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The movie landed last weekend on about 2,000 3-D screens, with about the same for 2-D, and earned $43.7 million - more than enough to win the box-office race but considerably less than the opening, the same week last year, of DreamWorks' Monsters vs Aliens. The dip...
Oh, one other item: Avatar demonstrated that 3-D could bring studios gigantic bundles of cash. For ages, the rule of movie exhibition has been that customers pay the same price for a movie that cost $250 million to make (say, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) as for...
Industry Cassandras will point out that 3-D came on big in the early '50s and went away quicker. Audiences could decide that this too is a fad and tire of paying an extra four bucks to see the same movie but with goggles. Many movies are in no desperate...
The Olympian rivalry this time is between Zeus (regal, fretful Liam Neeson) and a new character, his banished brother-god Hades (a suavely sulfurous Ralph Fiennes). They engage in a tense debate - whether a god should trust the devotion of humans or manipulate their fears - and then put their theories...
The idea for the films first came about in 2007 when Marianne Ross, of Elkridge, Md., took her then 7-year-old daughter Meaghan, who has autism, to see Hairspray. Ross purposely picked an early matinee, when there would be fewer people. "Meaghan loves Zac Efron, so when he came...