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Weekend Box Office Report: 'Taken 2′ Keeps the Box Office in a Chokehold

Jacob Hall — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:32:32 +0000

'Taken 2' may have held onto the top spot at the box office, but that doesn't mean there weren't other winners this weekend. Actually, most of the new releases opened well and the overall top ten is significantly stronger than it was last week. With a few exceptions, it was a good showing for all involved.

'Seven Psychopaths' Review

Matt Singer — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:26:59 +0000

Matt had just typed out the title of his 'Seven Psychopaths' review, his byline, and the rating (seven -- no, make that eight --out of ten?) when his wife Melissa walked into the room.

"How was the movie?" she asked as she flopped down on the couch and flipped on the television.

"Good. Really good," Matt replied. "Interesting."

"Interesting? Why interesting?" Melissa said. She started flipping channels.

"It's about a writer who writes himself into his work. Colin Farrell plays this struggling screenwriter named Martin -- and the movie was written and directed by this guy, Martin McDonagh, who wrote that play we saw on Broadway with Christopher Walken in it."

"Right. That was weird."

"It was," he said, nodding. "Weird but good. So, anyway, Colin Farrell plays this writer named Martin. He's come up with a title he really likes for a screenplay -- 'Seven Psychopaths.' But that's all he has, the title. He doesn't even have the seven psychopaths. But then these people in his life -- or perhaps these characters he's invented -- are all revealed to be psychopaths, and he gets caught in the middle of this elaborate gangster-slash-revenge comedy with them involving a kidnapped dog."

Melissa yawned again. "A writer writing himself into his work? That sounds like a terrible idea."

'Seven Psychopaths' Creates a Fake NSFW PSA

Damon Houx — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:30:22 +0000

Oh guerrilla marketing. 'Seven Psychopaths' was an audience favorite at Toronto's International Film Festival, and director Martin McDonagh is highly respected, but it takes a lot for a quirky film to find an audience these days. And so the film has now produced some snarky in-character material to help sell the film.