Word: cameronism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...done a serious turn with Little Children, Todd Field's tale of suburban suffocation, she's dipping her foot into her first big commercial movie since Titanic, Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday. Winslet plays Iris, a retiring English wallflower who swaps houses for Christmas with Cameron Diaz's overachieving Hollywood type. This is the first film in which Winslet has ever played who she actually is, a modern young British woman. But Iris is Winslet too. "You, I can tell, are a leading lady," the completely irresistible 90-year-old Eli Wallach chides her. "But for some reason...
...paying stratospheric salaries to marquee names. That strategy worked in past years if the star vehicles achieved blockbuster status. But when theater attendance plummeted and studios had to hike marketing spending to combat competition from iPods and Internet downloads last year, profit margins on such projects vaporized. In negotiating Cameron Diaz' s salary for next month' s romantic comedy,The Holiday, for instance, sources say Sony persuaded the actress--who got a reported $20 million to headline its Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle in 2003--to accept cash up front and a share of the revenue after the studio covered...
...yardstick to measure the new show by, or to rap it on the knuckles - which some opening-night critics did - for inexcusable infidelity to the original. And when I finally did catch up with the film on DVD, I surprised myself by preferring the show put on by producers Cameron Mackintosh and Disney's Tom Schumacher...
...movie," says Almodóvar. "I felt very proud. And at the same time, I was frightened." Cruz was soon cast in seemingly can't-miss projects: Billy Bob Thornton's first post-- Sling Blade directing effort, a 2000 adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, and Cameron Crowe's 2001 Vanilla Sky, a remake of a Spanish film Cruz had starred in. Forced to utter absurd lines like "Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around," Cruz somehow became the girl of co-star Tom Cruise's dreams in Sky and his first post--Nicole...
...this is no Michael Jordan. The sequence does not take place at the United Center or Cameron Indoor or even Lavietes Pavilion...