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Cameron Diaz's 'Box' One Of The Worst Films Of All Time?...the worst films of all time by moviegoers - just days after its release. The thriller, based on Richard Matheson' 1970 short story "Button, Button," has been panned by film buffs in America, with officials at CinemaScore, who monitor fan... In this article: Cameron Diaz, Button, Button, Richard Matheson, The Box, and Wolf Creek |
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New Kerala | 4 days ago
Diaz starrer 'The Box' panned by all
...one of the worst movies of all time by moviegoers - just days after its US release. The thriller based on Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button", has not only been panned by film buffs, the officials from CinemaScore -- a...
In this article: The Box, Cameron Diaz, Richard Matheson, Hollywood, London, and US
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Columbia Daily Tribune | November 12, 2009
NEW THIS WEEK: A REAL PANDORA'S BOX
Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story "Button, Button" - about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a box that will instantly cause someone they don't...
In this article: Richard Kelly, Richard Matheson, James Marsden, The Box, Frank Langella, Cameron Diaz, The Twilight Zone, and Southland Tales
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The Salt Lake Tribune | November 09, 2009
Weighty issues can't be contained in 'The Box'
...thriller will relate. Director-screenwriter Richard Kelly, the man who gave us "Donnie Darko," adapts Richard Matheson's 1970 short story "Button, Button" (the basis of an episode of the mid-'80s re-do of "The Twilight Zone") into a...
In this article: The Box, Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Richard Kelly, Richard Matheson, NASA, and The Twilight Zone
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USATODAY.com | November 06, 2009
Red Carpet Report: 'The Box'
...this one is a little more in their wheelhouse. There's no cursing in the entire movie!" Film trivia:The Box is based on the short story Button, Button by Richard Matheson, which originally appeared in Playboy in 1970. "See, there are good...
In this article: The Box, Richard Kelly, Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Donnie Darko, Jimmy Fallon, USA Today, and Twitter
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The Seattle Times | November 06, 2009
'The Box': A stylish, intriguing mess from 'Donnie Darko' director
...in the second half of "The Box," writer-director Richard Kelly's adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1970 tale "Button, Button," during which the film threatens to cave in under the weight of all the disparate elements Kelly has added. But...
In this article: The Box, Richard Kelly, Donnie Darko, Richard Matheson, Frank Langella, James Marsden, and Cameron Diaz
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New York Times | November 06, 2009
Movie Review 'The Box': Simplifying One Life, Complicating Another
...a worldview, puzzling through the great questions, or fast-working himself into a creative impasse, maybe all three. Based on "Button, Button," a short story by the fantasy writer Richard Matheson, "The Box" is the first of the movies...
In this article: Richard Kelly, James Marsden, The Box, Cameron Diaz, Richard Matheson, and Frank Langella
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boston.com - Latest movie news | November 06, 2009
The Box
...is both an impersonation of a good horror score and the real thing. Kelly based the film on a 1970 short story by Richard Matheson called "Button, Button,'' which was turned into an episode of "The Twilight Zone,'' when the series returned...
In this article: The Box, Richard Kelly, Frank Langella, James Marsden, Cameron Diaz, Southland Tales, Donnie Darko, and Virginia
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Miami Herald | November 05, 2009
'The Box' filmmaker Richard Kelly pushes his viewers' buttons
BY RENE RODRIGUEZ Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story Button, Button -- about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a box that will instantly cause...
In this article: Richard Kelly, The Box, Richard Matheson, Southland Tales, The Miami Herald, The Twilight Zone, James Marsden, Frank Langella, and Cameron Diaz
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Entertainment Weekly | November 05, 2009
Movie Review: The Box
...have imagined (or wanted). It's no coincidence that The Box plays like the world's murkiest Twilight Zone episode. It's loosely based on ''Button, Button,'' a short story by Richard Matheson, who wrote some of the series' greatest scripts,...
In this article: The Box, Arthur Lewis, Frank Langella, Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Donnie Darko
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South Bend Tribune | November 05, 2009
'The Box' best left unopened
...James Marsden and Frank Langella. A Warner Bros. film written and directed by Richard Kelly, based on Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button." Length: 115 minutes. PG-13 (for thematic elements, some violence and disturbing images).
In this article: The Box, Richard Kelly, Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Richard Matheson, Frank Langella, and NASA
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Button, Button is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in a January 1953 issue of Startling Stories. It is one of several stories by Asimov in which he deliberately set out to be funny.
An eccentric professor develops a method of linking brain power to creating physical effects, but when his effect is modified to create weapons of war, he turns in disgust to the real love of his life - creating a flute that can be played by mental power alone.
To raise the capital required for this project, he colludes with his nephew - a less-than-ethical lawyer and the story's narrator - to use a new invention of his that can reach back into time and retrieve objects. (as also occurs in The Ugly Little Boy and A Statue for Father)
They plan to retrieve a signature of one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, Button Gwinnett, which is rare and therefore potentially valuable. The experiment works and they present a piece of genuine parchment with a genuine signature to the government for authentication. The scheme fails when the government investigators decide that the parchment is too new to be genuine. (Since it skipped forward hundreds of years in time, the parchment scrap only appears to be a year or two old).
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