Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” is It at the boxoffice

Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 2, 2009 under Box Office | Comments are off for this article

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Michael Jackson’s  documentary “This Is It” was king of the box office, opening to $68.5 million at the international box office and to a more modest domestic haul of $32.5 million in its first five days.  The big opening convinced the distributor Sony to announce it is extending the film’s two-week run by three weeks in North America. Overseas, the decision to extend will be made on a territory-by-territory basis.

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Gentlemen Broncos world premiere at Fantastic Fest

Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 28, 2009 under Comedy | Comments are off for this article

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Gentlemen Broncos, the latest comedy from director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) had its world premiere over the weekend at Fantastic Fest.

In the film, Benjamin (Michael Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge), is a loveable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious journey as his story first gets ripped off by the legendary fantasy novelist, Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement) and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town’s most prolific homespun filmmaker.

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