November 16, 2008 - November 22, 2008 Archives
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1. This concept art (the concept being "a slightly more threatening piranha"): So carefully straddling the line between menacing and singing ragtime tunes. Classic. 2. This dialogue from the film included in the press release: "What do they really eat?" "You mean besides fl... / Continue →
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Man, how many times have I seen a girl I was attracted to, mugged her, and entered into a suicide pact with her, only to have her re-steal what I rightfully stole and leave me to a violent demise, heartbroken and alone? Probably one hundred times. That's why this Ice Age: Dawn ... / Continue →
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I just recently saw the BBC's Planet Earth on a friend's 50-some inch 1080 HD hologram TV. If you haven't seen this, let me tell you, I can confidently say nature is more amazing and crazy than even YouTube suggests. Find a friend who can afford a nice television made of plasma... / Continue →
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S just got R, dudes: The "Arrested Development" feature has moved closer to reality, with Mitch Hurwitz and Ron Howard reportedly closing deals for the long-gestating project from Imagine and Fox Searchlight. The possible migration of the critically acclaimed but short-lived ... / Continue →
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The Communist Party of St. Petersburg has expressed outrage at actress Olga Kurylenko for assisting "the killer of of hundreds of Soviet people and their allies." Wait, I'm sorry, that's not right. They're upset that Kuylenko played a movie character who assisted another movie ... / Continue →
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Man, Mickey Rourke is hard to look at. In this trailer, when he says he's "a broken down piece of meat," he is not kidding. I recommend only looking at his face by poking a pinhole in a box and letting his shadow form on a paper plate (instructions). Despite that, this looks re... / Continue →
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I hope that female rat-squirrel thing sexually confuses a lot of kids, like how the female gremlin in Gremlins 2: The New Batch did with me. God, she was so beautiful: those full lips, that sexy body--but also, a horrible gremlin. Or, in this case, a rat-squirrel thing. What's ... / Continue →
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Since when does Astro Boy wear a shirt? As a purist and an android pedophile, I demand answers. Furthermore, why does he have the same laugh as an over-excited Mario? All this trailer tells me is that it will be an awesome video game:... / Continue →
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Smashing Magazine has posted a list of what they're calling 40 Exquisite Independent Film Posters (via Digg), a showcase of indie film one-sheets that dared to take a more stylized approach than the stock "floating heads" approach. I'm not sure I agree with their assessment tha... / Continue →
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Ben Stiller is still guarding that wacky, magic museum. He'll never learn! It's Night at the Museum 2! USA Today has a series of shots from the film, including Bill Hader as Gen. Custer, Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart, Hank Azaria as Pharaoh Kahmunrah, Christopher Guest as Ivan th... / Continue →
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Maybe I'm just a sucker for dark but quirky, masterfully-executed stop-motion animation, but I'm thinking this new trailer for Henry Selick's Coraline adaptation makes it look really good. Perhaps not quite as visually-arrested as The Nightmare Before Christmas, which I still ... / Continue →
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The number of Hollywood terms Variety has invented awful, cutesy slang for is ridiculous. A movie is never shooting, it's "lensing"; Disney is referred to as the "Mouse House"; a soap opera is called a "sudser"! Why would you call anything a sudser? Yet they do. So for all of y... / Continue →
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Yes, that's right: the moon is actually a microchip--one that controls our brain. AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS KNOWN ABOUT IT FOR YEARS! PS: In case you missed it, Moon looks really good. Moon Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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Mark Protosevich, writer of The Cell, The Poseidon, and The I Am Legend, is being courted by Steven Spielberg and Will Smith to write their ill-conceived Oldboy remake. From the Hollywood Reporter: In a potential high-profile star-writer reunion, "I Am Legend" co-scribe Mark P... / Continue →
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I don't understand how this happens. Monday, the Star Trek trailer comes out. By Tuesday afternoon, we've got a Beverly Hills 90210/Star Trek trailer mash-up. Then by that night, I get an email from a Mr. Rick Kelvington showing me he's made a highly-polished Smallville version... / Continue →
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Sure, Twilight has young heartthrob Robert Pattinson playing a vampire that has all the girls swooning, but Underworld 3 isn't doing so bad either. They've got a dress-clad, 58-year-old Bill Nighy glaring menacingly out of the poster, so, you know, they aren't sweatin' it. Und... / Continue →
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The popularity of Twilight and High School Musical 3 might have ruined the film market for me, someone in the once-dominant demographic of 18-34 year-old-males: Hollywood is considering 13 to 16-year-old girls an important audience now! And we're targeting more movies towards t... / Continue →
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"Guys, I've got this great idea for a poster. OK, so it's a poster, right? But also, it has all these other posters within that poster. Posters within a poster. The sheer audacity will shock everyone into seeing the movie. It's just so many posters, how could you not?" It's tr... / Continue →
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Bloody Disgusting has posted 18 eye-pleasing images from the upcoming Sam Rockwell-starring sci-fi film, Moon. As they describe it, Rockwell plays an astronaut named Bel, who "has a quintessentially personal encounter while stranded on the moon for a three-year period." There m... / Continue →
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The Star Trek trailer has been out for like a day, yet somehow an internet guy has already made a mash-up to mock the young cast: Star Trek 90210. If you're thinking it's a re-cut Star Trek trailer set to the theme of Beverly Hills 90210, yes, it's that, but it's also much bett... / Continue →
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Sammo Hung, the veteran Hong Kong action star you all know from the '90s Rush Hour-style CBS cop series Martial Law (alongside Arsenio Hall!), is in talks to star in Dark Horse Films' War Monkeys. From THR: Sammo Hung is negotiations to star in "War Monkeys," a horror comedy s... / Continue →
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Someone give me this movie. Put it on one of those video discs and give it to me. Moriarty has posted a lengthy, engaging, reassuring interview with Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze, along with the above, new production shot, over at AICN, and I've now reached a p... / Continue →
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Disney has released a new trailer for Race to Witch Mountain--a remake of 1975's Escape to Witch Mountain--the story of two super-powered alien children and their attempt to find a way back to the ship they crashed into a geological formation known as a mountain. The Rock plays... / Continue →
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Here's the second of the two character posters for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Has Cate Blanchett always looked like she's perpetually in the initial stages of morphing into a lioness? Maybe I just never noticed. center" style="text-align: center; di... / Continue →
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IMAGE REMOVED AT REQUEST OF The Walt Disney Company I feel certain this is not actually Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. However, most every movie site is posting it, and it's getting sent in, so fine, here it is: possibly Johnny Depp as the Mad... / Continue →
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No. He will always look at least somewhat foolish. Take, for example, our man Cage in Season of the Witch, in which he escorts a woman accused of being a witch to a mountain abbey, and looks like a fool. I would never take this guy seriously as a Highlander, or a Vigo the Carp... / Continue →
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Michael Ferris and John Brancato, the minds that brought us The Net, Catwoman, Terminator 3, and one episode of Married with Children, are in talks to write the script for XXX: The Return of Xander Cage. From Variety: The writing team, whose credits include "Terminator 3" and ... / Continue →
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No one seems too convinced by the last few trailers for The Spirit, so Lionsgate has pushed out one more quickie to remind everyone that the film comes out CHRISTMAS DAY. If your gifts aren't enough of a let down for the family, pack the kids in the Aerostar and take them to Th... / Continue →
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In fact, every shot I see of Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler makes him looks like the saddest sack on Earth. Is being repeatedly beaten with a folding chair really so hard on the psyche? Is it so emotionally crippling to have a large, stringy-haired, half-naked man shout in your ... / Continue →
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1. Quantum of Solace - $70.4 million--the best opening ever for a Bond movie or any other film with the words "quantum" and "solace" in the title. 2. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - $36.1 million. Every1 luvs escaping to theaters 2 C talking animals! 3. Role Models - $11.7 mill... / Continue →
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An official version is expected later today, but until then, here's a bootleg of the new Star Trek trailer for you to do some watchin' on. A Star Trek movie with sports cars, on-bridge brawlin', and Uhura bra shots? One thing's for certain: this ain't your (nerdy) father's Sta... / Continue →
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Here's the first poster for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Cleverly, the majority of the text is written backwards because Pitt ages backwards in the film. And his lips are horribly chapped because nothing sells a movie like sore, bloody lips. The Curious Case of Benjami... / Continue →
