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$\"\"$ <\/a>I almost forgot to mention this one. Lou Lumenick<\/a> and others have noted that the horror film The Abandoned<\/a><\/i> opened south of the border last Friday without advance critics screenings<\/a> \u2014 which is kind of odd, since the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and it was seen around the United States in November as one of eight films on the After Dark Horrorfest<\/a> ticket. As another blogger asked: If, after showing the film in public like that, the studio thought it was good enough to run off almost a thousand prints instead<\/i> of sending it straight to DVD, why be so coy?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"