The TV Addict 

Modern Technology versus Ancient Artifacts Well, ladies and gentleman, we have ourselves a blockbuster race for Memorial Day Weekend 2009. It looks like next year’s big show off will be TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE FUTURE BEGINS against NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM II: ESCAPE FROM THE SMITHSONIAN. I’d be pretty curious to see how movie theatres are going to manage to squeeze those two titles on their marquees while still leaving room to indicate what else they’ll be showing that day. I imagine they’ll probably have to order more letters for the marquee to being with, so they can actually spell it all out. I’m also a bit surprised Warner Brother wants to take on NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM in the first place. TERMINATOR 3 grossed $150.4 million domestically, and was largely considered a financial disappointment. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM grossed $250.9 million. Memorial Day weekend traditionally tends to be a family oriented affair, meaning more people will gravitate toward MUSEUM. Then again the new “Sarah Connor Chronicles” television show – which is apparently quite good – might be enough to rekindle some interest in the previously presumed run-into-the-ground franchise. Personally, I say they should just make peace and combine forces, and have the Terminator run amok inside the Smithsonian. Imagine it! Cyborg versus skeletal T-Rex! Sigh. I guess this is why I’m not a studio executive. Source: Variety

Emma Thompson is my heroAs if I didn’t like Emma Thompson already enough as it is, she goes and makes me like her even more. While having Hayley Atwell, the co-star of her current project (a remake of BRIDESHEAD REVISTED) over for dinner, she discovered that the film’s producers had told the perfectly gorgeous and full-figured Atwell to lose some weight. Apparently, Thompson was so infuriated she called up the producers and threatened to leave the film if they kept on insisting Atwell lose weight. Needless to say, when a two-time Academy Award winning actress of Emma Thompson’s stature threatens that kind of thing, you quickly back down, as Miramax Films did. You know, you always hear about these horrible stories about producers wanting actresses to lose weight or be better looking (I remember a while back hearing that people involved with PEARL HARBOR didn’t think Kate Beckinsale was pretty enough), but the person in me who wants to think the best of people likes to delude himself that they are all just rumors. But deep down, I know it’s that kind of town. I just wish there were more Emma Thompson’s out there to stand up to this kind of nonsense.Source: The First Post