August 22, 2010 - August 28, 2010 Archives
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Behold the shame in both man and beast as they take direction from the man who made Mortal Kombat and Alien Vs. Predator. And check out the haircut on that horse. More from the set of Paul W.S. Anderson's Three Musketeers here.... / Continue →
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With the Tom Cruise brand becoming increasingly unmarketable, and the Tom Cruise man becoming increasingly pricey and nutcasey, rumor's been that Paramount was on the lookout for an actor to fill a protege role in the next Mission: Impossible sequel, so that maybe the next film... / Continue →
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We almost had a very different fake, nerdy, preachy 24th-century, everyone. Letters of Note found this 1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation casting memo on Slice of Sci-Fi that reveals what other actors were in-line to make up the Enterprise, and it just turned my old after-scho... / Continue →
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What a fighter that Blockbuster is! Despite losing over a billion dollars and closing well over 1,000 stores in the last two years, the lil' spitfire isn't willing to call it quits on its irrelevant business model quite yet. But they are totally declaring Chapter 11. According... / Continue →
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If you watched the trailer for The Freebie posted yesterday, your reaction was probably either, "Yick, mumblecore shit!" or "Yay, mumblecore shit!"--depending on your sentiments towards mumblecore shit. That's all well and good, but the issue is Mom doesn't know what a mumbleco... / Continue →
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In case you didn't yet catch that Quantum of Solace and St. Trinian's actress Gemma Arterton is super hot, here's a trailer for Tamara Drewe to reiterate that point. The film also seems to contain some kind of plot about a small English town full of old, sexually-dissatisfied w... / Continue →
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The Last Exorcism Director: Daniel Stamm Starring: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, the demon from The Exorcist Good if you want to see: a girl a nightgown acting insane. You know, classic possession in need of exorcising. Takers Director: John Luessenhop Starring: Matt Dillon, Id... / Continue →
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The Jessica Alba-sees-J-ghosts film The Eye may have killed the cornea transplant thriller genre domestically, but abroad it still thrives. Proof: this English-subtitled trailer for the Guillermo del Toro-produced Spanish thriller Julia's Eyes. I have to say, it's pretty tense.... / Continue →
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Starring in this year's remake of Le dîner de cons, Dinner for Schmucks, went so adequately-enough for him, Steve Carell has decided to dive right back into the foreign remake pool with a US version of Argentina's Un novio para mi mujer. The 2008 film--which translates to A Boy... / Continue →
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Should Katie Aselton and Dax Shepard have a night of infidelity to spice up their sexually-ailing marriage? Did her lack of sexual interest in him start around the time she finally got around to seeing Without a Paddle? Perhaps they should talk about it for an hour-and-a-half..... / Continue →
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They even glued some shit on her back so you know she's a real Tron girl, not just a possibly-albino girl scorning you for liking Tron!... / Continue →
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More convincing than the Scott Pilgrim/Matrix from earlier in the week, yet no more necessary. (via Edgar Wright himself)... / Continue →
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If no one wants to pay for another Hellboy, why not just take the supernatural and Nazi elements of that series but replace the tank-like demonic protagonist with an actual goddamn tank? Sure enough, that's what Hellboy co-writer Peter Briggs is doing, directing and sharing scr... / Continue →
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Following through on their promise to, for better or worse, bring more obscure comic heroes to screens, Marvel has begun development on a film about the aptly-named, strong-knuckled superhero Iron Fist. The studio's first step in an awful direction? Hiring xXx writer Rich Wilke... / Continue →
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USA Today is reporting Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell will likely fill the roles of immediately-killed-off-people at the beginning of the next Scream film. I guess they're considered the exciting celebrities cameos among the cast of young up-and-comers, aging Scream mainstays who... / Continue →
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Party Down creators Rob Thomas, Jon Enbom, and Dan Etheridge have a new offering for us to probably love, only to have stripped from our grasp just as we were getting all our friends into it. According to Variety, NBC has won a bidding war for Temps, and will produce a pilot fo... / Continue →
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Satoshi Kon--director of popular Japanese animated films Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, and the oft-compared-to-Inception Paprika--reportedly died yesterday of pancreatic cancer. It's truly a sad loss for the world of anime. Why couldn't it have been one of... / Continue →
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Adam Sandler playing both a family man AND his own twin sister who won't leave after visiting her sibling for Thanksgiving: that ALONE is funny enough for an entire 90-minutes of film (plus during-the-credits outtakes), right? So you'd think! But not funny enough for Columbia a... / Continue →
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Ready to watch James Franco hang out with Kate Mara and Amber Tamblyn, then get his arm stuck in some rocks for a while? Here's that movie. It's the Cast Away for a new generation that knows close-quarters rocks are more of a human enemy than islands.... / Continue →
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Sky has put up a new trailer for Ricky Gervais's latest means of capturing the ramblings of Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad--the series that sees the Mancunian's hangdog face flown to the Wonders of the World. Consider it the documentary antidote to Inside Job and watch:... / Continue →
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Hold off on sending wedding invitations to all your CEO pals and chums on Wall Street: those guys might be assholes! Here's a trailer for the latest documentary to make that case, Inside Job. Prepare to be angry for a few minutes.... / Continue →
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What makes for a better movie plot than a simplistic, ballistic physics iPhone app? Probably nothing is right! So Rovio, the Finnish creators of the popular slingshot-a-bird-at-a-fort-full-of-pigs game Angry Birds, plan to broader their time-wasting game into a multiplatform fr... / Continue →
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Piranha 3-D may have opened at sixth in the box office--below such sad competition as a universally-hated Twilight spoof, Lottery Ticket, and the third weekend of declining sales for The Other Guys--but, oh, what the fuck, let's make a sequel. Seeing that the whole production o... / Continue →
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AMC has finally released a trailer for its upcoming zombie series The Walking Dead, everyone. You may have already watched it as a bootleg, but now you can see it officially and in reasonable quality, rather than from the perspective of a Pringle perched atop the belly of some ... / Continue →
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Further distracting him from his ultimate goal of making a Guitar Hero movie, Brett Ratner will direct Ben Stiller in a heist film shooting this November. Originally, envisioned as a story called Trump Heist, "when the intention was for an African American ensemble to target Th... / Continue →
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Warning: the meek voice of Michael Cera coming out of the dull face Keanu might send you into a coma, but at least it will be a blissfully nerdy coma.... / Continue →
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A Facebook movie without topless, drug-loving teens? I'm afraid that might be a possibility. After seeing an early screening of David Fincher's The Social Network, Facebook executives are reportedly pretty upset with the how it's shaping up, and I'm afraid the final cut's numbe... / Continue →
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Any animated sequel that doesn't begin with "Shrek" is good news, but a Miyazaki-made sequel to one of his own beloved classics? That's good enough news to make me temporarily lift my face from my palms! In an interview with Cut Magazine, animation superbrain Hayao Miyazaki rev... / Continue →
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At some point in 2006, a group of people put Renee Zellweger, Bradley Cooper, and Deadwood in a classic ut-oh!-cute-orphan-girl-is-secretly-sinister (e.g., evil, possessed, murderous, 33-years-old, etc.) film. It was originally scheduled for release in early 2008, but on second... / Continue →
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Because if there's one thing we need, it's another animal movie, Wind Dancer Films and Anonymous Content are teaming to produce a film about Oscar, the death-ushering cat. Oscar, a cat who inspired a non-fiction book and a bunch of "how about this quirky thing?" news stories, s... / Continue →
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America, we've mourned the tragedy of September 11th long enough. Warner Bros. and Paramount are ready to get on with milking some sadness Oscars out of this thing, and they know just how succeed where Remember Me did not so much: with a Tom Hanks/Sandra Bullock drama! The stud... / Continue →
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Director of your dad's X-Men films, Bryan Singer, just dumped all kinds of information to AICN about Matthew Vaughn's upcoming, youth-oriented X-Men: First Class--on which he's credited as story writer and producer. You can read the full details of the entire interview there, b... / Continue →
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Sorry, Piranha 3-D, Nanny McPhee Returns, and The Switch, but you all should have been a Twilight spoof: 1. The Expendables - $16.5 million, topping the box office for the second week; once again, America has proved to its parents and coworkers that it is straight. 2. Vampire... / Continue →
