Posts Tagged ‘Harry Potter’
Entertainment Weekly Wouldn’t Know Cool If It Bit Them In The Ass
Merriam-Webster defines the slang form of the word cool as:
very good: excellent; also: all right
Using this as a guideline, Entertainment Weekly tried to create a list of the 20 All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture. In descending order they are:
20. Sydney Bristow
19. Atticus Finch
18. Batman
17. Nancy Drew
16. Jack Bauer
15. Dirty Harry
14. Will Kane
13. Foxy Brown
12. Captain James T. Kirk
11. Mad Max
10. Spider-Man
9. Robin Hood
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
7. Han Solo
6. John McClane
5. Ellen Ripley
4. Harry Potter
3. Superman
2. Indiana Jones
1. James Bond
There’s a lot to quibble about with this list, but there is one huge glaring eyesore of a problem with this list. It sits right …
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Tags: character, culture, dirty harry, Harry Potter, list
Weekend Predictions: 12-19-08
Well it’s finally the big, huge pre-Christmas weekend. It’s also the weekend where they shoehorn in the movies that couldn’t hang with the big boys in November but are too big to dump in January.
Snatch up a copy of my spreadsheet before they’re all gone.
The biggest release this weekend is Yes Man, in 3,434 theaters. It looks to be Jim Carrey’s return to inane comedy. He hasn’t gotten to run around flapping his arms and making faces much since Bruce Almighty. You could argue that Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events were big successes for Carrey, but seeing as how there’s someone else’s name in titles, it might not have really mattered who was in his role. When Carrey has been the sole big name in a movie where
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Weekend Predictions: 11-21-08
I think we’re in for the second biggest movie weekend of the year, with Bolt and Twilight opening and Madagascar 2 and Quantum of Solace still out there.
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Tags: box office, budget, business, Harry Potter, opening, prediction, release, screens, vampire, WALL-E, weekend
Accounting For Harry Potter
There have been a few theories on the real reason for the change. One is that the studio didn’t want competition from Twilight. However, Twilight’s release date is December 12th, three weeks after Harry’s original date. Pretty questionable seeing as how Harry would have made the vast bulk of it’s money by then.
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Tags: competition, Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter, money, post-production, release, revenue, studio
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