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In this morning’s roundup of movie news ‘n’ notes from around the web, Wall Street shrugs off “How to Train Your Dragon” as the film succumbs to one of the old movie-biz verities.
















Topping the boxoffice does not always impress Wall Street – that, according to Richard Verrier, is one of the lessons of the $43.3 million opening for “How to Train Your Dragon,” which easily landed in the Number One spot but fell well short of the $59.3 opening of DreamWorks’ “Monsters vs. Aliens” last year. In the wake of the “Dragon” opening, DreamWorks stock actually fell almost 10 percent in Monday morning trading. One analyst says he’s concerned about the competition from this week’s opening of “Clash of the Titans,” and the subsequent erosion of those profitable 3D screens. (Company Town)

On the other hand, Barron’s suggests that this might be a fine time to pick up some DreamWorks stock: the good buzz suggests that “Dragon” might yet have a long run, and the fourth “Shrek” movie is due for release in less than two months. (Barrons, The Fly on the Wall)

How to Train Your DragonSteven Zeitchik looks at the boxoffice grosses for “How to Train Your Dragon” and wonders why the best-reviewed animated films (say, “Dragon” or last year’s “Coraline”) don’t do as well with moviegoers as lesser efforts like “Shrek the Third” or “Bee Movie.” His revelation that the best movies don’t always make the most money (shocking!) comes as something of a no-brainer for anybody who’s looked at the boxoffice figures for any recent Best Picture winner, though he tries to make the case that animation was supposed to be different. Pixar is different, maybe; the movie business is the movie business. (24 Frames)

“What’s an indie filmmaker to do?” ponders Eugene Hernandez as he breaks down the numbers behind turning a profit in an era in which “fewer companies are paying sizeable advances to buy rights for films” and “distributors are often spending less money to market their films.” His conclusion, after attending an independent-film symposium at Columbia University and studying the case of the micro-budgeted “Breaking Upwards,” is that ingenious filmmakers can find ways to break even, particularly with the right kind of movie. One tip: if you’re making a movie that’ll be available via video-on-demand, it helps to have a genre film, or one with stars … and if you don’t, then you should make sure its title begins with one of the first letters of the alphabet, so it shows up on the VOD screen guide right away.
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Watch Let's Rig the MTV Movie Awards. Here's How! live movie on pc

This year, MTV has opened up its Movie Awards to a series of pre-nominations voted on by the public, which means that instead of simply voting from amongst five nominees, you can select from twenty or so suggestions supplied by MTV in every category in order to eventually count toward the five nominees themselves. Whichever interns were tasked with filling out the suggestions list at the last minute picked some doozies (this may be the only place where She’s Out of My League will ever get more nominations than Avatar), and in order to pay tribute to them, we at Movieline have put together this helpful guide of the dumbest MTV-supplied suggestions that you simply must vote through, en masse, until they become actual nominations.



BEST KISS
There are your expected R-Pattz smooches and a couple of hot lesbian liplocks from Jennifer’s Body and The Runaways, but for sheer WTF-is-this-doing-here-ness, we must encourage you to vote for MTV’s suggestion of Kristin Davis & Jon Favreau in Couples Retreat. Huh?

BEST FIGHT
This category is stocked with worthy nominees (though nothing from Zombieland?), and then there’s Zac Efron vs. Thomas Lennon from 17 Again. Either vote for them, or write in the Charlotte Gainsbourg-Willem Dafoe testicle-smashing confrontation from Antichrist.

BEST VILLAIN
Sorry, Christoph Waltz. We need to give this one to the emoticon-wielding Ali Larter from Obsessed.

BEST WTF MOMENT:
This spoiler-heavy category contains two clips from Movieline’s underrated fave Land of the Lost, but we urge you to vote heavily for Johnny Depp’s humiliating, record-scratch dance from the end of Alice in Wonderland. Never forget.
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Demi Moore Schools Kim Kardashian On ‘Pimpin’ Lingo live movie on pc

The reality starlet Tweeted back, “Doesn’t everyone? LOL… Nothing wrong with dancing to Big Pimpin’ by Jay Z in the club! Having a girls night out, gotta love that song!”

However, Demi was hardly laughing out loud at Kim’s use of the word.

“No disrespect I love a girls night out but a pimp and pimping is nothing more than a slave owner!” Demi Tweeted, adding in another post, “if we want to end slavery we need to stop glorifying the “pimp” culture”



Demi apparently sensed she might have caused a spat by calling out Kim and then wrote, “Clearly I stirred up a s**t storm, but 2 create change U have 2 be willing 2 take a risk and be willing 2 provoke thought & conversation.”

Kim appeared to agree with Twitter’s lingo cop, writing back to Demi, “Good point!I agree! It was just a song not literal”

Demi ended the word skirmish on a positive note, writing, “Just so ya’ll are clear I like @KimKardashian I was just making a point about how we have used a word and desensitized the real meaning.
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How to train your dragon movie, how to train your dragon review & how to train your dragon trailer. DreamWorks' "How to Train Your Dragon" rode a wave of good reviews and 3D mania (what is this, the '50s?) to bring in a solid $ 43.3 million this weekend. Its per-screen average of $10,678 isn't too shabby either. William Castle would be so pr



We're almost in April, and only three non-3D films have held the top spot so far in 2010: "Valentine's Day," "Shutter Island," and "Dear John." However, unlike "Alice in Wonderland" (which likely kept "Dragon" from even higher numbers), at least the Dreamworks film is about more than just wacky visuals. We hear there's even something resembling a decent plot. Gasp!

"Alice" fell to second place with $17.3 million, but we can't imagine Disney is shedding too many tears. In its fourth weekend, "Alice" is closing in on a $300 million total. This would be the box office story of the year, if it weren't for that pesky little film called "Avatar," which finally missed the top ten this week for the first time since it opened back in December.

The unfortunately (yet awesomely) titled "Hot Tub Time Machine" made a mediocre showing in third with $13.6 million. It reportedly cost $36 million to make, but hopefully its low take means we won't be subjected to a '90s-set sequel, likely called something along the lines of "Dodge Neon Time Machine." We just hope it doesn't mean a drop in offers for the always hilarious Craig Robinson, who's made more than a few very bad films (*cough* "Dragon Wars") almost watchable. Fellow R-rated comedy "She's Out of My League" dropped to sixth place in its third week with $3.5 million, but it's quite impressive considering the opener shares its audience.

Also, for those that are curious since we never reviewed it properly, "Hot Tub Time Machine" was perhaps the most hilarious, poorly thrown together/shoddily conceived story we've ever seen. In other words, it has many awesome absurd laughs -- Rob Corddry steals the show at every turn -- and the story really doesn't matter one iota (its script feels like its duct-taped together at the falling-apart seems, but yes, ultimately, who cares).
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Watch Movies Features HUM TUM AUR GHOST: Arshad Warsi's Swan Song? live movie on pc

Right from the time when he made his debut with ABCL Corps first film, till ISHQIYA Arshad Warsi's career has been series of films where he has co-starred along with a famous star, and the tag of Circuit that was associated with him with success of MUNNA BHAI series, could have been the trigger for Arshad Warsi to write and produce a film himself. The product is HUM TUM AUR GHOST, where Arshad Warsi is in a mood to prove himself as an actor who can carry on the film on his own shoulders.




At the core of HUM TUM AUR GHOST is the supernatural ability of character played by Warsi, who can see dead people, and it is this ability which has been used as a prop to generate humor in the film, after all, how can there be an Arshad Warsi film without pithy and street humor. Arshad Warsi has followed his illustrious peers to become a producer, the difference however lies in the fact that Arshad Warsi has also turned as a writer. May be, now he would understand the importance of a good script and an erudite writer, and the role hat he plays in success of the film, though he goes unsung for his efforts.

CHECK OUT: Arshad & I are extremely comfortable with each other

HUM TUM AUR GHOST after a long time has Dia Mirza in a lead role and she is one of the leading ladies in the Hindi film that has been hovering at the horizon, ready to take off, but somehow not able to push into the upper league. However, HUM TUM AUR GHOST could provide her the momentum that is urgently required for her career to be pushed through.

Besides, the surprise package for HUM TUM AUR GHOST is Boman Irani as the affable ghost. Hindi cinema so far has not been kind to main stars playing the role of ghost, as it was proved from the role enacted by Amitabh Bachchan in BHOOTNATH however Arshad Warsi is confident that Boman Irani would turn the tables and emerge as a ghost who would be remembered long time after the film is gone.

HUM TUM AUR GHOST again underlines the message that if you love somebody truly, it can indeed change your life. Let's hope it changes the career trajectory of Arshad Warsi as actor, producer and writer like him are indeed a discounted commodity, and may be his success could inspire others of his ilk, to follow in his footsteps.

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I've often said, interesting ideas don't necessarily translate into enthralling celluloid experiences. That's what I realized, for the umpteenth time, as ‘Hum Tum Aur Ghost’ concluded.



Hollywood has attempted several films wherein the living has been shown interacting with the dead. In fact, two decades ago, there was a mad rush to Indianize Ghost [Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg]. The fascination with the dead continues to haunt Bollywood to this date.

Arshad Warsi - who has been credited with the story of ‘Hum Tum Aur Ghost’ - has denied that the film is inspired by Ghost Town. Yet, there're some similarities and that could be coincidental. So far, so good!

Now here's the hitch. The screenplay - the lifeline of any film - is what makes a film stand on its feet and in this case, ‘Hum Tum Aur Ghost’ suffers due to inept writing. Ideally, the writers and director should've come to the point right away, but the film takes its own sweet time to come to the point and what comes across is also not enticing, barring a couple of attention-grabbing moments. By then, the viewer has already lost interest in the film.

The sole saving grace is the performances by the principal cast. Sadly, that's not enough!

For Armaan [Arshad Warsi], life was picture perfect. He has a doting girlfriend Gehna [Dia Mirza] and also a great job. But there's a problem: Armaan hears voices. Voices that torture him. Voices that disturb him. More importantly, voices that nobody else can hear.

Gehna is irritated with his weird behaviour. Add to that her father [Javed Sheikh] constantly berates him for his fondness for the bottle. No one seems to understand his predicament. What puzzles everyone is the fact that he talks to himself... or rather, he talks to people, who no one can see, simply because they don't live.

Soon, Armaan becomes aware of his special ability to connect with the dead. Equipped with a will to fulfil the wishes of these spirits who hound him, Armaan sets out on a mission to help out three souls - a child, an old man and a young woman.

Generally, most Hindi movies come to the point at the very inception. ‘Hum Tum Aur Ghost’ also opens its cards at the very outset, but loses focus soon after. In fact, the moment you're told that Arshad can see the dead, you expect to embark on a journey you've never embarked upon earlier. But there's hardly any movement in the story after a captivating start.

No doubt, the concept is fascinating and had the writers concentrated on tackling the three stories that Arshad chooses to solve, and without wasting time on romance-n-songs, ‘Hum Tum Aur Ghost’ would've been one journey you would've never forgotten.

The build-up to the first story - a dead kid asking Arshad to help his father - is simply missing. The second story - involving Boman Irani - could've been tackled far more expertly. The entire sequence in the bank is bizarre and far from funny. In fact, you wonder, did the writers run out of ideas at this point? Of course, the sequence thereafter - between Boman and his wife [Asawari Joshi] - is touching.

The third story - of a woman in search of her son - starts off very well, but midway through this story, the moment Arshad enters his father's house, the mystery never remains a mystery. You can predict what's in store next. The culmination to the film, although well shot, doesn't make the required impact either.

Director Kabeer Kaushik was entrusted with a great idea, but his team of writers blew it up into smithereens. The impact generated by a few worthy of note sequences gets evaporated as the film reaches its culmination, primarily because the writing doesn't hold. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's music is strictly okay. Ashok Mehta's cinematography is of top quality.

‘Hum Tum Aur Ghost’ has skilled performances, starting with Arshad, who's likable and believable. A complete natural, this is among his finest works. It's a new Dia you get to watch in this film. Not only does she look ethereal, but is exceptional in the acting department as well. Boman is tremendous, especially in the sequence when he's meeting his wife again. Sandhya Mridul doesn't get much to do. Zehra Naqvi is convincing. Shernaz Patel is wasted. Ditto for Tinnu Anand. Javed Sheikh is as usual. Asawari Joshi is perfect for her part.

On the whole, ‘Hum Tum Aur Ghost’ is a terrible waste of a terrific idea. Disappointing!

Hot Tub Time Machine Review live on pc

Borrowing liberally from 1985's Back to the Future, MGM's new time-travel comedy Hot Tub Time Machine follows three old friends -- Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Lou, a.k.a. The Violator (Rob Corddry) -- who, along with Adam's teenage nephew Jacob (Clark Duke), find themselves inexplicably transported back in time to 1986 after spilling a drink on the controls of a hot tub that turns out to be a time machine.


There, trapped in the era of Miami Vice, Reagan, Jheri curl and Poison, the three friends are seen by everyone else as their teenage selves. They must not do anything that could screw-up the space-time continuum and thus change the future, and so are forced to relive the same traumatic events they went through in 1986. Along the way, though, they begin to realize how much better their lives would be in the present if they did alter the course of history. Do they dare?

Despite having so many strikes against it, Hot Tub Time Machine ended up being an entertaining albeit deeply flawed comedy. It really shouldn't work as well as it does: movies that poke fun at the '80s seemed to have gone out of vogue a few years back, and it's also a shameless ripoff, sorry, homage to Back to the Future, the king of time-travel comedies and one of the best genre films of the 1980s. In fact, every major beat from that film is mirrored here, and Hot Tub openly acknowledges its debt to BTTF by casting Crispin Glover in the role of an ornery, one-armed bellhop (he's the film's most effective running gag).

Hot Tub recycles many of the same (now) time-travel movie tropes started by BTTF and later used in other films in the genre. For example: Not hoping to screw up the space-time continuum and change history? Check. Running into old friends and enemies? Check. Finding out a loved one was a drunk and/or slut? Check. Making sure people who need to fall in love still do? Check. Preventing someone from not being erased from existence? Check. Poking fun at the styles, slang, music and entertainment of the era? Check. We even have a protagonist performing with a band to the astonishment of the crowd. All of these were clever 25 years ago when BTTF came out, but we're too aware of such beats now.

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