How to find a new movie?

Step 1: Go to this website to look at the different movie genres and movies in those categories. This will help you to decide what movie genre you would like to watch.

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Step 2: Then go to one of the numerous websites that shows movie trailers to look at them and see what movies look interesting to you. Check out IMBD for high definition trailers of movies that are in the theaters and upcoming releases.

Step 3: Once you have found a movie that you would like to see and would like to see what critics think of the movie check out one of these sites: metacritic.com or rottentomatoes.com

Step 4: Then after you have found a movie that interests you and it is in theaters then go online and find the closest movie theater to you. a good site to use is yellowbook or mapquest which will also give you directions.

Step 5: Once you have found a movie theater then either call for show times or check it out at the theaters home page online.

Step 6: While on the website or while calling the theater look to see if they have any bargain days in order to save some money.

Step 7: Pick a day and time during the week when you are available and ask some friends or family if they would be interested in joining you on your trip to the movies.

Step 8: Now go to the movies and get your ticket and possibly some popcorn and soda so you can enjoy the movie experience.

Step 9: It is good to get to the theaters early so that you can see the movie previews before the feature in case you see something that catches your eye. This way you can have an idea of what movie you would like to see next time.

Step 10: Lastly and most importantly sit back and relax and enjoy the show.

2009 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournment

So the selection process is over and 65 teams in college basketball have the opportunity to become the Nation's Best. It was very surprising that the Big East Conference got three of the four #1 seeds in the tournament. Louisville, Pittsburgh, and UConn along with North Carolina all got the top spots. With no clear cut best team this tournament may be one of the more interesting and exciting ever. Over the next two and a half weeks 64 teams will be eliminated and one team will stand above the rest, to cut down the net in victory. Here is a link to a full recap of the teams selected to this years tournament.

Box Office Results: February 27–March 1, 2009

Over the weekend the top seller at the box office was "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail," which made $16.5 million. This was a bit of a surprise since it beat out the "Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience" which opened this weekend at #2 and made $12.7 million. After winning numerous awards, including Best Picture, at the Oscars last weekend "Slumdog Millionaire" jumped from 5th to 3rd, and made $12.1 million. The film has been out for 16 weeks and is has made $115 million total. The movie "Taken" was #4 and made a little under $10 million. Also opening this week was "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" which made $4.6 million. Here is a link to the full results.

Books into Movies

One method that movie producers use to help them make a successful movie is to take a book and turn it into a movie. By doing this a movie that is an adaptation of a book has a built in audiance because sometimes someone who read the book might want to see the movie version. In the next few months there are several movies like Angles and Demons and Harry Potter are coming out that are film adaptations of novels. The films do not always do better then the novel version but sometimes they can come very close like Jaws, Godfather, and Charlotte’s Web. Here is a link to a site that ranks the best film adaptations.
There is one author whose novels should be turned into a moive and that is James Rollins. All of his books have the potential to be made into very successful films and there is even the possibility of a series, since some of the books are linked. Link to his site. The first novel that should be turned into a movie is Amazonia. This would be a great action adventure story with a touch of fantasy. It would make an extremely interesting movie, if done correctly. Here is the synopsis on the back of the book:
“The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world’s most inhospitable rainforest a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death, who went in with one arm missing and came out with both intact. Unable to comprehend this inexplicable event, the government sends Nathan Rand into this impenetrable secret world of undreamed-of perils, to follow the trail of his vanished father . . . toward mysteries that must be solved at any cost. But the nightmare that is awaiting Nate and his team of scientists and seasoned U.S. Rangers dwarfs any danger they anticipated; an ancient, unspoken terror, a power beyond human imagining, that can forever alter the world.”