Sep 21 2009 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' Outshines Megan Fox's Physical Form
Your weekend box office report:
1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - $30 million, a strong debut that reflects America's love of both abundant food and things falling on people's heads.
2. The Informant! - $10.5 million. The Sorderbergh/Damon collaborative team is becoming the new Scorsese/DiCaprio. Except not really as acclaimed.
3. I Can Do Bad All By Myself - $10 million. With the continued success of Tyler Perry proving the viability of play adaptations, I really hope this doesn't lead to someone ever making the popular musical Shrek into some sort of feature film.
4. Love Happens - $8.5 million. You couldn't expect it to make much with such a controversial title.
5. Jennifer's Body - $6.8 million. Diablo Cody should stay out of horror and stick to what she writes best: illegitimate child comedy spoken over hamburger phone.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Sep 18 2009 New Releases: Food Precipitation v. Love Occurring v. Megan Fox's Body v. Informant v. Poet
Would it kill you to get out of the house and see a movie this weekend? Here are some options:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Starring: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell
Good if you want to see: falling food; fat kids squealing in delight.
Love Happens
Director: Brandon Camp
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart
Good if you want to see: love happen; the heirs apparent to the Hanks/Ryan throne; the prequel to Affection Exists.
Jennifer's Body
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, Johnny Simmons
Good if you want to see: Megan Fox in demon mode; Megan Fox in standard babe mode; what new catchphrases Diablo Cody has in store ("Tweet all about it"?)
The Informant! (limited)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Matt Damon, Buster Bluth, Quantum Leap, The Soup
Good if you want to see: corporate thriller as madcap comedy; fatter Matt Damon.
Bright Star (limited)
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw
Good if you want to see: if John Keats in Love can match Shakespeare in Love's Oscar bait quotient.
Jul 10 2009 'Jennifer's Body' Poster -- Coming Soon to Your '80s Video Store Shelf
Winner of the award for "movie poster that most looks like a VHS cover I'd keep staring at in an '80s video store, for a movie would likely be called Substitute Creature."
And yes, the desk is opening from the wrong direction, but, dude, you are so totally gay for even noticing that, dude.
Final 'Jennifer's Body' One Sheet the Hottest Ever? [Bloody Disgusting]
Jul 6 2009 'Jennifer's Body' Trailer Highlights Megan Fox's Body
Have you seen the new trailer that has everyone saying, "Shit, dude, did you see that trailer where Megan Fox is naked (inasmuch as Alanis Morisette was naked in that music video where she was sort of naked)?" I don't actually know if anyone is saying that, but I assume they will after they see this trailer for Diablo Cody's Mean Girls-with-demon-possession horror-comedy, Jennifer's Body. You know how people talk, with their vocal excitement about seeing Megan Fox nearly naked, and their references to Alanis Morisette any time a woman's hair is the only thing covering her breasts.
Anyway, trailer:
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Jun 30 2009 Megan Fox Indulges Cheerleader Fantasies
Part of her plan to indulge every classic sex fantasy a man could have, Megan Fox, just seen playing a babe mechanic in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, will soon be seen playing a babe cheerleader in the Diablo Cody-written horror-comedy Jennifer's Body (big Hole fan, I guess?), and Film School Rejects has some Empire Magazine scans from the film.
Fox will soon be seen as a corset-wearing Wild West prostitute in Hex, so now she has only to play a Catholic school girl and a pigtailed milkmaid to complete her mission and return to her home planet. (It's one of those scantily-clad lady planets from Star Trek, obviously.)
Oct 23 2007 Some Other Crap That Happened...
- Data and Chunk have confirmed what Mikey and Mouth already told us: that they've been contacted to do voices for an animated Goonies movie, also confirming--what was once thought a rumor--that Chunk ate his weight in Godfather's pizza. [Empire]
- Diablo Cody seems to be the new 'it' screenwriter, with the Juno penner working on a burlesque musical, a Steven Spielberg television series (United States of Tara), and now a comedic supernatural thriller titled Jennifer's Body. I find myself somewhat embittered that someone named Diablo Cody is having so much more success than me. [/Film]
- Zooey Deschanel has joined Jim Carrey in Yes Man, about a man who decides to change his life by saying yes to everything. Hey, that sounds like what Owen Wilson says to do in The Darjeeling Limited, except much stupider. [Hollywood Reporter]
- Producer Brian Glazer and director Ridley Scott talked to MTV about their Russell Crowe-starrer, Nottingham, calling it, "the Gladiator version of Robin Hood." I guess that makes Kevin Costner's Prince of Thieves the "Field of Dreams version of Robin Hood." [MTV]
