QT reportedly “LOVES” fan fiction according to the latest tweets by one of his buddy actors Eli Roth.

The boys at Inglourious basterds recently received 10 nominations for the critics choice awards! Good luck!

The DVD comes out next week! December 15th! I hope everyone goes out to get it!

You can Pre-Order it from Amazon here!

[via LA times]

“Inglourious Basterds” has given the Weinstein Co. a much-needed jolt, opening to a very strong studio-estimated $37.6 million at the domestic box office.

That’s far and away the biggest opening for director Quentin Tarantino, as well as the highest first-weekend gross for a movie in the typically slow second half of August, exceeding the $33.1 million made by 2007’s “Superbad,” even accounting for ticket-price inflation.

In particularly good news for the movie’s backers, the decline in ticket sales from Friday to Saturday was 10%. That’s a relatively modest drop for an action movie whose director has a devoted fan base that turns out opening day and is a sign that word of mouth is solid despite some graphic violence and mixed reviews.

The movie also started off well overseas, where it was distributed by Universal, selling a studio-estimated $27.5 million worth of tickets in 22 territories.

Weinstein Co. and Universal split the movie’s production budget of about $70 million and will evenly divide the movie’s box-office revenue, typically about half of ticket sales. Both studios are very much in need of a hit — Universal after a summer with several box office busts and Weinstein Co. as it struggles to regain stable financial footing.

“District 9″ managed a decent hold despite “Basterds” taking much of the box-office oxygen among action fans. It declined 49% from its big opening to $18.9 million, according to distributor Sony Pictures. That brings total domestic ticket sales for the Peter Jackson-produced science fiction movie, which cost only $30 million to produce, to $73.5 million.

Warner Bros.’ romantic drama “The Time Traveler’s Wife” dropped 46% to $10 million on its second weekend, a less encouraging number since it opened to a so-so $18.6 million and there were no new directly competing movies at theaters.

Of the weekend’s other three new movies in wide release, only the Robert Rodriguez-directed family film “Shorts” avoided disaster, grossing $6.6 million. Warner Bros. distributed the film for financiers Media Rights Capital and Imagenation Abu Dhabi.

Fox’s “Post Grad,” a leftover film from defunct youth division Fox Atomic, earned a very weak $2.8 million.

Disney’s documentary “X-Games 3D” proved a total bust, earning only $800,000 despite playing exclusively in 3-D theaters, which carry ticket-price surcharges.

Just another to add to the on-going list of projects Tarantino could do next.
Others include:
Come Drink With Me
Faster, Pussycat Kill Kill (rumored cast including Terra Patrick, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aubrey Plaza, Michael Madsen, Phillip Seymore Hoffman and David Cronenberg)
Untitled DiCaprio Tarantino Project
Weekend (With a rumored cast of Sharon Stone, Jessica Beil, Lucy Liu, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen)

Enjoy!

via AP

TORONTO — When Mike Myers first appears onscreen in “Inglourious Basterds” as an English general, some viewers might be a little surprised by the casting choice.

But director Quentin Tarantino says the Canadian actor best known for his goofy roles in “Austin Powers” and “Wayne’s World” was actually a perfect fit for the small part in his stylish Second World War drama.

“He’s a big fan of mine and he just let it be known that he’s a fan and if there was something in the movie that would be proper for him, he would love to do it,” Tarantino said Wednesday night before a screening of the new movie, which also stars Brad Pitt and Eli Roth.

Given that Myers is a huge Second World War buff, his parents are veterans, and he’s always wanted to play an older British general, casting him made sense, Tarantino said.

“It was a perfect storm for getting Mike Myers, a perfect storm for a yes.”

The movie follows a group of Jewish-American soldiers, who call themselves The Basterds, on their mission through Nazi-occupied France. They’re tasked with instilling fear in the German ranks by killing Nazis as brutally as possible and collecting scalps along the way.

Myers’s character helps organize part of the mission and although his scene lasts just a few minutes, it plays prominently in some of the previews.

Myers says appearing in a Tarantino movie was “perhaps (my) greatest fantasy realized.”

“I’m the biggest Quentin Tarantino fan that you’ll find,” Myers said at a news conference at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where the film premiered.

“I got a call – ‘Would you like to play a British general?’ – and I dig a jig and I was very happy and I’m still very happy. I kinda can’t believe (it).”

The cameo role is Myers’s first big screen appearance since the disappointing features “Love Guru” in 2008 and “The Cat in the Hat” in 2003. Myers has also voiced characters in a number of animated features in recent years, including the “Shrek” series.

“Inglourious Basterds” is scheduled for wide release on Aug. 21.