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Golden Movie Awards Category Definitions

CATEGORY DEFINITIONS
The Golden Movie Awards seeks to honor outstanding achievement in the African television, and film industries and is administered by the expert in the film & Television industry on the African continent .The event will ​be managed and organized by NMJ GHANA,

SELECTION AND NOMINATION COMMITTEE
The selection committee shall be made up of key industry players and non-industry players

With the exception of the Grand Jury, the Members of the selection committee shall be kept secret to forestall lobbying and all forms of malpractices.

Any member of the committee who reveals his/her status in the selection and nomination committee shall be relieved of the position if there is empirical evidence to support allegation.

Categorization
Golden Actor/Actress
Best performance by an Actor or Actress in a Leading Role is presented in recogn ition of an actor/actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a Movie//Short Film role for the period under consideration. No single movie shall have both female and male leads; if the male is the lead, the female role would be considered as a Supporting Role and vice versa, except if the Grand Jury votes otherwise. No actor/actress can be nominated from more than one movie role in this category.

Golden Supporting Actor/Actress
Best performance by an Actor or Actress in a Supporting Role is presented in recognition of an actor/actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting movie/Short Film role for the period under consideration. A Supporting Role must be connected to the lead character or have a significant impact on the story of the movie. In movies with more than one supporting roles, individual actors will not be nominated as a group but compete against each other based on their individual performances. No actor/actres s can be nominated from more than one movie role in this category.

Golden Cinematography
Best Cinematography is awarded to a cinematographer for work in one particular movie/TV series/Short Film. The cinematographer is the individual who photographed with a motion picture camera and is responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the images in a movie. The winner for Best Cinematography is the movie/TV series/Short Film with the most outstanding photography, the most effective use of light, appropriate and relevant camera shots etc.

Golden Costume/Wardrobe
The Award for Best Costume Design is given out for the best achievement of film costume design for a particular movie/TV series/Short Film. Costumes must be appropriate for the settings, roles, characters and theme of the movie. Films which are eligible for the award must meet a series of criteria, including the requirement that the costumes must have b een "conceived" by a costume designer, and/or with supporting wardrobe selected from other sources.

Golden Director
The Award for Directing (Best Director) is to the director of the movie that reflects the most outstanding technical and artistic performance; showing creative and coherent ways to tell the story with pictures, sounds etc. who working in the motion picture industry. Only one individual may claim screen credit as a film's director. This rule is designed to prevent rights and ownership issues and to eliminate lobbying for director credit by producers and actors. However, the Jury may create an exception to this "one director per film" rule if two co-directors seeking to share director credit for a film qualify as an "established duo".

Golden Editor
The Award for Film Editing is closely correlated with the Award for Best Picture and it is given to the editor of the movie with the best use of scenes and ef fects to tell a flowery and coherent story. Only the principal, "above the line" editor(s) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not generally eligible.

Golden Makeup
The Award for Best Makeup & Styling is given to the best achievement in makeup and styling for a film. Makeup and styling must enhance physical attributes of characters and must be appropriate for scenes, setting and overall feel of the movie.

Golden Sound Track (Original)
The Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer or adopted for the movie. The performers of a song are not credited with the Award unless they contributed either to music, lyrics or both in their own right.

Golden Movie (Best Picture)
The Award for Best Picture is pr esented to artist who produced the most outstanding movie of the year. The Award is considered the most important of the Awards of the GMAA as it is the

Final award presented, and represents all the directing, acting, and writing efforts put forth for a film.

Golden Editor (Sound)
The Award for Best Sound Editing is granted to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound editing or sound design. The award goes to the movie/TV series/Short Film that showed the best interaction between sounds, effects it its appropriateness for scenes and the overall story. The award goes to the person in charge of working and mixing the sound in the studio, including sound effects, sound collected from locations or set among others.

Golden Editor (Video)
The Award for Best Visual Effects is given to the movie that exhibited the most creative and believable visual effects. The award is based on consideration of the contribution the vi sual effects make to the overall production and the artistry, skill and fidelity with which the visual illusions are achieved.

Golden Story (Screenplay)
The Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay or Original screenplay is given to the movie with the best story, best interplay and linking of scenes and overall narration of story. It is awarded to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel, play, short story, or TV show but also sometimes another film); or for the best script not based upon previously published material. All sequels are automatically considered adaptations by this standard since the sequel must be based on the original story.

Golden Discovery
The Award for discovery of the year goes to the new actor who distinguished him or herself in a breakthrough role. The role must be seen to have had a visible impact on his/her career, opening opportunities for him/her to receive other roles.

< strong>Golden Promising
The Award for Golden Most Promising is given to a new/ existing actor who distinguished him or herself in a breakthrough role on the continent and has potential if given bigger roles in films.

Favourite Actor/Actress
The Award for Favourite actor is a public voting category with 100% power given to the public. This category has got everything to do with how popular an Actor or Actress is on the African continent.

Golden TV Series
The Awards for Best TV series and Best Actor/ Actress in a TV series are people's choice awards voted by the public from a list of nominees.

Golden Actor/Actress (TV Series)
Best performance by an Actor or Actress in a Role in a TV Series is presented in recognition of an actor/actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a series role for the period under consideration.

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PlayStation E3 Experience showing live in movie cinemas

References

  1. ^ Sony's presentation (www.gamespot.com)
  2. ^ giant annual gaming expo (www.gamespot.com)
  3. ^ post on the PlayStation blog (blog.us.playstation.com)
  4. ^ the PlayStation E3 Experience website (www.playstation.com)
  5. ^ the PlayStation blog (blog.us.playstation.com)
  6. ^ Gaming (www.cnet.com)
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Movie Talk: Tom Hiddleston in Talks for James Bond; The Rock Confirmed for ‘Doc Savage’

On this episode of Collider Movie Talk (May 31st, 2016) Mark Ellis, Kristian Harloff, Jon Schnepp, Clarke Wolfe, Ashley Mova discuss the following:

  • Box Office Report (Brought to you by AMC Theatres)
  • Tom Hiddleston in talks to play James Bond in Bond 25[1]
  • First image of The Rock's Hobb's character from Fast 8[2] released
  • Opening this week (Brought to you by AMC Theatres)

x-men-apocalypse-final-posterAfter the long holiday weekend, it's time for the weekend box office[3] report brought to you by our friends at AMC theatres. Fox's X-Men: Apocalypse and Disney's Alice Through the Looking Glass squared off over Memorial Day weekend with a clear winner being crowned in X-Men: Apocalypse. The latest mutant adventure topped the weekend earning $65.3 million dollars over three days and $80 million over four days for an easy No. 1 spot. The other wide release, Alice Through the Looking Glass, took in $26.9 million over the three-day weekend, with a total of $34.1 over the four-day weekend for the No. 2 spot; a not so favorable start for a film with an $170 million production budget. Sony's The Angry Birds Movie took in $18.7 million for the three day and $24.6 million in four days for the No 3 spot, bringing its domestic total to $66.3 million. Captain America: Civil War took the No 4 spot with $15.1 million in three-days and $19.4 million for the four-day weekend. Universal's Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising rounded out the No. 5 spot, dropping a steep 58% for $9.2 million in three-day sales and an $11.4 million total for the four-day weekend.

Some major shake-ups happening in the world of James Bond[4]. According to a report from Birth Movies Death, Tom Hiddleston is in talks for the 25th James Bond film. At the same time, Skyfall and Spectre director Sam Mendes, ruled out a return to the director chair, telling reporters at the Hay Festival of Literature in Wales that he thinks its time for somebody else to take over directing. Current Bond actor Daniel Craig has yet to confirm his departure from the iconic role, with previous reports claiming the actor turned down a $68 million dollar offer to stay on – after he previou sly said he would rather "slash my wrists" than reprise the role. BMD also states that Hiddleston is in 'advanced talks' to take over from Craig. Elsewhere, however, Deadline reports that Fantastic Four actor Jamie Bell is being considered as a "a back-up" to current Bond actor Daniel Craig. No official word has been given from either actor or from the producers of the James Bond franchise.

doc-savage-bookDwayne Johnson recently finished his R-rated version of Baywatch, and is currently filming Fast 8 (with producer rumblings that his Hobbs character will get his own solo spinoff film soon). He is also attached to a Jumanji reboot and a San Andreas sequel. Now, thanks to his own Facebook page, add one more title to the list. Over the Memorial Day weekend, The Rock confirmed he is set to star in Shane Black's Doc Savage. Johnson relayed the information in a Facebook photo post that featured Shane Black and his co-writing team of Anthony Bagarozzi and Chuck Mondry along with producer Hiram Garcia. In confirming the part, Johnson wrote that he's excited for the part, and that Doc Savage is "A F*CKING HILARIOUS WEIRDO!" [5][6]

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More news from the Rock, production on Fast 8 is well underway and now The Rock's government bounty hunter Luke Hobbs has reported to the set[7]. Johnson took to his social media, as he always does, to unveil the first look at the character; teasing a very different version of Hobbs than we've seen before. The new movie is directed by Straight Outta Compton's F Gary Gray and stars Vin Diesel, Charlize Theron, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gisbon, and Kurt Russell. The movie opens in theaters on April 14, 2017.

kingsman-the-golden-circle-jeff-bridges-posterMatthew Vaughn's sequel to Kingsman continues to add impressive talent to its roster, with Jeff Bridges the latest actor announced to be joining the cast. Bridges let the world know he was coming on board, sharing a poster from the movie on his official Twitter account. Kingsman: The Golden Circle will see Taron Egerton r eprising his role as the now-Kingsman Eggsy along with Mark Strong as his trusted tech support Merlin. Vaughn also added newcomers Julianne Moore as the film's villain, along with Halle Berry and Channing Tatum as the American versions of Kingsman, The Statesman. The Golden Circle is slated for release on June 16, 2017. [8]

While the DC Extended Universe goes through a bit of a shake-up behind the scenes, filming on the Batman v Superman follow-up Justice League continues. Production on the Zack Snyder-directed team-up got underway in London two weeks after Batman v Superman hit theaters, with most of the main cast, naturally, confirming a return – with one part in particular not being announced, that of Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor. But now, we have an official confirmation from Eisenberg himself[9]. Speaking at MCM London Comic-Con over the weekend, Eisenberg revealed that he indeed has a role in Justice League, tell ing fans he's waiting for his crack at it now that it's begun filming.

OPENING THIS WEEK

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows – Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael return in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows to battle bigger, badder villains, alongside April O'Neil (Megan Fox), Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett), and a newcomer: the hockey-masked vigilante Casey Jones (Stephen Amell).

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Roberto Vazquez writes:

Hello Collider! Greetings from Monterrey Nuevo León Mexico! My question is about the new MCU Spiderman standalone movie. Do you guys think that we could see Spidey break the fourth wall like Deadpool did? In the comics he is always making jokes and talking to himself. Thank you for taking my question… You are doing an excellent job!

Garry Richardson writes

Hi Collider crew,

And greetings from the UK,

With Paramount dropping the lawsuit against the Star Trek: Axanar fan film I was wondering why they would have even brought one in the first place? Surely they want people interested in Star Trek and isn't it the same argument we use when discussing the DC/Marvel fan war, that both companies want the other to succeed? Are they simply concerned a fan funded movie could be better than their own perhaps?  I have seen the trailer for Axanar and it looks amazing and to be honest I am more pumped about watching that than I am about seeing Star Trek Beyond right now as I feel the new rebooted universe has lost the essence of what made Star Trek great. Could studios lose money if fan films begin to get better and better?  With film making technology becoming more available and cheaper for anyone to buy could we see in the future a war for audience numbers between major studios and fans?

Keep up the great work and live long and prosper

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Sony Pictures Networks India to launch new movie channel soon

Sony Le PLEX HD will serve the audiences who seek entertainment beyond the mainstream movies from Hollywood, a statement said.

Aiming to put the spotlight on movies with a strong storyline and content, irrespective of their box office performance, Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited will be soon launching a new English movie channel, Sony Le PLEX HD.

The channel will serve the discerning audiences who seek entertainment beyond the mainstream movies from Hollywood, a statement said.

The network is in the process of seeking regulatory clearances and approvals. Subject to obtaining such approvals, the launch is planned in June.

The channel is expected to be launched with the premiere of Oscar-winning film Spotlight.

Filmmaker Tom McCarthy's biographical drama film features Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Stanley Tucci in the lead.

Spotlight tells the true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that rocks the city and causes a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions — the Catholic Church.

When the newspaper's tenacious Spotlight team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.

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Snag Tickets for Sony's E3 Movie Theater Broadcast Today

Coming soon to a theater near you: the PlayStation E3 Experience 2016.

For the third consecutive year, Sony will broadcast its E3 press conference live in movie theaters across North and South America.

Snag a free ticket[1] today (starting at 1 p.m. ET) to view an HD simulcast at one of 85 select movie theaters across the US, Canada, and Latin America. But be quick: Once tickets run out at each location, hopeful attendees are put on a waitlist and seated on a first-come, first-served basis.

"There's just something special about watching the news and excitement of E3 together with fellow PlayStation fans that makes this an event I look forward to every year," Michael Steranka, PlayStation brand activities manager, wrote in a blog post[2].

"Between the loud cheers that, honestly, probably ruin movies for people in adjacent theaters (sorry not sorry), and the camaraderie felt in the air from being surrounded by the PlayStation Nation, there's no better way to experience E3," he said.

But you can expect more than a sense of fellowship: Participants will go home with special PlayStation goodies, including a commemorative Coca-Cola E3 Experience Cup and number 37 from the PlayStation Collectible Card series, introduced last year.

There is also a digital gift basket, the contents of which will remain secret "for now," Steranka said.

At last year's[3] event, Sony opened the conference with a gameplay demo of The Last Guardian, and revealed plans for a Final Fantasy 7 remake and controversial Shenmue 3 Kickstarter[4].

Check the PlayStation blog for a list of participating theaters across the continent. Folks in Latin America can keep an eye on Sony's regional blog[5] for more details.

References

  1. ^ Snag a free ticket (www.playstation.com)
  2. ^ blog post (blog.us.playstation.com)
  3. ^ last year's (in.pcmag.com)
  4. ^ controversial Shenmue 3 Kickstarter (in.pcmag.com)
  5. ^ regional blog (blog.latam.playstation.com)
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A reporter who went hunting for Veerappan watches 'Veerappan' the movie

Having spent a good part of my career visiting the jungle which Veerappan ruled, and writing about him in the newspapers where I worked, I watched Ram Gopal Varma's movie with some expectations. I must confess that it left me frustrated and disappointed.

At best, the film offers glimpses into Veerappan's character. A glimpse is what a short story is made of. A novel or a film needs to tell as complete a story as possible. A series of glimpses spliced together do not make a film. They only produce an episodic hotchpotch that raises more questions than answers.

One of the many reasons why the movie looks patchy is that Varma presents Veerappan as a flat, one-dimensional, pure-evil character with an almost permanent scowl on his face, ready to kill any moment. The film tells viewers 'what' the bandit did and 'how' he did it, but leaves them scratching their heads and wondering 'why' he did what he did.

The film is long on Veerappan's killings but short on his motive. Good fiction-writers and film-makers know that a strong motive makes a strong villain. For instance, the bad guys in James Bond movies, based on both Fleming's original books and the franchised works that came later, have quirky and outlandish motives.

Sandeep Bharadwaj as Veerappan in Ram Gopal Varma's film on the smuggler

Sandeep Bharadwaj as Veerappan in Ram Gopal Varma's film. Youtube screen grab.

The Veerappan movie is not based on fiction, and Varma didn't need to invent a motive. It was all there in his real life and all you needed was a little digging. The bandit was not driven just by money. And it wasn't political power—though he did have a political ambition for a while. And it wasn't some sort of hero-worship for LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran either. What kept him going was a barbaric, animal-like instinct for survival.

Veerappan began by killing elephants and selling their tusks, before he branched off into sandalwood smuggling. There was nothing else he was capable of doing to make a living in the jungle. But when poaching and smuggling became less profitable he took to kidnappings and extortions to survive. He killed people including forest and police department officials, even when he had the slightest suspicion that they threatened his survival. Or, in some cases, he killed for revenge—and he killed brutally.

He craved for money for his continued survival, but didn't seem obsessed with it. I found that he sold the elephant tusks and sandalwood cheap. From poaching, smuggling, kidnappings and extortions he did make a lot of money—estimates range between Rs 20 crore and Rs 50 crore—during the nearly three decades of his career. But he gave a good part of it to villagers and local officials who helped him as well as other friends and relatives.

He kept the rest of the money in plastic covers and buried them in different parts of the jungle—nobody knows where.

And Veerappan didn't go after LTTE for friendship. It was a small Tamil nationalist group supporting LTTE, and another Naxalite group that befriended him. They promised him weapons in return for the security of forest cover. They needed Veerappan more than he did. It was they who made him talk of Tamil issues. Veerappan couldn't care less about the Tamil cause. All he wanted was to survive—to stay alive.

Veerappan was evil, yes. But he was also something else. He was, at times, timid to the point of being cowardly. He was scared of death. He was terrified that either the police or his own men would decimate him.

And he was also helpful to villagers.

This is not to suggest that Varma should have glorified the criminal by turning him into a Robin Hood. This is to suggest that most real-life people are not one-dimensional and flat, and Veerappan too wasn't. That's the very reason why fiction writers create three-dimensional characters to make them seem like real people and to make them believabe. Varma has missed a chance.

I remember finding poverty-ridden villagers in the deepest parts of the jungle in sudden possession of new, mint-fresh Rs 500 notes. They wouldn't admit to getting the money from Veerappan. But they had several stories to tell. Their common theme was that Veerappan was a good man and the police were the bad guys. Grateful to their mentor, they would feign complete ignorance to the police about his movements.

And many others didn't talk to the police for fear that Veerappan would kill them if they did. They feared the police because of the beatings the villagers got, but they feared the outlaw more. This carrot-and-stick strategy of Veerappan's led to an information famine for the police, it was one of the chief reasons why he held out so long in the forest. If Varma was trying to tell viewers "why Veerappan was allowed to happen"—in media interviews, he said that's what his intention was—he should have had more of this.

Among the other reasons why Veerappan survived for so long were:

--He knew the forest so well that he could, when needed, escape from one place to another in a matter of hours, while the police would take a day or more.

--He picked vantage points from where he could watch the movements of his enemies, and ambush them when he chose to.

--The police were never really serious in wanting to catch him. Top echelons of the police had sidestepped the forest department officers who knew the terrain better. Most of the lower police echelons posted in the area were physically unfit and mortally afraid of Veerappan.

Varma's masterstroke was his choice of Sandeep Bharadwaj for Veerappan's role. The right makeup transformed Bharadwaj into a near-lookalike of the brigand, but this advantage was more than overshadowed by the uni-dimensional nature of the role. Bharadwaj worked hard, a bit too hard, to look murderous but occasionally ended up looking ridiculous.

Two women take too much time in the middle part of the movie. Shreya (the wife of a police officer killed by Veerappan, played by Lisa Ray) tries to use the bandit's wife Muthulakshmi (Usha Jadhav) to trap him. It served as a necessary subplot but could have been shorter. One gets the impression that Varma had this part only to add the feminine presence. And it's also marred by the fact that Muthulakshmi, who had once said she married Veerappan because of his moustache and notoriety, is more mellowed in the film than she really is.

The police operation to trick Veerappan into coming out of his den and then kill him ended the film reasonably well. But at one point what was meant to be a profound scene turned out to be ludicrous. The officer who leads the operations climbs up an elevated place and rotates his head apparently to look for the brigand. A policeman in real-life Veerappan's jungle would stand on open ground in that fashion only if he wanted a bullet in his head. The killer could be perched on a tree nearby.

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Gippy Grewal’s Kaptaan Movie 12th Day Total Box Office Collection Income

The latest Pollywood movie Kaptaan was released with a good hype but fail to have good collection as other Pollywood movies.The movie has been released over 700 Screens, The movie starers Gippy Grewal, Monica Gill and Karishma Kotak in the main lead roles of the movie. As we all know now a day Punjabi movie are getting more response than the Bollywood movie but Kaptaan failed to fulfill the expectations of the audience.

The story of the movie is about a advocate and how he was interested in field of law. The movie is worth to watch only because of the tough competition movie had a low collection from the first day. The first half of the movie was quite good and full of comedy but the second half of the movie had little bit suspense and some unwanted scenes. At the end of the first weekend movie had a collection of 2.19 Cr only which was not a good start for the movie. The first Monday of the movie Kaptaan faced a huge down fall in the occupancy and collection. The 4th and 5th day collection f the movie was 30 and 28 lacs.

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Gippy Grewal has a large number of fans and most of the film of him go for super hit but this time Kaptaan failed to have a good collection and as per the response the movie will going to fail in having its production cost. At the end of the first week Kaptaan had a total collection of 4.68 Cr. Today is the 8th day of the movie. Today also the movie does not get any better response. Kaptaan had a occupancy of 24% on the 8th day of the movie. Here is the 8th Day Box Office collection of movie Kaptaan is given below.
Kaptaan 12th Day Box Office Collection : 09 Lacs (Approx.)

The movie had a good story line and we advise you to enjoy the movie in your nearest cinema hall as movie is full of comedy. Kaptaan is worth to watch as it is the best movie to enjoy your weekend. The above box office collection of the movie is updated as per our sources for more updates and 9th Day Box office collection of the movie stay tuned with us.

Justice League Movie To Have A Linear Script Compared To Batman vs Superman

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Many people that have seen Batman vs Superman will know that the movie was trying to set up too many things all at once. Jeremy Irons (Alfred) has now admitted that the Justice League script won't be so complicated.

Irons mentioned this during a new interview with The Daily Mail. He said[1]: "It was very muddled. I think the next one will be simpler. The script is certainly a lot smaller, it's more linear"

Earlier in the interview, Irons was not shy on his opinion on Batman vs Superman. He is pretty much the only cast member to admit that the movie did have its flaws.

He mentioned the movie deserved its negative reviews: "Deservedly so. I mean it took £800 million, so the kicking didn't matter but it was sort of overstuffed…"

Irons even laughed when the Daily Mail mentioned one quote from a critic that called it "the most incoherent blockbuster in years". It's safe to say Irons is an old-school actor that doesn't mind speaking his mind.

His comments about the Justice League movie script hints that Warner Bros. is playing it safe and keeping it simple. As aforementioned, Batman vs Superman tried to cram in too many storylines into one movie.

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Movie Review – ‘The Do-Over’

May 30th, 2016 - 5:31 PM

Movie Review – 'The Do-Over'

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There are a few people in the movie industry that people love to hate. While Michael Bay is probably at the top, Adam Sandler cannot be far behind. But unlike Bay, whose popularity we can understand, Sandler has grown increasingly perplexing. Definitely one of the most well-known cinematic comedic voices of the past 20 years (and one of the few who has worked consistently on his own projects throughout this time), his latest efforts have become downright bizarre. Once you get strip away the "Adam goes on vacation" trappings, the films are lazy, depressing, and soulless in an uncommon way. The Do-Over is no different. (NOTE: SPOILERS – but it's an Adam Sandler movie, so who cares.)

The Do-Over, Sandler's second movie made under a lucrative Netflix deal, is technically an action-comedy that stars him and usual cohort David Spade as Max and Charlie, two miserable men who fake their own deaths to escape their miserable lives – or rather Max kidnaps Charlie and forces him to do it. After engaging in rampant hedonism for well over a week (and an unnecessarily high percentage of the movie's running time), they find themselves the target of assassins looking to kill the dead people whose identities they stole.

Sandler, aided by officially credited writers Kevin Barnett (The Heartbreak Kid, Hall Pass) and Chris Pappas (Unhitched), throws in a token amount of unmemorable shoot outs and a surprisingly high number of uninspired gay jokes that never seem mean enough to be offensive, but barely a scene goes by without at least one happening. Director Seven Brill, who previously directed Sandler in Little Nicky and Mr. Deeds, might be fair enough at action sequences, but beyond those, the movie has a disconcerting flatness and lack of energy, as though we're watching a rough cut, before the addition of a score, ADR, or foley.

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As an actor, as usual, Sandler is one of the film's biggest problems. The rest of the cast is actually fine. High ranking Happy Madison troupe member Spade gives a surprisingly solid performance who does the best he can with the role and probably better than it deserves. Paula Patton has the third most important role as Heather, the wife of the guy whose identity Charlie stole (and who has a secret of her own!). Small roles are populated by underused, better-than-this actors such as Michael Chiklis, Kathryn Hahn, Matt Walsh, Catherine Bell and Natasha Leggero.

Predictably, Sandler is where the movie falls apart. For a movie like this to work (see Midnight Run, The In-Laws), the dynamic of the two main characters is well established: you have the straight man (Charles Grodin, Alan Arkin) and the crazy one (Robert De Niro, Peter Falk). The crazy one needs to have a good mix of scary and charisma, where you don't exactly trust him, but you also want to follow him as both an audience member and as a character. Max never hits the manic heights of the crazy one, instead playing his character with his recent penchant for a stoicism belying a depression. (That he pretty much always wears jean shorts and a t-shirt isn't a stylistic choice, it's a cry for help.) For whatever reason, Sandler seems to be actively avoiding fun.

However, the issue with Sandler's character is symptomatic of the biggest issue with The Do-Over – it is completely tone deaf. At first glance, the plot could be played for comedy – two guys fake their own death, but it turns out the assassins are after the people they stole their new identities from. Solid enough premise. As the movie progresses, it turns out the assassins want these two people dead because they discovered the cure for (a certain type of) cancer, which would cost Big Chemo trillions of dollars in profit. Yes, the chemotherapy industry is the villain in this. We're entering strange, turbulent waters here, but nothing that cannot be navigated. The Crazy Conspiracy that goes Straight To The Big Wigs At The Top is fair comedic fodder. Shows like Mr. Show with Bob and David, Children's Hospital[4], and South Park[5] have all made great use parodying conspiracy theories; the more outlandish the better.

Except The Do-Over actually plays it straight, with characters expressing a genuine moral disgust towards the actions of the bad guys. Moreover, the two people whose bodies/identities Max stole weren't random, and they weren't just involved in finding the cure to cancer, they were involved in finding the cure to a terminal form of cancer that Max actually has. A cancer so bad that he abandoned his wife Becca (Kathryn Hahn) and child so that they didn't have to deal with his eventual death. A cancer so bad that Charlie even "cries" upon reading about the diagnosis. And all the while more innocent people die on behalf of Big Pharma. Could this have been done darkly comedic? Definitely, and The Nice Guys (my review[6]) pulled off something in a similar vein with gusto. Did The Do-Over? Not in the slightest. (And none of this even touches on how Sandler seemed content to relax and party for a fair amount of time before putting his cancer-curing scheme into action.)

The film becomes burdened with an unnecessary seriousness from which it cannot recover. Becca who first comes across (and is purposely written) as a crazy ex-girlfriend evolves into a genuinely tragic figure dealing with loss. Sandler's character of a self-destructive lunatic who shoots firsts and asks questions later becomes a man on a legitimate suicide mission who brings his friend on his death wish for no good reason. When we have all this information, Max seems to have had a nervous breakdown closer in spirit to Sandler's character in Reign Over Me[7] than in any of his Happy Madison productions. So at the end when we get a token joke about the effect gravity has on an older lady's bosom, it rings false and con fusing.

But this unnecessary seriousness that has emerged as a strange motif within the Happy Madison oeuvre. Click ended up being about Sandler's character's inability to face the death of his own father and willfully dying himself when he realizes how crappy a father and husband he was. The Ridiculous Six was about Sandler coming to terms with witnessing the brutal murder of his own mother when he was a child and the subsequent abandonment by his father …who ends up betraying his kids for personal greed, much like Heather does to Charlie and Max in this movie. Even in Pixels, the implication is that his character is a deadbeat dad who harasses women and insults people because he is so angry and miserable towards his own life. We're pretty far from "The Puppy Who Lost Its Way[8]."

We can accept our comic heroes having horrible traits, as long as they are funny, outlandish, charismatic or simply likeable – see Deadpool for example. But Sandler has grown more dour and depressive as time has gone on, edging closer to being a genuine bully than simply a fool. He has mostly abandoned the man-child persona in favor of some bastardization of the straight man, but he keeps embodying these anti-social traits. Shooting a flare gun at someone during a montage should be played for laughs, not attempted murder. Without the goofiness to cushion his more violent/angry moments, he's just a dangerous ass. He could make a great villain.

Verdict: 1 out of 5

It seems unfair to judge Happy Madison movies on any conventional scale. Pixels, The Ridiculous Six, and The Do-Over are all 1 out of 5 movies for entirely different reasons. The Do-Over is easily the least impressive of the three, offering not much in the way of action or comedy or anything else. It's hard to imagine how Sandler will bring us emotionally lower than basing an entire movie around a legitimate cancer subplot, but if anyone can find a way, it's the man who made fighting Pac-Man feel completely heartless.

Finding Dory Might Be the First Pixar Movie to Feature a Lesbian Couple

© Pixar Finding Dory hits theaters June 17 — and might be making some progress along the way. The newest trailer features a shot that shows what looks like two moms doting over a baby in a stroller. 

Fans have been asking for a queer princess Elsa[1], but it looks like Pixar might have beat already been ahead of the game. And sure, this couple doesn't appear to be main characters; we seem to only catch a glimpse.

But, regardless, look at Pixar, sneaking in progress where it can. Maybe Elsa and her mystery gal[2] will have a precedent.

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References

  1. ^ queer princess Elsa (nymag.com)
  2. ^ Elsa and her mystery gal (nymag.com)
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Box office report: The Angry Birds Movie DOMINATES throughout the weekend, BEATS RGV’s Veerappan and Kalki Koechlin’s Waiting!

Box office report: The Angry Birds Movie DOMINATES throughout the weekend, BEATS RGV's Veerappan and Kalki Koechlin's Waiting!
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Check out Kalki Koechlin's gorgeous look in Sabyasachi for 63rd National Film Awards ceremony

Hollywood films are beating Bollywood biggies at the domestic box office…

On Friday early box office trends indicated that The Angry Birds Movie would beat Ram Gopal Varma's Veerappan[1] and Kalki Koechlin's Waiting and it has actually happened! This year we have seen the likes of Shah Rukh Khan's Fan losing the BO war to Neel Sethi's The Jungle Book and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's Sarbjit lost to the X-Men: Apocalypse. So this isn't surprising.

The Angry Birds Movie[2] dominated the theatres and that reflected in the box office figures. The occupancy was very good and the film collected Rs 9.04 crore in just 3 days. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted, "#TheAngryBirdsMovie dominated the marketplace, surpassing Hindi films… Fri 2.20 cr, Sat 3.22 cr, Sun 3.62 cr. Total: Rs 9.04 cr nett."

Ram Gopal Varma's Veerappan[3] was touted as his big comeback project and while the movie got a good response and the audience increased over the weekend, the film failed to come anywhere close to the Hollywood film that released alongside and collected Rs 5.95 crore over the weekend. Occupancies were average for this film. Trade expert, Taran Adarsh confirmed this on Twitter, "#Veerappan Fri 1.79 cr, Sat 1.96 cr, Sun 2.20 cr. Total: Rs 5.95 cr nett. India biz."

Kalki Koechlin's Waiting[4] got great reviews, but theatres saw low occupancy and the movie did not make any impact. It had a bare minimum collection and according to Taran Adarsh Waiting's total collection over the weekend was Rs 1.30 cr.

We hear that Radhika Apte's Phobia[5] like Kalki's movie got great reviews, but failed to make an impact in terms of box office collection. With Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's Sarbjit failing to perform, The Angry Birds Movie will do well throughout this week with no competition from Bollywood movies. But when Akshay Kumar and Jacqueline Fernandez's Housefull 3[6] releases next week, we will have to wait and see if the collections will dip.

Also check out BollywoodLife's review of Veerappan in the video right here:

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Johnny Depp's latest movie flops

Johnny Depp's 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' tanks
Johnny Depp's 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' tanks

Johnny Depp's latest movie, "Alice Through the Looking Glass," got off to a bad start.

The film opened to $28 million domestically over the weekend, despite a cast that includes Depp, Anne Hathaway and Mia Wasikowska.

But the film, which has a $170 million budget, failed to impress critics or moviegoers. It has a 30% score on the review site Rotten Tomatoes[1].

The box office disappointment comes at a tumultuous time for Depp. On Friday, A Los Angeles judge ordered the actor to stay away[2] from his estranged wife, Amber Heard, who claimed he has been abusive toward her.

The couple married in February 2015. Heard filed for divorce last week.

Related: Johnny Depp's daughter is defending him on social media[3]

The box office totals of Depp's new movie are a far cry from the success of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," the film's 2010 prequel. That movie shattered several box office records, capitalizing on the growing popularity of 3-D films at the time. It opened to $116 million in the U.S., topping "Avatar" and setting a record for the debut of a 3-D feature.

Burton, who directed the 2010 film, was only involved as a producer this time around, with James Bobin taking over as the director.

Several of Depp's recent movies flopped during the opening weekends. Crime thriller Black Mass made $22.6 million, while Transcendence, in which Depp plays a controversial scientist, opened to $10.8 million.

The 2015 action comedy Mortdecai was a real box office bomb, opening to just $4.2 million.

References

  1. ^ Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com)
  2. ^ judge ordered the actor to stay away (edition.cnn.com)
  3. ^ Johnny Depp's daughter is defending him on social media (edition.cnn.com)
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