Ballers SN2 EP6 – ‘Saturdaze’

For Episode 6 of Season 2, we join Spencer Strasmore (Dwayne Johnson) and  Jason (Troy Garity) hanging out at a bar revealing all of their weaknesses including addressing Spencer’s unhealthy habit of self-medicating with pain pills. As the two jokingly admit to one another their own relationship difficulties, they refocus as another kink in the cord is thrown with their new client Matt.

Charles Greane (Omar Benson Miller) is faced with his first task as an assistant to the Miami Dolphin’s GM, Larry Seifert (Dule Hill) cut someone from the team. Let’s see if he is really cut out for this job!

Spencer and Jason are always faced with a new crisis and overcoming those challenges using creative methods. This episode was no different! In attempts to increase a player’s value the duo brings the player and the analyst together on a fishing trip. Will we get the positive outcome we were hoping for? I think the backflip that Matt does might indicate that!

Joe (Rob Corddry) is tricked into a party that Andre (Andy Garcia) is throwing and is offered a $500,000/year salary to jump ship.

While Ricky Jerret (John David Washington) contemplates on which team’s offer he should accept. Well in the true Jerret style, both he and pops hash out their disagreement on the kitchen floor.

That’s your quick update on this week’s episode! Until next week, I’m Malia Mercedes, blogging for Skatronixx.com. You can also catch me at maliamercedes.com where I’m always boasting my loyalty with “Loyal Bloodline”.

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The Weekends Box Office Movie Chart for 19th – 21st August

Welcome to the second edition of Skatronixxx’s Box Office Movie Chart, where we bring you the weekends best performing movies at the box office. So let take a look and if there has been much change from last weekend.

About The Chart

Chart Info: Rank/Movie Title/ Studio/ W/E Gross = Weekend Gross/ T/G = Total Gross/ LW = Last Week Rank.

Chart Legend: Green = Up, Red = Down, Blue = No Movement, Teal = New.

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Box Office Movie Chart 19th – 21st Aug

 

  1. Suicide Squad/ WB

Weekend Gross    Total Gross    LW

$20,710,000           $262,283,335    #1

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   2. Sausage Party / Sony

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$15, 325,000           $65,326,019     #2

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 3. War Dogs / WB

Weekend Gross     Total Gross      LW

$14,300,000           $14,300,000     NEW

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 4. Kubo and the Two Strings / Focus

Weekend Gross     Total Gross     LW

$12,610,000             $12,610,000    NEW

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  5. Ben-Hur (2016) / Par.

Weekend Gross    Total Gross    LW

$11,350,000            $11,350,000   NEW

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 6. Pete’s Dragon / BV

Weekend Gross    Total Gross    LW

$11,331,000            $42,892,269    #3

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 7. Bad Moms / STX

Weekend Gross    Total Gross    LW

$8,068,000             $85,800,428    #5

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 8. Jason Bourne / Uni.

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$7,980,000           $140,883,285   #4

 

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 9. The Secret Life Of Pets / Uni.

Weekend Gross     Total Gross      LW

$5,770,000            $346,722,030    #6

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  10. Florence Foster Jenkins / Par.

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$4,300,000            $14,405,743     #8

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 11. Star Trek Beyond / Par.

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$4,000,000          $146,931,370    #7

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 12. Hell or High Water / LGF

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$2,650,000            $3,527,687      #19

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 13. Lights Out / WB (NL)

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$1,625,000             $64,245,376     #10

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          14. Nine Lives (2016) / EC

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$1,400,000              $17,054,024    #9

 

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 15. Nerve / LGF

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$1,265,000             $35,868,065    #11

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 16. Ghostbusters / Sony

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$1,100,000              $123,960,434  #12

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 17. Finding Dory / BV

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$974,000                $478,476,164  #14

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 18. Ice Age: Collision Course / FOX

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$925,000                  $60,853,290    #13

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           19. Indignation / RAtt.

             Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$553,100                   $2,370,504      #17

 

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 20. Anthropoid / BST

Weekend Gross    Total Gross     LW

$546,792                    $2,331,327      #15

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This week Suicide Squad and Sausage Party have held out in #1 and #2 but both have had a drop in the weekend sales this weekend, we also see three new Movies enter the chart, War Dogs, Kubo and the Two Strings and Ben-Hur (2016)

Weekend Gross Drop: Suicide Squad dropped down from $43,536,016 to $20,710,000, Sausage Party  dropped down from $34,263,534 to $15,325,000

Well that beings us to the end of this weeks Box Office Movie Chart, join us again next week untill then enjoy the trailers…. Happy Viewing !

 

‘A Star Is Born To Be Remade With Lady Gaga And Bradley Cooper

I am going to start by saying, my mom is not going to like this. Hollywood is remaking yet another oldie-but-goodie film, A Star Is Born, and I am sure my mother is going to be ranting about this when she finds out lol.

The remake is said to have Lady Gaga play the leading lady with her gentlemen attraction and love being the great Bradley Cooper. And it seems that besides staring in the classic, Mr. Cooper will be making his debut as the director as well. Way to double up there Coop. Let alone this will be the first role for Gaga where she stars as the lead for the whole movie. No pressure there… She can handle it for sure though.

The original version of the movie starred Kris Kristofferson and Barbara Streisand. The movie came out on December 17^th, 1976, bringing in $80 million in box office payout.  The story line is that of a rising star who has a bit too much fright of the stage and falls in love with her mentor. He not only teaches her the wonders of life and love, but brings her out of her shell even though his time in the spotlight is waning. A wonderful movie for sure and should be seen at least once (ladies, bring your tissues…

The remake is said to have a couple of its own songs recorded by Gaga and will start production early next year. Hopefully they stick to the original story on this one. No need to change what was already perfect, if you ask me. But since Hollywood seems to be in a remake roll at the moment, they better just remake as is and not try to change it up. This movie has been remade two other times already.  ^_^

Reports That The Superman Front Curl To Be In The Justice League Movie Are Misleading

So, my overenthusiastic self was about to rant and rave about the trademarked “S” curl on the front of Cavill’s head in the next Justice League movie… until a colleague pointed out to me that this information was a fake, which I am really thankful for, because then I too would have been up there with all the others posting an untruth.

It would seem that according to a heroichollywood.com the new image leaked is not from Justice League at all, but actually from Batman vs Superman. The image from an instagram person @travelheart who used two hashtags that lead us to believe this was from the set… #batmanvssuperman and #justiceleague.  After a journalist decided to find out more on the image, he “dug a little bit and discovered that her husband played Superman Soldier” and this is where the image came from. Not from the movie at all……

Too bad really, I mean, would have been great to see Cavill be rocking the “S” the time he is on screen, but then again, I would love to see if they have him with the longer mullet look like Superman has in the comics when he first comes back to life. He has been seen recently with his hair in ‘mantail’ on the back of his head, not sure if this is for the movie or because he feels like growing it out some, but he looks like a totally bad-arse with it I think. ^_^

 

‘Avengers Infinity War’ May Feature New Characters

If you have been following the Marvel Universe on the big screen, then you may have noticed a trend when it comes to the way they introduce new characters, and that’s in the movie itself, be it in the end after the credits with a piece of the characters costume, or a cameo appearance… And it sounds like we may have another character fall in love with in the Infinity War movie.

The Russo Bros, Joe and Anthony, have been working on the Infinity War and Avengers 4, shooting them back to back, and they have even teased that there may be a little more people for us to ‘marvel’ over (like what I did there?) and so far with each movie they have left people at the edge of their seats, talking and wondering what they will do next and with whom will they bring in. With the last movie, Captain America: Civil War, they gave us the Black Panther and Spiderman. In other movies we met Scarlet Witch (I seriously considered being Scarlet Witch this year for comic con) her brother Quicksilver, and Bucky from Captain America: Winter Soldier, plus our main men starting with the first Iron Man back in 2008.

 

Although they are keeping hush about who they may bring to life this time, they are informing us that this movie Infinity War is supposed to be the climax of the stories so far, and a new beginning which brings the new characters. Anthony Russo tells IGN: “…these two movies are intended to be the culmination of everything that has happened in the MCU since the very first Iron Man movie.”

The Marvel/Avengers world is huge. In the comics it seems at least everyone in there has been an Avenger at least once, including Wolverine, Hercules, Beast, Hellcat, Thing, and so on. We have do have Ant-Man now in Civil War, makes you wonder if his lady friend the Wasp will show up….. I mean they did tease her in the Ant-Man movie…..hmmmm. ^_^

 

Scott Eastwood To Frontline In Sci-Fi Flick ‘Ecstasia’

If you don’t know who Scott Eastwood is, well then you have been under a rock my friend. This man is not only very nice on the eyes but well known for his roles in Suicide Squad, Texas Chainsaw, The Longest Ride, and to be in the coming film Fast 8, let alone he is a model… yum!

 

‘Ecstasia‘ is a story about a couple who live in a world were love no longer exists (WHAT!?!) and the couple are focused on their last days of love before it fades away. (Um no, I don’t know if I can watch this one, I mean, no love… so not a chick flick here…) So in the script, you can buy love from a process called Commitment, the couple buy some of this, which is a chip called Ecstasia. A micro chip that helps you feel love…. Goodness this is interesting.

The production is supposed to take place next spring in Africa, and will meet with some possible buyers at the next film festival. There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot out yet on this project or more in the story line, but for now, I am really on the fence about this one. Could be an edge of your seat-er, with the couple trying desperately to stay in and feel love, so I guess it may be more chick flick-y than I was thinking earlier… But it does have Eastwood Jr in it, and he is pretty so it may make this worth watching. ^_^

Jared Leto Feels Misled In His Role As The Joker

OK wow, could there be any more issues people have with this movie? I mean, the movie was really good, so why is there so much negative stuff following it? I guess now Jared is feeling upset still about more to do with the movie.

Besides the previous issues about the deleted scenes and a fan actually suing Warner Bros for this, now Leto is feeling like he was misled about the idea of what he was getting into. The story they told him was not what it turned out to be. First off he thought it was supposed to be more artistic, and secondly his role as the Joker, as revealed in previous interviews, was a lot smaller that what he was originally pitched. Which I can understand some of his frustration, he was reported to say he felt “overwhelmed by the hate regarding the look and choices” while being questioned at his adult summer camp, Camp Mars.

Though there seems to be so much drama with this movie, it was still really really good in my opinion. And I know there are so many out there who were all negative about it but really, can’t this all lay to rest at some point. The fact that there is someone out there suing WB over this seems to be a bit excessive if you ask me… and Leto honey, just let it go, I mean you are so big as is, forget this crap and move on luv. I may not be in the acting business, but I do know that if it’s not going to kill you then you should probably not stress about it so much. The world is open for a man of his status, so enjoy the future and let go of the past. Besides he hasn’t even seen the movie yet… he may realize it’s still really freaking good. ^_^

Is A ‘Monster Squad’ Sequel Coming?

“Kick him in the nards, kick him in the nards!” “He doesn’t have any!” “DO IT! DO IT!” “Wolfman’s got nards!”…. One of the best dialogues from a classic I grew up with. And in case you have not seen this movie, I am talking about Monster Squad. OMG what a fun wonderful edge-of-your-seat movie. It had just the right amount of spook and fun so you could watch it as a kid and not feel like you were going to get nightmares for a week. Scenes that made you laugh hard and others that had you covering your eyes…. Yes, this was a great kid monster movie.

And now they are talking about a sequel…. *EEEEEEK!!!* I will be ready to watch this. I just hope they don’t ruin it by super sizing the special effects and making it scarier and less fun. Jason Black who co-wrote the original (which came out in 1987) is thinking that a sequel 30 years later could be good. The kids from the first movie all grown up, with kids of their own, and facing the horrors again.

Black goes on to say that the original movie wasn’t even that big of a deal when it first came out. In fact it plunged in the box office department until years later. He had no idea it became a big deal when it did. The original movie has a group of kiddos who are up against some of the most popular monsters known to man kind. They are the only ones who can defeat them and are all earth has…. (love the 80s)

If you have not seen this, I suggest you get out there and do so. The sequel is not going to make any sense if you don’t. Plus dude come on, it’s Monster Squad, an 80s classic, just like the Explorers, Stand By Me, The Goonies, and others. I may have to re-watch this again today… ^_^

Henry Cavill Teases Iconic ‘Black’ Superman Suit For Justice League Movie

Oh my goodness, mmmmm, this man…. Henry Cavill makes my heart stop. And seeing him in a superman suit, dear lord in heaven….. See, I grew up loving superman. First crush was Christopher Reeves as the Man of Steel. So the super suit with the red undies was always my thang. But man, let me tell you, this Mr. Cavill makes that suit look goooooooood.

There was a picture recently teased by the stud man himself on his instagram site, and it appears our boy in blue may be going black. Though the image does not show the whole suit, it shows a part of it, completely dark with the hashtag at the bottom of the pic saying #Superman. This seems fitting as he did die in the Dawn of Justice movie, and it appears they may be going back to the comic book route where they bring him back to life. In the comics he came back to life some time later wearing the black suit and a silver logo, plus a little extra hair on the top…. Mullet style. (wonder if Cavill will rock the mullet… that could be sweet)

I cant wait to see where they go with this story line. Will they do the whole, other people pretending to be superman as they did in the comics before he comes back to life? Will there be a possibility of a bad Superman? (hope not) ooooh I cant wait! Regardless, I am anxious to see the Man of Steel back in action again on the big screen. ^_^

R2D2 Does It All, Including Popcorn? *Excited Beep*

OK I recently have become a popcorn addict, having had given up my beloved chips for something less in the salty and carby field. SO my body tingles when I found out that there was an R2D2 popcorn maker! YAAAAAAAAS!!

The lovely little air head is designed to look like our favorite droid, with blue, white and silver marking, dabbing the proper red where needed, and the plastic dome cover… even has painted features as well. It makes the hot poppy awesomeness without the need of oil and there is a part in the dome that comes out so you can properly scoop and measure how much kernally cornness you want.

This guy can be found on Amazon.com, thinkgeek.com and other places like gamestop. He is running in the $40 dollar range, more or less depending on where you shop which isn’t to bad if you ask me. Now this little guy is super super cute, but when I look at him I don’t exactly see R2…. Does anyone else see Tom Servo from Mystery Science Theater 3000? ^_^