>Stephen Brody worried: > > Colleagues - Perhaps the most intelligent movie produced by >mainstream Hollywood since "L. A. Confidential" is in danger of >dying a premature death. "Three Kings" did not do as well as >expected during its opening weekend, October 1-3, and is widely >rumored to have been dropped by Warner Brothers promotions, even >though the studio paid $50 million for it. > I was quite surprised to read such a plea on Screen-L. And I am not so sure I should "save" a film whose market value amounts to $48 million. Maybe my energies are best directed towards those indie gems that die a premature death after showing for a week at an art house in NYC's Greenwich Village -- as Godard put it: "in memoriam small films." Gloria Monti ______________________________ gloria monti special assistant professor department of audio/video/film 318 dempster hall 111 hofstra university hempstead, NY voice mail: 516-463-6463 e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~godard/index.html 10/12/1942: Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the U.S. would no longer be considered enemy aliens. ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite