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Frozen River: Breaking Through the Summer Pack

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.09.2008 | Entertainment

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Marcia G. Yerman

"Smart movies like Frozen River are an alternative" says Sony Pictures co-president Tom Bernard. "We never try to win the weekend... we try to win the war."

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Two Face

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 08.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Opening Weekend, The New York Times, Box Office, Spider-Man 3, The Dark Knight, Batman, Movies, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Spider-Man 3 set an opening weekend record last year but its final tally ($336m) barely doubled its opening weekend. Why? It wasn't that good. The Dark Knight keeps going. Why? Because it's good.

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Are Critically Acclaimed Movies More Popular? They Were Last Year

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Critics, Movies, Box Office, Rotten Tomatoes, Movie Reviews, Summer Movies, Movie Box Office, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Both critics and moviegoers seem to like quality and not crap. Is this revelatory? In a society that dismisses quality, and that holds up crap for imitation, it certainly feels revelatory.

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Why the New York Times Shouldn't Try to Predict Summer Box Office

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Iron Man, Spider-Man 3, Kung Fu Panda, Summer Movies, Shrek the Third, Box Office, The New York Times, Sex and the City, Pirates 3, Sex and the City: The Movie, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Frankly, it's not the business of the New York Times to engage in facile prognostication about the box office performance of summer sequels.

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Trapped Between Two Women at the Sex and the City Premiere

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 06.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Iron Man, Sex and the City, Box Office, Wish Fulfillment, Carrie Bradshaw, Movies, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

When your dream wedding goes kaput and you're catatonic, your friends care enough to whisk you away to Mexico for a vacation for four. You don't even need to thank or acknowledge them. What are friends for?

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2007 Was Modest Year For Hollywood

New York Times | Brooks Barnes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Movie Industry, Domestic Receipts, Nielsens, Foreign Grosses, Ticket Sales, Box Office, Media by Numbers, Movies, Business News

Despite a modest increase in 2007 box office receipts, moviedom is trudging into January with a droop in its shoulders. Ticket sales at North America...

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