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A ‘Pineapple’ Upside Down Cake
2:15AM Seth | Does Death’s double-dipping have you disturbed? Fret not—we have an easy way to ward of the scythe. Simply slaughter a baby lamb in your office kitchen, collect its blood, then paint that along your cubicle’s entrance. The Angel of Death will then skip your workspace to reap the annoyingly high-pitched temp working next door. Enjoy these box office numbers, along with your freshly spared life: More »
Will ‘Dark Knight’ Choke on ‘Pineapple’?
2:00AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your regular guide to what’s new, noteworthy and/or totally stillborn this week at the movies. For the second straight week, The Dark Knight has a legitimate challenger for box-office supremacy, while a smattering of other releases — including one of the year’s best documentaries — reinforce this summer’s unusually strong vintage. Even the latest DVD’s are impressive. Who knew? So screw the Olympics and read on for the real must-sees; as always, our opinions are our own, but with 99.999996% accuracy, we wouldn’t have it any other way. More »
6:35AM STV | Smokin‘: Those early estimates that pegged Pineapple Express for a superb $US10 million Wednesday opening may have turned out to be conservative. Another box-office observer sends word that the year’s biggest stoner comedy/Franco-sex-appeal testimonial in fact raked in $US12.15 million in its first day — a fairly staggering figure for an R-rated comedy. Bowing on a Wednesday. In the first week of August. The revised tracking also suggests Express has enough momentum to wrest box-office superiority from The Dark Knight this weekend, but we’re not so sure: The same tracking suggested The Mummy 3 would have similar success last weekend (it didn’t), and in any case, Express will need all of its five-day numbers — as much as $US45 million by some estimates — just to beat Dark Knight’s three-day figure. Check out tomorrow morning’s Defamer Attractions column, where we’ll call our official shot. [Fantasy Moguls] More »
James Franco Will Address Your Stolen T-Shirt Concerns Just As Soon As He’s Done Making It With These Hotties
2:45AM Seth | Well, it seems as though the SharkDevouringKittenGate scandal that swum up and bit Pineapple Express on its opening day (quick review: the T-shirt James Franco wears throughout the entire movie is accused of being a WOWCH label design from three years ago) has done little to scare moviegoers from these waters, as Nikki Finke is reporting the movie has taken $10 million yesterday; that’s some kind of August record, she suggests vaguely while waving away thick clouds of ganja smoke and trying to look like she’s enjoying the party. Approached for comment on the wardrobe controversy, meanwhile, Pineapple star James Franco had no patience for the allegations, telling the NY Daily News, “That’s ridiculous…We completely created that shirt and that shark. David wanted me to wear a purple Monterey Bay T-shirt with a whale on it. I said I wasn’t into the whale shirt, so he came up with his own design, which was the shark.” More »
Superhero to Be Seth Rogen Vomits His Way to Fighting Shape
3:05AM STV | Seth Rogen adds another dimension of career versatility this week with Pineapple Express, audiences’ first glimpse at his impressive action chops. As explained to David Letterman in no uncertain terms on Monday night, however, the Power Schlub — who is starting out preparations for his title role in The Green Hornet — still has a ways to go before achieving the muscular standard of his genre counterparts. For starters, we don’t imagine Daniel Craig struggles as mightily with crunches as Rogen has, and even Tobey Maguire seems to have overcome the training anguish to which Rogen claims he’s succumbed as unglamourously as possible. But look on the bright side, Seth: If ever Hollywood had a quick fix for a fitter, thinner you, stomach-emptying is indeed as tried-and-true a method as any. Ask anyone — and keep at it! [CBS] More »
Post-Traumatic ‘Tony Danza Show’ Disorder Kept James Franco Off Talk Show Circuit For Years
4:54AM Seth | Stopping by Late Show to drum up interest in Pineapple Express, James Franco admitted to David Letterman that this was only his second-ever experience on a talk show. The first was two years ago, when he appeared on The Tony Danza Show: A lightly surreal daytime chatfest hosted by everyone’s favourite Who’s The Boss-star and guido savante, it relied perhaps a little too heavily on ill-conceived gimmicks and stunts. (The Plinkoesque call-in trivia game Extravadanza immediately pops to mind.) Sure enough, learning that Franco played a boxer in a “horrible movie” he refrains from naming (Annapolis! It was Annapolis!), Danza challenged him first to a push-up contest, and, after Franco politely rejected that offer, a Hook-the-Ring decathalon event that still induces involuntarily facial-twitching and regular nightmares of Danza’s “I’m the Lord of the Ring-Hookers!” victory dance. Late Show More »
A Thousand Stoned Stars Align For Pot Cinema’s Finest Hour
10:00AM STV | Seth Rogen’s recent mellow-harshing bust notwithstanding, there has arguably never been a better time to be a pot aficionado in the movies. Or at the movies. Or returning to the movies — or to the road, anyway, as evinced by new reports of Cheech and Chong’s cannabis comeback. Basically anyone who can approximate stoner bliss is ready for prime time these days, from the principals of Harold and Kumar to Pineapple Express to Smiley Face (to say nothing of Hall of Famers The Big Lebowski and Up in Smoke), notes a pot-film scholar who miraculously focused long enough to taxonomize and rate them: More »
Rating Woes, August Blahs Threaten ‘Tropic Thunder’ Storm at Box Office
6:30AM STV | While we refuse to believe Nielsen actually spent money to discover that R-ratings hinder comedies more than horror films, the results of its recent survey dovetail interestingly today with a companion piece about Tropic Thunder’s potential for August domination. We’ve seen Tropic and can vouch for it living up to most of its hype, from Tom Cruise’s sociopath studio boss to Robert Downey Jr.’s otherworldly, meta-Method blackface turn. But rating and timing are everything, as always, prompting The Hollywood Reporter to foretell a relatively floppy future: More »
Who Does Stoner Bear Seth Rogen Need To Blow To Get His Mellow On At A ‘Pineapple’ Rager?
2:25AM Seth | We’re not sure how much we can rely on the trustworthiness of an item in Page Six about Seth Rogen’s Pineapple Express-party toking habits when the gossip sheet manages to misspell the popular actor’s surname three separate times—toppling previous record-holder Rosie “Rogaine” Perez as the world’s most formidable Seth Rogen name-mangler. That said, take it away Page Six: More »
