licence to wed
Box Office: Confusingly Qualified Fucking Box Office Records Are Coming
7:40AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s time to accept that Hollywood’s Fourth of July vacation is finally over and the rest of the summer awaits; try and put off daydreaming about your Labor Day hiatus long enough to review the US weekend box office numbers: 1. Transformers – $US67.6 million In a summer that has numbed us with the relentless shattering of domestic, worldwide, and box office records, we finally have a milestone absurd enough to make us feel something again: With $US152.7 million, Transformers can lay claim to the Biggest Six-and-a-Half Day Weekend Overlapping A Midweek National Holiday Ever (For A Non-Sequel). We’ll ignore that relatively unimpressive $US67.6 million figure, as the traditional three-day frame is a relic of a quaint time before studios realised that the length of a “weekend” could be manipulated to suit their marketing purposes. More »
Ok Now We’re Really Piling On…
4:23AM Defamer Hollywood | 9 Reasons Why The Office’s John Krasinski Would Choose to Star in a Robin Williams Movie [SuicideGirls.com] More »
On Licences, Badness, And Disturbingly Hirsute, Unfunny Clergymen
3:20AM Defamer Hollywood | You hardly need this dangerously low Tomatometer to tell you that Licence to Wed might not live up to the considerable comedic promise of most Robin Williams vehicles, but in the interest of piling on, we present this round-up of headlines exploring virtually every possible negative permutation of badness, legal documents, and the sacrament of marriage: · Many vows were broken to make this ‘comedy’ [SFGate.com] · Say `I Don’t’ to `Licence to Wed’ [WaPo.com] · In ‘Licence to Wed,’ they all should have vowed to disengage [Newsday] More »
Uterus-Inspired Movie Poster Most Entertaining Thing About ‘Licence to Wed’
2:24AM Defamer Hollywood | Today’s informed consumers of Hollywood product are so barraged with information meant to influence their ticket-buying decisions that they hardly have time to read entire reviews, much less reviews of films sure to disappoint. And so in the interest of assisting holiday weekend moviegoers wisely spend their entertainment dollars, we turn to CNN.com’s always-efficient Story Highlights box, which with a mere three bullet points has tidily eliminated one unpromising option from the crowded multiplex marketplace. A quibble, however: Assigning blame to the film’s four credited writers unfairly ignores the hard work of studio executives who contributed to the projects failure by giving thoughtful notes like, “Can Robin Williams be a little less priest-y? But not totally unpriesty. This is Meet the Priest, after all. Reverend! Meet the Reverend. We don’t want the Catholics picketing.” Review: Divorce yourself from ‘License to Wed’ [CNN.com] More »
