May 31, 2009 - June 6, 2009 Archives
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Watch out, Simon Wincer, Dwight H. Little, Sam Pillsbury, and Will Geiger, directors of Free Willy, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and Free Willy 4, respectively--there's a new director looking to take home the crown of Guy Who Made a Whale-Centric ... / Continue →
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/Film has some new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen stills, and any concerns you might have had that Optimus Prime would not wield giant orange blades should now be alleviated--he's got them. And now my inner child is frustrated in the knowledge that if I'd bought this toy I... / Continue →
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With Terminator Salvation getting dismal reviews and less-than-stellar box office, Sony Pictures has decided on the last-ditch effort of showing their entire Termi-hand, and they've released a new television spot that reveals the much talked about cameo by a young, digital Arno... / Continue →
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If you and your family loved seeing Pixar's Up in theaters, then you'll be positively delighted in a couple months when dad accidentally rents What's Up balloon to the rescue on DVD! It's the slightly less whimsical tale of an elderly man who uses a single hot air balloon--rath... / Continue →
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When a NASCAR spectator's premonition of an imminent crash saves him and his like-minded friends from certain death, the stock car enthusiasts soon find that Death won't take "I'd rather not die a horribly gruesome death" for an answer. Just as in Final Destinations 1 through 3... / Continue →
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Here are your options: The Hangover Director: Todd Phillips Starring: Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, a baby, Mike Tyson, a tiger. Good if you want to see: post-debauchery comedy; a fat, bearded man in his underwear; a baby; Mike Tyson; a tiger. Land of the Lost ... / Continue →
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GM may be bankrupt, but lack of stable sponsorship isn't going to stop the Transformers from turning into awesome GM cars and trucks! Oh, wait, it is. Looks like they're just going to jog place to place now. Fair enough. Final Transformers 2 Poster [Empire]... / Continue →
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In the grand tradition of Tracy Morgan doing crazy things on camera, yesterday the comedian was spotted riding a tricycle while dressed as a mobile phone as a pitbull violently pursued. According to Coming Soon, this was not standard, unfounded Tracy Morgan craziness but a scen... / Continue →
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Various sources are reporting that actor David Carradine, most famous for his roles as Caine in the various Kung Fu series, Frankenstein in Death Race 2000, Yellow Book Ad Guru, and more recently, the eponymous target in Kill Bill, has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room. ... / Continue →
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Good or bad news, BioShock fans: the LA Times is reporting that the popular first-person shooter might not make it to the big screen, meaning you may never get to see your favorite characters and scenes brought to life on film, or, that you'll be saved from having to see yet an... / Continue →
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I'm not at all familiar with the comic character, so I didn't realize his facial scarring would give him an expression that implies he's permanently pulling deliberately at his collar and muttering a strained "yeeeeeesh." Two more shots--along with juicy Josh Brolin gossip!--h... / Continue →
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Be the first kid on your block to know that Spider-Man 4 will be using the same font to write the number 4 that they used to write 2 and 3. From the Licensing Show in Las Vegas, where 7-11 and Hardee's wage war over who gets to brand their extra-large soft drink cups with Thor ... / Continue →
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Wouldn't you love to see how Veronic Sawyer, Winona Ryder's character from Heathers, would use her rising popularity to navigate the cliques of adulthood with the help of Christian Slater's ghostly manifestation? No? Welp: Winona Ryder said in an interview appearing in the Ju... / Continue →
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In this new clip from Moon, you'll briefly learn how, in Duncan Jones's futuristic sci-fi tale, technologies allow massive amounts of energy to be harvested and used to supply power to Earth's many plug-innable things. As the title implies, the moon is involved. It's more inte... / Continue →
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Every American likely remembers where they were as the tragic events of September 11, 2001 unfolded. Unfortunately for Mariah Carey, not many 9/11 memories begin, "I was just walking out of a matinee showing of Glitter when..." and the diva is not pleased. For whatever reason,... / Continue →
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In falsetto-voiced cartoon character news, Disney is announcing plans to develop new projects involving Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse, the two icons most likely to adorn a denim varsity jacket: Disney is moving on a new Winnie the Pooh hand-drawn animated theatrical release... / Continue →
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Hello, Russians. Here's your poster for 9, the post-apocalyptic adventure that holds all hopes of a non-pandering animation future in its ragdoll hands. No pressure or anything, but if you're not good, 9, it means major studios will probably never take a chance on animation wit... / Continue →
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Ah, yes, there is still more of my childhood to stripmine. Variety is reporting that Universal and Illumination Entertainment have purchased the film rights to Where's Waldo (née Wally), the tedium-based Martin Handford book series that got me through several family trips to No... / Continue →
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Ostensibly from the newest issue of Empire, the first production photo from Clash of the Titans has shown up on /Film. The image depicts a scowling Sam Worthington portraying Perseus, or, as I like to call him, "What I imagined my character in the 1996 PC game Diablo looked lik... / Continue →
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Amidst the scramble to pick up absolutely any franchise that might have any hint of name recognition for anyone, Columbia has purchased Swift, a pitch from Barry Sonnenfeld and Ben David Grabinski that reinvents the largely bygone character Tom Swift. Swift, first introduced 1... / Continue →
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The weekend box office report. Email me for the Excel version. 1. Up - $68.2 million, because Pixar could animate a cockfight and it would still open huge. Especially in Latin America. 2. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - $25.5 million, bringing its total gross... / Continue →
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For those too self-righteous to watch an awards show where Twilight is treated like Gone with the Wind but also still immature enough to want to see a clip of giant robots smashing shit, here's the Transformers 2 scene shown at the MTV Movie Awards last night. You won't believe... / Continue →
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Terrorizing neighborhoods since 1973, Heathcliff, the irreverent, obese, striped, orange cat that isn't Garfield, has thus far been notably, fortunately absent from the cartoon-to-CGI-hybrid-disaster genre that has included mockeries of such childhood favorites as Alvin and the... / Continue →
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It's Bella's birthday, and you know what that means: time for the annual kiss from her undead boyfriend! It's every girl's dream; the perfect birthday--someone even bought her an intricately decorated cake from a Food Network contest! But when Bella experiences the most dramati... / Continue →
