Dee was a supporting-actress nominee for last year's American Gangster, while Cohen had a screenplay nomination the previous year with Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Also on the list of invitees released Monday were Jason Reitman, a best-director nominee for last year's Juno, and that film's writer, Diablo Cody, who won the original-screenplay Oscar.

Others include directors Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry) and Gore Verbinski (The Pirates of the Caribbean movies); writers Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Jeff Nathanson (Catch Me If You Can) and Tamara Jenkins (The Savages); and animators Ash Brannon (Surf's Up) and David Silverman (The Simpsons Movie).

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Borat Rules the Box Office Again

For the second week in a row, Borat ruled the box office, making an estimated $29,0000 million, with a very nice $11,301 per screen average. In second place was The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, which made $16,893,000. In third place was Flushed Away, which made an estimated $16,710,000.

Opening this past weekend was the delightful new Will Ferrell/Emma Thompson comedy, Stranger Than Fiction, which came in fifth with an estimated box office of $14,100,000. The film made an impressive $6,227 per theater. We loved this film: Ferrell shows he has both comedic and dramatic talent, and Emma Thompson is hilarious as a neurotic literary author who spends her days figuring out how to kill of her main character. Dustin Hoffman as the literary professor who tries to diagnose Harold Crick's (Ferrell's) problem is also a standout. Is Crick in a comedy? A tragedy? Will he die? It's well-worth seeing the film just to find out.

Posted on November 13, 2006
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Borat Tops the Box Office

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan led the box office this past weekend with an estimated take of $26,375,000. In second place was The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause which made an estimated $20 million. In third place was the other family-friendly film, Flushed Away, which made an estimated $19,100,000.

Saw III made another $15,500,000, bringing its total to $60,077,000. Saw IV is already in the works: expect more fun torture scenes to hit theatres on Halloween, 2007. Martin Scorcese's The Departed came in fifth with an estimated $8 million, bringing its total take to $102,282,000.

And for those of you who are hoping to horrify beachgoers everywhere, you can buy Borat's neon man-thong swimsuit on Ebay.com. There are some articles comparing the Borat character to Mahir Cagri who was famous for his "I Kiss You" homepage. Fortunately, Mahir never wore the neon man-thong.

Posted on November 6, 2006
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