Word: hollywoodized
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...Both Morel movies were produced and co-written by Luc Besson, who's a one-man French film industry. He earned his early rep as a writer-director with Subway, a vivacious crime melodrama, then made the Hollywood-influenced thrillers La Femme Nikita and The Professional (which introduced Natalie Portman) and the Bruce Willis sci-fi hit The Fifth Element. Rarely directing movies anymore, he's produced nearly 70 of them this decade, most set in Paris, many in English, including the Transporter series and a couple of Jet Li action adventures. Besson is Hollywood in another...
...young did fill two slots, with a brace of movies that should duke it out for Best Picture: the Anglo-Indian Slumdog Millionaire, with 10 nominations, and the all-Hollywood The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, with 13. One film cost $15 million, the other 10 times that. Slumdog is about kids who grow into teenagers amid the civil and class chaos of modern Mumbai; Benjamin Button, about someone (Brad Pitt, no less) who's born an old man and ages backward, reaching adolescence when most people are hitting senility. Both pictures have social agendas, but they are more vigorous...
...Worst Picture, Worst Actor and Worst Actress, as well as finalists in other unconventional categories including Worst Screen Couple and Worst Prequel or Sequel. (See this year's Razzie nominees.) On Feb. 21, the day before the Oscars ceremony, the Razzies will be announced at a special dinner in Hollywood...
...there's always been talk of organizing a Razzies telecast but due to the difficulty of getting usage rights to clips from the various films the awards are intended to skewer, he doesn't think a primetime Razzie Awards show will ever be possible. "There are some people in Hollywood who get the joke, but most just seem to hate it, and wish we would go away - which of course makes all this that much funnier," he says, noting that the Razzies are more a collective condemnation of a lazy industry than a poke at a handful of bad films...
...Jerusalem-born pediatrician and a psychiatric social worker, Emanuel grew up in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette. His is a high-achieving family: one brother, Ari, is a renowned Hollywood agent who inspired a character on the television series Entourage. His other brother, Ezekiel, is an influential bioethicist who will advise the Obama Administration on health policy...