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Avoid ‘Prom Night’ At All Costs (And Other Helpful Tips For Your Weekend at the Movies)
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Welcome to Defamer Attractions, a new feature previewing the latest, greatest and thoroughly misadventurous in weekend moviegoing. We’ll be breaking the next three days into a few key categories, including a basic rundown of “What’s New,” flops-to-be in “The Big Loser,” one worthy indie in “The Underdog,” and, “For Shut-Ins,” a quick look at highlights among new DVD’s. Our opinions are our own, but they’re impeccable and as close to exact science as Defamer gets. We hope you’ll check in weekly! More »
Sarah Larson Refashions George Clooney’s Home Into Something Resembling The ‘View’ Set
3:30AM Molly Friedman | Last night was a special one as NBC’s Thursday night primetime players officially made their post-strike return, and we hope for Sarah Larson’s sake that George Clooney wasn’t watching. As many of you will recall, Jan and her implants made a nightmarish appearance on The Office, dousing Michael’s condo with scented candles and every other kind of annoying “feminine touch” imaginable. And as a source tells OK!, Clooney’s arm candy is guilty of the same behaviour while George is sadly still promoting box office dud Leatherheads out of town: “It’s still very much George’s place, but she’s got her clothes there and she thought [Jo Malone scented candles and fresh flowers] would be nice.” But how does the Norton-y actor feel about all the girly smells wafting through his home? More »
Renee Zellweger’s Inner Party Girl Breaks Loose In London
2:30AM Molly Friedman | Of course we always enjoy seeing celebrities abandon their red carpet personas and let loose, but when they start emerging from nightclubs barely standing and sporting lipstick marks on their collarbone, we start to worry. After obediently posing for pictures at last night’s premiere of Leatherheads in London, Renee Zellweger dove bob first into the party scene alongside a better-behaved George Clooney. And, as these pictures show, Zellweger may have downed one too many pricey cocktails across the pond. More »
9:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Further accelerating his apparent collapse from coveted leading man to salt-and-pepper has-been, revised opening weekend figures for George Clooney’s Leatherheads put the screwball gridiron comedy at a lackluster $12.6 million — a full million below Universal’s original report and only enough for a third-place finish behind 21 and Nim’s Island. While we maintain our original suspicion that no film can withstand a Reel Geezers pan, we don’t actually think this portends the catastrophe foretold by more dedicated skeptics. We also appreciate Steven Zeitchik’s moral support on Clooney’s behalf at his Risky Biz blog: “Clooney hasn’t opened a movie in a decade. Apart from the Ocean’s pics — which the presence of Damon and Pitt render useless as evidence — no Clooney-anchored movie in recent memory has cracked $13 million in its first weekend of wide release. The Good German? Michael Clayton? Intolerable Cruelty? … Box office just isn’t his thing.” Yessir, colour us reassured. [Reuters] More »
9:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Further accelerating his apparent collapse from coveted leading man to salt-and-pepper has-been, revised opening weekend figures for George Clooney’s Leatherheads put the screwball gridiron comedy at a lackluster $12.6 million — a full million below Universal’s original report and only enough for a third-place finish behind 21 and Nim’s Island. While we maintain our original suspicion that no film can withstand a Reel Geezers pan, we don’t actually think this portends the catastrophe foretold by more dedicated skeptics. We also appreciate Steven Zeitchik’s moral support on Clooney’s behalf at his Risky Biz blog: “Clooney hasn’t opened a movie in a decade. Apart from the Ocean’s pics — which the presence of Damon and Pitt render useless as evidence — no Clooney-anchored movie in recent memory has cracked $13 million in its first weekend of wide release. The Good German? Michael Clayton? Intolerable Cruelty? … Box office just isn’t his thing.” Yessir, colour us reassured. [Reuters] More »
‘Leatherheads’ Fumbles During Opening Weekend, Casting Doubt On Clooney’s Bankability
3:05AM Defamer Hollywood | When our cultural faith is shaken to its very core by the passing of Charlton Heston and looming Short Circuit remakes, we know we can always find quiet comfort in the security of numbers. Box-office numbers, to be exact:
Kentuckians Thrill To Return Of Their Leathernecked Prodigal Son
2:24AM Seth | George Clooney’s old-timey small town whistle-stop tour to promote Leatherheads made a stop at his home town of Maysville, Ky. yesterday (he’s really from Augusta, Ky., pop. 2004). There he was mobbed by 3,000 fans, for many of whom this was the single most exciting event in their lives since corn-mulching went automated. Unfortunately, some confusion at the People.com editorial desk led to the site misidentifying the movie as “Leathernecks,” a seemingly minor inaccuracy which could have led to mass confusion when thousands of moviegoers showed up to his period screwball comedy expecting yet another of Clooney’s trademark probing dramas, this one about the 2008 Republican primary. More »
George Clooney Premiere Politics Leave Easterners United in Despair
8:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Hollywood narrowly averted A-list disgrace recently when it was revealed that George Clooney’s aw-shucks humanitarian cred didn’t quite extend to the extras from his new film, Leatherheads. In lieu of Universal’s official launch March 31 at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, the extras will stage their own red-carpet premiere in Greenville, S.C.. Reaction today is fierce along the Eastern seaboard, starting in Greenville itself, where one event organiser kept it real while Clooney’s panicked flack urged calm: “Decade after decade, for well over a century now, the lowly movie extras have been ignored,” Robert McClure, a paramedic who expects to appear on screen both as a coach and a man who marks downs on the sidelines in Leatherheads, explained via e-mail. … More »
