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Movie : Box office news: Jackass - Number Two

Movies can sometimes come as a big surprise and as a serious sign as to the likings of the people. This is why a lot of the serious movie critics, looking at this weekend's box office numbers are asking this question: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTRY?

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Movie based on the MTV series where fearless (rather stupid guys) are taking dangerous/stupid actions has hit the box office number one for this weekend and made $ 28.1 million in just three days!!! This weekend has been a big one for the Knoxville gang.

The sequel of "Jackass 1 - The Movie" was released by Paramount Pictures this friday, while while the drama staring Sean Pann, Jude Law, Antony Hopkins, Kate Winslet "All the King's Men" - long expected all-star movie failed to draw an audience and has so far earned only $ 3.8 million.



Directed by Jeff Tremaine and staring Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Steve-O and Bam Margera, Jackass number 2 exceeded the expectations of the Paramount studio of $23 million dollars in the first three days!

The Movie making cost $11.5 million dollars and the spent money were earned the very first day. This movie exceeded also the debut of Jackass 1 - The Movie which was $22.8 million dollars. It opened in 550 more theatres than Jackass: the Movie. the sequel averaged roughly $9,100, making it the strongest opener of the month, and putting it in line to become the fourth highest September opening.

The Movie described as "the Three Stooges on steroids" managed to attracted audience in which 2/3 were men and 71% of the viewers were under 25 years of age.

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"There must be something in the water for Jackass fans," says Don Harris, an executive vice president for distributor Paramount Pictures. "If they don't make a Jackass 3, I may do it myself."

Van Toffler, president of MTV's music and film group, said Knoxville and his "Jackass" cohorts were elated by the sequel's success.

Toffler said: "I think it was, 'Holy blank, we've done it again. What is wrong with the country?'".






Johnny Knoxville attending the world premiere of "Jackass: Number Two" at the Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California in this September 21, 2006.

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Finally, let's look at the box office weekend numbers (21-23 September).

1. "Jackass Number Two," $28.1 million.

2. "Jet Li's Fearless," $10.6 million.

3. "Gridiron Gang," $9.7 million.

4. "Flyboys," $6 million.

5. "Everyone's Hero," $4.75 million.

6. "The Black Dahlia," $4.4 million.

7. "All the King's Men," $3.8 million.

8. "The Covenant," $3.3 million.

9. "The Illusionist," $3.28 million.

10. "Little Miss Sunshine," $2.9 million.

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Movies and Videos - Funny commercial, Einstein the Parrot

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Videos - NOKIA Funny Commercial

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The Last Kiss - Movie 2006 - Review

This movie had its premiere this 15th of September. "The Last Kiss" is 115 min / Canada:104 min (Toronto International Film Festival) long and is rated R for sexuality, nudity and language.

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Facts about the movie:

LEAD PERFORMANCE: Jacinda Barrett and Zach Braff
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE: Casey Affleck, Blythe Danner and Rachel Bilson
DIRECTOR: Tony Goldwyn
WRITER: Paul Haggis
Cinematography: Tom Stern
Music: Michael Penn

Yet another remake? Let's see.

The Last Kiss opens with an announcement: Michael (Zach Braff) and his live-in girlfriend of three years, Jenna (Jacinda Barrett), are going to have a baby. Marriage, however, is still not in the cards. Michael is terrified - he's not ready to commit to a long-term relationship with Jenna, and now he has the guillotine of fatherhood hanging over his neck.

Michael, on whose good-guy appeal the whole movie hinges, is rattled enough by the unexpected pregnancy of his girlfriend, to be tempted by a college-age spitfire (Rachel Bilson) who simultaneously bites her lip, twists her hands girlishly, and comes on to him forcefully. Chris (Casey Affleck) makes it clear he can't stand his exhausted wife or their infant son for reasons never explained except that she nags at him, maybe because he seems to spend more time with the gang than at home, sharing in the joy of diapers. Hysteria-prone doofus Izzy (Michael Weston from Braff's Garden State) can't believe that his icy girlfriend (Marley Shelton) dumped him, and he continues to pine/whine for her, loudly. Kenny (Dumb and Dumberer's Eric Christian Olsen), who enjoys life as a freelance swordsman, freaks when the hot babe he's been fooling around with wants to introduce him to her parents.



The film doesn't judge Michael and his pals; instead, it tries to get inside the fear motivating them. They're afraid of losing the passion of youth and becoming stuck in a life of utter predictability. They don't always behave admirably. But they do act in ways that are identifiably human, which is more than can be said for a lot of screen characters.

Paul Haggis, who directed and co-wrote the Oscar-winning Crash, provides a screenplay that takes a long time to reveal that forgiveness is an essential part of any relationship. This screenplay is based on a 2001 Italian film named L'ultmo bacio. Tony Goldwyn, who directed the excellent A Walk on the Moon and is still remembered for his performance as the false friend in Ghost, helms The Last Kiss.

"The Last Kiss" began life as the Italian film "L'Ultimo Bacio." Nominated for 10 Davids (Italy's Oscar), including Best Film, and winner of five, the film had a profound effect on Lakeshore Entertainment's Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi. "Two people told me about the Italian film in the same week - in fact, one was Jacinda Barrett, who would have a role in ‘The Last Kiss," recalls Rosenberg. "I thought of it as a coming of age film. When I was a kid, people faced adulthood at 20 or 21, but these kids in the movie are 29 going on 30, which I think is the new coming of age; it seems there's a bit of a prolonged adolescence today. ‘L'Ultimo Bacio' dealt with a lot of issues young people face, but no one ever talks about, or they talk about in an idealized, silly way."

"I loved ‘L'Ultimo Bacio,'" says Lucchesi, "and unlike many foreign films it seemed to lend itself naturally to an American remake. I found the subject matter really fascinating and the content seemed to have an American style to it."

Once Lakeshore had acquired the rights to the Italian film, the next step was to develop the screenplay. "Paul Haggis was really the key," adds Lucchesi. "We'd worked with Paul before on the Lakeshore film ‘Autumn in New York' and we thought he'd be perfect for this material. We were right.

Now, let's go to the music for a minute. Coldplay, Cary Brothers, Fiona Apple, Snow Patrol, and a smattering of other fashionable artists – each handpicked by leading man Zach Braff – croon (and sometimes whine) about infidelity, loss, and life-changing mistakes that target the love of your life. Sample lyrics include, "She's moving on… without you." Sentiments rarely deviate from this norm. It's a nice place to wallow on a rainy afternoon.





















In the end, it's the characters who are betrayed, particularly the women. Chris' s wife is an exhausted shrew, end of story. The college girl's a siren, then a clinger. Jenna is smotheringly affectionate until she becomes a hell hound of fury. What about their fears? ``The Last Kiss" pays them lip service but it's never really interested. Whatever you say, honey.

That leaves poor Blythe Danner up a tree as Anna, Jenna's mother: a vibrant woman in a rage at her husband (Tom Wilkinson) for being a dull saint. Danner makes the character's righteous anger marvelous and moving to behold; she wants to tear down her suburban stronghold and to hell with the consequences. You wish the movie were about her. It isn't, though. It's about forgiving the boys.

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Bottom line, why I disliked the movie? "The Last Kiss" is a movie that gives an absolute beatdown to the notion of procreation and marriage, while focusing on the problems in relationships but not the solutions. It presents committed love not as a thrill to be nurtured but a responsibility to be fulfilled.

Movie Scenes from The Black Dahlia

Movie Scenes from The Black Dahlia (2006)

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The Black Dahlia - The Movie 2006 - Review

"The Black Dahlia" the last movie of Brian De Palma opened 63rd Venice Film Festival on August 30th this year. The movie opens in theatres September 15th, today. Unfortunately the critics are divided concerning the quality of the movie. They all do agree on two things, the De Palma style is recognizable threw the whole movie and the movie is about 20 minutes too long!

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The movie lasts 121 minutes and is rated R. It is based on the James Ellroy 1987 novel that describes the misterious, notorious and still unsolved murder that happened in 1947 in Los Angeles. This murder still lies in the drawers of the LAPD as an unsolved case. (you can find a closer description of all the known facts related to the murder here). The victim was 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, and her naked body was found in a weedy field on the morning of January 15, 1947. It had been severed at the waist and then apparently washed before the two halves of the corpse were transported from wherever it was that Short had been murdered. Her mouth had been slashed wide into a hideous rictus, and patches of skin were missing from other areas of her body.

The movie opens in a strange way (depicting riots in LA and police brutality over Mexican pachucos in 1943) and one can hardly guess the connection of this scene with the line of the story of The Black Dahlia. It is then followed up by a scene of a boxing match between the Mr. Ice and Mr. Fire, later in the movie the two police officers assigned to the case, Patrolman Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and Sgt. Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart). All of this scenes are taking us nowhere and there is still no sign of the murder or of Elizabeth Short.

First we meet Lee's girlfriend, Kay Lake (Scarlett Johansson). With her clingy sweaters and satin lounging outfits, Kay is a study in retro blond lusciousness. She's a reformed prostitute, once the property of a small-time pimp whom Lee cleverly sent to prison. Now the pimp is about to be released, and Kay is scared. Her boyfriend, Mr. Fire, is obscurely incensed. And Bucky is as puzzled as we are. For one thing, although Lee and Kay live together, Kay pointedly tells Bucky that they don't sleep together. (This intriguing wisp of information is never pursued, and never pays off.) Before long, the three of them become inseparable. They hang out around the house a lot, smoking and drinking and smoking some more, and when they go out to the movies, Kay sits between the two men and holds hands with both of them. This, too, remains unexplained, and leads nowhere.

The Black Dahlia appears at last in one of the movie's several stylishly-constructed set-piece scenes — a crane shot that pans up from one street and across a rooftop to another street nearby, where, from high above, we see the body lying in the field. Given that the director is De Palma, the man who made the 1983 "Scarface" (if he had a boxing handle, it might be "Mr. Bloodbath"), you'd expect him to dive right down into this ghastly crime scene. But De Palma is oddly (and admirably) fastidious; he never pushes Elizabeth Short's mutilated corpse entirely into our faces.


He does indulge his penchant for lurid kink, though, and he has a lot of fun doing it. The fictitious porn film in which Elizabeth features (she's played by Mia Kirshner) is rendered with a bold, knowing prurience. And when the murder investigation takes Bucky to a plush lesbian nightclub, it's a place so fabulously dissolute that the tuxedoed figure up onstage singing "Love for Sale," amid a bevy of writhing, tongue-kissing chorines, turns out to be k.d. lang.

We have plenty of time to savor these titillating details, because the plot has left us far behind. There's a slumming rich girl named Madeleine (Hilary Swank), who's said to be a dead ringer for Elizabeth Short. (Unfortunately, Swank looks nothing like Mia Kirshner; she doesn't even much resemble Hilary Swank.) And there's her dreadful family: a moneybags dad (John Kavanagh) who admires Hitler, a pointlessly weird little sister (Rachel Miner) and a drunken, gibbering mother (Fiona Shaw, in the movie's one appallingly misconceived performance). There's also a brazenly ridiculous, sub-"Chinatown" plot element involving a conspiracy to misuse rotten lumber from old silent-movie sets. But the picture's crowning lunacy comes at the end, when the Dahlia's killer is "revealed" in an extended sequence of such demented, squealing hysteria, we want to avert our eyes in embarrassment for the actors.

Much of the critics puts an accent of the contemporaneity of the actors against the time and spirit they are suppose to depict. Also, too much of "The Black Dahlia" consists of narrated information; about half the movie is synopsis of what the filmmakers don't have time to dramatize. And despite genius-level contributions from cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and art director Dante Ferretti, the handsome film is almost abusively murky, trafficking in difficult-to-follow plot manipulations, arbitrary twists and mumbled dialogue. It ultimately comes to rely on one of those by-now de rigueur 10-minute final synopses that shuffle through the story a second time, revealing the secret connections behind seemingly unrelated events.

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All in all it is good to see a De Palma movie again. But hopefully the next one will be a better movie.

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Besides following on the new movies and films, and the video art of course, I will try to put an acent also on the history of this art in order to remind our selves on some of the motion picture pieces of art that will live forever! My personal opinion on the movies, films and videos will normaly be a part from my posts.


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