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Deadline recently delved into the potential career calamity of quotes from Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. Now, it seems restraint has gone out the window. Each day brings a dopey new pull-quote that makes you wonder: what the hell are these people thinking? While Kristen Stewart’s reps negotiated a two-picture salary for the Twilight finale that I hear will pay her in the neighborhood north of $12.5 million each, she gave a now infamous interview and likened paparazzi intrusion to rape. Co-star Rob Pattinson was just quoted doubting he won’t live past 30–he got a similar payday, giving him more incentive toward living to ripe old age than most people have. The websites this week are fixated on Cameron Diaz’s Playboy interview timed with Knight and Day. All the attention is on her unladylike graphic description of her sexual appetite and craving caveman-quality bedroom encounters. I’ve done plenty of celebrity magazine interviews and when actors rant, you’re grateful. Maybe there’s an increased desperation to get attention for films, but these stars seem to forget their words haunt them long after the movie is forgotten. Stewart apologized, and I sympathize with her struggle with intrusive fame few actors her age experience. But, c’mon already.
Fox, whose past quotes factored into her being replaced in Transformers 3, has been relatively quiet in the run-up to the release of Jonah Hex. But her past outrageous comments have the industry wondering about her future, particularly if Jonah Hex doesn’t open.
Will those outrageous Diaz comments help Knight and Day? The picture could use help despite Tom Cruise–long past his Oprah couch-jumping stint–doing a textbook leading man job of promotion. That included three months prepping those filmed segments on the MTV Movie Awards, hatched as an alternative to hosting. It seemed a smart way to plug Knight and Day into the youth demo, but the picture still doesn’t seem to have the kind of awareness that presages a big opening weekend. Cruise’s relentless campaign was credited in helping turn around bad buzz on the $200 million global grosser Valkryie. This summer, execs all over town are scratching their heads and second-guessing everything.
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I’d bet my left nut that knight and day does 45 million opening weekend. Anyone else out there wanna put up a nut?
I’ll put in my right tit. It’s the larger of the two, so that’s gotta be worth something. Guess it’s a good thing I’m not a celeb — I’d rather be shocked than bored anytime.
Now that’s some funny shizzit.
Brett – I hope you’re going to enjoy living with only your right nut.
who cares? they’re actors desperate for clicks of attention. don’t feed the animals.
45 million? What are you smoking? And can you send me some?!!
I say 30-35 million. If its lucky. Toy Story 3 will be a strong left over from the wk before and will be tough competition.
And I thought Cammy D’s Playboy interview was funny. She came off really well imo. I thought it was hilarious when she said she travels for “cock”. Dirty girl. And she also called out Jeff Bridges for being a dick to her after she congratulated him at The Oscar rehearsals for his nomination.
So I kinda like her more after that interview. It was honest.
Of all the people who might be looking for added attention, I think Kristen Stewart is probably last in line. She clearly used an inappropriate word to describe her sense of violation by the paparrazzi, but she was abject in her apology and was sincerely concerned that she be considered as insensitive. She has done PSA’s for at least two rape prevention orgs in the past so she clearly has a history of taking the issue seriously.
Why is “rape” an inappropriate word to use euphemistically? You yourself used the phrase “sense of violation”… how else is she to describe a sense of violation? If she said she felt “murdered” by critics of a movie, would that also be some grand offense?
Because nothing is actually comparable to rape. She could have said “violated”. Why does everyone have to be so hyperbolic. I guess “rape” is the new “holocaust”.
if these young actors were acually in good/grown-up films, no one would care about their comments. fans and gossip sites take these comments way too literally.
This.
knight and day will be a total flop. $25M tops.
45 million as the first person said.
If someone was following me around taking my pictures or documenting everything that I said when I was 20… It would not have been pretty. Same probably goes for most of us
“… her unladylike graphic description of her sexual appetite…”
Gimme a break.
I’m not sufficiently convinced Knight and Day will be a total bomb, but I’m guessing opening weekend will be $25-32 million and somewhere around $90-110 million total.
Toy Story 3, though for a different audience, is really going to punish the newcomers for a while. And when the Twilight pandemonium begins again on June 30, Knight and Day will be a distant memory.
Yeah, I think you’re pretty much on the money: $25-30m and a final domestic take just under $80m. It’ll probably do a bit better internationally though, depending on what they release it against.
Brett, I have no interest in betting a nut as I only have one left after making a similar wager that MacGruber would make 150 mil domestic.
I’m done on the nut betting thing.
Hopefully this will result in salary cutbacks for stars. Studios could spend more money on developing quality projects than spending tens of millions to stars for a mere two-three months of work. come on already. it needs to stop.
Katherine Heigl is another loose cannon. She’s bordering on Sinéad O’Connor territory with her opinions on EVERYTHING.
I’m offended on Sinead’s behalf!
Sinead at least had something to say that required actual thought, whether you agreed or not.
Heigl seems to have a special knack for putting foot in mouth, all to complain about how awful she’s treated on-set. Frankly, I think she’s being given far more than anyone of her meager abilities should have ever been allowed to have.
Of all of the Grey’s Anatomy departures, hers was the one that made me cheer.
I cheered too. It meant I had another free hour each week; her performance (despite some god-awful material) was the only thing compelling me to watch the long in the tooth Grey’s Anatomy.
Honestly, I thought Shia’s comments were both mature, reserved, and spot on. I’m sure it didn’t win him any favors in the Old Hollywood camp, but everything he said about Indy 4 was absolutely correct. Spielberg has been off his game for close to a decade now, whether anyone wants to admit it or not, and pretending otherwise is pandering and disrespectful to the man and his otherwise stellar body of work. That said, Shia was also absolutely correct in pointing out that while the whole swordfighting-on-cars-swinging-with-the-monkeys was ridiculous, in the end it is the actors job to sell it convincingly, ridiculous or not. He failed at this, and he owned up to it, completely. To be honest, I didn’t think much of the guy before, but after reading his candid, self effacing comments, I found a new respect for him. Criticism of the train wreck that was Indy 4 has been the 800 pound cinematic gorilla in the room for 2 years now, so crucifying him for having the stones to point it out in a respectful manner is more damaging to your credibility then his.
As for Fox, she’s just a balloon lipped twit, who made the age old mistake of confusing physical beauty with talent and relevance, of which the former she’s never had, and the latter she’s all but lost by her own doing. The sooner she disappears into the Lifetime movie of the week ether, the better.
Don’t blame Spielberg for Indy 4. Blame Lucas, the story guy in that 80′s clusterf—. The entire plot reeks of wretched excess, and anyone who saw the Star Wars prequels would definitely recognize it.
@Cash: Ah, so Megan wasn’t telling the truth by saying that Bay is a tyrant asshole with little to no respect for his female talent (the use of “Hitler” was in poor form but any intelligent person knows what she meant)? Love the double standard.
“Maybe there’s an increased desperation to get attention for films, but these stars seem to forget their words haunt them long after the movie is forgotten.”
Maybe it’s just rampant lack of care on my part, but I don’t remember the crap these people said.
(IMO)Knight and Day is a bodiless movie. There’s nothing to it, no story, no catch, nothing intriguing, just a puff of rebreathed hollywood carbon dioxide. give me a dixie cup full of lithium and i’m still too sharp to be fooled into the theater. Cameron is the only good thing trapped between a Scientologist and a walmart-paperback movie script. My prediction: three months from opening it’ll be a redbox giveaway.
I think it’s a shame that anyone thinks that making noises around the same time as the opening is going to turn disinterest into interest. These types of viewers are more dedicated to the popcorn than the plot.
When I was a reporter and got an obvious pop-out quote, I checked to see if the interviewee was drunk or stoned and, if so, killed it. Then I weighed the whole interview to see if the subject was trying to use me to jawbone the distributor or grab headlines. If the answer to either was Yes, I also killed the quote. This had nothing to do with journalistic ethics, and I wasn’t averse to getting a hot story. I just didn’t want to be set up like a stooge with a byline.
Boy have times changed. Apparently you don’t get cast in a movie today unless you can do five minutes on Letterman, fling an F-bomb on MTV, or melt down on the red carpet. Sigh. Spontaneity has become sooooooo predictable.
Man, that was a GREAT little essay – thanks.
The answer: SPEND LESS MONEY ON MOVIES.
I am willing to see a movie despite Tom Cruise, and because of Cameron Diaz. Ever since I caught that indy film of hers where they murdered people to fertilize the tomatoes, I’ve been a fan. And ever since he jumped Oprah’s couch, I’ve been too distracted to appreciate his art.
Cameron Diaz interview won’t help or hurt. Cameron giving an outrageous quote about about sex is as predictable as Tom Cruiz talking about Scientology.
Cameron Diaz’s quotes are no racier than Halle Berry’s to Eqsuire — and on top of that, they’re both grown women, not girls. The CD interview was in Playboy, not Parade, and the interview catered to the audience.
I’ll see your $25m and raise ya 50 cents.
Knight and Day is the one movie i’ve been looking forward to all summer — it opens wed june 23rd and also Inception.
Jonah Hex has bomb written all over it. I wouldn’t piss on that movie if the neg-print was on fire.
Toy Story 3 is going to be HUGE this weekend and the next. It will ultimately be the #1 film of the Summer. (Inception will be #2!) Knight and Day will be a distant #2 next weekend, and will be lucky to crack $100 mil domestic, total. Internationally, the movie will be much bigger, with twice as much. So it’s not going to be a total turkey, but no one will remember it fondly after it limps away from the theaters…
Kristen Stewart obviously got into acting because she wants to be an artist instead of being a famewhore. How dare she!