2009-04-07T10:35:50-07:00
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Summer Movie Challenge: How Will "Angels & Demons" Open?
2009-06-07T10:45:45-07:00
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2009-04-07T10:39:09-07:00
<p><span class="bodycopynowidth largetext" style="border: 0px solid #000000; padding-right: 0px;"> <span class="bodycopynowidth largetext" style="border: 0px solid #000000; padding-right: 0px;"> <img src="http://content.mediapredict.com/images/smclogocb.jpg" alt="" hspace="4" vspace="4" align="left" /><strong> The Summer Movie Challenge is on! <a href="http://www2.mediapredict.com/submit">Play against the experts at Cinema Blend every week.</a> Predict the hits, spot the busts – and win from $500 in prizes at Fandango.com! </strong><br /> <img src="http://content.mediapredict.com/images/filler.gif" alt="" /> <strong>AUDIENCES WILL BE</strong> filled-up on action after “Wolverine” and “Star Trek,” so mystery thriller “Angels and Demons” provides a nice change of pace in mid-May. Like our friends at Cinema Blend, <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/New-Angels-Demons-Trailer-Actually-Looks-Pretty-Good-11959.html">we’re surprised by the not-bad trailer</a>. (As CB notes, Ewan MacGregor in a robe has sold tickets in the past.) There’s just one nagging question: “Didn’t that ‘Da Vinci’ movie suck?” Jokes about Tom Hanks’s hair echo years later, and we’re still baffled by that nail-biting conclusion with Hanks kneeling in the Louvre, <em>doing nothing</em>. More important, “The Da Vinci Code” drew rabid book fans from around the world, and Dan Brown’s “Angels & Demons” hasn’t sold nearly as many copies. It’s no unholy mess along the lines of “Speed Racer” – but we expect “A&D” to open to around half of the $77 million earned by its predecessor. <em>4/5/09</em>.<br /> </span></span> <img src="http://content.mediapredict.com/images/filler.gif" alt="" /> <span class="bodycopynowidth largetext" style="border: 0px solid #000000; padding-right: 0px;"> <strong>THE MARKET: </strong> “Angels & Demons” goes into wide release on Friday, May 15, 2009. How much will it gross in its opening weekend as first reported by <em>Variety</em> on May 17? Each dollar of the share price represents millions of dollars in sales. Shares bought at $45, for example, would be worth $78 if the movie grosses $78 million. Trading closes on May 15 at 9 a.m. ET. <br /> <img src="http://content.mediapredict.com/images/filler.gif" alt="" /> <strong>RESEARCH: </strong> <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/features/Search-327.html?cx=partner-pub-5195028014239031%3A70nxiofovo1&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=angels+and+demons&sa=Search#1392" target="_blank">News at Cinema Blend</a> :: <a href="http://www.angelsanddemons.com/" target="_blank"> Trailer and Home Page </a>:: <a href=" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808151/" target="_blank">IMDb Page</a> <br /></span></p>
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Angels & Demons Debut
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2009-05-18T07:27:41-07:00
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