Friday, January 29, 2010

Ugh... sing to me forever.

I'm pretty sure I've written about this girl before...

BUT IT WASN'T ENOUGH!

This young lady can SING! And is CUTE as a button! Someone should cast this girl in Wicked if she's not up to anything.

Her voice is so crisp and refreshing... and amazing.

Listen up... she's probably going to be on your iPod someday.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

I'm with Coco



In slightly strange news...

Although I was on a blogging hiatus over the last few months I was constantly talking about the drama between Conan O'Brien and his employer of nearly 20 years NBC.

The television station totally screwed one of their best assets and let him go! Conan was smart though, and it cost the peacock dearly. He's reportedly walking away with over $30 MILLION and his staff is splitting something around $15 million. He's also said he would share some of his $30m with staff.

Conan was the new host of the historic Tonight Show for only SEVEN MONTHS! His contract was for three years, but never specified when the show would air... so when NBC canceled The Jay Leno Show (the former host of Tonight) they were planning on pushing the Tonight Show to tomorrow... at 12:05am and giving Jay a half hour show starting at 11:35, the time slot the Tonight Show has had for 60+ years.
Conan being the awesome guy that he is said he didn't want to ruin tradition and didn't want to be the guy that messed with the show, so he said he wouldn't move to 12:05 and NBC said their goodbyes.

LAME.

So...

Now that things are officially over with Conan and NBC (the Tonight Show with Conan is still airing until March first, but only in re-runs. Jay takes the show back on March 1st - I won't be watching) everyone thought they'd be going their separate ways.

WRONG!

In an awkward move NBC has picked up pilot by Conan's production company Conaco. It's a legal show bla, bla bla...

How awkward is that!? Looks like Conan's going to be hanging out with NBC in a different light for a bit longer.

I just hope that this doesn't mess up his options of going to another network with his talk show skills!!

That's my guy!



Yay!

In random Hollywood news, my favorite actor Tom Hanks was rated the #2 most reliable and trusted celebrity in the US!

James Earl Jones was number one, which is fine by me. He's a bit more seasoned, like an awesome grandfather. Tom will get there.

Others that made the list?

Here you go: Michael J. Fox, Will Smith, Bill Cosby, Denzel Washington, and the only girl Sally Field.

I agree with the whole list... except for Ron Howard.

Ron Howard has done some great work, I'll give him that... but he RUINED the Dan Brown films. They could have been so much better. The only good thing about them is Tommy boy. I wonder if it's because of him that Ron's on this list.

I kid, I kid... sorta.

First post from the future... talking about the past.



With all the talk about recent box office records being broken by the James Cameron hit Avatar, people have been keen to find out just where the movie actually stands in the history of the genre.

While the movie is poised to become the number one grossing movie of all time this week, beating out James Cameron's other massive hit Titanic (how cool must that be, to have that kind of credit?!) it lacks in something a bit more impressive... actual ticket sales!

Regardless of how much money the film makes, what any artist (director, actor, etc) really wants is his message/product to be experienced and understood by as many people as possible.

So, who exactly comes out on top of actual TICKET sales?

Well, The Hollywood Reporter's website THRFeed.com (which used to be a real magazine, you know... the kind made with paper but is now defunct - I believe) has compiled the actual list of the 20 films with the highest number of ticket sales. Avatar didn't make the list... however it impressively and comfortably sits at number 26.
The only thing these movies have over Avatar is time... I have no doubt it will climb a few notches up over the next few weeks, especially if they re-release the film like they did with Titanic.

So, here they are, I know you're dying to know!

Here's the Top 20 movies of all time ... by number of TICKETS sold:

1 "Gone With the Wind" (1939) 202,044,600
2 "Star Wars" (1977) 178,119,600
3 "The Sound of Music" (1965) 142,415,400
4 "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) 141,854,300
5 "The Ten Commandments" (1956) 131,000,000
6 "Titanic" (1997) 128,345,900
7 "Jaws" (1975) 128,078,800
8 "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) 124,135,500
9 "The Exorcist" (1973) 110,568,700
10 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937) 109,000,000
11 "101 Dalmatians" (1961) 99,917,300
12 "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) 98,180,600
13 "Ben-Hur" (1959) 98,000,000
14 "Return of the Jedi" (1983) 94,059,400
15 "The Sting" (1973) 89,142,900
16 "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) 88,141,900
17 "Jurassic Park" (1993) 86,205,800
18 "The Graduate" (1967) 85,571,400
19 "Star Wars: Episode I" (1999) 84,825,800
20 "Fantasia" (1941) 83,043,500


Where are all the old classic movie musicals? Hello Dolly? Guys and Dolls? Surprising.