"The Dark Knight" slipped to No. 2 with $16.8 million in ticket sales in its fifth weekend of release but broke yet another commercial barrier along the way by becoming the second-highest-grossing film ever.Details are a little sketchy on what the DARK KNIGHT DVDs are going to include but seeing as how it's poised to become a) the second biggest movie of all-time and b) the biggest movie released in the DVD era, we knew you'd expect a lot of different versions to be available. While we still don't have a lot of the specs on what these DVDs will contain, we are starting to get some word on what kinds of versions will be available. A scooper named "Dave" sent in some images that we've been able to confirm as legit. They would confirm a 2-disc DVD, a Blu-ray, a steelbook 2-disc DVD special edition, a Batpod collector's DVD and a Batman mask collector's DVD (basically the 2-disc DVD shrink-wrapped with a Batman mask).In trying to track down more info on these DVDs, I've heard two conflicting release dates - December 2nd and December 9th. Either way THE DARK KNIGHT is poised for some huge sales this holiday season. I've already got my eyes on that steelbook... Source: www.joblo.com "But given that it unites Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Arrow, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter, the studio is trying to figure out how such the pic (cast with younger actors) would affect its existing Batman and Superman franchises -- and whether the script respects how the characters play off each other in the DC universe.
To put it simply: the studio doesn't want to piss off the Comic-Con contingent.When it comes to Batman, the future of the franchise is in Christopher Nolan's hands. That's what a successful reboot with "Batman Begins" and breaking records with "The Dark Knight" will do.
There's a deal for the director to helm a third pic, but he has yet to decide on whether to tackle it yet.
"We have no idea where Chris is going with this," Horn says. "We haven't had any conversations with him about it."
Either way, there's no question Warner Bros. will produce more superhero pics. The question is when.
"These are big, iconic characters," Noveck says. "So when you make them into a movie, you'd better be shooting for a pretty high standard. You're not always going to reach it, but you have to be shooting for it. We're going to make a Justice League movie, whether it's now or 10 years from now. But we're not going to do it and Warners is not going to do it until we know it's right." Source: www.variety.com
Kirsten Dunst posing with a cat. Emmy Rossum playing with her pet pooch Sugarat Harmony Lane. Diablo Cody with her dog Barnabas. Maggie and a black cat. Magan Fox and a brown cat. Cintia Dicker and a teddy-bear.
Zooey Deschanel on 2nd August - Newport Folk Festival.
Zooey Deschanel on 10th August - Virgin Mobile Festival: Day 2.
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Zooey and Jason Schwartzman - IFP Independent Spirit Awards, February 2004. Zooey Deschanel with umbrella.Tobey Maguire with umbrella.
Kevin Connolly is my new tv crush, he was naïvely funny as Ryan Malloy in "Unhappily Ever After", Ryan Gosling's friend Fin in "The notebook", Steve Maguire in "John Q." hospital drama and one of the main characters in "Entourage" series as Eric Murphy, the most reliable guy of the bunch. In real life Kevin is good friends with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. Since I've come back to watching tv, "Entourage" is one of the few shows I've followed and my crush towards Kevin has developed fully because he cracks me up everytime he has his tough banter with his friend Vincent's pretentious manager Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven, nominated to one Emmy as well as "Entourage"). John Koch, "Entourage"s creator explained that he didn't know when Ari's famous "let's hug it out bitch" motto was originated. The line is, in fact, something Jeremy Piven made up.
"Simon Pegg today revealed that he will no longer be appearing in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards.
“I won’t be appearing in QT’s forthcoming Inglorious Bastards due to insurmountable scheduling difficulties. We really tried to make it work but in the end, it just was not possible without severe ramifications elsewhere.”
However, there is some good news in the Pegg department. His next film with onscreen partner Nick Frost, entitled Paul, will be directed by Superbad director Greg Mottola".
From Empire:
"Details on the script are minimal at the moment, but it is known that the story concerns the pair taking a road trip across America and, as Jessica Hynes let slip in our Comic-Con video diaries, the story will start at San Diego Comic-Con".
"Snotty, condescending Katherine Heigl should be happy, being that not only was she left off the nominations list, but that her show "Grey's Anatomy" wasn't nominated for a Best Drama award. However, everybody's favorite nonsense show "Lost" certainly was, along with the ridiculously overrated "Boston Legal." Also on the list are "Dexter," "House," "Damages" and "Mad Men," which received a whopping 16 nominations. The last two are the very first cable series' nominated for Best Drama.The Comedy Series Emmy is bound to be a tough one, with NBC's two funniest shows ("The Office" and "30 Rock") going head to head for the award, which "Entourage" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" are up for as well. Best Actress in a Comedy should either go to Mary-Louise Parker for the highly potent "Weeds" or "30 Rock"'s Tina Fey, comedy's reigning queen. Props to Julia Louis-Dreyfus for a nomination, but her time for awards passed with "Seinfeld." In a first for the decades-old it's-good-it's-bad-it's-good-again "Saturday Night Live," someone has been nominated as Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy - and that somebody is blonde firecracker Amy Poehler. Poehler's husband, funnyman Will Arnett was also nominated for an award - Best Guest Actor in a Comedy series. He joins Rip Torn, Steve Buscemi and Tim Conway (all for "30 Rock") on the list, as well as Shelley Berman of "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
The 2008 Emmy Awards will take place Sept. 21 in Los Angeles.
LIST OF NOMINEES:
DRAMA SERIES: "Boston Legal," ABC "Damages," FX "Dexter," Showtime "House," Fox "Lost," ABC "Mad Men," AMC
COMEDY SERIES: "Curb Your Enthusiasm," HBO "Entourage," HBO "The Office," NBC "30 Rock," NBC "Two and a Half Men," CBS
ACTOR, DRAMA SERIES: Gabriel Byrne, "In Treatment" Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad" Michael C. Hall, "Dexter" Jon Hamm, "Mad Men" Hugh Laurie, "House" James Spader, "Boston Legal"
ACTRESS, DRAMA SERIES: Glenn Close, "Damages" Sally Field, "Brothers and Sisters" Mariska Hargitay, "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" Holly Hunter, "Saving Grace" Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer"
ACTRESS, COMEDY SERIES: Christina Applegate, "Samantha Who?" America Ferrera, "Ugly Betty" Tina Fey, "30 Rock" Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "New Adventures of Old Christine" Mary-Louise Parker, "Weeds"
ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES: Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock" Steve Carell, "The Office" Lee Pace, "Pushing Daisies" Tony Shalhoub, "Monk" Charlie Sheen, "Two and a Half Men"
SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES: Jon Cryer, "Two and a Half Men" Kevin Dillon, "Entourage" Neil Patrick Harris, "How I Met Your Mother" Jeremy Piven, "Entourage" Rainn Wilson, "The Office"
SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA SERIES: Ted Danson, "Damages" Michael Emerson, "Lost" Zeljko Ivanek, "Damages" William Shatner, "Boston Legal" John Slattery, "Mad Men"
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA SERIES: Candice Bergen, "Boston Legal" Rachel Griffiths, "Brothers and Sisters" Sandra Oh, "Grey's Anatomy" Dianne Wiest, "In Treatment" Chandra Wilson, "Grey's Anatomy"
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY SERIES: Kristin Chenoweth, "Pushing Daisies" Amy Poehler, "Saturday Night Live" Jean Smart, "Samantha Who? Holland Taylor, "Two and a Half Men" Vanessa Williams, "Ugly Betty"
"While her dialogue was clunky, and she seems to be the only non-floozy female in Gotham City, I found Rachel Dawes to be a very reassuring presence in The Dark Knight. There were opportunities galore to sex her up, and flake away her brains, but Christopher Nolan didn't take it. Instead, she's a capable career woman, who dresses smartly (love that blue dress of hers), and holds her own against Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent. I can see why both men love her, because frankly, I kind of do too. As the brainy girl oft passed up for the flashier model, I like that the smart girl gets the studliest guys in Gotham – and isn't dependent on either one of them. (Someone will knock me here for judging Dawes by her attractiveness to men, but perhaps I can temper it by saying that I especially admire Dawes' emotional fortitude in her darkest hour?) And maybe I can further temper the "studly" remark by my commendation of Virginia "Pepper" Potts in Iron Man. I love that she so coolly resisted the suave charms of Tony Stark. She had a few wobbly moments in the middle of the film, but hey, not every personal assistant can handle corporate espionage and her boss in a robot suit. Plus her verbal volley towards Stark's "Remember that night?" made up for it. She could have easily hopped into bed with him at any point of the movie – investigative journalists did, with nary a care – but Potts knew she deserved better. But the prize for the most kickass female of summer belongs to a little iPod lookalike named EVE. She's rebellious (her free flight after being dropped off on Earth speaks volumes), she packs firepower, and she takes her directive so seriously that no boy, not even one as cute and attentive as WALL-E, can dissuade her. There was something vaguely Princess Leia-like about her that I couldn't put my finger on – maybe it was her coloring, maybe it was her blaster, but when she proved to be a co-savior of Earth, I wasn't surprised. Frankly, the emotion tucked into her repeated "Plant!" packed more punch than most of the lines given to any of summer's love interests. Way to go EVE – it's a sad state of affairs when you're more complex and interesting than half your human counterparts. Let's hope Summer 2009 fares better in this regard. (I'm looking at you, Terminator: Salvation, Star Trek, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Don't let me down. Give me someone to rival Elizabeth Swann, at least.)
That concludes my scorecard on the girls of summer. There's two I left off because I haven't seen the films yet andthat's Liv Tyler as the latest Betty Ross in The Incredible Hulk, and Selma Blair's Liz Sherman in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. So please, tell me where you think they should rank! Source: www.cinematical.com
"The Dark Knight" slipped to No. 2 with $16.8 million in ticket sales in its fifth weekend of release but broke yet another commercial barrier along the way by becoming the second-highest-grossing film ever.
Details are a little sketchy on what the DARK KNIGHT DVDs are going to include but seeing as how it's poised to become a) the second biggest movie of all-time and b) the biggest movie released in the DVD era, we knew you'd expect a lot of different versions to be available. While we still don't have a lot of the specs on what these DVDs will contain, we are starting to get some word on what kinds of versions will be available. A scooper named "Dave" sent in some images that we've been able to confirm as legit. They would confirm a 2-disc DVD, a Blu-ray, a steelbook 2-disc DVD special edition, a Batpod collector's DVD and a Batman mask collector's DVD (basically the 2-disc DVD shrink-wrapped with a Batman mask).
In trying to track down more info on these DVDs, I've heard two conflicting release dates - December 2nd and December 9th. Either way THE DARK KNIGHT is poised for some huge sales this holiday season. I've already got my eyes on that steelbook...
"But given that it unites Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Arrow, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter, the studio is trying to figure out how such the pic (cast with younger actors) would affect its existing Batman and Superman franchises -- and whether the script respects how the characters play off each other in the DC universe.
When it comes to Batman, the future of the franchise is in Christopher Nolan's hands. That's what a successful reboot with "Batman Begins" and breaking records with "The Dark Knight" will do.
