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Dear Movie Guests,
What are you doing tonight? We are showing Alice in Wonderland
a 12:05 a.m. Friday (that's Thursday night!).
This is Tim Burton's interpretation of "Alice," and Johnny Depp turns in
an incredible performance as the Mad Hatter. It is rated PG
for fantasy action/violence involving
scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar.
This is a visually stunning family movie that adults will probably like.
It is probably the first big movie of 2010, and it is right here at your
little hometown theater.
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Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
We have Oscar buzz at the theater this weekend. Nominated for nine academy
awards, including best picture, we are pleased to bring you The
Hurt Locker. "Avatar" and The Hurt Locker
are the two films battling it out for best pic--one a crowd-pleasing
blockbuster by James Cameron, the other a modest war epic directed by
Why do you go to the movies?
Most of us pick a movie to go to based upon whether we like the genre or the
actor. Me too. But there are some movies that should also be chosen even
though they are BEYOND what we might normally like. These are movies
that are so incredibly well-done that you sit there at the end and say,
"wow, that was powerful stuff."
Some movies are meant to be experienced so we can better participate in the
conversation around us. A total of 97 percent of the critics at
www.rottentomatoes.com gave
The Hurt Locker a
thumbs up. The reviews are peppered with phrases like "must see," "will make
history," "gripping," "on the edge of our seats," and "exciting and
"
The film is R-rated for war violence and language, but as a parent, I am
making my 16-year-old son see this film with his dad. As a community we send
the troops in Iraq books and care packages and our thanks. This might be the
definitive movie about their war and their experience, albeit through the
eyes of the soldiers whose mission is to defuse bombs.
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We begged, pleaded, wheedled and cajoled...
...And it worked.
We got a print of Shutter Island here for you--the
number one movie in America last week. It has grossed $75 million and
theaters have been hanging onto their prints.
We couldn't get a print at our Robinson theater, so Clinton has the better
schedule this week. With this lineup and our midnight show of Alice, it would be great if the new theater
out grossed the old
one. It's up to you!
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Next Friday night (that's March 12--not tomorrow!) we are planning a
midnight showing of New Moon, the second film of the
Twilight saga. This is to get you in the mood for this summer's showing of
Eclipse. Here's the deal. Tickets are on sale now,
and your ticket price includes popcorn and drink for that midnight show.
And... if you attend, we'll add your name to an early notification list and
you will get first dibs on our midnight showing of Eclipse.
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Gary Alsup of Clinton is this week's trivia winner. He was
the 25th person to know that the Bruce Willis we were looking for was "The
Sixth Sense." Willis stars in Cop Out, which is
currently playing.
This week we are looking for the 20th correct answer, and if you win, you
get a free pass. Put your answer in the subject line of an email to
trivia@eagletheater.net. Put your name, city and any great thoughts you
have in the body of the email. If you add any great thoughts beyond your
name and city, make sure you put a "*" by your answer in the subject line so
we are smart enough to open the email!
The director of The Hurt Locker is Kathryn
Bigelow, who has made her mark in small, independent films. In proof that
life imitates art (and also proof that Hollywood is a very small world),
Bigelow's main competition for a Best Director Oscar is her ex-husband,
James Cameron. Easy question--what Cameron movie is up this year for the
best picture nod?
See you at the movies!
Eric Gubelman
Alien identification commander
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Clintonia Eagle
| Schedule for Friday, March 05, 2010
until Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Alice in Wonderland (PG)
Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway
- 109 minutes
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Fri: 4:45, 7:10, 9:30
Sat: 2:00, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30
Sun: 2:00, 4:45, 7:10
Mon - Thu: 4:45, 7:10
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Cop Out (R)
Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan
- 110 minutes
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Fri: 4:50, 7:15, 9:40
Sat: 2:15, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40
Sun: 2:15, 4:50, 7:15
Mon - Thu: 4:50, 7:15
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Shutter Island (R)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo
- 138 minutes
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Fri: 4:00, 7:00, 9:50
Sat: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50
Sun: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00
Mon - Thu: 4:00, 7:00
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (PG)
Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson
- 120 minutes
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Fri: 4:15, 6:50, 9:20
Sat: 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20
Sun: 1:30, 4:15, 6:50
Mon: 4:15 PM
Tue - Thu: 4:15, 6:50
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The Hurt Locker (R)
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie
- 130 minutes
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Fri: 4:30, 7:10, 10:00
Sat: 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00
Sun: 1:45, 4:30, 7:10
Mon - Thu: 4:30, 7:10
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Nostalgia Night (PG)
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Mon: 7:00 PM
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Saturday Kids Show (PG)
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Sat: 10:00 AM
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Alice in Wonderland (PG)
Rated for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway - 109 min.
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 Now, 19, Alice returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends, and embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen's reign of terror.
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Official Site Trailer
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Cop Out (R)
Rated for pervasive language including sexual references, violence and brief sexuality Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan - 110 min.
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 On the trail of a stolen high-value baseball card, a maverick cop and his partner tangle with a memorabilia-obsessed gangster and rescue a Mexican beauty, who holds the key to millions in laundered drug money.
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Official Site Trailer
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Shutter Island (R)
Rated for disturbing violent content, language and some nudity Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo - 138 min.
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 Two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island's fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.
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Official Site Trailer
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (PG)
Rated for action violence and peril, some scary images and suggestive material, and mild language Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson - 120 min.
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 The gods of Mount Olympus are not happy. Zeus' lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy Jackson is the prime suspect. Percy and his friends must catch the true thief, save Percy's family, and solve a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves.
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Official Site Trailer
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The Hurt Locker (R)
Rated for war violence and language Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie - 130 min.
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 Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
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Official Site Trailer
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Nostalgia Night (PG)
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Official Site Trailer
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Saturday Kids Show (PG)
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| Box Office Results | | For weekend of 2/28/2010 |
| 1 |
Shutter Island |
$22,665,205 |
$75,541,271 |
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Cop Out |
$18,211,126 |
$18,211,126 |
2 |
| 3 |
The Crazies |
$16,067,552 |
$16,067,552 |
1 |
| 4 |
Avatar |
$13,655,274 |
$706,560,068 |
11 |
| 5 |
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief |
$9,583,421 |
$70,998,280 |
3 |
| 6 |
Valentine's Day |
$9,063,036 |
$99,916,240 |
3 |
| 7 |
Dear John |
$4,808,498 |
$72,432,096 |
4 |
| 8 |
The Wolfman |
$4,259,865 |
$57,380,125 |
3 |
| 9 |
Tooth Fairy |
$3,425,333 |
$53,841,454 |
6 |
| 10 |
Crazy Heart |
$2,462,384 |
$25,009,496 |
11 |
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- Which 2002 Comedy/Musical Motion Picture did Richard Gere win a Golden Globe for Best Actor?
- What was the first feature film that Tim Burton directed?
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- What 2007 film did Bruce Willis also play a cop in?
Answer: Live Free or Die Hard
- The Crazies is a remake of whose 1973 film of the same name?
Answer: George A. Romero
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