<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487675115743324425</id><updated>2009-10-28T07:13:06.011-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pop Politics</title><subtitle type='html'>Pop culture meets politics.  Everything is possible for a topic...sports, movies, music, politics, news...anything.  Commentary and feedback is always welcomed (well, almost always...).</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poppoli.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7487675115743324425/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poppoli.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Tony</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487675115743324425.post-7816155736632955625</id><published>2008-09-17T07:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T09:05:27.320-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movies'/><title type='text'>Theatre Counts for 9/17/08</title><content type='html'>Title (Distributor) / Theater Count (Change) / Week #&lt;br /&gt;NEW MOVIES&lt;br /&gt;My Best Friend's Girl (Lionsgate) / 2,604&lt;br /&gt;Lakeview Terrace (Sony / Screen Gems) / 2,464&lt;br /&gt;Igor (MGM (Weinstein)) / 2,339&lt;br /&gt;Ghost Town (Paramount (DreamWorks)) / 1,505&lt;br /&gt;Appaloosa (Warner Bros. (New Line)) / 14&lt;br /&gt;Hounddog (Empire) / 11&lt;br /&gt;The Duchess (Paramount Vantage) / 7&lt;br /&gt;Elite Squad (IFC) / 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SCREEN COUNTS FOR MOVIES ALREADY RELEASED&lt;br /&gt;Babylon A.D. (Fox) / 1,013 (-1049) / 4&lt;br /&gt;Bangkok Dangerous (Lionsgate) / 1,349 (-1305) / 3&lt;br /&gt;Boy A (Weinstein Company) / 4 (-3) / 9&lt;br /&gt;Burn After Reading (Focus Features) / 2,657 (+6) / 2&lt;br /&gt;College (MGM) / 70 (-348) / 4&lt;br /&gt;Dark Knight, The (Warner Bros.) / 1,905 (-286) / 10&lt;br /&gt;Death Race (Universal) / 1,240 (-767) / 5&lt;br /&gt;Deep Sea 3-D (IMAX) (Warner Bros.) / 8 / 134&lt;br /&gt;Disaster Movie (Lionsgate) / 971 (-831) / 4&lt;br /&gt;Get Smart (Warner Bros.) / 306 / 14&lt;br /&gt;Hamlet 2 (Focus Features) / 56 (-112) / 5&lt;br /&gt;Hell Ride (Third Rail Releasing) / 8 (+5) / 7&lt;br /&gt;Henry Poole Is Here (Overture Films) / 53 (-36) / 6&lt;br /&gt;House Bunny, The (Sony / Columbia) / 2,675 (-88) / 5&lt;br /&gt;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount) / 206 (-57) / 18&lt;br /&gt;Iron Man (Paramount) / 124 (-32) / 21&lt;br /&gt;Journey to the Center of the Earth (Warner Bros. (New Line)) / 675 (-76) / 11&lt;br /&gt;Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (Picturehouse) / 84 (-12) / 14&lt;br /&gt;Kung Fu Panda (Paramount (DreamWorks)) / 338 (-32) / 16&lt;br /&gt;Longshots, The (MGM (Weinstein)) / 502 (-356) / 5&lt;br /&gt;Mamma Mia! (Universal) / 1,119 (-398) / 10&lt;br /&gt;Mirrors (Fox) / 584 (-424) / 6&lt;br /&gt;Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The (Universal) / 490 (-260) / 8&lt;br /&gt;Pineapple Express (Sony / Columbia) / 550 (-480) / 7&lt;br /&gt;Righteous Kill (Overture Films) / 3,152 / 2&lt;br /&gt;Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, The (Warner Bros.) / 330 (-315) / 7&lt;br /&gt;Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Warner Bros.) / 688 (-317) / 6&lt;br /&gt;Sukiyaki Western Django (First Look) / 4 (+1) / 4&lt;br /&gt;The Visitor (Overture Films) / 27 (-8) / 24&lt;br /&gt;Towelhead (Warner Independent) / 18 (+14) / 2&lt;br /&gt;Traitor (Overture Films) / 1,407 (-607) / 4&lt;br /&gt;Transsiberian (First Look) / 124 (-30) / 10&lt;br /&gt;Tropic Thunder (Paramount (DreamWorks)) / 2,333 (-594) / 6&lt;br /&gt;Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (Lionsgate) / 2,070 / 2&lt;br /&gt;Vicky Cristina Barcelona (MGM (Weinstein)) / 637 (-89) / 6&lt;br /&gt;Women, The (2008) (Picturehouse) / 2,995 (+33) / 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ESTIMATES FOR SEPTEMBER 26&lt;br /&gt;Eagle Eye (Paramount (DreamWorks)) / 3,300&lt;br /&gt;Nights in Rodanthe (Warner Bros.) / 2,500+&lt;br /&gt;Miracle at St. Anna (Buena Vista) / 1,100&lt;br /&gt;Choke (Fox Searchlight) / 400&lt;br /&gt;Lucky Ones, The (Lionsgate) / 400&lt;br /&gt;Forever Strong (Crane Movie Company) / 300&lt;br /&gt;Towelhead (Warner Independent) / 98&lt;br /&gt;All Roads Lead Home (Waldo West Productions) / 46&lt;br /&gt;Blindness (Miramax) / Limited&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7487675115743324425-7816155736632955625?l=poppoli.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poppoli.blogspot.com/feeds/7816155736632955625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7487675115743324425&amp;postID=7816155736632955625' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7487675115743324425/posts/default/7816155736632955625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7487675115743324425/posts/default/7816155736632955625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poppoli.blogspot.com/2008/09/theatre-counts-for-91708.html' title='Theatre Counts for 9/17/08'/><author><name>Tony</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16261624620019628979'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487675115743324425.post-7534751307063027749</id><published>2008-09-12T09:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-09-12T10:08:46.354-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movies'/><title type='text'>Movie Openings for 9/12/08</title><content type='html'>This weekend's new movies (info from www.boxofficemojo.com and www.hsx.com):&lt;br /&gt;TITLE / SCREENS / Predicted Box&lt;br /&gt;Righteous Kill / 3,152 / $34.1 Million&lt;br /&gt;The Women (2008) / 2,962 / $20.2 MM&lt;br /&gt;Burn After Reading / 2,651 / $38.5 MM&lt;br /&gt;Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys / 2,070 / $40.0 MM&lt;br /&gt;Proud American / 750 / $3.4 MM&lt;br /&gt;Greetings from the Shore / 31 / $1.3 MM&lt;br /&gt;Towelhead / 4 / $1.3 MM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Screen count for movies already released&lt;br /&gt;TITLE / SCREENS (Chg) / WKS&lt;br /&gt;A Girl Cut in Two / 14 (6) / 5&lt;br /&gt;America the Beautiful / 3 (-2) / 19&lt;br /&gt;American Teen / 39 (-27) / 8&lt;br /&gt;Babylon A.D. / 2062 (-1363) / 3&lt;br /&gt;Bangkok Dangerous / 2654 (4) / 2&lt;br /&gt;Bottle Shock / 250 (-151) / 6&lt;br /&gt;Boy A / 7 (3) / 8&lt;br /&gt;Brideshead Revisited / 123 (-160) / 8&lt;br /&gt;Dark Knight, The / 2191 (-384) / 9&lt;br /&gt;Death Race / 1986 (-600) / 4&lt;br /&gt;Deep Sea 3-D (IMAX) / 8 (0) / 133&lt;br /&gt;Disaster Movie / 1802 (-840) / 3&lt;br /&gt;Fly Me to the Moon / 698 (-15) / 5&lt;br /&gt;Get Smart / 306 (191) / 13&lt;br /&gt;Hamlet 2 / 168 (-1407) / 4&lt;br /&gt;Hell Ride / 3 (1) / 6&lt;br /&gt;Hellboy II: The Golden Army / 163 (-54) / 10&lt;br /&gt;Henry Poole Is Here / 89 (-68) / 5&lt;br /&gt;House Bunny, The / 2763 (27) / 4&lt;br /&gt;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull / 263 (-41) / 17&lt;br /&gt;Iron Man / 156 (-49) / 20&lt;br /&gt;Journey to the Center of the Earth / 751 (-54) / 10&lt;br /&gt;Kit Kittredge: An American Girl / 95 (-32) / 13&lt;br /&gt;Kung Fu Panda / 370 (-41) / 15&lt;br /&gt;Mamma Mia! / 1495 (-409) / 9&lt;br /&gt;Mirrors / 1008 (-551) / 5&lt;br /&gt;Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The / 742 (-673) / 7&lt;br /&gt;Pineapple Express / 1030 (-772) / 6&lt;br /&gt;Ping Pong Playa / 14 (5) / 2&lt;br /&gt;Sex and the City / 46 (-38) / 16&lt;br /&gt;Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, The / 645 (-490) / 6&lt;br /&gt;Sixty Six / 13 (-4) / 7&lt;br /&gt;Star Wars: The Clone Wars / 1005 (-947) / 5&lt;br /&gt;Step Brothers / 454 (-392) / 8&lt;br /&gt;Sukiyaki Western Django / 3 (2) / 3&lt;br /&gt;Traitor / 2014 (-94) / 3&lt;br /&gt;Transsiberian / 154 (0) / 9&lt;br /&gt;Tropic Thunder / 2927 (-519) / 5&lt;br /&gt;Visitor, The / 35 (-23) / 23&lt;br /&gt;Wall-E / 504 (-382) / 12&lt;br /&gt;Wanted / 142 (-38) / 12&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ESTIMATES FOR SEPTEMBER 19&lt;br /&gt;Title (Distributor) / Estimate&lt;br /&gt;My Best Friend's Girl (Lionsgate) / 2,500+&lt;br /&gt;Lakeview Terrace (Sony / Screen Gems) / 2,400&lt;br /&gt;Igor (MGM (Weinstein)) / 2,300&lt;br /&gt;Ghost Town (Paramount (DreamWorks)) / 1,400&lt;br /&gt;Hounddog (Empire) / 11&lt;br /&gt;The Duchess (Paramount Vantage) / 7&lt;br /&gt;Appaloosa (Warner Bros. 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