美国票房排行榜（2008.8.8）

USA Weekend Box-Office Summary
week of 8 August 2008
Rank Title Weekend Gross
1 The Dark Knight (2008) $26M $442M
2 Pineapple Express (2008) $22.4M $40.5M
3 The Mummy: Tomb of the
Dragon Emperor (2008) $16.1M $70.7M
4 The Sisterhood of the
Traveling Pants 2 (2008) $10.8M $19.7M
5 Step Brothers (2008) $8.9M $80.9M
6 Mamma Mia! (2008) $8.08M $104M
7 Journey to the Center of
the Earth (2008) $4.86M $81.8M
8 Hancock (2008) $3.3M $222M
9 Swing Vote (2008) $3.11M $12M
10 WALL·E (2008) $3.04M $210M

10位从未获得过奥斯卡奖的好莱坞最佳演员

This list contains men and women who never received Oscars in their respective fields but definitely at some point deserved one. This list does not include Honorary Oscars or Lifetime Achievement Award Oscars.

10 Albert Finney


Albert Finney has been nominated for 5 Oscars in his lifetime. His most notable performance came in one of his first, Tom Jones. He was also nominated for Erin Brokovich, The Dresser, and Volcano. If you have never seen Finney in a film, I strongly recommend you watch him in The Browning Version - a lesser known but fantastic film about a teacher of classics.

9 Richard Burton


Richard Burton was nominated 7 times for an Oscar and of those 7; six were in the best actor category. His most famous role was in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf.

8 Angela Lansbury


Ah, Mrs. Lovett. How I love her, and how the Academy Awards do not. This star was nominated 3 times for Oscars, most notably for Portrait of Dorian Grey, and The Manchurian Candidate. She is probably most famous amongst the thespians as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (the GOOD one, not the crappy one with Helena Bonham Carter who I do usually enjoy).

7 Peter O’Toole


Peter O’Toole holds the record for most nominations without ever winning, he has been nominated 8 times, most recently in 2006 with his amazing performance in Venus. He would have won in 1962 for Lawrence of Arabia, if it had not been for Atticus Finch aka Gregory Peck.

6 Fred Astaire


He was nominated only once in his long career. He is ranked fifth on AFI’s best actors of all time. He was nominated for Towering Inferno but did not win. He was later awarded honorary awards. He was most famous for his musical movies with Ginger Rogers!

5 Greta Garbo


Recently ranked fifth on AFI’s greatest female stars of all time. She was the queen of silent film and is credited as having some of the most unforgettable movie performances ever. She was nominated four times and never won. The nominations were for films such as Anna Christie, Romance (nominated for both in 1930), Camille, and Ninotchka.

4 Deborah Kerr


You may know Deborah Kerr best as Anna Leonowens from The King and I. She was nominated 6 times for an award and never won. She is considered one of the best female actresses of all time. She has the most nominations for a woman in the Best Actress role with six. She was also nominated for Edward My Son, From Here to Eternity, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, Separate Tables and The Sundowners.

3 Cary Grant


Cary Grant is ranked second on AFI’s best actors of all time. He is most known for some of the greatest movies of all time including North by Northwest, The Philadelphia Story, and To Catch a Thief.

2 Alfred Hitchcock


Hitchcock is widely viewed as one of the greatest directors of all time; he never won an Oscar. Known for classics such as Rear Window, The Birds, Rebecca, Lifeboat, and Spellbound (all of those movies where ones in which he was nominated), this Sultan of Suspense deserved one, if not all-5 Oscars he was nominated for…. Boo on the Academy!

1 Charlie Chaplin


SURPRISE! Charlie Chaplin never won an Oscar, EVER! This is rumored to be because of his public disdain for the Oscars. Nonetheless, Charlie Chaplin is considered by many to be the most influential and greatest actor of all time. He received 2 honorary Oscars, but as I said earlier those don’t count. No doubt he should have at least won ONE!

Notable omissions (and there are a few): Glenn Close, Orson Wells, Rosalind Russell, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, D.W. Griffith, and King Vidor

连环画改编电影中的10大性感女英雄

Since so much attention has been paid to Comic Con over the last few weeks, I know that geek radar is on full alert for the unusual sex kitten. And in that spirit, I felt it was my duty to compile a list of actresses that made these comic movies just a little bit “sexier” by their presence.

Enjoy these ten actresses who were in movies based on comics. (The list is in reverse order, 10 to 1)

10. Helen Slater - Supergirl

I’m sure there will be a remake of this in the next few years but let us not forget the original movie Supergirl, Helen Slater. God what a terrible movie.

9. Lena Headley - 300

Yes, 300 was based on a comic, and Lena Headley couldn’t have been a better pick to play Queen Gorgo.

8. Kate Bosworth - Superman Returns

I hate to use the word “hottest” when describing Bosworth as Lois Lane, because she’s more beautiful than hot. Then again, I’d marry her in a second if she asked.

7. Eva Mendes - Ghost Rider

Playing Roxanne Simpson must have been a real joy. This movie was not good. Nevertheless, it’s still Eva Mendes.

6. Jessica Biel - Blade: Trinity

This is right around when Biel started to become quite buff. I’ll take it.

5. Halle Barry - X Men or Catwoman

Whether it’s Storm or Catwoman, it’s Halle Barry, period. You really can’t go wrong with anything Barry is in. Does she ever look bad? Catwoman is a poor excuse due to the fact that it was loosely based on a DC comic, but so what? We still have X-Men.

4. Angelina Jolie - Wanted

I’m not going to lie. This was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my entire life. However, Jolie as Fox was the only thing that made this movie even remotely watchable. What an ass.

3. Kim Basinger - Batman

Vicky Vale! Man I loved Basinger in Tim Burton’s Batman. Such a hottie.

2. Rebecca Romijn Stamos - X Men

She might have been blue and another species, but you can’t deny that Mystique was definitely doable. Stamos was also in The Punisher.

1. Jessica Alba - Sin City or Fantastic Four

Alba is usually number one on most hot girl lists, so why should this one be any different? Have you guys seen Sin City? Did you see her on the dance pole as a go go dancer? Enough said. It’s not even close.

10大最佳电影结尾（News of the World）

THE end of a film is its make or break moment - will you be blown away by the last thing the director throws at you, or will it make the last couple of hours feel like a total waste of time?

Read News of the World film critic Robbie Collin's ten favourite film endings of all time (complete with spoilers, of course).

With so many classics to choose from, we've found that even some of the greatest (such as King Kong, E.T and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid) have narrowly missed the list!

But what do you think? We want to know what your favourite movie endings of all time are.

1. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION 1993

HOVERING round the top of most people’s favourite films list and rightfully so, it’s Shawshank’s lengthy and at times unpredictable ending that cements this movie’s place in your heart.

We know Andy Defresne isn’t in jail any more, yes. But where the hell is he, and HOW DID HE DO IT? Frank Darabont takes his time in spelling out the brilliant escape.

Some have complained that the final shot of Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman on a beach is too obvious and the film should have been left open-ended.

And if it wasn’t Morgan Freeman in the role, they would probably be right. But the look he shoots Robbins is pure, life-affirming gold.

2. MEMENTO 2000

DARK Knight director Christopher Nolan’s complex flashback-based thriller finishes with the gut-wrenching reason why amnesiac Leonard Shelby will NEVER catch the killer of his wife.

Brilliantly, the story finishes exactly where it started – leaving the chilling impression that Leonard’s quest will loop for all eternity.

Cue a crazed dash for the DVD remote to rewind and scan the film for ‘evidence’. And of course, it’s all in there.

3. THE USUAL SUSPECTS 1995

WHEN Kevin Spacey finally gets out of the police station, Agent Kujan thinks he’s got the Keyser Soze case sewn up.

Then he notices a few familiar-sounding names on the police station notice board. And drops his coffee mug drops to the ground.

And you suddenly realise HOLY CRAP, IT WAS HIM ALL ALONG. Best twist ending ever.

4. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 1981

EVERYONE remembers the melty-faced Nazis, but the real genius of the first Indiana Jones film is in the very final zoom-out shot where we see the Ark of the Covenant in a wooden crate…being driven down an aisle of wooden crates…in a really, really, REALLY big warehouse of wooden crates.

Exciting because it implied there were thousands of other amazing Indy stories just waiting to be told. Ultimately disappointing because the next one turned out to be Temple of Doom, but never mind.

5. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 1980

STAR Wars was great and all, but it was Episode V that REALLY cranked things up – particularly with that Jeremy Kyle moment when Darth fesses up to Luke, and Han Solo’s excellent carbonite freeze moment. ("I love you."/"I know.")

Which all begged the question, how on earth is George Lucas going to top this? The answer: Evil Galactic Empire defeated by dancing teddies. Rrrriiiigggghht.

6. THE SIXTH SENSE 1999

HE’S come out with some right rubbish since, but it’s easy to forget the absolute brilliance of the twist ending of M Night Shyamalan’s first film.

Bruce Willis is the child psychologist dealing with a kid who sees dead people. The kid sees him. But strangely, nobody else seems to. So that means what? Was it really that clear, all the way through?

And cinema audiences all over the world instantly book another ticket.

7. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 1946

FACT: the only things that don’t cry at the end of this classic Christmas weepie are bricks and lizards.

Despite being 62 years old, IAWL continues to move audiences to fits of sentimental howling today.

George Bailey was convinced that his life has been totally pointless. Clarence the angel has just shown him otherwise.

So he runs home, scoops up his wife and kids, starts singing Auld Lang Syne, and then when the banister comes off in his hands…heck, I’m welling up just thinking about it.

8. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 1971

“I WAS cured, all right!” boasts Alex DeLarge at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s ultraviolent shocker.

“No you weren’t you flipping mentalist,” think the audience, as it’s clear that all the hospital treatment in the world isn’t going to straighten out this sex-crazed nutjob.

Monumentally depressing and yet strangely satisfying at the same time.

9. BACK TO THE FUTURE 1985

THE greatest ever sign that a sequel’s on its way, Doc Brown’s glorious return at the end of BTTF is the ultimate appetite-whetter for BTTF2.

With the first film's plot sewn up, Marty McFly is picked up by the Doc in the modified DeLorean for another mission with the immortal line: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need…roads.” before flying off into the sunset.

Amazing to think that audiences had to wait four agonising years for the sequel. But holy cow, was it worth it.

10. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 1999

UNLESS you’re terrified by shaky pictures of trees, The Blair Witch Project isn’t that scary…until the last bit, that is.

Heather and Mike are scouring an old house for any trace of their vanished buddy Josh and Heather ventures down into the basement.

For just long enough for the audience to realise what’s going on, she catches on camera a grainy figure standing in the corner.

It’s Josh. Facing the wall, like a naughty child who’s about to be punished. Badly.

Absolutely petrifying.