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Daily Box Office: Monday, October 29, 2007
Saw IV tops Monday’s box office with $2.1 million

Friday Box Office Analysis: 10/20/07
Movie studios rolled out seven (!) new wide releases this week, and we’ll bet you haven’t even heard of half of them.

Charlie Wilson’s War
Director: Mike Nichols - Cast: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Om Puri

Tripper, The
David Arquette doesn’t just star in horror movies, he now directs them, too, starting with this slasher pic about a Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer (really) who targets hippies heading for a music festival. [Rated R]

Wendell Baker Story, The
The Wilson brothers are all over this comedy set in a retirement home, with Luke starring, writing and co-directing, Owen also starring, and Andrew co-directing. [Rated PG-13]

Jimi Hendrix: Live at Monterey (Definitive Edition) in October
News: Universal Music have announced the UK Region 0 DVD release of The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey (The Definitive Edition) on 29th October 2007. This special edition DVD features all of the existing film footage from Jimi’s incendiary June …

Just About Love? (Et Toi, T’es Sur Qui?)
Cinema Review: Lola Doillon’s debut feature examines modern attitudes towards sexuality among French youths when two 15 year old schoolgirls decide to lose their virginity before the summer holidays. Noel Megahey reviews.

Movie Review: Rendition
Combined Rating: 66% (S:66%; P:68%) - Yet another film in this early Oscar season, like The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, like Michael Clayton, Across The Universe or Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Rendition is a film with Oscar pretensions that falls just short of expectations. A grand cast of Oscar nominees and winners, compell us from beginning to end but narrative trickery and a strung together plot; let the air out of what should have been a potboiler of real emotion and suspense.

The Beef discusses the notion of THERE WILL BE BLOOD being equated to CITIZEN KANE…

‘Heartbreak Kid’ Gets Hurt, ‘Game Plan’ Tops Again

by Brandon Gray