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November 17th, 2000
Satan's Curse? Plus Holiday Movie Season Begins
A very interesting weekend at the box office (and a
pretty surprising one if I may add). Charlie's Angels
beat out what was expected to be the number one movie,
Little Nicky. "Angels" took in a very healthy 25
million, while Adam Sandler took a blow with a little over
15 million (original New Line Cinema projections had about
18 million, but it turned out to be lower). I expected the
film to have another huge Adam Sandler opening, but it
didn't. Perhaps his popularity is slowly going down? 15
million is not a bad opening at all, but for Sandler, it is
a disappointment after such hits as "The Waterboy" and "Big
Daddy".
Men Of Honor, the fact based drama came in third
to a very good debut. Red Planet had an okay opening,
and The Legend Of Bagger Vance dropped down, so far
it's made a little over 20 million.
But enough of that, today the holiday movie season
offically begins (yay!). Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch
Stole Christmas leads the lineup, however, it's been
getting pretty mixed reviews. Critics are complaing
characters are underused and it's too elaborate, and that it
lacks some "magical" feeling. Still, the BO numbers will be
huge.
Also for the kiddies is Rugrats In Paris: The
Movie, the second movie spin-off of the hit series and
sequel to Thanksgiving 1998's wildly successful hit. Also
opening is Bounce, the new romantic comedy from Don
Roos, who gave us the indie classic "The Opposite Of Sex".
The 6th Day with Arnold "I'm Too Old To Be An
Action Star" Schwarzanegger also opens today, as he does
double duty as star and producer, plus double duty on screen
as his character and clone. The film has also been getting
mixed, but I predict 20 million this weekend. That pretty
much rounds off the big releases, but Wednesday sees the
Disney sequel 102 Dalmatians and M. Night Shymalan's
follow-up to
The Sixth
Sense, Unbreakable.
That's it for today. I hope to have the Fantasia
Anthology review up over the weekend (I think it will be my
best review yet). In the mean time, check out my reviews for
South Park Volumes
5 and
6,
plus David's reviews of
Ransom,
Delta
Force (check out the KFC comparison) and
La
Femme Nikita.
That's about it everyone. Have a great weekend!
- Zach B.
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