September 5, 2010 - September 11, 2010 Archives
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Welp, here's the new Saw trailer. This time, we're promised, the banal torturing-people-to-death premise has been given new life because of the arrival of 3-Ds, as represented above by CoolGuy in the audience wearing a dangerous roller coaster harness. How exciting, all these 3... / Continue →
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As viewed through the TheraFlu haze that I've lived in for the last few days, I didn't think this trailer for DreamWorks' latest seemed so bad. Until I started realizing how often the characters are making/nearly-making eye contact with the viewer. Then I started feeling weird.... / Continue →
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At last, the recently-popular trends of dark children's story movies and movies based around generic Halloween costumes are converging: here comes Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters! The film has been in development for over a year by Tommy Wirkola--who's no stranger to combining... / Continue →
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Determined to best Kevin Smith in consistency of both casting and muddled Catholic themes, director Scott Stewart has ignored the critical reception of his Legion and for some reason made another movie with Paul Bettany as a religious-figure action hero. As the film's title imp... / Continue →
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Possibly because it too closely resembled the upcoming animated films Rio and Alpha and Omega--possibly because it basically sounds like every romantic comedy ever, only with lizards--Pixar's Newt and its "last remaining pair of rare newts hate each other but must mate to repop... / Continue →
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From sister site The Superficial, here some early looks at the Captain America costume as paired with a druid's cape and mouth-breathing stunt man. Bear in mind, this is just the stunt suit, so the airbrushed abs and shit-eating grin may look better in the actual film.... / Continue →
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Or so the Every Which Way But Loose co-star told the LA Times: “I can remember – and this was many years ago – when [Warner Bros. President] Frank Wells came to me about doing Superman. So it could have happened. This was when they first started to think about making it. I was... / Continue →
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I hope you weren't expecting Emma Frost to wear one of her classic, basically/literally-lingerie outfits from the comics, because here's what January Jones is looking like as White Queen on the set of X-Men: First Class: like the lady who would fight alongside Mr. Freeze until ... / Continue →
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Character actor and convention fixture Glenn Shadix, best known for his role as interior designer Otho in Tim Burton's 1988 classic Beetlejuice, died yesterday. The Birmingham News reports the 58-year-old actor had been having mobility problems, and seemingly hit his head in a ... / Continue →
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In what seems to me to be the most apt-looking Tolkien casting since Ian McKellen put on a robe, New Line and MGM are reportedly in negotiations with Martin Freeman to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. Following up on a dubious story from The Sun, EW claims the studios have ind... / Continue →
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Of all the retro-style video games based on cult films to come out this year (see: Tremors: The Game and Human Centipede: The Game), only one has the passion of Tennesee [sic] Williams: this one based on The Room. I can't stop playing this thing. You wouldn't think The Room wou... / Continue →
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Uwe Boll, the universally-hated director who has provided so much of our video game movie catalog, has decided to shoot for an Oscar, bringing his classically delicate touch to the subject of the Holocaust with Auschwitz. Here's a teaser for the film, featuring graphic scenes o... / Continue →
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Last week, we learned the Journey to the Center of the Earth sequel, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, would see Josh Hutcherson and Dwayne Johnson journeying 2 The Mysterious Island to find Grandpa. Want to know who's playing Grandpa? Why, only our Greatest Grandpa: Sir Michae... / Continue →
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Time to toss out any remaining enjoyment you may have had for Double Rainbow after Microsoft decided to make the over-enthusiastic druggie a corporate mascot. Someone finally sent the viral video over to someone at Disney, and now they've made a parody of it to promote their Ra... / Continue →
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Liam Neeson, fully acclimated to the forgettable blockbuster glory of A-Team and Clash of the Titans he enjoyed this summer, has decided he might as well be in Battleship, too. Variety says Neeson will playing Admiral Shane--my personal favorite Battleship character, for sure--... / Continue →
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Kicking M. Night Shyamalan is so easy and fun even reporters get in on it, so why stop now? Here's another boot to his ego in the form of a fake trailer for a M. Night Shyamalan film about M. Night Shyamalan descent into being a really shitty director. This is truly what the mi... / Continue →
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1. This film is going to play somewhere that is not a DVD player. 2. This film is written by the team responsible for the Blue Collar Comedy acting showcase that was Delta Farce and the screenwriter of Underdog and Homo Erectus (aka National Lampoon's The Stoned Age). 3. The ... / Continue →
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With Angelina Jolie having rejected multiple pleas to star in Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, Warner Bros. has reportedly offered Natalie Portman the chance to play the lead in the sci-fi drama. Robert Downey Jr. is already signed to co-star, though the film is said to rest almost en... / Continue →
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Already? Yes: "The financing collapsed about a month and a half ago," the helmer said Saturday at the Deauville American Film Festival. "I shouldn't be here. The plan was to be shooting 'Quixote' right now." Even so, he still wants to push on with the project. "Robert Duval... / Continue →
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For your logs, the four-day holiday box office totals: 1. The American - $16.4 million, which is actually pretty good for a $20 million film opening in September. Clooney doing pull-ups still brings 'em in. 2. Machete - $14 million. Something to think about: would the film ha... / Continue →
