August 8, 2010 - August 14, 2010 Archives
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Ready to reignite the George Lucas fury that's been slowly dwindling since whenever it was you last saw one of the Star Wars prequels? Then read this LA Times interview with Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back producer Gary Kurtz. In it, he basically labels Lucas a toy salesman f... / Continue →
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For those not paying attention, previous Conanimations are: - Late Night Situation Explained with Insane Asian CGI - Bizarre Yet Awesome Stop-Motion Dancing Conan - Terry Gilliam/You Can't Do That on Television-esque Conan Hair Attachment If you have any to add, please send th... / Continue →
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Presenting all the newly-released films I could be bothered to write: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Director: Edgar Wright Starring: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jason Schwartzman Good if you want to see: Bryan Lee O'Malley's heavily-video-game-referencing nerd comic t... / Continue →
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Welp, looks like Terminator will be following the path of The Animatrix and The Chronicles of Cartoon Riddick, continuing the story of John Connor and Arnold Terminator through animation. Hannover House and Red Bear Entertainment have announced plans to develop Terminator 3000,... / Continue →
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That Yogi Bear film seems to be turning out so well, it's got Warner Bros. thinking, "You know what we should do? We should make another atrocious blending of desperate actors and CGI'd popular cartoon characters, but with Bugs Bunny this time!" According to Deadline, WB doesn'... / Continue →
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Gosh, guys, how do you KNOW? You know... when you're IN LOVE? Probably when a trailer makes it instantaneously clear that you should be with Paul Rudd instead of your jerk boyfriend Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon. That's how you know, apparently. That said, this doesn't look b... / Continue →
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Sorry, guys, but the movie that seems to be entirely about Drew Barrymore and Macintosh Embodiment having a long-distance relationship--Going the Distance--has been delayed a week, and will now open September 3rd. Looks like we'll just have to see Eat Pray Love again the last w... / Continue →
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Think Quantum Leap is, by its very nature, too definitively episodic to ever make the A-Team-style jump to modern cinemas? Yeah, you're probably right, but that's not going to stop anyone from giving it a shot. According to Leap star Scott Bakula, creator Don Bellisario is work... / Continue →
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Now that he's out of the race to be Spidermin, Jamie Bell has moved on and joined first-time director Carl Tibbet's British thriller The Retreat. He'll be joined by Cillian Murphy and Thandie Newton in a tale Deadline describes as the story of "a couple vacationing on a remote ... / Continue →
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The comic this time? Last Man Standing, a work from Daniel LuVisi that apparently had Comic Con fanboys smacking their lips to its video game concept-like art. Despite that the graphic novel has yet to be officially released, Paramount has closed a deal to purchase the property... / Continue →
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Prepare your drug montages and onstage laughter quickly devolving to dramatic offstage tears and anger: it's time for a John Belushi biopic. THR tells us Todd Phillips--of Road Trip, Old School, and The Hangover fame--is producing the picture for Warner Bros., who recently acqu... / Continue →
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If you sat through the credits of The Other Guys last weekend, you were treated to a little lesson about economics: turns out those CEOs and Wall Street guys are a lot of boners. Seeing that no one seemed to get the economic commentary of Step Brothers (the bathroom rug Ferrell... / Continue →
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It's clearly not as good as this animated Conan madness, nor as good as this also-madness, but this TBS promo for Conan's upcoming talk show is still good enough to place third on my list of Conan animations, which I'm from now on calling Conanimations. So how about giving it a... / Continue →
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- Like all of the hand-illustrated Wes Anderson Criterion DVD covers, the one for The Darjeeling Limited is also going to be really good looking. If only I could order a print of it to hang on the wall, so I could be forced to justify my unapologetic love of Anderson's catalog ... / Continue →
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This educational short about graboids--those goddammers from Tremors--is something you need to watch right now so that you're prepared. What if you one day are forced to become Family Ties Dad?... / Continue →
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Ang Lee gave it a go; a CBS series tried so hard with Lou Ferigno and contact lenses; most recently, Louis Letterier and Ed Norton did their best; and yet still no one has really managed to create a truly definitive screen version of the Incredible Hulk. Until now, that is. Ban... / Continue →
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Sure, we've fought aliens and their threatening blue beams before, but this time Will Smith's salary is too prohibitive for him to save us, and Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure has shown us we can't rest this burden entirely on Randy Quaid's shoulders. NOW ... / Continue →
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If you followed the tiresome viral campaign that accompanied Cloverfield, you may recall the name "Slusho" being thrown around a lot. In the lore of the J.J. Abrams-produced hit, Slusho was some sort of ICEE company based out of Japan or something, and its existence somehow tri... / Continue →
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From Yahoo, here's Due Date's poster, showing that once again Todd Phillips has gone with the combination of aviator sunglasses, unexplained injury, and Zach Galifiankis carrying something small and cute to grab our interest. Plan your obvious Halloween costume accordingly.... / Continue →
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The guy who made all those shockingly-authentic trailers for 1950s versions of The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Forrest Gump, and Ghostbusters has done it again. This time, Ivan Guerrero--who justifiably describes himself as a talented editor--brings us a look ... / Continue →
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Days still remain before you can see Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World on screens, but the good news is you can wet your ear-beaks with the full soundtrack and score right now streaming at Spinner (via). New songs from a pseudonymed Beck, Broken Social Scene, Metric, and more await y... / Continue →
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Ut oh, that Netflick is evolving to become an even more efficient time waster. Just a month after a deal that will put Relativity Media's recent catalog on the service's Watch Instantly programming far sooner than before, Netflix has worked out another deal that will make films... / Continue →
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From guys waving frantically at their oblivious friend to the "could you scoot over?" people, CollegeHumor has put together a video that provides a fairly comprehensive list of the inhabitants and uncomfortable situations of the before-the-film theater experience for you to nod... / Continue →
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Reese Witherspoon earned so many acting achievement points with her role in the Johnny Cash tale Walk the Line, it's only natural she'd revisit the Tree of Music Biopics in the hopes of plucking a few more awards from its bountiful limbs. This time Legally Blonde will be taking... / Continue →
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Being stereotypically handsome and marrying that cute little pile of diastema known as Anna Paquin just isn't enough for Josh Duhamel: he still has feelings for college sweetheart Katie Holmes, and vice versa! Yikes! So, on the eve of his wedding with Paquin, you can imagine ho... / Continue →
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Andrew Niccol's incredibly stupidly-titled I'm.mortal will soon have the Scarecrow in its cast, everyone. THR says Cillian Murphy has joined Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake in the Logan's Run-like sci-fi commentary/Alpha Dog reunion: The story is set in the not-too-dista... / Continue →
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Yick! Disney's animated Tarzan tale is so two-dimensional--in both the senses of being traditional cel animation and not requiring glasses! Yick! Yick! Wipe its taste off grandpa's tongue! Where's all the computer animation and 3-D things? Answer: in Germany. But, thankfully, h... / Continue →
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There's still nearly a year until Warner Bros. finds out which Green Lantern catchphrases stick, and already these guys have someone working on a writing a sequel to this thing. Variety reports Michael Goldenberg--who previously wrote us a Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoe... / Continue →
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If Robin Williams can go from hammy, popular comic actor and cartoon voice to creepy guy, why not Jack Black? Why not indeed, says Jack Black's agent and Richard Linklater. According to THR, Black will make his give-me-an-Oscar-maybe? transition with Bernie, teaming with his Sc... / Continue →
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The weekend box office: 1. The Other Guys - $35.6 million. Fitting that a film about Leonardo DiCaprio in our dreams would be overtaken by a film about Mark Wahlberg, who will forever be in our dreams. 2. Inception - $18.6 million, meaning all those internet parodies can expe... / Continue →
