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All-Time USA Box Office

The Avengers is already in the top five for all-time domestic grosses. All-time world-wide grosses are here. Of course, the adjusted-for-inflation list is completely different.

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God Created Aliens In His Own Image

Or something like that.

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Quote Of The Day – Jon Cryer

“I respectfully disagree. I want to stand up for all the slightly effeminate dorks that are actually heterosexual. Just cause the gaydar is going off, doesn’t mean your instruments aren’t faulty. I’ve had to live with that, and that’s okay.” – Jon Cryer, responding to Pretty In Pink costar Molly Ringwald, who says that his Duckie character was gay but …

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Chinese Group Buys AMC Theatres

The nation’s second-largest theater chain has been sold to a Chinese investment group. AMC Theatres has 5,048 screens in 347 locations across the U.S. and Canada. The AMC Empire 25 in Times Square is the nation’s busiest theater. A Chinese conglomerate has announced it will buy U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings for $2.6 billion to create the world’s biggest …

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Donna Summer & Paul Jabara

We cannot properly memorialize Donna Summer without mentioning Paul Jabara, the late gay songwriter and performer who won the Academy Award for Best Original Song after his Last Dance was performed by Summer in the pitiful disco movie, Thank God It’s Friday. Jabara had a bit part in the film and his own track, Trapped In The Stairway, was included …

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Strip Tease

Source.

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Open Thread Thursday

Favorite movie lines, the national gay hobby. GO.

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Satan Is A Tom Jones Man

The American Family Association is promoting Suing The Devil, a direct-to-video “Christian thriller” starring Malcolm McDowell (as Satan!), Corbin Bernsen, and Tom Sizemore.

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TRAILER: Harmless

Christian filmmakers Onslaught Media go all Blair Witch-y in Harmless, the totally terrifying tale of a man who likes to masturbate.

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Tweet Of The Day

I ran South Florida multiplexes for AMC Theatres back in another lifetime, so this amuses me greatly.

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Batman Is Gay

“Gayness is built into Batman. I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There’s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he’s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. All these women fancy him and they all wear fetish clothes and jump around rooftops to …

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Life Imitates Art (Film)

Playing this week at the Tribeca Film Festival is Una Noche, a Cuban film about defecting to the United States. Two of the movie’s young stars were flown in from Havana to attend the premiere. Guess what they did?

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Daniel Radcliffe As Allen Ginsberg

Photos are leaking from the Manhattan set of Kill Your Darlings, a film that “draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.”

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Shirley Bassey, Nancy Sinatra, Lulu….

Rumors are flying that Adele has signed to record the next James Bond title song. And when you think about it, who else could it possibly be? Adele has told a French radio station she will have a new single out by the end of the year, but her next album will take “a good two years” to record. The …

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Bully Has Been Re-Rated PG-13

While some theaters have agreed to run the film without a rating, yesterday word came that Bully has been re-rated PG-13, a move made without cutting what some consider the film’s most crucial scene. The film studio exults via press release: This decision by the MPAA is a huge victory for the parents, educators, lawmakers, and most importantly, children, everywhere …

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TRAILER: Rock Of Ages

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Wingnut Group Denounces Bully Makers For “End Run” Around Rating System

After the MPAA gave Bully an R rating, its filmmakers decided to release the film today without a rating at all. In response, AMC Theatres announced that it would allow children under 17 to see the movie with a parental permission slip. All this has infuriated the Christian “watchdogs” of the entertainment industry, the Parents Television Council. “They’re doing an …

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TRAILER: Hellbound?

Clip description: This is the teaser trailer for “Hellbound?”, a feature-length documentary that takes an in-depth look at today’s highly contentious debate over the Christian doctrine of eternal punishment. Does hell really exist, and if so, what factors determine who ends up there? Scheduled for a limited release in September.

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Survivor + Running Man + Truman Show

Equals: The Hunger Games. Saw it last night with Dr. Jeff and I do not get the hype as I found it hard to care whether the bland Twilight-y heroine lived or not. As usual, Stanley Tucci was outstanding. Otherwise, meh.

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TRAILER: Monumental

Clip description: On Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. (local) in more than 450 major movie theaters, audiences will come together for a live, one-night only theatrical event called MONUMENTAL: IN SEARCH OF AMERICA¹S NATIONAL TREASURE, hosted by Kirk Cameron. The two-hour show will include special guests, live music, and a showing of Kirk’s new documentary film MONUMENTAL. Audiences …

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