August 3, 2008 - August 9, 2008 Archives
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More unexpected but good casting news from Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards: Simon Pegg is joining the cast! And a German! And Brad Pitt is now a lock! From Variety: Brad Pitt has closed his deal to star in "Inglorious Bastards," the WWII drama that Quentin Tarantino wi... / Continue →
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With adaptations of a real-life G.I. Joe, Thundercats and another Transformers in the works, it's pretty obvious studios are aggressively preying on my generation's man-child psyche and our fading memories of weekday afternoon television programming. But surprisingly, this trai... / Continue →
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Here's the poster for Appaloosa, the upcoming Western starring Ed Harris as Old West Guy, Viggo Mortensen as Old West Guy Also, and Renee Zellweger as Female Beetlejuice.... / Continue →
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It's 2008. No one likes books (yeck!), let alone buy them (we download them if necessary, then read them on those electronic tablets that everyone uses to read books now). So how are we, as a society, supposed to see The Art of the Dark Knight book without spending money on a b... / Continue →
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Want to see Brad Pitt act like a dolt and George Clooney act like a womanizer (more than usual)? Believe me, you do, so watch these new Burn After Reading character featurettes. The variety and complexity of Pitt's dimwit expressions are guaranteed to impress.... / Continue →
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Freddy and Jason, Alien and Predator, that time Urkel was on Step by Step: if there's one thing audiences will tolerate, it's pointless crossovers. So how about a Pineapple Express/Superbad crossover, even though Seth Rogen is in both films playing different roles, which would ... / Continue →
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So you know how MTV is remaking The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and how that's universally regarded as a horrible idea? Well, not everyone is content to sit idly by and let the cult classic become known to a new generation as "that thing where Zac Efron was in drag" (I assume Za... / Continue →
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In this newest Watchmen set visit, director Zack Snyder shows you how him and his team looked at drawings of Nite Owl's ship in the comic, then built models of the ship based on those drawings. I guess the idea behind these videos is that fans will feel relieved to see most thi... / Continue →
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1. Meryl is in talks to play a lead in a yet-untitled Nancy Meyers romantic comedy that only moms will watch, but they'll really watch it. 2. Meryl is currently recording a lead role in Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox, joining Anjelica Huston and giving the productions lo... / Continue →
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USA Today has the first look at the bleak, post-apocalyptic world of John Hillcoat's The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, and a child with an annoying name. Wondering how they ever found such a stark, depressing landscape in the real world (pretend you're wonder... / Continue →
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The Office's B.J. Novak is reportedly in talks to join the cast of Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. From the Hollywood Reporter: "The Office" star is in talks to play one of the soldiers in "Inglorious Bastards," Quentin Tarantino's long-gestating film about a band of ... / Continue →
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Sorry for delays today. I had to get past some trojan cookie wyrms that were disrupting The Superhighway. Anyway, here's the trailer to Appaloosa, starring Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris as old west guys. No further explanation is really needed. Just think of things old west guy... / Continue →
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In Napoleon Dynamite writer/director Jared Hess's Gentlemen Broncos, a teenager attending a fantasy novel convention learns his book idea has been stolen by an already established novelist. Since the internet is still popular (for now...), a website for the antagonist novelist,... / Continue →
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Variety is reporting that Quentin Tarantino's pal Eli Roth is up for the role of a "baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter" in Inglorious Bastards, and, in more what the eff territory, always-trustworthy "sources" are saying Britney Spears is in talks to play a lesbian stripper in Q... / Continue →
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OK, a high concept comedy where a couple semi-detestable guys reform themselves when they're forced to volunteer at a Big Brothers program should be awful, right? That's what I thought too, but here's the rub: it's written by, directed by, and starring various The State/Wet Hot... / Continue →
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Everyone knows that when Mirrors opens next week, it will quickly become the new gold standard for horror movies in which the antagonist is a mirror, but imagine for a moment you lived a grim existence where you were somehow unaware of the dangers mirrors posed, and that a movi... / Continue →
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Kevin Smith has won an appeal to lower the rating on his raunchy comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno from NC-17 to an R, allowing anyone under 17 and comfortable with watching sex scenes with their mom or other guardian to do so. Speaking to the Associated Press, Smith explained... / Continue →
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Here's the trailer to The Informers, based on the Brett Easton Ellis book and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, and Chris Isaak inducing a faint yodel of "Wicked Games" every time he comes on screen. It's also Brad Renfro's last role, so I'll pretend thi... / Continue →
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Is critical lambasting and moderate attendance by bored audiences who already saw Batman considered "reponding well"? Because if it is, director Rob Cohen warns there will be a fourth Mummy, and that would be terrible. From MTV (Mummy 3 spoiler alert!): Brendan Frasier as an i... / Continue →
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Here's the new poster to promote paying more to see Madagascar 2: Esc2pe 2 2fric2 2 on a larger-than-usual screen. Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking? That Madagascar 2's laughs are already so huge that blowing them up on an IMAX screen might make people lose their G.D. ... / Continue →
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/Film has received a tip that Mike O'Hearn, better known (only known) as the American Gladiator Titan (aka, the one who occasionally turns into a blonde Hulk), revealed to an Omaha radio show that he's up for the leads in Conan and Captain America. I don't know about this. Sur... / Continue →
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From BadTaste.it, here's a new glimpse of Pixar's Up. I'm really getting curious how they're going to sell any Up merchandise when the protagonist looks like Larry "Bud" Melman, but I'm sure they'll find a way (mind control).... / Continue →
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I've got some good news if you're into Jackie Chan and rage-inducing comedy: Jackie Chan has a new rage-inducing comedy coming out. From the Hollywood Reporter: Jackie Chan is taking his martial-arts high jinks to the neighbors, signing on to star in "The Spy Next Door," an ac... / Continue →
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Hey, kids, did you ever realize that, at any point, one of your dolls might grow to an obscene size, have its delicate eyelashes replaced by spider legs, and scare the shit out of you? That a common gumball machine could gain sentience, sprout a mechanical arm, and force your j... / Continue →
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Whoa, wait a minute. You mean to tell me that aside from entering into an unwinnable war, overstepping the limits of the executive branch, and using fear tactics to strip citizens of their basic liberties, this dude's been wearing make-up to appear more presentable for televisi... / Continue →
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Bill Murray is the Lawry's Seasoning Salt of movies. I'm not sure City of Ember will be at all worthwhile, but I am positive that Murray's presence will make it at least slightly more so--just like Lawry's Seasoning Salt makes that burnt popcorn just palatable enough (salty eno... / Continue →
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Well, there's this now: a movie where Greg Kinnear dramatizes the life of Bob Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper who was involved in a huge legal battle with Ford and Chrysler after they stole the plans. It looks like your typically melodramatic ("To me, ... / Continue →
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Would you look at those big ol' floppy ears, that charmingly bold pose? This adorable little fella might just be my favorite cartoon mouse after Mickey, Minnie, Jerry, Fievel, Mighty Mouse, Ratatouille, Danger Mouse, Speedy Gonzales, Pinky, The Brain, Ignatz, Itchy, Gadget Hack... / Continue →
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Here are this weekend's box office results. Please copy all pertinent information to your journals at home. 1. The Dark Knight - A $43.8 million weekend pushed the film's total gross to just under $400 million, putting it in a likely position to push past the $461 million-gros... / Continue →
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Here's the trailer for Winged Creatures, a drama that follows five survivors of a random shooting who decide to make a movie that will draw obvious comparisons to Crash. Wondering why it's called Winged Creatures when my description makes no mention of winged creatures? It's a ... / Continue →
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Terminator Salvation is going to be so awesome. I hear there's this one scene where John Connor, played by Christian Bale, and this other guy, played by this other guy, totally look directly towards one another, and there aren't even any Terminator robots present to distract fr... / Continue →
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Man, if Michael Cera got paid a dollar every time he played a perpetually awkward teenager, he'd be like the richest guy alive. Here's the trailer to Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, in which Cera was paid to again act like an awkward teen, and probably more than a dollar. S... / Continue →
