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Weekend Box Office Mar 22-24

        The Croods took the #1 spot by a wide margin with an estimated $44.7 million, and $108m worldwide.  People love their cavemen cartoons. The Croods also serves as the biggest hit Nic Cage has had in a VERY, very long time. Can you see his overacting in the pixels? In #2 was Olympus Has Fallen with $30.5m, which …

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Episode 85 – The Incredible WonderHo’s

  Upcoming releases G.I. Joe: Retaliation, The HOst, Temptation and The Place Beyond the Pines; reviews of Camp, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and The Call; trailers for Planes and Roman Polanski Odd Man Out; and Our From the Outside In topic this week: listener requested topics on if indie directors should be handed large franchises as well as concern over …

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Weekend Box Office Mar 15-17

          Oz continued its Great & Powerful domination at the box office with $41.2 million, down only 48% from last weekend for a $144m total.  Based on its current trajectory, the Wizard of Oz prequel is on course to end up with about $230m total US and over $500m worldwide.  Not a bad number for a …

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Episode 84 – The HO’s Behind the Curtain

Upcoming releases Olympus Has Fallen, Admission and The Croods; review of Oz the Great and Powerful; trailers for Kick-Ass 2, The Hangover 3 & Much Ado About Nothing; and Our From the Outside In topic this week: a listener suggested topic on if classic films would benefit or suffer from modern special effects. As always, we also bring you the …

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Kick-Ass 2 Red Band Trailer

Ok, wasn’t expecting this today – the red band Kick-Ass 2 trailer just hit online and it looks…well…Kick-Ass!  Hit-Girl and whoever the rest of them are return to join forces with Jim Carrey and…hell just watch it.   Get More: Morris Chesnut, John Leguizamo, Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Carrey, Movie Trailers, Movies Blog

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Episode 84 Trailers…

Here are the trailers we’re talking about on this week’s all new HO!  First up is Avenger’s director Joss Whedon’s take on the Shakespeare classic ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.  And 2nd?  Well 2nd we have the return of the worst people we all want to hand out with in ‘The Hangover 3’.  Take a look: Much Ado About Nothing The …

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Weekend Box Office Mar 8-10

              A LOT of people were off to see the Wizard this weekend as Oz the Great and Powerful opened with a golden $80.2 million over the weekend, including Thursday sneaks and midnight shows.  That’s the 3rd largest March opening ever, the largest opening this year, more than the rest of the Top 10 …

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New Releases – Oz, Dead Man Down & more…

Out today, as we discussed in Episode 82 of The HO, Oz the Great & Powerful is poised to trample all other newcomers. Sam Raimi’s inventive take on the classic Wizard of Oz has claimed all media space for the last week as the towering film poses to be the first great event film of the year.  Here are the …

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