Jamie Foxx was spotted spending time with his youngest daughter Annalyse in L.A. Friday. The four-year-old managed to avoid having her face snapped by photogs, but we’re lovin’ her lil double bunned do’. No word on who the Becky is carrying the baby. Jamie previously told Oprah he doesn’t make mention who his kids’ moms are in attempt to keep his private life under wraps. Judging by the tight look on his face, this just might be the one. SMH. FameFlynetPictures
Texas Chainsaw 3D sliced and diced its box office competition over the weekend, bringing in $23 on Friday and Saturday and taking Hollywood’s top spot. Django Unchained fell 33 percent from its opening weekend, dipping to just under $21 million and falling to second place. It’s on pace to out-earn Inglorious Basterds , Quentin Tarantino’s previous highest grossest film. Here is a look at the very diverse top five from the year’s first weekend of box office receipts: Texas Chainsaw 3D : $23 million Django Unchained : $20.8 million The Hobbit : $17.5 million Les Miserables : $16.1 million Parental Guidance : $10.1 million
After a momentary holiday lull, it’s back on! Or as Calvin Candie says in Django Unchained . “We got us a fight going on that’s a good bit of fun.” Academy voters were given one extra day to mull over their Oscar nomination ballots, thanks to a voting deadline extension necessitated by complaints and concerns over the Academy’s first-ever electronic voting system. They could use that 24 hours to digest the Producers Guild Award nominations , which were announced Wednesday, a day early. From here, the awards season proceeds at 48 frames per second , bringing the Oscar race into sharp focus. The Director’s Guild of America nominations for Best Director will be announced Jan. 8, with Oscar nominations announced on the 10th,in advance of the Golden Globes, which will be handed out on the 13th. The PGA ceremony will be held on the 26th, followed by the SAG awards the following night. Feb. 2 brings the DGAs, one of the most reliable Oscar indicators, followed by the Independent Spirit Awards (and the Razzies) on the 23rd and the Oscars on the 24th. This is the earliest Oscar voting in history, Variety’s Jon Weisman noted, and he feared for the “dark horse” candidates as voters race to catch up to the big ticket films such as Django Unchained and Les Miserables that were released at the end of the year. “We’ll never quantify the impact… on the coming Academy Award nominations, but I’m thinking negative,” he writes. The Best Picture race was most impacted this week. So, let’s consult the Gold Linings Playbook to see which films benefited from the PGA bump. Best Picture Since 1990, the winner of the PGA’s Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures -winner was denied on Oscar night only seven times, most recently in 2006, when The Departed took Best Picture honors instead of the PGA’s choice, Little Miss Sunshine . Its 10-film field included most of the expected nominees from A ( Argo ) to Z ( Zero Dark Thirty ). Django Unchained ’s n-word – nomination – only accelerated its momentum, while Beasts of the Southern Wild , a non-union production, deemed ineligible for SAG consideration, and also denied Golden Globe nominations, saw its own Oscar cred strengthened. (Apparently, Hollywood Foreign Press Association members would rather party with Nicole Kidman than Quvenzhane Wallis ) biggest surprise was the nomination of Skyfall , which may be poised to do for Bond films what Beauty and the Beast did for animated films; be the first to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. But Skyfall shouldn’t press its Oscar-night tux just yet. Last year, Bridesmaids , The Ides of March and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo did not parlay their PGA nominations into Best Picture bids. The Master , Flight , and The Dark Knight Rises , each snubbed by the PGA, have their advocates, and should not be counted out. 1. Lincoln 2. Zero Dark Thirty 3. Argo 4. Silver Linings Playbook 5. Django Unchained 6. Les Misérables 7. Life of Pi 8. Beasts of the Southern Wild 9. Moonrise Kingdom 10. Skyfall Ones to watch: The Dark Knight Rises, Flight, The Master Best Director The heat is still on Zero Dark Thirty , now officially the target of a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation over alleged contact between the filmmakers and CIA officials, but Kathryn Bigelow’s nomination is inevitable. Quentin Tarantino is riding taller in the saddle with Django Unchained ’s PGA nomination, but it’s a tight field and Life of Pi and Silver Linings Playbook are safer, far less controversial films. Still, it helps to have Samuel L. Jackson in your corner. The PGA snub of The Master sees Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar hopes further recede. 1. Steven Spielberg ( Lincoln ) 2. Kathryn Bigelow ( Zero Dark Thirty ) 3. Ben Affleck ( Argo ) 4. Ang Lee ( Life of Pi ) 5. David O. Russell ( Silver Linings Playbook ) Ones to watch: Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained). Michael Haneke (Amour), Tom Hooper (Les Miserables), Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
SMH @ the pause-worthy moment when the Miami Vice star reveals who actually did put the Johnson in Johnson! Via Page Six : Don Johnson admits he is not the well-endowed male that put the “Johnson in Johnson.” While former flame Pamela De Barres wrote about Don’s physical prowess in her 1987 book, “I’m With the Band,” the “Miami Vice” and “Django Unchained” star told Rolling Stone: “Look, I’ve seen guys with a lot bigger than me. One time, I was in the Celtics locker room talking to Larry Bird and Kevin McHale . . . and there’s Dennis Johnson coming out of the showers and, dude, that’s who put the Johnson in Johnson. I mean, it must have shown on my face, because when I turned back to Larry, he looked at me and said, ‘I know, huh?’ and I was like, ‘Dude, that’s a weapon.’ ” Pure comedy. So um, where do we find this Dennis Johnson character? WENN
While Hollywood may be expressing renewed interest in all things slavery (“Django: Unchained” and “Lincoln” are in theaters now and “12 Years A Slave” will…
Christmas Day was anything but misérable for Les Misérables at the box office. The Oscar hopeful scored the second biggest single-day Christmas opening, cashing in with $18 million, according to Hollywood.com . The total is only overshadowed by the $24.6 million that Sherlock Holmes took in in 2009, though it should be noted that day fell on a Friday. So, Les Mis holds the record, at least for the next twelve months, as the biggest non-Christmas Day opening in addition to the highest ever for a musical. Not to be scoffed at, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained cashed in with the third biggest Christmas launch, grossing $15 million. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey , which bowed in mid-December domestically, grossed $11.3 million Tuesday, while Fox’s family comedy Parental Guidance with Billy Crystal and Bette Midler came in fourth with $6.5 million. Tom Cruise starrer Jack Reacher took in $5.3 million Tuesday, brining its five-day total to $23.3 million. Overall, Christmas Day generated $73 million at the box office, another solid showing for a 2012 that has proved a generally good one for Hollywood. The Top five Christmas Day openings: 1. Sherlock Holmes , Warner Bros. – $24,608,941 Christmas 2009 2. Les Miserables , Universal – $18 million (estimated) Christmas 2012 3. Django Unchained , The Weinstein Company – $15 million (estimated) Christmas 2012 4. Marley and Me , Fox – $14,380,980 Christmas 2008 5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , Paramount – $11,871,831 Christmas 2008 [ Source: Hollywood.com ]
So much for our terrible Les Miserables review . The big screen version of this world famous musical banked $18.2 million yesterday, according to The Hollywood Reporter, setting a new benchmark for weekday Christmas Day openings. Sherlock Holmes owns the overall Christmas record when it opened on a Friday and earned $24.6 million. Les Miserables Movie Trailer Django Unchained Trailer Django Unchained , meanwhile, didn’t exactly disappoint, either. Despite Spike Lee’s protest. The Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio-driven drama shot past Ali to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie to open on December 25. It brought in a cool $15 million. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey raked in $11.3 million, with Parental Guidance and Jack Reacher rounding out the top five.
Foxx and co-star Kerry Washington talk to MTV News about Quentin Tarantino’s ‘epic, cowboy Western.’ By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Leonardo DiCaprio in “Django Unchained” Photo: Columbia Pictures
Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington play the star-crossed lovers of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained , and I recently got a chance to sit down with both actors to talk about their roles and the film, which continues to build awards-season buzz . Washington says the film depicts “what you might do for love and how that could save you”, while Foxx calls the cast and crew an “artistic family tackling slavery in a most different way”. Best of all, they reveal there’s already talk of a Django Unchained sequel. Check out the full interview below: Get more on Django Unchained , in theaters Christmas Day. Follow Grace Randolph on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
With a turn as the sinister Billy Crash in Quentin Tarantino ‘s Django Unchained , Walton Goggins nails his second supporting appearance in a period Oscar contender this season. (His other 2012 prestige performance? Playing the meek Clay Hutchins in Steven Spielberg ‘s Lincoln .) Goggins sat down with Movieline/Behind the Trailer’s Grace Randolph to talk the necessary difficulties of depicting the brutality of slavery, why the need for retribution is utterly human, and how he feels about the path his career has taken during his two decades as a rising character actor. Get more on Django Unchained , in theaters Christmas Day. Follow Grace Randolph on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
