Looks like ‘Pineapple Express’ and ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2′ both opened well on Wednesday.  Pineapple made about $10 million and The Sisterhood traveled to about $5.5 million.  Both films beat out the current leader ‘The Dark Knight’ which pulled in about $5 million.  Looks like we’ll have a changing of the guards [...]

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Ah, summer. A season of overblown budgets and extravagant productions. For movie goers everywhere, this three and a half month stretch is what they have waited for all year. So as always, the prediction for this summer is: Hollywood makes oodles of money. Over these next few months, this column will be examining the phenomena [...]

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Judd Apatow’s name has become a comedy brand of sorts over the last few years, with mixed results. His directorial efforts have, however, all been very strong and huge box office draws. Since both of these flicks, however, Apatow has produced two misfires: Walk Hard (which is becoming a cult movie as we speak) and [...]

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