As predicted, The Dark Knight Rises continued to hold audiences in its grip this weekend, easily defeating a duo of new releases including The Watch and Step Up Revolution. Although both debuts opened to unimpressive numbers, The Watch was the biggest loser of the two. The star-studded sci-fi comedy, which finds a group of suburban middle-aged men having to fend off an alien invasion, grossed a disappointing $13 million, a result that almost guarantees that the film will not recover its $68 million production budget. Although raunchy R-rated comedies had a tough season this summer, The Watch’s trio …
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EDITORIAL: “The Watch: How Marketing Doomed The Sci-Fi Comedy’s Chances at the Box Office”
July 30th, 2012 
Boris Paskhaver 
Posted in Editorials, Features, Movies, News 
Tags: Ben Stiller, box office bomb, jonah hill, R-rated, Richard Ayoade, seth rogen, the dark knight rises, The Watch, Vince Vaughn 
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Are you ready for Pitchfork.com: The Movie?
June 9th, 2011 James Shotwell No, this is not a joke or a test of your hipster-centric humor, a film based around popular indie music website Pitchfork is coming to a theater near year. Writer-director brothers Mark and Jay Duplass are behind the film, which is cleverly titled Pitchfork and rumored to be starring Jonah Hill (Superbad, Get Him To The Greek), but no studio has been announced. Look below for a plot summary of the film and stay tuned for more details as this project moves forward.
“a dramatic thriller about the middle-aged mother of an indie rocker who, after her
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