I love that we're getting some new players on board for Freeze Frame. On that note, I'm happy to announce that Melinda was quickest to identify these movies as There's Something About Mary, Minority Report and Being John Malkovich. Melinda's a first-time FF winner, so I'm sure that means her self-made aluminum foil trophy will be constructed with great care and then put on display for all of her friends and family members to see -- smack dab in the middle of her driveway. Or maybe atop her roof? Or perhaps hooked to a blimp and flown above her hometown?
We had new players take the second and third place titles as well: Jack Ratekin and EmoTears, respectively. Congrats to you two, too!
The link between the trio of films was not obvious this time around, so for knowing that Cameron Diaz was in all three movies, the following people get to make extra-large, extra-glittery, extra-showy Common Thread Buttons o' Pride: EmoTears; Mike from Independence, MO; Jim; Lori Foernzler and Stephen B. Diaz had a split-second, uncredited cameo in Minority Report... as did filmmaker Cameron Crowe. There's a scene where Tom Cruise enters a subway car, and Crowe's a passenger reading a newspaper, while behind him Diaz, as another passenger, looks up just briefly before the shot cuts away.
As you might remember, Diaz and Cruise co-starred in Crowe's freaky 2001 mindbender, Vanilla Sky... and they'll reunite for the July 2010 action-rom-com (sure, that's a genre) Knight and Day (formerly titled both Wichita and Trouble Man).
But in the meantime, Diaz will be on the big screen with one of my favorite up-and-coming, underrated (IMHO) actors, James Marsden (the X-Men trilogy, Enchanted, 27 Dresses). They'll play a couple given a tempting offer by a creeptastic Frank Langella: push a button and receive $1 million... AND kill one person somewhere in the world in the process. What to do, what to do? Find out what they choose when The Box opens this Friday.
Congrats again to our winners -- I'll keep the easy streak a-goin' this Friday in our next Freeze Frame challenge. Cross my heart.
I agree with you. James Marsden is underrated. (is that one word or two?)
Posted by: billie | November 03, 2009 at 08:01 PM
It's one word. : )
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Posted by: Erika Olson | November 03, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Oh, that's creepy. "The Box" almost sounds exactly like an animation story a team at school pitched and made.. But people didn't die- bad things happened instead.
Posted by: Aly | November 04, 2009 at 10:00 AM
It was a Twilight Zone episode,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)
I'm interested to see how much they pull from it. I have to decide between seeing this at The 4th Kind at midnight Friday for my movie review that following morning.
Posted by: Matthew S. | November 04, 2009 at 02:41 PM
Yes, I included a bit more info about its origins when I wrote up the trailer:
http://blog.redbox.com/redblog/2009/06/i-think-they-should-just-play-the-lotto-instead.html
- Erika
Posted by: Erika Olson | November 04, 2009 at 03:23 PM