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The sheer money grubbing audacity of it made me laugh, honestly. Of course, the NFL would try to find another way to get their cut. Such greedy bastards. One of the local DJs here made a good point, that they're only trying this "pay to play" tactic because they've gone in a more youthful direction with the halftime show, and they'd never dare ask Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, stars of that stature to pony up. Whatever direction the halftime show takes, someone's going to end up displeased, and it's not like there's this exhaustive roster of music superstars that everyone across several generations knows and likes, who hasn't done it already and isn't in the doghouse with the NFL (Justin Timberlake, though maybe they'll relent when he hits 50 or so). The other reports I saw this week were about Carrie Underwood. I would think if someone with country ties got picked it would be Taylor Swift since she's more mainstream with more recognizable songs, but her vibe might be a bit too teenage girl for what the NFL is going for at halftime.

Even with a honeymoon baby, they got married in June. What happened to keeping hush-hush about the blessed event in the first trimester? Even those "heathen" celebrity moms-to-be who are {gasp} unmarried and pregnant tend to keep quiet about it until they're at least 3-4 months along.

Another John Green book, Paper Towns, is going to be made into a movie due in 2015, with a lot of the same team who worked on The Fault in Our Stars and a supporting actor from the movie as a star this time. I guess that's as close as you can get to a series feeling with books that aren't actually related to each other. I wonder if Boyhood will end up not being on DVD in three months like most movies these days, but get re-released/expanded in the fall/winter first, to ride possible awards momentum.

August 15–17, 2014 Actuals: 1 (1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), $28,523,147 | 3,980 Theaters | $7,167 Avg. | $117,765,383 2 (2) Guardians of the Galaxy, $25,115,564 | 3,697 Theaters | $6,793 Avg. | $222,661,385 3 (N) Let's Be Cops, $17,813,722 | 3,094 Theaters | $5,758 Avg. | $26,220,986 4 (N) The Expendables 3, $15,879,645 | 3,221 Theaters | $4,930 Avg. | $15,879,645 5 (N) The Giver, $12,305,016 | 3,003 Theaters | $4,098 Avg. | $12,305,016 6 (3) Into The Storm, $7,892,239 | 3,434 Theaters | $2,298 Avg. | $31,513,675 7 (4) The Hundred-Foot Journey, $7,176,092 | 2,043 Theaters | $3,513 Avg. | $23,686,223 8 (5) Lucy, $5,493,685 | 2,520 Theaters | $2,180 Avg. | $107,713,190 9 (6) Step Up All In, $2,659,026 | 2,072 Theaters | $1,283 Avg. | $11,808,362 10 (7) Hercules (2014), $2,127,874 | 1,475 Theaters | $1,443 Avg. | $68,169,096 Outside the Top 10: Boyhood, $1,992,448 | 771 Theaters | $2,584 Avg. | $13,642,910 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, $1,900,000 | 1,262 Theaters | $1,506 Avg. | $201,812,000 Magic in the Moonlight, $1,883,000 | 964 Theaters | $1,953 Avg. | $4,714,000 What If (2014), $829,000 | 787 Theaters | $1,053 Avg. | $1,035,000 The Purge: Anarchy, $607,000 | 575 Theaters | $1,056 Avg. | $70,101,000 The Trip to Italy, $71,600 | 3 Theaters | $23,867 Avg. | $71,600 Neighbors, $62,000 | 106 Theaters | $585 Avg. | $150,053,800 Obvious Child, $20,900 | 21 Theaters | $995 Avg. | $3,012,700 Life After Beth, $18,000 | 2 Theaters | $9,000 Avg. | $18,000 Global Totals: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION: $811.1M Overseas Total | $1.054B Global Total MALEFICENT: $507M Overseas Total | $743.4M Global Total DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: $337M Overseas Total | $538.8M Global Total HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2: $366M Overseas Total | $537.2M Global Total GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: $196.4M Overseas Total | $418.7M Global Total 22 JUMP STREET: $114.1M Overseas Total | $304M Global Total THE FAULT IN OUR STARS: $148.1M Overseas Total | $272.2M Global Total NEIGHBORS: $114.6M Overseas Total | $264.7M Global Total TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: $67.5M Overseas Total | $185.1M Global Total LUCY: $61M Overseas Total | $168.5M Global Total HERCULES: $80.1M Overseas Total | $148.2M Global Total THE PURGE: ANARCHY: $31.3M Overseas Total | $101.4M Global Total SEX TAPE: $33.1M Overseas Total | $70.8M Global Total

Joe Morton won the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama.

I wonder how long we'll have to hear about how much the McIlroy/Wozniacki breakup ("After the invitations had gone out!") has done for their games. It's relatively fresh and not an uninteresting development, but it seems like the sort of thing that commentators like to beat into the ground. Also, Wozniacki's shorts at the Western & Southern Open are hideous.

Vale. Different, but I like it.

Biographical/interview segment with Keo from a South African entertainment show:

August 8–10, 2014 Estimates: 1 (N) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), $65,000,000 | 3,845 Theaters | $16,905 Avg. | $65,000,000 2 (1) Guardians of the Galaxy, $41,531,000 | 4,088 Theaters | $10,159 Avg. | $175,922,000 3 (N) Into The Storm, $18,015,000 | 3,434 Theaters | $5,246 Avg. | $18,015,000 4 (N) The Hundred-Foot Journey, $11,123,000 | 2,023 Theaters | $5,498 Avg. | $11,123,000 5 (2) Lucy, $9,331,000 | 3,147 Theaters | $2,965 Avg. | $97,354,000 6 (N) Step Up All In, $6,575,000 | 2,072 Theaters | $3,173 Avg. | $6,575,000 7 (4) Hercules (2014), $5,700,000 | 2,896 Theaters | $1,968 Avg. | $63,461,000 8 (3) Get On Up, $5,012,000 | 2,469 Theaters | $2,030 Avg. | $22,927,000 9 (5) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, $4,400,000 | 2,306 Theaters | $1,908 Avg. | $197,834,000 10 (6) Planes: Fire & Rescue, $2,419,000 | 2,280 Theaters | $1,061 Avg. | $52,950,000 Outside the Top 10: A Most Wanted Man, $2,229,000 | 808 Theaters | $2,759 Avg. | $10,441,000 Boyhood, $2,089,000 | 507 Theaters | $4,120 Avg. | $10,652,000 Magic in the Moonlight, $804,000 | 170 Theaters | $4,729 Avg. | $2,438,000 James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3D, | $150,900 | 304 Theaters | $496 Avg. | $150,900 What If (2014), $130,000 | 20 Theaters | $6,500 Avg. | $130,000 Global Totals: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION: $789.3M Overseas Total | $1.032B Global Total DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: $308.1M Overseas Total | $505.9M Global Total HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2: $319.3M Overseas Total | $489.4M Global Total GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: $137.3M Overseas Total | $313.22M Global Total 22 JUMP STREET: $108.8M Overseas Total | $298.2M Global Total THE FAULT IN OUR STARS: $143.5M Overseas Total | $267.3M Global Total NEIGHBORS: $111.7M Overseas Total | $261.6M Global Total HERCULES: $72.5M Overseas Total | $135.9M Global Total LUCY: $15M Overseas Total | $112.4M Global Total THE PURGE: ANARCHY: $27M Overseas Total | $95.5M Global Total TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: $28.7M Global Total (19 Territories) | $93.7M Global Total PLANES: FIRE AND RESCUE: $37.5M Overseas Total | $90.4M Global Total SEX TAPE: $25.9M Overseas Total | $62.8M Global Total STEP UP ALL IN: $37.7M Overseas Total | $44.2M Global Total

Tony Stewart hits, kills driver in sprint car race:

During an interview with Mark-Paul Gosselaar promoting his current show (Franklin & Bash), he was asked about the Unauthorized SBTB movie and his TV co-star Breckin Meyer went off about Dustin Diamond. MPG says he remembers the years at Bayside a lot differently than Dustin. For his part, Dustin is now trying to distance himself from the tell-all book that was a big source of the upcoming movie's material (and also admits to faking his sex tape).

First footage from the SBTB movie

Christian Borle cast as Mr. Darling and Smee.

I don't have a copy of Outlander in front of me, but I seem to remember that upon Claire's arrival to Castle Leoch, proper eighteenth century clothes were found for her. The woman who brought them saw the bra and definitely found it odd. I can't recall if she just looked at it curiously or said something.

The Rising covered in this book takes place in 1745. One of my favorite DiA scenes is Jamie's horror at seeing Claire's newly-waxed armpits and the idea of body hair removal in general. Hilarious how that was what convinced him that Claire could be getting up to worse things than volunteering at a Parisian hospital. Makes me wish we could somehow witness his reaction to modern day manscaping!

The TV show leads got shout-outs in the book: a character named Heughan briefly appears and one of Ellen Fraser's middle names is revealed to be Caitriona.

Other musicals have done that in recent years, at least at first (Sweeney Todd and Frozen are two examples). The studio wants to make the movie seem appealing to those ambivalent about the genre. Then, by the time the later ads/trailers reveal the truth, the hope is that the hype has sufficiently won people over to the point where they'd be willing to sit through a musical after all.

August 1–3, 2014 Estimates: 1 (N) Guardians of the Galaxy, $94,000,000 | 4,080 Theaters | $23,039 Avg. | $94,000,000 2 (1) Lucy, $18,283,000 | 3,202 Theaters | $5,710 Avg. | $79,571,000 3 (N) Get On Up, $14,031,000 | 2,468 Theaters | $5,685 Avg. | $14,031,000 4 (2) Hercules (2014), $10,700,000 | 3,595 Theaters | $2,976 Avg. | $52,348,000 5 (3) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, $8,700,000 | 3,283 Theaters | $2,650 Avg. | $189,330,000 6 (5) Planes: Fire & Rescue, $6,424,000 | 3,241 Theaters | $1,982 Avg. | $47,596,000 7 (4) The Purge: Anarchy, $5,551,000 | 2,656 Theaters | $2,090 Avg. | $62,962,000 8 (6) Sex Tape, $3,550,000 | 2,500 Theaters | $1,420 Avg. | $33,908,000 9 (8) And So It Goes, $3,344,000 | 1,816 Theaters | $1,841 Avg. | $10,473,000 10 (10) A Most Wanted Man, $3,324,000 | 729 Theaters | $4,560 Avg. | $7,059,000 Outside the Top 10: Boyhood, $2,522,000 | 311 Theaters | $8,109 Avg. | $7,566,000 Magic in the Moonlight, $770,000 | 65 Theaters | $11,846 Avg. | $1,353,000 Wish I Was Here, $614,000 | 753 Theaters | $815 Avg. | $3,058,000 The Fluffy Movie, $530,000 | 432 Theaters | $1,227 Avg. | $2,370,000 Snowpiercer, $110,000 | 100 Theaters | $1,100 Avg. | $4,139,000 Calvary, $72,800 | 4 Theaters | $18,200 Avg. | $72,800 Global Totals: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION: $763.8M Overseas Total | $1.049B Global Total GODZILLA: $307.3M Overseas Total | $507.4M Global Total DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: $260M Overseas Total | $449.3M Global Total 22 JUMP STREET: $101.4M Overseas Total | $289.8M Global Total THE FAULT IN OUR STARS: $140M Overseas Total | $263.3M Global Total GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: $66.4M Overseas Total | $160.4M Global Total HERCULES: $56.5M Overseas Total | $108.7M Global Total THE PURGE: ANARCHY: $19.3M Overseas Total | $101.6M Global Total PLANES: FIRE AND RESCUE: $30M Overseas Total | $77.6M Global Total SEX TAPE: $17.8M Overseas Total | $51.7M Global Total

Hmmm, what's the unexpected turn for Ben and Jessa?

I thought that was her! I recognized the voice. Wubba wubba wubba! Overnight ratings news:

Since you enjoyed Guilty at 17, you might want to try others in the "series" if you can find them (if one isn't streaming on Lifetime's site, it might be on popular video-sharing sites): Fugitive at 17, Betrayed at 17, Accused at 17, Dead at 17, Missing at 17, Stalked at 17. If you're into true crime movies, there are Rob Lowe's contribution to the Lifetime genre: Drew Peterson: Untouchable and Prosecuting Casey Anthony. He wasn't in Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret but the acting was better and it was more salacious than expected for a basic cable movie. In lighter real-person fare, William & Kate had bad acting, weak storytelling and was so obviously filmed in California. Total rush job made in time for the wedding a few years ago; Kate hardly seemed to sound British. They even cheaped out with the graphics, with the title card looking a good 15 years out of date.

Is water wet? Lifetime's website has quite a few movies available to watch in full.

There was already a Hercules movie this year (The Legend of Hercules). The new one has already made more but perhaps there's not a huge market for Hercules movies at the moment. Hercules and Lucy aren't that far apart on Rotten Tomatoes (both hovering around the rotten/fresh line).

July 25–27, 2014 Estimates: 1 (N) Lucy, $44,025,000 | 3,173 Theaters | $13,875 Avg. | $44,025,000 2 (N) Hercules (2014), $29,000,000 | 3,595 Theaters | $8,067 Avg. | $29,000,000 3 (1) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, $16,400,000 | 3,668 Theaters | $4,471 Avg. | $172,089,000 4 (2) The Purge: Anarchy, $9,896,000 | 2,856 Theaters | $3,465 Avg. | $51,272,000 5 (3) Planes: Fire & Rescue, $9,303,000 | 3,839 Theaters | $2,423 Avg. | $35,121,000 6 (4) Sex Tape, $5,975,000 | 3,062 Theaters | $1,951 Avg. | $26,877,000 7 (5) Transformers: Age of Extinction, $4,600,000 | 2,476 Theaters | $1,858 Avg. | $236,352,000 8 (N) And So It Goes, $4,552,000 | 1,762 Theaters | $2,583 Avg. | $4,552,000 9 (6) Tammy, $3,400,000 | 2,562 Theaters | $1,327 Avg. | $78,147,000 10 (N) A Most Wanted Man, $2,717,000 | 361 Theaters | $7,526 Avg. | $2,717,000 Outside the Top 10: Boyhood, $1,725,000 | 107 Theaters | $16,121 Avg. | $4,126,000 The Fluffy Movie, $1,314,000 | 432 Theaters | $3,042 Avg. | $1,314,000 Wish I Was Here, $1,110,000 | 625 Theaters | $1,776 Avg. | $1,835,000 America (2014), $875,000 | 760 Theaters | $1,151 Avg. | $13,214,000 Magic in the Moonlight, $426,000 | 17 Theaters | $25,059 Avg. | $426,000 Global Totals: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION: $730M Overseas Total | $963.3M Global Total X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST: $510.3M Overseas Total | $741.5M Global Total MALEFICENT: $482.9M Overseas Total | $715M Global Total HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2: $260.1M Overseas Total | $425.7M Global Total DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: $183.8M Overseas Total | $355.8M Global Total 22 JUMP STREET: $92.5M Overseas Total | $278.8M Global Total THE FAULT IN OUR STARS: $134.9M Overseas Total | $257.5M Global Total NEIGHBORS: $107.3M Overseas Total | $256.8M Global Total HERCULES: $28.7M Overseas Total | $57.7M Global Total PLANES: FIRE AND RESCUE: $21M Overseas Total | $56.1M Global Total SEX TAPE: $10.2M Overseas Total | $36.6M Global Total

New official trailer