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So where do they screen “Living in Oblivion,” then?

August 15, 2006 /

Baseball fans in Dyersville, Iowa got a treat last weekend when Kevin Costner showed up at the legendary “Field of Dreams” cornfield ball park to throw a few pitches to the kids and play a 75-minute set with his band (Kevin Costner has a band?).

The appearance was part of online video rental service Netflix’s “Rolling Roadshow” summer promotion, which features public screenings of classic films in thematically appropriate locations. Other stops on the 10-site tour have included screenings of “Jaws” in Martha’s Vineyard, “The Warriors” in New York City, and “The Shining” in Estes Park, Colorado.

Not yet added to the itinerary: A screening of “Deliverance” in a backwoods shack down by the river.

Actors, Movies, News

Box Office Roundup: You’ve got a fast car…

August 13, 2006 /

Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:

1) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: $23 million ($91.2 million, second week)
Will Ferrell gets to reign one last week before the Greatest Movie Ever Made (that would be “Snakes on a Plane,” for the unwise) hits the theaters and shakes us to our very foundation.
2) Step Up: $21.1 million (first week)
They lost us once we realized this wasn’t a movie about the Stereo MC’s.
3) World Trade Center: $19 million ($26.8 million, first week)
Too soon? No, try too boring.
4) Barnyard: The Original Party Animals: $10.1 million ($34.1 million million, second week)
We refuse to dignify this movie with a clever one-liner about it. It’s just not worth the trouble.
5) Pulse: $8.5 million (first week)
Scout’s honor, we didn’t even know this movie was released this weekend.

Movies, News

Thank God for the MTV Video Music Awards

August 11, 2006 /

If it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t even realize that MTV still showed videos.

Okay, sorry, I always feel obliged to take a shot at the decidedly non-music-oriented programming of the network. Now that that’s out of the way, just in case you were losing sleep over the fact that the Video Music Awards are only three weeks away and MTV still hasn’t announced who’s going to be hosting the festivities, prepare to have your insomnia cured.

If you can’t be bothered to click on the above link, I’ll satisfy your curiosity. The host will be…this man:

Oh, no, wait, I’m sorry, that’s just my opinion of the Awards for the last decade or so…

External Entertainment, External TV, News, TV

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