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Box Office Roundup: Handicapping the “Your Favorite Movie Sucks” fantasy league

November 5, 2006 /

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

A bunch of us hoity toity movie critics are in a fantasy league that started last week. Eight teams, six movies per team. Whoever makes the most money wins. Steve Wamsley’s TSSU Productions got out to a huge lead with “Saw III,” now let’s see what happens with the big three releases this week.

1) Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan: $26.4 million (owner: Deb Medsker, Punch and Pie Pictures)
WOW. On 837 screens, “Borat” wipes the floor with this weekend’s two family-friendly movies, one of which was released on four times as many screens. When word broke that the movie would be “60% more exclusive,” we all thought the studio was burying the movie. I guess they knew what they were doing after all.
2) The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause: $20 million (owner: Jason Zingale, Seven Strangers Productions)
JZ’s gonna scream when he sees this. He never wanted the movie in the first place, but the draft room kept locking up on us, and boom, he was stuck with “Santa.” We all assured him it would make tons of money. And it probably would have, had they not released it two months before Christmas.
3) Flushed Away: $19.1 million (owner: Kristin Dreyer-Kramer, NightsandWeekends)
Uh oh. That’s not a bad number, but it’s less than you’d expect from your first round pick. “Flushed” needed to rake in big bucks before Thanksgiving, because it only gets harder from there.
4) Saw III: $15.5 million (TSSU Productions, $60.1 million to date)
Wamsley continues to benefit from the nation’s moral decay.
5) The Departed: $8 million ($102.3 million, fifth week)
This movie is not eligible for the league, and I’m ashamed to say I haven’t seen it yet.

Next weekend the competition gets even fiercer when “Stranger than Fiction,” “The Return,” “A Good Year” and “Harsh Times” all open, and “Babel” goes into wide release. And let’s not forget Fox’s whole “platforming” plan for “Borat,” which means it stands to make even more money. Time to start the smack talk, guys.

External Movies, Movies, News

A Chat with Jaleel White

November 5, 2006 /

That’s right: the guy who played Urkel on “Family Matters.” He’s starring in a new movie – “Who Made The Potatoe Salad?”, heading to DVD on Tuesday, November 7th – where he finally gets an the opportunity to be the straight man; he also has a small role in a big picture due for release at Christmas…but since he’s already less than thrilled that word of his appearance has leaked out, we’ll at least hold our tongue here and let you be surprised while reading the interview. White sat down with Bullz-Eye to talk about both flicks, and, yes, he was willing to drift into a bit of conversation about the series and role that brought him most of his fame.

Jaleel White: Will H.! What’s goin’ on?

Bullz-Eye: Nothing much. How’s it going?

JW: I’m good, I’m good.

BE: Well, first off, I’m glad to discover that you’re still alive.

JW: (Laughs)

BE: I guess it’s a rite of passage for every former child star to have to deal with someone starting a rumor that they’ve died.

JW: Ah, I don’t even know what to say about that darned thing. As much as you try to live your life your right, you’re gonna get sucker-punched now and then. That was my sucker punch back in June.

BE: I have to admit, I hadn’t even heard the rumor ‘til I started doing some research before this interview.

JW: Oh, really?

BE: I guess I got lucky and missed it. So, anyway, I got a copy of “Who Made The Potatoe Salad?”

JW: Oh, gosh…

BE: And I laughed…but I also felt really, really white and suburban.

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Rikki, please lose that number

October 25, 2006 /

First they skewered Owen Wilson in an open letter to his brother, Luke. Now the guys from Steely Dan (Donald Fagen and Walter Becker) have set their sights on Wes Anderson, writer/director of “Rushmore,” “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.” Apparently, Steely Dan is a big fan of Anderson’s first film, “Bottle Rocket,” but they feel that his subsequent films have been progressively worse.

These follow-ups have all concerned themselves with the theme we like to call “the enervated family of origin”©, from which springs diverse subplots also largely concerned with the failure to fulfill early promise. Again, each film increasingly relies on eccentric visual detail, period wardrobe, idiosyncratic and overwrought set design, and music supervision that leans heavily on somewhat obscure 60’s “British Invasion” tracks a-jangle with twelve-string guitars, harpsichords and mandolins. The company of players, while excellent, retains pretty much the same tone and function from film to film. Indeed, you must be aware that your career as an auteur is mirrored in the lives of your beloved characters as they struggle in vain to duplicate early glories.

Steely Dan goes on to outline two strategies to “help” Anderson get back on track, providing lyrics to two separate songs that they’ve written for his next project. But before they agree to work with Anderson, there are a few conditions…

Same thing for the mandolins and the twelve-string stuff and the harpsichord, they’re out. You yourself may be partial to those particular instruments. We’re not. Remember, we saw “Tom Jones” in its original theatrical release when we were still in high school, we had to listen to “Walk Away Renee” all through college and we fucking opened for Roger McGuinn in the seventies, so all that “jingle-jangle morning” shit is no big thrill for us, OK?

I find these letters fascinating, not so much for their flowery words or content, but for the simple fact that these guys from Steely Dan actually think that anyone gives a fuck what they think about a movie.

The only explanation I can come up with is that somewhere in this universe, there is a tear in the space/time continuum, which leads to a parallel universe where the guys in Steely Dan are highly respected film critics. And somehow these letters got through…damn wi-fi.

External Movies, Humor, Movies

Beauty and the Beast: Monsters and their Molls

October 20, 2006 /

Every year, when October rolls around, we here at Bullz-Eye start scrambling to come up with a Halloween-themed feature. Last year, we put together a list of our top-15 horror movies, and, sure, we could’ve done that again, but what would’ve been the point? Were there really any releases within the last year that would’ve changed our list? Granted, “The Descent” was creepy…but not top-15-of-all-time creepy. So we started thinking of other aspects of Halloween, and we kept coming back to the idea of doing something on monsters. But as we looked at our list of monsters, we – and by “we,” I mean the wife of one of our editors (hi, Jenn!) – noticed an interesting trend: Behind every good monster is a woman. Sometimes she loves him, sometimes she doesn’t…but if she doesn’t, well, hey, he’s a monster; that’s not going to stop him from loving her. So with that premise in mind, we’re presenting a list of our favorite monstrous men (and beasts) and their lovely ladies.

Here’s a sample…

Jason Voorhees and his Mother: The first love of a man’s life is invariably his mother, and unless you develop an Oedipus complex, that’s pretty normal. Too bad “normal” is about the last adjective you’d use to describe either Jason Voorhees or his mother, Pamela. If you’re a dedicated viewer of the “Friday the 13th” film series, you already know that Mrs. Voorhees had her problems; she was already suffering from schizophrenia before she gave birth to a hydrocephalic child…and when she thought he’d drowned off the shores of Camp Crystal Lake, well, that really sent her over the edge. Nine murders later — each done in Jason’s name, of course — Pamela got her just desserts in the form of decapitation; to be fair, though, it came courtesy of the machete she’d been wielding against an innocent girl only moments before. Jason – who, funnily enough, wasn’t actually dead after all (whoopsie!) – paid tribute to his late mother by taking both her head and her body to his shack in the woods, where he built a very lovely shrine/corpse storage area in her memory. It’s just what Pamela would have wanted. – WH

You can check out the entire list here.

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