Heath Ledger wins Oscar as best supporting actor!

Comic Book film get some respect!


Represent!

Thank you Heath, for giving us a Joker for the ages!

Wolverine to host the Oscars?

Yup! This sounds like a desperation move to me.

After last year's disappointing performance by John Stewart, that resulted in the lowest ratings ever for the telecast, the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences have asked Hugh Jackman, actor, singer and dancer, best known for his roles in the X-Men series as Wolverine, to host the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 22nd of next year.

The Academy says that a "new look and a new direction is needed".

In other words, the have fallen behind in the times!

The couldn't capture the younger audience they want!

They say, and I quote, "There will be more emphasis in dance and song this time."

Get ready to see crappy Oscars next year!

I don't dislike Hugh Jackman as a host, he has been a great host at the Tony Awards for theater, and will give some glamour back at the ceremony that was lacking in the last few years. But if the Academy wanted a new direction, why don't they try this method...

Nominate movies that actually people watch!!!!

Look at the Golden Globes this year, they have nominated a lot of art films that have bombed at the box office.

Can somebody say what film was this year's top performer?

That's right class..."The Dark Knight"!

How many nominations for the GG's? One for Heath Ledger.

BORING!!!! Bet your sweet bippy I'm not watching that old fart snooze fest!!!

If the Oscars are going that way, in ten years, they'll be gone from TV.

Tropic Thunder is still thundering at the box office!

The surprise is not that Tropic Thunder is #1, is that "The Dark Knight" went from 4 to 3 in a comeback! Can it become #1 in the all time list?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Action film parody "Tropic Thunder" held onto the top spot at the North American box office for a third straight week as the summer moviegoing season drew to a close, Hollywood studios reported on Sunday.

Paramount Pictures' farcical combat movie within a comedy, starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black, sold an estimated $11.5 million in U.S. and Canadian tickets Friday through Sunday to bring its three-week tally to $83.8 million.

Its biggest competition came from a real action flick, the sci-fi thriller "Babylon A.D." from 20th Century Fox starring Vin Diesel, which grossed an estimated $9.7 million in its first weekend to land at No. 2.

Blockbuster Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" climbed a notch up the box office chart to No. 3 with weekend receipts of nearly $8.8 million, pushing its cumulative domestic haul past the $500 million mark in its seventh week of release.

"Dark Knight," a Warner Bros, release, stands as the second-highest-grossing domestic film of all time, behind "Titanic."

The U.S. Labor Day holiday on Monday marks the official conclusion to Hollywood's 18-week summer film season, which is expected to end with roughly $4 billion in domestic box office receipts overall.

Paramount is a unit of Viacom Inc, Fox is a division of News Corp and Warner Bros. belongs to Time Warner Inc.

And the box office champion this week is...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Dark Knight" ruled the North American box office for a fourth weekend on Sunday to become the third-biggest movie of all time.

The Batman sequel earned an estimated $26 million during the three days beginning on Friday, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said, taking its total to $441.5 million after 24 days.

It now ranks at No. 3 on the all-time list, behind "Titanic" with $601 million and "Star Wars" with $461 million.

Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner Inc, said it expects "Dark Knight" to end up with about $520 million.

The weekend's No. 2 slot went to the new Columbia Pictures release "Pineapple Express" with $22.4 million.

The stoner comedy undoubtedly would have been No. 1 had the unit of Sony Corp not opted to open the picture two days earlier than usual on Wednesday to maximize sales during the school holidays. The five-day total for the Seth Rogen film stands at $40.5 million.

Another Wednesday opener was "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2," which came in at No. 4 with $10.8 million for the weekend. The Warner Bros drama has a five-day haul of $19.7 million.

As Frank Miller wrote;"I'm the goddamed BATMAN!"

Batman kicks Mummy's butt!

This weekend tally is in! "The Dark Knight" is the number one movie in America and Canada for the third week in a row! This means that probably it's on its way to become the second biggest grossing film of all time, behind "Titanic".

"The Dark Knight" got 43.8 million dollars this weekend, upping up the tally to 389.56 million dollars. It's estimated that the film will arrive at the 400 million mark by next Thursday. The second film this weekend was "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" with a respectable 42.5 million dollars. The film suffered from bad reviews and repeat business from people who wanted to see "Dark Knight" again.

The disappointment of the weekend was "Swing Vote", starring Kevin Costner, in which he plays a hard drinking oaf that becomes the deciding vote in the US presidential elections. It only garnered 6.4 million dollars and the number 6 spot.

"Stepbrothers" and "Mamma Mia" rounded up the top 4.

At last! Saw "The Dark Knight"...

WOW!

Words fail me...

WOW!

Can you say Best Movie Nominee at the academy awards...
Best supporting actor nod for Heath Ledger...

'Nuff said!

More on Christian Bale's legal woes.

It looks that the "Dark Knight" was ticked off when his mommy trash talked about his wife. Here is more of the story as reported by a friend of Bale's to Reuters...

"Christian was stressed, but he didn’t lay a finger on anyone. Instead, he flew off the handle and cussed his mother. He just got very loud because his mother was saying some very outrageous things about him, and his wife."

"Christian's attitude is that this was his mother's fault because she became very provocative in an argument they were having,’" the source said, adding: "Things got out of control and he now says he wishes he just left the room."

"Normally Christian would just call a friend and go out to a pub to cool off. But he was literally trapped into this confrontation with his mother and sister because there was an army of fans and paparazzi outside."

"They're going to need a "cooling off" period because his mother said some pretty outrageous things to him that really set him off."

"He regrets the way she treated him in their argument a lot more than having to talk to police about it. Christian has admitted that something just snapped, but he didn't threaten anyone with violence."

Bale is reportedly having marital problems as well.

The report goes on to say:

"He can have a terrible temper. Instead of lashing out at his wife, he sometimes lashes out at people around him."

"He's under a lot of pressure right now and simply got incredibly loud with members of his family around. I think his wife is going to be very important to him after all this is over because she does, at the end of the day, know how to calm him down."

He is also said to have become depressed over the death of close friend and co-star Heath Ledger. The two actors formed a friendship when they both played Bob Dylan in the flick I’m Not There.

The source said, "Without Ledger around, he's found it more and more difficult to communicate with those around him, especially his family."

Another Bale insider confirms that Ledger's death was a massive blow for the Welshman:

"They had become very close during the making of The Dark Knight and Christian went into virtual hiding for the six weeks after Heath was found dead."

"He wasn't returning phone calls and he wasn't a happy man. It's foolish to think that he's been able to completely shake off that grief just as Heath and his work is finally being seen by audiences."

"He expected to share this moment with his friend, and now he can't."

It was also reported that Bale found it hard to shake off the mental strains of Batman, and told an interviewer he was having trouble sleeping.

Maybe Bale is having the same kinds of problems Heath had while making the film.

Is therapy next for our caped crusader?

Or is it the accidental overdose route, like his friend, The Joker?

What will happen?

Tune in next time,
at the same Bat hour,
on the same Bat channel!

Holy Money, Batman!

It's official! "Dark Knight", the second installment of the new Batman franchise, broke all expectations at the box office, pulling in more than 155.6 million dollars on it's first weekend. Estimates is putting the final tally at 400 million domestically, making this movie one of the top twenty moneymakers of all time.

It starts locally in PR on Wednesday, July 23. Get ready!

The Dark Knight rules!

Early estimates from box office tallies across the US, say that on it's preview day, The Dark Knight, the new Batman story, directed by Christopher Nolan, broke records by collecting 18.5 million dollars in a single day, 66.7 Millon dollars by Friday. If this keeps up, it might break the record established by "Spiderman 3" in a single weekend.

Exit the Spider, enter the Bat!!!!