Gatorade Can Cure This Hangover
The movie about drunks and their drunken ways keeps hitting the big time. As does the movie about white people in the jungle. Meanwhile, Eddie Murphy and John Travolta have both seen better days. More »
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Comment by secretagentman: Yeah, Pelham kinda blew for several reasons, which I won't get into because of spoilerage, but stuff didn't make sense.... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Surly Old Man
Up barely floated past the boffo success story of the summer, The Hangover, while some other films struggled for traction in a loud, crowded summertime cinemascape. More »NearlyDefeated by Three Drunks In Epic Battle Royale
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Comment by Madge Gristle: By any chance did you see The Hangover, Richard? I was interested in seeing it, especially as I'm a huge... 3 Responses | Other threads
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All Pixar Has Left to Do Is Become Self-Aware and Nuclear Bomb Us All
Pixar continues its eerily strong success streak with its latest picture, about a floating house. Terminator is in trouble, while the Ben Stiller bubble has yet to pop. It probably never will. More »
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Comment by Aidan_: Don't forget that Christian Bale was able to survive a small-ish nuclear explosion 100 or so yards away. I checked out... 4 Responses | Other threads
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The Force Is Strong in Star Trek!
To Infinity, and Beyond! I mean... um... Frak! Wait. No. I am... your father... Greedo... Bespin... Um... Oh, right! Star Trek prospered this weekend and will likely live long in theaters. More »
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Comment by Criminy: Whoa, go easy, Taylor Kitsch totally stayed up late the night before filmin', practicin' droppin' th' las' lette's fro' hi'... 3 Responses | Other threads
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After Conquering Box Office, Blood-Soaked Beyoncé Declares Prima Nocte
Beyoncé has stomped over the land and pillaged and burned, and we are all beholden to her now. Not even Iron Man and a singing, dancing teenager can stop her. We wish you good luck. More »
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Comment by DahlELama: I first saw a preview for the soloist many months ago, and then promptly forgot about it. Meanwhile, commercials for... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Newspaper Industry Destroyed by Ageless Gay Elf
A teen reigns at the box office once again, this time though, it's a boy! Plus politics and newspapers don't resound too much with audiences, nor do dark Taxi Driver-esque mall comedies. More »
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Comment by Hydroceph: i don't know, i'd like that picture more if it didn't look like the Zackster had been waxed to within... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Hannah Montana and Cowboy Ride Rocket Horses Past Speeding Toyota
Hannah Montana opened big, meaning we get six more years of Miley Cyrus. Fast & Furious continues to do donuts in America's muddy backyard, and those few who Observe'd did not Report good things. More »
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Comment by El_Gato: I'm glad Seth Rogen's movie disappointed. It's time for him to go away. He was only mildly funny to begin... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Souped-Up Toyota Runs Over Sweetly Earnest Man-Boy, Keeps On Driving
Everyone really likes cars. But especially when they're blowing up and/or full of guns and hot people. Also, people like both monsters and aliens, but not curly-haired soul-searchers who work at amusement parks. More »
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Comment by secretagentman: I think Adventureland was in limited release, and had a 3,000 per screen average, which is not bad at all.... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Monsters, Aliens Destroy Connecticut, Thousands of Sweaters Lost
This morning we bring news of the war between Nadya Suleman and Mexicans. Plus, the failing of Julia Roberts and a group of sad people in costume becomes our entertainment. More »
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Comment by hortense: I am only down with the Pals n' Gals adaptation if there is an interruption by an incredibly annoying Lil'... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Alien Witches Team Up With Giant Squid to Further Devour Watchmen Audience
This was the last weekend of winter! Can you believe it? Pretty soon it'll be summer, and we'll be slogging through big budget schlock about sociopaths in latex and alien witch children. Oh. Wait. More »
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Comment by blix: Leno's writing staff will just print this out and leave early. 5 Responses | Other threads
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Enraged at Being Cut Out of the Movie, Giant Squid Devours Would-Be Watchmen Ticket Buyers
Mondays are best spent piecing together the ruin that followed in the weekend's wake. Recovering the satellites, analyzing the soil samples. And looking at the box office receipts! This week: Disappointment haunted all their dreams. More »
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Comment by OMG! Ponies!: What exactly is the difference between Tyler Perry's Madea character and, say, Mammy Two-Shoes from "Tom & Jerry"? 11 Responses | Other threads
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Gun-Wielding Madea Bravely Fends Off Be-Hotpanted Jonas Brothers
Good morning and happy, miserable Monday everyone. (Snow on the East, rain on the West). While you cower inside, away from the elements, ponder over the weekend box office report and wonder... why? More »
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Comment by RonMwangaguhunga: This Madea thing. Guy in drag goes to prison. It would arguably make for an amusing skit, but who --... 13 Responses | Other threads
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Coming In 2010: 'Jason Vs. Liam'
Happy President's Day! What better way to honor the legacy of America's bold leaders than to sacrifice our own day off, starting with an historic Monday Morning Box Office? More » -
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We're Really That Into 'You'
Not yet recovered from M.I.A.'s 9-months-pregnant body dressed to resemble a Minnie Mouse head? Coldplay in colorful, matching melody-pirate outfits? You have a Grammy hangover. Take some box office numbers and go back to bed: More »
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By SethComment by everfade: Anyone else shocked that Push didn't do any better than that? The Pink Panther flick fared better for crying out... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Not Without His Daughter
What a game, eh? The first half was kinda slow until that last play, when Elvira the Catahoula Cur Mix made that unbelievable Nylabone interception. Let's see who else was a winner this weekend: More »
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By SethComment by SavoryDee (is on Team Cake Fat): Who among us wouldn't enjoy watching Billy Ray Cyrus hunt male underwear models? 2 Responses | Other threads
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America Picks 'Blart'
What color is your Monday morning misery? Pink slip? Blue pregnancy-test result? Black asymmetrical mole? Desaturate the pain with some box office numbers: More »
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By SethComment by Tiger_Tanaka: I believe we also picked Blart in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. 1 Responses | Other threads
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'Mall Cop' Segway Scoots By 'Gran Torino'
Greetings from the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, where your Defamer team is currently piled into a Park City youth hostel, blissfully unaware that we'll soon be tortured by international-film-buyers for sport. Your box office numbers: More »
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By SethComment by JudyPaceFace: I keep telling y'all there's an audience out there for good, clean comedy and drama that has a clearly drawn... more » | Other threads
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Clint Eastwood's $29 Million Going-Away Present
No remedy works better for that piercing Golden Globes hangover than the all-natural, FDA-approved wonder drug that is Monday Morning Box Office: More »
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By STVComment by gwendolyn: I passed on the last two Eastwood-directed movies because I thought 'Mystic River' and 'Midnight in the etc., etc.' were... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Another Visit From Marley's Ghost
The Holidays™ are over. We hope yours ended on a lighter note than ours did—curling up with a 60 Minutes story about a seven-year-old girl decapitated in the back of a limo by a drunk driver.
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By SethComment by Sleepyhead: "..invading the holiday market". This post is chock-full of old. Nice, Seth. 2 Responses | Other threads
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'Yes' He Can't
Studios found no happy surprises beneath the Chrismukkah bush today, as snowed-in audiences opted out of Will Smith's messianic broodiness and Jim Carrey saying "yes" more times than Tara Reid at the Promises buffet line.
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By SethComment by NoGrumpys: Write ZOOM Z double O M Box 350 Boston Mass 02134 SEND IT TO ZOOM!! Send it in Ubba Dubbie O-bo Kayba?! 1 Responses | Other threads
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Keanu Reeves Wreaks Alien Havoc on 'Four Christmases'
Rainy days and Mondays got you down? Buck up your holiday mood with a bit of apocalyptic egg nog we like to call Monday Morning Box Office:
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By STVComment by JudgeFudge: Worldwide, Day The Earth stood still had a $70 million dollar opening...Keanu's still a huge star? 2 Responses | Other threads
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Only Two More 'Christmases' To Go Before We Can Forget It Existed
The weekend kicked off with a mild rumbler and closed out with a sputter, as not even Lionsgate's completely stupid Punisher remake of a remake of a remake managed to connect with completely-stupid-movie-loving audiences. Still, things continued to bode well for indepe—we mean specialty films—with Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, and a number of other brain-fertilizing offerings continuing to show specialty legs. That said—buckle-up for a ride on the post-Thanksgiving Deja Vu Express, aka the Grove Trolley to Movie Hell: More »
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By SethComment by gwendolyn: I don't really get the 'Four Christmases' hate. I have sat through far less entertaining movies in 2008 and I... 4 Responses | Other threads
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'Four Christmases' Quadruples Your Forgettable-Holiday-Movie Experience
Fears that the R-word would keep audiences from the movies this weekend were unfounded, as the name "Reese Witherspoon" still proved an impressive multiplex draw. Have another helping of turkey-chip pancakes topped with cranberry syrup and a pat of yam, as we grind down to the last of the leftovers and run down the box office numbers:
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By SethComment by JudgeFudge: I was one of the people that contributed to the success of Four Christmasses this weekend. Really pretty sub-par comedic... 1 Responses | Other threads
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America Surrenders to New, Walletsucking Vampire Breed
It was the weekend that moviegoers gave blood whether they wanted to or not; take a moment, relax and recover with us as we comb through the Monday Morning Box Office: More »
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By STVComment by deleteboy: I forgot - which did I care about? O - Bond. Saw it twice. Good stuff. 2 Responses | Other threads
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'Madacascar' Poops Elephant Cakes Bigger Than Zac Efron
Congratulations—if you're reading this, you've survived another round of layoffs. Everyone else: double congratulations. You may no longer be employed, but you're also still in bed, where we all really should be right now. Your box office numbers: More » -
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'High School Musical 3' The Soundtrack Of Change
Never in our wildest dreams did we think our Halloween gift to you—the Do-It-Yourself Grazerhead mask—would become the runaway success that it did, with literally tens of thousands of the Officially Sanctioned Headshots™ swarming the streets of L.A. Friday night, each accompanied by their very own candy-appraisal attaché. (Grazerhead: "What do we think about Nerds?" Attaché: "We like them.") We urge you to send in your Night of the Living Grazerheads Photos; in the meantime, unwrap some box office numbers from your premium candy pile: More »
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By SethComment by TurdBlossom: How many gay men now have the picture of Efron downloaded on their computers? I'm guessing it's in the millions. 1 Responses | Other threads
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'HSM 3: The Quest For Second Base' Electrifies America
Low energy? Have a nutritious boost with this recipe for a Defamer Monday Morning Power-Up Smoothie: More »
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By SethComment by Fama Est: If gen-z thinks of anal as 'second base', then I'll consider hitting a matinee. 3 Responses | Other threads
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'I'm Mark Wahlberg. I Star In 'Max Payne.''
Time to unzip your Happy Weekend Suit and step back into your Monday Morning Iron Maiden: The work week is again upon us. Quick—jumpstart your productivity with some box office numbers before someone finds your position detrimental to the bottom line: More »
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By SethComment by Juancho: My head still hurts from Max Payne. It was an awful lot of stuff going boom. I don't know if... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Yappy 'Chihuahua' Insurgency Holds Its Ground
It might be a holiday for some of you, but even on Columbus Day, the whip cracks for the number-crunchers and trend-spotters at Defamer HQ. Their work today yields the surprising latest installment of Monday Morning Box Office, in which a low-budget thriller surprised even its own studio and Leonardo DiCaprio is furious after stomping out a flaming bag of chihuahua crap. Read on for the details. More »
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By STVComment by gwendolyn: BTW, 'American Carol'? Nowhere in the top ten in its second week in release... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Chihuahua Army Craps Gold For Disney
Hard times got you down? Well don't expect the weekend's box office numbers to cheer you up any: More »
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By SethComment by franimaljones: i predict my fave - rachel getting married - to be the sleeper, and that Ms. Breakout Role Hathaway gets... more » | Other threads
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Shia's Coming Out Party
We realize that it's not exactly Monday morning anymore, but we're hopeful that you'll find it in your hearts to forgive us for scrambling a bit at Defamer HQ today. Won't you play along as we recap the weekend in which America finally ditched the outdoors and regained its collective appetite for boxes of Junior Mints and huge tubs of buttered popcorn? More »
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By Mark GrahamComment by Mephisto_Bonk: Yes, LaBeouf "opened" a movie in a weekend when there was not a single competitor for its target demographic. Its... more » | Other threads
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Put Your Wallet Where Officer Sam Can See It
We're finding out the hard way this morning that an Emmy hangover is the worst kind of malaise: All rank breath, regrets and resentment, bundled up in a headache of knowing there must be something else you missed while watching the television industry implode. And now we know — it was an only slightly less torpid weekend at the movies. Still, it's never too late to wash down some of that bitter aftertaste with a run through the Monday Morning Box Office: More »
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By STVComment by Old No.7: I saved $20 bucks, spent 2 hours picking up dog shit from my backyard, and was exponentially more entertained. 4 Responses | Other threads
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America Feels the 'Burn'
It's a special day for moviegoers — the first time in three weeks those studio jokers didn't leave the equivalent of a flaming bag of crap on our doorstep Friday morning. Thanks, Hollywood! Their reward? One of the best non-Labor Day September weekends in years, as illustrated by our regular browse through the Monday Morning Box Office: More »
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By STVComment by Talya: I'm sorry...saw this movie over the weekend. WORSE MOVIE EVER. Everyone who's in this (minus the always miraculous... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Nic Cage, Thai Hooker
Forgive us. We're still a little hazy, having stumbled out in the wee morning hours from a Chateau Marmont bungalow, where the Jonas Brothers were reading bible passages off a stripper's ass at their official post-VMAs party. Good news: our virginity is still intact! Bad news: we wish we could say the same about our septum. More bad news: the box office crapped itself this weekend. Please enjoy this fittingly humdrum installment of Monday Morning Box Office: More » -
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'Tropic Thunder' Makes America's Pee-Pee Maker T-t-tingle
Having been nudged awake this morning by a shirtless man in a fedora and pink Chuck Taylors as you snoozed peacefully beneath a table outside Intelligentsia Cafe, another Sunset Junction appears to have come and gone—as has any memory of the last seven hours you spent there. We'll give you a moment to gather your belongings before inundating you with the weekend's box office receipts: More » -
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'Thunder' Ushers In Tom Cruise's Bear Period
Having paid tribute this weekend to Michael Phelps's historic athletic achievement with a record-shattering of your own in the 200-liter grain-alcohol-medley, your soaring national pride has likely given way to the agony of hangover defeat. Have some box office number; they're full of electrolytes: More »
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By SethComment by michaelmadison: AWESOME move!! His dancing...ahhh...not so much. But the movie was great! Full Retard [www.michaelmadison.com] more » | Other threads
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A 'Pineapple' Upside Down Cake
Does Death's double-dipping have you disturbed? Fret not—we have an easy way to ward of the scythe. Simply slaughter a baby lamb in your office kitchen, collect its blood, then paint that along your cubicle's entrance. The Angel of Death will then skip your workspace to reap the annoyingly high-pitched temp working next door. Enjoy these box office numbers, along with your freshly spared life: More »
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By SethComment by hummingpenguin: Seth, Judd, you seem like cool guys and all, but I want my money back. PE sucked hard. more » | Other threads
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'Dark Knight' A Golden Guano Machine
Welcome to August, where besides you and that weird dude in the mailroom who collects signed photos of the Howard Stern Wack Pack, the office is eerily devoid of life. Comfort yourselves with some box office numbers: More »
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