Thursday, January 28th, 2010

The company behind such great films as Clerks., Pulp Fiction, Sex, Lies and Videotape, The Piano, Reservoir Dogs, Exotica, Shakespeare in Love, Velvet Goldmine, Dogma, Jackie Brown, the English dub of Princess Mononoke, Amelie, Apocalypse Now Redux, Gangs of New York, Cold Mountain, the Kill Bill films, Finding Neverland, The Aviator, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood among many other things is calling it quits. Founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the company was pretty much the face of the independent film surge in the 90's and ventured on to be attached, sometimes with other companies as in There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men with Paramount Vantage, to some of the better reviewed films of the 2000s. Along with the end of a legend in modern cinema goes a few unproduced films, via Cinematical. The best of which being Julie Taymor's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, which was set to star Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, Alfred Molina, Russell Brand and Jeremy Irons among others. Ironically enough, Deadline Hollywood had ran a story early this morning before The Walt Disney Company (the current owners of Miramax, which was bought from the Weinsteins) announced the closing of the studio that Harvey Weinstein was interested in buying the company back. I'm sure Kevin Smith's Twitter feed is all aflutter, so expect some of his, as well as Quentin Tarantino's, comments about this over the weekend.

It wasn't just Miramax, today was a sad day for the entertainment industry as a whole. Zelda Rubinstein, most famous for playing the role of Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist horror franchise, which also won the actress a Saturn Award, died of kidney and lung failure at the age of 77 today. Although she will forever be known for her role in Poltergeist, Rubinstein kept acting and appeared as late as Richard Kelly's 2006 film Southland Tales. Joining her was author J.D. Salinger. Of course, Salinger didn't have a lot to do with film, as his most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye, has been rumored to be in the process of an adaptation since the 50's, with everybody from Elia Kazan to Terrence Malick vying for the director's chair. Now that Salinger has finally passed, at the age of 91, one can't imagine that one of the most controversial books in American history, that I for some reason have never picked up, will make its way to the big screen in the coming years for better or worse.

Somehow, in the last 20 or so posts, I have yet to escape without mentioning Avatar. Nonetheless, I have to pass along a great story that I originally read on BBC News today. Officials in Zhangjiajie, China have renamed the Southern Sky Column the Avatar Hallelujah Mountain, claiming that the location was James Cameron's inspiration for the floating mountain in his blockbuster. It actually doesn't stop there, Zhangjiajie will also be conducting "Avatar Tours" to tourists to show all the places that inspired the land of Pandora. I have yet to hear Cameron acknowledge this place, but if I ever visit China, the place does look truly beautiful.

On a final note for the day, I have yet to really speak of the Sundance Film Festival, because as a spectator, what can one say about mostly independent films that we know nothing about. We just salivate a few of the reviews and wait for their limited theatrical release to jump aboard the bandwagon. Anyhow, Screen Daily grabbed an interview with Sundance regular Gaspar Noe, director of the controversial rape/revenge flick Irreversible, about future projects. One, Noe plans to make his first 3-D film, a joyous, hardcore, erotica piece. Noe's exploitative filmmaking does make a decent match for the medium, bringing it back into the subgenre it belongs.

Friday, January 15th, 2010

I'm be damned if Avatar hasn't popped up as the big thing in entertainment this past week, with The Tonight Show debacle and celebrities for Haiti and all. Yet, somehow, James Cameron still keeps creeping to the top of this blog. Yahoo! Movies reports that Cameron is finally going to start pre-production on Battle Angel, an adaptation of a manga series, Battle Angel Alita, by Yukito Kishiro, with a projected release date of 2011. The news is big because, adding Cameron and the built in manga audience, a sure blockbuster/nerd following combination will result in big bucks at the box office, but it also points towards the earlier speculations of Cameron adapting the nonfiction book The Last Train from Hiroshima to be much later in his plans than originally slated, or that the director is possibly looking at only a producing job on that flick while he focuses most of his attention towards Battle Angel. As an added note, not knowing anything about the manga, the image I stole from /Film's coverage of the story already has me more sold for that film than all the onslaught of positive Avatar press that is being shoved down our throats.

I haven't heard much of Mitch Glazer's upcoming film Passion Play, starring Megan Fox, Mickey Rourke and formerly Toby Kebbell. Don't know who Kebbell is? Me either, but look him up, and decide from the dicey male model-esque pics Google Image will return if Bill Murray would be the first name in your head to replace him. But that is who /Film reports is stepping aboard the project to fill the void, much to the delight of, well, I'm sure everybody. Murray will play a mobster, whom calls on an angel, played by Fox. Other than that, I don't know much, but as soon as I find out more, it will be passed along.

From one good replacement to one of the worst I've ever heard. Nerd Bastards has an article on the possible new director for the reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, Nimrod Antal. Although the virtually unknown Antal's possible hiring would be a big story on a normal day, the same article also says that stepping into Tobey Maguire's old red and blue tights will be the sparkling, brooding vampire face of Robert Pattinson. It's one thing to rip this project away from Sam Raimi, but to bring a connection between Twilight and Marvel? Jesus, is NBC behind this shit!?

I just re-subscribed to Netflix, and unfortunately for myself, for the second time in the past two weeks, the DVD-by-mail rental service is seeing negative press. This time, according to Bloomberg, within a legal dispute between The Walt Disney Company and Starz. Apparently, most of the films with the ability to stream on Netflix comes from a deal made with Starz, but Disney wants their contract with Starz updated so the films cannot be streamed. Despite Netflix's best efforts to give us more streamable material, companies like Disney and Warner Brothers are ruining it for us all to save approximately half a penny per employee. I mean, for Walt Disney to have been an anti-Semite, this is an awfully Jew move. Wow, that must be the harsh schedule of school catching up to my brain for the hate speech to spill out on this blog. That's for another one that I plan on starting up soon, stay tuned kiddos.

Finally, to end on a more depressing note than Robert Pattinson as Peter Parker or the conglomerate war against accessible film, here is the trailer for the adaptation of Tekken. If this doesn't win a Razzie next year, I may castrate myself.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Arriving to stores just in time for Christmas is the DVD for Family Guy's upcoming sequel to the original Star Wars spoof "moviesode" Blue Harvest, entitled Something, Something, Something Dark Side. The special this time will spoof The Empire Strikes Back, and the episode will have its television debut in early 2010 when the season starts back with a few new entries before the break. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, series creator Seth MacFarlane announced that they were already at work on spoofing Return of the Jedi, but confirms that he will quit, and not move into the prequel territory. Although, he offers up the Indiana Jones series, Star Trek or the Back to the Future trilogy as the possible next targets. The article also offers two rumored names for the third episode, The Great Muppet Caper or We Have a Bad Feeling About This.

Some bizarre news comes the way of a fellow Blogger account called StopAvatarMovie, which is protesting James Cameron's critically appraised Avatar, due out Friday, because the story is set in the future, but does not contain any primary gay, lesbian or transgender characters. Luckily, in a poll questioning how the author's readers would protest, 92% said they wouldn't. Anyhow, I don't really see how it is offensive that there is no outright gay love in the flick. I am sure, unless the entire thing is going to play out a lot differently than what I'm imagining, that most of the characters' sexual orientation will remain undisclosed, as it does not fit in the story. Also, gay people can't be entertained by a heterosexual relationship on-screen? The cat that writing this wouldn't be touched, and would be offended with others in the homosexual demographic, that enjoyed something like Charlie Chaplin's City Lights or even something like the year's best film thus far in my opinion, Inglourious Basterds due to the lack of explicitly stated homosexuality? Does this mean he expects us breeders to be unable to enjoy something like Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy or the highly praised Brokeback Mountain, due to the characters being different than us? The most bizarre argument of the blog is that Cameron should have casted someone like Kimber James for the role of Neytiri rather than Zoe Saldana. Because, James' other work such as Transsexual Babysitters 8 was definitely touching enough performances to land her in a film budgeted at $500 million. I hope, for the sake of the gay community, as well as cineaste's watching this thing, that it is a joke, although, the more you read it, the more you beleive it is legit.

Variety reports some sad news today, the passing of Walt Disney's nephew, Roy E. Disney. Disney was very influential after his iconic uncle's passing within The Walt Disney Company, mostly working with the financial elements and theme parks rather than racking up actual movie credits, although he did produce, and was heavily involved in getting the ball rolling for Fantasia 2000, finally realizing a dream of Walt's to continue his 1940 classic Fantasia as an ongoing project, as well as a writing credit for The Black Cauldron. He also produced one of my favorite short films of all time, Destino, a restored and completed short from Dominique Monfery, originally started as a collaboration between Walt and Salvador Dali.

Finally, here is a new trailer for Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland, which shows off more of the bizarre Burton landscape we are used to seeing in his films.

Sunday, December 13th, 2009 (Short Film Sunday: Steamboat Willie)

A few days ago, The Walt Disney Company returned to their traditional animation roots with The Princess and the Frog, the new film by Ron Clements and John Musker (the directorial duo is best known for two Disney classics, The Little Mermaid and Aladdin). In honor of the release, I figure I will take the high road and not blog on the normal Disney criticism of racist undertones, and celebrate 2-D animation. I mean, Pixar has yet to make a bad movie, but we all long for some more traditional animation to come our way, so I decided to embed the Ub Iwerks directed, Walt Disney written and produced short Steamboat Willie. It is the film that brought the iconic Mickey Mouse character to prominence, and was the third to feature Disney's mischievous rodent lead, the first being the less popular Plane Crazy, released earlier in the same year, 1928.

As always with Disney animation, an aura of controversy seems to follow this film, although the renown and changing times seems to downplay the one time censored parts. During the big musical number, many of the scenes are considered to display cruelty to animals, including a bizarre scene where Mickey plays sow nipples as an instrument. What happened to Disney, Iwerks and their animation properties after the success of this film needs not be explained, as the Disney corporate name is one of the biggest in the world, let alone the entertainment industry itself. However, it is to be noted that the film is part of the Library of Congress' National Film Registry, as well as being one of the top 50 cartoons, as voted by members of the animation medium.

As for owning the film, it has been released on DVD uncut twice in the Walt Disney Treasures collection. The first is a compendium of old Mickey Mouse cartoons in Mickey Mouse in Black and White, as well as being a special feature on The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, due to it being one of Iwerks' seminal works. Even easier though, unlike other popular Disney works, this film is available all over the Interwebs without Disney issuing out copyright lawsuits all over the place due to the fact that as it has fallen into the public domain. So without further adieu, here is a legal showing of Steamboat Willie.

Usually, I do not blog about anything else on my Short Film Sunday posts, but I have been seeing a lot of blogs featuring a recent interview with Sigourney Weaver. I would post a source, but basically every movie site online has posted it, despite the fact that I can no longer find the video of the session. Anyhow, Weaver was being interviewed for her role in Avatar, when the topic changes to her thoughts on the possibility of Ghostbusters 3, where she drops some huge spoilers. She mentions that her character, Dana Barrett's, son will become ghost buster for this installment, and that Bill Murray will be playing a larger role than she would, but this time as a ghost, thus meaning that Dr. Peter Venkman dies in the movie, or in the space between Ghostbusters II and the upcoming sequel, if it ever comes to fruition.

Also, in about an hour from the time this is posted, Adult Swim is going to air a new Space Ghost interview with Zoe Saldana on her role in Avatar. The advertising blitz has began, and the return of Space Ghost to my late night lineup is a damn good start to it.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Aside from the Pocahontas, here is some decent zombified cosplay of the Disney princesses, courtesy of Geekologie.

The only real piece of news worth mentioning today comes from a story in the Los Angeles Times stating that Josh Brolin is being considered to star in a third installment into the Men in Black franchise, by either playing Agent K (portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones in the original two films) as a young man, or his successor. I'm still not really sold on a third MIB, but if the powers that be must cash in on this franchise one more time, and Jones is not going to be part of it, I suppose Brolin is a good choice, especially after his nerd stock will rise after next year's Jonah Hex.

Finally, to end a rather short post today, here is the red band trailer for Youth in Revolt, Michael Cera's latest film. It actually looks pretty funny, and I was shocked when I looked it up and found that Zach Galifianakis has a supporting role in the film, as well as Mary Kay Place, Jean Smart and Steve Buscemi to name a few. Anyhow, I find it amazing at how many films Galifianakis has been appearing in lately. A great, underrated year, with all his movie work and his Between Two Ferns series on Funny Or Die.

(Note: By pure accidental coincidence I linked to the first episode of Between Two Ferns, in which the guest was Youth in Revolt star Cera... enjoy.)

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Saturday, September 19th, 2009: International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Arr me hardies! I hope the massive consumption of grog, raping and pillaging of International Talk Like A Pirate Day hasn't completely exhausted your impulse to be an angry riotous group. What I mean by this is, I keep trying to take up for The Walt Disney Company. Because of them we have Pixar, we have Miramax's money supply, and we have American distribution of Studio Ghibli films. Still, the bastardry went a little too far late last night, when on the eve of ILAP, Disney told the man responsible for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise to walk the plank, or in more precise terms, the Los Angeles Times reports that Disney chairman Dick Cook was fired last night with an immediate impact being seen as Johnny Depp gave an interview showing his concerns and doubts on going forward with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides without Cook's involvement with the company. To put out the largest swashbuckling film franchise on the holy day might as well been the equivalent of allowing Mickey Mouse to defecate on any of the religious relics found sacred to The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Just terrible.

Before I get angrier at Disney's mockery of the one day we can truly reach out to people in hopes of them being touched by thine noodly appendage, and despite the fact that instead of any real rape or adventurin', I was reduced to daydreams of swords, busty wenches, barrels of rum and battling mythical sea monsters while writing twenty pages of notes on barbiturate abuse. Still, I can further slip into the imaginary fantasy via a few clips of great pirates in cinematic history. First, is the great sword fight/fencing scene from the 1935 Errol Flynn vehicle, Captain Blood. Next, I included a rather inappropriate clip of bad acting from the first big budget porn, the swashbuckling hardcore Pirates. Lastly, I'll end with all of our favorite movie pirate... the Dread Pirate Roberts, and his battle of wits against the Great Vizzini. Also, as a bonus, here's a link to the LastFM page featuring the best pirate of song of all time, The Sex Pistols' "Friggin' in the Rigging".




P.S. I know it breaks the entire piratey theme, but Mania has an article arguing to whom should be cast in the beloved role of Bilbo Baggins in Guillermo del Toro's The Hobbit adaptation. It will give you enough reason to bitch for the next week or so. David Tennant and Martin Freeman are feasible by the way. Maybe not right, but feasible.

Friday, September 11th, 2009

It seems like The Walt Disney Company has been dominating the news lately ever since their acquisition of Marvel Comics. However, at the Disney D23 Expo, the company has been making huge movie geek news here and there, satisfactorily enough to make us forget about the entire Marvel ordeal for a day. First, and the most mainstream, Johnny Depp showed up at the event dressed in full costume as Captain Jack Sparrow and announced the title to the fourth installment of his swashbuckling franchise would be Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, to be released during summer 2011. The same article on ComingSoon also pins down the release date to Pixar's first live action endeavor, John Carter of Mars, as Summer 2012.

The other big news coming from the Disney exposition comes from Guillermo del Toro. The director spoke to the audience via satellite from New Zealand on location for some production work on The Hobbit (enough to get the story on my blog), where along with Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook announced that the incredible fantasy/horror director will be taking on a new horror label for Disney entitled Disney's Double Dare You. Via Cinematical, the label will come out with "a line of animated films, books and merchandise". The first project is a movie based on an original idea of del Toro's called Trollhunters, which we know nothing about.

Outside of the world of Disney, Variety reports a potentially good piece of casting news in the form of Jeff Bridges re-teaming with the Coen Brothers, taking on the one role that would win John Wayne an Academy Award, Rooster Cogburn, in the upcoming adaptation of the 1968 western, True Grit. This is exciting for a few reasons. First, Bridges will be teaming up with the Coens for the first time since churning out one of the greatest of all time, The Big Lebowski. Secondly, though not exactly a western per say, the Coens' No Country for Old Men was the first time I've really jumped aboard the fan wagon of something close to a western since I watched the incredible Clint Eastwood-starring the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly when I was just a young lad, and look forward to what they could do by submerging themselves entirely into the genre. And third, for the first time since he was an alcoholic Foghat fan in the 70's, my father will enjoy something culturally relevant.

With 9 garnering the Wednesday release this week, today seems to pump out a bland line-up. Sorority Row would probably be of the highest profile due to Carrie Fisher gracing it with her presence, despite the fact it looks to be a ridiculously predictable horror effort. There is also Peter Hyams' remake of Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, which may be worth watching with what looks like a decent cast and directed by the only guy with the audacity to direct a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, but will more than likely be forgettable. Whiteout also debuts, which without the draw of Kate Beckinsale wouldn't even be mentioned among the other films. And finally, Tyler Perry continues to milk the Madea character in Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself.

Finally, I came home in a wretched mood tonight. My day in a nutshell, I woke up after two hours of sleep, went to work to unload a truck with the main bosses present, got called into a ridiculous meeting in which among other topics was the fact that free pens to employees will be cut out to save the company thousands of dollars by the end of the year, therefore we will have to start supplying our own writing utensils, I escaped the meeting just in time to get to school a take a test that I had been stressing about all day, went home with a new ulcer, talked to my lovely fiancé for the three minutes I'm allowed before she crashes out and then somberly watched a documentary of 9/11 on The History Channel that was more heartbreaking than I initially recall the news coverage being. So I was left to cheer myself up by one of my favorite scenes in cinematic history. I don't think I divulge to most people that this cheers me up so. So without further adieu, maybe it will set your spirits a little higher on a rather somber day, the ending to Charlie Chaplin's beautiful City Lights.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

I find it difficult to blog today, because no matter what news I can dig up on the entertainment sites, it will ultimately pale in comparison to yesterday's earth-shattering announcement that The Walt Disney Company had purchased Marvel Comics. Still, the biggest news story of the day does come courtesy of the comic distributor, as 20th Century Fox announced, via Variety, that they will be starting production on a re-boot of the Fantastic Four franchise, with Akiva Goldsman being named as producer. The story apparently confirms that Disney is going to honor the deals that Marvel had made previous to yesterday's merger. Still, you almost have to wonder, as much as any of us like the comic book versions of the superhero team, if a great cinematic incarnation is even possible. Of course Tim Story's recent Fantastic Four films seems great in comparison to the Roger Corman-produced 1994 version, but it still didn't make the waves that such Marvel fare as Spider-Man, X-Men or Iron Man generated. It still gives us a reason to be excited, no matter how terrible it will be, and a reason to hope that it will turn around for the heroes. Oh, the reason for that particular picture accompanying the article today, coming from Marvel Zombies, I included because it went with the big story, but also because it brings up another question of Disney's acquisition, can the family friendly company really produce something as senselessly gory as Marvel Zombies? One of the many questions.

On to some more links of the huge Disney/Marvel story, my favorite Cinematical author, Elisabeth Rappe has attempted to calm some of our fears through her Geek Beat column, including some reassurance in the form of quotes from Joe Quesada's Twitter account comparing it to the relationship betwixt Disney and Pixar. Also, MSNBC has a story up giving us Stan Lee's first public thoughts on the deal, which he believes is great. The article also gives a decent link to Lee's other business with Disney, a motion comic he wrote entitled Time Jumper to be available on the iPod and debuted at this past San Diego Comic Con. So after a collective deep breath, maybe the scare is settling. Or maybe at 86 years of age, Lee was brainwashed by the enchanting anti-Semite conglomerate with promises of a trip to Space Mountain.

In further comic-to-film news, according to Variety a DC property I'm not very knowledgeable of, Deadman, will be brought to the screen courtesy of producer Guillermo del Toro and to be directed by Danish director Nikolaj Arcel, whom after looking over his IMDb isn't that known to me either. The character has always seemed fascinating to me, despite my lack of knowledge, added with the fact that anything del Toro touches turns to gold, will keep me looking out for this one.

Also, The Hollywood Reporter announces that Robert Downey, Jr. will star and Jon Favreau will direct a big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Cowboys and Aliens. Also, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, screenwriters on the other little Downey/Favreau collaboration Iron Man, wrote the initial screenplay, which was later given a script-tune up by producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman of Star Trek fame. Haven't heard of the comic? Well, no problem because Cinematical gave us the great link to DrunkDuck.com, a site for reading webcomics where you can read the entire thing online for free. I know what I'm doing for the rest of the night.

Finally, ComingSoon has the first look at Raja Gosnell's CGI The Smurfs with the teaser poster debut. Kind of bland, but enjoy.

Monday, August 31st, 2009

I have always said that sometimes The Walt Disney Company gets more bad press than they deserve. Sure, they are the most shrewd of all Hollywood businesspeople, as well as being known on the blogsphere for being wildly hypocritical in most of their judgments, not to mention being branded as racists from Dumbo to The Princess and the Frog. Yet, they continue to pump out great films such as WALL-E and this year's Up alongside Pixar, and no matter how overpriced, continues to generate the one place on earth that lives up to the affectionate term of "magical", the Walt Disney World Resort. However, when I turned on the ol' computer today, I read that the big conglomerate mouse had finally gone too far, they had bought Marvel Comics. We have a plethora of questions that arise from this $4 billion deal that occurred this morning, including what will happen to the movie properties and plans that Marvel Entertainment had lined up for the upcoming years, culminating in a collaborative Avengers adaptation? Does this spell the end for the chance to see a quality Wolverine film, based on the works of Frank Miller and Chris Claremont? When will we face an inevitable Disney/Marvel crossover? A better question, will Pixar dabble in the newly acquired 5,000 Marvel characters? Even away from the relevancy of this movie blog, what about the comics? Disney television deals? Universal Studios Islands of Adventure's fate has my inner traveler nervous. Will Disney destroy Marvel? Will characters like Frank Castle/The Punisher be re-worked to become family-friendly to fit the Disney brand? Will Stan Lee still be a huge influence in the Marvel offices? What will the folks affiliated with Marvel say about the merger?

I suppose most of these questions will be answered in the next few days that follow, but right now the media shit storm is in full swing, and MTV has posted an article about what we supposedly know about the deal thus far. You can also check out the official press release at Marvel's official site, and I have yet to find, but I've read that somewhere on there, you can actually listen to CEO Isaac Perlmutter's conference call. Also, a link to the first place I read the story, BBC News. And don't forget to check out what the non-movie crowd is saying, via the comment section on Geekologie. Also, not missing a beat, don't miss Cinematical's weekly article Girls on Film, where Monika Bartyzel compares the classic Disney princesses and Marvel's top heroines. There is also an article on the site by Jeffrey M. Anderson, featuring lots of rather cheesy jokes that in all actuality touches on the fears of all geeks the world over at the moment. And for one final link to the story, the picture comes courtesy of coverage at Kotaku.

So, with the future of comic books-to -silver screen in jeopardy for a cinephile, what could possibly make the news day worse? How about a franchise that doesn't know when to quit? How about three?

First, Variety reports that even after Halloween II was just able to climb to the number three spot at the box office this weekend, the franchise may be continuing, sans current director Rob Zombie. The Weinsteins have apparently got a yet-to-be-named filmmaker on tap to take the franchise in a different direction, and a different dimension... or what's becoming a very cliché gimmick in 3-D.

Also from Variety, it was announced today that Nu Image and Millennium Films greenlit a fifth film in the Rambo franchise. Sweet Jesus, that is just a terrible idea.

Finally, just when you thought you couldn't take anymore, The Hollywood Reporter declares that Peter Craig is writing a new screenplay for a third Bad Boys for Columbia Pictures. We are yet to find out if Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, Will Smith or Martin Lawrence will return. Also, would it even really matter?

Finally, if you haven't lost all your hope in the wonderful world of cinema, The Final Destination took the top spot at the box office this weekend, topping the second week of Inglourious Basterds by a little over $8 million, not even to mention $27 million over Big Fan. Try not to kill yourselves before tomorrow.