Pacino's First Direct-To-DVD Film?

Sunday Estimates by Klady

Lust Life

In response to LexG’s comment in another entry…
Why doesn’t DAVID POLAND just break down some day in this blog and say he’s chronically depressed because he covers the industry from a remove? He does good work and all, but wouldn’t ANYONE rather be an actor, all getting paid MILLIONS to make out with EvanJohansstewortman instead of working some lame job? ADMIT YOUR DEPRESSION, blogger and film reviewers of the world. I own up to it… I’d kill to be Brad Pitt or even Adam Brody for three days. Doesn’t it tear your soul apart that they get to be a part of film history, AND bang hot models and actress, just for sheer force of their fame, looks and money? How can any man or woman, but especially man, go to his NON-FAMOUS, NON-ACTOR, NON-MODEL-BANGING JOB every day of their life and not want to kill themselves? If you can;t admit you wouldn’t be happier palling around on movie sets as the STAR instead of a doughy journalist, that’s pure disingenuousness.
Everyone on here– EVERYONE– just try justifying how you believe you wouldn’t be happier as Mark Wahlberg. Do you realize and ACCEPT that you’re never going to have sex with famous women?
I don’t see that as a personal attack at all, but…
Who says that journalists don’t sleep with famous model/actresses?
And while I hear LexG’s idea, what he doesn’t seem to think much about is that 99.9% of actors don’t get rich or sleep with famous hotties either. Acting is a very tough profession and I don’t envy even the well-known occasionally working actors out there.
Someone like Jean Louisa Kelly… beautiful girl.. now 35… had 6 years as a co-star of a successful sitcom, but is not a syndication player… she’s had a 12 year career in which we met her in Mr. Holland’s Opus and after which she went 5 years without a studio movie job or a series guest run of more than 3 shows… she’s had a 1 episode spot on Grey’s Anatomy since her show went away…
Now, she made very good money on the series. She got married. She has two kids. I imagine (and hope) she is very happy. She has gotten further towards her dream than all but a very few actors. There are maybe 200 of those jobs on television at any given time.
But she is dependent on someone to give her a job so she can do the thing she loves to do. I guess she could tour the country doing regional theater, starring in Beauty & The Beast or Wicked or something. That is not a negative reflection of her talent. In fact, it speaks to the significant talent she does have and needs to have those jobs. Celebrity is simply a different thing. Don’t diminish the people who have those gigs… they are fortunate too. But the wet dream of Hollywood is not always what you fanticize. And if you want to see how beautiful and ugly it can be at one time, watch that shite Sons of Hollywood on A&E… one of the ugliest exhibitions of how those with the most can have the least that I have ever seen.
On the other hand, would most e-journos like to have a seven figure salary and live in Bel Air and hang out with the most talented people in town and be attractive to (which is more the thrill then the penetration for most) hotties (of either sex) even though the attraction is often not about anything but status? Probably.
And there is this…
When you are in a social circle, the standards are different. Breaking in is different than being in. Intimacy is intimacy on any level. And as the great man once said,

Friday Estimates by Klady

Not very interesting or surprising Friday.
The only real surprise is that Screen Gems’ Vacancy got box blocked by the non-Screen Gems Screen Gems film Disturbia thanks to very strong word of mouth for Paramount’ baby phenom. It’s no exactly cause for panic at Sony. What seemed to be an okay date suddenly became an overmatched date. On the other hand, I’m not sure Vacancy ever became clearly defined as anything but a thriller and I haven’t been seeing many stories on Beckinsale or Wilson in recent weeks.
Meet The Robinsons will likely do its Saturday jump thing to move up to the five or four spot.
In The Land Of Women is not really a surprise miss, but it will be a marketing example to be examined, as Warner Indie tried an innovative campaign, mixing a straight sell and, essentially, an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) pitch. The message was, “Adam Brody = HOT… Kristen Stewart = HOT” but the result was lukewarm, not unlike a junior version of Luke & Kate.

Box Office Hell

Question Of The Day – Where Is The Line?

“This kikess finds herself less rattled by hate-speech nutballs festering in rural Montana than by other movie reviewers whose work I respect, many of whom waved briefly at Black Book