Month: June 2013

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Announcement

Weekend Box Office: May 31-June 2

#1 Fast & Furious 6 from Universal held at #1 with a gross of $35.2 million (-63.9%) in 3,686 theaters.  Total gross to date is $171 million.  Budget was $160 million.

#2 Now You See Me from Lionsgate opened at #2 with a gross of $29.3 million in 2,925 theaters.  Budget was $75 million.

#3 After Earth from Sony/Columbia opened at #3 with a gross of $27.5 million in 3,401 theaters.  Budget was $130 million.

#4 Star Trek Into Darkness from Paramount fell from #3 to #4 with a gross of $16.8 million (-55%) in 3,585 theaters (-322).  Total gross to date is $181.5 million.  Budget was $190 million.

#5 Epic from 20th Century Fox fell from #4 to #5 with a gross of $16.6 million (-50.4%) in 3,894 theaters (+12).  Total gross to date is $65.4 million.  Budget was $100 million.

#6 The Hangover Part III from Warner Bros. fell from #2 to #6 with a gross of $16.4 million (-60.7%) in 3,565 theaters (+10).  Total gross to date is $88.5 million.  Budget was $103 million.

#7 Iron Man 3 from Buena Vista fell from #5 to #7 with a gross of $8.4 million (-56.3%) in 2,895 theaters (-529).  Total gross to date is $385.2 million.  Budget was $200 million.

#8 The Great Gatsby from Warner Bros. fell from #6 to #8 with a gross of $6.5 million (-51.9%) in 2,635 theaters (-455).  Total gross to date is $128.5 million.  Budget was $105 million.

#9 Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani from Eros opened at #9 with a gross of $1.6 million in 161 theaters.  Budget was unknown.

#10 Mud from Roadside Attractions fell from #7 to #10 with a gross of $1.2 million (-37.7%) in 581 theaters (-131).  Total gross to date is $16.8 million.  Budget was unknown.

#11 The Croods from 20th Century Fox fell from #9 to #11 with a gross of $666 thousand (-45.4%) in 506 theaters (-502).  Total gross to date is $180.6 million.  Budget was $135 million.

#12 Frances Ha from Paramount rose from #13 to #12 with a gross of $530 thousand (-3.5%) in 132 theaters (+72).  Total gross to date is $1.6 million.  Budget was unknown.

The combined gross of the top 12 movies this weekend was $160.7 million.

Sources:
Box Office Mojo

 

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Back Seat Producers Season 08 Shows

BSP Episode 272: Django Unchained

Release date – 12/25/2012

The Weinstein Company

 

Directed and Written by

  • Quentin Tarantino

Produced by

  • Stacey Sher
  • Reginald Hudlin
  • Pilar Savone

Cast

Jamie Foxx

  • Django Freeman

Christoph Waltz

  • Dr. King Schultz

Leonardo DiCaprio

  • Calvin J. Candie

Kerry Washington

  • Broomhilda Von Shaft

 

  • Screwed up movie, but very good and entertaining.
  • Not really a western; more of a revenge picture.
  • The movie is described in sex/orgasm terms.  Betcha didn’t see that coming!
  • Christoph Waltz… GREAT!
  • Hey, it’s Jonah Hill.
  • Brilliant music choices.
  • Samuel L. Jackson with hair – not to be trusted.
  • Jamie Foxx’s best scene was where he is the Mandingo fighting expert.
  • Discussions of Spike Lee claiming the movie is racist.
  • The blood spatter was a bit too much.
  • Leading vs. Supporting Actors.
  • The dog scene… what about the dog scene?
  • “The D is silent; payback won’t be.”
  • Kerry Washington – “If there’s an award you can get for being less than a supporting actor… “
  • Best Extra in a Movie.
  • All in all, the hosts really liked the movie.

Trivia bits ‘n pieces:

  • While filming in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Tarantino rented out a local movie theater to show samurai and western movies from his personal collection.
  • Foxx used his own horse, Cheetah, in the movie.
  • This was Jackson’s sixth collaboration being directed by Tarantino: True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained.
  • Quentin revealed at Comic-Con that Django and Broomhilda are meant to be the great-great-great-grandparents of John Shaft.
  • The n-word (or abbreviations of it) are said over 110 times in the movie.

Awards (partial list):

  • Academy Awards – Best Supporting Actor (Waltz)
  • BAFTA – Best Supporting Actor
  • Golden Globes – Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino), Best Supporting Actor
  • American Film Institute named Django Unchained was named one of their Top Ten Movies of the Year (2012)

*Christoph Waltz: this is the 2nd time Waltz has won the same three awards… the 1st was for Inglorious Basterds (also a Tarantino film)

Your Producers for this episode were:

  • Tony
  • Darrell
  • David

This episode was recorded:  5/29/13

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Back Seat Book Club Shows

Back Seat Book Club – Book Nine: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Author: Haruki Murakami, translator: Philip Gabriel

Published: 1992

Vintage

Plot Summary – Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father’s record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.

Quick Thoughts [forthcoming]

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. 
It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”

Your Hosts:

  • Lena
  • Scott

Recorded 04/25/13

Next Time: American Gods by Neil Gaiman

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