Hirsch Needs Speed Eraser for His Wardrobe
Maybe Speed Racer star Emile Hirsch misunderstood the memo about how everybody who was anybody on the C-list was tying the knot this weekend (see Chris Kattan and Ruben Studdard items below).
Or maybe he had some crazy idea that his clothing should match the period of the architecture, which, since he was sightseeing in Paris’ Place Vendôme with a couple of gal-pals, is decidedly old school. How else to explain the oversize silk bow tie and shiny silver suit?
Très lawn jockey, non?
Emile Hirsch: Decked Out in Paris
Emile Hirsch: Decked Out in Paris
Does the man make the clothes, or do the clothes make the man? In this instance, it seems the former is true as Emile Hirsch was spotted making his way around Paris on Friday.
The “Girl Next Door” stud sported a silver and black tuxedo, complete with a massive black ribbon tie as he squired two lovely ladies around the Place Vendome district.
Of his most recent gig, “Speed Racer,” released last month, Emile commented that the effects-intensive setup forced him to really trust producers/writers/directors Andy and Larry Wachowski.
“Until you see it in the theatre, it’s like, ‘What is this?’ Nothing really prepares you, you know, no matter how much artwork they show or how many kinds of pre-visualisation.”
“But there are not very many directors I would feel more comfortable throwing myself at the mercy of than the guys who made The Matrix. It was like, ‘You guys know what you’re doing, go for it’. It’s so surprising. I was blown away when I saw it. I love the movie, but I had no idea it was going to be so detailed and the effects were going to look so beautiful.”
Penny-Pinching Christina Ricci
Penny-Pinching Christina Ricci
Now that bikini season is well underway, women all over the world are spending a little extra time making sure their beach body is bangin. And Christina Ricci was spotted on her way to break a sweat yesterday.
The “Buffalo 66″ actress sported a black tank top, black cutoff shorts and a pair of trendy New Balance sneakers as she made her way to the gym for an hour-long workout with a gal pal.
And unlike her Hollywood female contemporaries, Ricci says she’d rather save her money than go on elaborate vacations and shopping sprees.
The “Speed Racer” cutie told press, “I like shopping but I don’t like spending. I have trouble parting with my money. I’m not being very frivolous right now. In the past it was shoes. But right now I’m not buying clothes. I’m saving. I’m at that point where I feel like an adult - so I can’t just live from paycheck to paycheck.”
As for her absence from the Tinseltown party scene, Christina explained, “If someone is having a birthday party or something then I will go out, but I partied in my early twenties and I’m kind of over it now. I like nice quiet dinners and parlor games!”
Giant Panda, Potent Zohan
Diversity pays.
A box office flush with movies about a martial-arts-fighting Ailuropoda melanoleuca and a hairdressing ex-Mossad agent was flush with cash, as the animated Kung Fu Panda and Adam Sandler’s You Don’t Mess With the Zohan combined to take in $100 million in their opening weekends.
Kung Fu Panda finished on top, with $60 million, per studio estimates today from Exhibitor Relations Co. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan took second, with $40 million.
Elsewhere, last weekend’s phenom Sex and the City broke a heel, with ticket sales falling 63 percent, but still managed to bring in another $21.3 million.
If the estimates hold, Kung Fu Panda should nudge Cars for eighth place on the list of all-time animation openers, per the stats at Box Office Mojo.
If the movie counts as a Jack Black movieBlack provided the panda vocalsthen it goes down as the comic’s No. 1 opener of all-time, and as a marked improvement over last winter’s Be Kind, Rewind.
Zohan definitely counts as a Sandler movie. As such, it’s debut stands as the star’s fifth biggest, just below Click and just ahead of 50 First Dates.
Since 1998’s The Waterboy, every classic Sandler comedy, meaning not Spanglish, has debuted in the mid-$30 millions to mid-$40 millions. Finding its sweet spot, Zohan represented an upgrade over I Know Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, which opened on the low end of the Sandler scale last summer.
Drilling down in the box-office standings:
- Diversity extended to the grosses, as the $60 million-grossing Kung Fu Panda and the $775,000-”grossing” Made of Honor could both rightly call themselves Top 10 films.
- Speed Racer didn’t fall out of the Top 10. It plummeted, earning just $370,000 in its fifth weekend, per Box Office Mojo. Overall, the reportedly $120 million summer bomb has grossed $42 million.
- Not to make Mr. Racer feel
badworse, but Tina Fey’s Baby Mama (ninth place, $779,090), which reportedly cost $30 million to make, has grossed $57.9 million overall. - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (third place, $22.8 million; $253 million overall) is now within about $35 million of passing the finally tiring Iron Man (sixth place, $7.5 million; $288.9 million overall) as the year’s top-grossing movie.
- Second weekend fall off or no, Sex and the City is about a day, if not hours away, from cracking $100 million overall.
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall ($475,150) ends its Top 10 run after seven weekends, and a solid $61.5 million take.
- The new Heather Graham comedy Miss Conception averaged $500 on each of its three screens, per Box Office Mojo, and presumably began its journey to a Blockbuster shelf near you.
- John C. Reilly and Seann William Scott added up to $28,859 at six theaters for the new comedy The Promotion.
- The Genghis Khan epic Mongol put up the best, theater-for-theater numbers of the weekend, grossing $133,136 from five screens.
Here’s a recap of the top-grossing weekend films based on Friday-Sunday estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
- Kung Fu Panda, $60 million
- You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, $40 million
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, $22.8 million
- Sex and the City, $21.3 million
- The Strangers, $9.3 million
- Iron Man, $7.5 million
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, $5.5 million
- What Happens in Vegas, $3.4 million
- Baby Mama, $779,090
- Made of Honor, $775,000