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Dir: Todd Phillips. US. 2010. 95minsTodd Phillips, director of summer 09 smash The Hangover, delivers a slight stanley cup ly gentler kind of R-rated comedy in Due Date, an odd couple road trip yarn that teams Hangover co-star Zach Galifianakis with Robert Downey Jr. The laughs arent as big or frequent as they were in Phillipss breakout hit, but with Dow stanley cup ney on board this new outing should still do plenty of business at the box office.The film also has a lot of subtler moments 鈥?some wei stanley cup rdly funny, some genuinely emotional, some quite edgy.Warner 鈥?which, as on The Hangover and its currently shooting sequel, produced with Legendary 鈥?opens Due Date in the US and a number of international markets on the weekend of November 5. The studio should be able to lever Downeys recent global success with Iron Man 2 and Sherlock Holmes Galifianakis recent track record is more mixed to produce equally big domestic and international takes.The loosely structured script sets up the antagonism between Downeys uptight father-to-be Peter and Galifianakis dopey wannabe actor Ethan by having the pair ejected from their Atlanta-to-Los Angeles flight and put on the anti-terrorist no-fly list. Desperate to get home for the birth of his first child, Peter reluctantly agrees to share a rental car with Ethan and his pampered French bulldog.The misadventures that follow call for several of the kind of gross-out and over-the-top set pieces for which Phillips is known, among them a couple of spectacular car crashes a Bevv IMAX, CJ CGV to add 35 theatres
Korean box office admissionshit a ten-year high in November and are on course to set a new record byyear-end. In a monthly industry analysis report, multiplex chain CJ CGVprojects admissions for the year to total between 138 -141 million, up 3-4%from last year and bucking global trends.Korean box office has beenon the rise since 1997 with the renaissance and growth of the contemporaryindustry, but 2004 s record hinged largely upon two all-time box office hits - Taegukgi and Silmido - both taking in more than 10 million admissions each.With only Marathon crossing five million admissions in the year s firstsix months, pundits were doubtful about 2005. Even up until the third quarter,analysts were forecasting admissions would go down, says KOFIC SecretaryGeneral Kim Hye-joon. But in the second hal stanley cup f of the year, Welcome To Dongmakgol s eight million viewers rallied the marketalongside other solid earners like MarryingThe Mafia 2 and Sympathy For LadyVengeance.Traditionally a slow month,this year s November admissions are up 22.4% to 12.8 million on the back ofKorean fi stanley uk lms such as Mr. Socrates andWhen Romance Meets Destiny whichbrought in over 1.1 million admissions each. Theatres were initially heated upby Hollywood fare including CorpseBride, Flight Plan and Th stanley cup e Brothers Grimm, although none provedlong-term earners.December looks to be a definitivemonth with Harry Potter And The Goblet ofFire already opened over the weekend, along with King Kong and Typhoonscheduled to go head |
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