{"id":1070,"date":"2008-01-28T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/a-few-more-movies-not-screened-for-critics\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T13:20:00","slug":"a-few-more-movies-not-screened-for-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/a-few-more-movies-not-screened-for-critics.html","title":{"rendered":"A few more movies not screened for critics."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R55NwXBvx8I\/AAAAAAAABEM\/F_jYsaW6Eio\/s1600-h\/eye.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R55NwXBvx8I\/AAAAAAAABEM\/F_jYsaW6Eio\/s400\/eye.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"193\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R55Nw3Bvx9I\/AAAAAAAABEU\/KoHBsXxgqt8\/s1600-h\/strangewilderness.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R55Nw3Bvx9I\/AAAAAAAABEU\/KoHBsXxgqt8\/s400\/strangewilderness.jpg\" width=\"197\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">Well, at least two, anyway.  Sources tell me there will be <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/this-movie-was-not-screened-for-critics.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">no press screenings<\/a> for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0406759\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Eye<\/a><\/i> \u2014 no surprise there, since it is <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/two-more-movies-not-screened-for.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">yet another<\/a> American remake of an Asian horror film and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">yet another<\/a> Jessica Alba movie and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for_13.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">yet another<\/a> film distributed by Lionsgate \u2014 while <a href=\"http:\/\/kylesmithonline.com\/?p=876\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kyle Smith<\/a> reports that there will also be no press screenings for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0489282\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Strange Wilderness<\/a><\/i>, which again is no surprise because, like the similarly non-screened <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/this-movie-was-not-screened-for.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Grandma\u2019s Boy<\/a><\/i> (2006) and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/newsbites-nativity-potter-terabithia.html#7\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Benchwarmers<\/a><\/i> (2006), it is an Adam Sandler-produced film that does not star Adam Sandler.  Both films open this Friday \u2014 as does <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1127884\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hannah Montana &amp; Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour<\/a><\/i>, which is being distributed by Disney, at least in the United States, but for all I know might not have any press screenings either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>FEB 1 UPDATE:  It looks like <i>Hannah Montana<\/i> was screened for at least a <i>few<\/i> people \u2014 the film opens later today (it is currently 2:45am), and there are eight reviews linked at <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/1190286-_hannah_montana_and_miley_cyrus_best_of_both_worlds_concert\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> already, whereas there are still no reviews linked there for <i>The Eye<\/i> or <i>Strange Wilderness<\/i>.  However, <i>Hannah Montana<\/i> isn\u2019t even <i>opening<\/i> in Vancouver, whereas the other two films <i>are<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least two, anyway. Sources tell me there will be no press screenings for The Eye \u2014 no surprise there, since it is yet another American remake of an Asian horror film and yet another Jessica Alba movie and yet another film distributed by Lionsgate \u2014 while Kyle Smith reports that there will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A few more movies not screened for critics.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Well, at least two, anyway. 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