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BSP Episode 296: Manhattan

Release date – 4/25/1979

United Artists

 

Directed by

  • Woody Allen

Produced by

  • Charles H. Joffe

Written by

  • Woody Allen
  • Marshall Brickman

Cast

  • Woody Allen – Isaac Davis
  • Diane Keaton – Mary Wilkie
  • Michael Murphy – Yale Pollack
  • Mariel Hemingway – Tracy
  • Meryl Streep – Jill Davis

 

  • Woody Allen the person vs. Woody Allen the Director/Actor.
  • Also, Jerry Seinfeld.
  • Jolie’s brief history of Woody Allen, Stand-up Comedian.
  • Why not watch Crimes and Misdemeanors instead?
  • Wait… Paul?
  • Princess Bride reference!
  • Movember.
  • Somebody’s always making the duckface.
  • The proper way to announce an affair in the 70’s.
  • Cards Against Humanity. Because Cards Against Humanity.
  • Oh, that’s right… there’s a movie to talk about.
  • David’s lack of knowledge of New York landmarks.
  • The discussion takes a slightly uncomfortable turn.
  • Walking Dead.
  • Movie talk!  Not Woody Allen, but still.
  • Lando’s pimp ship.
  • Wang test.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

  • Woody Allen disliked his work in Manhattan so much that he offered to direct another movie for United Artists if they would permanently shelf Manhattan.  He later said, “At this point in my life, if this is the best I can do, they shouldn’t give me money to make movies.”
  • This was also the most commercially successful film of his career.
  • This is one of eight cinematic collaborations with Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.
  •  This is one of five cinematic collaborations with Woody Allen and Wallace Shawn.

Your Producers for this episode were:

  • Tony
  • Jolie
  • David

This episode was recorded:  11/13/13

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Back Seat Box Office #165

Hi everyone… I’m sorry for the massive delay!  Illness, work and schedules conspired to make it a very difficult week.

Congrats to Cougron for his high score of 21!

Thanks to Tad and Nick for their voice mails.

Picks:

Art & Jeff

  1. Thor: The Dark World
  2. The Best Man Holiday
  3. Free Birds
  4. Last Vegas
  5. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

Art’s House picks:

  • Art – The Christmas Candle
  • Jeff – Nebraska

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Weekend Box Office: Nov 8-Nov 10

#1 Thor: The Dark World from Buena Vista opened at #1 with a gross of $85.7 million in 3,841 theaters.  Budget was $170 million.

#2 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa from Paramount held at #2 with a gross of $11.3 million (-43.4%) in 3,187 theaters (-158).  Total gross to date is $78.8 million.  Budget was $15 million.

#3 Free Birds from Relativity rose from #4 to #3 with a gross of $11.1 million (-29.7%) in 3,736 theaters.  Total gross to date is $30.1 million.  Budget was $55 million.

#4 Last Vegas from CBS Films fell from #3 to #4 with a gross of $11 million (-32.4%) in 3,082 theaters (+17).  Total gross to date is $33.5 million.  Budget was $28 million.

#5 Ender’s Game from Lionsgate fell from #1 to #5 with a gross of $10.3 million (-62%) in 3,407 theaters.  Total gross to date is $44 million.  Budget was $110 million.

#6 Gravity from Warner Bros. fell from #5 to #6 with a gross of $8.5 million (-33.4%) in 2,720 theaters (-304).  Total gross to date is $231.2 million.  Budget was $100 million.

#7 12 Years a Slave from Fox Searchlight held at #7 with a gross of $6.7 million (+39.3%) in 1,144 theaters (+734).  Total gross to date is $17.4 million.  Budget was unknown.

#8 Captain Phillips from Sony/Columbia fell from #6 to #8 with a gross of $5.7 million (-32.1%) in 2,646 theaters (-375).  Total gross to date is $90.9 million.  Budget was $55 million.

#9 About Time from Universal rose from #13 to #9 with a gross of $4.8 million (+342.1%) in 1,200 theaters (+1,025).  Total gross to date is $6.3 million.  Budget was unknown.

#10 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 from Sony/Columbia fell from #8 to #10 with a gross of $2.8 million (-33.1%) in 1,836 theaters (-594).  Total gross to date is $110 million.  Budget was $78 million.

#11 Carrie from Sony/Screen Gems fell from #10 to #11 with a gross of $1.3 million (-60.6%) in 1,512 theaters (-740).  Total gross to date is $34.1 million.  Budget was $30 million.

#12 All is Lost from Roadside Attractions rose from #15 to #12 with a gross of $1.1 million (+98.4%) in 399 theaters (+269).  Total gross to date is $2.8 million.  Budget was unknown.

The combined gross of the top 12 movies this weekend was $160.3  million.

Sources:
Box Office Mojo

 

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Back Seat Producers Season 08 Shows

BSP Episode 295: The Conversation

Show notes when we can get a clean recording.

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Back Seat Box Office #164

Congrats to Art and Mrs. Beast for their high scores of 21!

Picks:

Art

  1. Thor: The Dark World
  2. Ender’s Game
  3. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
  4. Free Birds
  5. Last Vegas

Jeff

  1. Thor: The Dark World
  2. Ender’s Game
  3. About Time
  4. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
  5. Last Vegas

Art’s House picks:

  • Art – The Armstrong Lie
  • Jeff – The Starving Games

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Weekend Box Office: Nov 1-Nov 3

#1 Ender’s Game from Lionsgate opened at #1 with a gross of $27 million in 3,407 theaters.  Budget was $110 million.

#2 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa from Paramount fell from #1 to #2 with a gross of $20 million (-37.6%) in 3,345 theaters (+9).  Total gross to date is $61.6 million.  Budget was $15 million.

#3 Last Vegas from CBS Films opened at #3 with a gross of $16.3 million in 3,065 theaters.  Budget was $28 million.

#4 Free Birds from Relativity opened at #4 with a gross of $15.8 million in 3,736 theaters.  Budget was $55 million.

#5 Gravity from Warner Bros. fell from #2 to #5 with a gross of $12.8 million (-36.3%) in 3,024 theaters (-683).  Total gross to date is $218.9 million.  Budget was $100 million.

#6 Captain Phillips from Sony/Columbia fell from #3 to #6 with a gross of $8.4 million (-27.8%) in 3,021 theaters (-122).  Total gross to date is $82.5 million.  Budget was $55 million.

#7 12 Years a Slave from Fox Searchlight rose from #8 to #7 with a gross of $4.8 million (+124.5%) in 410 theaters (+287).  Total gross to date is $9 million.  Budget was unknown.

#8 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 from Sony/Columbia fell from #5 to #8 with a gross of $4.2 million (-33.9%) in 2,430 theaters (-681).  Total gross to date is $106.1 million.  Budget was $78 million.

#9 The Counselor from Fox fell from #4 to #9 with a gross of $3.4 million (-56.9%) in 3,044 theaters.  Total gross to date is $13.8 million.  Budget was $25 million.

#10 Carrie from Sony/Screen Gems fell from #6 to #10 with a gross of $3.2 million (-45.5%) in 2,252 theaters (-905).  Total gross to date is $31.8 million.  Budget was $30 million.

#11 Escape Plan from Lionsgate/Summit fell from #7 to #11 with a gross of $2.3 million (-50.2%) in 1,966 theaters (-917).  Total gross to date is $21.6 million.  Budget was unknown.

#12 Enough Said from Fox Searchlight fell from #9 to #12 with a gross of $1.1 million (-31.6%) in 662 theaters (-173).  Total gross to date is $14.8 million.  Budget was unknown.

The combined gross of the top 12 movies this weekend was $119.3  million.

Sources:
Box Office Mojo

 

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Back Seat Box Office #163

Congrats to Jeff and Tad for their high scores of 23!

Thanks to Tad for his voice mail.

Picks:

Art

  1. Ender’s Game
  2. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
  3. Gravity
  4. Free Birds
  5. Last Vegas

Jeff

  1. Ender’s game
  2. Free Birds
  3. Last Vegas
  4. Gravity
  5. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

Lena

  1. Ender’s Game
  2. Free Birds
  3. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
  4. Gravity
  5. Last Vegas

Art’s House Picks:

  • Art – About Time
  • Jeff & Lena – Dallas Buyers Club

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BSP Episode 294: Gravity

Release date – 10/4/13

Warner Bros. Pictures

 

Directed

  • Alfonso Cuaron

Produced

  • David Heyman
  • Alfonso Cuaron

Written

  • Alfonso Cuaron
  • Jonas Cuaron

 

Cast

Sandra Bullock

  • Dr. Ryan Stone

George Clooney

  • Lt. Matt Kowalski

Ed Harris (voice)

  • Mission Control

In the meantime, here are some out of context (or are they?) quotes from the episode:

David: “I know when I deprive myself of oxygen, Clooney’s the first place that I go.”

Tony: “Do solar winds whistle through your face?”

Jolie: “I’m a gender betrayer.”

David: “I’m well-versed in crazy… …we’re eskimo brothers.”

  • The art of harassment, by David.
  • Vin Diesel vs. The Rock.
  • Gravity… many thumbs up.
  • Mixed reviews of 3D effects.
  • Reality spoils everything.
  • Damn you, Neil deGrasse Tyson!
  • Lung control… Back Seat Producers vs. Sandra Bullock.
  • Can you bend in a space suit?
  • Lack of oxygen or dream?
  • The conversation devolves. Thanks, David.
  • The science (maybe) of space death.
  • No nipples or bulges.
  • The mechanics of space sex.
  • Astroglide.

Your Producers for this episode were:

  • Tony
  • Darrell
  • Jolie
  • David

This episode was recorded:  10/30/13

 

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Back Seat Book Club – Book Fourteen: Heroes Die

Author: Matthew Woodring Stover

Published: 1998

Del Rey

Plot Summary – Renowned throughout the land of Ankhana as the Blade of Tyshalle, Caine has killed his share of monarchs and commoners, villains and heroes. He is relentless, unstoppable, simply the best there is at what he does.

At home on Earth, Caine is Hari Michaelson, a superstar whose adventures in Ankhana command an audience of billions. Yet he is shackled by a rigid caste society, bound to ignore the grim fact that he kills men on a far-off world for the entertainment of his own planet–and bound to keep his rage in check.

But now Michaelson has crossed the line. His estranged wife, Pallas Rill, has mysteriously disappeared in the slums of Ankhana. To save her, he must confront the greatest challenge of his life: a lethal game of cat and mouse with the most treacherous rulers of two worlds . . .

Quick Thoughts

  • [forthcoming maybe]

Now that it’s too late, now that I lie here dying on this bloodstained sand, I finally get it.

I understand, now.

I understand. I know what he meant. My father told me that to know
the enemy is half the battle. I know you, now. That’s right.

It’s you.

All of you who sit in comfort and watch me die, who see the twitch of
my bowels through my own eyes: You are my enemy.

Corpses lie scattered around me, gleanings left in a wheat field by a careless reaper. Berne’s body cools beneath the bend of my back, and I can’t feel him anymore. The sky darkens over my head—but no, I think that’s my eyes; Pallas’ light seems to have faded.

Every drop of the blood that soaks into this sand stains my hands and the hands of the monsters that put me here.

That’s you, again.

It’s your money that supports me, and everyone like me; it’s your lust that we serve.

You could thumb your emergency cut-off, turn your eyes from the screen, walk out of the theatre, close the book . . .

But you don’t.

You are my accomplice, and my destroyer.

My nemesis.

My insatiable blood-crazed god.

Ah, ahhh, Christ . . . it hurts .

Your Hosts:

  • Chris 
  • Dirk
  • Scott

Recorded: 09/26/13

Next Time: Sacré Blue by Christopher Moore

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Weekend Box Office: Oct 25-Oct 27

#1 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa from Paramount opened at #1 with a gross of $32.1 million in 3,336 theaters.  Budget was $15 million.

#2 Gravity from Warner Bros. fell from #1 to #2 with a gross of $20.1 million (-32.9%) in 3,707 theaters (-113).  Total gross to date is $199.6 million.  Budget was $100 million.

#3 Captain Phillips from Sony/Columbia fell from #2 to #3 with a gross of $11.6 million (-29.1%) in 3,143 theaters (+123).  Total gross to date is $69.9 million.  Budget was $55 million.

#4 The Counselor from Fox opened at #4 with a gross of $7.8 million in 3,044 theaters.  Budget was $25 million.

#5 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 from Sony/Columbia held at #5 with a gross of $6.3 million (-35.1%) in 3,111 theaters (-491).  Total gross to date is $100.8 million.  Budget was $78 million.

#6 Carrie from Sony/Screen Gems fell from #3 to #6 with a gross of $6 million (-62.8%) in 3,157 theaters.  Total gross to date is $26.1 million.  Budget was $30 million.

#7 Escape Plan from Lionsgate/Summit fell from #4 to #7 with a gross of $4.6 million (-53.9%) in 2,883 theaters. Total gross to date is $17.6 million.  Budget was unknown.

#8 12 Years a Slave from Fox/Searchlight rose from #16 to #8 with a gross of $2.1 million (+131.1%) in 123 theaters (+104). Total gross to date is $3.4 million.  Budget was unknown.

#9 Enough Said from Fox Searchlight fell from #7 to #9 with a gross of $1.6 million (-9.3%) in 835 theaters (+78).  Total gross to date is $13.1 million.  Budget was unknown.

#10 Prisoners from Warner Bros. fell from #6 to #10 with a gross of $1.1 million (-48.2%) in 1,347 theaters (-813).  Total gross to date is $59.1 million.  Budget was $46 million.

#11 Insidious Chapter 2 from FilmDistrict fell from #10 to #11 with a gross of $880 thousand (-41.3%) in 1,229 theaters (-436).  Total gross to date is $82.1 million.  Budget was $5 million.

#12 Rush from Universal fell from #11 to #12 with a gross of $701 thousand (-44.4%) in 677 theaters (-520).  Total gross to date is $25.9 million.  Budget was $38 million.

The combined gross of the top 12 movies this weekend was $94.9  million.

Sources:
Box Office Mojo