The nominations for the 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced today. The Last Samurai scored 3 nominations
YAY!!
BFCA (Broadcast film Critics awards) were announced today. The Last Samurai is nominated for:
These awards will air in January on E!
The Last Samurai also recieved 10 (!!) nominations for GOLDEN SATELLITE AWARDS:
THE LAST SAMURAI presents a timeless story of honor in the cinematic tradition of Akira Kurosawa. This beautifully crafted star vehicle serves one of America’s modern screen icons, and Tom Cruise not only rises to the challenge, but carries the film into the history books with great dignity. The recreation of 19th Century Japan is a feast for the eyes, and Ed Zwick’s masterful direction not only presents spectacular battle scenes, but never loses sight of what the individual warriors stood for
TLS’s opening weekend gross, accoring do boxofficemojo.com is $ 24.4 million. Also, Tom will be on the Ellen show this Wednesday
Box Office Preview
‘Last’ First
Tom Cruise’s ”Samurai” will reign at the box office. A surprise second-place finish from Jessica Alba would push ”The Cat” and the ”Elf” back in their hats
‘LAST’ CALL Will Tom’s new movie cruise to the number one spot this weekend?
With Thanksgiving now a memory, adults and teens will banish families from the multiplexes this weekend, with the release of Tom Cruise’s ”The Last Samurai” and Jessica Alba’s ”Honey.”
Cruise has proven himself a mammoth box office draw over the last 15 years, even managing a $25 million debut for 2001’s disappointing ”Vanilla Sky.” With ”Samurai”’s epic action sequences and early critical acclaim (filmmaker Ed Zwick just won Best Director honors from the National Board of Review), it should perform even better, premiering with about $28 million over the weekend.
I’m predicting a surprise second-place finish for ”Honey,” Jessica Alba’s hip-hop dancing story, with the rationale that young girls will flood theaters while their male counterparts are trying to sneak into the R-rated ”Samurai.” ”Honey” is only opening in about 1,900 theaters but could still debut with $17 million.
The holiday hits ”The Cat in the Hat” and ”Elf” will likely compete for No. 3, each slipping 40 to 45 percent and earning around $13 million, while Eddie Murphy’s critically trounced ”The Haunted Mansion” should drop 50 percent to $12 million. That’s not good scary, that’s bad scary.
source: Entertainment Weekly
Tom thinks life is good, he says here at news.yahoo.com. Also nice to read is the fact that earlier this week, the U.S. National Board of Review has picked TLS as one of 2003’s top movies and gave its best director honor to the film’s Ed Zwick. CNN also thinks Tom is brilliant in TLS, go here to read it. 31 pictures you can watch here. CBS thinks everything about TLS is big; go here to read the piece. It’s a nice article. ‘A cut above’ is from Canoe.
Something else: According to news.com.au there is no Lenny & Nicole (story). Strange, given the fact that Tom said they’re together…
P.S.: EW.com has an article – Tom Cruise’s “Samurai” will reign the box office – but again it is only accessable by an AOL-member. So… anybody? Please forward it to Annie if you can.
Who can access the people.com site? I can’t because you have to live in the USA and/or have to have an AOL-account to read the articles. People.com has an item on “Tom’s greatest moments” and I’ve seen some other Tom-stuff on the site but as you know by now I can’t read it. So whoever can, please search the topics and e-mail us the info please!!
We will be eternally grateful!
That man keeps getting better and better!!! I’ve got pictures from the The Last Samurai Press Conference in BH.
