Trade Roughage 02/18/08

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Do adults actually take President’s Day off? The studios, assuming *someone* isn’t going to work or school today, opened their movies on Thursday night and are going to keep tabulating grosses through the end of today. This means Jumper will easily cross $40 million in its first frame, all but guaranteeing its franchise potential. Also, I was barely aware that it had even opened, but 27 Dresses is currently grossing about three times as much per weekend as Cloverfield, and it may even gross $100 million before it fades from theaters.
Yawn. Variety launches their latest anti-internet screed, as Brian Lowry uses a post-strike think piece as the venue to rail against the “sometimes ugly, insular and semi-delusional worlds the Net can perpetuate.”
Will Arnett and Woody Harrelson are joining Will Ferrell on the Funny or Die comedy tour, to promote their upcoming Semi-Pro. Too bad for you, it’s been sold out for ages.

ProgGrrl said 1 year ago
Seriously…what is up with Lowry and hating the internet? Every time he writes about it he just spews an amazing amount of bile. I wonder if he was, erm, traumatized somehow while surfing the tubes. Hmm.
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[...] Trade Roughage 02/18/08 Trade Roughage 02/18/08 Variety still hates the internet, and it would appear to have nothing to do with the fact that it appears 27 DRESSES is a bigger, more sustainable hit than CLOVERFIELD. February 18, 2008 ? 9:30 am Do adults actually take President?s Day off? The studios, assuming *someone* isn?t going to work or school today, opened their movies on Thursday night and are going to keep tabulating grosses through the end of today. This means Jumper will easily cross $40 milli [...]

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