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ENTERTAINMENT / THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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COOL THING
Blaise Marcoux
ORANGES
MOVIES
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Theaters spurn best picture winner
LOS ANGELES — Even a best picture Oscar isn't enough to get theaters excited about playing a movie already on DVD.
On Monday, the day after their movie "The Hurt Locker" won top prizes at the Academy Awards, Summit Entertainment chief executive Rob Friedman and his team worked the phones trying to expand the Iraq war drama's run beyond the 283 theaters where it played last weekend. The independent studio was hoping to capitalize on its victories, which also included the director prize for Kathryn Bigelow, and enhance the picture's paltry $14.7 million domestic box office total.
But most of the nation's major exhibition chains refused to give Summit more screens, citing a policy of not showing films that are already available to watch at home.
Two of the three biggest, AMC Entertainment and Cinemark, agreed to play the movie at just a handful of theaters, according to a knowledgeable person. However, Regal Entertainment, the biggest theater circuit in the U.S., won't show the film at all, the person said.
Regal did not immediately respond for comment.
Because exhibitors want to discourage studios from releasing films on DVD before they finish playing in theaters, they generally refuse to re-book a movie after it is available in home entertainment formats. They do occasionally bend that rule, however. For example, Warner Bros. has re-released 2004's "The Polar Express" several times during the holiday season, as has Walt Disney Studios each Halloween with "The Nightmare Before Christmas."
In total, Summit was only able to book 35 new theaters for "The Hurt
Locker" in the U.S. this Friday, bringing its total to 318. Most are independent theaters or part of small chains.
After coming out on DVD Jan. 12, "The Hurt Locker" has continued to play at just a few hundred theaters, some of which don't typically play first-run films.
"The Hurt Locker" has performed well in the home entertainment market. Through Saturday, Summit sold 780,000 DVDs and electronic downloads. In addition, the movie has been rented 5.4 million times by consumers. That's a relatively high number for a movie that has grossed less than $15 million.
The last Oscar best picture winner that was already on DVD was "Crash," which took the prize in 2006. Lionsgate was only able to book the movie in about 200 theaters after it won. Over four weeks it generated $1.2 million in additional box-office receipts.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 5
Any activity involving your partner or friend is successful now. Imagine what each person needs. Cook up special treats to suit each palate.
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 8
Don't you love it when a plan comes together? Today is the day. You gain independence while attaining the respect of your peers.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 5
A female friend has her finger on the pulse of today's activities.
Love will be a key component.
Call home to make plans for a weekend day.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is a 5
Careful financial planning leaves
you positioned to obtain your
heart's desire. Independence is
just part of the package.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 5
Let everything roll along at its own pace. Applying pressure will only irritate folks and won't help get things done.
Today's a B
Guys are on one side and girls on the other. Either you get to do the Virginia Reel, or you have a problem. Ask everyone to meet in the middle.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a B
Push creativity to the limits today. Use inspiration from romantic tales, but don't forget simple logic.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 6
You've worked to bring everything into balance. A female leader appreciates your private efforts to keep things on track.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 5
As you develop travel plans,
maintain a balance between
education and entertainment.
Include time in the sun.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 5
Whatever you have going, keep it in motion with the least pressure possible. That way, you keep the enthusiasm alive.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Today is a 5
Dip into your bag of magic business tricks. You need more than logic to overcome the competition. The packaging matters.
Today is 7
When you follow your intuition, you can perform magic at work and in private situations. Use visual images and choose your words carefully.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 7
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55 Gull's cousin
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MOVIES
When Lewis Carroll popped Alice down the rabbit hole in 1865, he had no way of knowing that the girl in the pinafore dress — along with the creatures that populate "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its 1872 sequel "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" — would become a fixture on our pop culture landscape.
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'Alice' story continues to dazzle
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The phenomenon encompasses more than the 100-plus versions of the book — the most recent of which, published last month, pairs Carroll's text with illustrations by Camille Rose Garcia and recently hit the Los Angeles Times and New York Times bestseller lists. It's something beyond the more than two dozen feature film incarnations, ranging from a star-studded 1933 version — in which Cary Grant played the Mock Turtle, W.C. Fields was Humpty Dumpty and Gary Cooper the White Knight — to the Tim Burton take that opened Friday.
And it's greater than the nearly dozen TV versions (the most recent a Syfy miniseries that
When you start adding in the broader popular culture influences that can be found everywhere from music (Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," the Beatles "I Am the Walrus"), to elementary school drug-education (a 1972 program funded by the National Institute of Mental Health portrayed the Hatter as an acid head, the Dormouse on downers and the March Hare as a speed freak), things get curiouser and curiouser indeed.
included Kathy Bates as the evil Queen of Hearts who happens to run an emotion-empty casino and Harry Dean Stanton as a shadowy operative code-named "the Caterpillar").
What is it about Alice and her friends, conjured by mathematician, logician and author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll was his pen name) that has kept them in our hearts and our frontal lobes for nearly a century and a half? And how can it be that 145 years later, this tale continues to spawn not only books and movies but a flurry of merchandise that seems to be raining down on us like an exploding pack of playing cards, tea party trinkets, Wonderland-worthy jewelry and every manner of Carrollian-themed cosmetics, cocktails and clothing?
Whatever it is, the latest movie grossed more than $116 million domestically last weekend.