Could this be the next “Shaun of the Dead”? It certainly looks that way.
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UK rag The Sun assembles shots of all five Academy Award nominees for Best Actress, topless. Yes, even Meryl Streep.
Wow, Helen Mirren was quite the dish, wasn’t she? I’m kidding, of course. She’s still a dish.
Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:
1) Epic Movie: $19.2 million (Will Harris, What’s All This, Then?)
Kal Pann walks into a White Castle, and says, “I feel like I’ve been here before!” Jesus.
2) Smokin’ Aces: $14.2 million (Will Harris, What’s All This, Then?)
At least they had the balls to keep Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades” in the movie, even if they pulled it out of the trailer. The movie blows either way, though we did like the dead-guy-as-hand-puppet bit.
3) Night at the Museum: $9.4 million, $216.7 million to date (Will Harris, What’s All This, Then?)\
In its sixth week of release, we officially call a moratorium on bothering to come up with anything snappy to say about a movie that doesn’t deserve the effort wasted on it the first five times.
4) Catch and Release: $8 million
Reel Times’ Mark Pfeiffer said this movie was so bad that it could kill Jennifer Garner’s career entirely. Yikes.
5) Stomp the Yard: $7.8 million, $50.6 million to date (owner: Bill Clark, A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint)
Such an innocuous little pick-up for Bill…and he won the league because of it.
6) Dreamgirls: $6.6 million, $86.6 million to date (Bill Clark: A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint)
Totally and inexplicably hosed out of a nom for Best Picture. That’s all we have to say on the matter.
7) The Pursuit of Happyness: $5 million, $152.9 million to date (Bill Clark: A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint)
This movie’s a week older than “Night at the Museum.” Next.
8) Pan’s Labyrinth: $4.5 million, $16.2 million to date (Mark Pfeiffer, Reel Times)
Ah, red wine. Drink it, then beat someone’s face to a bloody pulp with the base of the bottle.
9) The Queen: $4 million, $41.2 million to date: $5.9 million (Jason Zingale, Seven Strangers Productions)
Does anyone else think this year’s Academy Awards show is going to be the most predictable, dullest show ever? Is there even any debate over who’s going to win?
10) The Hitcher: $3.5 million, $13.3 million to date (Bill Clark, Don’t Call Me Shirley)
Might we be witnessing the end of the torture-chic, ‘all horror, all the time’ movement? One can only hope.
15) Blood and Chocolate: $2.1 million
Very good, moviegoing public, you got one right. However, you still get 20 rosaries for the success of “Epic Movie.”
Final standings, fall season
1) A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint: $370.3 million
2) What’s All This, Then?: $324.2 million
3) Reel Times Pictures $316.8 million
4) TSSU Productions: $288.2 million
5) Punch and Pie Pictures: $278.0 million
6) Seven Strangers Productions: $216.9 million
7) Scary Clown Studios: $196.7 million
8) Nights and Weekends: $181.5 million
The Fantasy Moguls League begins anew starting this week, with new studio head Kevin “Chrysler K-Carr” Carr stepping in for TSSU Productions. COFCA Death Squad, rise!
Nominations for the 79th Academy Awards were released this morning and I have to say that there were more than a few surprises. Perhaps the two biggest snubs stirring up controvery is Leonardo DiCaprio not receiving a Best Actor nod for “The Departed” (though he did get one for “Blood Diamond”) and “Dreamgirls” completely blocked out of Best Picture contention. As far as I’m concerned, this really doesn’t have as large of an effect as everyone’s making it out to be. Forest Whitaker will no doubt walk away with Best Acting honors and “Dreamgirls” is very overrated. In fact, had there not been a Comedy/Musical category at the Globes, I wouldn’t have been the least surprised to see it missing from competition.
My only other gripe is that “Volver” didn’t receive a Best Foreign Film nomination, but since “Pan’s Labyrinth” hails from the same country, only one of the two films was bound to get in, and I’m happy that it was Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy horror flick. Props also go to the Academy for showing some love to “The Prestige” in a few of the technical categories, as well as “Little Miss Sunshine” walking away with a Best Picture nod and a Best Supporting Actor nod for Alan Arkin.
Best Picture
“Babel”
“The Departed”
“Letters from Iwo Jima”
“Little Miss Sunshine”
“The Queen”
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, “Blood Diamond”
Ryan Gosling, “Half Nelson”
Peter O’Toole, “Venus”
Will Smith, “The Pursuit of Happyness”
Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”
Best Actress
Penelope Cruz, “Volver”
Judi Dench, “Notes on a Scandal”
Helen Mirren, “The Queen”
Meryl Streep, “The Devil Wears Prada”
Kate Winslet, “Little Children”
Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, “Little Miss Sunshine”
Jackie Earle Haley, “Little Children”
Djimon Hounsou, “Blood Diamond”
Eddie Murphy, “Dreamgirls”
Mark Walhberg, “The Departed”
Best Supporting Actress
Abigail Breslin, “Little Miss Sunshine”
Jennifer Hudson, “Dreamgirls”
Cate Blanchett, “Notes on a Scandal”
Adriana Barraza, “Babel”
Rinko Kikuchi, “Babel”
Best Director
“Babel” (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
“The Departed” (Martin Scorsese)
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Clint Eastwood)
“The Queen” (Stephen Frears)
“United 93” (Paul Greengrass)
“Jamie Kennedy’s Blowin’ Up”
One would think that giving a no-talent hack like Jamie Kennedy his own television show would be criminal enough, but the sheer fact that the rapper duo (which includes Canadian voice actor Stu Stone) also got the chance to cut their own record is just sickening. “Blowin’ Up” may be getting marketed as an MTV reality series, but there’s nothing real about this. All seven episodes are obviously set up, and it’s insulting to think that the producers of the show would even believe they could convince us otherwise.
“The Simple Life 4: ‘Til Death Do Us Part”
Paris and Nicole chew up the scenery as usual in the fourth season of their dubiously popular reality series, but this time around, they’re both flying solo. That’s right folks. Despite a rather public falling out after filming wrapped on the third season, Fox has somehow managed to stitch the show back together so that the two celebrity socialites would never have to actually the share the screen together. This time around, the girls are tasked with playing mom-for-a-day to ten very lucky families, but the concept never quite works as the fiery competition that it’s meant to be.
“Broken Bridges”
As is to be expected from any recording artist looking to break in to the movie business, Toby Keith’s debut film has the country music star pigeonholed as a washed-up singer/songwriter who is reunited with his high school sweetheart (Kelly Preston) and the 16-year-old daughter (Lindsay Haun) he never met when tragedy strikes his childhood town. Really just a shadow-and-mirrors platform that enables Keith to sing more than he acts, “Broken Bridges” performs exactly as you’d expect it to. Heck, I wouldn’t even be surprised to hear what Keith had to do for this role considering there’s a Ford truck commercial right dab in the middle of the flick, but it hardly matters, since this Lifetime-lite piece of garbage is most certainly not built Ford tough.
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