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...reminding the audience of the event's significance in the film world: "If a bomb went off here," the comic said, "There would be no one left to make a documentary about it." A lot of Santa Monica, Calif., sun shone down on the dysfunctional family comedy Little Miss Sunshine, which won Best Feature, Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin - who's also nominated for an Oscar - Best Director for the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and best first screenplay for Michael Arndt...
This weekend's Best Picture contender Little Miss Sunshine was the indie miracle of 2006, the quirky, come-from-nowhere comedy that became one of the biggest hits of the year and a possible Oscar champ. Too bad you can't say the same for Zyzzyx Road, another small 2006 indie that hit the record books for another reason entirely - after a single week's showing in a quiet Dallas movie house, it became the lowest-grossing film ever released, at least since modern record-keeping began...
...Daily Variety mentioned the dismal box-office in a story last month, and since then the web has been abuzz with news, gossip and (mostly) bad jokes about the film. Produced for an estimated $1.2 million - about one-eighth the budget of Little Miss Sunshine - Zyzzyx Road played in a single, solitary Texas theater late last year. What happened? The answer is actually simple: the brief release in an inaccessible spot was deliberately chosen by the filmmakers to validate the Screen Actors Guild pay scales for films under $2.5 million...
...manufacturer responsible for such culinary legends as Chef Boyardee, Reddi-Wip, Swiss Miss and Slim Jim is racing to retrieve and incinerate the polluted peanut spread as quickly as it can. It has advised consumers to throw out any remaining Peter Pan in their kitchen cabinets, but it is also busy retrieving unsold jars from major retailers. The company refused to confirm whether it would actually incinerate all the offending peanut butter that is returned or still at the plant; there is also a provision from the FDA that allows ConAgra to irreparably "damage" or crush the jars and then...
...foreign box office gross is four times higher than its domestic totals. My personal favorite for Best Picture, the film has a shot at winning, despite its unflattering portrayal of American soldiers. More commercially successful films like “The Departed,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” and “Babel” however, might attract more Academy voters. It was an ambitious year for British films, too, many of which were honored with some kind of nomination. “The Queen” grabbed the fifth Best Picture nomination...