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"PLAYING" FOR SCRAPS

Thanksgiving leftovers are Hollywood's traditional meal of choice when serving up the multiplex masses in the weeks that follow the turkey holiday. It's really a mini-vacation for studios as they ramp up for the big cinematic crescendo that is one of the most lucrative weeks of the year--Christmas through New Year's.


"SOFTLY" INTO THE NIGHT

Shall we twiddle our thumbs until “The Hobbit?” Well, we have no choice really, as the major studios are on a two-week paid holiday. With such multiplex momentum built up, it’s questionable at best that after the Thanksgiving feast, there is always a film famine. But, such is the case at the box...


"TWILIGHT" TAKES ON TURKEY TRIO

With discount shopping and mall madness taking precedence over movies this Friday—or Black Friday as it’s known here in the states—and Thanksgiving on Thursday, that means audiences get a special holiday treat a couple days early as three new wide releases are dished up in multiplexes on...


"TWILIGHT" HANGS BRIGHTLY

Despite what you may have heard, Abraham Lincoln is no vampire hunter. After an impressive polling in limited run last weekend, Spielberg’s “Lincoln” bio-pic expands into wide release, but will be no match for what is unquestionably the most rabidly anticipated film of the holiday...


"SKYFALL" SET TO SOAR

Bond, James “Box Office” Bond. Don’t you dare cross him…end of story. How else do you explain the fact that no other studio even challenged 007 this weekend? As the only new flick in wide...