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  • Heather Graham Powerhouse Working on Three Films, Video Game

    Heather Graham is chiseling out her place on the Mt. Rushmore of Women of Hollywood lately. The actress turned heads on the red carpet at the Fandango Movieclips Comic-Con party in San Diego this week, wearing a slinky number that garnered comments galore.

    Graham was at the event to back up her appearance in Black Ops 3: Zombie Mode, to which she lends vocal talent. Heather Graham is joined on the video game sound track by the likes of Neal McDonough, Jeff Goldblum and Ron Perlman.

    But no one was talking about Ron Perlman’s figure on the red carpet. So let’s talk about what Heather Graham is doing besides just wearing dresses.

    Graham is currently working on three film projects: Half Magic, My Dead Boyfriend, and Norm Of The North. Before that, she was in Neil LaBute’s play The Money Shot in New York. She’s a busy lady.

    Half Magic is a sex comedy written, produced, and directed by Graham. She also stars in it as Honey, a woman who wants a man who can give her hot sex and is also a nice guy.

    Half Magic also stars Johnny Knoxville, Thomas Lennon, and Molly Shannon.

    For My Dead Boyfriend, Graham stars as “a woman discovers who her couch potato boyfriend really was after she finds him dead at home.” That film has John Corbett (My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding) joining Graham.

    Finally, Heather Graham is also working on Norm of the North, an animated film that features her with the voice talents of Bill Nighy, Rob Schneider, Ken Jeong, and Colm Meaney. Schneider voices Norm in the film. He voices Norm all … night … long.

    “Displaced from their Arctic home, a polar bear named Norm and his three lemming friends wind up in New York City, where Norm becomes the mascot of a corporation he soon learns is tied to the fate of his homeland.”

  • “The Dukes of Hazzard” Turns 35 Today

    If you were a kid in the 1980s, it’s likely that you and your friends went out with your bicycles, set up a ramp of some sort, and did some jumps while screaming yeehaw, and you did your best to pretend your dirt bike was the General Lee–the famous car from the classic television show “The Dukes of Hazzard.”

    If this sounds like your childhood at all, then you might be surprised to hear that today marks 35-years since the show first aired on CBS.

    For those who were a little too young to remember the show, and for some reason missed all of the reruns, “The Dukes of Hazzard” centered around two charming outlaws, Bo and Luke Duke, who spent most of their days fleeing from the local sheriff, Roscoe P. Coltrane, and his not-too-bright-deputy Enos Strate.

    The Duke boys were hardly ever guilty of any real crimes, they were usually framed somehow, and had to break a couple of laws in order to prove their innocence. And they had their gorgeous cousin, Daisy Duke, and their straight-talking uncle, Uncle Jessie, to help them whenever needed.

    Some may remember the show being turned into a feature film in 2005, but for some reason stars Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott and Jessica Simpson weren’t able to muster up the same kind of chemistry that the original cast did, plus, it seemed the writers wanted the movie to appeal to those who weren’t familiar with the show, and didn’t do too much the honor some of the original plot lines.

    In past interviews, John Schneider, who played Bo Duke on the show, said he’s proud of the work he did on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” but he doesn’t want to be defined by it.

    “Every time somebody starts out, ‘You know him best from “The Dukes of Hazzard,”‘ I just want to strangle them,” said Schneider. “I did a couple of radio interviews recently, and one guy said, ‘We got Bo Duke on the line,’ so there I am, on live radio, and I say, ‘Really? Is that right? That’s who you have on the phone right now? I’ll do ‘yeehaw’ for you later.’”

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  • ‘Bad Grandpa’ No. 1 At The Box Office

    Bad Grandpa — featuring Johnny Knoxville and child actor, Jackson Nicoll made $32 million its opening weekend to claim the No. 1 spot at the box office.

    The 3D space epic Gravity, dropped to No. 2, earning just over $20 million this week. Gravity is expected to reach over $200 million domestically sometime early next week. The movie did exceptionally well at the box office, where it was the top earning movie for three weeks prior to Bad Grandpa. So far Gravity raked in $164 million internationally and nearly $364 million worldwide.

    Bad Grandpa stars Johnny Knoxville as a grumpy 86-year-old grandpa named Irving Zisman. The film also features co-star Jackson Nicoll who plays Zisman’s  8-year-old Grandson, Billy. The twosome set out on a road trip across America, playing practical jokes and punking unsuspecting people. On their road trip, they come across a cast of interesting characters, including male strippers, bikers and testy child beauty pageant contestants.

    Though Bad Grandpa did well in its first week, it fell way behind the last Jackass film. Jackass 3D premiered in October of 2010 and earned a whopping $50.4 million in its opening week. Jackass: Number Two debut in September 2006, earning $29 million and Jackass: The Movie (the first Jackass) debut in October 2002, earning $23 million.

    Before the Jackass movies hit the silver screen, Jackass was a reality series that originally aired on MTV in 2000. The TV show featured people performing crude and often dangerous stunts and pranks. The TV show was successful and lead to the movies being made.

    Rob Moore, Paramount Pictures Vice President, says that the latest iteration of Jackass is more of a spin-off rather than a continuation of the franchise. Unlike the first three Jackass movies, Bad Grandpa has a storyline instead of just the usually practical jokes and mayhem. Moore likened Bad Grandpa to Borat than the other three Jackass films.

    “The movie is executed ala Borat, where Knoxville’s character is interacting with real people and doing crazy things,” said Moore. According to Moore Bad Grandpa played better to an older audience (only 37 percent of Bad Grandpas audience was under 25, in comparison to Jackass 3D’s 69 percent)

    Bad Grandpa also did well overseas where it debut to $8 million from 16 territories, about equal to Jackass 3D and much bigger than Jackass: Number Two.

     

    Source Hollywood Reporter

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