Yes.

The flip side being that "Star Wars" will sell out every seat for the next month at that theater no matter what, whereas "Hateful Eight" would actually get some boost from the screen.

The cops really don't want a popular white figure embracing the BLM movement publicly. The more of those that do that, the more likely that white people in general might realize that the entire movement is quite reasonable and, if anything, being too humble with what they are requesting.

Killing people during war doesn't generally qualify as "murder", though arguably you could say the Basterds are guilty of actual war crimes.

That would be difficult with 70mm film prints, but also, basically no.

Which, to be fair to Disney, doesn't actually make sense, because "Star Wars" is opening one week before "Hateful Eight", not two weeks.

It's actually an old plan, just writ large. You raise a budget, and however much you can raise, you pay half of it to a star to show up for a day or two. It used to be more of an indie plan, because there were studios making (or at least releasing) low budget action stuff, but now that there are fewer of those being…

I think that Segel manages to make that formula work better than Apatow or Rogen, somehow.

The theaters don't get much revenue from the tickets, so it wouldn't be a big deal there. The distributors don't want it because it would be way too easy to game the system (it would actually be significantly easier for the theater owners to increase the revenue they get from tickets, simply by charging a higher…

"She has a real job at the beginning."

"just as his finances have been ruined (by Paulie, natch)"

The best is "Piece of the Action", where Shatner says "sabo-taj" and Spock corrects him.

He certainly has the highlight of the trailer.

It's a really really nerdy joke about Shatner; there is an outtake recording of Shatner arguing with a director of the animated show about the correct pronunciation of "sabotage" (he pronounces it wrong). Once you realize that Shatner does this, you can spot it a few times in the original show — basically, any time…

Frank Capra was the president of the Academy for most of the '30's; I can't remember if this was his last year as president or his first year not as president, but finding that out explains the "three-time Oscar winner" as well as anything.

I get the impression that it was Capra trying to expand, so it would make sense that he would be aping other directors' styles, if he didn't feel comfortable with his own for the material.

"we're curious to know is if it's clever and fun enough to be comparable to other cult horror comedies. "

"His job is to evaluate movies fairly and inform his readers about them"

No, actually, posting a rant in all caps lock makes people significantly less likely to read it, not more likely.

No, that is his best delivery, but his best line is "I don't sell my work by the yard."