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Year: 2008
Director: Patricia Riggen
Plot: The debut feature from director Patricia Riggen, this drama centers on a young boy's journey across the U.S./Mexico border to be reunited with his mother. Adrian Alonso stars as Carlitos, a Mexican adolescent living with his grandmother while his mother works as a maid in the U.S., hoping someday to send for her child. But when the grandmother dies unexpectedly, Carlitos must sneak across the border and seek out his mother. Featuring a supporting performance by America Ferrera of ABC's Ugly Betty, Under the Same Moon premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:31:55 GMTUnder the Same Moon2008Patricia RiggenThe debut feature from director Patricia Riggen, this drama centers on a young boy's journey across the U.S./Mexico border to be reunited with his mother. Adrian Alonso stars as Carlitos, a Mexican adolescent living with his grandmother while his mother works as a maid in the U.S., hoping someday to send for her child. But when the grandmother dies unexpectedly, Carlitos must sneak across the border and seek out his mother. Featuring a supporting performance by <a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P___302580/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>America Ferrera</a> of ABC's <a href="http://www.spout.com/films/333258/detail.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ugly Betty</a>, Under the Same Moon premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide243http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s314005.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Under_the_Same_Moon/314005/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/3/27/26645.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 3/27/2008 11:00:41 AM
Body:   I’m not totally convinced that this is not a joke, but the Huffington Post claims that the Weinstein Company is going to start running this TV ad for Under the Same Moon today. The immigration drama broke the record for the biggest opening for a Spanish-language film in the States last week, and essentially became TWC’s first Miramax-style success (acquire small/foreign film; identify and laser-target natural audience; use success with that audience to push film as general arthouse hit) since the Weinstein brothers divorced Disney in 2005. Apparently, Harvey thinks the way to maintain that success is by going after the segment of the audience that gets off on the idea that their movie choices could turn CNN pundit Lou Dobbs into a weepy little girl. Each of the ad’s three pullquotes––from TIME, the Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly––claim that Moon’s portrait of one family’s border struggle could wring sympathetic emotion from hardass Dobbs, who preaches almost nightly about how immigrants should be rounded up and launched into outer space, our agricultural and service economies be damned. And maybe that’s true––maybe Dobbs has been waiting his entire professional life for the indie film that would turn his schtick around––but with the three references lined up consecutively, the ad plays like an unfunny spoof of mainstream film critic laziness. Is “Lou Dobbs will cry” such internationally recognized shorthand for “this is a good movie about immigration that will appeal to your liberal sensibilities and change your conservative asshole friend’s mind”, that 90 percent of the print film critics who still have jobs simply could not conceive of stating the matter any other way? Oh, and an Impending Snake Eats Tail media alert: TWC has apparently booked the ad on CNN in five major markets. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina
]]>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:00:41 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog3/27/2008 11:00:41 AM  I’m not totally convinced that this is not a joke, but the Huffington Post claims that the Weinstein Company is going to start running this TV ad for Under the Same Moon today. The immigration drama broke the record for the biggest opening for a Spanish-language film in the States last week, and essentially became TWC’s first Miramax-style success (acquire small/foreign film; identify and laser-target natural audience; use success with that audience to push film as general arthouse hit) since the Weinstein brothers divorced Disney in 2005. Apparently, Harvey thinks the way to maintain that success is by going after the segment of the audience that gets off on the idea that their movie choices could turn CNN pundit Lou Dobbs into a weepy little girl. Each of the ad’s three pullquotes––from TIME, the Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly––claim that Moon’s portrait of one family’s border struggle could wring sympathetic emotion from hardass Dobbs, who preaches almost nightly about how immigrants should be rounded up and launched into outer space, our agricultural and service economies be damned. And maybe that’s true––maybe Dobbs has been waiting his entire professional life for the indie film that would turn his schtick around––but with the three references lined up consecutively, the ad plays like an unfunny spoof of mainstream film critic laziness. Is “Lou Dobbs will cry” such internationally recognized shorthand for “this is a good movie about immigration that will appeal to your liberal sensibilities and change your conservative asshole friend’s mind”, that 90 percent of the print film critics who still have jobs simply could not conceive of stating the matter any other way? Oh, and an Impending Snake Eats Tail media alert: TWC has apparently booked the ad on CNN in five major markets. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/27/26644.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 3/27/2008 11:00:28 AM
Body:   I’m not totally convinced that this is not a joke, but the Huffington Post claims that the Weinstein Company is going to start running this TV ad for Under the Same Moon today. The immigration drama broke the record for the biggest opening for a Spanish-language film in the States last week, and essentially became TWC’s first Miramax-style success (acquire small/foreign film; identify and laser-target natural audience; use success with that audience to push film as general arthouse hit) since the Weinstein brothers divorced Disney in 2005. Apparently, Harvey thinks the way to maintain that success is by going after the segment of the audience that gets off on the idea that their movie choices could turn CNN pundit Lou Dobbs into a weepy little girl. Each of the ad’s three pullquotes––from TIME, the Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly––claim that Moon’s portrait of one family’s border struggle could wring sympathetic emotion from hardass Dobbs, who preaches almost nightly about how immigrants should be rounded up and launched into outer space, our agricultural and service economies be damned. And maybe that’s true––maybe Dobbs has been waiting his entire professional life for the indie film that would turn his schtick around––but with the three references lined up consecutively, the ad plays like an unfunny spoof of mainstream film critic laziness. Is “Lou Dobbs will cry” such internationally recognized shorthand for “this is a good movie about immigration that will appeal to your liberal sensibilities and change your conservative asshole friend’s mind”, that 90 percent of the print film critics who still have jobs simply could not conceive of stating the matter any other way? Oh, and an Impending Snake Eats Tail media alert: TWC has apparently booked the ad on CNN in five major markets. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:00:28 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com3/27/2008 11:00:28 AM  I’m not totally convinced that this is not a joke, but the Huffington Post claims that the Weinstein Company is going to start running this TV ad for Under the Same Moon today. The immigration drama broke the record for the biggest opening for a Spanish-language film in the States last week, and essentially became TWC’s first Miramax-style success (acquire small/foreign film; identify and laser-target natural audience; use success with that audience to push film as general arthouse hit) since the Weinstein brothers divorced Disney in 2005. Apparently, Harvey thinks the way to maintain that success is by going after the segment of the audience that gets off on the idea that their movie choices could turn CNN pundit Lou Dobbs into a weepy little girl. Each of the ad’s three pullquotes––from TIME, the Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly––claim that Moon’s portrait of one family’s border struggle could wring sympathetic emotion from hardass Dobbs, who preaches almost nightly about how immigrants should be rounded up and launched into outer space, our agricultural and service economies be damned. And maybe that’s true––maybe Dobbs has been waiting his entire professional life for the indie film that would turn his schtick around––but with the three references lined up consecutively, the ad plays like an unfunny spoof of mainstream film critic laziness. Is “Lou Dobbs will cry” such internationally recognized shorthand for “this is a good movie about immigration that will appeal to your liberal sensibilities and change your conservative asshole friend’s mind”, that 90 percent of the print film critics who still have jobs simply could not conceive of stating the matter any other way? Oh, and an Impending Snake Eats Tail media alert: TWC has apparently booked the ad on CNN in five major markets. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/3/24/26556.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 3/24/2008 10:01:07 AM
Body: Tyler Perry’s Meet The Browns made $20 million this weekend, which wasn’t enough to beat Horton Hears a Who at the box office.  Drillbit Taylor opened with just $10 million; Variety vaguely says it’s “the second lowest” opening for Owen Wilson after The Big Bounce, but that statistic must exclude every Wes Anderson film and anything else that’s opened in platform release. Speaking of platform releases, The Weinstein Company has finally has a successful one to speak of: Under the Same Moon broke the record for the biggest opening of a Spanish-language film in the U.S. this weekend with $2.6 million on 266 screens. James Gandolfini will play the mayor of New York City in that remake of The Taking of Pelham 123.  The film hasn’t been shot yet, and it’ll still probably hit theaters before what was suppossed to Gandolfini’s first post-Sopranos project, Where the Wild Things Are. Regal Cinemas is looking to double its number of IMAX screens over the next two years, via a deal where the theater chain and the giant screen guys share both the cost of the expansion, and the resulting profits. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina
]]>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:01:07 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog3/24/2008 10:01:07 AM Tyler Perry’s Meet The Browns made $20 million this weekend, which wasn’t enough to beat Horton Hears a Who at the box office.  Drillbit Taylor opened with just $10 million; Variety vaguely says it’s “the second lowest” opening for Owen Wilson after The Big Bounce, but that statistic must exclude every Wes Anderson film and anything else that’s opened in platform release. Speaking of platform releases, The Weinstein Company has finally has a successful one to speak of: Under the Same Moon broke the record for the biggest opening of a Spanish-language film in the U.S. this weekend with $2.6 million on 266 screens. James Gandolfini will play the mayor of New York City in that remake of The Taking of Pelham 123.  The film hasn’t been shot yet, and it’ll still probably hit theaters before what was suppossed to Gandolfini’s first post-Sopranos project, Where the Wild Things Are. Regal Cinemas is looking to double its number of IMAX screens over the next two years, via a deal where the theater chain and the giant screen guys share both the cost of the expansion, and the resulting profits. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/24/26555.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 3/24/2008 10:00:57 AM
Body: Tyler Perry’s Meet The Browns made $20 million this weekend, which wasn’t enough to beat Horton Hears a Who at the box office.  Drillbit Taylor opened with just $10 million; Variety vaguely says it’s “the second lowest” opening for Owen Wilson after The Big Bounce, but that statistic must exclude every Wes Anderson film and anything else that’s opened in platform release. Speaking of platform releases, The Weinstein Company has finally has a successful one to speak of: Under the Same Moon broke the record for the biggest opening of a Spanish-language film in the U.S. this weekend with $2.6 million on 266 screens. James Gandolfini will play the mayor of New York City in that remake of The Taking of Pelham 123.  The film hasn’t been shot yet, and it’ll still probably hit theaters before what was suppossed to Gandolfini’s first post-Sopranos project, Where the Wild Things Are. Regal Cinemas is looking to double its number of IMAX screens over the next two years, via a deal where the theater chain and the giant screen guys share both the cost of the expansion, and the resulting profits. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:00:57 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com3/24/2008 10:00:57 AM Tyler Perry’s Meet The Browns made $20 million this weekend, which wasn’t enough to beat Horton Hears a Who at the box office.  Drillbit Taylor opened with just $10 million; Variety vaguely says it’s “the second lowest” opening for Owen Wilson after The Big Bounce, but that statistic must exclude every Wes Anderson film and anything else that’s opened in platform release. Speaking of platform releases, The Weinstein Company has finally has a successful one to speak of: Under the Same Moon broke the record for the biggest opening of a Spanish-language film in the U.S. this weekend with $2.6 million on 266 screens. James Gandolfini will play the mayor of New York City in that remake of The Taking of Pelham 123.  The film hasn’t been shot yet, and it’ll still probably hit theaters before what was suppossed to Gandolfini’s first post-Sopranos project, Where the Wild Things Are. Regal Cinemas is looking to double its number of IMAX screens over the next two years, via a deal where the theater chain and the giant screen guys share both the cost of the expansion, and the resulting profits. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/journey/MemberTagFilms.aspxjourney
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