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Bob Dylan Biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ Tops $100 Million in Global Box Office: See Where It Ranks Among Top 25 Music Biopics
The Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown has topped the $100 million threshold in worldwide box-office grosses, according to boxofficemojo.com. The film, which has grossed $104 million as of Tuesday (Feb. 18), ranks No. 8 on our list of music biopics with the highest worldwide grosses. And it’s still moving up at a brisk pace.
Timothée Chalamet stars in A Complete Unknown, which follows Dylan from January 1961, when he moved from Minnesota to New York City, to July 1965, when he caused an uproar by playing electronic instruments at the Newport Folk Festival. James Mangold, who directed the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, also did the honors here.
A Complete Unknown received eight Oscar nominations on Jan. 23, and made Oscar history as the first music biopic to receive three acting nods — for Chalamet as Dylan, Edward Norton as Pete
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More than you ever wanted to know about the Ernest films. As with everything internet, it is possible to find a community of Ernest P. Worrell fans out there, of which I don’t count myself a member. But you can imagine what heaps of fun they have.
A Quick Background on the Early History of the Ernest P. Worrell Character
The origin of Ernest P. Worrell can be found in television commercials. Starting in 1980, standup comedic and actor Jim Varney created Ernest for the advertising company Carden and Cherry, and was then used for various dairy product commercials. The commercials had a big impact, on kids especially, and other companies requested Carden and Cherry to use Ernest for their own advertisements. This created a conflict with exclusive rights that other local companies already had to use Ernest, and Carden and Cherry moved instead to put Ernest in movies and in a television show. That opens up more avenues for product placements and raised the profile of the characte
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Back in 1980, an ad executive in Nashville, Tennessee named John Cherry III had an idea for a commercial character. The character would be a good ole boy who was just a little too up in your face about everything. He was that neighbor you could never get to shut up about news, new machines, new tools, etc. He cast a local actor for the job and named that character Ernest P. Worrell.
The actor was Jim Varney, a talented stand-up comedian and actor who had just moved back to town after an actors strike in LA had put him out of work. Varney, along with Robin Williams, had been part of the original group of comedians who opened and popularized The Comedy Store in LA. He did stand-up sets for Merv Griffin and Johnny Carson and counted Williams as one of his close, dear friends. Varney was an incredibly talented actor, and becoming Ernest would be both the best and worst decision of his career.
From 1980 to 1984, Cherry and Varney filmed nearly 900 commercials that aired in every