Want to make a hit movie? Here’s what your main character ought to do for a living… at least per 2010’s 10 Best Picture Oscar nominees*.
* Presumes The Blind Side is actually about Michael Oher and not Leigh Anne Tuohy. If you disagree, adjust chart accordingly.
For kicks, adding in the occupation of the 20 Best Actor/Actress and Supporting Actor/Actress nominees (includes some movies more than once).
I wonder if the critic got any of the $400,000? That’s like $1000 a word… nice!
Last month, Variety panned a thriller called Iron Cross. But the review has been disappeared from Variety’s web site, which probably has something to do with the $400,000 Iron Cross‘ producers paid to Variety for an awards campaign.
Scene: Kids watching TV in the morning via Tivo. Commercial comes on.
Me: “Fast-forward it.”
Child: “I wanna see this!”
Me: “It’s a commercial!”
Child: “But it’s cereal!”
Exeunt.
Something about this email from “Stephenie” (reprinted verbatim) just speaks to me. Can’t put my finger on it. Oddly there are no links in the email, just this text.
Im woman. I have a red hair with copper shimmering. My eyes is purple. I am high. I have beautiful chest. My hair is long straight. I live in a big city. I work in banking. I like to watch funny comedies. Representations in the theater. I like meet friends . I like forest. If you talk about me I am dangerous panther. Most of all in men I value sense of humor. When I saw you theater. I agreed that must. Because I can be for you a incredible lover or someone great if you want. I’m wait.
I’m surprised it took so long…
This is my 10th (I think) year participating in the Tiger Direct Charity PC Race, which begins at 7pm on Thursday, January 7th while I’m at CES. You can watch it live right here:
In Roger Ebert’s world, the best movies of the decade include the retarded Bad Lieutenant remake, the Kill Bill movies, Spike Lee’s tepid The 25th Hour, Linklater’s experimental (and little else) Waking Life, and Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York (the best movie of the ’00s)!
I guess Herzog’s threat has done its job.
Daily Virgo Horoscope – 24th December, 2009
T’was the night before Christmas and all through the land, there were Virgos who were realizing that they had two basic choices: they could continue to act like the weight of the world was on their shoulders or they could get with the new program and start to embrace the fact that the worst of the tough times are over. Virgo, you are actually in line for some happy times, intense maybe, but potentially very happy and also fun. Life is what we make of it – you don’t need to be a New Age hippy to get that.
Don’t want to tell you to much. Just give it a try.
Sometimes two press releases arrive at just the right time…
Well, we were wondering about that last night, so I figured I’d look it up… Wikipedia to the rescue.
Several different recipes of slime were used during the series’ decade-long run, some resulting in thin, watery slime and others in thick, chunky slime. In an interview with YCDTOTV.com, longtime YCDTOTV crew member Bill Buchanan explained the origin of the slime in 1979: “…one script called for this kinda disgusting slimy green stuff – but with no real indication of what it was going to be used for. … The description was that it was just something green and slimy and disgusting … Anyhow, [properties man Paul Copping] mixed up a whole green garbage can … with slime. I know he’d colored it with green latex paint. God knows what else was in it, but it was disgusting. And it was parked inside the studio door, and everyone was kinda avoiding it because it was really foul looking. I mean, he had like sausages floating in it.”
By the time it was actually used to be dumped on a child’s head, toxicity became a concern…
“We concocted some stuff made out of green Jell-o, or gelatin. We made it by the bucket. We bought hundreds of packages of lime Jell-o or gelatin over the years.”
For several years afterwards, the slime consisted of this mixture of lime green gelatin powder and flour; eventually, oatmeal was added to the recipe, as was baby shampoo so that it would wash out of the actors’ hair more easily.
Love this letter from J.D. Salinger…
As someone who used to fix computers part-time but stopped advertising his services over six years ago, I can attest to the veracity of this “guide to being the local PC repair dude.” Specifically:
Expect to be riddled with calls and requests for fixing computers for the rest of your natural life.
I should be working. Instead I’m reading about how awesome it is not to do work when you’re not getting paid for it.
Why didn’t she just leave? Too dumb to stand?
MSNBC embedding totally doesn’t work…
From the press notes for the utterly baffling, upcoming new film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which is not a remake of the Harvey Keitel classic. Starring Nicolas Cage and directed by — no, seriously — Werner Herzog.
Here’s what Herzog — who’s easily on my list of 10 people I’d like to have dinner with someday — has to say to any early critics who might dare comment on the project.
It does not bespeak great wisdom to call the film The Bad Lieutenant, and I only agreed to make the film after William (Billy) Finkelstein, the screenwriter, who had seen a film of the same name from the early nineties, had given me a solemn oath that this was not a remake at all. But the film industry has its own rationale, which in this case was the speculation of starting some sort of a franchise. I have no problem with this. Nevertheless, the pedantic branch of academia, the so called “film-studies,” in its attempt to do damage to cinema, will be ecstatic to find a small reference to that earlier film here and there, though it will fail to do the same damage that academia — in the name of literary theory — has done to poetry, which it has pushed to the brink of extinction. Cinema, so far, is more robust. I call upon the theoreticians of cinema to go after this one. Go for it, losers.
This photo essay brings back so many wonderful memories of making stop-action movies as a child using Star Wars figures. Still waiting for my big break…
My spidey sense is tingling…
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Christopher Null is a technology, business, and entertainment journalist, the founder of Filmcritic.com, chief mixologist at Drinkhacker.com, and the author of the books Half Mast and Five Stars! Catch his daily commentary on the technology world at Yahoo! Tech.
