We are so close to summer now... though every day is a summer day here in Malaysia. But how do we know it's summer in United States? Summer blockbuster of course. With the opening of The Amazing Spider-man 2 next week, it marks the beginning of a 4-month summer movie party. Box Office Mojo predicts the Top 20 box office hits this summer, surprisingly put animation How to Train Your Dragon 2 ahead of X-Men: Days of Future Past. But then again, animated films are very often #1 in the last 15 years, with Shrek, Shrek 2, Finding Nemo and Toy Story 3 all triumphed over other summer movies in their years. The prediction also puts Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow at #20, expected to take less than $100 mil. Are they underestimating him?
My favorite movie blog, The Film Experience, has a fun series they call Supporting Actress Smackdown where they take an Oscar year and re-evaluate the Best Supporting Actress category. They recently did the year 2003, where the five nominees were Renee Zellweger (Cold Mountain), Holly Hunter (13), Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog), Patricia Clasrkson (Pieces of April) and Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River). Renee won at the Oscar, but her victory was controversial. Can she win this do-over round again?
This is bad! Bad bad Disney! The Hollywood Reporter reports that Walt Disney Animation Studios laid off some animators after the completion of Frozen, and left them out recently while paying out big bonuses to its staff, some of them did not even work on Frozen. If there is anything I hate, I would say it's unfairness and overrated. Unfortunately Frozen is now both.
Whoa! Arrow's fans, SPOILER ALERT! Stop reading if you don't wish to know. Someone dies, and it's Oliver's mother Moira. Though I feel sad, I do realize the show never knew how to properly write her a story, most of the time any plot involving her was boring and dragging. R.I.P. Moira.
I just wrote about Orphan Black, and here's an article on Buzzfeed that introduces the stand-in in the show. Love that show! Admittedly, this stand-in for Tatiana Maslany contributed to the success of the show just as much as Tatiana Maslany.
The soon-to-be-released X-Men: Days of Future Past is scarred by the sex-abuse scandal. Poor director Bryan Singer has to bow out from the film's promotion and marketing effort. I fear the damage is done, the movie will forever be linked to a sex-abuse scandal rather than be judged based on its quality alone.
The Daily Beast dissects the LEGO phenomenon in Hollywood. How did a toy brand created 65 years ago find a new life through movie industry? It is one interesting read.
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