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Illinois Art & Artisans Center, Whittington; paintings, Gallery now open: 101 W. drawings, photography, digital Monroe St. Carbondale; works art, prints, woodblock, of Joshua Gates and Chrystal lithographs and etchings and Nause; hours, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. constructed works created out Thursdays; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. of paper; through Jan. 27; Fridays and Saturdays; gallery hours, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; 618-629open through Saturday, Feb. 9; 2220 618-319-0050. New Weavings: By Richard Cox, Weaver’s Cottage, 1904 Call For Art Bass Lane, Carbondale; hours, 1-5 p.m. Friday-Sunday; Call For Art: Fantastic through Jan. 27; 618-457Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, 6823 Paducah; sanctioned by the When Nature Talks: American Quilter’s Southern Illinois Art & Artisans Association; entries Center, 14967 Gun Creek Trail, accepted through Jan. 25; Whittington; artists, Les fantasticfibers.theyeiser.org; Barker, Lisa Goesling, Roger 270-442-2453; yeiser@ Grimes, Chris Main, Yuki theyeiser.org Nyhan, Leonard Wilson; through March 10; 618-629Exhibits 2220 www.museum.state. Changes: Two-Woman show il.us/ismsites/so-il Salvador Dali: The Playing by Patty Morrison and Missy Cards Suite, University Carstens, Little Egypt Arts Museum, SIU; The Ace, King, Centre, downtown Marion; Queen and Jack of Diamonds focus, fine art and functional and Spades are interpreted pieces made from recycled with the inimitable Daliesque materials; through Jan. 3; flair in this exhibition of eight www.littleegyptarts.com. prints by the surrealist master; Cedarhurst Exhibits: through March 29; www. Cedarhurst Center For The museum.siu.edu; 618-453Arts, 2600 Richview Road, Mount Vernon; exhibitions, The 5388 Joy Thornton-Walter and John Walter Collection of Reception Contemporary Glass Art, Main Gallery; Kuenz Sculpture Park Art and Soul exhibit: Photo Contest, Beal Grand Opening reception, 7-9 p.m. Corridor Gallery; Shrode Saturday, Jan. 5, The Pavilion Photography Competition, of the City of Marion, 1602 Regenhardt Gallery at Shrode Sioux Drive, Marion; featuring Art Center and C. W. Roelle: At the works of Shawn M. Home with Nature, Beck Vincelette; collection of pen Family Center Gallery; through and ink drawings portraying Jan. 6; www.cedarhurst.org; snapshots of Marion’s past; 618-242-1236 through April 23; 618-993On & Of Paper: Southern 2657
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Anna Arts Center announces 2013 performing arts season ANNA — The Anna Arts Center has announced the details of its 2013 performing arts series. The year will be feature a play and three musicals, including: “The Stories of the Blue and Gray,” Feb. 9-10 “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown,” Feb. 2224 “Little Shop of Horrors,” May 17-19 “Cabaret,” Nov. 8-10 Advance tickets for each
performance will be $12, and tickets at the door will be $15. A season pass for all four shows will also be available for $45. A new feature will be a box office at the art center, which will be open from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday, beginning next week. For more information, call 618-625-1109 or email vabchlee@ gmail.com. — Adam Testa
Multimedia artists present event CARBONDALE — A group of Southern Illinois artists, each representing a different aspect of the arts, will come together for a unique collaborative effort at The Grotto Lounge this weekend. Mike Faris, an art teacher at Shawnee Community College, arranged to display his artwork at the venue, which can be found in the basement of the Newell House restaurant, 201 E. Main St. In talking to friends and colleagues representing other forms of artistic expression, he decided there was an opportunity to do something more.
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MOVIES Events The Carbondale Comedians: 9 p.m. Mondays, Hangar 9, Carbondale; 10 p.m. Wednesdays, Station 13, Carbondale; see The Carbondale Comedians on Facebook Harlem Globetrotters: 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, SIU Arena; theme, You Write the Rules World Tour; fans will decide rules for the game; $10-$75; some of the game will be played with pink basketballs to promote breast cancer awareness and pink Globetrotter wristbands will be sold; www.harlem globetrotters.com Roaring 20’s: Red Carpet Gala Event, 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, The Pavilion, Marion; entertainment, meal; fundraiser for Hospice of Southern Illinois; www.facebook.com/ hsiredcarpet; 618-9973030; jvinyard@ hospice.org
Films Duckumentary: Game Species: More Than Just Food, 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, Cache River Wetlands Center, Cypress; film follows a wood duck family as a male and female create a bond, migrate together across thousands of miles, nurture and protect a brood of chicks; discussion afterward; free; 618-6572064
Theater/ Performances The Blue Man Group: 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, The Carson Center, Paducah; $36/$46/$56; 270-450-4444; www.thecarson center.org
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The lowlights of the year in entertainment BY MARK CARO
Except of course Turkmenistan’s.” Yes, this is the network formerly known as The Alewives are the stinky fish that used to wash up en Learning Channel: Bad enough that TLC gave us masse on Lake Michigan the exploitative “Toddlers & beaches. So it is that we Tiaras,” but in August it bring you the 17th annual spun off the bottomAlewife Awards to feeding “Here Comes commemorate the rankest cultural flotsam and jetsam Honey Boo Boo,” which celebrates, among other to hit our shores over the things, a flatulent mom past year. When pop stars review their giving her now-7-year-old beauty-pageant-contestant own concerts: Justin Bieber daughter “Go Go Juice” vomited twice onstage made from Red Bull and during a Phoenix concert Mountain Dew. and afterward claimed he Not so effin’ Golden: It was had abused a substance: nice of Paramount to tout milk. Never one to be Barbra Streisand’s Golden outdone, Lady Gaga Globe nomination in ads for considered what best goes “The Guilt Trip” last with milk and tossed her month, but it would have cookies four times on a been even nicer had the Barcelona stage a week Globes actually nominated later. her performance. Plus, it was an “Exorcist” The Neverending Story, tribute without barfing: part whatever: Is it piling on We’re used to wacky to ridicule Lifetime’s “Liz & Grammy Awards Dick” biopic and Lindsay performances, but our heads are still spinning 360 Lohan’s woeful Elizabeth degrees from Nicki Minaj’s Taylor impersonation in it as well as her lackluster exorcism-and-levitation “Saturday Night Live” rendition of “Roman hosting turn in March and Holiday.” That was even her November arrest for more over-the-top than punching a psychic who Minaj’s subsequent feuds with Mariah Carey, Barbara should’ve seen it coming and her continued pileup of Walters and Steven Tyler. At least no naked wrestling legal woes and family dysfunction and Charlie was involved: The spoof Sheen (Charlie Sheen!) Kazakhstan national helping bail her out of a sixanthem from Sacha Baron figure tax debt? Thought so. Cohen’s 2006 comedy Soon he’ll be paying “Borat” mistakenly was played to honor the Kazakh Lindsay Lohan’s taxes: Angus gold medalist at a shooting T. Jones, the 19-year-old who makes a reported competition in Kuwait in March; she stood there with $300,000 per episode to play half a man, said in a her hand over her heart church video: “I’m on ‘Two while the following lyrics and a Half Men,’ and I don’t came over the speakers: want to be on it. Please stop “Kazakhstan’s prostitutes watching it. Please stop cleanest in the region/
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filling your head with filth.” Subsequently he fine-tuned his message to say: “I am grateful to, and have the highest regard and respect for, all of the wonderful people on ‘Two and a Half Men’ with whom I have worked and over the past 10 years who have become an extension of my family.” Who could’ve seen this coming? The musical duo known as the Civil Wars — aka Joy Williams and John Paul White — canceled all tour dates and split due to “internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition.” I’m mad as hell, and I’m going to be preachy about it: On Aaron Sorkin’s HBO series “The Newsroom,” men got to say important things about the sober job of reporting the news and cutting through political clutter while the women mostly wandered around flustered, unable to figure out how to send emails from their BlackBerrys. The sanctimony spilled into real life as Sorkin told a Globe and Mail reporter, “Listen here, Internet girl, it wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while” — to which she pointed out in her story: “I’m not sure how he’s forgotten that I am writing for a newspaper.” Do ya feel lucky, chair? Winning Oscars in his 60s and 70s and continuing a prolific filmmaking career into his early 80s, Clint Eastwood was the poster boy for aging wisely and gracefully. Then he started arguing with an empty chair at the Republican National Convention.
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CDs Pop Freeway “Diamond in the Ruff” *** Different generations of Philly’s old-school rap scene made a handsome showing in 2012. In a year that saw Beanie Sigel releasing a minor hit before heading back to prison and Schoolly D touring with Public Enemy, having Freeway back in action is a bonus. Like his pal Beans, Freeway was a member of Jay-Z’s Roc-a-Fella family in the early 2000s and stayed hard throughout the decade and its four solo releases. “Diamond in the Ruff” proves that highly volatile Freeway is still the stoic iceman when it comes to rapping and rhyming. With steel, busy beats behind him, “No Doubt” is nail hard and just a little Lil Wayne-y. “Ghetto Street” is good and ghostly, but a bit of a gangster retread. When you’re the hard guy, staying bad forever can become a grind, especially when you’re an acknowledged peaceful Muslim. That could be why Freeway has added a dose of coy and clever humor to his menacing, low-voiced rants. The romping (and Just Blazeproduced) “Early” finds Free toying naughtily
with morning sexuality (“she just played karaoke on my pokey”), while “Sweet Temptation” allows him to make light of MCs with tight slacks and pseudo-African allegiances. Fun. Daughn Gibson “All Hell” ***1/2 Josh Martin spent more than a decade drumming in punk and hard rock bands in central Pa., including in Allentown’s Pearls and Brass, but you wouldn’t know it from “All Hell,” his debut under the pseudonym Daughn Gibson. The album is a unique blend of deep country melodies and sample-based instrumentation. Gibson, now based out of Carlisle, fell in love with country music when he worked as a long-haul truck driver, and his writing adapts the genre’s classic strain of character-driven hardluck narratives, with empathetic songs about being an old man in a young girl’s world, about writing a song about rain on the highway, about bad guys who grow up to be “totally worthless.” His resonant, dramatic baritone calls to mind Waylon Jennings, Lee Hazlewood, and Scott Walker. SEE CDS / PAGE 4
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CDs (Continued from Page 3) Country/ roots Stephen Kalinich and Jon Tiven “Yo Ma Ma: Symptomology; Shortcuts to Infinity” ***1/2 This twodisc set proves to be an inspired pairing of two veteran artists. Stephen Kalinich is a lyricist and longtime Beach Boys collaborator. Brian Wilson called him “a poetic genius.” Jon Tiven is a producer, multiinstrumentalist, and songwriter with an affinity for R&B; he has helmed terrific comeback albums by Wilson Pickett and Philadelphia’s Garnet Mimms, among others. “Symptomology” is credited to Yo Ma Ma, an alter ego that allows the duo to play younger than they are. It’s full of dirty, horn-accented rock ‘n’ roll delivered with snarl and swagger, as you can gather from such titles as “Let’s Get Stoned,” “Grow a Pair,” and “Once My Zits Go Away.” It all packs a visceral punch, enhanced by the fact that Kalinich and Tiven, for all the wit here, never display any ironic distance from the material. Shortcuts to Infinity is
similar musically while bringing out more rootsy touches, and it can hit just as hard, as with the Bo Diddley-esque thrust of “Climb Some Walls” and the chugging rock of the seven-minute-plus centerpiece “Out of the Darkness” (with Queen’s Brian May on guitar). But there are also more laidback moments, like the laconic.
Jazz Tom Harrell “Number Five” ***1/2 Trumpeter Tom Harrell begins this CD with obsession. His opening duet on Dizzy Gillespie’s “Blue ‘N’ Boogie” with the Phillyborn drummer Jonathan Blake is a clamorous call to action, and a bracing start. Harrell keeps the interest high for this set of originals, released this year and featuring various setups of his longrunning quintet with tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery and bassist Ugonna Okegwo. The title track is a pretty number with Harrell’s trumpet rising over Danny Grissett’s doodling piano.
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The power of blue
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BY ADAM TESTA THE SOUTHERN
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o some, magic only exists in the realm of fantasy stories. To others, the gift of magic can be found in the world around us every day. One musical act, in particular, has captured the essence of magic through the years, creating a captivating stage show blending visual and performing arts and toying with the imaginations of audiences the world over. To say that Blue Man Group has carved itself an entertainment niche since its formation in 1987 would be a misstating of facts. The audience the act, featuring three bald, blue men, has reached and the fan base it has built is almost anything but a niche; its’ encompassing. People of all ages, from small children through senior citizens, find themselves in awe while taking in the spectacle of a Blue Man Group performance. And that’s okay with the men behind the group. “We’ve done surveys to figure out who our audience is, and we’ve found that our demographic ranges from 8 to 85 years old,” said Puck Quinn, creative director for character development and appearances, in a prepared statement. “That’s when we know we’re doing something right. A kid can come to the show and just enjoy the rhythm or the mess or the colors or the spectacle. Adults can
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come and do the exact same thing, but they might also come away with something to think about.” And when Quinn refers to the “mess,” that’s not an understatement. The men behind the face paint often find themselves presenting an odd combination of acts and performances that create a beautiful disaster on the stage. From beating on drums and generating a kaleidoscopic spray of airborne paint to catching gumballs in their mouths and spewing paint onto canvases, it seems nothing is out of bounds for the famous blue men. Add food to the mix,
and things only get messier. The guys will chow down Twinkies and unleash a Captain Crunch symphony with their mouths. But each step of the way, they’re doing it with expertise, determination and, most importantly, a purpose. Don’t let the difference between creativity and child’s play affect the view. “We have things that we think about, and they express themselves in these weird ways,” said Phil Stanton, of the Blue Man Group co-founders, in a prepared statement. “A lot of what we do is colorful, and kids enjoy it, and adults are entertained by it, whether they get
the idea behind it or not. We’re usually looking at things from the point of community or relationships. We’re trying to say something about the power of a group. That’s why there are three Blue Men; three is the smallest number that makes up a group.” Fans of the Blue Man Group will have a chance to see the men in action when they return to The Carson Center for show at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6. Tickets are $36 to $56 and can be purchased online at www.thecarson center.org or by calling 270-444-4500. adam.testa@thesouthern.com 618-351-5031
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SATURDAY CARBONDALE The Grotto Lounge/Newell House: The Reflectors/Mel Goot, 9 p.m.; Occupy Dada MARION Hideout Restaurant: Bob Pina, piano 5:30-9:30 p.m. Marion American Legion: Danny and The Dreamers, 7:30-11:30 p.m. Marion Eagles: Big Country,
Call 618-351-5089 or email brenda.kirkpatrick @thesouthern.com. 7-11 p.m. THOMPSONVILLE Old Country Store Dance Barn: Lil’ Boot & Classic Country, 7-10 p.m.
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MARION Hideout Restaurant: Bob Pina, piano 5:30-8:30 p.m. THOMPSONVILLE Lion’s Cave: Mike’s Band, 7-10 p.m. WEST FRANKFORT WB Ranch Barn: WB Ranch Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
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Key West: 1108 W. Main St., Carbondale 618-351-5998 Lion’s Cave: South Street, Thompsonville 618-218-4888 Mack’s Lake of Egypt Marina: 12024 Laguna Drive, Lake of Egypt Marion American Legion: Longstreet Road, Marion 618-997-6168 Marion Eagles: Russell and Longstreet Roads, Marion 618-993-6300 Marion Youth Center: 211 E. Boulevard St., Marion 618-922-7853 N-Kahootz Night Club: 115 W. Cherry St., Herrin 618-942-9345 Old Country Store Dance Barn: Main Street, Thompsonville 618-218-4676 Pinch Penny Pub/Copper Dragon: 700
E. Grand Ave., Carbondale 618-5493348 PK’s: 308 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale 618-529-1124 Scarlett’s Music Barn: 207 Potter St., White Ash 618-997-4979 Steeleville American Legion: 303 S. Chester St., Steeleville 618-965-3362 Trackside Dance Barn: 104 Rock St., Spillertown 618-993-3035 Tres Hombres: 119 N. Washington St., Carbondale 618-457-3308 WB Ranch Barn: 1586 Pershing Road, West Frankfort 618-937-3718 Williamson County Fairground Hanna Building: Fair and Main streets, Marion 618-917-5230
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Auditions Winter/Spring Auditions: For The Paducah Symphony Children’s and Youth Choruses, 6 p.m. Thursdays, Jan. 3 and 10, First Presbyterian Church, downtown Paducah; http://paducahsymphony.org/educationcommunity/youth-childrens-choruses; 270444-0065
Concerts Southern Illinois Barbara Fairchild: 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, Marion Cultural and Civic Center; country/gospel singer known for The Teddy Bear Song; presented by The Williamson County Programs On Aging; www.marionccc.org; 800-280-9757 Harpeth Rising: 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, Southeastern Illinois College, Harrisburg; singing, banjo, guitar, harp; $10; 618-2525400 Dinner and concert: By Curt Carter & Tim Connelly, 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, Anna Arts Center, 117 W. Davie St., Anna; folk music; spaghetti dinner; $15; reserve at 618-6970009
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Copper Dragon to bring country music to Carbondale in February perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 6. Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door. An opening act for this show has not been announced. Vince Hoffard Doors open at 7 p.m. Smith has played several shows at Copper Dragon and will return at 9 p.m. ountains of snow Feb. 7. Tickets are $15 in piled high nearly everywhere you look advance and $20 the day of the show. The Adam makes the sweltering Ezra Group will serve as summer country music opening act. Doors open at festivals in Southern 8 p.m. Illinois seem a hundred Edens Edge will be in years away. Time moves so concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 14. slowly it almost numbs the Tickets are $10 in advance musical senses. and $12 at the door. The With annual events at Herrin, Du Quoin, Sparta, opening act will be announced at a later date. Sesser and Rent One Park Doors open at 7 p.m. in Marion months in the There is a minimum age future, many fans need a healthy dose of live music requirement of 19 for all from a major touring act to three events. For more information, call 618help them survive the icy 549-3348. winter doldrums. A pair of musical The jolt they require can veterans, Stephen Barker be found in the heart of Liles and Eric Gunderson Little Egypt as Copper Dragon in Carbondale will of Love and Theft learned quickly to be patient with be hosting a virtual the country music country music month in industry. Together since February, featuring 2006, their career has sizzling duo Love and been a wild roller-coaster Theft, collegiate crowd ride. pleaser Corey Smith and After winning a spot powerhouse Edens Edge. opening for Taylor Swift’s Love and Theft will
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Fearless Tour in 2008, they signed with Lyric Street Records in 2009, played the prestigious Grand Ole Opry and then released debut single “Runaway,” which climbed all the way into the Top 10. A year of great momentum came crashing down in 2010 when Lyric Street went out of business and the band was left without a label. There was more bad news in early 2011 when a founding member of the group quit, turning the trio into a duo. Toward the end of the year, Love and Theft signed with RCA Nashville and digitally released the single “Angel Eyes” on Nov. 8, 2011. It took the song nine months to peak at No. 1. The content of the tune was a little controversial, since the parents of both singers are ministers. “Preachers’ kids seem to have the most rebellious side and get into more trouble,” Gunderson, who co-wrote the song with Eric Paslay and Jeff Coplan, said in a previous interview. “That was kind of the inspiration for that. We wrote it from a personal place.” Follow-up single, “Runnin’ Out of Air,” from the band’s current selftitled album, was released in November. Smith is cut from a different cloth than other touring acts. His career is driven by action-packed live shows that have won him a loyal legion of fans from coast to coast. He isn’t on a major record label and doesn’t receive airplay in major markets. Instead, he relies extensively on social networking, file-sharing and word-of-mouth marketing. He can’t afford
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to have an off night. It would be a Facebook disaster. A native of Jefferson, Ga., Smith found his niche his senior year in high school when he took his acoustic guitar and “a genetic predisposition for boozing it up” and became a human jukebox, “singing and partying with almost everyone in town.” Although he graduated college and taught high school for five years, his desire to perform refused to be extinguished. Instead, it flourished. He was playing two or three shows a week and still teaching. When he sold out the regal Georgia Theatre in Athens in 2005, Smith realized he must pursue an entertainment career. Smith has released seven
albums, including “The Broken Record” in 2011, which he calls “a definitive and comprehensive introduction” to his music for newcomers and “a most revealing selfportrait” for long-time fans. It includes tunes like “Maybe Next Year,” “Twenty-One,” “I Love Everyone” and “If I Could Do It Again.” Edens Edge is a trio from rural Arkansas consisting of newly married Hannah Blaylock (vocals), Dean Berner (vocals, dobro, guitar) and Cherrill Green (vocals, banjo, mandolin, guitar). They migrated to Nashville in 2007, a year after winning a talent contest sponsored by Country Music Television. The act is known for an extremely high-caliber musicianship and jaw-
dropping harmony. When they migrated to Music City, instead of playing an endless blur of honky tonks and showcases, they elected to stay in seclusion. They hunkered down for two years and polished their songwriting and musical skills to raw perfection. When they finally put their product on display, it was quickly gobbled up by Big Machine Records, who signed the band to a contract in April 2010. Debut single “Amen” peaked at No. 18 in 2011 and they have followed with “Too Good to Be True” and “Swingin’ Door.” VINCE HOFFARD can be reached at 618-658-9095 or vincehoffard@ yahoo.com.
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Movie box-office totals for 2012 projected to set new record BY AMY KAUFMAN AND RICHARD VERRIER MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS
LOS ANGELES — Batman, James Bond, teenage vampires and a team of superheroes helped propel domestic movie ticket sales in 2012 to a projected all-time high of $10.8 billion, reversing a slump that saw attendance drop to a 16-year low last year. Box-office receipts are likely to be up 6 percent compared with last year, as is attendance, which is on track to hit 1.36 billion, according to Hollywood.com. That’s much-needed good news for the film business, though this year’s attendance figure is far from record-breaking — in 2002, 1.6 billion showed up at the box office. Meanwhile, ticket sales from abroad continued to significantly boost bottom lines in Hollywood, as 15 of the year’s top 20 pictures grossed more abroad than they did in the U.S. and Canada. For instance, 81 percent of the total $875 million in receipts for the 3-D animated film “Ice Age: Continental Drift” came from overseas. After last year’s dismal domestic results, Hollywood executives were nervous about 2012. Then, a shooting at a Colorado movie theater during a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” this summer shocked the nation and the industry, leading some to worry that crowds would shun cinemas on a long-term basis. But audiences returned, with attendance and revenue particularly strong in the fourth quarter, both up 18 percent
3-D or just bad movies. Despite a slow summer, theater owners enjoyed a brisk business for much of this year as well as renewed confidence from Wall Street. The two biggest chains, Regal and Cinemark, this year saw an 18 percent and 36 percent spike in their respective share prices. Thanks to increasing ticket prices, particularly for 3-D and Imax screenings, box-office revenue often rises yearover-year. In 2012, however, ticket prices remained virtually unchanged from last year’s average of $7.93, underlining that revenue growth was fueled by more people trekking to the multiplex. The holiday season was particularly fruitful for STUDIO exhibitors, as films with broad appeal like “The ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ was one of the year’s biggest films, helping boost 2012 projections for Hobbit: An Unexpected Hollywood to record levels. Journey” and awards again high-budget Pattinson and Kristen over the same period in contenders including productions with built-in “Django Unchained” lured Stewart in the fifth and 2011. brand awareness — either people out of their homes. final installment of the Theater owners and sequels or films based on vampire romance. distribution experts are “Just looking at the popular comic books or “The old-school attributing the uptick in fourth quarter tells you novels. thought was that tent domestic business what works for us — a lot But it was a strong year poles ... didn’t need good primarily to better studio of diverse products, wellfor low-to-mid-budget, reviews, but I don’t think movies this year. Indeed, made movies and adult-oriented fare too: that’s the case anymore,” four of the five topsomething for everybody,” Ben Affleck’s CIA thriller said Richie Fay, president grossing films of the year said Patrick Corcoran, “Argo,” Steven Spielberg’s spokesman for the of domestic distribution — more commercially historical drama “Lincoln” National Assn. of Theatre for Lionsgate, which minded popcorn fare like “The Avengers,” “The Dark released both “The Hunger and the R-rated stripper Owners. “The only thing flick “Magic Mike” all Games” and the final Knight Rises,” “The missing this holiday crossed the $100-million “Twilight” picture. “If Hunger Games” and season was a strong family mark at the domestic box moviegoers see a title get “Skyfall” — were critical title.” office. good reviews, they’re darlings, notching an 85 Indeed, there were fewer For theater owners in the movies for parents and going to come out once — percent positive rating or U.S. and Canada, the rise and may come out a above on the film review their children to see in box-office receipts and together this Christmas — second or third time.” aggregation website The year’s top-grossing admissions has been a Rotten Tomatoes. The which is likely why the films also made a lot more welcome turnaround from PG-rated “Parental year’s fifth most popular 2011, when the sharp money than the top five title, “The Twilight Saga: Guidance” is performing pictures of 2011. This year, downturn pummeled the Breaking Dawn — Part 2,” better than anticipated. In three films collected more stocks of major chains and 2011, six animated or PGwasn’t received as prompted debate about than $400 million; last positively by reviewers, rated family titles were year, only two took in over what was to blame, but its young female fan released nationwide $300 million. As in recent including high ticket base still turned out in between Thanksgiving and years, the biggest hits were prices, waning interest in droves to see stars Robert Christmas, compared with
four this year. “My 11-year-old daughter has already seen ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ three times because there are so few options out there for a kid her age,” said Tara McNamara, Fandango’s “Film Mom,” who has three children. “So I suggested we go see ‘Life of Pi,’ which she had sized up by the trailer and thought looked super boring. So I said, ‘How about an iced tea and some candy?’ That worked, and then she ended up really loving it by the end.”
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viewing by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta led to immediate changes in policy. The film is also on the short list of potential documentary-Oscar nominees. “Killer Joe:” When a dunderhead hatches a scheme to kill his mother, he turns to a detective/ hitman who quickly develops his own agenda. It adds up to twisted, sometimes disturbing action, and more than a little weird humor. “Moonrise Kingdom:” I plan to look at this again back-to-back with “Damsels in Distress,” to enjoy a double dose of writer-directors with wit, special rhythms in dialogue, visual style and romantic streaks. The director here is Wes Anderson, the script by Anderson and Roman Coppola, the story about love between two 12-yearolds in 1965. The cast is stacked with Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand, among others, but the real joys are in the two leads, Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward.
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As 2012 ends, you don’t need me to tell you about “Marvel’s The Avengers” or “The Dark Knight Rises,” movies that were so big with audiences (and critics) that it was almost impossible to ignore them. You’ve already decided whether to buy them on DVD or Blu-ray. But every year brings a host of movies that you may not have seen, or even heard of. While some of them have been on critics’ best-of-2012 lists, and may get some love when the Oscar nominations are announced, they were still basically art-house efforts, ones that got into far fewer theaters than the blockbusters, and whose box-office revenues were a fraction of the big-ticket movies. And don’t get me wrong about the big tickets. I
very much liked “The Avengers” and “The Dark Knight Rises.” Still, I recommend the movies below as additional, mostly adult pleasures deserving a place on your video shelf. “Beasts of the Southern Wild:” A little girl named Hushpuppy lives in an isolated Louisiana community full of danger from a storm and from her emotionally unraveling father. Lapsing into fantasy in between confrontations with her grim but sometimes eerily beautiful life, Hushpuppy takes the audience on a mesmerizing journey. “Chico & Rita:” This animated musical begins in Cuba in 1948, where pianist Chico meets singer Rita, leading to conflict, passion, sex and a lot of music. Nominated for a best-animated-feature Oscar, the film at times slips into cliché in its
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