Ah, yes. It’s that time of the year when the Golden Raspberries come to take a dump on everyone during the awards season. This year’s Razzie nominations are out, just one day ahead of the Oscar nominations announcement tomorrow. Are there any cross-overs this year? Well… no. Not unless you think that Sparklepants Pattinson is doing Oscar-caliber work (hint: he’s not). Anyway, it looks like this year’s Razzies will have an excellent girl fight throw down between Jennifer Aniston (The Bounty Hunter), Miley Cyrus (The Last Song) and Kristen Stewart (for life). Bitchfight!

Worst Film Nominees:
‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
‘The Last Airbender’
‘The Bounty Hunter’
‘Sex & The City 2′
‘Vampires Suck’

Worst Actress:
Jennifer Aniston: ‘The Bounty Hunter’
Miley Cyrus: ‘The Last Song’
The Four “Gal Pals”: ‘Sex & The City 2′
Megan Fox: ‘Jonah Hex’
Kristen Stewart ‘Twilight Saga: Eclipse’

Worst Actor:
Ashton Kutcher: ‘Killers’ and ‘Valentine’s Day’
Gerard Butler: ‘The Bounty Hunter’
Jack Black: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’
Robert Pattinson: ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ and ‘Remember Me’
Taylor Lautner: ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’

Worst Supporting Actress:
Jessica Alba: ‘The Killer Inside Me,’ ‘Little Fockers,’ ‘Machete,’ and ‘Valentine’s Day’
Cher: ‘Burlesque’
Liza Minnelli: ‘Sex & The City 2′
Nicola Peltz: ‘The Last Airbender’
Barbra Streisand: ‘Little Fockers’

Worst Supporting Actor:
George Lopez: ‘Marmaduke,’ ‘The Spy Next Door,’ and ‘Valentine’s Day’
Billy Ray Cyrus: ‘The Spy Next Door’
Dev Patel: ‘The Last Airbender’
Jackson Rathbone: ‘The Last Airbender,’ and ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Rob Schneider: ‘Grown Ups’

Worst Couple/Ensemble:
The Entire Cast of ‘Sex & The City 2′
The Entire Cast of ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’
The Entire Cast of ‘The Last Airbender’
Jennifer Aniston & Gerard Butler: ‘The Bounty Hunter’
Josh Brolin’s Face & Megan Fox’s Voice: ‘Jonah Hex’

[From The Huffington Post]

The full list of Razzie nominations are here, at HuffPo. My picks for Razzie “winners”: K-Stew, of course, Taylor Lautner, Jessica Alba, The Mullet, and the cast of Sex and the City 2. Honestly, I think the only one of these that I’ve seen is SATC 2, and now I feel bad for admitting that I enjoyed it so much more than the first one. But yeah… I’m glad that I can’t even work up the energy to rent these crappy films.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

This year’s Razzie nominations have been released! The Razzies, or Golden Raspberries, celebrate the worst films and performances of the previous year, and they always time the nominations and the awards for a day before the Oscar nominations and awards. Which means, sidenote, that the Oscar nominations come out tomorrow! Hurray! But I digress. This year’s Razzies are celebrating several of our most talked-about people… namely, Megan Fox, Kristen Stewart, Robert “Sparkles” Pattinson, and Sandra Bullock. What will make this year’s Razzies special is that they’re also going to “honor” the worsts of the decade. Here’s more:

“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” made a fortune. “Land of the Lost” tanked. Both films are equal earners at the Razzies, though, grabbing seven nominations each on Monday, including worst picture of 2009 and worst-acting slots for Will Ferrell and Megan Fox.

Other worst-picture nominees: Sandra Bullock’s romance “All About Steve,” the action tale “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” and the Robin Williams-John Travolta comedy “Old Dogs.”

Bullock earned a worst-actress nomination for “All About Steve.” She’s expected to score an Academy Award nomination Tuesday for her hit drama “The Blind Side.”

“She could be the first person ever to win a Razzie and an Oscar in the same weekend,” said John Wilson, founder of the Golden Raspberry Awards, now in their 30th year of singling out Hollywood’s low points. Winners will be announced March 6, the night before the Oscars.

Razzie voters also are making worst-of-the-decade picks. The worst-picture nominees are Travolta’s “Battlefield Earth,” Tom Green’s “Freddy Got Fingered,” Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s “Gigli,” Lindsay Lohan’s “I Know Who Killed Me” and Madonna’s “Swept Away.”

Affleck and Travolta are up for worst actor of the decade, along with Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers and Rob Schneider. Lohan, Lopez and Madonna are nominated for the decade’s worst actress, along with Mariah Carey and Paris Hilton. Wilson said the worst-actress category probably would come down to Hilton and Lohan, while “Eddie Murphy I would guess would be pretty hard to beat as worst actor of the decade.”

Razzie 2009 nominees also include Miley Cyrus as worst actress and her dad, Billy Ray, as worst supporting actor for “Hannah Montana: The Movie.”

All three Jonas brothers shared a worst-actor nomination for “Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience.” Razzie voters also included “any two (or more)” Jonas brothers in the category for worst screen couple.

Robert Pattinson was nominated as worst supporting actor for “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.” Co-star Kristen Stewart is in the running for worst screen couple paired with either Pattinson or “New Moon” player Taylor Lautner.

Ferrell has nominations as worst actor for “Land of the Lost” and as worst screen couple paired with “any co-star, creature or `comic riff’” in the action comedy inspired by the children’s TV show. “Land of the Lost” also was nominated for worst supporting actor (Jorma Taccone), director (Brad Silberling), screenplay and worst sequel, rip-off or remake, a category that includes the “Transformers” sequel.

Fox was nominated as worst actress for both “Revenge of the Fallen” and “Jennifer’s Body.” “Revenge of the Fallen” star Shia LaBeouf was cited for worst screen couple alongside Fox or any Transformer, while the movie also had nominations for supporting actress (Julie White), director (Michael Bay) and screenplay.

Joining Ferrell and the Jonas brothers for worst actor were Steve Martin in “The Pink Panther 2,” Murphy in “Imagine That” and Travolta in “Old Dogs.”

For worst actress, Bullock, Cyrus and Fox are up against Beyonce Knowles for “Obsessed” and Sarah Jessica Parker for “Did You Hear About the Morgans?”

[From Huffington Post]

How can Megan Fox not win, hands down? Maybe she’ll split the vote with herself. As for Will Farrell, I feel for him. Sure, he’s not the best actor, and sure, that Land of the Lost looked horrible. But he’s not a bad guy! And poor Sparkles. I hope someone tells him that he doesn’t have to go to that awards ceremony. Although it might show that he had a sense of humor if he did show up, much like when Halle Berry collected her award for Catwoman. As far as “worst of the decade” my votes are for Madonna (who should never act, ever) and John Travolta (because Xenu wills it).

Sandra Bullock at the ‘All About Steve’ premiere on August 26, 2009. Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart at the MTV Movie Awards on May 31, 2009. Credit: Adriana M. Barraza / WENN. Promotional photos from ‘Transformers 2’ (credit: WENN) and ‘Gigli’ (Google Images).

“The Love Guru.” Just the name sends chills down the spine of anyone who’s ever had to fork over $12 to see a crap-ass movie, and waste two perfectly good hours of their otherwise honorable lives. I was lucky enough never to see this film, but I was forced to endure enough terrible movie posters in subway stations that I feel like I’m still a victim in some sense. Luckily, Razzie voters agree with me. Two weeks ago they released their list of potential nominations, and now it’s clear that “The Love Guru” is very much leading the way.

Voters for 2008′s worst movies love Mike Myers. They really love him.

Myers’ comedy flop “The Love Guru” led the field Wednesday for the Razzies with seven nominations, among them worst picture and worst-acting slots for Myers, Jessica Alba, Verne Troyer and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley.

The number of nominations for “Love Guru” was appropriate given what a personal project it was for Myers, who not only starred but also co-wrote and produced the movie, said John Wilson, founder of the Razzies, an Oscar spoof that dishes out “dis-honors” for the lousiest stuff Hollywood dredged up the previous year.

“This is one of those auteur-of-the-awful situations,” Wilson said. “I think people are tired of him in general. He hasn’t really made a good movie in quite some time.”

[From the Huffington Post]

Seven nominations? That’s nearly a record. They’re completely right; Mike Myers hasn’t done anything good in a long time. Depending on your comedic tastes, I’d say the last one was the second “Austin Powers” movie.

“The Love Guru” was so bad that it ended up getting a ton of negative press, not just for the film itself, but for Myers unlikable, control-freak personality in general. He comes across as kind and genial in interviews, but all sorts of people who’ve worked with him say he’s actually a total jerk. It seems like people aren’t willing to suffer his ego anymore, and those working with him aren’t willing to cover for him and create good films.

MSat noted that Hollywood was rooting for “Love Guru” to fail because of Myers jerkish nature. It seems like they all got their wish.

The 2008 Razzie Award nominations have been released, chronicling the year’s worst films and performances. There were so many stinkers to choose from – I’d bet it’s harder to pick the nominees for this than it is the Oscars and Golden Globes. This year’s big “winners” include the movie Speed Racer, which has topped many critics’ “Worst” lists, while frontrunners for worst actor/actress include Dane Cook, Larry the Cable Guy, Cameron Diaz and Kate Hudson. No big surprises there. One choice that might surprise some is Tom Cruise for his performance in Valkyrie. Oh, how the mighty have fallen!

Worst Picture:
Speed Racer, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans, The Day the Earth Stood Still, High School Musical 3, The Hottie & The Nottie, Dungeon Siege, The Love Guru, Postal, Rambo, The Happening, Meet Dave, Witless Protection

Worst Actor:
Zac Efron, Dane Cook, Larry the Cable Guy, Eddie Murphy, Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, Sylvester Stallone, Tom Cruise (Valkyrie), Will Ferrell, Ashton Kutcher, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Mark Wahlberg

Worst Actress:
Paris Hilton, Jessica Alba, The cast of “The Women,” Camilla Belle, Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson, Diane Keaton, Jennifer Connelly, Zooey Deschanel [HOW DARE YOU!], Vanessa Hudgens, Eva Longoria-Parker, Reese Witherspoon

Worst Screen Couple:
Any couple from HSM 3, Cameron Diaz & Ashton Kutcher, Paris Hilton & Joel David Moore, Kate Hudson & Dane Cook, Kate Hudson & Matthew McConaughey, Larry the Cable Guy & Jenny McCarthy, Any couple from Mamma Mia, Eddie Murphy & Eddie Murphy (Meet Dave), Al Pacino & His Hair, Mark Wahlberg & Zooey Deschanel, Mark Wahlberg & Mila Kunis, Sylvester Stallone & His Ego

Worst Director:
Uwe Boll, Scott Derrickson, Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, Tom Putnam, Marco Schnabel, Sylvester Stallone, Jon Avnet, Diane English, Roland Emmerich, Brian Robbins, Kenny Ortega, M. Night Shyamalan

Worst Prequel, Sequel, Remake or Rip-Off:
Indiana Jones 4, HSM 3, Rambo, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, An American Carol, The Women, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Prom Night, Speed Racer, X-Files: I Want To Believe

Worst Career Achievement:
Uwe Boll, Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, Madonna, Keanu Reeves, Sylvester Stallone

[From Film Drunk]

I am pleased to report that I haven’t seen any of these movies. I was warned by friends to avoid “The Happening,” starring Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel, at all costs. I could tell by the trailers for “The Love Guru” that is was going to be awful. I didn’t see the Indiana Jones movie, either. It just looked bad to me. Maybe some others who have seen it can tell me for sure. One movie that definitely should have been on this list was that horrible Martin Lawrence/Raven Symone movie “College Road Trip.” I took my 9-year-old to see it and let me tell you, they should have let adults bring their own booze into that hot mess. That’s 2 hours of my life I will never get back! Anyway, my condolences to anyone who spent their hard earned money on any of these movies.

Lindsay Lohan’s epically terrible film I Know Who Killed Me won a record 8 Razzies, which I’m pretty sure makes it legally the worst film of all time. That’s right, it’s so bad you actually have to invoke the law to explain how awful it is.

Starz – one of those premium movie channels (the sucky kind that makes HBO look really, really good) – must have gotten a pretty good deal on the rights to the film. Which I’m guessing means the studio is actually paying Starz to air it. Needing some kind of advertising – and sensing that the also needed to justify airing such unmitigated crap – Starz came up with a novel approach to market the film to its subscribers.

In a relatively novel approach to movie marketing, cable TV premium film channel Starz has launched a promotion for its airing of Lindsay Lohan’s box office bomb, “I Know Who Killed Me,” by urging people to tune in not because it is good, but because the movie is so bad!

… Starz’s June 14 airing of “I Know Who Killed Me,” tells of twin girls stalked by a serial killer. Lohan plays both twins. The movie not only tanked at box offices ($7.5 million U.S.), it was killed by critics (only 8 pct had good things to say, according to review aggregator rottentomatoes.com).

With its promotional tongue firmly planted in its TV cheek, Starz trumpets the bad reviews in its ad promoting the movie. “A disaster that exerts a perverse fascination,” Variety wrote in its review last year, as it appears on the Starz ad.

While promoting bad movies is rare, it is not unheard of. A few years back, Starz did the same thing for 2003’s ”Gigli,” another poorly reviewed film that tanked at box offices. It starred Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. “It did extraordinarily well” for Starz, said the spokesman, although he did not have exact viewer figures. “More people watched on Starz than probably went to the theaters to see it.”

[From Reuters via Gossip Rocks]

Lohan was so terrible in the film that she was actually nominated for two Razzies for her acting – one for each twin she played. I’m sure what applied to Gigli will apply to I Know Who Killed Me. If 14 Starz viewers just leave the television on while they clean the house, that’ll be more people than actually sat through it in the theaters. I was going to try to watch it, just to see why it was so terrible. But then my illegal download failed, and I realized I’d been saved by some cosmic force. Though I commend any of you who try.

Here are stills from the film, courtesy of Allmoviephoto.

Life just gets better and better for Lindsay Lohan. First, a teeny, tiny part of one of the many lawsuits against her was thrown out. Then, she was sober for almost three months before she was caught publicly drinking champagne straight from the bottle. No word on if she figured out a way to mainline it – but if anyone could, it’d be Lohan. And now, as a final salute to what’s clearly been her best year ever, Lohan has been nominated for a Razzie! I would say the Razzie nom is definitely the most fitting of her many achievements this year. Lohan has given many spectacular performances in her long career – who could forget “Just My Luck,” or “Herbie Fully Loaded?” With a record like that, it’s no wonder she’s publicly proclaimed that she plans to win an Oscar. And now she’s one step further, after garnering so much negative attention for her performance in what may well be the worst movie ever – “I Know Who Killed Me.”

Lindsay Lohan landed her first nominations of the 2008 awards season Monday. But it’s probably best to leave this one off the résumé. The 21-year-old actress was recognized by the Razzies – the annual awards show recognizing the year’s “worst” films and performances – for her part in the thriller I Know Who Killed Me. In fact, she earned two nominations for a single role.

The movie – in which Lohan plays two characters, a stripper and an abducted small-town girl – led the pack with a total of nine nominations, including one for worst picture of 2007. “I Know Who Killed Me is the most fabulously brainless movie since Showgirls,” Razzie founder John Wilson told the Associated Press. “By the end of it, you still don’t know what happened. Are they twins or aren’t they? Did she imagine it? Can I please have my hour and 50 minutes back?”

[From People]

The Razzies, short for the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, aim to award the very worst in Hollywood. Lohan will be competing for the worst actress Razzie against Jessica Alba, who’s nominated for her performances in three movies: “Awake,” Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer and “Good Luck Chuck.” Also nominated are all four of the actresses no one’s ever heard of from the “Bratz” movie, Elisha Cuthbert for “Captivity,” and Diane Keaton for her performance in “Because I Said So.” But Lohan’s stiffest completion is the in-house candidate: Lindsay Lohan. That’s right, she’s nominated twice for her acting in “I Know Who Killed Me,” in which she plays two characters. As big an accomplishment it is to be nominated for three separate movies, I think it’s safe to say there’s really no competition between Jessica Alba and Lindsay Lohan. The awards will be handed out on February 23rd. Though I don’t think the “handing out” is literal – I doubt many nominees show up to accept an insult.

Lindsay Lohan’s new movie is already getting a lot of attention as the most terrible 90 minutes of the year. A few random samplings of review headlines include “Lohan’s new movie one of the worst of the year” “’I Know Who Killed Me’ another low for Lohan” “Just kill me, please” “How bad is Lohan’s latest? You don’t want to `Know’” “Career killer for Lohan” and “Lohan’s bad week just got worse with release of her new film” – and I wasn’t cherry picking headlines. I can’t actually bring myself to pay $11 for anything with Lindsay Lohan, so all I can do is tell you what everyone else is saying about her film. First off, she plays two characters. Never an indication of an Oscar-worthy film (Freaky Friday anyone?). One of her characters wakes up minus a hand and a foot, insisting that she’s not an up-and-coming writer, but a stripper. Now this is sounding eerily familiar, with uncomfortable parallels to my own life.

“There’s a fresh candidate in the running for worst movie of 2007 honors. ‘I Know Who Killed Me,’ a ridiculous thriller (minus the thrills) starring the embattled Lindsay Lohan in a dual role, has all the hallmarks necessary for qualification: A nonsensical plot that grows sillier by the second, tawdry special effects, heavy-handed symbolism that’s big on electric-blue hues and mechanical performances are all culprits as far as the title’s concerned.”

[From the Hollywood Reporter]

Can anyone really say they’re that surprised Lohan’s movie stinks to high heaven? We all know the only reason she even took the role was those free pole dancing classes she got to take. In other Lohan news, it turns out she is still insurable, according to experts, but it will be a challenge. Most likely, she will have to put her salary in escrow until the end of any film she works on for the next few years.

“’I don’t think it (a problematic artist) is any more of an issue [thank it ever was],’ said Wendy Diaz, entertainment underwriting director at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co., the leading film underwriter. ‘It’s pretty standard year to year.’

“But Diaz did say the terms for covering Lohan would likely be ‘serious at this point.’

“She said Fireman’s Fund, in such a case, would likely put in higher deductibles, or ask the star to put their salary into escrow to pay for any losses if production was disrupted.”

[From CNN]

So she’s not out of the running due to insurance – the article goes on to discuss other troubled actors, like Robert Downey Jr., who was still able to work. The biggest issue for Lohan seems to be: would anyone want to work with her? Lately it seems that everything she touches goes to hell, whether it’s films or friends. Why would a director want to work with her, considering all she has going against her at this point? I’m sure, at the very least, she’ll have to take a serious hit on her salary demands. Lindsay could also, (hopefully) be facing some serious jail time, and probable lawsuits. I wish I could end this story with one of those optimistic “hopefully now she’ll realize the error of her ways and get her life back together” sentences, but we all know that’s bull. She’s going to crash and burn, and keep doing it until she dies. I know I’m going to get angry comments for that, but considering everything that Lohan has done to herself that hasn’t made her change her behavior, do we really think even jail could straighten her out at this point?

Picture note by Celebitchy: Here are stills from the film, courtesy of Allmoviephoto. The trailer is below, and it probably doesn’t do justice to how truly awful this film must be.