{"id":982,"date":"2008-03-12T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for-critics-13\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T02:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T02:38:00","slug":"yet-another-movie-not-screened-for-critics-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for-critics-13.html","title":{"rendered":"Yet another movie 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:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R9emKe6t8HI\/AAAAAAAABXU\/j48IlNRpWYU\/s1600-h\/doomsday-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R9emKe6t8HI\/AAAAAAAABXU\/j48IlNRpWYU\/s400\/doomsday-a.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">My sources tell me that <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0483607\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doomsday<\/a><\/i> \u2014 the latest film from Neil Marshall, writer-director of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000IHY9TS\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Descent<\/a><\/i> (2005) \u2014 will be opening this Friday <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/this-movie-was-not-screened-for-critics.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">without being screened<\/a> for critics in advance.  That would seem to be backed up by the fact that there are currently no reviews of the film at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/doomsday\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Metacritic<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/doomsday\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, both of which would usually have <i>something<\/i> to link to by now.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sources tell me that Doomsday \u2014 the latest film from Neil Marshall, writer-director of The Descent (2005) \u2014 will be opening this Friday without being screened for critics in advance. That would seem to be backed up by the fact that there are currently no reviews of the film at Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes, [&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-982","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>Yet another movie not screened for critics.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My sources tell me that Doomsday -- the latest film from Neil Marshall, writer-director of The Descent (2005) -- will be opening this Friday without being\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for-critics-13.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yet another movie not screened for critics.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My sources tell me that Doomsday -- the latest film from Neil Marshall, writer-director of The Descent (2005) -- will be opening this Friday without being\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/yet-another-movie-not-screened-for-critics-13.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-03-12T02:38:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R9emKe6t8HI\/AAAAAAAABXU\/j48IlNRpWYU\/s400\/doomsday-a.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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