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Poor returns at the box office--coupled with high movie costs and publicity that fails to woo $8-ticket buyers from Sony Harvard Square--may limit the Science Center's future as a student movie house...
Poor returns at the box office--coupled with high movie costs and publicity that fails to woo $8-ticket buyers from Sony Harvard Square--may limit the Science Center's future as student movie house...
Network chiefs, having watched their prime-time audience share erode from 91% for the big-three networks 20 years ago to 60% shared by six of them today, seem too paralyzed to make real changes. "Networks are locked in a box like the rest of corporate America," says Norman Lear, who created All in the Family. "In TV terms that translates into 'Gimme an instant hit' at the expense of every other value, like creativity." Instead of looking beyond Burbank for people with fresh ideas, the networks return to the same talent pool over and over. As Imagine's Grazer...
What to Look For Let's do the math on this one: Will Smith + Barry Sonnenfeld + special effects-laden summer event film = blockbuster. The combination of Smith and Sonnenfeld worked box office magic the last time around when the two collaborated on Men in Black. Smith seems to have cornered the market on huge, big budget summer sci-fi flicks, with his back to back summer money makers Men in Black and Independence Day (we'll forgive him for the latter). Advance looks at the production indicate that the special effects are incredible, and the interaction between Smith and Kline...
...Buzz Well, any movie containing two incredibly gorgeous men can expect to do well in the box-office whether it's any good or not. Two hours of gazing at Brad Pitt and Jared Leto is reward enough for many young ladies. However, from the standpoint of critics, I predict mixed reviews, some praising its original and harsh social critique while others are disturbed by its perhaps unnecessarily grim and graphic depiction of the fight scenes...