March 9, 2008 - March 15, 2008 Archives
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With poker card-themed movies like 21, The Grand, and now The Deal burping their way up from the late-night bowels of ESPN at an alarming rate, each needs a special gimmick to separate itself from the pack. 21 takes the loosely-based-on-a-true-story route; The Grand goes the wa... / Continue →
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With the Dark Knight marketing campaign in full swing for the July release, campaign vans for fictional D.A. Harvey Dent have been visiting cities across America, sending out a message of hope for Gotham that the majority of pedestrians didn't seem to understand. I reluctantly ... / Continue →
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Huh-ho! I totally get it, Kutch! Cameron Diaz--that blonde dolt--is standing there thinking "Get Lucky" only refers to her winnings in Vegas! But all it took was that knowing grin and a point and I knew my man Kutch was talking a whole different kind of "lucky"! That is so awes... / Continue →
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I just got back from the Harvey Dent campaign trail, so there will be a full report coming shortly. In the meantime, here's a trailer for The Strangers, a new horror film in which Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman are terrorized by three masked assailants. To make things worse, they... / Continue →
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X-Files star David Duchovney is claiming the recent kiss between himself and co-star Gillian Anderson (remember last week?) was a fake, mildly disappointing us loose fans who didn't realize they already slept together in the series, stripping us of our vague, passing excitement... / Continue →
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The "I Believe in Harvey Dent" Dark Knight site that showed up a few days ago has been updated, now providing specific dates, times, and locations where you can meet up with the Dentmobile on its fictional campaign trail. I'll begrudgingly head over tomorrow and report back. Ju... / Continue →
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Like Peeps or reunion concerts, the Muppets are one of those things that seem really appealing until I actually have a taste. I even went so far as to buy The Muppet Show first season DVD over a year ago, but have yet to come anywhere near finishing them. Every time I pry open ... / Continue →
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I've already professed my unbridled enthusiasm for the Seth Rogen/James Franco action-buddy-stoner-comedy Pineapple Express, so I won't continue assaulting you with reasons this is one of the few summer films I have genuine expectations for. Suffice to say, there's a new traile... / Continue →
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A new domestic trailer to Speed Racer has arrived, forcing some retro kitsch into its computer-generated candy world with the addition of a "cool beans!" moment. Aside from conspicuously dated slang, the new trailer also gives us disturbing hints of incest, and the shocking rev... / Continue →
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In news that will appeal to my friends' older sisters fifteen years ago, the CW network has plans to fight for relevancy by developing a spin-off to '90s teen soap Beverly Hills 90210. Details as to whether any of the original actors, sideburns, or zip codes will reprise their ... / Continue →
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Judging by its trailer, The Incredible Hulk may not go down as the franchise watershed moment that Batman Begins was--in fact, I'm pretty positive it won't. But at least it's got a couple giant green freaks fighting each other in the streets of Manhattan, and that's something. ... / Continue →
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Did you realize the perfect human has been created in a laboratory? It's true! And he's been cast as the lead in the ill-conceived, Simon Pegg-less American adaptation of the British sitcom Spaced! Fox's head of casting, Marcia Shulman, found Australian über-man Josh Lawson, an... / Continue →
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The strangely earnest introduction from Corey Feldman--in which he somehow says "raise the stakes" with a straight face--does a good job setting the tone for Lost Boys 2: The Tribe, a movie in which lines like "it wasn't wine--it was blood!" are said so soberly that you hardly ... / Continue →
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Pixar has upped their effort to blanket any fading, hazy memories of Short Circuit with images of their smaller, cuter model, today releasing a third and final trailer to WALL-E. Unfortunately, this was also the preview that made me suddenly realize, wait a minute, this would b... / Continue →
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Like Garden State? Then you'll love Meet Bill! Or at least the part where he recreates awkwardly staring at the camera while matching the wallpaper. I can't wait for the scene where Jessica Alba plays him life-changing indie music. Meet Bill Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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You ever wonder what it would be like to get modern screen legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino to star as partners in a classic cop story? From this trailer, it looks like it's a lot like when you let two old guitar legends improvise--producing a meandering, two-hour long riff... / Continue →
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Is it a possible that a semi-fictional account of the life of Jean-Claude Van Damme--if made effectively sad and funny, tragically self-aware of the actor's joke-like status and resumé, while adding a plot about his involvement in a bank robbery--could actually be pretty great?... / Continue →
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Always eager to cash-in on any property with a built-in fan base, no matter how small or ironic, Day of the Dead and Terror Train remaker M. Dal Walton III has acquired the rights to remake the debatable cult classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! What's more, he's got some oth... / Continue →
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After what has seemed like a meaningless, empty eternity, one of the most long-awaited, highly-anticipated cinematic pairings in history is finally happening: Jackie Chan is starring alongside Adam Duritz's hair. And here's the trailer from a few months back. AICN Exclusive P... / Continue →
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After a long silence about the man-who-can-shrink-and-also-communicates-with-ants project, director Edgar Wright has finally has some good news about his forever-in-development Ant Man adaptation. Preview: he's still working on it, and handling it perfectly. It’s written and [... / Continue →
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It's hard to get too excited about the first shot from Max Payne: the costume is just Mark Wahlberg in a black jacket, the film follows the sorrowful tradition of being based on a video game, and it's a video game that relies heavily on slow-motion "bullet time" effects--meanin... / Continue →
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DreamWorks has passed along some new information about upcoming kiddie-style B-movie, Monster Aliens, including the above shot of a giant gaunt woman and some monsters, a cast list, and the bitter threat of even higher ticket prices. Reese Witherspoon as Susan Murphy, a modern... / Continue →
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Yeah, that's right. I've stooped to poorly editing Kool-Aid pitchers into Wolf Man set shots in the hopes of making blood appear to be splattered punch residue, making it seem that Benicio Del Toro really loves Kool-Aid. What of it? Puerto Rican Werewolf in London [Bauer-Griff... / Continue →
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It's hard to say it much better than Meg, who sent this in: "New poster for Ice Age 3. What the hell?" What the hell indeed. I only have vague memories of catching part of Ice Age on TV, but I don't remember there being dinosaurs. So they're just adding dinosaurs, now? I'm not... / Continue →
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The usually funny (if not self-indulgent) Ricky Gervais has started a video blog covering the production of This Side of the Truth, his upcoming comedy about the first man to lie in a world where no one has. Only three are up so far, and, typical of Gervais's home videos, they ... / Continue →
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1. 10,000 B.C. - A solid $35.7 million gives it the March record for f***ing up kids' understanding of the past. 2. College Road Trip - $14 million--a typically Raven number. 3. Vantage Point - Which of eight unique perspectives led you to contribute to Vantage Points' $7.5 m... / Continue →
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No stranger to persuading the fanatical and/or gullible into providing free advertising, The Dark Knight viral campaign is at it again. You may remember a few months ago when the Joker demanded that cos-players everywhere hit the streets and take pictures dressed as the vilain;... / Continue →
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I had my doubts that Beyonce would be able to pull off the role of such a legend, but she really does look the part of Black Harpo Marx. Is there nothing Beyonce and a wig can't do? At Last, Beyonce as Etta! [Page Six]... / Continue →
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Equal parts video game, hallucinogen, and exposition, two new international trailers for Speed Racer have found their way online in all their blinding, over-saturated glory. I don't know why the Wachowskis keep releasing trailers when it's obvious that the in-theater seizures a... / Continue →
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Many traditionalists will argue that a teaser trailer to a comedy should, in some way, hint at the presence of humor--that there should be some indication that comedy may occur. Not so, says this trailer to Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder, noting that Robert Downey Jr. in blackfac... / Continue →
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Thank god someone's finally getting to seriously promoting this thing. I was getting worried they were going to stop after the sixth poster, but this new one really drives home the point that this will be nearly a parody of an Indiana Jones movie. 'Indiana Jones' could rescue ... / Continue →
