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When last we left off with Saw VI, Detective Marc Hoffman had been discovered as the one continuing the deadly Jigsaw killings. John Kramer’s wife, Jill Tuck was on her way fulfilling her husband’s final wish and taking care of Hoffman, who in his role as Jigsaw (Kramer’s successor) had been subverting the message that [...]

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Tony, Jonathan, and Andrew are back for another week of box office prognostication. You can still donate to Virtual SausageFest until October 31. Before we can get down to business this week there is an airing of secrets and grievances. Andrew is slowly going mad from hearing how poorly he speaks, Tony takes joy crushing [...]

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#1 Paranormal Activity 2 from Paramount debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $40.6 million in 3216 theaters. Budget was $3 million. #2 Jackass 3-D from Paramount drops from #1 to #2 with a weekend gross of $21.3 million (-57.7%) in 3111 theaters (+30). Total gross to date is $86.8 million. Budget was [...]

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Last year, the original Paranormal Activity was the little movie that could. Made for an extremely low budget and utilizing a mostly word-of-mouth marketing campaign, the first was a huge success. Deservedly so as well, as the first is one very fun movie, one of my favorites from last year. Now the second film is [...]

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Jonathan, of The Way of the Game fame, and Andrew, Archer Enthusiast, are back this week talking Box Office with Tony. Tony doesn’t want to talk about last weekend’s results but we talk about it anyway. Tony’s bet that Red would debut at #1 did not pay off and he only got 20% right. Meanwhile, [...]

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#1 Jackass 3-D from Paramount debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $50.3 million in 3081 theaters. Budget was $20 million. #2 Red from Summit debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $21.7 million in 3255 theaters. Budget was $58 million. #3 The Social Network from Sony drops from #1 to [...]

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After Piranha 3D came out, director James Cameron derided the movie in the press (without seeing it first). He called it an example of the type of movie that’s currently giving 3D movies a bad name, of course conveniently forgetting to mention obvious tacked-on 3D movies like Clash of the Titans and The Last Airbender. [...]

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This week Tony is joined by Jonathan from The Way of the Game podcast and Andrew, General Roustabout. We start by discussing Tony’s picks for last weekend. The bad news is that he only got 20% right. The good news is that all 5 of the movies he picked were in the Top 5. After [...]

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#1 The Social Network from Sony holds at #1 with a weekend gross of $15.4 million (-31.2%) in 2771 theaters (no change). Total gross to date is $46.0 million. Budget was $50 million. #2 Life as We Know It from Warner Brother debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $14.5 million in 3150 [...]

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This weekend’s picks: Secretariat Life As We Know It My Soul To Take The Social Network Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole My picks for last week came in at 60% with 4 of 5 picks for the top five. What are your picks? Call them in at: 618-207-4794 Come to the website [...]

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