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I don't love Noah's writing, but his Summer Movie Preview is pretty complete, if nothing else. I find myself looking forward to Iron Man, Speed Racer, Indiana Jones, Get Smart (why open this on the same day as another huge comedy, The Love Guru?), Wall-E, Wanted, Hancock (could be Will Smith's first misfire in some time), The Dark Knight, Step Brothers, The X-Files sequel, Choke, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, The International, Towelhead, Hamlet 2, and finally, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (no, not really). - David Poland handicaps and predicts the box office of the summer hits. If Hancock hits $250 million, I'll be stunned. Also, I think he's underestimating the geek quotient on Wanted. I mean, if 300 can hit a massive opening weekend, then don't you think Wanted will gross more than $62 million all up? Finally, if Sex and the City only makes $60 million, someone's getting fired at New Line Cinema. Oh, wait - nevermind. See David's full box office chart here.
- Dilbert author Scott Adams hated No Country for Old Men and proposes a new system for reviewing movies.
- The first full-length movie has been launched on YouTube, and the creators have an interesting business model behind it. And by interesting, I mean "no way in hell will this work."
- David Poland again, talking about the Juno Blu-ray DVD. It comes with a "bonus digital copy" that you can put on your iPod, PC, etc, etc. This is brilliant, and I'd love to see every DVD come with this. I mean, if I buy the DVD, and I want to put it on a different platform - can the studios save me some frustration and do the extra work for me? I don't want to go find special ripping software, potentially breaking several laws... I want to put 17 Curious George episodes on my laptop or iPod for the airplane trip with my kids, but there's no convenient way to do this today.
