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Screen Briefly.

Byline: The Register-Guard

So, if this is Friday,

where are the debuts?

Typically, Friday is the day for new releases to flood theaters, although distributors trying to get a jump on the weekend competition have been known to opt for a Wednesday premiere.

But Disney's decision not to have its latest feature-length animated feature compete with children's Halloween parties and trick-or-treating has resulted in some frightfully fright·ful  
adj.
1. Causing disgust or shock; horrifying.

2. Causing fright; terrifying.

3. Informal
a. Excessive; extreme: a frightful liar.

b.
 complex scheduling in the local multiplexes.

Rather than opening today, `Brother Bear' will debut Saturday. That gives Cinemark one more night to run the biopic bi·o·pic  
n.
A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes.


biopic
Noun

Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)]
 about martyred Irish journalist `Veronica Guerin'; don't put off seeing the Cate Blanchett Catherine Élise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969), better known as Cate Blanchett, is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. She has also won various awards, most notably including two SAGs and two BAFTAs, making her one of a few actors who won all  movie, though, because come Saturday, it's history.

Cinemark also plans a short run of the Kate Beckinsale thriller `Underworld' late Friday and Saturday nights, but by Monday, the vampires-vs.-werewolves flick will be dead.

Neither local theater had room, apparently, for the much-anticipated drama `The Human Stain,' based on the Philip Roth Noun 1. Philip Roth - United States writer whose novels portray middle-class Jewish life (born in 1933)
Philip Milton Roth, Roth
 novel and starring Anthony Hopkins Noun 1. Anthony Hopkins - Welsh film actor (born in 1937)
Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins, Hopkins
 and Nicole Kidman. It's opening today across the country, but not in Eugene-Springfield.

And if you think the schedules will settle down next week, forget it. There's a little movie called `The Matrix Revolutions' that's set to open on Wednesday, and it will kick films off several screens at Cinema World and Cinemark.

Coldplay concert film

will screen in Portland

"Coldplay Live 2003," a concert film and tour documentary featuring the Grammy Award-winning band, will have a big screen premiere at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Regal theaters across the country, including the Lloyd Center Lloyd Center is also the name of a non-profit organization that provides educational programs on aquatic environments in southeastern New England.

Lloyd Center is a shopping mall in the Lloyd District of Portland, Oregon.
 Stadium 10 Cinema, 1410 N.E. Multnomah Blvd., Portland.

The band will release a two-disc live DVD/CD on Tuesday. It will focus on the band's July 21-22 performances at the Hordern Pavilion The Hordern Pavilion is a building located in Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales, on the grounds of the old Sydney Showground. "The Hordern", as it is affectionally known by Sydneysiders, has been an architecturally and socially significant Sydney landmark since its construction  in Sydney, Australia.

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