Back Seat Producers

Wow! This has been a long time coming.   We’ve recently brought in a friend, Chris, who you’ll hear in Episode #100, to edit our episodes for us, we’ve got quite a few in the can (more about this in a post later today) and we’ll be releasing them frequently in the coming days. In [...]

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#1 The Final Destination from Warner Bros. debuts at #1 this weekend bringing in $28 million in 3121 theaters. Budget for Final was $40 million. #2 Inglourious Basterds from the Weinstein Co. takes #2 this weekend bringing in $20 million in 3165 theaters. Budget for Inglourious was $70 million. #3 Halloween II from Weinstein/Dimension debuts [...]

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In Jurassic Park, when commenting on the fantasy that has come to life, Dr. Ian Malcolm at one point says to John Hammond the immortal words, “Life finds a way.” For the Final Destination movies, the philosophy has always been the opposite: Death finds a way. Starting with the first film, which is a very [...]

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1941. Once upon a time… in Nazi-occupied France (these words open the movie), an S.S. Colonel nicknamed the Jew Hunter, Hans Landa continues his duties, and now it’s in the hands of American Lt. Aldo “The Apache” Raine and his hand-picked group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” to spread fear through the Third [...]

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#1 District 9 from TriStar debuts at #1 this weekend bringing in $37 million in 3049 theaters. Budget for District was $30 million. #2 G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra from Paramount takes #2 this weekend bringing in $22.5 million in 4007 theaters. Budget for Joe was $175 million. #3 The Time Traveler’s Wife from Warner [...]

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Aliens have publicly landed on Earth and they’ve been with us for the last 20 years…They’ve mysteriously “landed” in Johannesburg, South Africa (their ship remains afloat above the city) and they’ve proven not to be a threat and more destitute than anything else. The aliens are evacuated from their ship and put into a refugee [...]

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A devastating new weapon has fallen into the clutches of a sinister terror force and now it’s up to an elite multi-national fighting force to save us all. That’s the basic plot of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the next film designed to get the fans of The Transformers and the latest film from [...]

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John Hughes, the landmark director and voice of awkward disassociated teens everywhere died Thursday of a heart attack in Manhattan while taking a walk. He was 59. The filmmaker, whom critic Roger Ebert once called “the philosopher of adolescence,” was without a doubt a major influence on many of the filmmakers to come since his [...]

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It’s 2004 and the setting is Baghdad as we’re being introduced to an elite Bomb Squad of Bravo Company as they’re getting ready to do what they do best, take out any bombs. Unfortunately, tragic results ensue, and the two men left, Sanborn and Eldridge, with only 38 days left in their rotation, get a [...]

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#1 Funny People from Universal debuts at #1 this weekend bringing in $23.4 million in 3008 theaters. Budget for Funny was $75 million. #2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from Warner Bros. holds at #2 this weekend bringing in $17.7 million in 4393 theaters. Budget for Half-Blood Prince was $250 million. #3 G-Force from [...]

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