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March 19, 2006 - March 25, 2006 Archives

  • March 24, 2006
    The trailer for United 93 is now available, providing the first real look at the courageous 9/11 story writer/director Paul Greengrass has created. I was all set to hate this trailer just for it's subject matter alone (I only show my patriotism through bumper stickers and raci... / Continue →
  • March 24, 2006
    Ain't It Cool News has an exciting clip from The Notorious Bettie Page, showing some of the actresses from the movie re-enacting a Bettie Page bondage film. It doesn't really provide any feeling for what the movie is like, but it does feature women in underwear tying each othe... / Continue →
  • March 24, 2006
    The first trailer for Art School Confidential didn't look that interesting to me, but with the second, more of the plot of director Terry Zwigoff's dark comedy is revealed, and it's starting to look pretty decent. Seeing the young cast facing the trials and tribulations of col... / Continue →
  • March 24, 2006
    The latest casting rumor regarding the feature adaptation of the popular 80's television series, Magnum P.I., is that Vince Vaughn is now contending with George Clooney for the lead: The scriptwriter is Rawson Marshall Thurber, who wrote Dodgeball, and there are several other g... / Continue →
  • March 23, 2006
    For whatever reason, the makers of Snakes on a Plane have deemed it necessary for the film to have a logo, and Entertainment Weekly's got the scoop. It basically looks like if the American Medical Association logo were designed to be airbrushed on the hood of a Camaro. It's t... / Continue →
  • March 23, 2006
    The new poster for Mission: Impossible III has been released, finally completing the trilogy of Tom Cruise looking intense in profile. I thought since he's been getting such negative press lately, they might shy away from showing him too prominently, but there he is, looking l... / Continue →
  • March 23, 2006
    For those Harry Potter fans nervous about Gary Oldman's unconfirmed involvement in the next film in the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, worry no longer. According to GaryOldman.info, a deal has been reached, and Oldman will be reprising his role as Sirius Blac... / Continue →
  • March 23, 2006
    Despite the protests of fans and websites, producer Barbara Broccoli has indicated that Daniel Craig will be returning to the Bond franchise to continue the story they start in Casino Royale, saying: We are already working on the sequel. We're in the early stages of that. It wi... / Continue →
  • March 22, 2006
    Before you forget that The Da Vinci Code was popular a couple years ago, make sure you watch the trailer for Ron Howard's film version. Yahoo! Movies has posted an exclusive trailer for the upcoming movie, starring Tom Hanks as the intrepid Lou Da Vinci, great-grandson of the ... / Continue →
  • March 22, 2006
    A couple more X-Men 3 pictures have turned up, providing a fuller documentation of the destruction of the franchise. The images prove that Beast still looks like My Pet Monster and that no matter how well Magneto may control magnetism, old guys still don't know how to load a d... / Continue →
  • March 22, 2006
    Apple now has a high-definition trailer for Little Miss Sunshine up, telling the story of a dysfunctional family traveling to California for a child's beauty pageant. Even though it's in the all-too-familiar pseudo-subtle comedy style that seems almost required in independent ... / Continue →
  • March 22, 2006
    Simon Pegg, one of the brilliant minds behind Shaun of the Dead, has started a video diary to record the progress of his new cop comedy, Hot Fuzz. Filming doesn't begin for another week, so there aren't any actual scenes or sets yet, but that doesn't stop you from seeing the s... / Continue →
  • March 20, 2006
    Look at this footage for Snakes on a Plane and try not to agree that you've "had it with these snakes." You think they're just on the ground, in holes, in some high weeds, things like that, right? Not in this case. This is going to sound absolutely crazy, you might not belie... / Continue →
  • March 20, 2006
    The official site for the documentary High Score has posted its trailer online. The film follows Bill Carlton in his attempt to beat the twenty-year-old record for the Atari video game Missile Command, a task he estimates will take around 55 hours. From the looks of the trail... / Continue →
  • March 20, 2006
    Fans of NBC's The Office will be treated to some new episodes even when the show breaks for the summer. The network announced that it will release 10 web-only episodes on NBC.com during the summer, involving a plot that will reveal a mystery surrounding some of the secondary cha... / Continue →