But if a property is beloved enough, people will go to the movie despite the fact that they know where this is going.
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"We are asking people not to go to the movie and hope to bring a consciousness to people about using derogatory words about this population, " said Peter Wheeler, a spokesman for the Special Olympics, according to Reuters.
Bonnie Kate Pourciau, 18, said she is "not a huge Batman fan, really, " but decided to go to the movie after she and her friend Elizabeth Sumrall stopped at a hotel in Aurora en route from Seattle to their homes in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Best Picture and Best Director usually go to the same movie, but it is possible the Academy could split them between crowd-pleaser, "Slumdog" and "Benjamin Button" this year.
TiVo owners used to have to get up to go to the computer to get a movie for the TV.
The current owner of Lennon's childhood home is to get half the profits, some will be donated to the nearby Strawberry Fields children's home immortalized in the Beatles song, and the rest will go to cover movie costs.
Selby got into the movie business last year when he formed Horsethief Pictures with filmmakers Tiller Russell and Duncan Montgomery. (Clarium is not an investor in the company.) Unlike many rich people who get into the movie business to go to premieres and meet stars, Selby got into the biz because he saw a technological hole he thought he could fill.
Based on their logic, "the government is funding the movie industry every time AFSCME members go out to the movies, " he said.
"The willingness to go over the top to do something strange or odd is so welcome in a big budget movie, " Mr Buchanan says.
But for now this debut is unlikely to see a cinema release and will go straight to iTunes as Madonna believes the low-budget movie will be a bigger hit as an Internet download.
The sentimental strain is both unconvincing and ungrounded, but in the all-too-rare moments when Murphy, who invests with psychodrama the role of a misfit learning manners, lets himself go the movie comes brilliantly to life.
There is a sequence in the film where the six go on a location scout in Tehran to create the impression they are movie people.
This is where the movie starts to go wrong, but I don't want to make it seem like it falls apart completely.
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Once you've got your movie ready to go, the app allows you to share it on Facebook or YouTube with just a few taps or save the file locally.
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But after the opening sequence, which is edited to the hip-hop rhythm of a number by the female rappers Nikki D and Cee Asia, the movie starts to go wrong.
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This is a computer-generated movie that fails to go the whole nine yards.
Not many people my age send an email to ask friends to hit the town, or go see a movie.
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The legislation thrust Colorado into the national spotlight as a potential test of how far the country might be willing to go with new gun restrictions after the horror of mass killings at an Aurora movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school.
"This gentleman was just about to go out as a single if you want to play some golf, " Tom said to the movie star, not knowing I was a devoted fan of the seminal blaxploitation series.
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NFC-enabled devices like smartphones will allow people to go to a restaurant or movie, access their ATM, lend money to a friend, ride the train, unlock doors, and thousands of other tasks with one device.
He has played in at least 195 films since 1967, according to the Internet Movie Database, and starred in every genre from happy-go-lucky comedies to tragedies.
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While this places a burden on theatres that still use 35 mm film for cinematic display and may force them to either go out of business or make the transition to digital projectors, it also puts pressure on some movie producers who still favor the use of traditional film in movie production.
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These uncomfortable realities are perfectly illustrated in the newly released movie Compliance , which tells the chilling story of just how far ordinary people will go to obey a figure of authority.
"Innocent events -- anyone could go to a movie, but we wouldn't get the message that this was for us, " Resnick said.
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It would be nice if people like the films I make, and hopefully they have a real life span, but once I am done with a movie, my energy needs to go into the next thing.
' That'll mean the movie audience will be smaller 'cause people could buy it on DVD, but there are still people, millions of people, who prefer to go to a movie theater on a Friday night, but the interesting thing for the audience will be now they'll be aiming for a much more adult population 'cause that's who buys the DVDs.
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Movie gift certificates for people who like to go the movies.
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