entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 5/25/2008
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He has battled against Nazi villains, a Beduin swordsman and a pit of poisonous snakes. Now Indiana Jones can add the Communist Party of St Petersburg to his list of adversaries. Party leaders accused the actors Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett yesterday of promoting crude, anti-Soviet propaganda in their new film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . They have urged Russian ...
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Ticked-Off Russkis
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Ticked-Off Russkis The actions of Cate Blanchett 's Irina Spalko and her Russian henchman in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull are, of course, "rubbish," as St. Petersburg Communist Party chief Sergei Malinkovich has said . Are the film's Russian dissers really this incapable of getting the pop-humor context? More likely they simply saw an opportunity for some press and ran with the indignation. Commies aren't quoted that often these days. âOur moviegoers are teenagers who are unaware of what happened in 1957 will go to the cinema and will be sure that ...
Fact-checking Indiana Jones
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... aside, not everyone is loving the new Indiana Jones movie. A number of folks have quibbles about the movie's accuracy. (Let's not even get started on these guys' complaint.) Over at ...
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'Jones' nabs $126 mil opening weekend —
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Paramount's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" has dug up an estimated $126 million since its opening at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Par also projected a $25 million haul for Monday, which would give the first Indy sequel in 19 years a ...
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'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' has taken in $101 million in its first weekend, and $126 million since Thursday, with one day of the long holiday weekend remaining, according to ...
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