but awards may end up edging it out. the long shot is adam sandler s holiday theme comedy jack and jill featuring sandler playing identical twins. i want it to be funny. i want it to be a happy gilmore type movie. experts see it earning in the low to mid $20 million range. despite star power, the bio pick, starring leonardo dicaprio can t compete because it is not in enough theaters this weekend. still, it should take in close to $15 million. 63-year-old comedian, billy crystal, will host the academy awards for his nineth go-ahead and first in this decade after a week of turmoil surrounding next year s telecast including eddy murphy p droing out. they went with the familiar and the reassuring. the safety net? the safety net, exactly. no one risky like ricky gervais. people have been tweeting they want to see ricky gervais.