September 12, 2010 - September 18, 2010 Archives
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In The Dilemma, Kevin James finally gets his comeuppance for fictionally marrying unreasonably out-of-his-league women when his latest imaginary wife---Winona Ryder, if you can fucking believe it--starts cheating on him with G.I. Joe. Best friend Vince Vaughn--also, per usual, ... / Continue →
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Hoping to drop another adaptation of classic fairy tale literature on the pile before this fad wears off, Warner Bros. has hired TV veteran Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me) to write a new take on Pinocchio for the studio to develop into a live-action film. Producer ... / Continue →
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If the combination of Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis alone wasn't enough to convince you of Due Date's relative worth, here's a new trailer with another promise: the drinking of corpse-coffee, as in hot water percolated through father ashes. That's something.... / Continue →
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A recycled joke from UHF in the form of an Inside the Actor's Studio parody written and directed by David Mamet? Despite all odds, there's that now:... / Continue →
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Borat's obvious resemblance to Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is finally paying off. A biopic on the late singer has been discussed for years--here's talk of it happening in 2006, which already resulted in a Borat joke--and now Deadline is reporting that production is moving fo... / Continue →
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Rest well tonight: Joaquin Phoenix is OK! It turns out all the craziness, beard growing, weight gain, prostitute sex, rapping, and scatology was part of a complicated ruse built around Phoenix and brother-in-law Casey Affleck making a carefully constructed documentary. Who woul... / Continue →
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In case you guys haven't already noticed, I Watch Stuff is getting flagged as a malware attack site. Obviously we would never do that to you guys. Some malicious third-party ad snuck its way in last night but was promptly caught and removed. We're working to get the warning lifte... / Continue →
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Kazakh director Erkin Rakishev was none too pleased with the depiction of his country seen in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, so he's decided to speak up in the most logical way possible: with an unauthorized sequel to the 20... / Continue →
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Don't declare bankruptcy just yet, Blockbuster. Your 11th hour bikini car wash, jewels-in-your-marble-pouch savior has arrived: tanning beds! According to the Hollywood Reporter, over 3,500 struggling, independent rental stores have somehow all reached the same bizarre conclusi... / Continue →
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Easy A Director: Will Gluck Starring: Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes Good if you want to see: high school social commentary in the form of a dry-witted girl pretending to have sex with a bunch of gay guys. The Town Director: Ben Affleck Starring: Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm,... / Continue →
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So here's a new trailer that's not at all safe for your work, due to Hatchet re-inventing the term "curb stomp" to be more of a "table stomp" and other depictions of things that make blood spray. If your sole criteria for judging film watchability is determining if your mom wou... / Continue →
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Night at the Museums director Shawn Levy will never tire of anachronistic setpieces. The latest evidence of this: he and Paramount are working to bring an adaptation of Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior to theaters. For those unfamiliar with the series, in it, some guys use science ... / Continue →
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Despite so much potential for insane on-set freak-outs, director David O. Russell and Christian Bale seem to have gotten along well enough to finish their boxing drama with Marky Mark, and as evidence, there's now a trailer for The Fighter for you. It basically lays out every p... / Continue →
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Kevin James is really hoping you want to see Nacho Libre remade with him playing a schoolteacher doing mixed martial arts matches, because guess what he's doing: the popular mall cop has signed on for an untitled Sony film that casts him as a physics teacher moonlighting as a U... / Continue →
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Where's the beef, Megamind? 'Megamind' Poster ver. 8 [IMPA]... / Continue →
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If you didn't know, the Mind of M. Night Shyamalan produces ideas at such a rapid-fire pace, he doesn't even have time to make them all into increasingly poor-received films himself anymore. He's had to start the Night Chronicles banner--under which other writers and directors ... / Continue →
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Disney's done it again! By which I mean spiced up an old fairy tale with a bunch of action-adventure sequences, cute jokes, and emoting animals that make great Happy Meal toys. You might even like it the first couple times your kid makes you watch it.... / Continue →
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Boasting the cast you were so in love with back when you were a cigarette-smoking 14-year-old girl, The Tourist sees Angelina Jolie as some sort of criminal/secret agent/action babe/somethingorother and Johnny Depp as the innocent title character used by her to confuse Paul Bet... / Continue →
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According to Variety, Malin Akerman has joined Universal's Jennifer Aniston-meets-Role Models comedy, Wanderlust. Produced by Judd Apatow, written by Ken Marino and David Wain, and set to be directed by Wain, Wanderlust stars Paul Rudd and Aniston as a couple "who try escaping ... / Continue →
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Let's all hope Terry Jones is still capable of being funny, because the former Monty Python member has written an animated film called Absolutely Anything with Gavin Scott and he'll be directing it for Phoenix Pictures. Deadline has news of the project, but in terms of plot, kn... / Continue →
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Don't worry; you don't have to be a colored girl to enjoy it. You just have to really, really enjoy melodramatic dialogue and shots of people freaking out and weeping, because Tyler Perry forgot to pull the Madea lever this time.... / Continue →
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Cash-strapped MGM has yet to say anything official about if they've talked Peter Jackson into directing The Hobbit--or if they even have the money to make it if he will--but if you believe The Bolton News (always believe) and its quote from Sir Ian McKellen, filming may be read... / Continue →
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Looks like the RZA's kung fu tribute The Man with the Iron Fist--not to be confused with the comic book adaptation of Iron Fist nor RZA's lower budget kung fu tribute, Wu-Tang Vs. The Golden Phoenix--is going to give us all an American Gangster reunion. E! heard from the rapper... / Continue →
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How about giving your HBOner some material with some new trailers for Eastbound & Down's second season and the cable network's adaptation of Game of Thrones? I promise you one of them features a bound dwarf, but I won't ruin the surprise by telling you which.... / Continue →
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Oren Moverman's Rampart--which at first was looking more-or-less like a Messenger reunion party, with the director and stars Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster all re-teaming--has now distinguished itself as its own beast with the addition of several more actors to the cast. Variet... / Continue →
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It's a gangster combo once only dreamed of on airbrushed t-shirts but now it looks like it just might happen: Deadline has word Joe Pesci and Al Pacino are now in talks to join The Irishman, the mob drama about Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran that's being developed by Robert De Ni... / Continue →
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Man, the IMDb is not kidding when it says she urinates herself. You show Anne Sellors an oncoming nuclear holocaust, she really lets it pour:... / Continue →
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On the plus side, at least she's finally getting due credit for that piss scene. (via, thanks to M.F.)... / Continue →
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Someone should alert his family. At this rate, he'll be playing stoned, shirtless bongos by the end of the month. (via)... / Continue →
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Gael García Bernal may have taken over Matthew McConaughey's rom-com obligations, but Ashton Kutcher can't play every bro-like killer, so we're still going to need you for some of those, Matty McC. Specifically: for the title role in Killer Joe. McConaughey has dutifully signed... / Continue →
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We're going to need a few actors for Rowan Atkinson to bumble around with if we're going to make a Johnny English sequel (note: we certainly are making a Johnny English sequel), so Universal has found some people willing to fill that role. According to the Hollywood Reporter, G... / Continue →
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French New Wave pioneer Claude Chabrol reportedly died Sunday of still-undisclosed causes at 80 years old. Sorry. From the AP obit: A prolific director, Chabrol made more than 70 films and TV productions during his more than half-century-long career. His first movie, 1958's "L... / Continue →
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In a move that will no doubt draw an eventual lawsuit from John Edward, Clint Eastwood decided to make a melodrama about Matt Damon as some kind of honest-to-god psychic medium. Since the almost-Superman is in the director's chair, it's probably going to win all kinds of Best P... / Continue →
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What people paid in a theater see last weekend: 1. Resident Evil: Afterlife - $27.7 million, benefiting from the fact that no other major releases opened this weekend and no current release had sunglasses being thrown at the screen just so it would look sort of momentarily coo... / Continue →
