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Coming Soon!…but not soon enough

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There’s a brand new Regal Cinema coming soon not far from our home. I was hoping it would be ready to go by Christmas, but the folks in charge are now saying it won’t open until early next year. Hopefully we can see “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins” there on Opening Night (Feb. 8). It’s the […]
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Shock + Shrek = WOW!

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“This Christmas” was in only 1,856 theaters it’s first weekend but it still made $27.1 million in 5 days and finished in 2nd place! That’s a great opening. I guess a lot of movie goers are in the holiday spirit early this year. My favorite Christmas viewing of the season, so far, was “Shrek The […]
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Back to the “Hood”

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No release date yet…but it looks like “Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs. Evil” will be out in 2008. It’s a sequel to “Hoodwinked”, the 2006 animated comedy from the Weinstein Company about the Little Red Riding Hood story that was one of my favorite films of year. Red (Anne Hathaway) and all the other great characters […]
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DreamWorks in 3-D

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DreamWorks Animation has signed a deal with IMAX to have both “Monsters and Aliens” (May 2009) and the 4th “Shrek” movie – “Shrek Goes Fourth” (May 2010) produced in IMAX 3-D. No story lines or voice actors have been announced for either film. I’ll keep you posted. Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career […]
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“McLights McCamera Mc…”

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I hit a McDonalds the other day to check-out the “Bee Movie” toys and boy did I get a surprise. The character I got was a pollenjock named…Jackson! I didn’t even realize that one of the pollenjocks in the movie was named Jackson. This is the first time that I can remember that an animated […]
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A Trail of Trailers

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I got to see the first trailer for “Kung Fu Panda” at the “Bee Movie” preview. It makes sense that they’ve saved it until now since they’re both from DreamWorks. The trailer is pretty good. Jack Black’s character (the Panda) apparently isn’t into Kung Fu as much as his pals (which include a snake, a […]
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“Panda”-modium

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I went to see “The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D” again over the weekend and the theater was mobbed! Now I know why the movie made $5.1 million in it’s opening weekend last week and $3.35 million this past weekend. It’s made the Top-10 both weeks, while last year the highest it got was #12. […]
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Ricky Bouncy?

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The other night I saw the trailer for the new Will Ferrell movie “Semi-Pro”, which comes out in February. All it is is Ferrell lying on a gym bench, with no clothes on, and a basketball covering his privates. That’s it. Will really seems to like making sports comedies. Hopefully this one will be as […]
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“T”‘d off!

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Every time that I’m in the car and we drive by a theater I have to check-out what they’ve got playing. Yesterday my dad and I were driving by the local Regal Cinema and I noticed that one of the movies was “Michael Clayton.” On one side of the marquee the movie was shown as […]
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What Makes a Good Movie Theater?

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These are the things that I look for in a good movie theater: 1) Comfortable seats, ideally stadium seating. 2) Big screen, good sound system. 3) Lots of choices of good films to see. 4) A bunch of posters so you can know what films are coming. What about the food? Well, I don’t like […]
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