Welcome to the latest edition of Weekend Forecast, where new releases, junk science and arbitrary instinct collide every week to spark a mushroom cloud of box-office speculation. Today, a family franchise takes on the A-list, an Oscar contender comes out swinging, and the art house goes a little crazy.
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Weekend Forecast: Lions and Fighters and Tourists, Oh My
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Also in this Friday edition of The Broadsheet: Miley Cyrus gets filmed doing something naughty on her 18th birthday… Jim Morrison finally gets pardoned… How Do You Know cost entirely too much money… and more ahead.
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The Parents Television Council Says Blue Valentine Ruined Movie Ratings, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today
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Also in this Friday edition of The Broadsheet: Miley Cyrus gets filmed doing something naughty on her 18th birthday… Jim Morrison finally gets pardoned… How Do You Know cost entirely too much money… and more ahead.
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The Parents Television Council Says Blue Valentine Ruined Movie Ratings, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today
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30 Rock ‘s been infested with guest-stars in its fourth season, so it’s only right to conclude (or justify) it the with the biggest guest-star yet: that bad Will Hunting himself, Matt Damon. He appears on tonight’s finale playing a pilot who shares Liz Lemon’s cynicism and works for a fictional airline called “Airbike.” Back in season three, Liz gleefully compared then-beau Drew Baird (Jon Hamm) as looking like “a cartoon pilot.” Will the real thing help invigorate Liz’s romantic desires before she marries Wesley, the non-love of her life? Clips of Damon in action and Tina Fey’s spoiler-y commentary are after the jump.
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30 Rock’s Season Finale Preview: Matt Damon’s Flying Colors
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The latest MPAA ratings bulletin reveals that Eat Pray Love — that globetrotting, face-making paean to one woman’s post-Franco self-discovery — received an R from the associations ratings board. Unless someone spiked Julia Roberts’s dialogue with a sexually connoted F-bomb, not even the folks at Sony seem to understand how this might have happened.
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Julia Roberts and Co. Fighting Off ‘R’ Rating for Eat Pray Love
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The full lobbying force of Hollywood has landed on Capitol Hill, where legislators are hearing alllll about regulatory approval of box-office futures trading. Both major exchanges have met with approval so far, with Cantor Fitzgerald getting a green light on Tuesday. The MPAA, meanwhile, continued to rail against what a statement called “a risky online-wagering service that would be detrimental to the motion picture industry and the 2.4 million Americans whose livelihoods are based on this industry.” Do I count? I hope not; I totally plan to short-sell Robin Hood . [ THR ]
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MPAA ‘Pitching Fit’ Over Box-Office Futures
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The MPAA scored a victory last night when millions of people tuned in to CBS’s 60 Minutes. The ‘investigative’ news magazine ran a propaganda piece on movie piracy yesterday, allowing the MPAA to insinuate once again that organized crime and BitTorrent go hand in hand.
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MPAA Propaganda Hits 60 Minutes
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Here's a site that collects a bunch of fascinating letters and memos, some going back to the early 40's. This is from Matt Parker to the MPAA regarding edits to the South Park movie. “We left in the scenes with Cartman's mom and the horse as per our conversation
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Letters Of Note
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