Posts by Zach Dionne
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Box Office Top Five: Ron Burgundy Can’t Handle Bilbo Baggins
1. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, $31.45 million (last week: no. 1; $127.5 cumulative) Bilbo Smaug’d up the competition for a second weekend in a row, dropping 57 percent from last week’s debut and moving the latest Hobbit’s needle to $403.8 million internationally. On not a historically great moviegoing weekend (buy a 3-D ticket and […]
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Afternoon Links: Give Kanye a Time Machine for Christmas and He’ll Stop Jordan From Playing for the Wizards
On a Yeezus tour stop in Chicago, Kanye decided to use his Auto-Tuned “Runaway” improv sesh to sing about Michael Jordan instead of being pissed off about everything in the entire world. (’Tis the season!) It was such a hit, people actually started singing along a little. Kanye or not, you just don’t miss opportunities […]
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Duck Dynasty Family Says They Can’t Abide Phil Robertson’s Suspension
It looks like we’ve got an ol’-fashioned TV network vs. duck call–making family turned reality-star family standoff on our hands. A quick catch-up: Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson made some way-over-the-line homophobic remarks in GQ (“[a woman’s vagina has] more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s […]
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Afternoon Links: The Grand New Budapest Trailer
We’ve been familiar with the all-star Andersonian cast of The Grand Budapest Hotel for some time, so it’s time we started getting familiar with the inevitably kooky character names. The zaniest of all? Adrien Brody’s Dmitri Desgoffe-und-Taxis. Also, who knew there’d be such mystery afoot in this one?
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Paul Rudd to Star in Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man
With Joseph Gordon-Levitt over in The Sandman’s turf, it looks like Paul Rudd has landed the lead in Ant-Man. Rudd has been rumored as the front-runner for several weeks now, and Variety reports he’s begun negotiating for the part. If imagining the dude who pioneered “slappa da bass” playing a superhero didn’t already arch your eyebrows, surely the […]
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Afternoon Links: Batman vs. Superman vs. Phoenix?
Variety has sources saying Joaquin Phoenix is being courted as the villain (who is probably Lex Luthor! Who is bald!) for The Film That May One Day Only Formerly Be Known As Batman vs. Superman. “However, it’s very early in the process and even if Warners [sic] offers Phoenix a role, it’s not clear he […]
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Beyoncé Lands a Record-Breaking Fifth No. 1 Album
If it comes as a surprise that Beyoncé finds herself at no. 1 again, you’re an easy-to-surprise person who’s going to have a great Christmas where every gift seems miraculous. But yes, Beyoncé is Beyoncé’s fifth time debuting atop the Billboard 200, making her the first female artist to hit no. 1 with her first […]
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They’re Making a Gilligan’s Island Movie Starring Josh Gad
Josh Gad got his big break with The Book of Mormon, then went on to cocreate and star in 1600 Penn, which could have charitably been called excrement. Now, feet planted firmly back in the What’s This Guy Got? zone, Gad will help Warner Bros. take Gilligan’s Island to the big screen. Gad will take […]
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Afternoon Links: Aaron Paul Still Rules, Probably Won’t Ever Stop
Aaron Paul has done a great many lovely things other than Breaking Bad. Once he walked out of his home to chat with fans; another time he just casually shared how much he’d love to star in The Dark Tower. He really went out of his way, though, the time he helped Jason propose to Jackie. (Fast-forward […]
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Is Doing a Sandman Movie With Neil Gaiman
Almost 20 years after Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman wrapped its 75-issue run and ascended into All-Time-Great Comic-Book Heaven, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is turning it into a movie. Following a report from Deadline, JGL tweeted, “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m incredibly honored to be working with David Goyer, Warner Bros, and @neilhimself on SANDMAN. #Prelude.” That hashtag probably points […]
