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Disney princess adventure-comedy enchants the box office
The Disney adventure/comedy movie Enchanted took home a bundle of money at the box office over the 5-day Thanksgiving weekend landing it on nr-1 for highest grossing movie of the 2007 Thanksgiving.
Enchanted earned a total of $50 million over the weekend took in the most money from Friday to Sunday grossig over $35 million.
Here’s is the Top-10 top grossing movies over from Friday-Sunday according to estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Enchanted, $35.3 million
2. This Christmas, $18.6 million
3. Beowulf, $16.2 million
4. Hitman, $13 million
5. Bee Movie, $12 million
6. Fred Claus, $10.7 million
7. August Rush, $9.4 million
8. American Gangster, $9.2 million
9. The Mist, $9.1 million
10. No Country for Old Men, $8.1 million
Futurama Movie ‘Bender’s Big Score’ leaked!!
Here are some good news for our fellow lovers of Futurama, the movie ‘Bender’s Big Score’ has leaked online!
We don’t know how but the movie set to be released direct to dvd in a week has already made it online to several movie sharing networks such as Stage6, piratebay and quicksilverscreen.com
No doubt a lot of Futurama fans will love this, one wonders what Matt Groening and company thinks.
Support the series and get Futurama back on the air - Buy Futurama - Bender’s Big Score
Friday the 13th Remake
First Halloween, and now Friday the 13th?
Ugh.
Hollywood is continuing in its current trend of remaking EVERYTHING by rebooting the widely popular and crappily sequeled Camp Crystal Lake horror story. Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (of Freddy v. Jason fame) have been attached to write the script that will go to shoot in early 2008.
My question is: why can’t anyone do an original horror film?
We’ve had remakes of Halloween, Hills Have Eyes, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Black Christmas, When a Stranger Calls, Friday the 13th (upcoming), Prom Night (upcoming), The Fog, Carrie, Amityville Horror, and many others.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Sleepaway Camp was next. I mean, who couldn’t see little Dakota Fanning covered in blood, packing an, um, extra tool…
Any other remakes you guys would like to see made? April Fools Day anyone?
You Cast It: Hollywood Brats
Joe Nasser, the producer behind the Anna Nicole Smith movie, has announced plans to begin filming a biopic on the trials, tribulations, and probably crotch-exposing of Hollywood’s four hottest celebretards: Paris, Lindsay, Nicole, and Britney. While he’s going with the title Hollywood Brats, I kind of feel The Four Whores of the Apocalypse might be more fitting.
The film has yet to be cast, so who are your top picks to play the felonious young ladies?
My picks would be:
Tori Spelling as Nicole Ritchie
Caitlin Upton (Miss Teen South Carolina) as Paris Hilton
Nikki Blonsky as Britney Spears
And Courtney Love as Lindsay Lohan
And I Am Telling You…
I am going!
Yipee! Jennifer Hudson, the original big girl from Dreamgirls, has just signed on to star as Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker’s) assistant in Sex and the City: The Movie.
Sure, she can act, and she can sing. But can she still look good while having sex in a sling and Manolo Blahniks (and nothing else)? That’s what seems to separate the girls from the women over at SATC, so only time will tell!
I think she’ll definitely make a welcome addition to the line-up, though. It’s about time the show had a big girl play an integral role. And NO, Mario Cantone doesn’t count as a “big girl” no matter how many ovaries we suspect he has!
Here is a copy of the casting call for today’s SATC auditions. Interestingly enough, they forgot to leave out “tranny hooker types who enjoy martinis.” I’m hoping that was just an oversight!
“SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE” starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis & Chris Noth.
Casting Date: Tuesday, Sept. 11
Open Call Time:
-SAG: 10am-12:30pm
-Non-SAG: 1-5pmOpen Call Location:
German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Paul
315 W. 22nd Street (bet 8th & 9th Aves)
NYCShoot Dates: Mid-September through mid- December.
Background Talent:
Males and females, any ethnicity. To play socialites, fashionistas, models, ladies who lunch, movie & music industry types, Vogue staff, hair & makeup crew, photographers, business men & women, high powered execs, artists, musicians, hipsters, east village rockers (piercings/ tattoos), Chelsea guys, & L.A. movie industry types. We are seeking very specific types and are recommending that performers arrive at the open call in wardrobe with your hair & makeup reflecting the particular type you are submitting for (no wardrobe allowances will be paid for open calls).
Be prepared to have a digital photo taken and bring a headshot & resume.
If you are unable to attend the open call, please mail hardcopy of headshot and resume to:
Grant Wilfley Casting Inc.
123 W. 18th Street, 8th floor
NY, NY 10011.
(PS…anyone else find it ironic that the casting call was held in a church?)
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The Miscasting of Magnum
OK, before I begin, let’s get two things straight:
- Tom Selleck is hot, regardless of that thing over his lip.
- Nic Cage is NOT hot. Ever. Not ever.
So, why then, is there even a rumor that Nicholas Cage is playing the mustached P.I.? Does Universal Studios hate me? Do they simply want to mock me? Or is it that they really hate themselves, as I secretly suspect?
Nic is reported as saying that he “likes the mix of comedy and crime-solving in the script.” No, what he really likes is that people are still offering him a paycheck after Wicker Man. Honestly, and I’m not just trying to be a dick here for the sake of being a dick, the last movies that Cage did where he was even remotely tolerable as an actor were Raising Arizona and Peggy Sue Got Married. Everything after that has been pure, unadulterated crap.
And now, so will Magnum P.I.
They’d better not even THINK about trying to bring back those hideous Hawaiian shirts, or I’m gonna climb a clocktower.
Holy Jolie! Angelina’s Privates!
With all the press coverage Brangelina gets, you might be wondering, “Is there anything we haven’t seen or heard about them yet?”
Why yes…yes there is. Angelina’s vagelina, to be exact.
But I’m sorry guys (and some of you gals), since all you who’ve been waiting for the day that you’d get to see her nudie patoodie are going to just have to settle for a CGI-enhanced view of the unholy land.
The R-rated version of the Beowulf trailer (which I see quite often at the theatre and ALWAYS shake my head at and say ” Oh God, that looks stupid”) is finally available online, and yes, you do get to see the treasures that have been bestowed upon Brad Pitt for the low, low price of his immortal soul.
Be careful, though. This trailer is definitely NSFW.
Video: R-Rated Trailer for Beowulf
Zac Attack
Aaaah, it’s good to be back after a long Labor Day weekend.
So let’s talk for a minute about Zac Efron. It seems that everywhere I turn, I see his face, read his name, or hear some latest “news” about the High School Musical phenom. I don’t want to talk about High School Musical (because honestly, the less said, the better), though, and I don’t want to talk about Hairspray. I do, however, want to talk about another grooming product that Zac seems to be all-to-familiar with…
Make-up.
More after the jump!
106 Things To Do At A Movie Theater
Soooo, we got bored and decided to come up with everything we could think of that you can do to entertain yourself in a movie theater besides watching the movie. Just a fair warning you might get you might get your ass kicked… enjoy
- If it’s a Disney film, go up to the projector room and replace the film with an adult film.
- Talk loudly to a friend. Whenever someone else makes the slightest noise, tell them they are inconsiderate little bastards for disrupting your viewing pleasure.
- Hum the theme song of the movie out loud.
- Make finger puppets in front of the projector.
- When gunshots ring out in the movie yell, “Bang! Bang!”
- Clap when the good guy gets killed.
- Make a noise like your passing gas and say, “Ahh….”
- Start wheezing and ask the person next to you if you can have some Juji Fruits for your asthma.
- During the previews, yell, “Can you fast forward it?”
- When the bad guy is about to do something devious, yell at the top of your lungs, “Watch out!”
- Laugh very loudly at all the corny jokes.
- Tell the man selling popcorn that the girl’s bathroom is flooding.
- If you’ve seen the movie before, at the climax, yell out what happens next.
Halloween: The Review
It wasn’t as bad as Saw III.
And that is about as nice as I can be about Rob Zombie’s “revisioning” of John Carpenter’s fright classic Halloween. After I sat through a very long hour and 49 minutes of Zombie’s take on the masterpiece, I was left with one lingering question: Why?
Why would you remake a classic if you couldn’t do it any better than the original?
Why the excessive violence, gore, and gratuitous language?
Why are there so many shots of bare-breasted, bloody women crawling across the floor on their elbows?
Why does EVERYONE bleed from the mouth, even if they’ve only been hit in the knee?
Why did I pay $8.50 to see a Rob Zombie movie when I thought House of 1000 Corpses was a total p.o.s.?
Yeah….why is about the only question I had left after viewing the film, because every other possible aspect of Michael Myers’ dingy, white-trash existence is thoroughly covered in the movie. There is nothing left to the imagination, which leads me to a very important complaint about horror movies of today: serial killers don’t need back stories!
Honestly, was Hannibal Lecter any scarier when we found out his sister was eaten by Russians? No. Was Leatherface any more terrifying when we found out he was a bastard child? No. And is Michael Myers any more frightening now that we know his stepfather was a jackass? No. In fact, quite the opposite happens, and the killers have a face, have feelings, and intermingle sympathy as well as disgust.
If I wanted that kind of emotional breakthrough, I’d watch Oprah. Or go back into therapy.
I want my bad guys scary, dumb, and fast. I don’t care if their little baby feelings were hurt in school or if their moms didn’t breast feed them. I just don’t care. Kill, be killed, and resurrect. That’s all I ask for from a horror-star.
Halloween gives much, much more…to its detriment.
