A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance of Robert Downey Jr. to the future phases of Marvel’s superhero film rollout. With Tuesday’s release of the limited edition Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One – Avengers Assembled Blu-ray box set comes some corroboration, plus a cool scene of Iron Man doing some acrobatic hot-dogging just to put on his mask. It’s the highlight of this brief — and not exactly revelatory — Phase 2 preview clip that comes with the collection . Then again, with the release of Iron Man 3 just a little over a month away, why give away the store? Iron Man Flips Out Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance of Robert Downey Jr. to the future phases of Marvel’s superhero film rollout. With Tuesday’s release of the limited edition Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One – Avengers Assembled Blu-ray box set comes some corroboration, plus a cool scene of Iron Man doing some acrobatic hot-dogging just to put on his mask. It’s the highlight of this brief — and not exactly revelatory — Phase 2 preview clip that comes with the collection . Then again, with the release of Iron Man 3 just a little over a month away, why give away the store? Iron Man Flips Out Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Newcomers Killing Them Softly and The Collection bowed soft over the weekend, with the latter barely making it into the top ten. Holdovers including Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 , Skyfall and Lincoln remained the top three pics domestically. The Weinstein Company’s Silver Linings Playbook , meanwhile, placed just outside the top ten over the weekend, though the Oscar hopeful played in comparatively far fewer locations and is showing strength as it continues to roll out slowly. 1. Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Gross: $17,410,000 (Cume: $254.6 million) Screens: 4008 (PSA: $4,344) Week: 3 (Change: – 60%) Number one for three weeks, the final Twilight scored the top spot after a weak showing from newcomers. The feature dropped 62 locations from its second weekend and its $4,344 average was significantly lower than its $10,723 showing in week 2. Still, it is a bit better off than its previous installments and is within $1 million from matching New Moon . 2. Skyfall Gross: $17 million (Cume: $246 million) Screens: 3,463 (PSA: $4,909) Week: 4 (Change: – 52%) The highest grossing Bond film continues to show strength one month into its U.S. run. The pic averaged a solid $4,909, compared to Twilight ‘s $4,344 average in its third week, though it is in 545 fewer theaters. Globally, Skyfall has grossed over $869 million, a good return for its $200 million budget. A $300 million domestic run is not out of the question. 3. Lincoln Gross: $13,509,000 (Cume: $83,698,000) Screens: 2,018 (PSA: $6,694) Week: 4 (Change: – 47%) Steven Spielberg’s big Oscar contender remained in the same number of theaters in its third weekend, though its per screen average was almost halved from the previous weekend’s $12,724. Still, it had the highest PSA in the top 10 for the weekend. Its nearly $83.7 million gross is outpacing the filmmaker’s 2011 movies The Adventures of Tintin ($77.6 million) and War Horse ($79.9 million). 4. Rise of the Guardians Gross: $13,500,000 (Cume: $48,947,253) Screens: 3,672 (PSA: $3,676) Week: 2 (Change: – 43%) The Paramount/Dreamworks animation added 19 theaters and remained fourth in the overall top ten. Still, it will struggle to reach $100 million. 5. Life of Pi Gross: $12 million (Cume: $48,361,141) Screens: 2,018 (PSA: $4,098) Week: 2 (Change: -46.6%) The Ang Lee 3-D feature added just one location over the weekend, rounding out the top 5, though. Globally, it has grossed nearly $109 million ($60,500,000) abroad and is said to be performing well. 6. Wreck-It Ralph Gross: $7,020,000 (Cume: $158,257,000) Screens: 3,087 (PSA: $2,274) Week: 5 (Change: – 57.6%) The animated feature remained at the sixth position, though dropped 172 locations and had a fairly steep 57-plus percent drop from the week prior. Its $2,274 average compares to $5,085 last week and $5,131 the week before that. Still, it’s had a good run and combined with foreign box office of $44 million, it topped the $200 million mark over the weekend. 7. Killing Them Softly Gross: $7 million Screens: 2,424 (PSA: $2,888) Week: 1 The Cannes 2012 feature is one of Brad Pitt’s worse performing openings ever, though not as bad as The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford which only made $3.9 million. The pic should fade from theaters soon. 8. Red Dawn Gross: $6,550,000 (Cume: $31,322,708) Screens: 2,781 (PSA: $2,355) Week: 2 (Change: – 54%) The film had a relatively steep 54% decline in gross compared to its first weekend, though it added 57 more venues. Its $2,355 average compares to its $5,241 opening. It may struggle to match its $65 million production budget domestically. 9. Flight Gross: $4,540,000 (Cume: $81,526,836) Screens: 2,603 (PSA: $1,744) Week: 5 (Change: – 46.3%) Flight shed 35 theaters in its fifth week after adding locations over the past month. Still, the Denzel Washington-starrer has performed well at the box office with a domestic come over $81.5 million vs its $31 million production budget. It may be a reach to hit the $100 million mark. 10. The Collection Gross: $3,409,224 Screens: 1,403 (PSA: $2,430) Week: 1 In its debut, The Collection barely made it into the top ten and its nearly $3.41 million opening is slightly off from its predecessor, The Collector ‘s 2009 $3.57 million bow. 11. Silver Linings Playbook Gross: $3,341,000 (Cume: $10,990,981) Screens: 371 (PSA: $9,005) Week: 3 (Change: – 23.8%) Though not in the top ten, The Weinstein Company’s Oscar hopeful Silver Linings Playbook has continued to gain traction after an opening that was a bit of a disappointment. It ranked 11th for the weekend, though it is in far fewer theaters than titles in the top ten and its $9,005 average was far better than any in the top ten. Word-of-mouth is clearly driving the title.
Once, Nicole Kidman barely had to raise an eyebrow to get awards attention. Now, she barely can raise an eyebrow and her best work in years is being completely ignored in the Oscar conversation. The Paperboy stars Kidman as Charlotte Bless, a damaged attention-seeker who becomes sexually obsessed with a convicted murderer ( John Cusack ), while cock-teasing the only man—or really, teenager—who truly loves her (Zac Efron). It’s Kidman’s bravest, boldest, and most committed performance ever, and no one cares for the short-sighted reason that the movie is terrible. How unfair. The Nicole Kidman of To Die For used to have a bright future before that bright future came true and blinded everyone to her comedic gifts. Once Kidman scored her first Oscar nomination for 2002’s Moulin Rouge , she became the prey of the Hollywood awards hunt, in which the chase for For-Your-Consideration goes like this: take one prestigious actress (see Kidman, Berry, Jolie, Swank), make her play someone vulnerable (see Cold Mountain , Things We Lost in the Fire , The Changeling , Conviction ), then cross your fingers. This is why we’ve had a full decade of Kidman drifting about in period costumes or, god forbid, stretching herself to play a movie star in Nine . And people, this is why the Oscar season is boring. This formula guarantees a chase to the middlebrow, and it’s why every Best Picture Oscar winner since Silence of the Lambs is something your grandma would see at an arthouse matinee. There’s only one thing we can do to save the Academy Awards: nominate Nicole Kidman for The Paperboy . Just because The Paperboy is bad doesn’t void the bravery it took to make it. Kidman’s Charlotte is a balls-out wonder. She’s pure sex and need, at once over-confident and fragile. Slithering around in her neon polyester pants, Kidman is fully alive for the first time since Baz Luhrmann murdered her with tuberculosis. And The Paperboy even has not one but two stand-out scenes that will live on in infamy—Sally Field standing on a table in Norma Rae can’t compete with Kidman peeing on Zac Efron or giving John Cusack an orgasm just by breathing at him from across a prison cell. Imagine if Oscar voters were able to parse the jewels from the schlock. Why should Les Misérables clutter up every acting category? What if this year’s ceremony didn’t just include the dull favorites like Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln and Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty —roles everyone respects, but no one loves—but made room for Michael Shannon in Premium Rush and Michael Sheen in Breaking Dawn – Part 2 . Imagine just being able to say, “The Academy Award-nominated bike messenger thriller Premium Rush .” Plus, this wouldn’t be the first time we’ve given an actor a statuette for good work in an awful film. We did it three years ago when Mo’Nique won for Precious . It’s no coincidence that Precious and The Paperboy were both directed by bizarro auteur Lee Daniels, a former casting agent and producer with the clout to get serious actors to take him seriously. He convinced the likes of Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to star in his debut film, Shadowboxer —-and that’s despite a script which opens with Stephen Dorff shoving a pool cue up a guy’s ass. In fact, let’s go one step further. Not only does Nicole Kidman deserve a Best Actress nomination for The Paperboy , Lee Daniels deserves Best Director. He’s clearly one of the greats. Not because his films are any good, but because his actors would do—and do do—anything for him. Anthony Minghella, Sidney Pollack, Rob Marshall only wish they could pull as passionate of a performance out of Kidman, and Daniels behind-the-scenes alchemy is that powerful with every single one of his actors. He not only convinced Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jr. to shoot a strip scene in Shadowboxer , he convinced them to commit to it like it was high art. And The Paperboy performs more stunt-casting miracles: An American sweetheart, John Cusack, is loathsome; Macy Gray is the next great actress and Zac Efron, convincingly, can’t get laid. Could Steven Spielberg swing that? Never. Luckily, we’re not alone in appreciating this wonderful, terrible gem. In October, a group of rogue cinephiles launched a For Your Consideration Facebook page flogging Nicole Kidman’s outstanding work in The Paperboy . As of today, the page has 10 fans. Let’s get that number growing.
Strictly for auds who enjoy the grisly Grand Guignol spectacle of the Saw franchise but could do without the moral lectures and melodramatic mythology, The Collection is an energetic but utterly weightless exercise in slice-and-dice cinema. This sequel to 2009 chiller The Collector is in many ways bigger (more characters, more locations, more carnage), but in no way better than its predecessor. Theatrical is merely a pit-stop on the road to home viewing for a product with niche appeal even among horror buffs. Picking up where The Collector left off, The Collection establishes an anonymous urban locale terrorized by a psycho killer with no method to his madness. Without the luxury of the first film’s slow-burn opening act, the sequel leans on pre-existing iconography to build tension: the Collector’s black mask obscuring everything but his beady eyes and predatory mouth; the red trunk he uses to “collect” a lone survivor of each massacre; an ominous tripwire connected to something sharp and lethal. Once filmmakers (and Saw sequel alums) Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton hurriedly introduce new protagonist Elena (Emma Fitzpatrick), it’s off to the races for nonstop, nonsensical brutality. Elena and pals head to a secret underground club (the password is “nevermore,” natch) where the Collector waits in the shadows with a plan to orchestrate mass murder. In what should be one of the film’s standout setpieces, dozens of clubgoers are simultaneously slaughtered by a massive combine-harvester blade rigged to descend from the ceiling. But the sequence is little more than a jumble of frenetically cut-together closeups, and the first of many examples of the film’s “more is more” philosophy coming into conflict with the constraints of a low budget. While Elena is dragged off to the villain’s secret lair, the pic reintroduces the first film’s scrappy survivor, Arkin (Josh Stewart), who manages to break free only to be recruited by Elena’s mysterious protector, Lucello (Lee Tergesen). Lucello has assembled a team to hunt down the Collector and rescue Elena, and they need Arkin’s help. But this time he’s on the Collector’s home turf: The rundown Hotel Argento (wink, wink), a more elaborate version of the booby-trapped mansion from part one. If The Collector was inspired by the suspenseful setup of Wait Until Dark , Dunstan and Melton take their cues this time from one of the great genre sequels: James Cameron’s Aliens , with its team of tough-talking grunts navigating perilous terrain as they battle an unstoppable foe. Still, the raison d’etre remains gore, gore and more gore. There’s no attempt to explain how the Collector sets up his elaborate traps, and only the vaguest speculation as to what motivates his insatiable bloodlust, which could be frightening if his actions weren’t so preposterous. Performance and tech credits are adequate by genre standards, though the only imaginative contribution comes in the design of the Collector’s depraved displays of disemboweled victims and stitched-together body parts. He’s quite the interior decorator. Pic manages to end on a satisfying note that may or may not lead to a third installment. Perhaps the limited amount of title variations — The Collected “? The Collectors ? — will spare everyone the unnecessary trouble. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
The leaves on the trees are glowing greener, the days are growing longer, and clothes are getting lighter! This behind-the-scenes video takes you into “our backyard,” where we shot our latest stylebook, Seize the Summer. Share the video, then tell us what you like best in the collection! Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : ModLife Discovery Date : 11/04/2011 23:00 Number of articles : 2
Jersey Shore star Sammi Giancola, a.k.a. Sammi Sweetheart, is getting her jewelry line on. Her signature bling will be called … wait for it … Sammi Sweetheart. The line will be seven pieces focused on her (wholly inaccurate) “sweetheart” image, includes heart-shaped pendants, crystal bracelets and large hoop earrings. There will also be a necklace modeled after the leash around Ron’s neck. You too can dress like a Jersey Shore star!!!!!!! Fortunately for fans, Giancola tells People she isn’t charging sky-high prices: “I love that the RichRocks brand and my collection retails for just under $100.” “It was very important for me to keep all of the pieces affordable for fans so they can purchase more than one piece and add to the collection,” she adds. “I’ve created some great fun and flirty pieces to wear day into night.” They may even look great on the floor of a Seaside Heights shack. [Photo: Fame Pictures]
I wonder what brought this cameraman to a place where a handfull of girls were stopped and looking at something long enough for him to use his trusty pervert camera to capture a pair of America Apparely leggings, not quite good enough quality to cover up the bitches thong, but wherever it was it shows his level of commitment to his perversion and that’s something worth celebrating by laughing at how creepy his work is….this dude walks around videotaping random bitches and posts it to the internet…hilarious….but what’s even better is that this girl has some sixth sense and feels the creepy eyes are watching without realizing it as she adjusts her shirt…kinda like when you feel someone is watching you and they usually are…only documented….This pervert vider is easily a 4 on 10.
Who cares, 17 year olds have tighter pussies than the mom of your children, it’s a natural thing to do when the opportunity arises, and when you’re Bam Margera, the star of Jackass, your fan base is pretty much all 17 year old girls, and when you’re Bam Margera, someone who doesn’t act like he wants to get old and serious about life while jerking off as Johnny Knoxville shits in his mouth and that fat one punches him out all on top of the pile of money they’ve made, next to the collection of 100,000 dollar cars he has, he doesn’t really have to….As someone who has banged 17 year old girls cuz it is legal here, and this picture was taken in Canada, where it is legal, I say let the fucker have his fun, stop trying to cockblock him with your rules, and marriage vows….His wife would have never found out about this if it wasn’t for you, stupid internet….And she shoulda known better than to get involved with a dude like this, but for all the perks of getting involved with a dude like this like fun, money, big houses and movie premieres should be enough to overlook the obvious sticking his dick in young sluts….Canada always ruins people with their temptation and sluts who are easily star struck and even more willing to let the world know of their groupie pussy getting owned…True story….. Fuckin’ Miners Like He is Chile….
