Things like marketing and release schedules play a role in determining how well a movie will perform but at the end of the day, what really matters is how good the movie is.
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This close to a release date, word would have normally slipped out about whether the movie is good or bad.
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It helps that the movie is getting good reviews.
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And, of course, the people who go to the theaters buy tickets, and that's interesting, but of limited interest because the people who go next week or the third week are the people who may be an influence whether the movie is good or bad.
The acting is good for a horror movie, as well, and helps propel the story.
The best quality of good movie posters is that they truly understand the movies they represent.
Witherspoon, who is in Atlanta to make a movie titled "The Good Lie, " is charged with interfering with Pyland's arrest of her husband, Hollywood agent James Toth, on a drunken driving charge.
The film hits theaters September 24th and so far it is getting good reviews. (The movie screened earlier this year at the Cannes film festival.) With only ten reviews in the movie has a 90% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
It's a Wonderful Life ranks third on the list and is the only movie with a cheerful view of business in which the good guys win.
The problem, however, is not that World Trade Center is an attempt to craft a feel-good movie out of a ghastly situation, it's that the result is forced, manufactured and largely, but not entirely unconvincing.
The way to succeed in a hobby loss case is to play the bad guy in the feel good sports movie.
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The movie is a sweet, chaste dream of good will, but silent movies were not about good will and restraint.
So while our total went up by 51 titles this week thanks to Paramount and others, there is still at least one good movie released exclusively on DVD this week in the way of Control (IMDB 8.0) thanks to Weinstein.
"At this point, my only fear is that the hype (around 'The Avengers') will prove to be too much, and people's expectations will rise too far for the movie to possibly meet them, no matter how good it is, " Plexico said.
But this is the time of year when studios start slowly rolling out smaller movie they hope will develop good word of mouth and grow at the box office (and then land lots of Oscar nominations).
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The movie, however, profits from his strollings, for what intrigues Ceylan is not success, or good companionship, but the chilly drift of melancholia.
It is admittedly amusing, and a bit creepy, to be the star of such a movie, seeing personal moments and good friends on screen.
The movie is done with crispness, vigor, down-home humor, and an over-all tang of good feeling, but the pushing of buttons is the work of extraordinary calculation.
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