I was really looking forward to the release of this movie in June, but after seeing the trailer I am concerned that it won’t live up to the hype. Sure, Josh Brolin seems to nail the role of antihero Jonah Hex and Megan Fox is stunning as usual… it just doesn’t seem to be the gritty Sergio Leone type of movie that I was hoping for. It could just be me, I always saw Jonah Hex similar to Clint Eastwood in the “Man with No Name” trilogy.
John Malkovich playing the villainous Quentin Turnbull is pretty exciting, however. Check out the trailer below and tell me what you think!
“Taken” has overtaken the box office crown and swiped the weekend sales away from “Paul Blart: Mall Cop“.
“Taken” drew in $24,65,000 in this weekend’s box office, leaving the second spot for Paul Blart. Also new in the theaters is “The Uninvited“, which took third place in it’s first week. “Hotel For Dogs” is in it’s third week and landed the fourth spot, leaving the fifth spot for Clint Eastwood’s flick, “Gran Torino“.
“Taken” stars Liam Neeson as Bryan, an ex-CIA spy and father of kidnapping victim, Kim. Kim and her friend Amanda take a trip to Europe where Amanda gets kidnapped, and subsequently, so does Kim. Amanda dies from a heroin overdose and Kim gets sold into sex slavery.
Bryan tells the kidnappers that if they let his daughter go, he won’t track them down and kill them. Things apparently don’t go as planned, and you can see where this is going.
The funny movie took over the box office and knocked out Clint Eastwood’s movie, “Gran Torino” from the top slot.
Paul Blart works as a security guard at a New Jersey mall and has applied for years to become a cop, but was denied due to his weight. One day, a gang of organized criminals take hostages in the mall and he becomes the eyes and ears of the police force, inside the mall.
So he basically has to pull a “Die Hard” and take out the criminals on his own.
It was that time of the year, the Golden Globes were televised last night, and celebrities were dressed to the nine’s for the event. Well, most of them were.
Vanessa Hudgens looked cute in her dress and pearls, but the annoying thing about her was how much swag she walked away with. Vanessa reportedly had her assistant lugging home four bags full of gifts with her, totaling a whopping $12,000!
Swag is one way for advertisers to boost sales for their product. The celebrity takes a photo with the item and gets to keep one for themselves. How much time do you think Vanessa spent in the gifting lounges? Five hours?
She reportedly made off with a one-year pass for her and a pal to a AMC Theaters, a BlackBerry Pearl, a coffee machine, a $4,000 diamond pendant, designer clutches, a year-long gym membership and more.
Clint Eastwood took the old Hollywood approach and opted out of the gifting lounges. Ricky Gervais said he only wanted a pair of sunglasses.
Vanessa Hudgens made out like a bandit, but she wasn’t the only one. “Mad Men’s” January Jones also took home $10,000 worth of gifts, while Samaire Armstrong took home a $4,500 necklace.
With the economy in shambles and big CEO’s getting all kinds of taxpayer money, it’s a shame that celebrities are allowed to brag about the stuff they get for free. Tacky.
Clint Eastwood’s rumored last movie, “Gran Torino” has taken charge of the box office this past weekend with $29,025,000 in profits.
The movie has taken down the two-week strong hold that “Marley & Me” had over the holidays and has a nice steady lead over “Bride Wars” and “The Unborn (2009)“.
“Gran Torino” stars Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalski, a Korean War veteran, a widower, and an anti-hero. He takes on the neighborhood gangs, but shuns being called a hero. He’s a gun-toting racist with thoughtless children who want to put him a nursing home on his birthday. My favorite part of the trailer is him yelling at the thugs to “get off of my lawn.”
Here’s the recap of the weekend box office chart:
This looks like a really good movie and people came out in droves to see it. I’m going to put this on my list of must-see movies.
On a cold day last December, an actor playing a part against Angelina Jolie leaned over and kissed her. The only trouble was, it wasn’t in the script.
“I try to be selective with my improvising,†said Jason Butler Harner, who is her co-star in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming “Changeling.†So he checked with the director first. “Clint approved,†he said. “He could see it happening and he said, ‘Do it and we’ll see what happens.’â€
That Clint sure is a sneaky one.
Jolie was supposed to be pushing Harner against a wall. It was the movie’s climatic scene, and her character, Christine Collins, was supposed to be confronting his character, Gordon Stewart Northcott, and asking him, “Did you kill my son?†(The film is based on a true story; in the 1920s, Collins’ son was abducted, and another boy was “returned†to her instead. When she insisted that the second boy was not her son, she was deemed hysterical, when actually it was a case of LAPD corruption).
“I had talked to her at the beginning of the day,†Harner said. “We had a big scene, and we’re supposed to be coming out of our corners, so it was a ‘How do we do this?’â€
Nowhere in that talk did he mention he was planning to lay one on her, however. But Eastwood approved because he likes to shoot and use things that actors don’t expect — a scene they might well believe is just a rehearsal, for instance. So for the big climax being shot the last week of a 35-day shoot, he wanted Jolie to be caught off guard — and she was.
“She slapped me and she held me and she hit me and it was great,†Harner said. “She totally went with it. She’s really smart. She’s beautiful, but she’s really smart, and she’s a great actress.â€
“That guy invited the parents of the kids he killed to come the day before he was executed,†Harner said, “so he could tell them where the bodies were, or how he did it. But when they got there, he said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ He was demented and deserved a lot of things [to be done to him]. Including a slap, at the very least.â€
She just increased in “sexual fantasy” ratings with men.
