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Weekend Receipts: The Golden Age of the Fangirl
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Great Moments in U.S. Girl History
· 1893: Colorado becomes the first state to grant women the right to vote
· 1960: Eleanor Roosevelt named chairwoman of JFK's Commission on the Status of Women
· 1963: Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique
· 1972: Congress passes the Equal Rights Amendment
· 2005: Stephenie Meyer publishes Twilight
· 2009: New Moon opens, grosses $140.7 million in three days
· 2010: The Oprah Winfrey Show airs its final broadcast
· 2012: "Daddy! No more pull-ups!" »
Friday Box Office: New Moon, New Record
21 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST
The Dark Knight may have had a lot of things going for it, but it didn't have Taylor Lautner's abs. Aided by a cuh-cuh-crazy gross from midnight shows on Thursday, The Twilight Saga: New Moon absolutely decimated the previous opening day record of $67.2 million set by The Dark Knight, banking $72.7 million from less screens and less theaters. Can it break Knight's all-time opening weekend record, $158.4 million? To be continued...
Full figures, after the jump: »
Our Commenters of the Week Win A T-Shirt Emblazoned with TV's Hottest New Catchphrase!
20 November 2009 4:30 PM, PST
The CW is desperately trying to make Heather Locklear and Melrose Place happen, and who are we to stand in the way? And so it is that the writers of our five best comments this week will receive a t-shirt featuring Locklear's instant-classic, not-overwritten-at-all-why-would-you-say-that rejoinder, "I'm not so sure it dissipated." Someday, when we are all 55-year-old gay men (this happens to everyone), we will pass this line down to the twinks of the future and remember a time when TV bitchery was at its most torturously composed peak. So who are our winners? »
Entourage Creator Doug Ellin: 'Homophobic and Racist Jokes Completely Unacceptable Unless We Write Them Into Script'
20 November 2009 4:00 PM, PST
Well, this is upsetting. Actor Rex Lee -- who plays Lloyd, Ari Gold's long-suffering assistant on the sufferingly long-running HBO series Entourage -- has revealed to TMZ that he has been the target of workplace harassment from certain members of the crew, who regularly crack jokes about his race and sexual orientation. To the rescue, then, comes series creator and showrunner Doug Ellin, who enforces a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to jokes about gays and minorities on his set. Told of the cracks, Ellin said he was "shocked and horrified," and "will be speaking to everybody before we start filming again in March. It's not something condoned or acceptable."
So to be clear, if any crew member should say anything along these lines on the set on Entourage, they will be immediately fired: »
What's On: I Can See Ratings From My House
20 November 2009 3:20 PM, PST
You weren't going to buy your copy of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue without heeding the lessons of Barbara Walters' interrogation first, right? You should also refrain from buying a snowmobile, a red padded blazer, a bridge going somewhere, a flute, sports commentator skills, and a real Wasillan fingertrap until 20/20 is over too. We have a lot to learn about all of those. Who knows, maybe she'll amp up the maverickiness and give us a heads-up on hockey gear sales at Sports Authority. I'm kind of in. »
5 Delicious Moments From James Franco's General Hospital Debut
20 November 2009 2:50 PM, PST
Hurricane Franco touched down in Port Charles this afternoon, kicking off the Pineapple Express actor's surprising arc on General Hospital. As an elusive performance artist whose "canvas is murder," Franco spent most of the episode lurking in the shadows, snacking behind dumpsters and waving into security cameras with fingerless gloves. But when Franco did escape those shadows and stare meaningfully into the distance as Adam Lambert's "It's A Mad World" played in the background, he was soap good. »
Project Runway Season Ratings Finally Pay off Andy Cohen's Voodoo Hex
20 November 2009 2:10 PM, PST
Project Runway ended last night -- and I don't just mean its sixth season concluded. The show's once-deafening buzz seems to be a thing of the past, and the ratings...well, there's no easy way to say this. Despite the fact that the sixth season's Lifetime debut in August was up 45% from the previous year's Bravo premiere, the reality competition atrophied viewers as it continued to run, actually descending beneath its Bravo average even though Lifetime has far greater market penetration than our favorite gay-vague cable channel. How bad did things get last night? »
Oprah Winfrey: The Next 19 Months Of Goodbye
20 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST
Today, a sucker-punched nation mourns as the news that Oprah Winfrey, the closest thing we have to the Lord Himself taking daytime TV host form and spreading love and goodness through America's broadcast airwaves, will end her syndicated, culture-changing talk show in May of 2011, giving stunned fans a mere 19 months to come to grips with this life-altering upheaval. To help those abandoned viewers better cope with this long goodbye, Movieline now dusts off its crystal ball (purchased following Oprah's Favorite Things recommendation of 2005, during her brief, bizarre fling with gypsy mysticism) and looks at what the next year and a half will hold for the big O and her show: »
Late Night Highlights: Tattoos, Taylor Lautner and Ted Danson's Tears
20 November 2009 12:30 PM, PST
There comes a time in life when we have to face our personal truths and after another dark night of the soul watching late night television, I'm ready to admit that I love Lopez Tonight. The new TBS talk show had me during Wednesday night's Chola Makeover, but last night's show clinched my affection when the host advised an inter-racial couple in the audience on their money disagreements, threw to "Creepy Little White Girl," a new correspondent who delivers stale monologue jokes in zombie attire, got Ted Danson to admit that he cried while watching the Cheers pilot and then welcomed This Is It guitar goddess, Orianthi, to the stage for a solo performance. A few highlights from Lopez, and all of the other notable late night moments you missed, after the jump. »
Buzz Break: Persia, the Fragrance
20 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST
· Jake Gyllenhaal gives good smolder in the latest teaser poster for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Click for bigger.
· It looks like Dustin Hoffman is backing out of Little Fockers, where EW says he "had tentatively agreed to appear in what was to be a very funny cameo at the end of the film." Have the words "very funny" been associated with this franchise since the year 2000?
· Remember Adnan Ghalib, ex-paparazzo lover of Britney Spears? Sentenced to jail.
· Domestic violence victim Halle Berry is speaking out about Rihanna and Chris Brown: "Any time a woman frees herself from that kind of bondage and that kind of situation I'm proud."
· Deborah Lacey, who plays Carla the maid on Mad Men, draws inspiration from her mother, who was Bob Denver's maid in the 1960s. You don't even want to know about the Bob Denver Fingerbang Threat Level. »
New Moon's $26 Million Midnight Take Breaks All-Time Record
20 November 2009 11:40 AM, PST
Uh, so there's this movie? It's called New Moon? Apparently there's some people who want to see it. The first screenings, at 12:01 am this morning on 3,514 screens across the country, brought Summit Entertainment $26,270,000, reports Deadline.com. That eviscerates the previous records held by The Dark Knight ($18.4 million) and Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince ($22.2 million). The female-skewed, Twihard-filled audiences should taper off over the weekend, but it will be interesting to see if there's enough juice here over the rest of the weekend to get Moon into the top ten openings of all time. It would have to make more than X-Men: The Last Stand's $103 million -- utterly achievable, at this rate. What about top five? Spider-Man currently holds that spot at $115 million. Never underestimate the astonishing earning power of Taylor Lautner's 18 abs. [Deadline] »
It Begins!
20 November 2009 11:20 AM, PST
By now, you've most likely heard that Lost is coming back for its final season on Tuesday, February 2, and will be holding down the Tuesday 9pm time slot for the foreseeable future. This is a great thing for America, since Tuesday is so boring and mostly filled with stuff your grandma watches. Get ready for a lot of posts that consist solely of exclamation points! [THR] »
In Theaters: The Blind Side
20 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST
It's too bad for Sandra Bullock that The Blind Side will most likely find its biggest following among football fans, the religious right, and parents looking for anything to watch while their daughters are down the multiplex corridor shrieking at New Moon. Bullock delivers a terrific performance as Leigh Anne Tuohy, the Memphis woman whose family's adopting of homeless young Michael Oher set the groundwork for his education and eventual advancement to the National Football League. Blond, brisk and all business, she's easily the best thing about the film, which otherwise slumps into a cloying, condescending morass that doesn't do her fine work any favors. »
Project Runway Recap: We Have a Winner! And a Headache!
20 November 2009 10:30 AM, PST
Three weeks of excitement and 11 weeks of Chekhovian bleakness have led us to this moment. Project Runway's dubious sixth season concluded last night, and because you should see Heidi squeal the big winner's name like a festive cockapoo for yourself, I won't reveal the champion until after the jump. In the meantime, I reveal another secret: Guest-judge Suzy Menkes of the International Herald Tribune has a jacked-up haircut, and she stole it like candy from a baby. No, seriously, I mean Rugrats. »
Time to Lip-Sync ... Foyalaif! Meet the Cast of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 2
20 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST
RuPaul's Drag Race was a surprise breakout hit when its first, ultra-low-rent season debuted on Logo. It was a competition reality show that worked uncommonly well, mainly because it was tailored to the only breed -- besides maybe pageant queens -- who were quite literally born for the medium. They sew, they strut, they tuck, they bring the drrrraaaama: one glimpse of those crazy tranny bitches hoofing down the runway after a series of hilarious challenges (the Oprah Challenge and the Butch Lesbian Makeover Challenge were two of my favorites), where they'd get feedback like, "You look like you're dressed to give Dr. Phil a $20 hand job," and I was hooked. Season 2 debuts in February, and the first preview footage and contestant profiles have debuted online. It's after the jump. »
Eva Mendes: 'A Close-Up is So Overrated'
20 November 2009 9:40 AM, PST
Eva Mendes must have a thing for cops, because she burst on the scene as Denzel Washington's mistress in Training Day, then served as a policeman's love interest in films like Out of Time and We Own the Night. Suffice it to say, though, she's never had an onscreen love affair like the one with Nicolas Cage's loopy law enforcer in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. As a prostitute named Frankie, Mendes plays Cage's only tether to something real, but since this is a Werner Herzog film, even the duo's relative stability is skewed as can be.
A little while ago, Mendes sat down with Movieline to discuss just how out-there Lieutenant gets, but also found time to touch on the Silver Lake hipster scene and the allure of Sam Worthington and Keira Knightley. »
One Dead Following Miley Cyrus Tour Bus Accident
20 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST
One of Miley Cyrus's tour buses flipped over this morning at 8:15 a.m. in Richmond, Va., killing the bus driver (or he may have died while driving) and injuring one of the crew members. Miley wasn't on board that bus, but was in another of four in a caravan. TMZ reports a witness said the bus veered onto the side of the road for a long while before tipping over. Picture here. [MTV] »
Michael Bay Has No Hard Feelings For Former Ferrari-Detailer Who Called Him Hitler
20 November 2009 8:40 AM, PST
As much as we love a vicious catfight, Movieline equally loves a peace accord (mainly because it opens the door for a good sucker-swat). So join us now live from the Victoria's Secret fashion show as Michael Bay -- feather-trimmed boob-for-boob the best lingerie-commercial director working on the planet today -- offers an olive branch to Megan Fox, the onetime-chamois-girl-turned-superstar whose candid appraisal of the director included a comparison to Hitler. Bay's not sweating it:
"I love her ... It's just, she's young. Everyone's got to give her a break, she only...23? It's just hard. I've traveled around the world with her and she's just like this world symbol now, you know?"
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Catherine Hardwicke Divulges Twilight's Sultry Casting-Mattress Secrets
20 November 2009 8:15 AM, PST
Summit Entertainment may have booted Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke from the editing room before ultimately plucking its billion-dollar franchise out of her hands for good, but there is one thing the company suits can never take away from her: Her casting. It also can't do much about her fascinating story of the Twilight Mattress of Dreams, where Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson apparently did some of their best auditioning en route to global stardom. »
TV Bites: Franco Friday
20 November 2009 7:20 AM, PST
· Break out your all-black wardrobe, red spray paint and performance art motives. James Franco's General Hospital arc begins today and in a new interview, the Pineapple Express actor admitted that he had never watched the show before he took the job, saying "I thought it was all about hospitals but actually there's this whole mob thing." Click through for a steamy scene the actor shares with Lost's Marsha Thomason. [Zap2It]
Steven Spielberg and Stephen King join forces, Larry King ships his son off to Fox Sports, and more TV Bites after the jump. »
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