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1. Madea's Family Reunion (2006) $30M $30M
2. Eight Below (2006) $15.9M $45.2M
3. The Pink Panther (2006) $11.1M $60.8M
4. Date Movie (2006) $9.13M $33.8M
5. Curious George (2006) $7.21M $43.3M
6. Firewall (2006) $6.68M $37.3M
7. Final Destination 3 (2006) $5.5M $44.9M
8. The Magic Roundabout (2005) $3.61M $3.61M
9. Running Scared (2006) $3.38M $3.38M
10. Freedomland (2006) $2.87M $10.8M

― amateurist0, Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

How the hell is "The Pink Panther" #3?

― Dan (Not Getting Into 8 Below) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

Running Scared should be #1!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard of 1, 2, 6, 7, or 9, and the only reason I've heard of 4 is because there's a poster for it above a urinal -- somewhere -- in Manhattan.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

someone told me madea's family reunion was great!

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

i mean come on

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0009A40O8.01._PE25_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

That list is enough to make one long for a new Tom Green movie.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

tracer, i see the madea posters EVERYWHERE in manhattan. weird.

i share dan's confusion about the pink panther. that trailer is so just...not funny.

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

You've got kids, you want to take a load off for a few hours, you remember seeing a cartoon as a kid, you know what you're going to see and that the kids'll be fine.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Dave Chapelle's Block Party opens Friday, though. Trouble can't last always.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

the pink panther film... it's not as though the concept of a pink panther movie starring steve martin ever held any promise that the trailer appears to betray. the whole concept just screams "failure"

― amateurist0, Thursday, 2 March 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

The original Pink Panther movies were no great shakes, either.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

I understand Final Destination 3 is the critics' choice of this group.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 March 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

i actually really loved the first fd, i mean they werent high art, but they were fabulously baroqe formalist excercises in superfun trash

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 2 March 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

snakes on a plane can't come soon enough

― latebloomer: where dignity goes to die (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

I think the Pink Panther is the trainwreck of the week, and everyone is just going to see if it's as awful as it looks.

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

This is usually a pig-ugly time of year for movies.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to see 8 Below, because I like dog sledding and I like the South Pole (NORTH POLE IS GAY THOUGH).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Curious george is actually good. Excellent traditional animation and solid direction, not the best script but not a travesty either, and it's way more appealing than lots of computer animation out there. The rest of those, I'm either what? or blech.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

what do i even have to say about this anymore

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

my brother in law gave me the Tyler Perry Collection for Christmas(stage versions all, I believe). From what I've seen I must say "Medea" the character is pretty funny and the singing is GREAT but otherwise they're pretty standard black evangelical plays(albeit slightly better written and with slightly less creepy conservatism than others I've seen), it might be ~~unwise~~ interesting to see how he tries to cram the form onto a movie, without watching that other movie of his.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

There was an interesting interview with Perry the other week in the Washington Post -- also read a good take on Perry in a blog the other day too, will try and dig up the links.

Anyway, let's here it for Dan Perry in The Pink Panther Eats Madea.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a list of the top 10 grossing movies of '06 so far, and it's even fucking scarier.

Armond White loved Final Destination 3.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

It's Oscar Week!

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

This is much less upsetting than the Wellspring announcement (have we had a thread about this, btw?)

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

What Wellspring announcement?

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=filmNews&storyID=2006-02-22T061626Z_01_N22337904_RTRIDST_0_FILM-WELLSPRING-DC.XML

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sad also because I think Unkown White Male should do pretty well, kind of a this years "Capturing The Friedmans"?

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

More here as well:
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0609,kaufman,72356,20.html

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Goodbye Dragon Inn! I forgot about that! What a neat movie.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

And according to comments from programmers on Dave Kehr's blog (here: http://davekehr.com/?p=68#comments ), it's already tough to book Wellspring prints.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

"After that, good luck trying to screen 35mm prints of key films from Hou and Rohmer, to name but two auteurs."

People booked Hou films in the first place? First I heard of it.

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

BAM screened a couple Hou just last month of the month before!

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

OR the month before.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't count NYC in my general indignation about unadventurous programming! ;P

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I think the Weinstein brothers should be kidnapped and roasted on a spit, live on the Independent Spirit Awards.

At least Rohmer is in his mid 80s; Hou has another 20-30 years of going unseen in America to look forward to.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Well then, I guess I'm just going to have to hunker down with my new copy of Desert Of The Tartars.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Which I see the Voice calls a "fascinating whatsit."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

That's about right. It's as if instead of Peckinpah they got Tarkovsky to make The Wild Bunch. It's got a great cast.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Fernando Rey, Gassman and von Sydow ... sounds like an alternate Altman cast for Quintet! (cept was Gassman in that?)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Francisco Rabal and Jean-Louis Trintignant are in it too! The only guy who's not in it is Delon, although I sometimes mistakenly imagine him there in his Leopard uniform.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

The original Pink Panther movies were no great shakes, either.

the first two are good! (especially the second)

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 3 March 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

this is like the 5th inspector clouseau/pink panther movie made without sellers!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 3 March 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

FD 3 is kind of great, actually.

The Panther remake is proving incredibly profitable.

― Ian in Brooklyn, Friday, 3 March 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, as long as Martin doesn't remake A Shot in the Dark, I'm not outraged.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 March 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

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