Something happens to a team in Alaska at a remote base. It is the doctor's
job to find out what happened.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365929/
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote:
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> "Whiteout"?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com>
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:30:06 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "District 9" Does Well at Box Office
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> There is also Whiteout which looks like a rip off of the Thing.
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> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Keith Johnson
> <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote:
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>> I expected it to do well. There wasn't any new scifi competition (unless
>> you count "The Time Traveler's Wife"), GI Joe has dropped precipitously in
>> box office, and while "Panyo" was great, it's a cartoon aimed at younger
>> audiences.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "ravenadal" <ravena...@yahoo.com>
>> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 8:19:45 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "District 9" Does Well at Box Office
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>> Wow! I would have thought this as unlikely as Tiger losing the PGA
>> Championship.
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>> ~rave!
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>> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com <scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com>, Keith
>> Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote:
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>> > [AP News]
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>> > 'District 9' lifts off with No. 1 weekend at $37M
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>> > By DAVID GERMAIN
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>> > The Associated Press
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>> > LOS ANGELES â€" The first-time director and cast of unknowns of the
>> acclaimed sci-fi thriller "District 9 " have given Hollywood a late-summer
>> box-office boost.
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>> > Enlarge photo
>> > This movie still released by Sony Pictures shows, left to right, Sharlto
>> Copley, Mandla Gaduka and Kenneth Nkosi in "District 9." (AP Photo/Sony
>> Pictures)This movie still released by Sony Pictures shows, left to right,
>> Sharlto Copley, Mandla Gaduka and Kenneth Nkosi in "District 9." (AP
>> Photo/Sony Pictures)
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>> > The Sony release produced by "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson
>> led the weekend with a $37 million debut, according to studio estimates
>> Sunday.
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>> > "District 9" is the debut feature from commercial and music-video
>> director Neill Blomkamp, who co-wrote the tale about extraterrestrials
>> forced by humans to live in squalor in a ghetto in South Africa.
>> >
>> > The movie built audience interest with a clever marketing campaign
>> playing up the theme of prejudice against aliens, including posters
>> instructing citizens to report non-humans and ads on bus benches stating
>> that the seats are for humans only.
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>> > "Everybody was like, 'What is this?' There was a big question mark in
>> people's minds," said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony. "It did
>> really pique their interest and drove them to the Internet and elsewhere to
>> discover what's going on."
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > The previous weekend's No. 1 movie, Paramount's "G.I. Joe: The Rise of
>> Cobra," slipped to second place with $22.5 million, raising its 10-day total
>> to $98.8 million.
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>> > Another sci-fi tale, the Warner Bros. romance "The Time Traveler's Wife"
>> starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, opened asolid No. 3 with $19.2
>> million. The film joined the previous weekend's "Julie&Julia" as a choice
>> for women, with females accounting for 76 percent of its audience.
>> >
>> > "District 9" and "Time Traveler's Wife" led a wave of five new wide
>> releases for mid-August, when Hollywood's summer output normally is petering
>> out. The rush continues next weekend with another surge of new releases, led
>> by Quentin Tarantino's World War II saga "Inglourious Basterds."
>> >
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>> > "It's getting very crowded, and it's these films that want to compete in
>> the summer time frame but can't compete in the sweet spot of summer," said
>> Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. "Opening 'District
>> 9' against 'Star Trek,' that would not be a good strategy. But to release it
>> now makes sense. August is the month of opportunity for films that in other
>> months of summer would get slaughtered."
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The weekend's other debuts: Paramount Vantage's used-car comedy "The
>> Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard," opening at No. 6 with $5.4 million; Disney's
>> animated adventure "Ponyo" from animation master Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited
>> Away"), coming in at No. 9 with $3.5 million; and Summit Entertainment's
>> teen rock 'n' roll tale "Bandslam," which tanked at No. 13 with just $2.3
>> million despite a cast that includes Vanessa Hudgens of "High School
>> Musical."
>> >
>> > It was Hollywood's second weekend in a row of rising revenues after a
>> monthlong slide compared with summer 2008, when the Batman blockbuster "The
>> Dark Knight" was smashing box-office records.
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>> >
>> >
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>> > Overall receipts came in at $142 million, up 14 percent from the same
>> weekend a year ago, when "Tropic Thunder" debuted at No. 1 with $25.8
>> million.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Revenues since the summer season opened the first weekend of May are at
>> $3.77 billion, just a fraction below where Hollywood was last summer,
>> according to Hollywood.com.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Factoring in higher ticket prices, admissions are off 4 percent compared
>> to summer 2008, though movie attendance remains strong given how "The Dark
>> Knight" dominated a year ago. The biggest blockbuster since "Titanic," ''The
>> Dark Knight" topped out with a domestic haul of $531 million.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Considering we had a movie of that magnitude in the mix, I think this
>> summer has held up very well for itself," said Dan Fellman, head of
>> distribution for Warner Bros., which released "The Dark Knight."
>> >
>> > Estimated ticket sales are for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and
>> Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be
>> released Monday.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 1. "District 9," $37 million.
>> >
>> > 2. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," $22.5 million.
>> >
>> > 3. "The Time Traveler's Wife," $19.2 million.
>> >
>> > 4. "Julie&Julia," $12.4 million.
>> >
>> > 5. "G-Force," $6.9 million.
>> >
>> > 6. "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard," $5.4 million.
>> >
>> > 7. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," $5.2 million.
>> >
>> > 8. "The Ugly Truth," $4.5 million.
>> >
>> > 9. "Ponyo," $3.5 million.
>> >
>> > 10. "500 Days of Summer," $3 million.
>> >
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