ESSENTIAL CHUD – DAY ELEVEN
It’s Hollywood’s prom night and I’m facing it sober. I’m your host tonight, live from Brooklyn, while Nick and the boys put together a podcast. Let’s hope they have a little booze available. If you’re interested in checking out my picks for who is going to win and who deserves to win, check out the … Continue reading
We’re less than a week away from the 79th annual Academy Awards, the awards ceremony most likely to make me get angrier and angrier over the course of four hours. Last year I actually got to my feet and yelled obscenities at my television when Crash got the Best Picture Oscar. This year looks like … Continue reading
We’re less than a week away from the 79th annual Academy Awards, the awards ceremony most likely to make me get angrier and angrier over the course of four hours. Last year I actually got to my feet and yelled obscenities at my television when Crash got the Best Picture Oscar. This year looks like … Continue reading
Rank Title Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Weeks in Release 1 Ghost Rider $19,700,000 $78,660,000 2 2 The Number 23 $15,107,000 $15,107,000 1 3 Bridge to Terabithia $13,574,000 $46,222,000 2 4 Reno 911!: Miami $10,400,000 $10,400,000 1 5 Norbit $9,736,000 $74,674,000 3 6 Music and Lyrics $8,000,000 $32,063,000 2 7 Breach $6,159,000 $20,468,000 2 8 Tyler … Continue reading
We’re less than a week away from the 79th annual Academy Awards, the awards ceremony most likely to make me get angrier and angrier over the course of four hours. Last year I actually got to my feet and yelled obscenities at my television when Crash got the Best Picture Oscar. This year looks like … Continue reading
Barry Levinson’s such a hit and miss guy. For every Diner, Rain Man or The Natural, we get a Toys, Sphere or Envy. Levinson currently has the Hollywood expose What Just Happened? (as reported here) shooting in March… and I’m optimistic, actually. Since we’ve just come off the stinky Man of the Year, track record … Continue reading
James Cameron may have proven that Jesus did not rise from the dead. Yes, the guy who directed Piranha II: The Spawning. I’m going to give you a second to let that sink in. 27 years ago, Israeli construction workers found an ancient tomb. Inside were sarcophagi; a decade later the names on the coffin … Continue reading
It looks like JJ Abrams made up his mind, and the decision he came to was, “Yes, thank you, I would like to direct Star Trek after all.” And thus ends months of back and forth and speculation and rumors and inaccurate reports. Thus Gail Berman is proved right. The new film will be a … Continue reading
[Note: Wild Tigers I Have Known is set for a limited theatrical release starting February 23. IFC’s website has full release information.] This is the sort of film that draws memories out of its audience. In a critical landscape in which unquantifiable things, such as what experiences a given viewer brings to the theater, can’t … Continue reading