Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Disney’s Frozen created an historic box office for the holiday weekend.
Disney’s Frozen, a 3-D animated adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale cleared $15.2 million for it’s opening day and will sail past the $80 million mark for the 5-day holiday weekend. Hunger Games: Catching Fire is closing in on $105 million for the 5-day weekend breaking the record of $82 million for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
For those people doubting if James Franco (This is the End) will ever play a serious dramatic role again, fear not, the actor has just committed to starring in Of Mice and Men on Broadway with Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids). Anna D. Shapiro who won a Tony for the stage production of August: Osage County will direct. Tickets go on sale January 11, 2014 for the April 16- July 27 run.
Scarlett Johansson has been declared ineligible for a Golden Globe nomination for her sexy and alluring voice-only performance in Spike Jonze’s Her, with Joaquin Phoenix as the lonely computer geek captivated by her charms.
12 Years A Slave leads the pack in nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards. It is nominated for Best Feature, along with All Is Lost, Frances Ha, Inside Llewyn Davis, and Nebraska. Leading actor Chiwetol Ejiofor was nominated for Best Actor. His competition is Bruce Dern for Nebraska, Oscar Isaac for Inside Llewyn Davis, Michael Jordan for Fruitvale Station, Mathew McConaughey for Dallas Buyer’s Club, and Robert Redford for All Is Lost. For Best Female Actress the race is between Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine, Julie Delpy, Before Midnight, Gaby Hoffman, The Crystal Fairy, Brie Larson, Short Term 12 and Shailene Woodely for The Spectacular Now.
Long time buddies and producing partners Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming up to produce the DC Comic Sleeper written by Ed Brubaker with artwork by Sean Phillips. Sleeper is about a man, Holden Carver, who is recruited into a black ops operation and placed uncover in a seedy and dangerous world where he infiltrates into a super-criminal mob organization.
Martin Scorsese’s Wolf Of Wall Street, opening this December 25th, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill has agreed to cut it’s graphic sex and nudity scenes in order to avoid the dreaded NC-17 rating, but it still clocks in at 2 hours and 59 minutes.
For who was Fashion’s Best and Worst at the American Music Awards don’t miss the Miz Hollywood cover of Joan River’s and the Fashion Police tomorrow.
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