Year: 2006 (Page 78 of 228)

Box Office Roundup: You’ve got a fast car…

August 13, 2006 /

Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:

1) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: $23 million ($91.2 million, second week)
Will Ferrell gets to reign one last week before the Greatest Movie Ever Made (that would be “Snakes on a Plane,” for the unwise) hits the theaters and shakes us to our very foundation.
2) Step Up: $21.1 million (first week)
They lost us once we realized this wasn’t a movie about the Stereo MC’s.
3) World Trade Center: $19 million ($26.8 million, first week)
Too soon? No, try too boring.
4) Barnyard: The Original Party Animals: $10.1 million ($34.1 million million, second week)
We refuse to dignify this movie with a clever one-liner about it. It’s just not worth the trouble.
5) Pulse: $8.5 million (first week)
Scout’s honor, we didn’t even know this movie was released this weekend.

Movies, News

Thank God for the MTV Video Music Awards

August 11, 2006 /

If it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t even realize that MTV still showed videos.

Okay, sorry, I always feel obliged to take a shot at the decidedly non-music-oriented programming of the network. Now that that’s out of the way, just in case you were losing sleep over the fact that the Video Music Awards are only three weeks away and MTV still hasn’t announced who’s going to be hosting the festivities, prepare to have your insomnia cured.

If you can’t be bothered to click on the above link, I’ll satisfy your curiosity. The host will be…this man:

Oh, no, wait, I’m sorry, that’s just my opinion of the Awards for the last decade or so…

External Entertainment, External TV, News, TV

Neighbors say they heard a Screech…

August 10, 2006 /

Actor / comedian Dustin Diamond – formerly known as Screech, the character he played on the Saturday morning staple “Saved By The Bell” – says that a woman broke into his hotel room and tried to make off with some video games before he held her against a door and waited for police to arrive.

The woman tried in vain to explain that she was looking for A.C. Slater but had been misinformed, but the cops weren’t buying it.

“Next time someone breaks into my hotel room, I’ll be ready.”

Diamond, meanwhile, is still hocking t-shirts in an attempt to save his house. He’s on tour doing stand-up, but if he’s not coming to your area, you can still get an idea about his show by going here.

Actors, External Entertainment, TV

Stand Up or Shut Up

August 10, 2006 /

No, I’m not ordering you to stand up or shut up. I’m here to tell you about a new micro series airing on the Starz Network every Friday evening.

The show began on July 21 and features stand up comic students that are attending the American Comedy Institute in New York City and each episode chronicles the students being interviewed, performing and talking about their struggles to make it in a difficult and changing industry.

Hosted by comic Michael Somerville, the first episode had each comic talking about and, of course, poking fun at political figures. Most of the poking centered around George W. Bush, and Steve Rosenfield from the ACI dissected the reasons why Bush and other figures are so easy to poke fun at.

What this show lacked, at least in episode one, is laughs. Aussie Josh Zepps seemed to me to be the only one to be remotely funny, and the show itself had a very serious tone. Maybe that’s what they were going for, but if you’re going to be a show about stand up comics, it makes sense to inject more laughs.

We’ll see what happens, but for a 10 minute show, it’s certainly worth checking out and keeping an eye on.

Stand-Up Comics, TV

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