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Donald Clarke

Whingeing about cinema and real life since 2009

Box Office Figures

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Another report has detailed static takings for 3-D films. Does it mean anything?

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Scottish Nationalists don’t really rage at the new Star Trek trailer. In fact, everyone thinks it rocks.

Mama Mia! Horror films in January

This post could also have been called “the unstoppable Jessica Chastain”. Snow permitting, I will be  in London on Monday to talk to that actor about her performance in Kathryn Bigelow’s (to say the least) controversial Zero Dark Thirty. We …

The 10 most-succesful films of 2013

Oh why not? It’s Christmas Eve. What else are we going to do other than considering the 10 biggest films of next year? Well, we could talk to our family or go wassailing. I’ve never wassailed in my life. I …

Why is Skyfall the biggest film ever in Britain?

Well, firstly, it’s not. As any bore will tell you, the biggest film ever in the UK — in terms of tickets sold — is still Gone with the Wind. As a BFI chart showed recently, the likes of Avatar and …

A new Star Wars film? Ahhhh! My ears, my ears! The news BURNS!

Now, here’s something we didn’t know we needed. Surprising most industry watchers, Disney has confirmed that it has acquired Lucasfilm. After forking out over $4 billion for George Lucas’s production company, Das Maus Haus now owns the rights to the …

Can Looper save cinema?

Relax. Though we hugely enjoyed Rian Johnson’s time-travel drama, we are not suggesting the film can reverse the tides or cure cholera. If, however, the picture can be a success then it might — I said “might” — convince Hollywood …

Is Prometheus a goner?

It’s an interesting one this. The moral might be: those who live by social media shall die by social media. Much has been made of the way the folk behind Ridley Scott’s Prometheus leaked teaser trailers and brief interviews in …