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Me Against the Music

Britney: Do as I say, not as I do?

by Gary Susman

2002 Worst Actress RAZZIE® “Winner" Britney Spears acknowledges that her skin-baring, Madonna-smooching ways may not make her the best role model, but she says some of her contemporaries are even worse.

''Why? Why are they mad at me?'' she says to Newsweek, in reference to angry moms like Maryland First Lady Kendal Ehrlich, who recently said in a speech she'd shoot the singer if she could. (She has since apologized for the remark.) ''Why are they not going at Christina Aguilera? Have they seen what she has on?'' She says she knows it sounds bratty for her to complain, ''but Beyoncé dresses provocatively. Why don't they say something about her? What is too sexy to them? My family, we walked around the house naked, we really did. By the time I was 13, my dad was like, 'Uh, Britney, it's time to start covering yourself up.' I'm very free like that.''

Still, she says, she's going to tone down the sexuality for a while, even though she has a new album to promote, ''In the Zone,'' and has been appearing on covers of magazines like Esquire wearing very little. ''I did feel kind of weird after those photos,'' she says of the Esquire shoot. ''I learned my lesson and you won't see me like that for a while. I'm kinda over it myself. Not that it's dirty or tacky, but it is really revealing and I wouldn't want my kid, at 21, to be dressing like that.''

She's also avoiding relationships, despite rumors (which she denies) that she's dating a married member of her backup dance troupe. She blames her ex, Justin Timberlake, for his televised revelation that he took her virginity. ''Justin said it on 'Barbara Walters,''' she says. ''The world knew after he frickin' told them all. What am I supposed to say, 'No, I didn't'? Can you say I'm a little bitter with men? Just a little.'' She adds, ''There was a time when I was like, 'OK, I'm over men. They're mean.' For like six months, not a single thing happened. Not like they weren't drawn to me, but there wasn't a single real attraction. I'm like, 'What's happening? I know I'm not a lesbian.''' Still, she tells Newsweek: ''My personal life is no one's business.'' Thanks for clearing that up.

©2003,  Entertainment Weakly

Daily VARIETY

'GIGLI' Really Whacks Sony-Columbia's Bottom Line

By Jill Goldsmith

NEW YORK -- This time last year, Sony Pictures was setting records and spinning gold from SPIDER MAN. Now it's wading in red ink, trying to forget this year's RAZZIE front-runner GIGLI. Parent Sony Corp., which reported quarterly results Thursday, said the studio swung to a $42 million loss, due mostly to a hefty but unspecified write-down for the clamorous dud starring Worst Screen Couple shoo-ins Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck.

The GIGLI loss contributed to a 25% plunge in Sony's total net profit, which fell to $297 million. Revenue was basically flat -- up 0.4% -- at $16.2 billion for the three months ended Sept. 30. That was Sony's second quarter as the company's fiscal year ends in March.

Sony insisted GIGLI couldn't offset gains from other RAZZIE-eligible theatrical releases such as BAD BOYS 2, S.W.A.T., ANGER MANAGEMENT and DADDY DAY CARE.

Losses from GIGLI in no way compare to the windfall from Spidey, and the studio would have had a near impossible time matching its year-earlier numbers under any circumstances. Overall, Sony anticipates a solid year-end with a holiday sked including THE MISSING, BIG FISH, SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE and Julia Roberts starrer MONA LISA SMILE.

©2003, Cahners Publications

Box Office Mojo Info on

WORST PICTURE "Winners" 1980-2003

1980    CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC Cost: $20million/Estimated   Gross: $2.0m (Estimated by IMDb)

1981    MOMMIE DEAREST Cost: $9.5m/Est.            Gross: $19,032,261

1982    INCHON Cost - $46m/Est.            Gross: $2,326,112

1983    LONELY LADY Cost: $6m/Est.  Gross: $1,223,220

1984    BOLERO Cost: $6m/Est.            Gross: $8,914,881

1985    RAMBO II Cost: $40m/Est.         Gross: $150,415,432

1986    HOWARD THE DUCK Cost: $65m/Est.            Gross: $16,295,774

            UNDER THE CHERRY MOON  Cost: $25m/Est.            Gross: $10,090,429

1987    LEONARD PART 6 Cost: $25/Est.            Gross: $4,615,255

1988    COCKTAIL Cost: $25m+/Est.            Gross: $78,222,753

1989    STAR DREK V  Cost: $45m/Est.            Gross: $52,210,04

1990            ADVENTURES of FORD FAIRLANE Cost: $20m/Est.  Gross: $21,413,502

GHOSTS CAN'T DO IT (No Info Available - Not Widely Released)

1991    HUDSON HAWK  Cost: $65million         Gross: $17,218,080

1992    SHINING THROUGH Cost: $30m/Est.            Gross: $21,633,781

1993    INDECENT PROPOSAL Cost: $30m/Est.            Gross: $106,614,059

1994            COLOR OF NIGHT Cost: $40m/Est.            Gross: $19,726,050

1995            SHOWGIRLS Cost: $45m/Est.            Gross: $20,350,754

1996            STRIPTEASE Cost: $45m/Est.            Gross: $33,109,743

1997    THE POSTMAN Cost: $80m/Est.            Gross: $17,626,234

1998    AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM Cost: $6m/Est            Gross: $45,779 (Yes, 45 Thousand!)

1999    WILD WILD WEST Cost: $170m/Est.            Gross: $113,805,681

2000            BATTLEFIELD EARTH Cost: $73m/Est.             Gross: $21,471,685

2001            FREDDY GOT FINGERED Cost: $14m/Est.         Gross: $14,254,993

2002            SWEPT AWAY Cost: $10m/Est.            Gross: $598,645

RAZZIE® “Winners” List ©1980-2004/G.R.A.F.  --  Box Office Info ©2004, Box Office Mojo.com

So Who's Hands Have Been

Up More Skirts on

Hollywood Movie Sets:

Ah-Nulds...or Jim Henson's?!?!

Will Studios' Ban on Oscar Voters' DVDs Mean RAZZIE Screeners Instead??

by Head RAZZberry JOHN WILSON

In a controversial decision, the MPAA has announced that in its efforts to prevent movie piracy, it has negotiated an agreement among all the major Hollywood studios to ban the dissemination of "screener" tapes and DVDs of this year's expected Oscar contenders.

While so-called "Academy Screeners" are covered by this new arrangement, it was unclear at press time whether or not screeners of likely RAZZIE contenders might also be covered. In the past, G.R.A.F. voters have had to rely on pay-per-view showings and/or local video store rentals to determine whether Madonna or J. Lo ranked as The Year's Worst Actress. But with studios prohibited from sending tapes and DVDs to AMPAS members, it is now possible that, to maintain any Awards momentum they can, studios might turn instead to sending out screeners of such likely Worst Picture nominees as FREDDY vs. JASON, LARA CROFT: CRADLE OF LIFE, and, of course, GIGLI.  Since the new MPAA ban does not apply to titles already on video at the time award voters are determining nominees and winners, it will not affect such Rushed-to-Video titles as DADDY DAY CARE, CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE and the other big RAZZIE Title of 2003, FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY.

To clarify his Foundation's take on the matter, RAZZIE Founder John Wilson declared: "We welcome the kind of pandering, vote-buying tactics that have always personified the REAL awards shows. So far, the only perk of being a RAZZIE Member has been knowing that we dishonored only the MOST deserving. If we start getting wined-and-dined by Tinsel Town big shots, it's suddenly a whole new ballgame. We of course welcome any tools the studios can provide in helping our members determine which of 2003's bumper crop of crappy movies actually is The Very Worst."

MPAA President and spokesman Jack Valenti, who like most of Hollywood's biggest names, refuses to even acknowledge the existence of the RAZZIE Awards, did not return calls for comment.

Over-exposed, media-phobic 2003 Worst Actress front-runner Jennifer Lopez was also not available to discuss the decision's possible impact on her award chances. Likely Worst Actress co-nominee Kelly Clarkson, who has reached the 14 minute point in her 15 minutes of fame, was also unwilling to speak on record.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RAZZIE® VOTING DATES

MOVED UP for 2004

  The 76^th Annual Academy Awards® are now set for Sunday, February 29^th, 2004. Since the basic premise

of The RAZZIES® is to parody The Oscars®, we have moved OUR dates for The 24^th Annual RAZZIE® Awards forward as well.

  This year’s Nominating Ballots will thus be MAILED December 26, 2003. Our Members’ votes for nominations will then be DUE by MIDNIGHT/PST, Saturday, January 17, 2004.

  Official announcement of our 24^th Annual RAZZIE® Nominations will be made the morning of Monday, January 26^th – The now traditional 24 hours BEFORE Oscar® contenders are revealed.

  Final Ballots for 2003’s Worst Achievements in Film will be MAILED Wednesday, February 4 of 2004,

with final votes DUE by MIDNIGHT/PST on Friday, February 20, 2004.

  Announcement of The 24^th Annual RAZZIE® Awards “Winners” will take place on Saturday, February 28, 2004 – Once again, 24 hours BEFORE The Academy Awards®.

  For more complete info on our 2004 RAZZIE® Awards schedule and that of the Oscars® Golden Globes® Screen Actors’ Guild’s SAGGIES® and other Awards, Double Click Below:

PEOPLE

It's Splitsville for "Bennifer": Sources Close to 2003's  Most Over-Publicized Couple Report a Break-Up

2003 RAZZIE front-runners for Worst Screen Couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, who just days ago were planning their weekend wedding, have split up, sources close to the couple tell PEOPLE. The break-up comes in the wake of their decision Wednesday to postpone their Sunday wedding in Montecito, Calif., before as many as 400 guests. The couple blamed the delay on excessive media attention surrounding the event, but reports persisted that Affleck was having second thoughts about the nuptials. A PEOPLE source says it was Affleck who initiated the split.


While it was unclear whether the separation was permanent, Lopez was "devastated," according to one friend. The star was in tears, sources said, on Wednesday as she called guests telling them of the wedding's postponement. Lopez, accompanied by friends and a bodyguard, went for a very public jog and swim -- at one point changing into a bathing suit behind a phalanx of towel-bearing guards -- Saturday afternoon along Miami's South Beach, not far from her 11-bedroom house in Miami Beach, where she flew solo on Friday from Los Angeles. Affleck was believed to still be in Los Angeles, though some reports had him heading to Las Vegas for Saturday night's Shane Mosely-Oscar De La Hoya fight.

The split caps a tumultuous summer for the couple, whose romance became public in July 2002 just days after she divorced Cris Judd. They have endured brutal reviews for their performances in the film "GIGLI," which appears poised to sweep next spring's 24th Annual RAZZIE Awards. While tabloid reports have accused Affleck of misbehaving with strippers during a late-night visit to a Vancouver nightclub (reports he vehemently denied) Lopez publicly stuck by her fiancee (" for me, it wasn't an issue," she told W Magazine), and plans continued apace for their wedding -- his first, her third.

Ken Sunshine, Affleck's spokesman, said he had no knowledge of a split. Lopez' spokesman Dan Klores said he believed the couple was still together, but had not spoken to Lopez in several days. Both spokes-persons declined to comment on the couple's possibly being reunited as RAZZIE contenders when 2003's Worst Achievements in Film nominations are unveiled next January 26.

During their time together, the pair -- who met on the set of the godawful "GIGLI" -- generated worldwide attention, costarring in a sexy music video for her song "Jenny from the Block" and purchasing each other obnoxiously extravagant gifts, including a Rolls-Royce, a Harry Winston bracelet of white and yellow diamonds and 6.1 carat pink diamond solitaire Affleck gave Lopez as an engagement ring. Nevertheless, they thought of themselves as working-class kids -- she from the Bronx, he from Boston -- who shared similar values. As a teetotaler, Lopez was also seen as healthy for Affleck, who is a recovering alcoholic.

The couple will be together again: on screen in their second costarring vehicle, " Jersey Girl," which is set for release next year, and probably among those nominated for RAZZIES as 2003's Berry Worst.

Original Text (c) 2003, PEOPLE Magazine.

PEOPLE

It's Splitsville for "Bennifer": Sources Close to 2003's
 Most Over-Publicized Couple Report a Break-Up

2003 RAZZIE front-runners for Worst Screen Couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, who just days ago were planning their weekend wedding, have split up, sources close to the couple tell PEOPLE. The break-up comes in the wake of their decision Wednesday to postpone their Sunday wedding in Montecito, Calif., before as many as 400 guests. The couple blamed the delay on excessive media attention surrounding the event, but reports persisted that Affleck was having second thoughts about the nuptials. A PEOPLE source says it was Affleck who initiated the split.


While it was unclear whether the separation was permanent, Lopez was "devastated," according to one friend. The star was in tears, sources said, on Wednesday as she called guests telling them of the wedding's postponement. Lopez, accompanied by friends and a bodyguard, went for a very public jog and swim -- at one point changing into a bathing suit behind a phalanx of towel-bearing guards -- Saturday afternoon along Miami's South Beach, not far from her 11-bedroom house in Miami Beach, where she flew solo on Friday from Los Angeles. Affleck was believed to still be in Los Angeles, though some reports had him heading to Las Vegas for Saturday night's Shane Mosely-Oscar De La Hoya fight.

The split caps a tumultuous summer for the couple, whose romance became public in July 2002 just days after she divorced Cris Judd. They have endured brutal reviews for their performances in the film "GIGLI," which appears poised to sweep next spring's 24th Annual RAZZIE Awards. While tabloid reports have accused Affleck of misbehaving with strippers during a late-night visit to a Vancouver nightclub (reports he vehemently denied) Lopez publicly stuck by her fiancee (" for me, it wasn't an issue," she told W Magazine), and plans continued apace for their wedding -- his first, her third.

Ken Sunshine, Affleck's spokesman, said he had no knowledge of a split. Lopez' spokesman Dan Klores said he believed the couple was still together, but had not spoken to Lopez in several days. Both spokes-persons declined to comment on the couple's possibly being reunited as RAZZIE contenders when 2003's Worst Achievements in Film nominations are unveiled next January 26.

During their time together, the pair -- who met on the set of the godawful "GIGLI" -- generated worldwide attention, costarring in a sexy music video for her song "Jenny from the Block" and purchasing each other obnoxiously extravagant gifts, including a Rolls-Royce, a Harry Winston bracelet of white and yellow diamonds and 6.1 carat pink diamond solitaire Affleck gave Lopez as an engagement ring. Nevertheless, they thought of themselves as working-class kids -- she from the Bronx, he from Boston -- who shared similar values. As a teetotaler, Lopez was also seen as healthy for Affleck, who is a recovering alcoholic.

The couple will be together again: on screen in their second costarring vehicle, " Jersey Girl," which is set for release next year, and probably among those nominated for RAZZIES as 2003's Berry Worst.

Original Text (c) 2003, PEOPLE Magazine.

Entertainment Weakly

What One French Kiss Can Lead To...

2002 Worst Actress RAZZIE Co-Winners  Britney Spears and Madonna

have recorded a new duet: “Me Against the Music,'' the first single from Spears' new album

by Gary Susman



 

TOGETHER AGAIN: Spears and Madonna go mouth-to-mouth once more


Guess Britney Spears just can't get enough of her 2003 Worst Actress RAZZIE co-winner Madonna. Following up on their much-hyped French Kiss at The MTV Video Awards, they'll be putting their mouths together again when they sing a duet of Spears' new song, ''Me Against the Music,'' the first single from her forthcoming album, which finally has a title, ''Get in the Zone,'' Spears' label, Jive Records, announced Tuesday.

Fans who saw Spears' performance at the NFL season kickoff special two weeks ago, as well as the handful who saw her unannounced striptease performance over the weekend in Las Vegas, have already heard Spears' solo version of the tune. Cowritten by Spears and produced by RedZone, ''Me Against the Music'' will ship to radio on Sept. 30 and see its video debut on MTV's ''Making the Video'' on Oct. 13.

Other collaborators on the album, seven of whose 13 songs Spears cowrote, will include such songwriters and producers as Moby (''Early Mornin'''), Bloodshy & Avant (''Showdown''), Guy Sigsworth (''Everytime''), and R. Kelly (''Outrageous'').

It's not clear whether some other recent tracks Spears has recorded, including ''The Answer'' (with P. Diddy) and "Shadow'' (with The Matrix), will also appear on the new disc. ''Get in the Zone'' is being released a week ahead of schedule, on Nov. 18. Given Britney and Madonna’s RAZZIE track records, we’re betting that  the single’s title “Me Against the Music” means the music’s GOTTA lose in the end!

Original Text © 2003, Entertainment Weakly

I'm Not a Girl...Nor a Woman?

Britney Spears' new songs channel sexual frustration. She tells Rolling Stone

that her new album may be full of sex because her dating life isn't

by Gary Susman



 
'OUTRAGEOUS' FORTUNE

Spears sings a sexed-up R. Kelly song


To hear her tell it, the only action 2003 Worst Actress RAZZIE co-winner Britney Spears has gotten lately is from her Worst Actress co-winner Madonna. The newly sexed-up singer appears topless on the cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone, but inside the magazine, she suggests that her current love life is a snore, and that she's been sublimating her libido into her work. ''I think this record is where I'm at right now in my life. It's sensual, it's sexual,'' she told the magazine, then laughed. ''I'm probably writing about that subconsciously because I don't have that right now.''

One song on her forthcoming album is by the typically sexually assertive R. Kelly; it's called ''Outrageous'' and has the singer whispering about ''my sex drive.'' The album includes such lyrics as, ''Oh, it's so hot, and I need some air/And, boy, don't stop, 'cause I'm halfway there,'' and ''Would you undo my zipper, please?'' and ''I find myself flirting with the verge of obscene.''

Still, Spears insists her new display of sexuality is done tastefully. ''I'm not gonna come out on this record and show my crotch or anything,'' she says. ''That's not me. I would never do anything like that. It's all in the way you do stuff, all in the way you carry things. The music is most important to me.'' Even that notorious French kiss with Madonna at last month's MTV Video Music Awards was actually marked by restraint, Rolling Stone reports; in rehearsal, Madonna also planned to give Britney a playful slap on the ass.

(c) 2003, ENTERTAINMENT WEAKLY

Madonna: Bedtime Stories of a DIFFERENT Kind?

By Paul Majendie

LONDON (Reuters) - Harry Potter taught kids around the world the joy of reading. Now 9-time RAZZIE "winner" Madonna is going global in the thriving kids' book business with a publishing first: The pop superstar's first children's book -- "The English Roses" -- is being published simultaneously in more than 100 countries and 30 languages.

State-of-the-art technology has sent language barriers tumbling so printing plants around the world can spring into action in every tongue from French to Faroese. "This is a publishing first with regard to numbers of languages and territories," said Nicholas Callaway, President of the New York-based Callaway Editions, the originating publisher, who has coordinated the global release. "We have languages as varied as Chinese and Czech, Thai and Turkish, Hebrew and Hungarian," he told Reuters. Internet advances have shrunk the globe. "This would not have been technically possible 18 months ago. We send so many digital files through the Internet," Callaway added.

More than one million copies are hitting bookstores around the world at once, backed by a marketing blitz that takes Madonna from London to Paris, then on to the Oprah Winfrey talk show in the United States.

  Critics may carp at the spotlight focusing on Madonna, a self-described genius at both spotting and setting pop and fashion trends. Helen Fraser, managing director of Penguin Books who will be publishing the book in Britain, concedes that cynics will grumble about hype as the 45-year-old mother of two bursts into print after years as a raunchy pop icon and failed movie star. Her only previous book was the graphically illustrated coffee table S&M tome, SEX. "Whenever somebody as famous as Madonna does something, cynics will use the "H" word," she told Reuters. Fraser apparently was referring to "hype" and not "whore," -- which actually starts with a "w."

  Fraser insists that the book -- the first of five written by Madonna for kids -- will "appeal to people from eight to 80, not just dirty old men like her SEX book!"
   

Original Text Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited.  All rights reserved. 

Madonna: Bedtime Stories of a DIFFERENT Kind?

By Paul Majendie

LONDON (Reuters) - Harry Potter taught kids around the world the joy of reading. Now Madonna is going global in the thriving kids' book business with a publishing first: The pop superstar's first children's book -- "The English Roses" -- is being published simultaneously next Monday in more than 100 countries and 30 languages.

State-of-the-art technology has sent language barriers tumbling so printing plants around the world can spring into action in every tongue from French to Faroese. "This is a publishing first with regard to numbers of languages and territories," said Nicholas Callaway, President of the New York-based Callaway Editions, the originating publisher, who has coordinated the global release. "We have languages as varied as Chinese and Czech, Thai and Turkish, Hebrew and Hungarian," he told Reuters. Internet advances have shrunk the globe. "This would not have been technically possible 18 months ago. We send so many digital files through the Internet," Callaway added.

More than one million copies are hitting bookstores around the world next week, backed by a marketing blitz that takes Madonna from London to Paris and then on to the Oprah Winfrey talk show in the United States.

  Critics may carp at the spotlight focusing on Madonna, a genius at both spotting and setting pop and fashion trends. Helen Fraser, managing director of Penguin Books who will be publishing the book in Britain, concedes that cynics will grumble about hype as the 45-year-old mother of two bursts into print after years as a raunchy pop star. Her previous book was the graphically illustrated coffee table S&M tome, SEX. "Whenever somebody as famous as Madonna does something, cynics will use the "H" word," she told Reuters. Fraser apparently was referring to "hype" and not "whore," which actually starts with a "w."

  Fraser insists that the book -- the first of five written by Madonna for kids -- will "appeal to people from eight to 80, not just dirty old men like her SEX book!"
   

Original Text Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited.  All rights reserved. 

‘GIGLI’ The Bottom Line

Estimated Production Cost: $54 Million

Estimated Print & Ad Budget: $20 Million

Total Estimated Investment: $74 Million

Opening Weekend: $3,753,518 ($1,694 Per Screen)

Second Weekend: $678,640  ($306 Per Screen)

Second Weekend Drop-Off: 81.9%

(An All-Time Record – Topping

FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY’s 2^nd Weekend Drop of 77%)

Estimated Final Gross: $6.1 Million

ESTIMATED TOTAL LOSS:

$67.9 MILLION

(ADVENTURES of PLUTO NASH, with a $95 Million Budget

and Less Than $5 Million Box Office, Appears to Be

All-Time Champion Money-Loser)

NOTE: This Info is for North American Release ONLY –

In Foreign Territories 'GIGLI' Grossed aa Additional $1,178,667...WOW! .

Source: Box Office Mojo (EDI)

Entertainment Weakly

Bad Will Hunting

 
Even Ben Affleck says 'GIGLI' wasn't good. He tells Leno that despite ''some good work,'' it didn't hold up, and critics were eager to pounce

by Gary Susman


Joining the dogpile of criticism of 'GIGLI' is the movie's own star, Ben Affleck. ''I don't think the movie ultimately held up as a whole,'' he told Jay Leno on Monday's ''Tonight Show.'' While he said that ''scene by scene,'' the movie featured good work, ''you can put scenes together and sometimes they just don't work. It wasn't good and we got buried.''

Still, he said, critics had their knives sharpened before they saw the film. ''I think there was a certain amount of schadenfreude, a certain amount of a critical slam dunk contest that it turned into, like some [critic] was saying, 'I have been saving up this one turn of phrase all summer.' But that's part of the deal,'' said Affleck, who appeared on ''Tonight'' to promote the new ''Project Greenlight'' movie, ''The Battle of Shaker Heights.''

Affleck promised that ''Jersey Girl,'' his next movie costarring fiancée Jennifer Lopez, will be better than their pairing in ''GIGLI'. He said, ''I think 'Jersey Girl' is a really good movie. Jen is only in it for about 10 minutes, so it's not really like a 'me-and-Jen' movie. After the towering success of 'GIGLI,' I suspect Miramax will find a way to sell it as other than a 'me-and-Jen' movie."

©2003, Entertainment Weekly

VARIETY.com

Auds give 'Gigli' the cold shoulder:
10-day cume hits a measly $5.6 mil
 

By CARL DiORIO

HOLLYWOOD -- Anyone looking for spacious, air-conditioned solitude found just the ticket in theaters playing "Gigli" this weekend.

Sony/Revolution's critically ravaged romancer grossed just $640,000 in its second weekend, which proved no less embarrassing than its opening frame.

Jennifer Lopez-Ben Affleck starrer fell an incredible 82.9% from its dismal opening grosses. That was something of a perverse accomplishment, considering the high-profile wide release rung up just $3.8 million over its first weekend.

"Gigli" -- whose regrettable title wasn't the only thing drawing comparisons to fabled film flop "Ishtar" -- bowed at No. 7 the previous weekend and tumbled from the top 10 in the latest frame.

Mob-themed pic rung up a tiny $289 per venue this past weekend. With movie tickets averaging $6, that means fewer than 50 people ambled into "Gigli" screenings in any one venue between Friday and Sunday.

Pic is doing a little better than last year's mega-flop, "The Adventures of Pluto Nash." The Eddie Murphy-starrer opened Aug. 16, made $1.95 million in its opening weekend and then plummeted 71% in its second stanza, doing just $637,000 in ticket sales. That per-venue average was $275.

"Gigli," helmed by Martin Brest, ran its 10-day cume to $5.6 million. Revolution has estimated its production costs at $54 million.

 ©2003, Cahners/Variety Publications

CALIFORNIA’S RAZZIE® WORTHY RECALL RACE

by John Wilson

(Founder and Head RAZZberry of The RAZZIE Awards)

   You know there’s a screw loose somewhere in California’s political process when the current gubernatorial recall campaign (a.k.a. the biggest three-ring political circus since Barnum and Bailey) features three contenders for the state’s highest office whose past credentials include being RAZZIE Award nominees.

   Among those adding their names to what could end up being a 35-page recall ballot this fall are 1989 Worst Supporting Actress contender Angelyne and 1981 Worst Actor and Worst New Star nominee Gary Coleman.

   A 45 year-old “pin-up” girl who buys billboard ads all over L.A. touting her “talents,” Angelyne is actually one step down from the current cliché of “famous for being famous.” If she’s known at all outside RAZZIE circles, she could be called “semi-famous for being a wee-bit famous” – An ersatz Zsa Zsa Gabor, with even LESS talent than Gabor’s got. She has, however, got the best slightly off-color slogan of all the candidates filing so far: “California’s had enough Gray and Brown, now it’s time for pink!” If this election is destined to become a joke, it might as well become one with obvious surgical enhancements, in keeping with California’s image as The Plastic Surgery Capitol of the World.

   Also throwing his newsboy hat in the ring is former child star Coleman, who’s been mostly out of the limelight since the sit-com DIFF’RENT STROKES was cancelled in 1986. In 1999, he declared himself bankrupt, then told US Magazine that he was a 30-year-old virgin. Which led to him working as a security guard at a mini mall. Which led to his being accused of beating up a fan who came to the mini-mall to get his autograph. Which led to his appearing in an E! TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY about the tragedy that was his own life. Which led to his recent appearance on the cable “reality” show STAR DATES, trying to get a date with a “non-celebrity” (who hopefully hadn’t seen his 1999 virginity declaration).

   Only in as politically competitive a state as California could such sterling credentials as Angelyne’s and Coleman’s have gone un-rewarded by an informed electorate for so long. But topping the list of showbiz wannabes who now wanna be governor is multiply-RAZZIE-nominated  “actor” Arnold Schwarzenegger. Best known for playing hired assassins, vigilantes, murderous robots and the title role of CONAN THE BAVARIAN, “Ah-nuld” may actually have a chance at winning the governorship. Everyone in America (let alone California) had better be ready to get good-and-tired of wince-inducing wordplays on “Hasta la vista, baby,” “I’ll be back!” and “Total Recall.” And if he wins, he may be the first California governor ever to require English subtitles at all his press conferences.

   But anyone who enjoys a juicy supermarket read probably can’t wait to see what the tabloids dig up on THE LAST ACTION ZERO. One of the foremost reasons Schwarzenegger was said to be leaning against running was this very subject: How will Maria Shriver (who IS, after all, a Kennedy…kinda sorta) deal with seeing digitally enhanced photos of her hubby in the arms of everyone and anyone THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER (or better yet, THE GLOBE!) can think to pair him with? And, most importantly of all, will The Uber-nator accept when THE GLOBE’s prime political pundit Bat Boy offers him his endorsement, in exchange for Arnold confessing that he’s fathered a child with an alien?

  But pictorials revealing both his pectorals and his many reputed peccadilloes may not be The Terminator’s biggest drawback as a candidate. One of the longest running gags of the RAZZIES’ first 23 years has been the question of which is the bigger embarrassment: Being nominated for a RAZZIE…or not even “winning” one? I’m already wondering what happens when the media realize that, although nominated a record seven times, Arnold has never even been able to win a RAZZIE. This guy is supposed to be the savior of the Golden State GOP, yet he can’t even manage to win a Golden Raspberry Award after seven shots at one?

   So maybe everything will end up okay after all. Or maybe California’s term-limit laws will have to be what do in THE TERMINATOR. And maybe the RAZZIES should consider expanding its categories to include the committee that wrote California’s eminently Razz-able recall laws in the first place!

©2003, John Wilson and G.R.A.F.

PEOPLE MAGAZINE

Critics Toss Bricks at Ben & Jen's Movie

STEPHEN M. SILVERMAN

Get out the Razzies!. The reviews are out, and nobody seems to have a kind word for "Gigli." Just in case you haven't heard, "Gigli," which isn't pronounced the way it looks (but, rather, "Jee-lee"), is a romantic gangster comedy starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, who met on the set and began their storied romance.

But, apparently, what happened offscreen is better than what the stars and their director, Martin Brest ("Beverly Hills Cop," "Meet Joe Black"), left behind.

"'Gigli' is a disaster," declares New York's Daily News, which awards the movie one star (out of four) and tosses the "crude black comedy" on the same funeral pyre as such all-time turkeys as "Ishtar," "Howard the Duck" and "Battlefield Earth."

Reuters, reporting that the flick is being called a low point in movie history -- in the annals of Madonna's "Swept Away" and Mariah Carey's "Glitter" -- singles out one of the movie's more embarrassing moments, a love scene in which Lopez reportedly spreads her legs and informs Affleck, "It's turkey time. Gobble, gobble."

"The 'Gigli' is Up," reported Wednesday's New York Post, which added: "Ben-Jen bomb was made for walking."

The Los Angeles Times, though adhering to the informal industry rule that movies shouldn't be reviewed until the day they open, has tracked the movie's path to disaster, including reputed clashes at a preview screening between director Brest and the head of the studio, Revolution chief Joe Roth, over the finale of the film and its overall pace.

Even though the beach-blanket movie "From Justin to Kelly," based on FOX's "American Idol," grossed only $5 million at the box office when it quickly came and went a few weeks ago, the "Stinker of the Summer" label has been permanently affixed to "Gigli."

The movie opened to derisive reviews and disappointing business this weekend, bringing in only $3.8 million and landing at No. 7 on the Friday-Sunday Top 10 list, according to studio estimates. Actually, "derisive" and "disappointing" are kind adjectives, considering the reaction to the picture, in which Affleck plays a small-time mobster and Lopez plays a midriff-baring lesbian crook.

So low was the turnout for the picture that The New York Times headlined its story: "J.Lo and Affleck Finally Get Some Privacy." The Times reports that the film is not likely to recoup its $54 million cost, and the next Ben-Jen vehicle, "Jersey Girl," has seen its release date pushed back from later this year to the beginning of next year. Analysts credit the move as a means to distance "Jersey Girl" from "Gigli."

Assessing the disaster, Tom Sherak, a principal at the film's producer, Revolution Studios, tells Reuters: "We couldn't separate the movie from their real lives. You don't look at them as actors in this movie. You look at them as Jen and Ben." And critics just didn't like looking at them, at least not in this vehicle, written and directed by Martin Brest ("Meet Joe Black").

A "hopelessly misconceived exercise in celebrity self-worship," wailed The Times, while The Washington Post called it "enervated, torpid, slack, dreary and, oh yes, nasty, brutish and long." Still, the trade paper Variety was kind, saying "Gigli" was "a silly but enjoyably written and performed romantic comedy."  Well, SOMEONE had to like it!

SPECIAL WORST of the DECADE AWARDS for THE 1980s

Presented During The 10th Annual RAZZIE Awards

at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Blossom Ballroom, March 25, 1990

Winners are in boldface type.

WORST PICTURE OF THE DECADE

• BOLERO (1984, Cannon Films) Bo Derek, producer
• HOWARD THE DUCK (1986, Universal) Gloria Katz, producer
• THE LONELY LADY (1983, Universal) Robert R. Weston, producer
• MOMMIE DEAREST (1981, Paramount) Frank Yablans, producer
• STAR DREK V (1989, Paramount) Harve Bennett, producer

WORST ACTOR OF THE DECADE

• Christopher Atkins, THE BLUE LAGOON, A NIGHT IN HEAVEN, LISTEN TO ME and THE PIRATE MOVIE
• Ryan O'Neal, FEVER PITCH, PARTNERS, SO FINE and TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE
• Prince, UNDER THE CHERRY MOON
• Sylvester Stallone for COBRA, LOCK-UP, OVER THE TOP, RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, RAMBO III, ROCKY IV, RHINESTONE and TANGO & CASH
• John Travolta, THE EXPERTS, PERFECT, STAYIN' ALIVE and TWO OF A KIND

WORST ACTRESS OF THE DECADE

• Bo Derek for BOLERO and TARZAN THE APE MAN
• Faye Dunaway, FIRST DEADLY SIN, MOMMIE DEAREST, SUPERGIRL and THE WICKED LADY
• Madonna, SHANGHAI SURPRISE and WHO'S THAT GIRL?
• Brooke Shields, THE BLUE LAGOON, ENDLESS LOVE, SAHARA and SPEED ZONE
• Pia Zadora, THE LONELY LADY and BUTTERFLY

WORST NEW STAR OF THE DECADE

• Christopher Atkins, THE BLUE LAGOON, A NIGHT IN HEAVEN, LISTEN TO ME and THE PIRATE MOVIE
• Madonna, SHANGHAI SURPRISE and WHO'S THAT GIRL?
• Prince, UNDER THE CHERRY MOON
• Diana Scarwid, MOMMIE DEAREST, PSYCHO III and STRANGE INVADERS
• Pia Zadora for THE LONELY LADY and BUTTERFLY

© 1990, The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation and John Wilson

Photo ©1995, G.R.A.F.  Photo Credit: John Wilson

“Velma” Kelie McIver (center) rips into this year’s RAZZIE Opening Number “All That RAZZ!” assisted by Solid Gold RAZZberry Dancers Chip Dornell (left) and Glenn Simon (right) PHOTO ©2003/G.R.A.F.and Barbara Wilson.

THE RAZZIE® REPORTER

Official Newsletter of The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation / © 2003 G.R.A.F. and John Wilson

Volume XXIII/Issue #1            Summer 2003

7pm Saturday, July 12th @ Razzie HQ

All That RAZZ!

Ogle The 23rd RAZZIES on Video,

Double-Billed w/Berry Funny

Bad Movie Classic ‘THE OSCAR’

BRITISH WEBSITE NAMES 5 WORST SEX SCENES OF ALL TIME

Here, as nominated by visitors to the British website THE GUARDIAN UNLIMITED,

are the five Worst Movie Sex Scenes of All Time:

1. MATRIX RELOADED (2003) - Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss

2. SHOWGIRLS** (1995) - Elizabeth Berkley and Kyle MacLachlan

3. DAMAGED (1992) - Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche

4. THE SPECIALIST** (1994) - Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone

5. TITANIC (1997) - Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio


Honorable mentions to: EYES WIDE SHUT, DISCLOSURE, THE STUD, RISKY BUSINESS, COLOR OF NIGHT**, CARRY ON ENGLAND, SWORDFISH*, TOP GUN, BARB WIRE**, NORA, NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN, EIGHT WOMEN, GHOST, AMERICAN PIE, BODY of EVIDENCE** and CRIMES of PASSION.

© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003

RAZZIE KEY: ** Indicates RAZZIE "Winner" / * Indicates RAZZIE Nominee

DAILY VARIETY

June 25, 2003

New York Daily News

Beach Blanket Stinko

Don't go in the water with Kelly and Justin

American Awful: Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini should be ashamed.

FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY. With Justin Guarini, Kelly Clarkson. Directed by Robert Iscove. 95 mins. Rated PG: Mild language, sensuality.


The Simon Cowell in me wants to say to last year's "American Idol" winner Kelly Clarkson and runner-up Justin Guarini that their performances in the spring-break movie "From Justin to Kelly" are just awful.

Dreadful. Possibly the worst pro acting debuts I've ever seen.

But that distracts from the film itself, which is more than awful, more than dreadful, and easily the worst beach movie ever made.

Yep, worse than "Beach Blanket Bingo," worse than "Sizzle Beach, USA," and way worse than the recent reality bust "The Real Cancun," which at least had titillation value.

Squeaky-clean shenanigans

Despite its PG rating, "From Justin to Kelly" is the Good Ship Lollipop of wanton youth movies: It's modest, drug-free and as chaste as a church outing. This is the spring-break film college kids will be sending their parents for Christmas, with a little note:

"See, nothing happens."

On the first day of their vacation in Fort Lauderdale - in the middle of the first of several jaw-droppingly bad musical numbers staged on the sand: Redheaded beanpole Justin and bottom-heavy Kelly spot each other and spend the rest of the movie being kept apart by her devious girlfriend Alexa (Katherine Bailess).

Occasionally, they stop and lip-sync, sometimes to lyrics that are actually appropriate, though you wouldn't know it if the sound was turned down. Neither Justin nor Kelly has an inkling how to feign emotion.

The songs, by the way, are generic pop ick, the lifeblood of "American Idol" itself.

To answer the big question, Justin and Kelly do kiss eventually, but it's not the kind of kiss that would lead to anything lasting, or even spring-breakish. It's awful.
Dreadful. Maybe the worst I've ever seen.

(c) 2003, New York Daily News

‘JUSTIN TO KELLY’ Goes SPLAT! at Box Office

June 23, 2003

A Green Giant and a Beach Blanket Bummer

By Howard Rosenberg

American Idiots

It's inspiring to see the big screen embrace those who achieved their biggest fame on little old television. Ang Lee's "Hulk" and "From Justin to Kelly" both arrived in theaters Friday.

According to most accounts, the latter is scarier than the former.

"Hulk" is moviedom's version of a comic-book green giant who became "The Incredible Hulk" on CBS from 1979 to 1982, with average-sized Bill Bixby ballooning into panoramic Lou Ferrigno whenever he got teed off.

Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini are those singing "American Idol" kids, a pair of new-millennium icons whose quickie stardom on Fox gave "clean cut" a questionable name and led to this instant movie meant to capitalize on their popularity with the young crowd, before they flame out. It's being sold in ads promising "the musical event of the summer!"

Which tells you something about this summer.

To say nothing of the dumb-and-dumber descent of the television era that generated these two beach balls who make Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello look like movie-musical Titans.

"Everyone knows we did it in six weeks," Clarkson told Fox News Channel on Friday, sounding almost giddy beside Guarini, whom she edged out in last year's "American Idol" competition. She disagreed that it was a bad omen when the movie was withheld from critics so they couldn't write about it prior to its release.

"We didn't to it for the critics," she said of their movie. "We did it for the fans."
If trailers for a beachfront production number are an indication, she means fans of camp.

Of course, it gets only worse. Hoping to expand the audience-friendly creative void of "American Idol" into a whopper franchise pinpointing all younger age groups (Guarini is 23, Clarkson 21), Fox earlier this month spun off "American Juniors," pitting still-younger performers, and their parents, against each other. And, yikes, its ratings were also impressive.

What follows on this assembly line of look-alikes? "American Infant," with participants wowing the judges, viewers and host Ryan Seacrest by dirtying diapers to pop music? Or perhaps "American Fetus," if Fox can work out the ultrasound.

Theater Owners Force Fox to Reconsider JUSTIN TO KELLY's Fast DVD Date
Theatre owners balked at booking the made-to-make-a-quick-buck 20th Century Fox movie FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY -- Not after seeing how awful the film is, but after seeing red upon learning that Fox planned to release it on DVD just six weeks after it ran in theaters, the Wall Street Journal recently reported. The movie, scheduled for release on June 20, stars Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini, the talent-free winner and runner-up respectively in the first season of AMERICAN IDOL. According to the newspaper, theater owners were concerned that studios may decide to use a similar strategy with other films in order to boost DVD sales. Noting that the average "window" from theatrical release to DVD release is about five months, the Journal indicated that theater owners were terrified that if moviegoers became aware that the DVD would be released in only a short time, they would skip the in-theater experience. Fox execs, in a lame defense of their decision, claimed that the quickly produced movie was an attempt to exploit the popularity of the series while it is still fresh in the minds of audiences -- as was the quick release of the DVD. But after some of the country's largest exhibitors threatened to refuse bookings of the film on the grounds that even moviegoers dumb enough to consider seeing the film might still be smart enough to simply wait six weeks for the video to appear, 20th Century Fox decided to postpone the DVD release until September. Which means FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY will still be on DVD in time to be screened by RAZZIE Members before Nominating Ballots for The 24th Annual RAZZIES are due next Spring...

CALGARY SUN

RAZZIES Shrugged Off by Travolta

by Louis B. Hobson

WILMINGTON -- John Travolta's sci-fi epic swept the 2001 RAZZIE Awards. As well as being named the Worst Picture of the year, BATTLEFIELD EARTH earned Travolta a RAZZIE for Worst Actor.

Travolta was neither amused nor offended.

"I didn't even know there were such awards. I have people around me whose job it is to not tell me about such things. They're obviously doing their job," says Travolta.

"Not every film can be a critical and box-office success. It would have been awful only if Battlefield Earth was neither. That's not the case. It is edging toward the $100-million US mark which means it has found an audiences even if it didn't impress critics.

"I'd rather my films connect with audiences than with critics because it gives you more longevity as a performer."

When he learned that Madonna had been named Worst Actress for THE NEXT BEST THING, Travolta replied: "I liked what she did in that film, so I feel I'm in good company."

Vancouver actor Barry Pepper, who received a Worst Supporting Actor RAZZIE for BATTLEFIELD EARTH, has a different take on the dubious honor. "I wish somebody had invited me to the ceremony. I would have gone and accepted it. That would have been so much fun!"

Last year, Travolta had been promising a sequel to BATTLEFIELD EARTH, but now he is a little more cautious. "There's always a possibility but right now it's not a priority. I have quite a busy slate."

MADONNA to PEOPLE Magazine: “Dress like Britney and Think Like Me!”

SWEPT AWAY, the couple's critically panned film, was pulled from theaters only three weeks after its release. "Everybody wants to know, 'God, weren't you really bummed out by the reaction?' Yes, I was," she says. "But did it affect my relationship with my husband? No. If our relationship couldn't have handled the failure of that movie, what would have been the basis of it?" Besides, she says they had fun filming it. "Contrary to what people think," she says, "I take direction very well."

 "I symbolize the American dream, someone who came from nothing and then supposedly had everything. But did I? Is the American dream everything? I think the answer is no. There's more." Not only that, but the former Material Girl — whose personal fortune is estimated at more than $300 million — says she has changed her tune. "Don't get me wrong. It's fabulous I have these beautiful homes and paintings," she says. "But the most important thing in life is love. I know it sounds corny, but everybody knows it's true."

For now, Madonna is looking ahead, hoping to make another movie — "There's a completely original musical I want to do, a bit of an extravaganza" — and trying not to scrutinize herself too closely. "At one point I only cared about clothes and boys and french fries," she says. "I've grown. I've discovered things I had no idea of when I was in my 20s." Among them: the value of inner peace — and the fact that fashion trendsetting is best left to those with more youthful Blonde Ambition. "I don't want people to dress like me anymore," she says. "Now I want them to think like me. Dress like Britney Spears and think like me, and everything will be fine."

Article by MICHELLE TAUBER with TODD GOLD in Los Angeles and ELIZABETH MCNEIL in New York City

—    © 2003/PEOPLE Magazine

2003 Releases Eligible for RAZZIE® Consideration

January 1 thru December 31

To be included in this list, a film must have played a 7-day, regular admission

engagement at a theatre in L.A. or New York during Calendar Year 2003.

KEY:   a = Animated                      d = Documentary            f = Foreign

TITLES IN ALL CAPS ARE LIKELIEST RAZZIE® CONTENDERS

387 TITLES: HOW MANY HAVE YOU SEEN?

9 Dead Gay Guys

21 Grams

28 Days Later

2 FAST 2 FURIOUS

a.k.a.

Agent Cody Banks

Alex & Emma

All My Loved Ones/f

All the Real Girls

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony/d

American Splendor

American Wedding

The Anarchist Cookbook

And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen

ANGER MANAGEMENT

Anything But Love

Anything Else

Assassination Tango

L’Auberge Espagnole/f\

The Backyard/d

BAD BOYS II

Bad Santa

Balseros/d

The Barbarian Invasions

Basic

The Battle of Shaker Heights

Bend It Like Backham/f

Better Luck Next Time

BEYOND BORDERS

The Big Empty

Big Fish

Biker Boyz

Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary/d

Blindness

Blue Car

Blue Collar Comedy Tour/d

BOAT TRIP

Bobby G. Can’t Swim

Bolivia

Bollywood/Hollywood

Bonhoeffer/d

Bringing Down the House

Brother Bear/a

Bruce Almighty

Bubba Ho-Tep

Buffalo Soldiers

BULLETPROOF MONK

Bus 174/d

Cabin Fever

Calendar Girls

Camera Obscura

Camp

Capturing the Friedmans/d

Carnage/f

Casa de los Babys

THE CAT IN THE HAT (#38 on IMDb’s Bottom 100 List)

Cet-amour La/f

CHARLIE’S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE

Charlotte, Sometimes

Chasing Papi

CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN

Chi-Hwa-Seon (Painted Fire)/f

City of Ghosts

City of God/f

The City of No Limits/f

Civil Brand

COLD CREEK MANOR

Cold Mountain

The Company

Concert for George/d

Confidence

Confusion of Genders

Controlled Chaos

The Cooler

The Core

Cowboy Bebop/a

Cradle 2 the Grave

Cremaster 3

The Cuckoo/f

DADDY DAYCARE

The Dancer Upstairs

DAREDEVIL

Dark Blue

Darkness Falls

A Decade Under the Influence/d

Deliver Us from Eva

Demonlover

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Die, Mommie, Die!

Dirty Pretty Things

Divine Intervention

Le Divorce

Dopamine

Down & Out with the Dolls

Down With Love

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary

DREAMCATCHER

Dum

DUMB & DUMBER: WHEN HARRY MET LLOYD

Dummy

DUPLEX

Dust

Dys-Funk-Tional Family/d

Elephant

Elf

Emerald Cowboy

Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet/d

The Event

Everybody Says I’m Fine!/f

The Eye

A Family Affair

Fassbinder

Fidel: The Untold Story/d

The Fifth Reaction/f

THE FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS

FINAL DESTINATION 2

Finding Nemo/a

La Fleur du Mal (Flower of Evil)/f

Flickering Lights/f

Freaky Friday

FREDDY vs. JASON

Friday Night/f

Friends and Family

FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY (#1 on IMDb’s “Bottom 100”)

Full Time Killer

Gang of Roses

Garage Days

Garmento

Gasoline/f

Gerry

Ghosts of the Abyss/Imax

Gigantic (A Tale of 2 Johns)/d

GIGLI (#9 on IMDb’s “Bottom 100” List)

The Girl from Paris/f

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girlhood

Girls Will Be Girls

Gloomy Sunday

Gods and Generals

Going Down

The Golden Laws/a

Good Boy!

The Good Old Naughty Days/d

The Good Thief

The Gospel of John

Gothika

Green Card Fever

Grind

The Guru

A Guy Thing

The Hard Word

THE HAUNTED MANSION

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not/f

Head of State

The Heart of Me

The Hebrew Hammer

Help! I’m a Fish!

Hero: Love Story of a Spy/f

Holes

Hollywood Homicide

Home Room

Honey

Horns and Halos

Hotel

Hotel Room

House of Fools

House of Sand and Fog

House of 1000 Corpses

House of the Dead

The Housekeeper

How to Deal

How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days

HULK

The Human Stain

THE HUNTED

I Capture the Castle

Identity

In America

In My Skin

In the Cut

In This World

THE IN-LAWS

Intolerable Cruelty

Irreversible

It Runs in the Family

The Italian Job

Japon/f

JEEPERS CREEPERS, TOO

Jet Lag

Johnny English

Jungle Book 2/a

JUST MARRIED

KANGAROO JACK

Khatchaturian/d

Kill Bill, Vol. 1

Km. 0/f

Langrishe, Go Down

LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE

Last Dance

The Last Samuria

Laurel Canyon

The Lawless Heart

THE LEAGUE of EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

The Legend of Suryothai/f

Levity

The Life of David Gale

Lilya 4-Ever/f

The Lizzie McGuire Movie

Lockdown

Loco Love

LOONEY TOONS: BACK IN ACTION

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Lost in La Mancha

Lost in Translation

Love Actually

Love Don’t Cost a Thing

Love the Hard Way

Lucia, Lucia

Luster

Luther

Madame Sata/f

The Magdalena Sisters

Malibu’s Most Wanted

Mambo Italiano

A MAN APART

Man of the Year

Manito

The Man on the Train

The Man Without a Past/f

Manic

Manna from Heaven

MARCI X

Marooned in Iraq

Masked and Anonymous

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Matchstick Men

MATRIX: RELOADED

MATRIX: REVOLUTIONS

May

The Medallion

A Mighty Wind

Millennium Actress/a-f

The Missing

Mona Lisa Smile

Mondays in the Sun

Monsieur Ibrahim/f

Monster

MY BOSS’ DAUGHTER

My Flesh and Blood/d

My Life Without Me

Mystic River

National Security

New Suit

No Turning Back

Northfork

Nowhere in Africa/f

O.T. Ou Town/d

OLD SCHOOL

On Line

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

Only the Strong Survive/d

Open Hearts

Open Range

The Order

Ordinary Sinner

The Other Side of the Bed/f

Out of Time

Owning Mahowney

Painted Fire/f

The Party’s Over/d

Party Monster

Passionada

Paycheck

People I Know

Peter Pan

Phone Booth

Pieces of April

Piglet’s BIG Movie/a

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

POKEMON HEROES/a

Poolhall Junkies

Porn Theatre

Prey for Rock and Roll

The Process

Pursuit of Happiness

The R.M./f

Radio

Raising Victor Vargas

Rana’s Wedding/f

THE REAL CANCUN (a.k.a. The Real Poon-Tang!)

The Recruit

The Red Circle/f

Respiro

Returner

Returning Mickey Stein

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised/d

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working in Time/d

Rugrats Go Wild/a

Runaway Jury

The Rundown

S.W.A.T.

The Safety of Objects

Sakura Wars: The Movie/a-f

Scary Movie 3

School of Rock

The Sea

The Sea if Watching

Secondhand Lions

Secret Lives/d

The Secret Lives of Dentists

September 11 (Shorts Compilation)

Shaolin Soccer/f

Shanghai Knights

The Shape of Things

Shattered Glass

Sinbad: Legend of the 7 Seas/a

The Singing Detective

So Close

Something’s Gotta Give

The Son

Spellbound/d

Spider

Spun

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (Stallone Playing 5 Roles!)

The Statement

The Station Agent

Stealing Time

Step Into Liquid/d

Stevie

Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator/d

Stone Reader

The Story of Seabiscuit

Stuck on You

Suddenly

Suddenly Naked

Suspended Animation

Sweet Sixteen

Swimming Pool

Sylvia

Taking Sides

Tattoo/f

TEARS of the SUN

Ten/f

TERMINATOR 3:RISE OF THE MACHINES

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

Thirteen

This Thing of Ours

‘Till Human Voices Wake Us

Timeline

To Be and to Have/d-f

Together

Touchez Pas au Grisbi/f

The Trip

The Triplets of Belleville/a-f

Tupac: Resurrection/d

Twilight/f

Under the Skin of the City/f

UNDERWORLD

Under the Tuscan Sun

Uptown Girls

Valentin/f

Venus and Mars

Venus Boys

Veronica Guerin

VIEW from the TOP

Wash, Dry & Spin Out

Washington Heights

Wattstax – The Special Edition/d

The Weather Underground/d

Whale Rider

What a Girl Wants

What Alice Found

Where’s the Party, Yaar?

Willard

Winged Migration/d

Wonderland

Wrong Turn

X2: X Men United

XX/YY

The Year That Trembled

Young Black Stallion

The Young Unkowns

Yin-Yang Master/f

Yossi & Jagger/f

Zus & Zoe/f

387 TITLES

Madonna "Hurt" by RAZZIES

Friday, March 28, 2003

LOS ANGELES [A.P.] - The Material Girl has feelings, too.

Madonna is apparently not as tough as she seems. She tells "Access Hollywood" she was "totally hurt" by the bashing of "Swept Away," the movie she made with her husband, Guy Ritchie.

Madonna says she would work again with her husband "in a heartbeat" even though "Swept Away" was named the worst movie of the year and given a Golden Raspberry Award on March 22. Madonna also won a Razzie for "Worst Actress" and Guy Ritchie won "Worst Director."

Madonna's interview aired on "Access Hollywood" March 31.

THE RAZZIE FOUNDATION HAS JUST THREE QUESTIONS for THE IMMATERIAL MOM:

1)    Given that SWEPT AWAY cost as much as $10 million, and earned back a paltry

$598, 645, who on Earth would finance another film pairing Madonna and Guy Ritchie?

2)    Given that Madonna’s own publicist referred to reviews on SWEPT AWAY as “a public hanging,” was Madonna REALLY surprised when it swept the 23^rd Annual RAZZIES??

3)      Was Madonna “deeply hurt” enough to Never Make Another Film Again?? If so, The RAZZIES can no longer be accused of serving no purpose!!

Coming Soon to a Video Remainder Bin Near You:

SWEPT AWAY

The Director’s Cut DVD

RAZZIES 'Swept Away' by Madonna Movie

By DAVID GERMAIN

.c The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie swept away the competition at the Razzies, an annual spoof of the Academy Awards singling out the worst achievements in film.

``Swept Away,'' the island-romance bomb that starred Madonna and was written and directed by Ritchie, took five Razzie Awards on Saturday, among them worst picture of 2002.

Madonna tied for worst actress with fellow pop queen Britney Spears, who made her starring debut in ``Crossroads,'' another worst-picture contender.

Ritchie was chosen worst director, while ``Swept Away'' earned Madonna a second award for worst screen couple with co-star Adriano Giannini. A remake of an acclaimed Italian film about a rich snob stranded with a hunky sailor, Madonna's ``Swept Away'' also received the trophy for worst remake or sequel.

Madonna was named worst supporting actress for her brief cameo as a fencing instructor in the James Bond flick ``Die Another Day,'' for which she also sang the theme song.

``She's not even in the movie for two minutes, but she's so awful in that one scene, that for the whole rest of the movie, you cannot forget that your eyes and ears have been assaulted with the stupidity of her appearance,'' said Razzies founder John Wilson.

Madonna's latest Razzies bring her career total to nine, tying her with Sylvester Stallone for most awards ever. Three years ago, the Razzies also chose Stallone and Madonna as worst actor and actress of the 20th century.

Other Razzie 2002 ``winners'' chosen by about 500 members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation:

Worst actor: Roberto Benigni, ``Pinocchio.''

Worst supporting actor: Hayden Christensen, ``Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.''

Worst screenplay: George Lucas and Jonathan Hales, ``Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.''

Worst original song: ``I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman,'' ``Crossroads.''

Most flatulent teen-targeted movie: ``Jackass: The Movie.''

Ritchie and Madonna were the first husband-wife Razzie recipients since John and Bo Derek, who were named worst director and actress for 1984's ``Bolero'' and 1990's ``Ghosts Can't Do It.''

Razzies founder Wilson said he always votes last and cast the ballot that tied Madonna and Spears for worst actress, though he would not say which he voted for.

``They are equally wretched,'' Wilson said. ``They admire each other, and they can have each other.''

03/23/03 05:32 EST

Madonna Film Sweeps RAZZIE Awards

By Christopher Michaud

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Maybe they should just rename these awards "the Madonnas."

Madonna and director-husband Guy Ritchie "Swept Away" the competition with their widely reviled box office bomb of the same name at the 23rd annual Razzie awards on Saturday which "honor" the worst of the worst in Hollywood.

The Razzies are traditionally awarded a day before the Oscars, Hollywood's highest honors which are set for Sunday.

"Swept Away," a remake of Italian director Lina Wertmuller's 1974 classic about a bourgeois woman shipwrecked in the Mediterranean with her yacht's communist cook, swept the Razzies with nods for worst film, worst performance by an actress, worst remake, worst screen couple (Madonna and co-star Adriano Giannini) and worst director Ritchie.

The first cinematic collaboration between the aging pop star and the British director also suffered the ignominious distinction of being the Razzie's lowest-grossing worst film ever, having "earned" a whopping $598,645 in box office receipts, the Razzies award givers said.

Actually Madonna, who can now boast a collection of five worst actress Razzies in her curio cabinet -- not to mention having been crowned worst actress of the century -- had to share the honor this year with fellow pop star Britney Spears.

For her screen debut Spears chose "Crossroads," in which as critics noted she dug deep into her creative vault to transform every fiber of her being into her character of ... an aspiring pop star.

"Crossroads" opens with Spears' character dancing in her underwear to Madonna's "Open Your Heart to Me." So now they have another bond.

WORST ORIGINAL SONG

Spears also grabbed the worst original song honors for "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" from the film.

"Swept Away"'s five "wins" tied the mark for most Razzies set by such unforgettable movie train wrecks as "Mommie Dearest," "The Post Man," "Wild Wild West" and "Freddy Got Fingered."

Seemingly on a roll, Razzie voters also saw fit to bestow its worst supporting actress award on Madonna for her fleeting cameo in the James Bond flick "Die Another Day."

The Razzies, formally administered by the non-profit Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, did not reserve its brickbats for pop stars who think they're actresses, of course.

Italian actor/director and past Oscar winner Roberto Benigni ("Life is Beautiful") apparently gave new meaning to the term wooden acting with his poorly dubbed folly "Pinocchio," which apparently even children didn't want to see during its abortive Christmas release.

Even Hollywood superpower George Lucas and his "Star Wars" cash cow franchise did not escape unscathed. His "disappointing fifth entry from a galaxy far, far too long," as the Razzie folks put it, "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones," snagged Razzies for Hayden Christensen as worst supporting actor and worst screenplay for Lucas himself.

Winners were determined by ballots mailed to 563 Golden Raspberry Award Foundation members throughout 39 U.S. states and a dozen other countries.

The award itself is a handcrafted, golf-ball-sized raspberry atop a mangled reel of Super 8 film. Spray-painted gold, it is said to have an estimated street value of $4.89.

But that, of course, doesn't account for eBay.

03/22/03 14:29 ET

The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation presents

The 23^rd Annual

RAZZIE® AWARDS

Dis-Honoring Worst Achievements in Film for 2002

Sir Elton to Madonna: "It Hasn't Got a Tune - It's The Worst Bond Song of All Time!"

Fri, Nov 29, 2002, 10:11 AM PT

HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com) -Madonna just can't do anything to please those Brits. This time it's Sir Elton John leading the charge, attacking the Material Girl's ‘DIE ANOTHER DAY’ theme song in the press. He told British journalists that the tune is the worst 007 theme in the franchise's history:  "It hasn't got a tune," Elton John told The London Sun. "James Bond themes are usually very camp and this one's different. It is the worst Bond tune of all time!" He added that the producers "should have gone for somebody like Lulu and Shirley Bassey, or maybe I'm in that league."

This is the second attack on the actress/singer by the Elton John household. Earlier this month, David Furbish, Elton John's life-mate, went public with his opinions when he heard that Madonna was going to make a movie about her life.

"I can't imagine anything more boring than a film about her because there's no secrets," Furnish told the British press. "She's bared her soul to the press… We've witnessed every incarnation. There's no mystery, there's no mystique."

"Die Another Day" composer David Arnold has also dissed Madonna's foray into the Bond universe. "Ideally,

I would have liked to make some musical sense of her song," he told London's Sunday Express," but I couldn't!"

A CLIFF NOTES HISTORY of THE RAZZIES®

Worst Picture, Actor & Actress “Winners” 1980-2002

©1980-2003, The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation and John Wilson

2002

          Worst Picture: SWEPT AWAY

          Worst Actor: Roberto Benigni/PINOCCHIO (By a Nose!)

          Worst Actress (TIE!!) Madonna/SWEPT AWAY and Britney Spears/CROSSROADS

2001

          Worst Picture: FREDDY GOT FINGERED

          Worst Actor: Tom Green/FREDDY GOT FINGERED

          Worst Actress: Mariah Carey/GLITTER

2000

          Worst Picture: BATTLEFIELD EARTH

          Worst Actor: John Travolta/BATTLEFIELD EARTH

          Worst Actress: Madonna/THE NEXT BEST THING

1999

          Worst Picture: WILD WILD WEST

          Worst Actor: Adam Sandler/BIG DADDY

          Worst Actress: Heather Donahue/THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

1998

Worst Picture: AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN, HOLLYWOOD, BURN!

          Worst Actor: Bruce Willis/ARMAGEDDON, MERCURY RISING and THE SIEGE

          Worst Actress: The Spice Girls (Jointly)/SPICE WORLD: THE MOVIE

1997

          Worst Picture: THE POSTMAN

          Worst Actor: Kevin Costner/THE POSTMAN

          Worst Actress: Demi Moore/G.I. JANE

1996

          Worst Picture: STRIPTEASE

Worst Actor(TIE!!): Tom Arnold/BIG BULLY, CAR POOL and THE STUPIDS

and Pauly Shore/BIO-DOME

          Worst Actress: Demi Moore/STRIPTEASE

1995

          Worst Picture: SHOWGIRLS

          Worst Actor: Pauly Shore/JURY DUTY

          Worst Actress: Elizabeth Berkley/SHOWGIRLS

1994

          Worst Picture: COLOR OF NIGHT

          Worst Actor: Kevin Costner/WYATT EARP

          Worst Actress: Sharon Stone/INTERSECTION and THE SPECIALIST

1993

          Worst Picture: INDECENT PROPOSAL

          Worst Actor: Burt Reynolds/COP-AND-A-HALF-WIT

          Worst Actress: Madonna/BODY OF EVIDENCE

1992

          Worst Picture: SHINING THROUGH

          Worst Actor: Sylvester Stallone/STOP! OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT!

          Worst Actress: Melanie Griffith/SHINING THROUGH and A STRANGER AMONG US

1991

          Worst Picture: HUDSON HAWK

          Worst Actor: Kevin Costner/ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF DWEEBS

          Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress: Sean Young (as Twins)

A KISS BEFORE DYING

1990

          Worst Picture (TIE!): THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE

and GHOSTS CAN’T DO IT

          Worst Actor: Andrew Dice Clay/FORD FAIRLANE

          Worst Actress: Bo Derek/GHOSTS CAN’T DO IT

1989

          Worst Picture: STAR DREK V

          Worst Actor: William Shatner/STAR DREK V

          Worst Actress: Heather Locklear/RETURN OF THE SWAMP THING

1988

          Worst Picture: COCKTAIL

          Worst Actor: Sylvester Stallone/RAMBO III

          Worst Actress: Liza Minnelli/ARTHUR 2 ON THE ROCKS and RENT-A-COP

1987

          Worst Picture: LEONARD: PART 6

          Worst Actor: Bill Cosby/LEONARD: PART 6

          Worst Actress: Madonna/WHO’S THAT GIRL?

1986

          Worst Picture (TIE!): HOWARD THE DUCK

and UNDER THE CHERRY MOON

          Worst Actor: Prince/UNDER THE CHERRY MOON

          Worst Actress: Madonna/SHANGHAI SURPRISE

1985

          Worst Picture: RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II

          Worst Actor: Sylvester Stallone/RAMBO II and ROCKY IV

          Worst Actress: Linda Blair for 3 Films: NIGHT PATROL,

SAVAGE ISLAND and SAVAGE STREETS

1984

          Worst Picture: BOLERO

          Worst Actor: Sylvester Stallone/RHINESTONE

          Worst Actress: Bo Derek/BOLERO

1983

          Worst Picture: THE LONELY LADY

          Worst Actor: Christopher Atkins/A NIGHT IN HEAVEN

          Worst Actress: Pia Zadora/THE LONELY LADY

1982

          Worst Picture: INCHON!

          Worst Actor: Laurence Olivier/INCHON!

          Worst Actress: Pia Zadora/BUTTERFLY

1981

          Worst Picture: MOMMIE DEAREST

          Worst Actor: Klinton Spillsbury/LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER

          Worst Actress (TIE!): Bo Derek/TARZAN THE APE MAN

and Faye Dunaway/MOMMIE DEAREST

1980

          Worst Picture: CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC

          Worst Actor: Neil Diamond/THE JAZZ SINGER

          Worst Actress: Brooke Shields/THE BLUE LAGOON

ALL-TIME CHAMPIONS

          Worst Picture: BATTLEFIELD EARTH and SHOWGIRLS

(Tied @ 7 Awards Apiece)

          Worst Actor: Sylvester Stallone/10 Awards and 30 Nominations

(Including Worst Actor of the Century in 2000)

          Worst Actress: Madonna/9 Awards and 15 Nominations

(Including Worst Actress of the Century in 2000)

©1980-2003, The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation and John Wilson

In his 50 years on Planet Hollywood, John Wilson has seen more than 4000 movies, many of them in his capacity as the Founder and Head RAZZberry of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation and creator of The RAZZIE Awards.

Wilson is also the author of EVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNED AT THE MOVIES, a collection of 100 of cinema's silliest cliches, published by General Publishing Group in 1995. He has just completed the manuscript for the up-coming Warner Book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE MOVIE GUIDE, Enjoying The Best of Hollywood's Worst, which lists 100 of the funniest, most entertainingly awful movies ever made, and is scheduled for publication in January, 2005 to tie in with The Gala 25th Annual RAZZIE Award nominations.

A graduate of UCLA's prestigious Movie/Television Studies Program, Wilson's background includes over 25 years as a producer, copywriter and creative consultant for many of Hollywood’s biggest TV and movie companies.  In 1990 he won the Hollywood Reporter's Key Art Award for comedy trailers.  He has created hundreds of major movie campaigns, including those for the first three STAR WARS films, three of the four SUPERMAN movies, such classic Disney reissues as PINOCCHIO, LADY AND THE TRAMP and the animated versions of both THE JUNGLE BOOK and 101 DALMATIANS and, in a bit of RAZZIE serendipity, the trailer and TV spots for Pia Zadora in Harold Robbins’ THE LONELY LADY. He has also worked on projects for PBS, The Playboy Channel, CBS-TV's Fall Preview print ads, a three-minute retrospective look at MGM/UA's renowned video library and The Electronic Press Kit for The 67th Annual Academy Awards.

Wilson now lives with his wife (whom he met while working at a movie theatre) their eight-year-old son (the only kid in his class who knows the term "letterbox") two cats (named Nick and Nora Charles) three VCRs, five DVD players, a 537-volume film reference library and more than 2300 video tapes and discs in an ever-more-crowded ranch home in a sunny suburb of Tinsel Town.

The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation presents

The 23^rd Annual

RAZZIE AWARDS®

Dis-Honoring Worst Achievements in Film for 2002

23rd Annual Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE) Award® Nominations

KEY: (*) Indicates Former Oscar® Winner or Nominee

Worst Picture:

THE ADVENTURES of PLUTO NASH (Warner Bros.)

CROSSROADS (Paramount)

Roberto Benigni’s PINOCCHIO (Miramax)

STAR WARS: EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES (20^th Century-Fox/Lucasfilm)

SWEPT AWAY (Screen Gems)

Worst Actor:

Roberto Benigni (Dubbed GODZILLA-Style by Breckin Meyer) PINOCCHIO*#

Adriano Giannini/SWEPT AWAY

Eddie Murphy/ADVENTURES of PLUTO NASH, I SPY and SHOWTIME#

Steven Seagal/HALF PAST DEAD#

Adam Sandler/ADAM SANDLER’S 8 CRAZY NIGHTS and MR. DEEDS#

Worst Actress:

Angelina Jolie/LIFE, OR SOMETHING LIKE IT*#

Jennifer Lopez/ENOUGH and MAID IN MANHATTAN#

Madonna/SWEPT AWAY#

Winona Ryder/MR. DEEDS*                                

Britney Spears/CROSSROADS        

WORST Supporting Actor:

Hayden Christensen/STAR WARS/EPISODE II: YADA-YADA-YODA           

Tom Green/STEALING HARVARD# 

Freddie Prinze, Jr./SCOOBY DOO

Christopher Walken/THE COUNTRY BEARS*

Robin Williams/DEATH TO SMOOCHY*

Worst Supporting Actress:

Lara Flynn Boyle/MEN IN BLACK II

Bo Derek/MASTER OF DISGUISE#

Madonna/DIE ANOTHER DAY#

Natalie Portman/STAR WARS: EPISODE…WHO CARES?#

Rebecca Ramijn-Stamos/ROLLERBALL

MOST FLATULENT TEEN-TARGETED MOVIE (New Category!)

ADAM SANDLER’s 8 CRAZY NIGHTS (Sony/Columbia)                     

CROSSROADS (Paramount)                 

JACKASS: THE MOVIE (Paramount)                 

SCOOBY DOO (Warner Bros.)                           

XXX (Sony/Revolution)

Worst Screen Couple:

Adriano Giannini & Madonna#/SWEPT AWAY

Roberto Benigni* & Nicoletta Braschi/Benigni’s PINOCCHIO

Hayden Christensen & Natalie Portman#/STAR WARS/EPISODE II: SEND IN THE CLONES

Eddie Murphy# & EITHER Robert deNiro# (SHOWTIME) Owen Wilson (I SPY)

or Himself Cloned (THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH)

Britney Spears & Whatever-His-Name-Was/CROSSROADS

Worst Director:

Roberto Benigni/PINOCCHIO*         

Tamra Davis/CROSSROADS

George Lucas/STAR WARS/EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE GROANS *

Guy Ritchie/SWEPT AWAY

Ron Underwood/THE ADVENTURES of PLUTO NASH

Worst Remake or Sequel:

I SPY (Sony/Columbia)                   

MR. DEEDS (Columbia/New Line)           

Roberto Benigni’s PINOCCHIO (Miramax)

STAR WARS/EPISODE II: WHAT-EVER (20^th Century-Fox)                                      

SWEPT AWAY (Screen Gems)                                                              

Worst Screenplay:

THE ADVENTURES of PLUTO NASH, Written by Neil Cuthbert                                                 

CROSSROADS, Screenplay by Shonda Rhimes

Roberto Benigni’s PINOCCHIO, Screenplay by Vincenzo Cerami and Roberto Benigni*

STAR WARS: EPISODE II: THE BOREDOM CONTINUES,

Screenplay by George Lucas* and Jonathon Hales              

SWEPT AWAY. Screenplay by Guy Ritchie

WORST ‘ORIGINAL’ SONG

“Die Another Day” from DIE ANOTHER DAY, written by Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadzai

“I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” from CROSSROADS, Written by Max Martin, “Rami” & Dido Armstrong

“Overprotected” from CROSSROADS, Written by Max Martin and “Rami”

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Official Newsletter of The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation

Volume XXII/Issue #2 Dead of Winter 2003

7pm Saturday, Feb. 1st @ Razzie HQ

Get ‘SWEPT AWAY’ at RAZZIE Prevue Nite XXII

ALL-TIME RAZZIE CHAMPIONS:

As of 25th Annual RAZZIE Awards/2-26-05

WORST "ACTOR"

SYLVESTER STALLONE with 30 Nominations & 10 Awards (so far!)

SLY’s RAZZIE “WINS”
Worst Actor (1984) RHINESTONE

Worst Actor, Director & Screenplay (1985) for both RAMBO II and ROCKY IV

Worst Actor (1988) RAMBO III

Worst Actor of the DECADE (1990 – For the 1980s)

Worst Actor (1992) STOP! OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT!

Worst Screen Couple (1994) Shared w/Sharon Stone in THE SPECIALIST

Worst  Actor of the CENTURY (2000) for “95% of Everything He’s Ever Done”

Runner-Up:: KEVIN COSTNER

(with 16 Nominations / 6 Awards – So Far!)

WORST "ACTRESS"

MADONNA with 15 Nominations & 9 Awards (so far!)

          MADONNA’s RAZZIE “WINS”

Worst Actress (1986) SHANGHAI SURPRISE

Worst Actress (1987) WHO’S THAT GIRL?

Worst Actress (1993) BODY OF EVIDENCE

Worst Supporting Actress (1995) FOUR ROOMS

Worst Actress of the CENTURY (2000) For All of the Above – and MORE!

Worst Actress (2000) THE NEXT BEST THING

Worst Actress & Worst Screen Couple (2002) SWEPT AWAY

Worst Supporting Actress (2002) DIE ANOTHER DAY

Runner-Up: BO DEREK

(with 11 Nominations / 6 Awards, so far -- including Worst Actress of the DECADE for the 1980’s)

WORST PICTURES:

BATTLEFIELD EARTH (2000) and SHOWGIRLS (1995)

        TIED with 7 "Wins" Each

        NOTE: SHOWGIRLS amassed the Most Nominations Ever with

                    13 Nods (More Noms Than There were Categories!)

                    It also “won” Worst Picture of The Decade for the 1990’s.

                    BATTLEFIELD EARTH got 8 nominations, and "won" Worst Drama of Our First 25 Years at our 25th annual awards.

Runner-Up: THE LONELY LADY (1983)

        (with 11 Nominations & 6 "Wins")

© 2005, The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation and John Wilson

2002 Releases Eligible for RAZZIE Consideration

(1-01-02 through 12-31-02)

298 TITLES

KEY:

* = On Home Video

A = Animated

D = Documentary

F = Foreign

TITLES IN ALL CAPS ARE LIKELIEST RAZZIE CONTENDERS

Abandon

About a Boy*

About Schmidt

Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights/A

Adaptation

THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH

All About the Benjamins*

All or Nothing

All the Queen’s Men

Analyze That

Antwone Fisher

Ararat/F

Austin Powers in Goldmember*

Auto Focus

Bad Company

The Banger Sisters

Barbershop

Beijing Bicycle/F

Big Bad Love

BIG FAT LIAR*

Big Shot’s Funeral

Big Trouble*

Biggie & Tupac/D

Birthday Girl

BLADE II*

Blood Work

Bloody Sunday

Blue Crush

Borstal Boy

The Bourne Identity

Bowling for Columbine/D

Brotherhood of the Wolf/F

Brown Sugar

The Business of Fancydancing

Catch Me If You Can

The Cat’s Meow*

Changing Lanes*

Chelsea Walls

Cherish

Chicago

City by the Sea

Clockstoppers*

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

The Count of Monte Cristo

THE COUNTRY BEARS

CQ

El Crimen del Padre Amaro/F

Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

CROSSROADS*

Crush

Dahmer

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Dark Blue

DEATH TO SMOOCHY*

Derrida/D

Deuces Wild*

Die Another Day

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood*

Divorce: The Musical

Dogtown and Z-Boys/D*

Drumline

E.T. (THE P.C. EDITION)*

8-LEGGED FREAKS*

8 Mile

8 Women/F

The Emperor’s Club

The Emperor’s New Clothes

Empire

Enigma

Enough*

Equilibrium

ESPN’s Ultimate X (Imax)

Evelyn

Extreme Ops

Far From Heaven

FEAR.DOT.COM

FEMME FATALE

Festival in Cannes*

The Fluffer

For Da Love of Money

Formula 51

THE 4^th TENOR

Four Feathers

40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS*

Frailty

Freshmen

Frida

Friday After Next

Full Frontal

Gangster #1

Gang Tapes

Gangs of New York

Gentleman Bandit/F

GHOST SHIP

The Good Girl

Green Dragon/F

The Grey Zone

HALF PAST DEAD

HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION

Hansel & Gretel

The Happiness of the Katakuris/F

Happy Times/F

Harrison’s Flowers

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets