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Disaster Zone – Summer 2010: “Robin Hood” Charges, “Just Wright” Shoots Hoops, and “Letters to Juliet” Shoots Hearts
While the second weekend of the summer was still dominated by Iron Man 2, which dropped a large, but not dismal 59.4% and pulled in $52 million in its second weekend, three new films were also released. The weirdest and largest of them being the manly looking Robin Hood, but chick-flick Letters to Juliet, and [...]
Disaster Zone – Summer 2010: Iron Man 2 and the First Weekend of Summer
I don’t think I’m the only one who’s noticed – this summer’s film line-up is the worst in ages. Sure things are beginning to improve here in mid-July. Having seen Despicable Me, Predators, and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice all range from good to decent. I think after the previous offerings of this summer we would have [...]
Actor Profile of the Week: Who Else But Leonardo DiCaprio?
Holy shit. Leonardo DiCaprio is one busy mofo. He has more projects on his plate for the next few years than most people in Hollywood would undertake in their entire careers. The guy is serious, and his production company, Appian Way seems to be getting more involved and undertaking far more projects than ever before. [...]
What Happened To: Eddie Murphy?
Eddie Murphy was probably the biggest comedy star around throughout the 80′s and arguably the 90′s as well. How could a guy like that just… die? I mean obviously not literally. Eddie Murphy is alive, but is he really well? Basically, over the course of the past decade he started off as a veteran comedy [...]
Actor Profile of the Week: Benicio Del Toro
Benicio Del Toro has been around since the late 80′s, but didn’t really gain a lot of notoriety until he won an Academy award for his performance in 2000′s Traffic. That was his high point of the decade though because since then he’s sort of stayed in the back of everyone’s heads. He had large [...]
Actor Profile of the Week: Mel Gibson
It’s odd to think that Mel Gibson hasn’t starred in a film for a whole eight years, but it’s true. The last movie you could see Mel flaunting his chops is M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs, which was a massive hit and proved Gibson’s draw as an older actor yet again. His name has been so [...]
Actor Profile of the Week: Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington is one of the biggest, most respected actors around today. He doesn’t have a Will Smith-size box office pull, but Smith doesn’t have the same respect that Washington does. Denzel has had a long career, spanning 30 years and filled with some really great films, as well as some pretty bad ones too. [...]
Actor Profile Of The Week: Zoe Saldana
“Avatar” celebrated a third #1 weekend today so it would only make sense to talk about perhaps its most noticeable star, Zoe Saldana. She’s the #2 most searched actor on IMDB (behind only the late Brittany Murphy) and she’s got a lot planned for the future, and more to come after the exceptional success of [...]
Actor Profile of the Week: Robert Downey Jr.
We all know Robert Downey Jr.’s past quite well, but his future looks bigger than ever. Ten years ago, he was in and out of jail and rehab. After Iron Man last year, and the supporting roles that led up to it, he’s now one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. His next films are [...]
Actor Profile of the Week: Sam Worthington's Future Projects
With the just a few days ’til “Avatar” I thought it was fitting to discuss the future of actor Sam Worthington’s career options. Basically picked as an unknown for “Avatar” a few years ago, it was his performance in “Avatar” as well as reported recommendations from Cameron that apparently got Worthington his large part in [...]