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Working Our Mojo With IMDb’s Keith Simanton

For the second month in a row, Keith Simanton–IMDb’s Managing Editor–joined ComicBook.com to […]

For the second month in a row, Keith Simanton–IMDb’s Managing Editor–joined ComicBook.com to talk about the summer tentpole movies at the box office.While last month was almost entirely about The Avengers, this month was somewhat more balanced; while the movie industry is still coming off the hangover of The Avengers and Men in Black 3 was a disappointment, the presence of Snow White & The Huntsman (which beat expectations at the box office this past weekend) and an upcoming crop of potential blockbusters kept us pretty busy topic-hopping this month.It’s a lively conversation, and one that’s likely to be even more interesting next month, when Ted (which took the spot vacated by G.I. Joe: Retaliation) is leading into Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man.Russ Burlingame: Last week, we talked for almost two hours about The Avengers–after a thing like that you kind of think there’s nothing left to say, but then the last month has been all about The Avengers, to the point where it’s even the dominant story when it’s no longer the #1.Keith Simanton: Right. [The story] was its unseating. It’s one of those funny things–I don’t know if anyone is going to remember who unseated Titanic (which was, by the way, Lost in Space). Did you see Men in Black 3? You must have, right?RB: No, I haven’t! I had a family medical emergency and have been largely off the grid for a week. How was it?KS: It’s certainly not the PEZ dispenser of fun that Men in Black–very much like a PEZ dispenser with the first one, it ran out just in time. If you’d have had any more of it, you’d have probably gotten sick of it. This one actually starts out rather poorly; it’s grotesque, the principal villain is really off-putting, so it’s not really family-friendly–and it’s not particularly a funny film!What is rather interesting is by the end of it you’ve watched a nifty–and this is the most praise I can give it–a nifty little science-fiction/time-travel movie, which is okay.

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Men in Black this announcement KS: Bryan Singer House RB: Twilight KS: Stephenie Meyer Twilight: The Next Generation Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II Come back tomorrow night for more from our conversation, including some thoughts on the challenges faced by the Prometheus filmmakers in deciding how much to tell the audience and some thoughts on this weekend’s box office champ Snow White and the Huntsman.