November 28, 2010 - December 4, 2010 Archives
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With The King's Speech being talked about for all sorts of Best Things awards, the producers of the film decided it might be a good idea to hire some grown-up adults to make a legitimate poster for this movie. Well done, everyone. This looks like an actual movie! This one did n... / Continue →
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Take care of your surely-struggling heart, Jack Black: DreamWorks needs your shouting for at least four more Kung Fu Panda films. Jeffrey Katzenberg recently talked to Empire about future plans for its CGI franchises, and the studio's animation chief revealed that the Shrek sto... / Continue →
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Now that MGM has finally rolled enough of their bowls of loose change to slowly climb out of bankruptcy, time for the studio system's most notable paupers to get to work on all the huge franchises they've been sitting on. Their whites-only production of The Hobbit is already we... / Continue →
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Good jobs, Rob Marshall! The director--who just took over the Pirates of the Caribbean series from Gore Verbinski--has reportedly done such a nice job recording Johnny Depp's pirate impression that he's already been commissioned to make a couple more of of these things. HitFix ... / Continue →
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- MGM's reorganization plan has been approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy court, which will allow the troubled studio to finally get out of Chapter 11. It's occasions like this that make you wish you had a recording of the Wheel of Fortune bankrupt slide whistle you could play in re... / Continue →
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Black Swan (limited) Director: Darren Aronofsky Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel Good if you want to see: a hugely-praised psychological ballet drama from Darren Aronofsky. Isn't that enough? You're going to look like such an a-hole if your plan is to just ... / Continue →
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See? Its rating goes to eleven. Reference. (via /Film)... / Continue →
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With Paul Thomas Anderson's thinly-veiled Scientology criticism film recently falling apart for unspecified reasons (with mid-air re-fueling possible, John Travolta can fly low circles around your house as long as it takes to), the director has reportedly already moved on to a ... / Continue →
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Ben Stiller is in talks to take a short break from making terrible things (Little Fockers, probably Brett Ratner's Tower Heist) and re-team with Greenberg director Noah Baumbach on another project about listless, aging, likely well-to-do types. James Franco and Cate Blanchett a... / Continue →
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Welp, Mega Shark is back. Thought to be killed by the combined forces of Debbie Gibson, TV's Renegade, and Giant Octopus, the massive, oft-airborne fish apparently survived the battle, and he's once again biting the shit out of everything. Standing in his way this time: a giant... / Continue →
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If you're one of the people who been spending sleepless nights worrying that Christopher Nolan would take unused The Dark Knight footage and Max Headroom technology and revive Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight Rises, you can calm down. The Hollywood Reporter has soothed y... / Continue →
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As everyone in the "buying DVDs and meticulously organizing them in plain sight as a geeky, increasingly-obsolescent trophy collection" business knows, the most impressive DVDs to show off to apathetic guests are those that are part of the fashionable Criterion Collection. Unfo... / Continue →
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Do we at last have the Volcano to Black Swan's Dante's Peak? We may! Chloe Moretz, Jackie Earle Haley, and Bailee Madison have all signed on to star alongside Kristen Bell in the "indie black comedy" Dance of the Mirlitons. Madison will star as a chubby ballerina being pushed b... / Continue →
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The ever-plagued production of The Hobbit hit another snag Monday when a woman with Pakistani heritage, responding to a casting call for sub-5'2" lady-hobbits with "light skin tones," was reportedly told she wasn't pale enough to be in the background of the Shire. The independe... / Continue →
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Always looking to pepper her résumé with things like The Core and P.S. I Love You to break up all the obvious Oscar grabs, Hilary Swank has decided to star as The Resident in The Resident--co-starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan as The Landlord who is also A Resident, stalking her in h... / Continue →
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Brandon Camp--son of Benji creator Joe Camp Jr. and a filmmaking auteur in his own right (if writing and directing the Jennifer Aniston romantic-comedy Love Happen qualifies)--is teaming with morally-righteous production company Walden Media (the Narnia series) to try and make ... / Continue →
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All the footage left on the Jackass 3-D cutting room floor--such as the promising scene of a guy firing darts into another guy's waiting face using only the power of farts--will soon be available for you to pay to watch online. Paramount has announced plans to digitally release... / Continue →
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- Kevin Smith has revealed that Nicholas Braun--one of the stars of the upcoming Red State--will replace Seann William Scott as the lead in Hit Somebody, Smith's hockey film based on the Warren Zevon song of the same name. Daring to confront the same, daunting, replacing-Seann ... / Continue →
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Because putting a fedora-wearing John Slattery in The Adjustment Bureau still didn't make it quite Mad Men-y enough for some tastes, here's the lazy new one-sheet for the guys-in-suits-control-your-fate thriller. My ears are going to be ringing with jazzy drum rock-outs for hou... / Continue →
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Mario Monicelli, the Italian filmmaker best known for Big Deal on Madonna Street and La Grande Guerra, has died in an apparent suicide, the latest victim of this post-Thanksgiving plague. Monicelli was being treated for pancreatic cancer in Rome's San Giovanni hospital, and, wi... / Continue →
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Kathryn Bigelow's status as our Best Director (source: Academy Awards) will not be put to waste. According to ComingSoon, she's used her renewed and upgraded relevancy to get Hollywood's favorite everyman, Tom Hanks, to be in her latest, Triple Frontier. The film is said to be ... / Continue →
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'Just Go With It' Poster Perfectly Embodies Spirit of 'Generic Adam Sandler/Jennifer Aniston Comedy'If this Adam Sandler in-profile, sitting on a beach beside a noted romantic-comedy actress motif looks familiar, it's because he has indeed tread this ground before. Also, because this is what human beings are pre-programmed to instinctively recognize as purgatory. (via)... / Continue →
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Interest for HBO's Game of Thrones adaptation seems to be pretty sharply divided between those who have read the books--and want to greet the series with an open mouth kiss--and those who haven't read the books--and say something about Lord of the Rings/Braveheart/neck-beards. ... / Continue →
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Sorry, this isn't your year, Billy Crystal. Instead, the Academy Awards are going to try being relevant this year, hiring James Franco and Anne Hathaway to co-host the 83rd Oscar ceremony. Telecast producers explained the sort-of-surprising choice in a statement that both actor... / Continue →
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Irvin Kershner--director of Never Say Never Again, RoboCop 2, and, most notably, everyone's favorite Star War--died in Los Angeles on Saturday, following a long illness. He was 87. From the Associated Press story: Kershner already had made a number of well-received movies whe... / Continue →
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Your weekend top five: 1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 - $50.3 million, continuing the Harry Potter movie tradition of making a lot of money. 2. Tangled - $49.1 million, ticket sales seemingly unaffected by some women cutting their hair shorter nowadays. 3. M... / Continue →
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Leslie Nielsen, the dramatic actor who would become best known for his roles in slapstick comedies and spoofs, has died at age 84 due to complications of pneumonia. Canadian-born Nielsen began his US acting career in the '50s, earning authoritative roles in Forbidden Planet, T... / Continue →
