Truth trills from Tracey's tongue...
"Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you noticed that they never track by number of
people. When the
track by dollars and the prices are always going up, they can always
distort the picture
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> what was wrong with the flick? How does it compare to "The Omega Man"?
> How does it compare to the book?
> aren't critics for the most part liking it?
>
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> From: "Mike Street" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:streetforce1%40gmail.com>>
> I think it's a mixture of Will Smith, Zombies, and the hope for an action
> flick. Plus a lot of people are already on vacation. I saw the movie last
> night in Harlem and for the most part the audience hated it.
> THe acting was good but I thought the story could have used a lot of work.
>
> On Dec 16, 2007 5:01 PM, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:truthseeker_013%40yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
> > Either guns and zombies are big sellers, or there's nothing else out
> > there worth watching...
> >
> > Mike Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:streetforce1%40gmail.com> <streetforce1%40gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Will Smith's `I Am Legend' Opens to $77 Million in Ticket Sales
> >
> >
> > By Andy Fixmer and Bradley Keoun
> >
> > Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- ``I Am Legend,'' the science-fiction thriller
> > starring Will Smith, opened as the top film this weekend, garnering
> $76.5
> > million at the domestic box office for Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros.
> > studio.
> >
> > New releases ``Alvin and the Chipmunks'' from News Corp.'s Fox opened in
> > second place with $45 million, box-office tracker Media By Numbers LLC
> > said
> > today in a statement. Time Warner's ``Golden Compass,'' the prior
> > weekend's
> > No. 1 movie, dropped to third with $9.03 million in sales, while Walt
> > Disney
> > Co.'s ``Enchanted'' fell to fourth from second with $6 million.
> >
> > Time Warner scored for a second-straight week with a movie debuting
> at No.
> > 1
> > in U.S. and Canadian theaters, following the Dec. 7 release of ``The
> > Golden
> > Compass.'' As of Dec. 14, the world's largest media company had $1.7
> > billion
> > in box office sales this year, the most among its competitors, according
> > to
> > researcher Box Office Mojo LLC.
> >
> > ``This is the perfect movie for Will Smith. It's sci-fi, yet it's an
> > intelligent film,'' Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers,
> > said
> > in an interview.
> >
> > In ``I Am Legend,'' Smith portrays one of the last humans to survive a
> > virus
> > that turns people into flesh-eating monsters. Smith works on a cure
> during
> > the day and hides from the demons in a barricaded New York townhouse at
> > night, when they hunt.
> >
> > Exceeds Sales Estimate
> >
> > Ticket sales for the movie beat the $51.5 million estimate of Burbank,
> > California-based Box Office Mojo. As of Dec. 14, ``I Am Legend''
> received
> > lukewarm response, with 65 positive reviews out of 110 tracked by
> > RottenTomatoes.com.
> >
> > ``Alvin and the Chipmunks,'' based on the 1980s cartoon series,
> features a
> > computer-animated version of the high-pitched singing trio.
> >
> > The movie received poor reviews, with New York Post's Lou Lumenick
> > writing,
> > ``For adults, it's like being hit over the head with a mallet every 10
> > seconds for 90 minutes. Two days later, I still had a headache.''
> >
> > Luckily, children will drive ticket sales, Dergarabedian said. ```Alvin
> > and
> > the Chipmunks' will do very, very well,'' he said. ``It's
> irresistible to
> > kids.''
> >
> > ``The Golden Compass,'' made for about $150 million by Time Warner's New
> > Line Cinema, missed the $35.4 million opening weekend estimate of
> > Hollywood
> > Stock Exchange.com, where participants bet play money on a film's
> > performance. The film tells the story of a young girl who uses a unique
> > ability to discern truth in a cosmic battle over free will.
> >
> > ``It didn't have that built-in fun factor that a `Narnia' or a `Lord of
> > the
> > Rings' has,'' Dergarabedian said. ``Something about that movie didn't
> > compel
> > audiences to go out in large numbers.''
> >
> > `Enchanted'
> >
> > ``Enchanted'' stars Amy Adams as a princess banished from her fantasy
> > world
> > to modern New York. The film has taken in $92.3 million since its
> release
> > Nov. 21. Susan Sarandon co-stars as the evil queen who engineers her
> > departure. ``No Country for Old Men,'' with $3 million for Disney's
> > Miramax
> > studio, ranked fifth.
> >
> > Rounding out the top 10 were: ``The Perfect Holiday,'' which opened with
> > $2.97 million for Yari Film Group; ``Fred Claus,'' from Time Warner's
> > Warner
> > Bros., with $2.31 million of sales; Sony Corp.'s ``This Christmas,''
> with
> > $2.3 million; ``Atonement,'' from NBC Universal's Focus Features, with
> > $1.85
> > million, and ``August Rush,'' in its fourth weekend from Warner
> Bros., at
> > $1.79 million.
> >
> > Among the top 10, ``Atonement,'' starring Keira Knightley, had the
> biggest
> > surge, climbing from the prior weekend's 15th place after garnering
> seven
> > nominations for Golden Globe awards on Dec. 13.
> >
> > Sales for the top 12 films rose 39 percent this weekend to $153.6
> million
> > from a year earlier, according to Encino, California-based Media By
> > Numbers.
> >
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> >
> > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels
> will get
> > organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man
> Without A
> > Country"
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