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Recent B.O. Failures Point To White-Guy Oversaturation, Suggests Cheech Marin

4:31AM Seth | Cheech Marin spoke with The A.V. Club. about his eclectic career, along the way recalling friend Peter Sellers’ potent Heathrow welcome gifts, and explaining why Body of Lies was too white for its own good. More »

‘I’m Mark Wahlberg. I Star In ‘Max Payne.”

2:04AM Seth | Time to unzip your Happy Weekend Suit and step back into your Monday Morning Iron Maiden: The work week is again upon us. Quick—jumpstart your productivity with some US box office numbers before someone finds your position detrimental to the bottom line:

Yappy ‘Chihuahua’ Insurgency Holds Its Ground

3:23AM STV | It might be a holiday for some of you, but even on Columbus Day, the whip cracks for the number-crunchers and trend-spotters at Defamer HQ. Their work today yields the surprising latest installment of Monday Morning Box Office, in which a low-budget thriller surprised even its own studio and Leonardo DiCaprio is furious after stomping out a flaming bag of chihuahua crap. Read on for the details.

45 Percent of Critics Can’t Be Wrong About ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua’

5:35AM STV | We said it once, but it bears repeating in streets and valleys far and wide: It’s opening day for Beverly Hills Chihuahua! ZOMG, right? At least we thought so, but despite our all-consuming anticipation and lobbying on its behalf, Defamer’s fevered attempts to break down the Disney wall for an early viewing were met with repeated, unappreciative radio silence. And because the world’s first review — a rave, natch — seemed suspiciously exempt from the studio’s embargo, it’s only now that we can reliably study the critical spectrum. And just as we thought: It’s almost half-good! Or, more realistically, the reviews catalogued at Rotten Tomatoes are just about split, but that can’t deter our optimism — even the slags after the jump have us clamoring for quitting time: More »

Chihuahua Attack Snares Michael Cera, Megan Fox and Others in Box-Office Bloodshed

2:25AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your weekly guide to everything new, thrilling and thoroughly unnecessary at the movies. And we’ve got plenty of each to go around today as seven films are opening or expanding on 1,000 or more screens, a pair of Oscar-chasing indies open small and a legion of talking dogs threaten to overtake the box office. You can’t say we didn’t warn you. So read on for our picks, poxes and DVD alternatives for those of you too overwhelmed to face the multiplex. We feel your pain. As always, our opinions are our own, but with unfailing taste and accuracy like this, why argue? More »

Critic: ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua’ Breaks Shallow New Ground in Mexican-American Relations

3:30AM STV | Photographic evidence of last Saturday’s dogs-only preview of Beverly Hills Chihuahua has arrived at Defamer HQ, and it looks like precisely the kind of shrill, infernal canine redoubt we thought might occur when more than 300 chihuahuas and their owners piled into the Fine Arts Theatre. The user reviews to date are positive overall (”IT WAS THE BEST MOVE [sic] EVER !!!! THANK YOU !!!” wrote one satisfied small-dog exploiter], but only trustworthy to the extent you can rely on the taste of people who stuff diminutive pooches into makeshift sweaters, tuxedos and other garments for a day on on the town. More »

Own the First Dog on Your Block to See ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua’

3:20AM STV | As noted in this morning’s Fall Movie Hell forecast, the world’s breathless anticipation of Beverly Hills Chihuahua is nearing its Oct. 3 payoff. But now Disney is offering a special class of Angeleno the world’s first look at the finished film, and we have to admit, some of us are more than a little jealous: More »

Oscar-Winner Brad Pitt, Resurgent Weinsteins and 9 Other Bold Predictions For Fall Movie Hell

1:55AM STV | Our office’s crystal ball usually tends to function best on Fridays — and even then, as we handicap new releases in our Defamer Attractions column, it can be a tad hinky. But after a few weeks of painstaking inquiry, we think we now have a handle on some of the fall movie slate’s biggest revelations to come. Will Brad Pitt backward-age his way to Oscar immortality? Is Twilight really the best investment for your vampire-movie dollars? Can Beverly Hills Chihuahua live up to its exceptional promise? Follow the jump for answers to those and a few of the season’s other pressing questions. Feel free to scan your own tea leaves as well; our own oracle shuddered and crapped out the minute we asked about Australia, so any and all input is welcome. Onward!