Congratulations to the Critics Choice TV Winners

In progress now but I'm about to leave for a Cars 2 screening -- Vroom Vroom (and wish me luck) -- so I won't know the rest of the winners till later. John Noble (Fringe) won Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Margo Martindale (Justified) and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) tied for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Jon Hamm won Best Actor in a Drama (Mad Men)

The reporters ask Margo about Paris Je T'Aime and it was clear from both the question and the response that that particular gig (courtesy of Alexander Payne) has been fruitful and meaningful for fans and the actress herself.

you can follow a live stream backstage here. My friend Roberta of Basket of Kisses / Mad Men fandom fame, just asked Christina a question!

UPDATE: Here are the winners

• BEST DRAMA Mad Men
• BEST COMEDY Modern Family
• BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA Juliana Marguiles, The Good Wife
• BEST ACTOR, DRAMA Jon Hamm, Mad Men
• BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY Tina Fey, 30 Rock
• BEST ACTOR, COMEDY Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA (tie) Christina Hendricks, Mad Men & Margo Martindale, Justified
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA John Noble, Fringe
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY Busy Phillips, Cougar Town
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
• BEST TALK SHOW The Daily Show
• BEST REALITY SHOW Hoarders
• BEST REALITY SHOW HOST Mike Rowe, Dirty Jobs
  

This list of winners tells us that the new offshoot of the BFCA is much less concerned about "predicting" the Emmys than the film branch is to predicting the Oscars. Nice to see, don't you think?

Anyway... Ohmygod, I love that scene in Paris Je T'Aime so much and now it's all I can think of so let's watch it again.

Payne, je l'aime.

Box Office: Green Seeking Green

It takes money to make money. But in some cases, green seeking green cannot ever find enough of it. Warner Bros and DC bet big on Green Lantern shelling out $200 million for production and another $125 million in advertising to build awareness but the $53 million opening is not going to convince anyone to greenlight (haha) a sequel. Unless the Lantern Corps has legs. Three fantastical f/x movies opening soon Transformers, Harry Potter and Captain America are probably feeling like huge Yellow villains to Hal Jordan at this point. Maybe he shouldn't have played it so smug and arrogant?

HIS CONSTRUCTS ARE WEAK!

U.S. Box-Office (Actuals)
figures via box office mojo

01 GREEN LANTERN new $53.1 [review]
02 SUPER 8 $21.4 [thoughts] (cum. $73)
03 MR POPPER'S PENGUINS new  $18.4
04 X-MEN FIRST CLASS $11.9 (cum. $120.3) [review, top ten X-moments]
05 THE HANGOVER PT II $10 (cum. $233.1)
06 KUNG FU PANDA 2 $9 (cum. $143.6)
07 BRIDESMAIDS $7 (cum. $136.4) ♥
08 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES $6.6 (cum. $220.7) [review]
09 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS $4.8 (cum. $21.4) [podcast]
10 JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER $2.1 (cum. $11)

11 THE TREE OF LIFE $1.1 (cum. $3.9) [My thoughts and "Overheard"]
12 THOR $1.1 (cum. $176.1) [review]

In other box office news: Midnight in Paris (just discussed) will become Woody Allen's highest grosser since the 1980s this week. Bridesmaids continues to have miniscule drops each week and I suspect it'll have the longest top ten run this entire summer. And aside from the documentary smash Fahrenheit 9/11,  The Tree of Life is the biggest grossing Palme D'Or winner from the past several years.

What did you see over the weekend? Did you love it?

Haiku for Nicole

For Nicole Kidman on her 44th birthday...

Oh Sparkling Diamond
bewitching bohemians and
moviegoers, too.

Your breakthrough triumph
"She sings! She dances! She dies!"
Still thrills us. But then...

Grace with figurines
Anna at the opera
Suzanne on TV

Margot's chilled wine
Virginia's "violent jolt"
Becca with her grief...

These conjured women!
We would give you ten Oscars
Were they ours to give.

Your turn. If that 5/7/5 rhythm is too much effort this morning... feel free to compose a limerick or a simple rhyme.

Moulin Rouge! (2001), The Hours (2002), Birth and Dogville (2004), To Die For (1995), Margot at the Wedding (1997), Rabbit Hole (2010)

Point Pretty

Podcast: "Midnight in Paris" and Oscar's New Rules

Since I never officially reviewed Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, I thought we'd have to at least cover it in discussion form. So for the newest podcast, Kurt from Your Movie Buddy and first-time guest Mark Blankenship from The Criticial Condition joined me to discuss Woody Allen's biggest hit in some time as well as Oscar's new "up to 10 nominees for Best Picture" ruling, which I recently discussed with Katey for her Kino Katey podcast.

But, you know, we can't ever shut up about Oscar, can we?

Other topics: Best Original Song and first and favorite Woody Allen pictures seen. Two articles that you might want to read that we mention are Fandor's list of movies about movies and Mark's investigation of the 1980s in the Best Original Song category.

As always please join the conversation in the comments.

PODCAST: Midnight in Paris