Mar 3 2008 'Semi-Pro' Not a 'Slam Dunk' This Weekend and 'Basketball'
1. Semi-Pro - A weak $15.2 million weekend sent studios a clear message that it takes more than just Will Ferrell, a sport, and some wacky sideburns to bring in audiences. It takes Will Ferrell, a zany sport, and a funny mustache.
2. Vantage Point - $13 million, and I can't wait for ADvantage Point!
3. The Spiderwick Chronicles - Kids + fantasy stuff = $8.8 million
4. The Other Boleyn Girl - $8.3 million, plus a preemptive Best Costumes Oscar.
5. Jumper - Answering what it would be like to have the ability to teleport, and also be thoroughly unlikable, earns $7.6 million.
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Jan 3 2008 'Other Boleyn Girl' Has 16th Century Indie Cred
Think it's impossible to transplant the quirky humor (and Natalie Portman) of Garden State into an over-the-top period drama? You are so wrong. In this scene from The Boleyn Girl, Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson have just finished staring blankly into a mirror--a natural reaction to learning their shirt somehow perfectly matches the bathroom wallpaper--and now they're going to off to scream and listen to Ye Olde Shins or whatever. Wearing eye-hurting clothing is totally dramedic.
Many more Boleyn Girl stills here.
Nov 21 2007 'Other Boleyn Girl' Trailer Raises Important Questions
Someone has, at long last, externalized the heterosexual male's deepest and most torturous emotional conflict: who would we rather do, Natalie Portman or Scarlett Johansson? Set in gorgeous 16th-century England, The Boyleyn Girl features a powerful performance from the talented Eric Bana as King Henry VIII that brings a nuanced reality to the absurd fantasy we've played out in our mind so many times.
On the one hand, Natalie Portman perhaps has the more striking features, and a delicately slim body that recalls the not-quite-matured girls of junior high, lusted for but never quite attained. One gets the impression that, on a particularly passion-filled night with the Garden State beauty, she may be broken along with the bed. But is that not part of her appeal?
But after one look at the ample bosom of the curvaceous Scarlett Johansson, our darling Natalie begins to look immature, even boyish. Like a ripe peach, ScarJo has blossomed into a soft and desirable woman. Who, after seeing the first shot of Lost in Translation, did not whisper to themselves the need to "get up inside them panties?"
With such tempting options before him, how is Eric Bana to choose? Is that even the plot? I sort of stopped paying attention when my mind asked the question, "What about both, at the same time?"
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Oct 3 2007 AM Poster Post Bonus: 'The Other Boleyn Girl' is Either ScarJo or NatPo
Try to imagine Jay-Z's hit single Big Pimpin' translated into some kind of old Victorian dialect and played by an old-fashioney minstrel. That's what I want to be playing over this poster, but I have no idea how to go about that.
The Other Boleyn Girl Poster [Empire]
