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We just watched that last weekend. I wasn't disappointed, but I expected it to be terrible. And we had booze.
Although not as much as whoever was dressing Boreanaz.
We did have a long conversation afterwards about how much it would cost to get Dennis Hopper to perform a wedding, and if we'd have to start calling everyone "shorty" and "dog" afterwards.
Do you have to pay extra for him to periodically take a hit of nitrous and yell, "Don't you fucking look at me!"?
I did not know it was out yet. I have to put it in my queue, just to be a completist/masochist.
This is Cho Chang and Pig, isn't it?
That's not the best picture of him that I've seen.
That owl is lethally cute.
OMG, yes. Waaaant.
I think that's actually Roger Davies, the Ravenclaw captain.
From today's Salon, of interest to Chicago moviegoers:
But before we start rejoicing that a movie like "Duma" can still get made, let's cut to the bad news: Its studio, Warner Bros., doesn't know what to do with it. And unless the company changes its mind, you're not likely to see "Duma" on the big screen, unless you happen to live near Chicago, where it opens this Friday for one week -- possibly longer if it does well.
"Duma" had a test run last spring in three markets, San Antonio, Phoenix and Sacramento, Calif. (It has also had a limited release in the U.K.) The picture had two showings in New York, at the Tribeca Film Festival last April, where I was lucky enough to see it. The cost of marketing a picture like "Duma" nationwide is about $25 million, and the studio, unsure of the movie's earning potential, isn't sure it wants to make that commitment. ("Duma" cost around $12 million to make.) But after Roger Ebert spoke favorably about the picture, Warner did agree to give it a Chicago release. How "Duma" does in that market will help determine its future.
Duma is the latest movie from Carol Ballard, the man who directed "The Black Stallion."
