Last year, when I first heard about the “Tooth Fairy” movie, one thing struck me as odd: Where’s the “The”?
It seems to me that the natural title for the film would be “The Tooth Fairy”. In real life everyone calls it “The” Tooth Fairy, just like we say “The” Easter Bunny or “The” Great Pumpkin (only Santa Claus doesn’t get a “The”).
Thousands of people this weekend will be calling this movie “The Tooth Fairy” (many of them on TV). And they’ll all be wrong. I can only guess the reason 20th Century Fox left out the “The” is that the studio didn’t want any confusion by parents with the 2006 horror film “The Tooth Fairy”, when this new movie comes out on video.
In other news: the Screen Actors Guide Awards are Saturday night. Why a Saturday for a major awards show like the SAGs? Afterall, if the Academy Awards or Golden Globes were held on a Saturday night their ratings would be terrible.
Well, the SAG’s are on cable, which means, I guess, that they AREN’T a major award. Plus, anything goes on cable (maybe even Conan O’Brien this fall). And I’m sure they didn’t want to go up against the NFL Playoff games on Sunday.
Finally, news on two favorites: My #1 film of 2009, “Fantastic Mr. Fox” will be out on DVD on March 23, while the release of one of my favorite movies of all time, Disney’s animated classic “Beauty and the Beast” in 3-D has, sadly, been pushed-back again, this time into 2011.