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I agree about Robbie; shaving six years off your age is over reaching, but countrywoman Rebel Wilson was caught doing just that. In the golden era of Hollywood, stars who lied to appear older at first ended up, with time, looking like they were lying to seem younger, when they tried to use their actual ages. The reviews out of Venice for The Danish Girl weren't as strong as I thought they'd be. Combined with the controversy about not casting a transgender actress (not that I think Oscar voters will care about that, but if critics go for other actors, awards voters might follow), I think Eddie will get another nomination, but not the win.

I love awards season, even if it can be as much about narratives and campaigning than the work itself. Without awards prestige and box office to chase after, a good number of these movies either wouldn't be made or would have their budgets severely scaled back (causing some of them not to be greenlit at all). Some would say that wouldn't be such a bad thing, but if every other YA series and board/video game gets to be greenlit and mapped out as an aspiring cinematic universe, why can't "serious" movies have their time in the sun? I used to take Oscars very seriously, but stopped caring so much after getting way too invested in who won and what lost. Now, I just see the awards race as a big publicity whirl with great pomp and circumstance and fashion, and if a well-made movie or talented person I like walks off with a trophy at the end, great. I was all for the expanded Best Picture field (I don't even want to hear about how limiting BP to five nominees denotes the true crème de la crème of filmmaking, after the Slumdog Millionaire-Benjamin Button-Frost/Nixon-Milk-Reader lineup) but preferred when it was a straight Top 10 rather than the flexible range of films that muster up at least 5% of the number one votes. The rules now keep out a lot of more populist movies that made the Best Picture lineup for 2009 and 2010*, that voters would consider among the best of the year, but wouldn't give a number one vote. In any given year, even when it was just five films, it was never the case that all of the nominated movies truly had a shot at winning. So, if there are going to be filler noms anyway, why not an animated film or sci-fi blockbuster instead of Chocolat or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? As for this year, I'm interested in seeing what happens with Beasts of No Nation. Will Abraham Attah be frauded into a Supporting Actor nomination? Will crotchety AMPAS traditionalists hold the Netflix association against it? Will the people who demand screeners before they vote be happy that the movie is available for them to see at home, or decide that streaming doesn't make them feel exclusive enough and hold it against the movie? I guess we'll have to wait for the annual "anonymous Oscar voter" articles to find out. *Though the major ceremonies are held in the winter, I think of awards seasons in terms of the year of film that's being honored rather than the year the awards are handed out.

Stars have been lying about their ages as long as there has been show business (both ways, with some child actors adding years to be able to work longer hours). Even now, the mainstream media doesn't really look too deeply into the year some actor or singer is claiming to be born, unless someone bothers to make a big case out of it. Most actors probably don't care about getting away with the lie forever, just until they become established.

Jessica Chastain was one of those stars who wouldn't have a year of birth listed on her IMDb or Wikipedia entry, then I could swear it was listed 1981 at some point, but she got busted by another celebrity: the singer Mandisa, who came to fame on American Idol (which had a strictly-enforced age limit and regularly listed contestant ages onscreen). Mandisa went to Twitter after seeing The Help, gushing that "Celia" (Chastain's character) was a high school classmate of hers, along with a scan from her own yearbook as proof. Jessica herself has refused to discuss her age. She didn't always feel that way, and at least one local story from 1998 referenced her being 21. So, the media bios were generally updated to her being born in 1977. With Margot Robbie, AFAIK, there's not any smoke beyond "She can't possibly be the same age as Emma Watson and Jennifer Lawrence." And that she's Australian, I guess, people think it's easier to lie about your identity if you're from another country. Her bio lists her as leaving school in 2007 and her IMDb credits begin in 2008, when she took the role of a teen character on an Australian soap (of course, that doesn't always indicate much about a person's actual age). Maybe did shave off a few years, or perhaps, she just looks mature for her age. Even with Mischa Barton clearly being a tween in The Sixth Sense, when The O.C. was big, you had people convinced she was secretly 30. Elizabeth Debicki also seems a lot older, or just more commanding than a number of other actresses born in 1990, and it's not just her height. On the male side, Chadwick Boseman has also been cagey about his year of birth at times and is another person who was "ageless" on the IMDb/Wiki for a while. Newspaper clippings/photos surfaced online of his high school basketball days 1992-1993, making it rather difficult for him to pass as someone born in 1982.

August 28–30, 2015 Estimates: 1 (1) Straight Outta Compton $13,243,530 | 3,142 Theaters | $4,215 Avg. | $134,129,705 2 (N) War Room $11,000,000 | 1,135 Theaters | $9,692 Avg. | $11,000,000 (trailer) 3 (2) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation $8,300,000 | 3,095 Theaters | $2,682 Avg. | $170,386,530 4 (N) No Escape $8,288,000 | 3,355 Theaters | $2,470 Avg. | $10,348,860 5 (3) Sinister 2 $4,650,000 | 2,799 Theaters | $1,661 Avg. | $18,511,602 6 (5) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. $4,410,000 | 2,706 Theaters | $1,630 Avg. | $34,121,626 7 (4) Hitman: Agent 47 $3,850,000 | 3,273 Theaters | $1,176 Avg. | $15,270,731 8 (8) Ant-Man $3,073,116 | 1,690 Theaters | $1,818 Avg. | $169,205,642 9 (18) Jurassic World $3,010,770 | 1,239 Theaters | $2,430 Avg. | $642,978,555 10 (7) The Gift $3,004,313 | 1,934 Theaters | $1,553 Avg. | $35,830,756 11 (9) Minions $2,924,480 | 1,976 Theaters | $1,480 Avg. | $324,805,070 12 (6) American Ultra $2,800,000 | 2,778 Theaters | $1,008 Avg. | $10,488,109 13 (10) Fantastic Four $1,782,398 | 1,675 Theaters | $1,064 Avg, | $52,745,496 14 (N) We Are Your Friends $1,767,308 | 2,333 Theaters | $758 Avg. | $1,767,308 *ouch* 15 (11) Vacation $1,705,000 | 1,555 Theaters | $1,096 Avg. | $55,020,424 Mistress America $430,000 | 150 Theaters | $2,867 Avg. | $909,733 The Diary of a Teenage Girl $424,984 | 795 Theaters | $535 Avg. | $925,065 Grandma $308,616 | 19 Theaters | $16,243 Avg. | $486,498 Irrational Man $104,117 | 91 Theaters | $1,144 Avg. | $3,719,593 Global Totals: JURASSIC WORLD: $993.6M Overseas Total | $1.637B Global Total MINIONS: $694.1M Overseas Total | $1.019B Global Total INSIDE OUT: $371.1M Overseas Total | $715.625M Global Total MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION: $309.0M Overseas Total | $479.387M Global Total TERMINATOR: GENISYS: $320.1M Overseas Total | $409.484M Global Total ANT-MAN: $199.8M Overseas Total | $368.986M Global Total TED 2: $109.0M Overseas Total | $190.2M Global Total STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON: $6.8M Overseas Total | $140.93M Global Total TRAINWRECK: $23.8M Overseas Total | $128.9M Global Total VACATION: $26.5M Overseas Total | $81.52M Global Total PAPER TOWNS: $46.8M Overseas Total | $78.3M Global Total THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.: $36.6M Overseas Total | $70.72M Global Total HITMAN: AGENT 47: $25.0M Overseas Total | $40.29M Global Total

It's just different two different ways to talk about dealing with addiction. The aim with both is to stop consuming drugs/alcohol/excessive porn or whatever, but their way of looking at it is couched in terms of having freedom from the shackles of whatever compulsive behavior it is, that sent you to labor camp sermon rehab in the first place. Whereas with sobriety, there's more of a sense that a person is always an addict but does their best not to slip, going forward? And IDK, maybe that's too measured for this crowd.

It's not unusual for a magazine to have different covers for the newsstands vs. the one going out to subscribers. People must think the Josh scandal will sell better on the checkout lines.

Not strictly...they cover celebrities but also more newsy stories if there's enough of a "human interest" angle, and an exclusive interview helps. At some point after the Miracle on the Hudson, Sully was on the cover, holding a baby from the flight. Of all the glossy celebrity weeklies (In Touch, OK, Life & Style, US Weekly, etc), People would by far be the most likely to put "ordinary" heroes on the cover. Still, that they went with Josh and Anna this week isn't a huge surprise. People kind of gets the best of both worlds with the Duggars, famous people who aren't very Hollywood, plus, there's a religious angle.

So...they couldn't copy the sets, the sayings or actual storylines, and nothing shocking actually happened: what is the point of these "unauthorized" biopics again? The ratings are in, and the movie got around 1.6 million viewers in its first airing, about the same as the SBTB one, though with lower 18-49 numbers.

Golic did also say that people should do the right thing and not get into trouble in the first place, but nice sidestepping there. I didn't agree with his contention that rookies would listen to a guy who had it all but threw everything away...IMO, they can just as easily look at some top draft pick who blew it and think, "It can't happen to me."

I watched this last night and it was actually...good? Not re-inventing the wheel and the Brit-pickers might be irked by the Americanisms, but it was well-acted and heartwarming, even if I thought they reached sometimes to show how Rowling's life inspired the books. I know she really did have a red-haired friend named Sean who drove a Ford Anglia....did she have to tease him about being "weaselly", too? But I thought it was clever to show her seeing goblins behind counter as she waited in line for assistance. I was pleasantly surprised that the guy they cast as her then-fiance (now husband) resembled him and had a Scottish accent, even for about three lines and five minutes of airtime. As for an "unauthorized" movie about life on the Harry Potter set, they could put a lot of the action in production offices, dressing rooms or at home, and when they're supposed to be filming, stick to the forests, the blue-screen stuff and downscale the number of extras and find some estate/mansion to be a substitute castle. Lifetime doesn't seem to want the sets to look too much like the real thing, anyway. These movies seem sort of plotless, just portraying various things that happened, or may have happened, to the cast in the life of a series, enough to fill 90 minutes. Off the top of my head I can think of: Spielberg being interested but wanting American Hogwarts with Haley Joel Osment as Harry Casting (mention Tim Roth choosing Planet of the Apes over Snape, recreate Rupert's Harry Potter rap video) Richard Harris dies, sadness among the cast, CGI Dumbledore speculation David Heyman playing "good cop" to Alfonso Cuaron, especially the time when he was trying to direct Dan to look awed and finally told him to picture an actress he likes in a g-string The descent of the kid who played Crabbe into drugs and getting booted from the movies Teen moodiness and hormones (Rupert barely talks in interviews, Dan and Emma hold hands on the red carpet) Katie faces racist cyberbullies When your Boy Wizard wants to star in Equus and date a twentysomething crew member (age of consent laws are different in the UK) They would probably have to fake storylines and all the magical creatures very specific to HP, which would add another layer of cheese (and hopefully keep it from being too boring). I think I really just want to see who they would scrounge up for Lifetime movie versions of Alfonso Cuaron, Gary Oldman and Maggie Smith.

The screenwriter, Max Landis, whined on Twitter that American Ultra was at a disadvantage by being original and not based on an existing property. He also noted that AU made five million more in its opening weekend than Boyhood or Birdman. Of course, he left out that those movies opened in ten theaters or less, while AU tanked in thousands of locations and got far worse reviews.

The Saved by the Bell movie was even more boring and more pointless (teen actors have egos, fall for each other, get insecure and smoke a bit of pot sometimes, scandalous!), and let's not even get into the Aaliyah biopic that didn't feature her singing any of her own songs. Lifetime must get enough press and ratings for these "real life" stories that they've decided to make a whole cottage industry out of it. They shouldn't be surprised when audiences are reluctant to take TV efforts like UnREAL seriously because the network's movie division constantly churns out boring biopics and trashy thrillers. Did the rest of the cast just stand around listening to Stamos jamming with this band? At first I thought those were scenes with Uncle Jesse before realizing they weren't in character. I know it was true to life but I found Bob Saget's blue humor incredibly tedious.

Minions is an offshoot of the Despicable Me franchise and sequels generally have a huge advantage globally compared to original Hollywood movies (though not always, Ted 2). It's similar to the boost of having Angelina Jolie or Tom Cruise for the overseas markets. In the US, Inside Out is going to win the battle.

We've approached the dog days for new releases, between the last two weekends of August until mid-September. Then, the dramas for grown-ups and minor kiddie/franchise movies come out to play, once studios figure summer vacation season is finally over and families/students have settled in after the beginning of a new school year. Expect the holdovers to do very well through Labor Day (most of them-sorry Fantastic Four). August 21–23, 2015 Estimates: 1 (1) Straight Outta Compton $26,756,125 | 3,025 Theaters | $8,845 Avg. | $111,479,595 2 (2) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation $11,700,000 | 3,442 Theaters | $3,399 Avg. | $157,763,039 3 (N) Sinister 2 $10,633,000 | 2,766 Theaters | $3,844 Avg. | $10,633,000 4 (N) Hitman: Agent 47 $8,200,000 | 3,261 Theaters | $2,515 Avg. | $8,200,000 5 (3) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. $7,420,000 | 3,673 Theaters | $2,020 Avg. | $26,636,840 6 (N) American Ultra $5,500,000 | 2,778 Theaters | $1,980 Avg. | $5,500,000 7 (5) The Gift $4,300,000 | 2,303 Theaters | $1,867 Avg. | $31,053,163 8 (6) Ant-Man $4,088,000 | 2,016 Theaters | $2,028 Avg. | $164,524,370 9 (8) Minions $3,706,290 | 2,226 Theaters | $1,665 Avg. | $319,961,615 10 (4) Fantastic Four $3,650,000 | 2,581 Theaters | $1,414 Avg. | $49,625,362 Trainwreck $2,452,720 | 1,333 Theaters | $1,840 Avg. | $102,386,830 Mr. Holmes $607,000 | 430 Theaters | $1,412 Avg. | $15,390,663 The End of the Tour $523,625 | 355 Theaters | $1,475 Avg. | $1,689,540 Mistress America $237,000 | 32 Theaters | $7,406 Avg. | $378,048 Irrational Man $225,324 | 185 Theaters | $1,218 Avg. | $3,525,465 The Diary of a Teenage Girl $180,359 | 69 Theaters | $2,614 Avg. | $425,030 Grandma $120,856 | 4 Theaters | $30,214 Avg. | $120,856 Learning to Drive $67,417 | 4 Theaters | $16,854 Avg. | $67,417 Global Totals: JURASSIC WORLD: $983.3M Overseas Total | $1.622B Global Total MINIONS: $669.4M Overseas Total | $989.4M Global Total INSIDE OUT: $347.5M Overseas Total | $689.924M Global Total MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION: $280.8M Overseas Total | $438.563M Global Total ANT-MAN: $196.5M Overseas Total | $361.024M Global Total TERMINATOR: GENISYS: $264M Overseas Total | $353.09M Global Total TED 2: $98.4M Overseas Total | $179.6M Global Total FANTASTIC FOUR: $80.8M Overseas Total | $130.425M Global Total TRAINWRECK: $19.9M Overseas Total | $122.29M Global Total STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON: $0.17M Overseas Total | $111.65M Global Total PAPER TOWNS: $42.65M Overseas Total | $73.75M Global Total MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.: $26.0M Overseas Total | $52.64M Global Total VACATION: $15.5M Overseas Total | $67.78M Global Total HITMAN: AGENT 47: $8.5M Overseas Total | $16.7M Global Total

From the Unauthorized Full House story thread: Oh, yeah, I forgot about Devious Maids being from Marc Cherry. Glee would be good, though I wouldn't want to take Naya Rivera's word as total gospel. I wouldn't say she's a fantasist like Dustin Diamond, but she can be messy. I doubt a Lifetime movie would really go there with the Ryan Murphy speculation. Even when they had the actual rights to the Flowers in the Attic book, they toned down how twisted it was on the page, so forget about alluding to casting couch rumors with real people. These are "unauthorized" takes but I doubt they want to get sued. Maybe they will branch out to movies once they TV well runs dry. I know I would watch a Harry Potter one. Fatal Flip...do they just come up with the titles first and then figure out the plot later on? Great title and it has Tatyana Ali, so I will probably give it a shot.

I wonder if there are some sort of copyright issues with copying the scripts and even the sets too exactly? But the SBTB one referenced Jessie's infamous pill storyline, so maybe the writers here were just lazy. I saw on Twitter that DJ's prom dress was gold, not black, and the set was backwards, not to mention the 2010s kitchen in Bob Saget's house, which would have nothing to do with anything trademarked. I think Jesse and Becky's twins there at the end, when they did the final curtain call. Responding in the Lifetime Movies thread.

Not that anything dramatic happened, but it was less boring than the Saved by the Bell one. A low bar, but by the time they get around to The Unauthorized Growing Pains Story* these things might actually be entertaining or even good. For a Lifetime movie done on the cheap, the likenesses of the actors, overall, weren't too bad. IRL the kids were constantly growing but a TV movie like this is filmed in a matter of weeks, so they cast the girls somewhere in the middle and hoped you wouldn't notice too much when they were too young or too old. I thought the guy who played Bob Saget channeled him pretty well. I'd forgotten that Stamos had ever gone out with Paula Abdul! The 90210 and Melrose Place movies are already in the can so what other TV shows will join Lifetime's "unauthorized" behind-the-scenes movies? The Fresh Prince of Bel Air? Dawson's Creek? Desperate Housewives, if it's not too soon for 2000s nostalgia? *I just made that up. Lifetime's not making that one, yet, but there's actual drama there between Kirk's religious conversion and Tracey Gold's eating disorder. In the early years they can play up the Alan Thicke/Joanna Kerns chemistry (there was an attraction but they decided against dating), and later on, Leo!

True, GWTW wasn't really Team Ashley at all. I haven't read Poldark or seen the 1975 series besides a few clips on Youtube but I have to wonder if an issue is with the portrayals of Elizabeth and Demelza in the 2015 version. In a "road not taken" story, there should be a big contrast between the two options, so you understand why the person in the middle is torn (although some people will never be a fan of love triangles, in which case consuming a story with one is not a great idea). Here, I don't think the actress who plays Elizabeth is incompetent or anything like that, but the character's just kind of...there. She and Ross share the same world in a lot of ways but I don't find her very interesting, while Demelza leaves a much stronger impression. Even if Elizabeth were a horrible person yet charismatic, I would kind of understand/care why Ross feels so compelled by her, as much as I wouldn't like it.

I don't know if it's a man or woman thing, rather than how much a person is prone to thinking the grass is greener and wondering how life could have been, had a different path been chosen. Gone with the Wind was written by a woman and its female protagonist spends the bulk of the story desperate for the love of a man who's wrong for her, while taking the right guy for granted. I would guess it's a common theme in fiction because these writers tend to think there's more drama in tortured relationships than happy ones. It's not that there aren't books/movies/TV shows that depict happy, functional couples and their many years together, but that tends to be a background thing while the main focus is on some other sort of obstacle that they face.

There are 37 million accounts and we know Josh had two, so the same is probably true of other members having multiple accounts. Another Christian Youtube star has been busted and I've heard of a Scottish politician who says her info was stolen to open the account. I would guess most superstars have better ways to cheat, even online (athletes are known to be fond of Instagram/Twitter direct messaging) and other minor celebrities who may have been on the site were probably smart enough to buy disposable credit cards and keep their real names out of it.

I have to know what goes into the making of a quality Jheri curl wig: do you still have to keep respraying it with activator or does it come with the sheen permanently attached? $60 million opening weekend!

Heh, reasonable enough!

When The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was going to star George Clooney or Tom Cruise it made some sense, if the budget was kept at a reasonable level. Clooney's not the same level of draw as Cruise, but he does have an appeal to "older" audiences looking for something besides franchise fare and he even headlined busted Oscar bait like The Monuments Men to a respectable total ($78M domestic/$155M worldwide). The Wikipedia entry says Steven Sodebergh was going to direct U.N.C.L.E. with Clooney aboard, but he wanted a bigger budget than the $60 million the studio wanted to spend, given the retro/international settings and the action involved. They ended up spending even more, with far less star power to show for it. In hindsight, the studio probably wishes they'd shelved the project when all the big names bailed. Outstanding! The projected Sunday drop looked too steep for the time of year, but a $4 million rise from estimates is pretty unusual.

I haven't read the book in a while but seem to remember that Claire wrote out birth certificates for both Jemmy and Amanda, with 20th century dates and signed them Dr. Claire Randall, I want to say with her medical license number, too, but I may be fanwanking that part. Bree and Roger were just going to play like they'd spent years on a commune and had their children there, which in the 1970s, wasn't wildly implausible. Though why Claire Randall, Boston doctor would be on a commune, too...hopefully, hospitals back then didn't look too deeply into those pesky details.