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Box Office Roundup: South Flori-duh

July 31, 2006 /

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

1) Miami Vice: $25.2 million (first week)
Universal’s marketing strategy to push the movie in its second week: “See ‘Miami Vice,’ or this sack full of kittens will drown.”
2) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest: $20.5 million ($358.4 million, fourth week)
Just when I was complaining about how bad “Pirates” was, I must offer this admission: it’s better than “Miami Vice.”
3) John Tucker Must Die: $14.1 million (first week)
A thousand lashes to the movie’s music supervisor, for not using Wilco’s “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.”
4) Monster House: $11.5 million ($43.9 million, second week)
Next time we see a kite near the front door of a house, we’re running for the hills.
5) The Ant Bully: $8.1 million (first week)
It’s official: the studios went to the animation well way, way too much this year. Worse, we still have to suffer through “Barnyard: The Original Party Animals,” which will make your kids so dumb they’ll forget their own name when it’s over.

7) Lady in the Water: $7 million ($32 million, second week)
Before we start pouring gas onto the festering pile of waste that is M. Night Shyamalan’s reputation, keep in mind that this movie will ultimately make its money back. The problem, of course, is that the studio was expecting it to print money, not break even. Here’s an idea: hire him as a director, but use someone else’s script.

Another reminder: the movie to see when Talladega Nights is sold out is “The Descent,” a super-creepy gorefest involving a group of rock climbing girls with bad, bad luck. Think “Aliens” crossed with “The Hills Have Eyes.”

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Hallelujah! PREACH IT, Brother Jimmy!

July 29, 2006 /

James Robinson, CEO of Morgan Creek Productions, is mad as hell at Lindsay Lohan…and he’s not going to take it any more! Not only did he write a letter, chastising her unprofessional behavior, he didn’t bother sending it to any stinkin’ intermediary; it went straight to Lohan herself!

You can check out the letter here, but this line alone should tell you that he’s laying it all out on the table:

“You and your representatives have told us that your various late arrivals and absences from the set have been the result of illness; today, we were told it was ‘heat exhaustion.’ We are well aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for your so called ‘exhaustion.’ We refuse to accept bogus excuses for your behavior.”

BUSTED!!!!!!!

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Zach Braff IS Fletch

July 26, 2006 /

After a few years of being in the proverbial Hollywood pipeline, The Weinstein Co. has green lighted a film adaptation of Gregory McDonald’s Fletch Won to be written and directed by Bill Lawrence with Zach Braff in the title role. Prior to this, Kevin Smith had been entertaining the notion of doing the exact same thing, but it never came to fruition.

Personally, I’m glad to see this thing finally in the full-on go mode. Having read a number of the Fletch books and being a fan, I can safely say that the first Fletch was fucked around with so much that it barely resembled the book at the end. Of course, Fletch Lives was not even based on any of the books and managed to do even more disservice to the whole series. Lawrence and Braff promise to keep Fletch Won edgier, which is exactly what the other flicks needed. Fletch was not a slaspstick, pie-in-the-face story, but that’s what it became. The novels are filled with dry humor and always have a real sense of suspense in them. They’re hard to put down.

Unlike Chevy Chase…who really doesn’t need any more space wasted on him from me.

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Box Office Roundup: Jack Sparrow Must Die

July 23, 2006 /

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

1) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest: $35 million ($321.7 million, third week)
We are clearly still in the ‘it’s made so much money, therefore it must be good’ phase. Sadly, this galling lapse in judgment will probably last one more week.
2) Monster House: $23 million (first week)
It’ll do for your children what the face-ripping scene in “Poltergeist” did for you: scare the living daylights out of them. Years later, after the bed wetting has stopped, they’ll say it’s one of their favorite movies of all time.
3) Lady in the Water: $18.2 million (first week)
The bloom has officially fallen off the M. Night rose. Nina Jacobsen, despite having just lost her job in the delivery room, must have felt a slight wave of vindication when she heard the box office numbers.
4) You, Me and Dupree: $12.8 million ($45.3 million, second week)
How this movie outgrossed “My Super Ex-Girlfriend,” which contains a far funnier performance by a Wilson brother, is beyond us. Sure, neither movie is any good, but “Girlfriend” is waaaaaaaaay more tolerable than this dreck. Tell your friends.
5) Little Man: $11 million ($40.6 million, second week)
How many times did we tell you not to play with the dirty money?

Wha’happen Movie of the Week: “Clerks II,” which was the best movie released this week yet finished sixth with $9.6 million. (“Super Ex-Girlfriend” was seventh, with $8.7 million). Both of these movies are far better than “Dupree” and “Little Man,” and we suppose there is a statement in there somewhere about the gradual dumbing down of society, but we’re not smart enough to connect the dots.

The movie to see when Talladega Nights is sold out: “The Descent,” a super-creepy gorefest involving a group of rock climbing girls with bad, bad luck. Think “Aliens” crossed with “The Hills Have Eyes.” Freaky deaky.

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