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Newsroom Cafe Update: Real Life Ratatouille Not Nearly As Popular As Movie
4:15AM Defamer Hollywood | While health inspectors may have fallen head over heels in love with Pixar’s restaurant impresario “Little Chef”, it seems they can’t stomach a vermin infestation at mold-friendly Newsroom Cafe. The eatery, favoured by pseudo vegetarian starlets, went from achieving average status to full-blown suspension in a shake of a rat’s tail. The restaurant is understandably befuddled after receiving the notice of closure since the soup-diving, steak tartare-preparing rats appeared so lovable on screen. But, the now relevantly monikered establishment plans to turn things around. More »
Trade Roundup: Hackford’s Begging Finally Induces Oscar-Winning Wife To Work With Him Again
5:45AM Defamer Hollywood | · Ray director Taylor Hackford convinces “very busy” wife Helen Mirren and semi-retired actor Joe Pesci to star in Love Ranch, the heartwarming tale of the man who established Nevada’s first legal brothel, his madam spouse, and the boxer gunned down by a bodyguard for his suspected sexual involvement with the aforementioned Mustang Ranch proprietress. [Variety] · Justice League director George Miller is auditioning virtually every young actor in Hollywood (Adam Brody! Minka Kelly! Mary Elizabeth Winstead!) during a “marathon casting session” running through today, hoping that the cattle call will help him fill coveted parts like Superman, Batman, the Flash and Wonder Woman with talent cheap enough to stay together for several movies. [THR] · Led Zeppelin is finally making their music available online, with the band’s entire catalogue hitting the internets on November 13. Also: the “Black Dog” ringtone you’ve been wanting since you were sixteen will soon be made available. [Variety] CBS wins Sunday night after the Patriots-Cowboys game runs long, though ABC’s Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters both put up better numbers than last week. [THR] · Overseas moviegoers continue to delight in Pixar’s animated story of a talented rat who saved a fading French bistro by flouting Paris’s overly restrictive restaurant cleanliness laws. [Variety] More »
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 »
Box Office: Moviegoers Find Rats In A Restaurant Surprisingly Delicious
2:33AM Defamer Hollywood | This Monday morning is no less painful than any other on the calendar, but at least you only have to survive 48 hours before you’re rewarded with a day off. Cling to the weekend box office numbers as you try to make it through the excruciating two days that stand between you and illegal firework displays, backyard barbecues, and egregious midweek drunkenness: 1. Ratatouille – $US47.227 million Another summer, another critically beloved animated feature that tops the box office on its opening weekend, extending Pixar’s years-long consecutive hits streak. But now that the studio has proven it can push to number one a movie with a premise as theoretically unsavory as filthy, health-code flouting rodents running amok in the kitchen of a French restaurant, they’ll seek a challenge that will properly tax their unparalleled hitmaking talents: development has begun on Crabs, the story of some misunderstood, but ultimately lovable, genital lice making their home in the overgrown pubic hair of a Hungarian prostitute. Summer 2009 opening weekend gross: $US53 million. More »
