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Cameron Diaz's 'Box' One Of The Worst Films Of All Time?...one of 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... In this article: Cameron Diaz, Button, Button, Richard Matheson, The Box, and Wolf Creek |
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boston.com - Latest movie news | November 06, 2009
The Box
...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 the 1980s. The grim shots of TVs,...
In this article: The Box, Richard Kelly, Frank Langella, James Marsden, Cameron Diaz, Southland Tales, Donnie Darko, and Virginia
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Salon | November 05, 2009
The creepy suspense inside The Box
...more of a discomforting "Twilight Zone" vibe, not surprising since the movie is based on a 1970 short story written by Richard Matheson ("Button, Button"), which was in turn adapted into a "Twilight Zone" episode during the show's 1980s...
In this article: The Box, Richard Kelly, Richard Matheson, James Marsden, Scott Walker, Frank Langella, and Cameron Diaz
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New Kerala | November 16, 2009
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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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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Thinking outside ‘The Box’
...Tales. '' He's looking to rebound with the Friday release of "The Box,'' his adaptation of the 1970 short story "Button, Button'' by venerable genre writer Richard Matheson ("I Am Legend,'' "What Dreams May Come''). The premise:...
In this article: Richard Kelly, James Marsden, Donnie Darko, Cameron Diaz, Richard Matheson, Frank Langella, and San Diego
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Columbia Daily Tribune | November 12, 2009
NEW THIS WEEK: A REAL PANDORA'S BOX
...drop dead - came not on the page, but on TV. "As a bunch of attorneys have informed me, I am not allowed to exploit the name of a certain television program to help promote the movie," Kelly said. However, Kelly first experienced Matheson's...
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 Seattle Times | November 06, 2009
'The Box': A stylish, intriguing mess from 'Donnie Darko' director
...into digestible narratives. "Button, Button" was previously adapted for the 1980s revival of "The Twilight Zone," and the story underwent such radical changes that Matheson had his name removed from the episode. But the name remains among...
In this article: The Box, Richard Kelly, Donnie Darko, Richard Matheson, Frank Langella, James Marsden, and Cameron Diaz
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L.A. Times - Entertainment News | July 26, 2009
Comic-Con: Richard Kelly on 'The Box'
...Langella) bearing a fairly nondescript-looking contraption. He tells them that if they press the button on top of the unit, they will receive $1 million, but a stranger will die. Just before Kelly debuted new footage at Comic-Con on Friday,...
In this article: The Box, Southland Tales, Richard Kelly, Richard Matheson, Virginia, NASA, James Marsden, and Cameron Diaz
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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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