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Warner Brothers’ The Dark Knight has passed the $1 Billion mark in the worldwide box office. The film is the fourth best box office seller ever, behind Titanic, Lord of the Rings III, Pirates of the Caribbean II, and ahead of the first Harry Potter movie. Quite an accomplishment.
What’s interesting, is The Dark Knight is also the most-pirated film of 2008, and certainly a high-up in the most-pirated ever.
Perhaps the movie industry is wrong, and ignorant when it comes to the internet? Could it be that BitTorrent and other less-than-legal methods of obtaining movies actually help sales?
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The first National Treasure film was great, in my opinion. It had a unique and interesting story, the effects weren’t bad, and it blended some historical factoids into the story unobtrusively. I don’t think it deserved the relatively low ratings it got in places like RottenTomatoes.com.
The sequel, Book of Secrets, wasn’t too bad for a [...]
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The Golden Compass, based on the book by Phillip Pullman, was a good film, though not quite as good as the book (which often happens). The pace was too quick, and the movie too short (just short of two hours). The Golden Compass is a 544 page book, with a fairly complex plot. The filmmakers cut things out, and re-arranged things until the movie moved at a quick pace and lacked important information. New Line, here’s a tip: Don’t try to cram a 500+ page book into less than two hours of film! Fantasy films can be much lunger than that. I, personally, don’t like it when movies have a running time of less than two and a half hours.
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T.A. Barron’s epic Pentology, The Lost Years of Merlin, may become a movie in the somewhat-near future. Paramount Pictures, as T.A. Barron writes, has obtained filming rights to the series.
Mr. Barron states that “the project could not be in better hands,” and that Paramount “understand[s] the power and depth of young Merlin - and they [...]
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The final trailer of The Golden Compass has been released. It goes a bit more in-depth than the teaser that was shown before Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, and shows-off some cool CGI work.
Some notes for readers of the His Dark Materials books:
Iorek Byrnisson will be voiced by Sir Ian McKellen, a name [...]
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Until recently, I didn’t know that a The Dark is Rising Movie was in the works, until I heard it was slated for an October release this year. When I first saw the IMDB listing I thought “Cool.” Then I watched the trailer.
Okay, this movie is not The Dark is Rising (read the book yourself). [...]
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Just a quick heads-up. The upcoming Indiana Jones film (May 2008 release) has been given the title “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” IMDB Page.
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The Netflix plan where you get one DVD at a time, and an unlimited amount in a month, is a great deal. The only problem is you end up waiting for Netflix to get the disc your returning, and for them to send you a new one.
While you’re waiting for your next disc, take a [...]
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After seeing the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film (the day it came out, of course), I had the typical Harry Potter Fan reaction. “It’s-too-short! They cut-out half the good parts! WTH? And they got these parts all wrong!” After thinking about it for a couple weeks, I compiled my list of [...]
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Remember Batman Begins? My personal favorite of the Batman movies, it was a bit different from the others. At the end, Gordon gives batman “a calling card” found at the scene of a robbery (if I remember correctly). It was a single card from a deck…the Joker.
In The Dark Knight, slated for an ‘08 release, [...]
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