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Colbert Super PAC Ad Attacks... Colbert

And Samuel L. Jackson narrates

(Newser) - The Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC is certainly spending a lot of time and money urging people not to vote for Stephen Colbert . The latest ad released by the super PAC is an all-out attack on Colbert, an "East Coast Hollywood elite" who is "turning...

Top-Grossing Actor of All Time Is...

Not who you might think

(Newser) - Samuel L. Jackson has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-grossing actor of all time, according to the Hollywood Reporter . Jackson’s films—he’s made more than 100—have earned more than $7.4 billion, thanks in part to huge earners like the Star ...

Samuel L. Jackson Records Go the F*** to Sleep

Audiobook available for free

(Newser) - Samuel L. Jackson—he of the “motherf--ing snakes on this motherf---ing plane”—has lent his talents to another modern classic: the wildly popular “kids’” book Go the F*** to Sleep , by Adam Mansbach. He narrates the audiobook version of the story, which has also been optioned...

Hardest-Working Film Actors

 Hardest-Working 
 Film Actors 

Dec 28, 2008 3:01 PM CST

Hardest-Working Film Actors

Morgan Freeman tops list with 9 films in 5 years

(Newser) - Who's the hardest-working actor in show biz? Many would lay claim to the title, but Forbes actually tallied which troupers took on the most meaty roles in big-budget films over the past 3 years:
  • Morgan Freeman: Hollywood's top worker, he's played in nine films since 2005, including The Bucket List,
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Scarlett's Used Tissue Passes $2K on EBay

Johansson auctions off used tissue to feed the hungry

(Newser) - Scarlett Johansson is proving that even Hollywood glamour-pusses can be gross. The actress thinks her flem would make a nice fan memento, so she’s auctioned off a used tissue to raise money for a hunger charity. Bidding on eBay has already topped $2,000, the New York Daily News ...

Mac Gives Soul to Uneven Film
 Mac Gives Soul to Uneven Film 
Movie Review
Nov 7, 2008 3:53 PM CST

Mac Gives Soul to Uneven Film

Critics divided, but star wins them over

(Newser) - Soul Men is the cinematic swan song of both Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes, and they undoubtedly deserve better, “given how easily it slips into conventionally vulgar and predictably crude” humor, writes John Anderson in Newsday. Still, get past the “old-man jokes, low-rent sex humor” and the film...

Lakeview Bullies Box Office
 Lakeview Bullies Box Office 
Sep 21, 2008 6:00 PM CDT

Lakeview Bullies Box Office

Samuel L. Jackson thriller beats Coen brothers for top spot

(Newser) - Samuel L. Jackson thriller Lakeview Terrace debuted at number one over a soft box office weekend, Variety reports. Banking $15.6 million, it ousted Burn After Reading ($11.3 million) and outpaced My Best Friend’s Girl ($8.3 million), Igor ($8 million), and Righteous Kill ($7.7 million). Ricky...

Lakeview Not a Pretty Picture
 Lakeview Not a Pretty Picture 
movie review
Sep 19, 2008 11:50 AM CDT

Lakeview Not a Pretty Picture

Jackson can't save formulaic flick

(Newser) - Lakeview Terrace labors mightily to turn its B-movie cop/neighbor-from-hell premise into “deep social commentary about race, or real estate, or something,” writes Chris Farnsworth of E!, “but the result is an inexplicable mess.” The tensions between Samuel L. Jackson’s loose cannon cop and the interracial...

Force is Weak in Clone Wars
 Force is Weak in Clone Wars 
MOVIE REVIEW
Aug 15, 2008 1:45 PM CDT

Force is Weak in Clone Wars

Animated Star Wars feature doesn't quite replicate the feel of the real thing

(Newser) - Star Wars: The Clone Wars fills a gap in the saga's chronology, and although the animated feature may give devoted Lucasfilm fans their fix before the TV series launches this fall, the oddly lifeless movie "isn't the Star Wars we've known and loved, Todd McCarthy writes in Variety.

Jumper Lands With a Thud
Jumper Lands With a Thud
NEW RELEASE
Feb 15, 2008 8:47 AM CST

Jumper Lands With a Thud

Dull plotting, acting undermine high-concept thriller

(Newser) - The concept for Jumper seems promising: An awkward teenage boy who discovers he has the power to instantly teleport himself to anywhere on the globe is targeted for elimination by religious fanatics. And in some respects the film delivers on that promise. "The jumping effect is faultlessly executed,"...

'Champ' Packs a Weak Punch
'Champ' Packs a Weak Punch
Aug 24, 2007 11:45 AM CDT

'Champ' Packs a Weak Punch

(Newser) - The newsroom-meets-boxing-ring drama "Resurrecting the Champ" is slow on its feet, critics say, weighed down by its own sentimentality, despite a powerful performance by Samuel L. Jackson—"slumming again in a role miles beneath him," writes Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post—and a taste of the...

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