''National Treasure'' will be No. 1 for a third week (Should clobber Julia Roberts film)

Entertainment Weekly ^ | Dec 3 04 | Dave Karger

[churchillbuff]

Maybe it's all that Thanksgiving tryptophan, but Hollywood executives don't seem to have the energy to put out any new wide releases this weekend, which will likely lead to a carbon-copy of last week's box office chart.

After claiming the No. 1 position for two weeks in a row, Nicolas Cage's thriller National Treasure should see a 55 percent drop to $14 million this weekend, but should still cross the $100 million mark in its third week of release.

Two family-friendly successes, The Incredibles and Christmas with the Kranks, will battle for the runner-up position with about $12 million each, while The Polar Express and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie should complete the top five with $10 million and $7 million, respectively.

This weekend will see the release of the new ensemble drama Closer, with Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen, but with a theater count of about 450, even a per-theater gross of $14,000 would mean a weekend tally of $6 million.

[Chunga]

Liz still looks great?

[Constantine XIII]

She's like Helen Thomas, but without the wit. :D

[churchillbuff]

There are certain actresses who have the ability to channel and radiate life force. Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn, Sandra Bullock. They aren't necessarily conventinally beautiful but they glow onscreen. I call them "glowtresses"."""

GET HELP.

[Drew68]

She's one of those amazing women actors who is plain looking but has somehow gotten critics to talk of her as if she's attractive.

I've never understood all the hoopla surroundering her alleged beauty. I've always thought she was butt-fugly!

[Sam the Sham]

I am absolutely right.

There are certain actresses who become superstars in one movie where they create a kind of national crush. Like Sandra Bullock did in "Speed" and Goldie Hawn did on "LaughIn" and "Cactus Flower" and Julia Roberts did in "Pretty Woman". That is why they play the same persona over and over and why frankly the audience does not want to see them in anything else than that persona.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Hmm...

Perhaps I should check that one out.

I'll admit, Streep wasn't too bad looking in her day.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

That remake of "Alfie" was an atrocity!

Fortunately, I wasn't forced to endure another Hollywood attempt at desecrating a piece of classic American cinema, see the recent version of "The Manchurian Candidate", so I couldn't describe to you in detail how execrable that film was, but I know enough about it-from hearsay-to proclaim it a complete piece of crap.

I can't imagine what the frothing, rabid, mind-numbed RDDBs who financed this picture and run most Hollywood film studios nowadays did with the climactic scene of that film, i.e. when Alfie is forced to come to grips with his own reckless disregard for other's feelings and lives, but I'm sure it was a complete distortion of the original scene starring Michael Caine.

Knowing the lavender mafia that control the film biz, they probably turned it into a paean to Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank, and the other moral exemplars of the culture of death.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Sandra Bullock is supposedly a pretty good judge of incipient talent in the entertainment industry.

I think she was the one who insisted on signing George Lopez and giving him a contract for a network sitcom on ABC.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

"Raising Arizona" was definitely one of his best films.

Though, there are so many other Cage films that were amazing in their own unique way.

They really need to put out a box set of his greatest hits.

[b9]

when was the last Sandra Bullock hit

Miss Congeniality?

[Uncle Vlad]

Granted, she doesn't look the way she did in Ivanhoe or Cleopatra, but for someone who's been married eight times and survived cancer, she looks pretty darned good.