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Record-Breaking Memorial Weekend 2013! ‘Fast & Furious 6′ Huge #1 With $39M Friday/$121M For Franchise Biggest; ‘Hangover III’ $14.5M/$52M; ‘Epic’ $9.1M/$44.2M

SATURDAY 11:30 AM, 8TH UPDATE: Universal’s Fast & Furious 6 opened day and date with the U.S. and Canada in 59 international territories and is breaking records. The studio says it opened #1 in every territory and is dominating the box office with 65% market share. Friday’s international gross is $36M at 8,583 dates for an early total of $90M. This is Universal’s highest grossing Friday of all time and will be Universal’s biggest overseas weekend by a large margin. The international total will be $169M though Sunday. Combined with the North American estimates of $96.2M, the three-day weekend worldwide total will be $265.2M. SATURDAY 6:30 AM, 7TH UPDATE: Summer 2013 keeps sizzling as huge grosses for the Top 6 movies add up to the biggest Memorial Day weekend and the biggest 4-day holiday eve r(numbers below). That’s potentially $300+ million, easily beating 2011′s all-time Memorial Weekend record of $276M. Yowza! The easy #1 is Universal’s Fast & Furious 6 pulling ahead with $39M Friday (including Thursday late shows and Friday midnights) to target $121M for the holiday weekend from 3,658 domestic theaters. After 12 years, five films and more than $1.5 billion at the global box office, the sixth Fast & Furious installment successfully transitioned from street racing to heist action to terrorist plot and will be the franchise’s biggest opening by far. Audiences gave it an ‘A’ CinemaScore which will help word of ... Read More »

Frances Bean Cobain to Kendall Jenner: Cancel Your Pity Party!

Frances Bean Cobain is not letting Kendall Jenner off the hook.

After the former slammed the latter as a self-absorbed idiot for Tweeting about the difficulty of her life, Jenner responded in fairly reasonable fashion.

She acknowledged her good fortune in life, but also took Cobain to task for judging her, essentially asking: Can't wealthy people have problems, too?

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So, with the contentious ball in Frances' Twitter court, the 20-year old wrote back last night with a semi-apology ("I don't know you nor do I think ur a bad person"), followed by a bashing of both Kendall and many social media users in general:

"Publicly complaining about how hard your life is is completely self serving ... I believe that venting about ones problems via the Internet is a blatant cry for attention. "

Cobain concluded with words of wisdom/mockery:

"I try to deal w/ pain in a manner that pertains to my real life not in a way where strangers throw me a pity party."

Is Cobain out of line? Do you agree with her assessment of self-serving Tweets overall? Should Kendall just shut up already?

Choose a side in this feud:

Cannes: Un Certain Regard Winners Include ‘The Missing Picture’, ‘Fruitvale Station’

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Cannes: ‘The Missing Picture’ Wins Un Certain Regard Prize

"The Missing Picture" by Rithy Panh has been named the best film in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival.

The jury was headed by Danish director Thomas Vinterberg and also included actresses Ludivine Sagnier and Zhang Ziyi..

Other films in the sidebar included Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring," Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station," Claire Denis' "Bastards" and James Franco's "As I Lay Dying."

The awards:

PRIZE OF UN CERTAIN REGARD
                      THE MISSING PICTURE by Rithy PANH

JURY PRIZE
                      OMAR by Hany ABU-ASSAD
 
DIRECTING PRIZE
Alain GUIRAUDIE for STRANGER BY THE LAKE
 
A CERTAIN TALENT PRIZE
                      For the ensemble cast of LA JAULA DE ORO by Diego QUEMADA-DIEZ
 
AVENIR PRIZE
                      FRUITVALE STATION by Ryan COOGLER     

‘Fast & Furious 6′ Driving Record Memorial Day Weekend at Box Office

"Fast & Furious 6" put its pedal to the metal with a $38.1 million Friday that has the Memorial Day weekend box office on a blistering record pace.

The latest entry in Universal's muscle-car movie franchise could hit $120 million for the four-day weekend, and the overall box office is on track to top $300 million, which would easily outstrip the $276 million rung up in 2011, when "Hangover II" led the way with $85 million.

The follow-up to that film, "The Hangover Part III," was running second after bringing in $14.5 million Friday. The final installment in Warner Bros.' raunchy R-rated comedy series, which opened Thursday, is looking at four-day total of around $53 million, and should wind up at around $63 million for the long weekend.

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"Fast & Furious 6" was scoring overseas too. It debuted No. 1 in 59 foreign markets and took in $36 million Friday, which projects to more than $150 million from abroad this weekend. That will easily beat the studio's previous best, which was the $92.3 million "Fast Five" rolled up in 2011.

Combined with the huge domestic debut, it was the best-ever Friday at the box office for Universal, which could see a worldwide total of $265 million for "Fast & Furious 6" by the end of the weekend.

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The weekend's other wide opener, Fox's animated family film "Epic," debuted with $9.2 million and is on its way to around $43 million for the four days. Its project weekend gross places it just behind last week's No. 1 movie, Paramount's "Star Trek Into Darkness," which took in $10 million and is on pace for a $48 million four-day haul.

The next three days should stay busy at the box office, with both "Fast & Furious 6" and "Epic" receiving "A" CinemaScore grades from first-night audiences and driving word of mouth. "Hangover III" got a "B."

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Disney's Marvel superhero sequel "Iron Man 3" rolled up another $5.1 million Friday and should finish at around $26 million for the four days. That raises its domestic total to $351 million, and its worldwide haul to more than $1.1 billion.

Warner Bros. "The Great Gatsby," which topped $100 million domestically Thursday, followed with $3.9 million Friday and is looking at a $16.8 million four-day total. "Mud," "The Croods," "42" and "Oblivion" rounded out the top ten.

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"Fast & Furious 6" dominated Friday, averaging $10,440 on its 3,658 screens. "The Hangover Part III" averaged $4,060 per-screen in 3,555 theaters.

"Fast and Furious 6" brings back Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson along with director Justin Lin, who has overseen four of the franchise's films. It also revives fan-favorite Michelle Rodriguez, who was killed off in an earlier segment.

The London-set terrorist plot is a long way from the franchise's street-racing roots. Since the first film 12 years ago the "Fast and Furious" movies have brought in more than $1.5 billion.

Cannes: Lesbian Coming-of-Age Story ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ Wins Fipresci Prize

"Blue is the Warmest Color," Abdellatif Kechiche's three-hour coming-of-age drama about a teenage girl in a lesbian relationship, was named the best film in the main competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival by the Fipresci International Federation of Film Critics.

The film, titled "La Vie D'Adele – Chapitre 1 & 2" in French, received widespread attention for its lengthy, graphic sex scenes, but it also took many critics by surprise and became one of the best-reviewed films of the festival.

The winner was chosen by a jury of nine international film critics headed by Klaus Eder from Bayerischer Rundfunk in Germany. The main Cannes jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, will award the Palme d'Or on Sunday.

Mohammad Rasoulof's "Manuscripts Don't Burn" won the Fipresci award as the best film in the Un Certain Regard section, while Jeremy Saulnier's "Blue Ruin" was chosen tops in the Directors' Fortnight section.

Last year's winners were Sergi Loznitza's "In the Fog" in the main competition, Benh Zeitlin's Oscar-nominated "Beasts of the Southern Wild" from Un Certain Regard and Rachad Djaidani's "Hold Back" from Directors' Fortnight.

In another award announced on Saturday, Asghar Farhadi's "The Past" won the top prize from the Cannes Ecumenical Jury. Farhadi's last film, the Oscar-winning "A Separation," had won that same prize at Cannes two years ago.

The Ecumenical Jury gave special commendations to actress-turned-director Valeria Golino's "Miele" and Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Like Father, Like Son."

UPDATE: SAG-AFTRA Calls Foreign Residuals Lawsuit Claims “Without Merit”

UPDATE, 10:48 AM: The union says that it will “vigorously respond in the appropriate forum in due course” to the suit filed Friday by former SAG president Ed Asner and others over $110 million in undistributed residuals and royalties. Claiming that they are “proud” and “confident” in their foreign royalties program, SAG-AFTRA admit they haven’t actually seen the filing itself. Still, based on previous correspondence with the plaintiffs, the union calls the claims “completely without merit.” Read SAG-AFTRA’s full statement here:

We are very proud of, and confident in, our unclaimed residuals and foreign royalties programs which distribute millions of dollars to performers every year. The foreign royalties program has successfully distributed to performers more than $14 million — money that would otherwise go uncollected and be lost to them forever. The foreign royalties program was previously subject to a class action lawsuit that resulted in a resolution favorable to the union after intense scrutiny of the program. While we have not been provided with a copy of the current complaint, the claims as presented in the plaintiff’s earlier correspondence have been thoroughly reviewed and are completely without merit. We will vigorously respond in the appropriate forum in due course.  

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Ahead of tonight’s Un Certain Regard prizes comes word that the International Federation of Film Critics has honored three films in three Cannes sections. Directors’ Fortnight title Blue Ruin, which Radius-TWC has Stateside, took the FIPRESCI prize for a film in a parallel section. Jeremy Saulnier directs. Abdellatif Kechiche’s hot Competition title Blue Is The Warmest Color was FIPRESCI’s pick from among that section. In the Un Certain Regard sidebar, banned Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s Manuscripts Don’t Burn was the FIPRESCI winner. Cineuropa reports that prizes were also handed out by the Ecumenical Jury today, with Asghar Farhadi’s The Past (Sony Pictures Classics) the main winner. Hirozaku Kore-Eda’s Competition title Like Father, Like Son and Valeria Golino’s Un certain Regard entry Miele each received a special mention.

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In the spirit of one a program that's had some of the heaviest and most successful "inside jokes" in the history of television, we proudly present you with the 10 best.

1. "Hey, Brother!"

Buster (Tony Hale) pretty much had one greeting for every member of his family -- especially the male siblings. Here's a bunch in one hysterically repetitive montage.

2. Tobias' "Unintentional" Homoerotic Comments

Tobias Funke (David Cross) is not gay, though nearly everything he says and does would contradict that. And the "world's first Analrapist's" way of turning a phrase became ever more ridiculous as the show's original run unfolded:

3. George Michael's Ann/Egg

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4. "I've Made a Huge Mistake."

Gob Bluth (Will Arnett) made a lot of mistakes over the first three seasons of the show. Here are a number of them in an extended moment of self-reflection:

5. The Chicken Dances

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6. Buster's Hand/"Loose Seal"

The writers foreshadowed Buster losing his hand to a rogue seal brilliantly -- well before any of us really knew it was happening. And though Buster's run-ins with overprotective and overbearing mom Lucille, girlfriend Lucille Austero and ultimately an actual "loose seal" left him anything but "all right," you wouldn't know it from the description of the Bluth family doctor, who lacks bedside manner, logic, and tact. See what we mean next.

7. The Literal Doctor

The world's worst emergency room physician takes the Hippocratic Oath quite hypocritically. Don't ever take this guy at his word.

8. Franklin Delano Bluth

In an effort to "hip up" his act, Gob had briefly introduced a puppet -- a super vulgar, awesomely racist puppet that clashed quite a bit with the rest of the Bluths. Together, Gob and Franklin released one hit single, "It Ain't Easy Bein White or Brown."

9. "Come On!"

Never has such a short, common phrase so perfectly encompassed an entire family of failures. The Bluth's cannot catch a break, though it's pretty much their own fault every single time. Come on!

10. J. Walter Weatherman, Life Lesson Coach

Weatherman (Steve Ryan), an old employee of George Bluth Sr,. always popped up when somebody needed to learn a life lesson the hard way. After all, who better to scare the behavior out of impressionable children (and eventually adults) than a one-armed man? Sometimes kids don't leave notes and sometimes they yell -- and THAT'S why you always keep J. Walter Weatherman on the payroll.

 

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And then there were two.

As Saturday broke in Cannes, 18 of the 20 films in competition for the Palme d'Or had screened. Only Jim Jarmusch's vampire movie "Only Lovers Left Alive" and Roman Polanski's presumably kinky "Venus in Fur" remained.

And with the Jarmusch taking the 8:30 a.m. slot on the heels of its Friday sale to Sony Pictures Classics, reactions quickly began coming in on the latest film from the man who'd been to Cannes with "Stranger Than Paradise" and "Mystery Train."

A few samples from Twitter:

Guy Lodge from In Contention: "Jarmusch! Vampires! Exactly what you'd expect! Droll enough, but an extended sketch, badly in need of eroticism."

Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere: "Jim Jarmusch's 'Only Lovers Left Alive' is a perfect William S. Burroughsian nocturnal hipster mood trip...I sank into it like heroin."

Eric Kohn from Indiewire: "Surprised to find Jarmusch's 'Only Lovers Left Alive' is a charming deadpan comedy that resurrects the spirit of his '80s movies."

TotalFilm: "No surprise that Jarmusch's 'Only Lovers Left Alive' offers a singular vision. Big surprise it's so funny."

Jordan Hoffman of Film.com: "Undoubtedly the coolest movie at Cannes."

Electric Sheep Magazine: "Dreamy, romantic vampire tale 'Only Lovers Left Alive' sees Jim Jarmusch back on top form in his deadpan, warped sense of humour."

Nobody's calling the Jarmusch film a masterpiece, mind you. In fact, the word masterpiece hasn't been thrown around much at this Cannes, with lots of films winning admirers but few prompting expressions of shock and awe.

But Grantland's Wesley Morris decided on the spur of the moment Friday to see a four-hour-and-10-minute Filipino movie called "Norte, the End of History," which is playing in the Un Certain Regard section.  And after wondering for the first 45 minutes if he should leave, he wound up sticking around, then leaping to his feet and joining in the lengthy standing ovation. It was, he said, the first time he's ever applauded for a movie.

"This is the sort of masterpiece the main competition has yet to produce, an astonishing work of life, death, and art that isn't bluntly political, vapidly violent, or completely self-obsessed," he wrote. "It's a crime for the directors on the jury — [Steven] Spielberg, [Naomi] Kawase, Ang Lee, Cristian Mungiu, and Lynne Ramsay — not to have the opportunity to see it."

And from the (reportedly) sublime to the (unquestionably) ridiculous, for most of the past 10 days we've avoided rounding up much news from the Cannes Film Festival's evil twin, the marche du film, where schlock is bought and sold in the shadows of the high art being celebrated at the festival. But the Guardian's Friday roundup of the 12 worst posters of projects up for grabs in the marche is irresistible.

There's "Copposites" ("A crook. A cop. A body swap."), and "Sharknado" (yeah, it's a tornado full of sharks), and "Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman," and "FDR American Badass" and "Abner the Invisible Dog" and eight more. We've put a couple of choice posters here, but it's worth the trip to check out the whole batch, and to imagine the hundreds that just missed making the cut.

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