January 4, 2009 - January 10, 2009 Archives
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Good news for everyone who's hoping Watchmen will keep its March 6 release date (pretty much everyone who would bother reading this site): attorneys on both sides have asked a federal judge to delay hearing today because settlement discussions have been so productive. Attorney... / Continue →
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Does Sam Raimi want Morbius the Living Vampire as the villain in the next Spider-Man sequel? If you want to speculate that the director saying he likes it when Morbius fights Spider-Man in the comics to mean that, then yes. From Empire Magazine (via /Film): “I like it in the M... / Continue →
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Japan already has several films titled Very Briefly Flashes Panties Girl, so for their latest exploration of the concept/fetish, they decided to go with the title High Kick Girl. Here's the extremely short teaser trailer (via Cinematical):... / Continue →
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New York Magazine's Vulture has pointed out (with the above screen-capture evidence) that for a time yesterday, the official Golden Globes site marked Anne Hathaway the winner of the Best Actress in a Drama award. Premature reveal or someone bumping the "add suggestive star" bu... / Continue →
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There have been so many completely unnecessary remakes of older horror films that it's easy to sweep them all into a neat pile where you can shout "stop it!" to all of them at once, but I have to admit that the trailer to Last House on the Left--which includes a strange, unexpe... / Continue →
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Yahoo! Movies has posted the first teaser poster for Transformers 2, and it appears someone is out for revenge. It's that ribbed metal panel with the red eyes that looks like a boss from Contra--he/she is the one out for revenge. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Poster [Yah... / Continue →
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Guess what, Street Fighter--you aren't the only street fighting movie that outwardly states its premise in the title. There's also Fighting, starring Channing Tatum as a rising street fighter and Terrence Howard as an underground Don King with the hair of Shia LaBeouf, and here... / Continue →
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Mickey Rourke has gotten so popular since he started his wrestling career. Yesterday he joined the cast of Stallone's The Expendables, and now he's reportedly in talks to join Iron Man 2 as the film's central villain, while Sam Rockwell may play a rival industrialist. From THR:... / Continue →
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Lionsgate has released four new Madea Goes to Jail posters, each depicting the titular fake woman being arrested in different eras. I assume the right two are meant to represent civil rights arrests in the '60s and '70s, and the left-most is her most recent escapade, but what i... / Continue →
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Filmz.ru has posted the first look at Jim Carrey as Scrooge in Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol. Like Zemeckis's last project, this film is entirely motion-capture animation, taking the creepy, empty faces of Beowulf and combining them with the creepy, awful faces of the eld... / Continue →
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I wouldn't normally do this, but since you've been so good at keeping up with your chores lately, here's another Watchmen video. They're running out of featurette ideas, so this one is three minutes on how they dressed up some people in old-fashioney superhero clothes to take t... / Continue →
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It gets tedious covering every piece of casting news--there's only so much you can say when Kate Hudson joins another romantic comedy--and thus I often overlook it. Generally it isn't a big deal, but in the case of my ignoring casting on Sylvester Stallone's upcoming action/adv... / Continue →
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How timely (if you're me). I just watched Helvetica again on PBS last night, and now here's a trailer to the director's next effort, Objectified-- a documentary on industrial design things, such as a CD player you can mount on your wall. Pseudo-industrial design aficionados lik... / Continue →
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Since everyone was loving that Japanese version of the Street Fighter trailer from last week, here's the higher quality English edition from IGN. Now you can truly hear the powerful narration describing the delicate balance between two primary forces in our universe. Good and e... / Continue →
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Here's the poster for Sunshine Cleaning, the movie where Amy Adams and Emily Blunt take up crime scene clean-up to pay for her licking child's special education (trailer here, if this description seemed confusing). Looks like a cyan-to-beige gradation is the new trend in charmi... / Continue →
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When Crank co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor left the Hex adaptation over creative differences, Warner Bros. knew they'd have to find a new director that could bring that certain something to make the project work. And when I'm saying "certain something" here, what I... / Continue →
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Guess what there is now. Another Watchmen trailer--this time from Japan, where tradition has dictated new footage must be included. Ignore that all of the characters have Hello Kitty faces. That's a cultural thing that won't be included in the film's U.S. cut.... / Continue →
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I don't really get into the whole end-of-year "top ten best/worst films" thing. It seems like a lot of pointless work to summarize the year into ten good or bad things when I've already spent the entire year telling you how there were probably ten good things and everything els... / Continue →
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Who's getting drunk and seeing Hotel for Dogs opening night with me? Come on, it will be a great time. If confusion about the film's premise is what's holding you back, let me clarify: it's about this hotel. Specifically, a hotel for dogs. If for some reason you need more than ... / Continue →
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Ready for a Back to the Future remake? Of course you aren't; you just bought Marty McFly's hoverboard on eBay, and a remake might force you to question your loose idea of time travel that involves people slowly fading from photographs as their likelihood of existing drops. Wel... / Continue →
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It looks like this already was released, so I guess I missed the boat on this one, but whatever. When I saw the plot description for this movie, I knew it had to be shared: "Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman." And understand, it's not Dennis Rodman playing a role;... / Continue →
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On the Rob Zombie MySpace Halloween 2 Blog, R.Z. has posted this early design of the new Michael Myers mask. Man, this mug is so orange and beat up, it looks like the face of... some celebrity reference. Posh Spice? George Hamilton? Whoever is currently known for being overly-t... / Continue →
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"Oh, hello, John. What took you so long? I was just preparing us a cocktail. Do join me." "Alright, but no funny business, Terminator." 2009 Big Movie Preview [EW]... / Continue →
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On February 1st, the biggest match-up in Superbowl history won't just be on the field--it will also be in your head, as your brain tries to marry the images of your left and right eye into a three-dimensional image! As some sort of horrible promotional merger between re-branded... / Continue →
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God, I thought if one thing couldn't be killed, it was the truth! Not so, says this poster for Echelon Conspiracy, the film that quickly jumped to the top of my must-see magic-omniscient-mobile-phone-thriller list after I saw its trailer. What I particularly like about this pos... / Continue →
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What I really want to see is how that beak-faced freak is going to look, but until I get that, this new shot from Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are will have to do. What still impresses me most about everything I've seen from this production is that everything looks like ... / Continue →
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And this weekend's box office results were... Same as last week. Sorry, no change. Still the dog one, the Sandler one, Ben Button, Get Hitler!, and Liar Liar. I'll get back to you if society ever decides there is a better movie than Marley & Me (unlikely--it's one of our best ... / Continue →
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Let's start off the new year the right way: with another Street Fighter poster. If it's street fighting, why is Michael Clarke Duncan so prominently holding a gun? Is the bottom guy Iron Man? Have you ever tried simultaneously jump-kicking and jump-punching someone? Can I use t... / Continue →
