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Entries from November 2009

BSP Episode 120: Event Horizon

November 12th, 2009 · No Comments

In this episode, Tony, Adam and Sarah discuss the sci-fi horror film, Event Horizon. (Note: There is a discussion on Google Wave which will eventually replace these show notes.  If you want an invite, or if you are already on Google Wave and want in on the wave, send an email to tony@… (you know [...]

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Tags: Back Seat Producers · Season 4 · Shows

Weekend Box Office: November 6 – 8

November 10th, 2009 · No Comments

#1 A Christmas Carol (2009) from Buena Vista debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $30.0 million in 3683 theaters. Budget was $200 million. #2 Michael’s Jackson’s This Is It from Sony drops from #1 to #2 with a weekend gross of $13.1 million (-43.4%) in 3481 theaters (no change). Total gross to [...]

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Theatrical Review: The Box

November 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Director Richard Kelly loves to play around in the science fiction genre, and he really likes to get strange with it- with his first movie, Donnie Darko he put something out there on the screen that no one had really seen the likes of before, and it met with cult success. With his second movie, [...]

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Theatrical Review: The Men Who Stare At Goats

November 7th, 2009 · No Comments

A young Ann Arbor, Michigan journalist named Bob Wilton is going through a bit of a crisis of self- his wife has ran off with his editor and he finds himself really going nowhere where he’s at, and at the start of this story, he’s been introduced to man who is a psychic and has [...]

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BSP Episode 119: Zombieland

November 5th, 2009 · No Comments

And with this episode we have only one regular episode that has not been released.  It’s the episode we recorded last night. We are CAUGHT UP!!!!  Specially thanks to Chris ‘the F-in’ Machine’ Amelung for editing the past 26 episodes. From August 31st to October 31st there were 25 episodes totally just under 26 HOURS [...]

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Tags: Back Seat Producers · Season 4 · Shows

Weekend Box Office: October 30 – November 1

November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

#1 Michael’s Jackson’s This Is It from Sony debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $23.2 million in 3481 theaters. Budget is unknown. #2 Paranormal Activity from Paramount drops from #1 to #2 with a weekend gross of $16.3 million (-22.3%) in 2404 theaters (+459). Total gross to date is $84.6 million. Budget [...]

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Theatrical Review: Antichrist

November 1st, 2009 · No Comments

As a husband and wife are making love, their small child crawls to the window sill and plummets to his death, and the wife sees all of this, but is too engaged in her “rapture” so to speak to do anything about it. She suffers tremendous guilt over this and her husband, a therapist, seeks [...]

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Tags: Text Reviews · Theatrical Review