Matt Stone and Trey Parker still know how to get people talking.
Wednesday night's South Park outing pushed the envelope and then did all kinds of god-awful things to it, with a recurring riff in which uberproducers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg repeatedly ...
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The Dark Knight ruled theaters but the summer box office was not dark at allAccording to The Hollywood Reporter summer 2008 can go down in history with a record domestic gross thanks to the 300 million-plus hauls of Knight Iron Man and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal SkullThough last summer had four films cross the 300 milestone Knight made up for the deficit with its own record-setting performance which includes four consecutive weeks at No 1By the close of Labor Day weekend domestic intake is projected to surpass 4 billion
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George Lucas out promoting his new Star Wars The Clone Wars movieTV series detailed in the new TV Guide dismisses speculation that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull effectively set up Shia LaBeoufs Mutt Williams to inherit the franchise[Harrison Ford] is Indiana Jones Lucas tells the AP If Indiana Jones wasnt in it youd have to call it Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis Yeah its Mutt Williams and the Search for ElvisThough Crystal Skull the series fourth installment and one that was many years in the making suffered considerable whip-lash from critics Lucas wont rule out another sequel [It] really depends on me coming up with a good idea he says So were doing research now to see if we cant come up with another object for [Indiana Jones] to chase Perhaps a late Medicare payment Matt Mitovich
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Cheers to John Hurt for reminding us of his talent with a pair of Memorial Day weekend roles. The versatile British actor can be seen as demented professor "Ox" Oxley in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and as buttoned-down ex-Secretary of State Warren Christopher in HBO's Recount (opposite another gifted Englishman, Tom Wilkinson, as Republican counterpart James Baker). Hurt has always moved easily between small and big screens, making his name on TV as Quentin Crisip in The Naked Civil Servant and Caligula in I, Claudius before earning Oscar nominations for Midnight Express and The Elephant Man. If he wins an Emmy for his stellar HBO work, there'll be no need for a recount.• Share your own raves and rants about other shows on the Reader Cheers & Jeers discussion board.• We may feature your Cheer or Jeer on TVGuide.com or in TV Guide magazine!
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Indiana Jones whipped up a hefty sum in Memorial Day weekend ticket sales and stands poised to rank as the No 2 opening of all time within that holiday span From Friday through Sunday Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is estimated to collect 101 million and then bring that total to 126 mil on Monday That falls shy of the 1398 mil Pirates of the Caribbean 3 amassed over the four-day stretchIf including Thursday receipts Indy 4 will tally 151 mil to POTC3s 153 mil Globally Professor Jones latest escapade which had a reported budget of 185 million took in an estimated 311 mil Rounding out the weekends top five were The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian 23 million Iron Man 201 mil and 2523 mil to date What Happens in Vegas 9 mil and Speed Racer 4 milPOLL How many stars would you give Indy 4 Vote hereWatch Movie Talk for Maitland and Kens take on Indiana Jones 4
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