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The energy. The connection. The Love. It comes across in every picture they take. Any rumored drama is just that: rumors. The most in love couple in Hollywood, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have a ball during the 13th annual Critics’ Choice Awards in Santa Monica. Would you like the Jolie-Pitt’s to have another child? Discuss.
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Count on those feisty NoCal critics to throw some good awards juice our way - the San Francisco Film Critics Circle picked “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” as the Best Picture of 2007. Last year the group was equally contrarian with their choice, plugging for “Little Children,” which received little awards love despite being about 1000 times more interesting than “The Queen” or “Little Miss Sunshine.” Here are the awards:
Best Picture: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Actor: George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Best Original Screenplay: The Savages
Best Adapted Screenplay: Away from Her
Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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Paramount’s mega-budget animated production of “Beowulf” topped the box office with an estimated $28.1 million, easily winning the typically lucrative pre-Thanksgiving weekend. However, the top ten films made around $90 million together, making this the worst pre-Turkey frame in nine years. Apparently not even Angelina Jolie’s digitally-enhanced breasts could entice a blockbuster gross. The weekend dropped a precipitous 29% from last year (when Happy Feet and Casino Royale both opened to $40 million-plus) and 45% from 2005 when Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire opened to $102.3 million. Though Beowulf was never expected to reach those heights, the general box office malaise as of late is making November look more like a typical October. The problem here is product – Bee Movie is playing more like Chicken Little than Shrek, and American Gangster is the only wide release performing beyond expectations. Current Oscar front-runner No Country for Old Men, however, expanded to a moderate 148 theatres and grossed an extraordinary $3.1 million, with a $20,932 per theatre average that blew away everything else in the top ten.
