Twilight: New Moon Video Review
November 20, 2009 by m.coonce · Leave a Comment
Opens in Theatres Today. November 20th, 2009
Kenneth Turan reviews ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’.
Will Ferrell Leads the ‘Overpaid Actor’ List
November 19, 2009 by m.coonce · Leave a Comment
Looks like “Land of the Lost” has earned star Will Ferrell the dubious distinction of being the most overpaid actor in show business, according to the list makers at Forbes magazine.
Forbes looked at 100 top actors based on their widely released films over the past five years. It factored in the production costs of those movies against how much boxoffice, DVD and other revenue they generated in order to come up with an operating income for each film, which it then compared with the salaries the stars earned.
In Ferrell’s case, the actor’s films earned just $3.29 for every dollar he was paid. That’s a pretty poor contrast to the $160 that Shia LaBeouf’s movies returned to the studios for every buck he earned.
That figure, by the way, put LaBeouf — who starred in “Transformers” in 2007 and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” in 2008 — at the top of Forbes list of Best Actors for the Buck. Also included on that list were Robert Downey Jr., Christian Bale and Dennis Quaid.
“Land of the Lost,” a boxoffice dud starring Ferrell as an offbeat scientist, racked up about $100 million in production costs, not including marketing, but only returned $65 million at the worldwide boxoffice. His movie “Semi-Pro,” which earned $44 million at the worldwide boxoffice, has also dragged down Ferrell’s return-on-investment performance lately.
No. 2 on the overpaid actors list is Ewan McGregor, who made a slew of poorly performing movies after playing Obi-Wan Kenobi four years ago in “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.” McGregor’s films earned $3.75 per dollar he was paid.
The third most overpaid actor is Billy Bob Thornton, whose recent films include “Eagle Eye,” “Mr. Woodcock,” “The Astronaut Farmer” and “The Informers.”
Jaycee Dugard and her family object to plan for film
November 18, 2009 by m.coonce · Leave a Comment
A spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard says only Dugard and her family should decide when and if a film is made about the 18 years she spent with the man charged with kidnapping her.
In a statement Tuesday, family spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer said a plan to make a movie about Dugard’s life was “exploitive, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind.”
The statement came after Shane Ryan, a director of low-budget horror movies, announced that he expected to start production next month on “Abducted Girl, An American Sex Slave.”
Miley Cyrus doesn’t like ‘Twilight’
Don’t bother asking Miley Cyrus if she’s on Team Edward or Team Jacob.
She says she doesn’t care for Twilight and has no interest in seeing New Moon.
“I’ve never seen it and nor will I ever,” Cyrus, 16, said recently during an interview with Cleveland radio station Q92.
What can’t she stand about the hit film series?
“I don’t believe in it,” she says. “I don’t like vampires. … I don’t like the wolf that pops out of the screen when I’m watching my TV at night. I don’t like it. I don’t want anything to do with it. I don’t like the shirts. I don’t like any of it.”
2012 Movie To Be A Big Success
November 16, 2009 by m.coonce · Leave a Comment
Released to Theaters Nov 12th
Even the Maya would have struggled to forecast an opening weekend this big.
Sony Pictures’ “2012,” the latest end-of-the-world epic from disaster director Roland Emmerich, took in $65 million in the U.S. and Canada and an earth-shattering $160 million elsewhere for a worldwide weekend total of $225 million.
The 162-minute thriller, based on a purported Maya prophecy that the world will end Dec. 21, 2012, will easily make back its production and marketing costs for Sony long before that date rolls around. The movie cost about $200 million to make and tens of millions more to market. Most industry observers and pre-release forecasts had “2012″ opening above $50 million domestically.
It has yet to open in several major international markets, including Japan.
“It’s going to be a very big success for our studio,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s distribution president.
For Emmerich, “2012″ had his second-biggest domestic opening, behind his 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow,” which opened to almost $70 million. However, that end-of-the-world movie was released on a three-day holiday weekend.
Movie: 2012 & Interview with John Cusack
November 13, 2009 by m.coonce · Leave a Comment
The video is long, but it’s got some good clips of the film 2012. This looks like it’s got some really cool special effects.
They also interview John Cusack.
Taylor Swift Spoofs ‘Twilight’ On ‘SNL’
November 8, 2009 by m.coonce · Leave a Comment
It was just OK.
Taylor Lautner’s Turn To Swoon: Nov 20th
November 8, 2009 by m.coonce · Leave a Comment
Women swooned for Robert Pattinson as vampire Edward Cullen in last year’s hit movie romance “Twilight,” but in its upcoming sequel Taylor Lautner, who almost didn’t make it into the film, is the newest hunk for fan’s to feast on.
“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” rises in theaters on November 20 as one of the most-anticipated movies early in Hollywood’s holiday season. Predecessor “Twilight” made $384 million at worldwide box offices in 2008, and its young principal actors, Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, shot to overnight stardom.
But in “New Moon,” the second romance about the netherworld adventures of teenager Bella Swan (Stewart) and the love of her life Cullen, it is Lautner who grabs the spotlight.
Read More at ABC NEWS
Twilight Stars Hooking Up?
'That's right, touch me right there'
Friends with benefits?
Days after Vanity Fair released an interview with Robert Pattinson in which he declared he was just “friends” with Kristen Stewart, the two spent the night together at Hollywood’s famed Chateau Marmont on Oct. 29.
The next morning, a source says they shared breakfast together from Noah’s Bagels (a plain bagel with walnut cream cheese for him; a blueberry with butter for her). Who Cares???
Levi Johnson still talking about Palin
October 29, 2009 by m.coonce · Leave a Comment
Levi Johnston, the father of former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s grandson, is going on the record about what he knows about Palin and her family.
Johnston, who welcomed son Tripp almost a year ago with Palin’s teen daughter Bristol, tells Mark Steines that the public Palin is very different from the private one: “The TV side of Sarah Palin which I am telling you is not the real Palin. She goes out and puts on a big show for you and that is the Palin you know.”
He explained that Palin used some surprising terms to describe her son Trig, born with Down Syndrome. Johnston says, “She’d come in from work and she’d be like, ‘Hey, where is my retarded baby,’ and just something like along those lines. The kids, Bristol and them, didn’t think much of it, but the first time I heard it, I was in shock, I didn’t know what to say. So, but then she, it kind of became a normal thing for her to say and you know, I guess, but she’d always have a smile on her face, laughing about it.”
Read More at ET ONLINE
