If this is the day I’m going to have to live over for all eternity, I should make sure it’s a good one.

If you ever want a real film history trip, go back and look at what the all-time top-grossing movies were on a particular date. This one is from the First of January, 1990. Forty-five percent of it is Lucas/Spielberg, one of the films is fifty years old, and, at that point, Crocodile Dundee is one of the most successful movies ever made. Keep in mind that the average ticket price at this point hovered around four bucks, and when E.T. rampaged to the top it cost less than three dollars per ticket. Exactly two of these films continue to appear in the top range of all-time winners, while fourteen of the movies come from the last ten years. No disrespect to the various facets of The Lord of the Rings, of course, but the huge numbers at the top of the list seem less impressive when the ticket prices hit sixteen bucks in some parts of New York and Los Angeles.

This can also lead to an amazing self-curated film fest. Pick a date, like say the day you were born, and watch the most successful movies at that point. (Mine would include not only Animal House, but also Smokey and the Bandit. That’s a power duo if I’ve ever seen one.) You might just stumble upon a forgotten popular classic, something that still resonates with an audience. Because really, when was the last time you watched Rain Man?

Seventeen years ago tomorrow. 

Feel old, nineties kid!

The commemorative magazine: for the film fanatic who just can’t wait until their favorite movie gets to the local video store or shows up on TV. Those of us who were sucked into the high-altitude adventure of The Rocketeer, who wanted way more of Cliff Secord but knew that the VHS wouldn’t be in stock for months, threw our spending money this way, or towards the original graphic novel, or to the Disney Adventures issue featuring behind-the-scenes footage. 

totalfilm:

Logan’s Run remake set to start production next year

The retool of cult classic Logan’s Run will begin production in 2012 according to its producer, Joel Silver.

‘We’re really excited about the potential of that movie, ” Silver told Total Film. “We’re currently working on a script and when we have that we’re all gonna try to get that made  - hopefully next year.”

Silver is getting ready to release Sherlock Holmes 2 in December and reckons he knows a good cinematic duo when he sees them.

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Really? Really? Let’s just consider here that Logan’s Run has never been good. It was poor as a novel, ridiculous as a film, and all kinds of chintz as a television program. The idea is preposterous, stuck in a very Population Bomb pessimist’s seventies view of the future. Bryan Singer was smart enough to walk away. Will Refn and Gosling be? Can we get these guys doing anything else with their time? And I do mean anything. I’d take a reboot of Kids Incorporated or a CGI version of Dinosaurs with Gosling as Robbie and Crispin Glover as Earl before I’d want Logan’s Run anywhere near theaters again.

Actually, make that Dinosaurs movie. I’d buy infinity tickets to it.