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Cinema attendance to drop, prices to rise?

Ticket.jpgA report has arrived ahead of the annual trade show for the American cinema industry, CinemaCon, which has some rather depressing words that will no doubt affect cinema owners and audience members the world over.

It seems that 3D is “maturing” again, tickets sales are expected to drop once again and another rise in ticket cost is expected, one that will be offset by the drop in people going to the cinema. There's a message there for those in the cinema industry, and it's not about increasing prices and offering more 3D films.

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May 22, 2013

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It looks fantastic and on a rather epic scale, I do hope though that they haven't gone too big, too epic, and blown the bolt on the first film. Mind you from all accounts Zack Snyder hasn't allowed that to happen.

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Zoe Saldana, Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis, Marion Cotillard, Clive Owen, Lili Taylor, Billy Crudup, James Caan, Noah Emmerich, Matthias Schoenaerts and Griffin Dunne. All those names should have you moving on to watch this trailer.

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The film is set during the English Civil War, there's a field, a hidden treasure, an a mushroom circle. It all seems a little, well weird.

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May 17, 2013

Blanchett in Mamet’s Blackbird

CateBlanchett.jpgDavid Mamet has just cast the lead in his next film that he plans to write and direct. The film is called Blackbird, and while some of that might get your attention for a few moments it’s the plot of the film that is the most interesting part.

Sold as a modern day Hitchcock style thriller it will focus on a secret regarding the assassination of President Kennedy, one that has been kept quiet all this time and hides an amazing truth, well within the confines of the fictional story that is.

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May 16, 2013

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Yet the trailer for Riddick is really good and I like it, even if I think I should be more annoyed at the similarities to the original.

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May 15, 2013

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Now Smith is pushing the project forward and with him planning to star in it too, perhaps lead. What would be interesting is if he assembled an equally powerful and big name cast alongside him and deliver a film worthy of the connection with the original title The Wild Bunch.

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It also suggests that the rumoured director might have more time to fit the film in with his own schedule, a schedule that has just grown with writing and directing duties on a remake of Ice Station Zebra.

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