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Tropic Anticlimax. Trade Roughage 08/18/08

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Tropic Thunder was not only the number one film of the weekend, but it dethroned The Dark Knight, which is now the second highest grossing film of all time. So why is Ben Stiller brooding? No, he’s not recycling his Bono impression––according to Variety, its $26 million 3-day weekend (it made $37 million from Wednesday through Sunday) is no cause for celebration. The film made about $4 million less than Pineapple Express in its opening run, but cost four times more than that film to produce.
They spent $13 million on last year’s broadcast alone, but due to “plunging sales, recession fears and spiking gasoline prices”, GM can no longer afford to sponsor the Oscars.
The Voltron movie, which has been in development since before the first Transformers movie was completed, has been put into turnaround.

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The Oscars, Live-Twittered

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Starting around 7:30 PM EST tonight, Karina will be live-Twittering from Spout and The Reeler’s Oscar party in NYC. You can follow Karina on Twitter to get her posts sent directly to your cell phone or instant messenger or, better yet, keep refreshing this page for the latest updates. You can also talk back to Karina while the awards are going on, either through Twitter, or in the comments to this post.