See chart here.
It's a little surprising to see Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS opening at $38 million. Yes it's one of only two new movies in the top ten, but after DEATH PROOF you'd think people are through with the big QT. The other new movie? SHORTS, from Tarantino's partner in Grind House crime Robert Rodriguez. Which only made $6 million. It's family entertainment! What the hell is wrong with the world?
(Note to self - THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE is out already? I'm getting out to see this. Ever since I read the novel I've been wondering how much they'd have to cut out to simplify it to movie size).
-daniel k
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Entry #1
This is the first entry of Show Biz Weekly, the transplanted version of Box Office Weekly, the long-running showbiz news podcast formerly on The Podcast Network.
In this forum, you can expect though-provoking articles on movies, show business (that is, the extremely weird business of making entertainment), television, and what have you.
The original was started in early 2006 by Dan K., who is something of a blogging powerhouse: He runs Keepin' It Real, Yo (http://keepinitrealyo.blogspot.com/), where he hones his left-coast political sensibilities in various verbal cage matches against ultra-right bloggers in his weight class. I was invited to guest-write for Box Office Weekly the next summer, and a fruitful collaboration was hatched.
Box Office Weekly was quite successful: It was well-read and popular, came up near the top of search engine lists, and was syndicated with regularity. (It's awesome to tell people my articles were carried by Reuters and USA Today.) But the blog articles were more popular than the podcasts, and we were camped on a podcasting network. Sort of a poor fit. This Google deal removes the onerous requirement of recording a weekly radio show, which leaves more room for pithy articles.
More fun to come-- Stay tuned!
--Skot C.
In this forum, you can expect though-provoking articles on movies, show business (that is, the extremely weird business of making entertainment), television, and what have you.
The original was started in early 2006 by Dan K., who is something of a blogging powerhouse: He runs Keepin' It Real, Yo (http://keepinitrealyo.blogspot.com/), where he hones his left-coast political sensibilities in various verbal cage matches against ultra-right bloggers in his weight class. I was invited to guest-write for Box Office Weekly the next summer, and a fruitful collaboration was hatched.
Box Office Weekly was quite successful: It was well-read and popular, came up near the top of search engine lists, and was syndicated with regularity. (It's awesome to tell people my articles were carried by Reuters and USA Today.) But the blog articles were more popular than the podcasts, and we were camped on a podcasting network. Sort of a poor fit. This Google deal removes the onerous requirement of recording a weekly radio show, which leaves more room for pithy articles.
More fun to come-- Stay tuned!
--Skot C.
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