January 8th, 2008 Brian Herzog
Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories are among my all-time favorite books. And Tim Burton has made some movies that I have really enjoyed. So I should be happy that he’s going to direct a film adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, right?
Well… Alice is one of those stories that I like so much that I get nervous any time I hear someone meddling with it. I’m sure Burton will produce a highly watchable movie, but how true it will be to Carroll’s tale has yet to be seen.
Burton, if you recall, took some liberties with another favorite story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He got the name right, which has also plagued the Alice books, but the movie over all was about as close to Roald Dahl’s book as was the Gene Wilder version of the story. Both good movies, yes, but neither entirely faithful to the original book.
So, I guess we’ll see. It could be great, or, well, or it could be another Alice flop. But either way, it won’t be as bad as Whoopi Goldberg playing the Cheshire Cat.
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September 29th, 2007 Brian Herzog
A patron called in with this question:
Can you tell me the box office grosses for two movies? I need to know how much The Simpsons Movie and The Brink’s Job each made.
While he was talking, I quickly went to the Internet Movie Database and searched for The Simpsons Movie. I had never looked up box office figures there before, but it sounded like something they would have.
And they did - clicking on the Box Office/Business link under “Other Info” on the left side shows an extensive breakdown of box office grosses.
Unfortunately, The Brink’s Job did not have this link, so I told the patron I’d keep looking and call him when I found it.
I next went to the general internet, trying various searches like “the brinks job +gross,” “movie grosses,” etc., but didn’t have much luck. I did find a few useful websites to remember (some with pop-up ads):
But none of them had The Brink’s Job - either it was too old (it came out in 1978), or it didn’t gross enough to be noteworthy. I also tried all of our print film encyclopedias, but couldn’t find this figure anywhere.
I called the patron back to let him know, and he said it was okay. It turns out these movies are his daughter’s and mother’s favorite movies, and he was just curious to compare their grosses.
But still - it bothers me not to be able to find an answer. Bleh. I’m going to be looking for this all week.
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