This rumor arrived at my mail box today: Uma Thurman, the actress who killed Bill, could be pregnant. Her assistant was spotted at a store buying lots of dresses for here, all of which were at least two sizes larger than what she usually wears. In addition, we know that she was proposed to by her rich boyfriend Arki Busson, founder of the EIM Group, where he manages a fund worth more than $12 billion. Has Ms. Thurman hit the jackpot? Time will tell.
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If you ask Nicholas Cage what the hell went wrong this week end, he might not have an answer for you. In fact, I believe he might be as stunned as the Hollywood suits looking at the weak box office numbers, which happen to mark the weakest Hollywood movie week end in 5 years!
Cage’s movie Bangkok Dangerous turned out not to be that dangerous after all, only raking in about $7.8 million, much less than what box office experts expected the movie to make during its first days.
Robert De Niro was signed on to star alongside Mel Gibson in the movie Edge of Darkness, which is directed by Martin Campbell. However, it was now reported that Mr. De Niro dropped out of the project only a few days after shooting had begun. He didn’t even last the first week! De Niro’s manager said it was due to “creative differences”, but if you drop out of a project that you have already agreed to be a part of I’d give that another name…
Here’s a video from the set of the upcoming Transformers 2 action movie, directed by Michael Bay:
Transformers 2: On the Set, Day 1
Action movie star Nicholas Cage stars in the action thriller Bangkok Dangerous, which is set to hit theaters on Friday. Featurette:
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Well, according to some reliable or not-so-reliable news sources of mine, he did! When in Bruges to promote his then new movie of the same name (In Bruges that is), Colin Farrell somehow bumped into a homeless bum while walking out of a church.
But why did he save the guy’s life? He did so by treating him to a $3,000 shopping tour in his ultra-chic limo, all the way telling him to get his life back together.
You know what? Since that day the homeless man has been going to church, stopped drinking too much booze and is exercising on a daily basis to make up for his countless days of stressing his body to its limits.
#23 Network (1976)
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty
Movie trailer:
Movie quotes:
Nelson Chaney: All I know is that this violates every canon of respectable broadcasting.
Frank Hackett: We’re not a respectable network. We’re a whorehouse network, and we have to take whatever we can get.
Nelson Chaney: Well, I don’t want any part of it. I don’t fancy myself the president of a whorehouse.
Frank Hackett: That’s very commendable of you, Nelson. Now sit down. Your indignation is duly noted; you can always resign tomorrow.
Howard Beale: I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV’s while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot - I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, ‘I’m a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!’ So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, ‘I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”
#24 Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Joe Pesci, Danny Aiello
Movie trailer:
#25 GoodFellas (1990)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
Movie trailer:
I just found this funny review of The Incredible Hulk in The Guardian. The critic Peter Bradshaw captures the experience most people must have had when watching this not-so-good movie:
“Hulk. Smash!” Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars. Buildings. Army tanks. Hulk not just smash. Hulk also go rarrr! Then smash again. Smash important, obviously. Smash Hulk’s USP. What Hulk smash most? Hulk smash all hope of interesting time in cinema. Hulk take all effort of cinema, effort getting babysitter, effort finding parking, and Hulk put great green fist right through it. Hulk crush all hopes of entertainment. Hulk in boring film. Film co-written by star. Edward Norton. Norton in it. Norton write it. Norton not need gamma-radiation poisoning to get big head. Thing is: Hulk head weirdly small. Compared with rest of big green body. …
