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...That is a surprise, given the escalating release patterns for event films of late. Conventional wisdom would suggest that the prequel is a cinch to open in at least a "Godzilla"-sized 3,700 theaters. Analysts were also expecting "Episode I" to become the first film to break the magical $100 million mark its first weekend. Now, says a Twentieth Century Fox source, you can expect a more modest rollout, akin to the 2,104 theaters that ran the "Star Wars" rerelease last winter. That would allow Lucas to open the film only in houses equipped with state...
Overall summer business finished 12 percent stronger than last year's, with $2.5 billion and nine films making more than $100 million: "Armageddon," "Saving Private Ryan," "Deep Impact," "Dr. Dolittle," "Godzilla," "There's Something About Mary," "Lethal Weapon 4," "The Truman Show" and "Mulan." The fall season kicks off next weekend with "Rounders," starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton, and "Simon Birch," a critically maligned adaptation of the John Irving novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany...
...Armageddon," $180 million "Deep Impact," $139 million "Dr. Dolittle," $135 million "Godzilla," $133 million "Saving Private Ryan," $126 million "The Truman Show," $123 million "Lethal Weapon 4," $121 million "Mulan," $115 million "There's Something About Mary," $92 million "The X-Files," $82 million "The Mask of Zorro," $79 million "The Horse Whisperer,"$74 million
Seem like a fuss? It is--a long-overdue fuss. About two years ago, the video-rental business began fading faster than Godzilla. Remarkably, the decline had little to do with new technologies like video on demand, long thought to be the industry's Death Star. The threats from technology persist. But it was management, not technology, that caused so much corporate pain and so many customer complaints. After all, how many times are you willing to go out for Titanic and come back with The Poseidon Adventure? Eventually you just stop going out. And that's exactly what happened...
Even old rogues like Zorro and Godzilla have been reinvented as family men this summer, the former with a long-lost daughter, the latter with a brood of babyzillas left unattended in Madison Square Garden. Lost in Space, which was released last spring, was already about a family back when it was a crummy TV show. As a crummy movie, it turns itself into a cautionary tale about bad parenting, complete with an It's a Wonderful Life-like parallel universe in which we see what becomes of latchkey kids on other planets (nothing good...