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Title Studio Gross 1 Alice In Wonderland Disney $116.1M 2 Brooklyns Finest Overture $13.4M 3 Shutter Island Paramount $13.2M 4 Cop Out Warner $9.3M 5 Avatar Fox $8.1M 6 The Crazies Overture $7.1M 7 Lightning Thief Fox $5.1M 8 Valentines Day Warner $4.2M 9 Crazy Heart Fox $3.3M 10 Dear John Sony $2.8M 11 Tooth Fairy Fox $1.7M 12 The Wolfman Universal $1.6M 13 Ghost Writer Summit $1.3M 14 The Blind Side Warner $1.3M 15 The Last Station SPC $0.7M 16 Up In The Air Paramount $0.6M 17 When In Rome Disney $0.6M 18 The Squeakquel Fox $0.5M 19 The Book Of Eli Warner $0.5M 20 The Hurt Locker Summit $0.4M SOURCE: RENTRAKBox Office Poll
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No gifts this year…I’m on strike against food and the reindeer went on the Schmaltz diet.
“I just lay back and look at the havoc I’ve wreaked.”
“Sure, it’s unflattering — plus I’m Jewish! — but it’s warm as hell.”
“You think I came up with ‘Ho-Ho-Ho’ on my own?
Well, the list was done by the deadline, but my agent says if I check it even once, it’s crossing the line.
“Those ignorant writers will never know there’s a studio exec under this beard… or that my belly is padded with force majeure documents. Ho, ho, ho!”
“Speechless #360 – Santa Claus”
I ho, ho, hope my little elves in China and Vietnam don’t get any ideas.
I’m freezing my fu*%ing chestnuts out here!
The only reasons I’m dressed as Kris Kringle is because I’m a season-ticket holder of the New York Knicks.
“The movie fans pout
The TV viewers cry
The Guild will shout
and the producers will know why
Santa Claus is coming to town!”
Sure beats shoveling reindeer Sh*t!
“Will ho for food.”
Oddly enough, my list had three categories this year.
“Naughty”, “Nice”, and “Total Dicks”.
Caption: “I’m NOT Saint Nick Counter”
or
“If I have to wait until the coal in my stocking turns into a diamond, it’s going to be a long, cold winter without a contract.”
or
“Like me, fail negotiations by the AMPTP are a myth.”
“No Dough, No Ho!”
Guess who’s getting coal in their stockings!
“I still don’t understand why people won’t take our demands seriously… maybe if I put on some clown shoes…”
HO, HO, HOw about some residuals?
OR
Merry ChriSTRIKE
What do you mean I’m not being compensated with cookies and milk for Christmas gifts ordered over the internet?!
No Christmas until the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are part of the Guild too!
Who did you think wrote ELF? I’m a writer the other 364 days a year….
1) No, the Costume Designers didn’t go on strike. Asshole.
2) Worst mall job, ever.
3) Ho, Ho, Ho. No seriously, I see a ho.
4) Seriously, Lady. I’m not Jeff Zucker.
I got in the guild with my excellent punch-up on FRED CLAUS.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good write.
“Yes, Mr. Counter, there is a Santa Claus! Enjoy your stocking full of reindeer shit! Ho! HO! HO!”
I wonder how big a bag of coal I should give Nick Counter and the Moguls this Christmas?
Me and my reindeer ain’t delivering a freakin’ thing ’cause those brats took the cookies off the table.
Sorry — I can’t come up with anything better than the Ho Ho Ho line by Jim Dunn.
I do expect something with “sitting on my lap” in it….to come up….
Thanks to the AMPTP, I can’t even work one day this year.
I’m really Tim Allen praying that the writer’s strike ends soon so rewrites can start on The Santa Clause 4: The Quickening.
“Maybe if I didn’t give so much coal every year to Nick Counter for being a bad kid, we wouldn’t have these problems.”
And a bundle of switches and a sack of coal to ALL who should be at the table NOW.
“As long as they stop sitting on my lap and making erection jokes I’ll give the writer’s whatever deal they want for Christmas”
Line…
Suggestions:
1. AMPTP = Grinch
2. Naughty — AMPTP, Nice – WGA,
3. AMPTP — Coal (check)
I like the Ho Ho Ho one…..
FU FU FU
From St. Nick C.
If this gig doesn’t work out I can always go back to playing for ZZ Top.
Counter’s definitely getting a lump in his stocking. And it’s not going to be coal.
Hey, Nick Counter, I got you ultimatum right here!
“You think I answer all those letters myself??”
Les Moonves makes more than me.
Santa’s had to make so much coal for the WGA and AMPTP…my elves all died of black lung disease. Merry F*ing Christmas!
“That other Nick ain’t no Saint in my book!”
Madonn’ mia, where is that coffee cart guy?
All I want for Christmas is 8¢ please!
“Speechless #360 – Santa Claus”
Comment by Simon Jester
Contest over. We’ve already found the winner.
That “Counter” guy really screwed up the name “Nick.”
“No, no, I’m just picketing for an hour and then I have to get to my job at the mall so I can pay the mortgage.”
F— the cookies, I was residuals.
Where are MY residuals? They’ve been using me too.
“Fuck Nick Counter!”
“Remember AMPTP, I know who’s been bad. Very, very bad.”
I’ll give you animation and reality, I get to keep cookies and milk.
Would you settle for .3 percent of a piece of coal?
Naughty or nice, you know what list you’re on.
“If they didn’t like the pencils, just wait until the lumps of coal arrive.”
Speaking of which, just where does one buy a lump of coal these days? I can think of a few places to send one….
Sorry AMPTP… I’m not that kinda Ho…
Hey all you little IATSE boys and girls, I nice shiny new lumps of coal for all of you!!
Blitzen went fi-core, that bastard!
I demand 2.5% of Internet delivery of toys!
God. So many… Jewish writers ’round here. Makes me feel like a nun at a porn convention. (Waka waka.)
“Ho-Ho-Ho! I’m visiting the writers while the Ghosts of Xmas Past, Present, and Future, are visiting the AMPTP.”
Hey all you little IATSE boys and girls, I have nice shiny new lumps of coal for all of you.
Nice one Bob!
“Since Liz Taylor got an exemption I think I can too.”
“Where’s red-nosed Nick Counter to guide my sleigh?”
“Where’s the sonuvabitch that wrote FRED CLAUS? He better watch out… and he better not cry when I shove this picket sign up his sorry… “
Guys, Can I get through please? I got a shitload of coal I need to deliver.
OPENING NOVEMBER 17, 2008:
THE SANTA CLAUSE 4:
INSANITY CLAUSE
STARRING TIM ALLEN
“Well, technically I’m a teamster.”
I should have been a pharmacist.
“Three words for you, Counter. Coal. For. Life.”
“LINE!…”
Just take the picture. And in the North Pole, it’s not called camel toe. It’s called reindeer toe.
“I finally found another job where spoiled brats could piss on me all day.
See you down at Macy’s!”
If I cross the picket line, the elf union will send death threats; Attention: Santa Scab.
nothing can beat simon jester’s.
Rudolph and the gang will poop on your condo roof if you continue to be naughty
Where’d those agency assistants go with my cookies?
we know who is getting coal in their stockings this year!!
Hey, amptp, kiss my Blitzen!
“Tom Cruise called and wants his pants back after the strike.”
“Support the Writers…we’re getting ho-ho-hosed!”
And here is Santa’s picket sign, and here is Santa’s cock… no I don’t mean Nick Counter.
I’ve got your residuals package right here!
“Without writers, I’d be in jail right now! Let’s face it — without a script and the whole “North Pole” story line, I’m just a crazy old white man who likes to run around calling people ‘ho’!”
caption: “I knew giving Rupert and Sumner all those lumps of coal would have repercussions.”
Hey I need writers too, what do you think my list writes itself!
60 years later and I have yet to see dollar one in Miracle on 34th Street residuals!
Hey, hey… ho, h… ah, fuck it.
I’m just here to support the writers. And by the way, if anybody sees Nick Counter, tell him to grow up and negotiate like a big boy. Until then, Santa’s giving him reindeer shit in his stockings.
Ho, ho… line?!
“Carson to Zucker, I’m in. Commencing operation ‘Angry Santa Suit Hiding the Oligarchy’s Lacky Enforcer’…. No, I hired a writer to make that up. Why, what’s an acronym? ”
“Merry Fucking Christmas.”
“Jolly St. Nick Counter under this beard here, spreading Holiday cheer. If you suckers er, writers want to get a raise out of me, put your children on my lap.”
Mrs. Claus isn’t the only one screwing me this year.
Santa suit: $69.99
Fake beard: $24.99
Miracles on 34th Street: $0
There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s residuals.
look, i’m wearing a diaper
I hope that this beard stays on or I’m one dead producer
“This is Moonves to headquarters. Am behind enemy lines. Repeat: the fat man has landed.”