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DE PALMA IRAQ FLICK BOMBS ("Redacted" grosses $26k in opening weekend!)
NY Post ^
| 11/25/07
| Page 6 Richard Johnson
Posted on 11/25/2007 6:31:19 AM PST by jimbo123
IT'S hard for Hollywood pacifists like Brian De Palma to capture the hearts and minds of America if Americans won't see their movies.
While the public is staying away in droves from “Rendition," “Lions for Lambs" and “In the Valley of Elah," audiences are really avoiding “Redacted," De Palma's picture about US soldiers who rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, then kill her and her family.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agitprop; boxoffice; briandepalma; cinema; film; hollyweird; hollywood; markcuban; moneypit
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To: jimbo123
War movies, whether pro or anti are NOT popular with the current generation. No surprise that this movie flopped, politics aside.
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posted on
11/27/2007 6:10:24 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: Steely Tom
People stayed away in droves.
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posted on
11/27/2007 6:10:35 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Reject the liberal troika: romney, giuliani, mccain)
To: jalisco555
Valley of Elah?
I believe Laura Ingraham was the first to refer to it as the Valley of Euhh!
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posted on
11/27/2007 6:13:25 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Reject the liberal troika: romney, giuliani, mccain)
To: jimbo123
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posted on
11/27/2007 6:14:34 PM PST
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NordP
(Such tough choices ahead, I'm now a "middle of the road" voter--somewhere between RUSH & Savage ;-))
To: Clintonfatigued
In San Fransisco, it played at the Landmark Embarcadero Cinema, which is owned by none other than Mark Cuban, and was pulled from the theater after only one week.He pulled his own flop from his own theater?
LOLOL
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11/27/2007 6:15:51 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Reject the liberal troika: romney, giuliani, mccain)
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