Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Paramount did manage to extract a promise from exhibitors that the number of 3-D screens would hold for two weeks. This put a serious crimp in the release of Clash of the Titans, whose opening was delayed a week, both to complete the film's reformatting in 3-D and to secure more venues that could show it in that format. Clash opens Friday on about 1,500 3-D screens and 2,000 2-Ds. Industry analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations says Clash might have been expected to earn about $100 million this weekend...
...throttle action-adventure, played unapologetically straight. Except for a daft, doom-saying prophet, who seems to have wandered into Argos from a Monty Python sketch, the movie proceeds without winks or nudges; it doesn't cue its viewers to easy laughs. As Worthington told an interviewer, "We take it serious so the audience doesn't have to take it too serious." The movie relies instead on the narrative twists and power of the old Greek myths; for, purely as tales to keep the faithful entertained, the notions of gods as jealous and deceitful as the humans they created...
...five years, Jobs has emerged from two serious health scares. His obituaries had been written, much as Apple's had been back in 1997. "Is this then the curtain dropping on your third act?" I ask. "Will you perhaps leave Apple on this high, a fitting end to your career here?" "I don't think of my life as a career," he says. "I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life...
...stint as a club nymph may have been short-lived, but it will remain unforgettable; I wasn’t asked to come back, of course, so I think I’ll leave to the professionals the serious business of getting silly...
...crept down the stairs to the basement of Harvard Square’s Unitarian Church, eager to partake in the rites of a different faith. For all the gaudy marvel and garish sparkle of the actual show, though, this audition was serious business: the hopefuls were stretching, all in regular dancing gear—with the exception of one young Adonis whose perfectly toned legs were well advertised between tiny shorts and sequined shoes...