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[Colin]

This weekends movie releases runs the gamut of movies... you got movies about human emotion (A.I <robotic emotion?> and Baby Boy) Teen Angst Drama (Crazy/Beautiful) ...and something from MTV (Pootie Tang). I think it's probably a safe bet to say that AI will probably top the box office this week, with the other four landing somewhere in the top 5, tho I'm not too incredibly sure about Pootie Tang on that one...

Here's the round up on the movies.

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
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Science Fiction/Fantasy and Drama.
Rated PG-13 for some sexual content and violent images.

Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards and William Hurt.
Directed by Steven Spielberg.
Produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Bonnie Curtis.
Written by Steven Spielberg.

Distributor: Warner Brothers More Credits



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Release Date: June 29, 2001 Nationwide

Synopsis

Sometime in the distant future, after the polar icecaps have melted, major flooding has devastated most major cities and the world is now run by robots with highly sophisticated artificial intelligence. In the midst of it all stands one boy and a robotic teddy bear who long for something more...

Baby Boy (2001)
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Drama. 2 hrs. 08 min.
Rated R for strong sexuality, language, violence, and some drug use.

Starring: Tyrese Gibson, Ving Rhames, Omar Gooding, Taraji Henson and Calvin Broadus.
Directed by John Singleton.
Produced by John Singleton and Paul Hall.
Written by John Singleton.

Distributor: Columbia Tristar



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Release Date: June 27, 2001 Nationwide (That's Wednesday, Folks!)

Synopsis

From director John Singleton (BOYZ N THE HOOD) comes BABY BOY, starring Tyrese Gibson and Snoop Doggy Dog. The film picks up where BOYZ left off, following the daily life, relationships, and conflicts of a young man who's unemployed, living with his mother, with two love interests: his wife and his girlfriend.

crazy/beautiful (2001)
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Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving teens, drug/alcohol content, sexuality and language.

Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Taryn Manning, Keram Malicki-Sanchez and Bruce Davison.
Directed by John Stockwell.
Produced by Harry Ufland, Mary Jane Ufland and Rachel Pfeffer.
Written by Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay.

Distributor: Touchstone Pictures



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Release Date: June 29, 2001 Nationwide

Synopsis

Kirsten Dunst stars in this teen drama about a romance between two teenagers at an L.A. high school. Dunst plays a bored and rebellious rich girl. Her romantic interest, a hardworking poor kid from East L.A., is played by Jay Hernandez. Directed by John Stockwell, CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL proves the road to true love is often a rocky one.

Pootie Tang (2001)
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Comedy.
Rated PG-13 for sex related material, language and drug content.

Starring: Lance Crouther, Chris Rock, J.B. Smoove, J D Williams and Jennifer Coolidge.
Directed by Louis C.K..
Produced by Dave Becky, Ali LeRoi, Cotty Chubb, David Gale and Michael Rotenberg.
Written by Louis C.K..

Distributor: Paramount Pictures More Credits



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Release Date: June 29, 2001 Nationwide

Synopsis

In this comedy starring Chris Rock, children worship Pootie Tang, even though he has an odd speech impediment that makes him impossible to comprehend. Pootie Tang is determined to protect kids from an capitalizing pig, Dick Lecter, who tries to hook kids on bad habits like smoking and drinking.

[The Mad Hatter]

I've been looking forward to AI for a while now, but I had no idea there was a sequel to Boyz N the Hood coming out... cool, I'll have to look for it.

But... "Pootie Tang?" I'm better off not knowing.

[Sharklady]

I don't know about which movie will do best.

But, from the descriptions, there's no doubt in my mind about which one *deserves* to do best. AI sounds like the only one with any substance to it.

[Danielle]

There's also the fact that commercials for AI are on, oh, every 5 minutes or so?

[Peace Keeper]

There is some online game for AI, where people try to solve a murder w/ information they attain through encoded E-mails and fake news articles on websites. It's been going on for at least several months now.

NOTICE how it flashes "this is not a game" in all the tv comercials. Well, it is a game. In the earlier comercials, random letters of the credits would b/c highlighted in red. If you put those letters together, it forms a clue. This game is a Publicity campaign, and it is estimated that 10 thousand people are playing it.

[Danielle]

Cool. How do I get there?