Your Daily Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans
Jon Gosselin Makes A Funny: When you can't beat them - join them! After being the butt of so many jokes - often, right here in Roll Call, Jon Gosselin is attempting to beat everyone to the punch with a new video on FunnyOrDie.com. Set to the tune of Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time," Jon gives his fans a magical look at a fantasy world where he gives up fame, alcohol, his diamond stud earrings - and most importantly his Ed Hardy wardrobe. See it HERE! (PS - we're guessing none of this will actually come true)
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Sun Nov 08, 2009, 9:06 pm EST
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Source: AP
LOS ANGELES - Jim Carrey's Scrooge collected holiday donations from movie fans with his new take on "A Christmas Carol," which took in $31 million to open as the weekend's top movie.
The Disney animated version of the Charles Dickens classic knocked the King of Pop out of the No. 1 spot as "Michael Jackson's This Is It" slipped to second place with $14 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Disney kick-started the holidays on Friday with the release of “Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” which led the boxoffice listings for the day as it took in an estimated $8.97 million in 3,683 locations in North America.
Director Robert Zemeckis’ latest motion-capture creation, the PG-retelling of Charles Dickens’ time-tested tale, with Jim Carrey playing Scrooge and other assorted roles, is unspooling in 3D in almost two-thirds of its playdates. While Saturday matinees will determine how strong the film is playing, its opening day fell well short of Carrey’s last Christmas movie, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” which bowed to $15.6 million on its opening Friday on Nov. 17, 2000.
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More AFM news
SANTA MONICA -- A clutch of 13 film titles -- some dating back a decade -- has been shifted to British-based sales and financier Intandem from U.S. sales label Seven Arts.
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Thu Nov 05, 2009, 7:01 am EST
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Source: AP
- Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
"The Box" — Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a moral dilemma: Press a button on a mysterious container and they'll get $1 million, but someone they don't know will die. What button, on whose box, did writer-director Richard Kelly push to get the money to make this awful, preposterous thriller? Diaz and Marsden play a couple offered the box, button and deal described above by a grotesquely disfigured stranger (Frank Langella). Adapting this mess from a Richard Matheson story that was the basis of a 1980s "Twilight Zone" episode, Kelly roams ponderously beyond that tale's snappy ending, into an installment of "The X-Files" in its post-Mulder death throes, when the show turned to rot. Kelly piles on government conspiracies, abductions, mobs of automatons controlled by forces beyond human comprehension. The hammy dialogue and hammier performances eventually start to provoke laughs as the movie shambles toward its overdue demise. PG-13 for thematic elements, some violence and disturbing images. Running time: 115 minutes. One star out of four.
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Wed Nov 04, 2009, 4:17 pm EST
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Source: AP
- The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller "The Fourth Kind" offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnivallike hokum. The movie's unwieldy mix of degraded pseudo-documentary footage and "Unsolved Mystery"-style re-enactments is as unconvincing as it its distancing, making the small charms of "Paranormal Activity" all the more apparent by comparison.
"The Fourth Kind" opens with Milla Jovovich appearing on-screen, introducing herself as an "actress," the first of many dubious claims the film makes. Jovovich tells us that she'll be playing Dr. Abigail Emily Tyler and that all the trauma we're about to see — including some footage, we're advised, that is "extremely disturbing" — can be supported by documented records and interviews.
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