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Back Seat Book Club – Book Three: Hogfather – Companion

Despite the ‘stand alone’ fiction only rule of Book Club, Scott delves into the background of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. Emphasis is placed on the prior adventures of Death and company, in the hopes of giving some background for the upcoming discussion of Hogfather

 

 

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Back Seat Box Office #113 (& Results BSBO #112)

BSBO Results Show #112

Congrats to Father Beast and Scott for their perfect scores of 25!

Thanks to Tad, Art and Jonathan for their voicemails.  (You’ll hear them at the end of the show)

BSBO #113

Picks:

Scott, Jeff, William

  1. Breaking Dawn, Part 2
  2. Skyfall
  3. Wreck-It Ralph
  4. Lincoln
  5. Flight
There are no other movies in wide release this weekend.
Back Seat Art House picks (highest average dollars per theater):
  • Scott – Breaking Dawn, Part 2
  • Jeff – Silver Linings Playbook
  • William – Lincoln

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Back Seat Quickies #70: Skyfall

The DB 5 doesn’t  have a backseat:

  • Amit
  • Bhavna
  • Petra
  • Scott

Recorded: 08/11/12

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Weekend Box Office: Nov 9-Nov 11

#1 Skyfall from Sony/Columbia opened at #1 with a gross of $88.4 million in 3,505 theaters.  Total gross to date is $90.6 million.  Budget was $200 million.

#2 Wreck-It Ralph from Buena Vista fell from #1 to #2 with a gross of $33 million (-32.7%) in 3,752 theaters.  Total gross to date is $93.6 million.  Budget was $165 million.

#3 Flight from Paramount fell from #2 to #3 with a gross of $14.8 million (-40.6%) in 2,047 theaters (+163).  Total gross to date is $47.5 million.  Budget was $31 million.

#4 Argo from Warner Bros. fell from #3 to #4 with a gross of $6.6 million (-35.2%) in 2,763 theaters (-11).  Total gross to date is $85.6 million.  Budget was $44.5 million.

#5 Taken 2 from 20th Century Fox held at #5 with a gross of $4 million (-32.2%) in 2,487 theaters (-152).  Total gross to date is $131.3 million.  Budget was $45 million.

#6 Cloud Atlas from Warner Bros. held at #6 with a gross of $2.7 million (-50.6%) in 2,023 theaters (+10).  Total gross to date is $22.8 million.  Budget was unknown.

#7 The Man with the Iron Fists from Universal fell from #4 to #7 with a gross of $2.59 million (-67.2%) in 1,872 theaters (+4).  Total gross to date is $12.8 million.  Budget was $15 million.

#8 Pitch Perfect from Universal rose from #11 to #8 with a gross of $2.57 million (-16%) in 1,391 theaters (-111).  Total gross to date is $59.1 million.  Budget was $17 million.

#9 Here Comes the Boom from Sony/Columbia held at #9 with a gross of $2.52 million (-28.5%) in 2,044 theaters (-270).  Total gross to date is $39 million.  Budget was unknown.

#10 Hotel Transylvania from Sony/Columbia fell from #7 to #10 with a gross of $2.4 million (-45.6%) in 2,566 theaters (-356).  Total gross to date is $141 million.  Budget was $85 million.

#11 Paranormal Activity 4 from Paramount fell from #8 to #11 with a gross of $2 million (-53.4%) in 2,348 theaters (-658).  Total gross to date is $52.6 million.  Budget was $5 million.

#12 Sinister from Summit Entertainment held at #12 with a gross of $1.5 million (-44.3%) in 1,554 theaters (-328).  Total gross to date is $46.6 million.  Budget was $3 million.

The combined gross of the top 12 movies this weekend was $163 million.

Sources:
Box Office Mojo

 

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Back Seat Box Office Shows

Back Seat Box Office #112

Picks:

Jeff, Lena:

  1. Skyfall
  2. Wreck-It Ralph
  3. Flight
  4. Argo
  5. The Man with the Iron Fists

Back Seat Art House picks:

  • Jeff – This Must Be the Place
  • Lena – A Royal Affair

There are no other movies in wide release this weekend.

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Back Seat Box Office #111 Results and Voice Mail

Congrats to Father Beast for his perfect score of 25!

Thanks to Art and Tad for their voicemails!

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Back Seat Quickies #69: Wreck-It Ralph

In the seat:

  • Matthew
  • Sam
  • Scott

Recorded: 11/04/12

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Weekend Box Office: Nov 2-Nov 4

#1 Wreck-It Ralph from Buena Vista opened at #1 with a gross of $49 million in 3,752 theaters.  Budget was $165 million.

#2 Flight from Paramount opened at #2 with a gross of $24.9 million in 1,884 theaters.  Budget was $31 million.

#3 Argo from Warner Bros. fell from #1 to #3 with a gross of $10.2 million (-15.5%) in 2,774 theaters (-81).  Total gross to date is $75.9 million.  Budget was $44.5 million.

#4 The Man with the Iron Fists from Universal opened at #4 with a gross of $7.9 million in 1,868 theaters.  Budget was $15 million.

#5 Taken 2 from 20th Century Fox rose from #6 to #5 with a gross of $5.9 million (-23.3%) in 2,639 theaters (-356).  Total gross to date is $125.6 million.  Budget was $45 million.

#6 Cloud Atlas from Warner Bros. fell from #2 to #6 with a gross of $5.4 million (-44%) in 2,013 theaters (+5).  Total gross to date is $18.4 million.  Budget was unknown.

#7 Hotel Transylvania from Sony/Columbia fell from #3 to #7 with a gross of $4.4 million (-53.3%) in 2,922 theaters (-354).  Total gross to date is $137.5 million.  Budget was $85 million.

#8 Paranormal Activity 4 from Paramount fell from #4 to #8 with a gross of $4.3 million (-50%) in 3,006 theaters (-406).  Total gross to date is $49.5 million.  Budget was $5 million.

#9 Here Comes the Boom from Sony/Columbia fell from #7 to #9 with a gross of $3.5 million (-32.3%) in 2,314 theaters (-177).  Total gross to date is $35.5 million.  Budget was unknown.

#10 Silent Hill: Revelation 3D from Open Road Films fell from #5 to #10 with a gross of $3.3 million (-59.1%) in 2,933 theaters.  Total gross to date is $13.9 million.  Budget was $20 million.

#11 Pitch Perfect from Universal held at #11 with a gross of $3.1 million (-22.4%) in 1,502 theaters (-497).  Budget was $17 million.

#12 Sinister from Summit Entertainment fell from #9 to #12 with a gross of $2.7 million (-45.3%) in 1,882 theaters (-465).  Total gross to date is $44.3 million.  Budget was $3 million.

 

The combined gross of the top 12 movies this weekend was $124.6 million.

Sources:
Box Office Mojo

 

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Back Seat Producers Season 07 Shows

BSP Episode 248: The Ides of March

Release date

  • 10/7/2011

Columbia Pictures

Directed by

  • George Clooney

Produced by

  • George Clooney
  • Grant Heslov
  • Brian Oliver
  • Leonardo DiCaprio

Screenplay by

  • George Clooney
  • Grant Heslov
  • Beau Willimon

Based on “Farragut North” by Beau Willimon

Cast

Ryan Gosling

  • Stephen Meyers

George Clooney

  • Mike Morris

Philip Seymour Hoffman

  • Paul Zara

Paul Giamatti

  • Tom Duffy

*NOTE* Back Seat Producers will be on a bi-weekly schedule through the end of the year 

 

  • Back Seat Producers or Fanboy Smackdown?
  • A discussion about politics or will they speak of their collective love for Clooney & Gosling?
  • Ryan Gosling… a tool or a TOOL?
  • Political, but not obnoxiously so.
  • Hmmm… does atheism matter when it comes to politics?
  • Is Marisa Tomei a vampire?
  • The acting was all top shelf.
  • What about morality?  Good thing or bad thing?
  • Evan Rachel Wood… oh what a tangled web she weaves.
  • *Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler*
  • In politics, if it’s a possibility, it’s real.
  • There is a difference between what happens and what is perceived to have happened.
  • A lesson on the appearance of impropriety… take heed!
  • An autobiographical cathartic experience through film.
  • The logic of cheating.
  • You can’t con an innocent man.
  • Of course the President nominee would check his cell phone during a press conference… don’t all Presidents do that?
  • More cynical movie than All The President’s Men… and that’s a good thing.
  • This is about campaigns, not government.
  • Yes, Tony… living in a battleground state (Florida) does suck!
  • All political banter seen on Facebook must be true!

Your Producers for this episode were:

  • Tony
  • Deuce

This episode was recorded: 11/1/2012

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Back Seat Book Club – Book Two: Fight Club

Author:  Chuck Palahniuk

Publication Date:  8/17/1996

W. W. Norton

Plot summary –The main character/narrator is the protagonist, a jet-lagged automotive product recall specialist who struggles with insomnia.  He finds a measure of relief by attending several support groups for seriously ill people.  In one of the groups he meets Marla Singer, a woman who attends these support groups for similar reasons, but she is a reminder that he is a fake in these groups.  Soon after, the narrator meets the mysterious Tyler Durden.  After a consensual fist-fight in the parking lot of a bar, they move in together and soon begin an underground fighting club.  This blossoms into anti-consumerist ideas and a second underground group, this one more violent/destructive at its core.  When the narrator sets out to find Tyler, who seems to have gone missing, he is confronted with the reality that there is no Tyler Durden… that Tyler is a personality created during his periods of insomnia.

Quick thoughts –

  • Some of the hosts might not be terribly enthusiastic about this one.
  • Chapter 6 was the original short story… worth reading.
  • Scott wants to compare it to The Stranger (Camus) or anything by Sartre, but it can’t be done.
  • It’s a cult of personality, especially when recruiting for Project Mayhem.
  • If you’re watching the movie… don’t eat brownie mix, or anything, during the liposuction scene.  You’re welcome.
  • Things start to come alive when the narrator begins to realize who Tyler Durden is.
  • Forced edgy, forced clever, but it doesn’t quite work on paper.  The transfer to film worked better.
  • Scott’s scary tales of insomnia.
  • There is a lack of a cohesive world; everything revolves around the narrator, but there were some bright spots of descriptive visualization.
  • Marla Singer – real person or another personality?
  • We make A LOT of comparisons to the film… get used to it.
  • The main character is deeply flawed, but not “deep.”
  • A satire of anti-consumerism?
  • Space monkeys.
  • Soap, as your buried heroes and washing society clean.  Also it’s feeding them their own kids.
  • Working class people taught that they’ll have a level of success, but they learn that it’s just not true.
  • When the narrator is flying around the country looking for himself/Tyler, he’s put up obstacles that keep him from finding what/who he is looking for but there isn’t much sympathy for the narrator.
  • The themes ring true, but the characters do not.
  • It’s an anarchist movement with a surprisingly large number of rules.
  • The parts of the story that are meant to be edgy, come off more as self-consciously edgy or childish.
  • Comments on Fight Clubs started up after the book/movie.
  • Who is this book really meant for?
  • Brief discussion on how the movie ending deviates from the book ending.
  • This is our final stand against consumerism.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you’re proud of will end up as trash. – Fight Club

 

Your hosts for this episode:

  • Lena
  • Scott
  • Paul

This episode was recorded 9/27/2012

 

 

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