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...course, another movie that fanboys were panting about at Comic-Con was last summer's Snakes on a Plane, which New Line Cinema pumped to the Web audience but declined to screen for mainstream critics. "We thought it was a stupid title, but we wanted to see it," says Garabedian. "There was swearing, snakes biting into breasts." But the fanboys are outsiders for a reason: the rest of America doesn't always share their taste. And the poor performance of Grindhouse, the double feature from two fanboy deities, directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, shows that fanboy love...
...name (it's Shy-yuh La-Buff) because it looks as if he's going to be around for a while. The son of a mime and a ballerina, he first got noticed as the star of the Disney Channel's Even Stevens and the big-screen adaptation of the teen-lit hit Holes. But he's growing up; he had a nude LSD-trip scene in Bobby, and his new thriller, Disturbia, just beat Halle Berry and Bruce Willis' Perfect Stranger at the box office...
...popped up on the campus police radar screen on Nov. 27, 2005, when a female student reported that Cho had made annoying contact with her through the phone and in person. While she declined to press charges, another student soon complained of his instant messages. After police investigated, an acquaintance alerted them that Cho might be suicidal. When police returned and questioned him further, they asked that he agree to see a counselor...
Implicit in Bart's argument is that a popular film is a good film, and vice versa. If critics can't validate that tautology, we're useless. That's why studios screen fewer and fewer of their films early, and if they do, they invite everyone but critics. Until the fall, that is, when they want their prestige releases on 10 Best lists. Those citations sell tickets and tip off the awards folks. In that sense, Hollywood uses us as heralds to our own constituency. We're the fanboy brigade for Oscar films...
...Markell said the salesman ran an instant background check through the Virginia State police computer system, which also checks federal records. He added that he and his salesmen look for odd behavior. "You can't believe how much we screen people," he said. "We look to see people that are coming in to buy guns. Somebody that ducks behind a stand and starts whispering to somebody else he's with, we're not likely to deal with...