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Nightmare on Elm St. made $9 million.
I feel badly for Jackie Earle Haley. He's one of my current favorites and I want him to succeed. While I would not see an Elm St. movie on a bet (not my speed) and I was sad to see a clip that proved his performance was not up to the original (Even HE says Robert Englund is Freddie), I wish it had done better.
Englund's turn as the creepy high school janitor on a recent Bones was very funny.
Which episode was that? I missed it!
The high school reunion, maybe 3 back.
I'll check it out.
Don't feel bad: Nightmare made $39 million last weekend (it was #1) and has already exceeded its production budget. I expect it will make more than 9 million next weekend from people who walked into the theater to see Iron Man and said "Oh, a new Nightmare movie? Maybe I'll see that next week." and then actually will. Then HBO or somebody will snap it up to show on Halloween and a sequel to a reboot of a franchise with WAY too many sequels will, of course, be greenlit.
I just re-watched Winchester '73
I love that movie.
Speaking of Winchesters, I bit the bullet and bought the first four volumes of Adèle Blanc-Sec today. Hope I like them (and that the movie eventually gets here)!
Of course, since I was paying ridiculous amounts for shipping anyway, I also got some Astérix, the 3rd and the 4th volumes of Persepolis that I couldn't afford when last in France, and the final volume of Le Chat du rabbin, which is apparently coming out as an animated feature next month.
hmm. I hadn't heard of Adele Blanc Sec before. It looks to be right up my street and the movie is Luc Besson! Excellent.
I hadn't heard of it either until flea (I think) mentioned it here. The first volumes appeared in the 70s, so I think, for me, it fell in the cracks between old-school favorites like Tintin and Asterix and the more recent bande-dessinées.