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Name: John Cairns
Location: Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada
Reject Since: April 2007
Email: jcairns@filmschoolrejects.com
Bio: John Cairns has a wide and varied background in journalism in Canada. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Western Ontario and gained considerable on-air experience on TV in the greater Toronto area, including internships at two major TV networks in Canada. He’s done news and sports reporting and now is taking a stab at entertainment writing. He credits his stint as a volunteer at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival as the spark for his interest in pursuing film writing. He recently moved out of Toronto, back to his hometown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he hopes to pursue radio and TV opportunities. He can also be read at his blog, The Cairns Blog (http://johncairns.blogspot.com/).
Posts by John Cairns:
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t’s only been two weeks, but the first major train wreck of the summer movie season is in the books. Or maybe I ought to say “car wreck”, because Speed Racer crashed in spectacular fashion and was killed at the box office. Comments (12) |
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Reject Report: Here Comes Speed Racer! It is shaping up to be quite a race this weekend, one of the most dramatic box-office showdowns of the year in fact. Will it be the challenger, Speed Racer, or the defending champion Iron Man that takes the checkered flag this week at the box office? Comments (1) |
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Box Office: $100 Million for Iron Man This was the weekend of Iron Man, all right. It was a dominant, crushing victory at the box office for the latest Marvel superhero success. It made not $80 million, not $90 million — but $100 million dollars!!! Comments (1) |
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Reject Report: The Weekend of Iron Man It’s time to take a break from playing Grand Theft Auto 4 to enjoy the Reject Report’s predictions for the official kickoff of the summer blockbuster movie season. Be the First To Comment |
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The Reject Report Summer Blockbuster Preview The summer movie season is finally here. And when it comes to the box office, there is no one better than our John Cairns and The Reject Report. In this special edition, he makes some bold predictions about this year’s summer box office results. Comments (4) |
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Box Office: Harold and Kumar Get Stoned Again, This Time By Baby Mama What can I say? It was another winning performance at the box office for Tina Fey as Baby Mama won with an $18 million gross. And as usual, it was another losing performance at the theaters for Harold and Kumar, whose Escape from Guantanamo Bay wound up trailing in second with $14.5 million. But don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll do well on DVD. Comments (2) |
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The Reject Report Escapes from Guantanamo Bay This weekend looks to be a bit of a disappointment at the cash register, I am sad to say. All the die-hard movie fans out there would really like to see Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay do well, but it has stiff competition from Baby Mama and from Deception, the other new movies this weekend. Comments (1) |
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Box Office: Sarah Marshall Gets Dumped Well, it was Sarah Marshall who got dumped this weekend at the box office. Or better yet, it was Judd Apatow who got dumped — not by Sarah Marshall, but by the moviegoing public, AGAIN. Comments (1) |
