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...fire under the devoted and even the Jackson-ambivalent. Setting a deadline "creates a sense of scarcity for a major event that you have to see," says Harry Medved, a spokesman for the movie-ticketing website Fandango.com. "That's exciting for people." A marketing exec from a rival studio acknowledges the success but sniffs, "It's that old Vegas-concert, Disney-movie hypo-o-meter trick." The exec adds, "If sales go well and there's demand, then they suddenly find a way to extend the engagement." So, yes, there may be more "It" to This Is It. (See TIME...
...franchise, made for just $1.2 million back in 2004, earned $103.1 million worldwide; and that the total gross for the first five films is a whopping $669 million on a still stingy $35 million cumulative budget. That's the kind of return on investment that encourages a studio to keep grinding 'em out. Moreover, each of the last three entries made more than half its money in foreign markets, where Saw VI isn't going up against the no-budget specter of Paranormal. So gorenography aficionados can probably plan to don their goggles and their protective butchers, aprons next October...
Here are the official studio estimates for this weekend's top 10 movies in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1. Paranormal Activity, $22 million; $62.5 million, fifth week 2. Saw VI, $14.8 million, first week 3. Where the Wild Things Are, $14.4 million; $54 million, second week 4. Law Abiding Citizen, $12.7 million; $40.3 million, second week 5. Couples Retreat, $11.1 million; $78.2 million, third week 6. Astro Boy, $7 million, first week 7. The Stepfather, $6.5 million; $20.4 million, second week 8. Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, $6.3 million, first week 9. Cloudy...
...pictures from an X-ray studio...
...even that gesture, a suicide tailored in the fashion of Chekov’s “The Seagull,” with a note bearing that play’s final lines, is inherently a performance; “It was in an Actors Studio Broadway production of ‘The Seagull,’ and it marked his first big New York success, making him the most promising young actor of the season, full of certainty and a sense of singularity, and leading to every unforeseeable contingency.” For Axler, this consummate performance, this total...