Sep 14 2009 Madea More Popular Than Hot Young Sorority Girls
Movies remained a popular form of distraction last weekend. These were the five most popular:
1. I Can Do Bad All By Myself - $24 million. Tyler Perry was right: he did bad all by himself. But apparently the rest of the U.S. needed the counsel of Madea to do bad this weekend.
2. 9 - $10.9 million. See? Computer-animated films can be original and successful! They don't need to have constant pop culture jokes or a Shrek! Oh, Shrek the Third opened at $121.6 million? Never mind. Continue with Shreks.
3. Inglourious Basterds - $6.5 million. All those people who keep saying, "I know, I know--I'll see it next week," really are slowly doing it.
4. All About Steve - $5.8 million. As much as I'm glad that Sorority Row flopped, I'm not sure the universally-panned All About Steve having a decent second week is any better.
5. The Final Destination - $5.5 million. What ended up being the final destination, anyway?
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Sep 8 2009 'The Final Destination' Somehow Still Really Popular
Box office totals for Friday through Monday, our day of labor:
1. The Final Destination - $15.5 million. Good to see I'm not the only one who enjoys spending a leisurely weekend watching teenagers die strange, elaborate deaths.
2. Inglourious Basterds - $15 million. Did you realize inglorious and glorious aren't the same thing? It's not like flammable/inflammable. Just in case you haven't seen the movie yet, I don't want you to go in confused.
3. All About Steve - $13.9 million. A 5% Rotten Tomatoes rating does little to tarnish the glistening star power of Miss Congeniality.
4. Gamer - $11.2 million. Look, I know Gamer looks stupid, but does it really look this much stupider than The Final Destination? Yeah, I guess it probably does.
5. District 9 - $9 million. This film's clear allegorical message really taught me something about not letting alien fluids spray in my mouth.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Aug 31 2009 Weekend Box Office: 'THE Final Destination' Fares Better Than Holiday-Themed Film
The Sirens' call of teenagers dying overly-elaborate deaths was too loud to resist:
1. The Final Destination - $28.3 million. I can't figure out if the third one was that good or if everyone just forgot prior Final Destinations existed.
2. Inglourious Basterds - $20 million. I saw a preview for this and the ABC series Shaq Vs. within a few minutes of each other, and it gave me a good idea for a show. Let's just say it loosely involves Shaq versus Nazis.
3. Halloween II - $17.4 million. An underwhelming showing, but, sadly, still enough to easily make back the $15 million budget and continue Rob Zombie's horror career.
4. District 9 - $10.7 million. Let's hope aliens don't land here while this is still in theaters. We shouldn't reveal how we're going to force them into a bottom caste until they start getting really annoying.
5. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra - $8 million. Goodbye, final blockbuster summer movie of the year! See you again as an even more poorly-reviewed sequel!
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Aug 24 2009 'Inglourious Basterds' Prove Nazi Killin' Profitable
The weekend's box office top five as determined by man:
1. Inglourious Basterds - $37.6 million, Quentin Tarentino's biggest opening weekend and his first film to feature Mike Myers in any capacity. That can't be a coincidence.
2. District 9 - $18.9 million. Between Nazis and aliens, this weekend's top moneymakers were chock-full of groups I will always consider enemy.
3. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra - $12.5 million. You may think I forgot to include Cobra in the above list of groups I will always consider enemy, but that's not the case. Remember when Roadblock and Cobra Commander were helping each other out in the 1987 animated G.I. Joe movie? Cobra Commander seemed like a decent enough guy for a while there.
4. The Time Traveler's Wife - $10 million in ticket sales, with another reported $4 million for selling photos of the Time Traveler's Newborn Baby to Us Weekly.
5. Julie & Julia - $9 million, holding Robert Rodriguez's Shorts down at 6th and ensuring Kazaam remains the superior wish-granting kids' film.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Aug 20 2009 Some Movies Coming Out This Weekend
This weekend, figure out why everyone gets so excited about two hours of synchronized picture and sound by seeing one of these "movies" they're always talking about:
Inglourious Basterds
Director: Quentin Tarantino--HEARD OF HIM?
Starring: Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Ryan from The Office, Mike Myers, strangely enough.
Good if you want to see: extreme violence--but against Nazis, so it's fine; Brad Pitt do an accent; stylized, overly-clever yet usually enjoyable dialogue; mostly killin' Nazis, though.
Post Grad
Director: Vicky Jenson
Starring: The younger Gilmore Girl, Michael Keaton, Carol Burnett
Good if you want to see: a recent college graduate moving back in with her zany family; Sitcom Premise: The Movie.
Shorts
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Jon Cryer, William H. Macy, a bunch of kids
Good if you want to see: a bunch of kids making fantastical wishes thanks to a magical rainbow rock; some ideas for what to wish for in case you ever find a magical rainbow rock for real (personally, I already have a list started).
X Games 3D: The Movie (limited)
Director: Steve Lawrence
Starring: All these awesome, extreme dudes
Good if you want to see: a guy doing this sweet jump with his BMX and he's comin' like right out of the screen and it's like shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt!
Aug 13 2009 Exclusive! See What You'd Look Like With Unwed Parents!
In the tradition of Trekking Yourself, Transformering Yourself, and Respecting Yourself, now you can see what you'd look like as one of the Inglourious Basterds by Basterdising Yourself. Just upload a photo, push some adjustment buttons, choose your killing instrument, and before you know it: you're a Basterd Trading Card. Or, if you'd prefer not to be a Basterd, do like me and just see what it would look like if Brad Pitt pulled an Eddie Murphy and played every role. Treat yourself to a brief distraction from your typical workday of Facebook quizzes.
Jul 9 2009 Another 'Inglourious Basterds' Poster: We Call This a "Hero Shot"
Even when photographing a pile of devastated Nazi corpses, Tarantino just can't resist the opportunity to once again visually assert his foot fetish.
Jun 24 2009 'Inglourious Basterds' Theatrical Trailer: Nazi Killin' Time, Everyone
Seeing Mike Myers doing an accent in facial prostheses and not being expected to politely laugh is still more jarring than any of the graphic bloodshed:
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Jun 17 2009 'Inglourious Basterds' Poster Goes Two Point Oh
I know the glossy, perfectly-reflective surfaces of Web 2.0 is the hot right now (at least until Web 3.0, which I anticipate will see a return to lens flares and "under construction" gifs), but there are some things that should not look like they're being purchased from the shadowless, lazily-mirrored floor of Apple's online store. Brutal Nazi-slaughterers are one of those things. Instead of white, reflective floor, how about... we can see down into the fiery pits of Hell, and amongst the screaming, scalped Nazis, the Devil himself is using his own urine to extinguish the surrounding flames in a frantic attempt to hide himself from Brad Pitt's band of insane, vengeful killers.
Sorry, I get most of my poster ideas from death metal lyrics.
Inglourious Basterds Poster [Bad Taste] (via JoBlo)
May 20 2009 New Clips from 'World War II: Quentin Tarantino Style'
How many scenes in Inglourious Basterds consist of characters--mostly Brad Pitt--giving long, blatantly Tarantinan (the state of being Tarantino-like) near-monologues in accents of varying believability? Well, according to these three new clips, the answer is: at least three scenes. Plus all the previously released scenes that were also that.
Anyway, here they are:
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May 7 2009 Another 'Inglourious Basterd' Poster Declares Actor a 'Basterd'
Do you think male basterds get really excited at the idea of a lady basterd? Like how nerds start knowingly nodding to each other when they find out a girl plays video games, Eli Roth and Brad Pitt would give each other a discreet low-five when they see a woman willing to beat open a Nazi's skull with a baseball bat. I bet they do, but once they actually date a lady-basterd, they realize how nice it was having basterd time to themselves, separate from their relationship, leading to arguments about personal space and acceptance, and eventually to break-up. That's probably the plot of the movie.
May 5 2009 Another 'Inglourious Basterds' Basterd Poster
Aside from being a basterd, I'm starting to get the impression he's also Jason Schwartzman's douchebaggy, weapon-obsessed, older brother.
Inglourious Basterds Poster [Trailer Addict]
May 4 2009 Brad Pitt is a 'Basterd' (Not a Glourious One)
AICN put up this character poster from Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, and it got me thinking: are you allowed to say "bastards," even misspelled, in advertisements? It seems like there will inevitably be some complaints from the crazies. Not to mention Walmart. Walmart is never going to sell a movie called Inglourious Basterds. They're going to have to put the DVD in some special Walmart sleeve, re-label it Pitt and Pals, and add the warning: "Some sequences depict characters born of unwed parents that do not necessarily feel His glory."
Apr 15 2009 'Inglourious Basterds' Promo from The Singing Show
This new promo for Inglourious Basterds apparently aired during American Idol (which inexplicably featured Quentin Tarantino as a judge for the second time?) last night, because there's a huge audience cross-over between those who love brutal cinematic violence and those who text VOTE to 1-800-IDOL. But you needn't concern yourself with that. Concern yourself with why Mike Myers latest prosthetics/accent combination has rendered him a British military version of character actor Jeffrey Jones:
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Apr 2 2009 'Basterds' Premiering at Cannes
Love him or hate him, the incontrovertible fact stands that Quentin Tarentino does make movies. Now that we have that understanding, here's some news about his latest film, Inglourious Basterds. According to Variety, the Brad Pitt-starring, Nazi-killin', poorly-spelled epic will be premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May. I know that's not much time to get a costume together, but that's how it is sometimes.
For those of us unable to get ourselves to the French Rivera this year, this means we'll probably be hearing about that dialogue-free, 45-minute Nazi decapitating scene for months before we get to see it.
Feb 23 2009 A Few Seconds of a Bunch of Upcoming Movies
If you made it to the end of the Oscars--or more likely, if you dozed off and were awakened by the credit sequence's jamming guitar--the night's reward was a three-minute movie preview sequence. For some of the films (Public Enemies, Whatever Works), it was a first look at scenes from highly-anticipated projects. For others (Old Dogs!), it was the warning: oh god, Robin Williams and John Travolta made some kind of boot camp comedy, and it's called Old Dogs. Here it is:
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Feb 20 2009 'Inglourious Basterds' Shop at Halloween USA
Not only did they bring the Deluxe Bleeding 'Scream' Knife, they brought the Standard 'Scream' Mask and one of those fake rubber hands, and they are going to scare the living shit out of you Nazis.
Two more posters at Empire.
Feb 11 2009 'Inglourious Basterds' Teaser Will Beat You with Baseball Bat, Carve Swastika into Your Head
If it were like the '40s and I was enlisting as a Nazi, I would hope, before signing the final paper, someone would show me this video just to get me the fair warning: "Look, being a Nazi, yes, you get the glory of fighting for our führer, and of course there are all the beautiful Aryan girls, but there's also Brad Pitt and these eight other dudes that want to mercilessly torture and kill us, and with Pitt asking for 100 scalps a piece, that's at least 800 of you who are going to be praying for death as Eli Roth beats you with a Louisville Slugger. Just so you know."
Feb 10 2009 Brad Pitt Wants Nazi Scalps So Bad
Entertainment Tonight spoiler alert: the screaming gossip show will be debuting the teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, and in their usual fashion, last night ET showed a brief preview for the preview. If the full movie is like a birthday cake, and the trailer is like getting a taste of the frosting, this preview preview is like thinking you see someone carrying a cake-shaped thing to their car, but before you can check it out someone starts shouting at you about Angelina Jolie possibly being pregnant again. Something like that.
Dec 12 2008 A Couple Photos from 'Inglourious Basterds'
From Tarantino.info (thanks to Pat), here are a couple new shots from Inglourious Basterds. In this first photo, the puckered skin around Brad Pitt's neck is supposedly a scar from a lynching, not the first sign that the actor is developing a waddle. And here are some Nazis getting way too excited about playing Indian poker:
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