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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Then again, just because the Vatican has laid hands on Angels & Demons doesn't mean some people don't detect an unholy conspiracy. In the Christian Film and Television Commission's biweekly Movieguide, Ted Baehr wonders, "How much of the box office of Angels & Demons will end up in the Democrat campaigns? If it makes money, it could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Hanks! Fun and Games in Angels & Demons | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...That's right, Mr. Baehr: Howard and Hanks are tithing to the Democratic Party, which as everyone knows is the political arm of the satanic conspiracy. He might also have mentioned a suspicious bit of numerology: the worldwide box-office gross of The Da Vinci Code, if you subtract what the movie earned in the heathen countries of Japan and China, came to almost exactly... $666 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Hanks! Fun and Games in Angels & Demons | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...seeming solution would be to make clear to consumers exactly how much their credit cards are costing them. In fact, over the past few decades, there has been a massive push in that direction, from the Truth in Lending Act to the "Schumer Box," which gives a one-page summary of credit-card terms in a font size dictated by the Federal Government (it needs to be large enough to catch your attention). Credit-card statements that were a page long in the early 1980s now easily run to 30. That's a lot of information. And yet America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Problem with Credit Cards: The Cardholders | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...space adventure earned sage nods of commendation for the director who had modernized a middle-age franchise: J.J. Abrams, the TV-drama mogul of Alias, Lost and Fringe and a member of that ultra-exclusive club, the TIME 100. "J.J. Abrams is officially the Lazarus of movie directors," proclaimed box office stats swami Steve Mason - though Abrams' only other retooling, Mission: Impossible III, was the lowest-grossing of that action trio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: Star Trek Conquers the Universe | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

...official estimation of the top 10 finishers, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1. Star Trek, $72.5 million, first weekend; $76.5 million, four days 2. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, $27 million; $129.6 million in two weeks 3. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, $10.5 million; $30.2 million in two weeks 4. Obsessed, $6.6 million; $56.2 million in three weeks 5. 17 Again, $4.4 million; $54.2 million in four weeks 6. Next Day Air, $4 million, first weekend 7. The Soloist, $3.6 million; $23.5 million in three weeks 8. Monsters vs. Aliens, $3.4 million; $186.9 million in seven weeks 9. Earth, $2.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: Star Trek Conquers the Universe | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

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