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This weekend the critics acclaimed a new action movie - a story of men and robots at war against a group of machines that could destroy part of the planet. That film was The Hurt Locker, about U.S. soldiers defusing bombs in Baghdad. It opened at just four theaters in New York City and Los Angeles and earned $144,000, for a robust screen average of $36,000. Meanwhile, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, another movie with war and robots and stuff blowing up - and which the critics roundly denounced - earned $26,000 per screen. But it invaded 4,234 screens...
Well, it didn't end it. [Laughs.] I don't know what film will be able to do that. I think maybe a better question might be, Can you still do films today dealing with race in the so-called, quote-unquote, postracial world we live in? I don't even know what that is when people say that. It would be a different movie, but I don't think that subject matter has been exhausted...
...would love to do one on Harriet Tubman. I think maybe one day a slave epic. Apart from Roots, which was on television, I don't think there's been a serious film dealing with slavery in this country. It would need alternative means of finance. It's not something that you could get made through the traditional Hollywood system...
What has been your most challenging film to make? Nachi Kamatkar PITTSBURGH...
While I hate to contradict the film that brought America “Here’s a fun fact: you made out with your sister,” I’m afraid I have to report from Rome that some Italians are not too pleased with some of the “kinky, steamy European sex” that Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s Prime Minister, may or may not have taken part...