January 11, 2009 - January 17, 2009 Archives
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A reader on /Film pointed out that Spike Jonze's skateboard company has released new a series of limited edition Where the Wild Things Are boards, each picturing a wild thing from the movie, so now you can get an idea of why kids might really get freaked out when they watch thi... / Continue →
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There are too many jaw-dropping, laughable things happening in this clip to bother trying to explain them beforehand. Just watch. Even the production company logo is great:... / Continue →
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...the pop-culture-laden, celebrity-voiced green-creature-filled world of Shrek, the space traveler in suburbia scenario of Suburban Commando, and the outsider invading the idyllic '50s neighboorhood-ness of Pleasantville? I think that works.... / Continue →
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So it turns out that movie where Turk delivers a huge package of drugs to the wrong address isn't so far-fetched after all. My friend Ted sent me this story: UPS delivers, but not always to the right address, a Denton man discovered Monday when he found a lot of green inside a... / Continue →
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Watching Vin Diesel act makes me really wish I could cast him in a Disney comedy called The Most Petulant Buffoon. That said, this trailer is a good instructional for what to do if the flaming trailer of an oil truck is rolling towards you, and you're in this really awesome car... / Continue →
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Eddie Murphy is back, and for once he isn't playing multiple roles--unless you count the dual-role of businessman and father! Which you should, because it turns out it's really difficult to balance the two. Eddie is putting so much work in at the office, he isn't making time fo... / Continue →
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Well, you can stop worrying that Watchmen won't make its March 6 release because of the legal battle over rights. Deadline Hollywood and several other sources (thanks, everyone, for sending things here) are reporting a settlement has been reached between Warner Bros. and Fox: ... / Continue →
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As far as I know, Franklyn still doesn't have an American deal set up despite appearing to be a better film than Paul Blart the Mall Security Guard, but in Europe--specifically, in Italy--they've got some posters to promote the release. Apparently the mask covers his face, plus... / Continue →
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You think Jason needs a machete or axe or chainsaw or something to attack supposed teenagers? God, you know so little about Jason's attack methods. Sometimes he just comes up from behind and grabs a dude, you know? And trust me, it's nothing like a hug, and it isn't a gay thing... / Continue →
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I was under the impression that, ever since Goldeneye, a rule had been in place that every agile, over-sexualized Russian villainess character had to be played by Famke Janssen, but apparently I was way off on that, because Variety is reporting that Emily Blunt is up for the ro... / Continue →
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Variety has revealed that Michael Scott will have a new enemy on The Office later this season: Idris Elba, marking the second time the series will make audiences shout, "Hey, they were on that Wire show!" Thesp Idris Elba has been cast on "The Office" as a new rival to Dunder ... / Continue →
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My friend Todd just sent over this a funny video he shot with UCB Comedy. What happens when a guy from the world of street checkers steps up 2 a girl from the world of chess? Their white hot romance that no one approves of creates a checkers/chess fusion that no one approves of... / Continue →
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What a particularly sad week to be a science fiction geek. First the death of The Prisoner, now Ricardo Montalban (thanks for tipping, Niki): Ricardo Montalban, the suave leading man who was one of the first Mexican-born actors to make it big in Hollywood and who was best know... / Continue →
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Hey, there's this now! It's a medical drama that still has no title but does have Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, and a premise based on a shocking true story: Fraser will play John Crowley, the father of two children who were diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder for which he... / Continue →
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No, not the babe from Battlestar Galactica. Patrick McGoohan, the Emmy-winning creator and star of the British cult favorite The Prisoner has died at 80. From the Associated Press (thanks, Paul): LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrick McGoohan, an Emmy-winning actor who created and starre... / Continue →
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What you're seeing is the dumbest way to market a movie in which a space man and vikings team up to fight a horrible alien dragon-beast. I know the star's floating head is classic poster philosophy, but this is selling a pizza with a photo of the crust. Let's not be stupid. Ou... / Continue →
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Samuel L. Jackson played Nick Fury in the Iron Man (you waited after the credits, right!?), and the "Ultimates" version of Fury doesn't attempt to hide that it's Jackson in an eyepatch (see above), so it's seemed reasonable for fans to expect the actor would reprise his role as... / Continue →
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Bruce Willis returning to television for a Moonlighting movie reunion? Maybe! The creator of "Moonlighting" was Glenn Gordon Caron, and a little bird tells us that Caron is hot to reunite Cybill and Bruce for a 20th anniversary "Moonlighting" TV movie. The most surprising aspe... / Continue →
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I'll give it to you Crank 2--pretty good both referencing the original poster and creating a loose rebus of the film's title. Thank god someone is filling the gaping rebus hole left by the cancellations of Classic Concentration and Think Fast. Crank 2: High Voltage Poster [IMP... / Continue →
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Big update in regards to how ten-year-old Jaden Smith (Will Smith's son that we're being force-fed as an actor) plans to defend himself against bullies by learning karate: Jackie Chan will teach him karate. From Entertainment Weekly: Jaden Smith has found himself a mentor. Jac... / Continue →
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The teenagers-vs-Nazi-zombies(-in-snow) horror film Dead Snow has its first showing at the end of the week, and Rushblogg has posted the premiere of its international poster (via Cinematical). If anyone gets to the Sundance Saturday midnight showing, I hope the one thing you ta... / Continue →
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A casting announcement from TheBadandUgly has hinted that Johnny Depp's next role may take him to 1950s Puerto Rico for an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary. From ComingSoon: First announced in May of 2005, could The Rum Diary finally be moving forward with John... / Continue →
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WALL-E writer/director Andrew Stanton's next project is set to be John Carter of Mars, a CGI/live-action adaptation of the story of a Civil War veteran's adventures on Earth's most enemy planet: Mars. He recently spoke to MTV about the film, divulging some scoopz (they aren't h... / Continue →
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Oh, man, Turk from Scrubs is in so deep. Some dudes decided to send a washing machine-sized box of cocaine through the overnight delivery service Turk works for (standard way to move huge amounts of contraband), only Turk delivers it to the wrong apartment--the apartment of Avo... / Continue →
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Hey, look at this latest shot from Avatar! It's not an actual shot from the movie, but until director James Cameron decides to start putting out legitimate looks at his big December 3-D sci-fi release, this is the best we've got. Judging by this image, looks like the film will... / Continue →
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Remember that neo-noir, parallel-universe, Ryan-Phillipe-as-Rorschach-but-in-Dark City, if-Alan-Moore-wrote-Love Actually movie that had a low-res trailer a few months ago (high-res is so much better than low-res)? Well, here's another, better quality trailer, and the film stil... / Continue →
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Command Performance is one of those movies where the synopsis made me really want to see it, but then the trailer made me nearly black out. Dolph Lundgren directing Dolph Lundgren in a film being described as "Die Hard at a rock concert" (because it's exactly Die Hard at a rock... / Continue →
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Over on the TF08.net Transformers in China Forum (via ComingSoon, since I somehow forgot to check the TF08.net Transformers in China Forum today), a user has posted the first image of Sideswipe--one of the new magic robots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Forum user Braw... / Continue →
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The weekend box office totals, for your logbook: 1. Gran Torino - $29 million. That doesn't make any sense. So many people must have left the theater pissed that Gran Torino wasn't the one with feuding brides. 2. Bride Wars - $21.5 million. Is lady-quarreling losing its appea... / Continue →
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Another new production photo has turned up for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are--currently set for an October 16 release. And by production photo, I mean what appears to be Thomas Kinkade-rendered fan art. New Images: 'Beth Cooper', 'Avatar', 'Wild Things' and More! [Ci... / Continue →
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How about those Golden Globes, eh? Awards, movie makers, people wearing special clothes--what more could you want, besides maybe something that isn't completely masturbatory? In case you had a hard time making out some of the winners through your non-stop laughter and tears, h... / Continue →
