Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and The Hangover Part II are the latest UltraViolet releases.
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"The Hangover Part III" didn't prove as powerful a rival as the movie's backers at Time Warner Inc.
As for the money, well The Hangover Part III is slated for 2013.
"The Hangover Part III" also performed well overseas, opening better than the second in the series in countries including Germany, Russia and Brazil.
Kudos to Mr. Phillips for defending his maligned would-be masterpiece rather than patronizingly assuring fans that The Hangover part III will be so much better this time around.
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Coming off relatively successful prior installments, both The Hangover part III and Fast and Furious 6 could arguably be expected to secure two of the bigger opening weekends of the summer 2013 season.
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So if you look at the ratings on there right now, you can see that lots of critics like X-Men: First Class (87) but not many enjoyed The Hangover Part II (35).
Saturday matinees were surprisingly strong, said Mr. Moore, giving the studio hope it can draw families with older children next weekend when two new male-skewing films, "Fast and Furious 6" and "The Hangover Part III" open.
While there are many more big movies coming soon, including "Star Trek: Into Darkness" next week and both "Fast and Furious Six" and "The Hangover Part III" the week after, those movies will primarily target men.
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But it will face several formidable competitors in the next few weeks, including "The Great Gatsby, " starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and sequels "Star Trek: Into Darkness, " "Fast and Furious Six" and "The Hangover Part III, " all of which are generating healthy amounts of prerelease interest.
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And if critics and (to a lesser extent) audiences felt that The Hangover part II was basically a warmed-over remake of The Hangover, the promise of both a very different kind of plot and a definitive finale of this particular trilogy arguably compensates for most of the burn out from part II.
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The movie plainly suggests that controlling language is part of the authoritarian hangover of a former police state.
In part, it's still the hangover from last summer's storms, but it's also caused by the process of changing over to gasoline that is less polluting in the warm weather, and that procedure is more disruptive this year because distributors are switching from the old chemical called NTBE, which has been found to pollute ground water, to ethanol.
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