December 12, 2010 - December 18, 2010 Archives
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- If you've always thought 2001: A Space Odyssey could use another 17 minutes, good news: legendary effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull has revealed that Warner Bros. recently uncovered some deleted scenes from the Stanley Kubrick masterpiece, so we'll probably be seeing those ... / Continue →
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Below the cut: posters for Green Hornet and Paul, and one for Thor that has a decent shot at being more interesting than the film.... / Continue →
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That '70s Show writers/executive producers Jackie and Jeff Filgo, their wings at last un-clipped from the world of 1970s-based Topher Grace situation comedy, are using their newfound freedom to soar to new creative heights: 1980s-based Topher Grace situation comedy! In Take Me ... / Continue →
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TRON: Legacy Director: Joseph Kosinski Starring: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde Good if you want to see: the darker, edgier version of neon guys playing frisbee and motorcycles inside a video game. Yogi Bear Director: Eric Brevig Starring: Dan Aykroyd Voice, Justi... / Continue →
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A new trailer for Greg Mottola's Paul? Yes! If the first trailer didn't capture your interest with its tale of British nerds (Simon Pegg, Nick Frost) befriending Seth Rogen the Alien, perhaps this one has what it takes. Especially if what it takes is jokes about alien swimsuit ... / Continue →
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- Alfonso Cuarón has finally found a suitable replacement for a too-busy Robert Downey Jr., casting George Clooney as the male lead in his upcoming sci-fi film, Gravity. Any rich, suave, superhero type will do, apparently. - Halle Berry, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Zac Efron are... / Continue →
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Just in time for the news of yet another Wizard of Oz movie, here's a video of 58 utterances of some form of Dorothy's memorable dogwhisper, "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." Screenwriters, it's time to come up with a new trite way to establish that a charac... / Continue →
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"What if you could use, like, ALL your brain?" has been an unanswered hypothetical in the stoner community for what feels to them like forever, but it looks like Neil Burger's latest film might finally have the answer: you become a paranoid douchebag! In Limitless, Bradley Coo... / Continue →
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Blake Edwards--the director of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, 10, and a real mixed bag of Pink Panther films--died this morning at 88. Edwards was known primarily for his talent at capturing slapstick comedy--a reputation he wasn't entirely com... / Continue →
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Good news if you were hoping the above photo would one day be recreated with Al Pacino standing in for Spike Lee: that's almost surely going to happen. Talking to MTV, Robert De Niro responded to earlier rumors that he, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino would eventually be teaming up fo... / Continue →
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As anyone who's seen PBS's recent Circus documentary knows, married life for a lady living under the Big Top can be rough. Sometimes husbands calls in bomb threats! Or sometimes, in more glamorous circumstances, you're Reese Witherspoon and your husband is a hammer-wielding In... / Continue →
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On March 5, 2004, an unrated version of Bad Santa was released on DVD as Badder Santa, so confident were the filmmakers that such a title would not be needed for a 2012 sequel. Today, their boldness in naming convention was at last proven unwarranted, as The Weinstein Company a... / Continue →
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- Here's Glenn Close doing her best Irish Mulan as an 1890s woman who disguises herself as a man in Albert Nobbs. More or less convincing than she was in Hook? - As far as Ghostbusters 3 goes, no one Dan Aykroyd has mentioned as strong casting possibilities have any idea what... / Continue →
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Adding another Wizard of Oz remake to the pile, Vanguard Films has announced that Corpse Bride co-director Mike Johnson is now working a CGI/stop-motion version of the story: Oz Wars. As in an ill-conceived mash-up of The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars? Thankfully, no--though that ... / Continue →
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Filled with the kind of beautiful, carefully-shot imagery usually reserved for selling you things on TV, the trailer for Terrence Malick long-awaited film, The Tree of Life, is finally here for the watching. Let me tell you: the story of Brad Pitt raising child Sean Penn looks ... / Continue →
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How many times have you been sitting around watching a SyFy Channel Original Presentation of Sharktopus and thought what an utter shame it was that this destructive chimera was available only to those with basic cable? Every time, right? Well, I've got what may be some good new... / Continue →
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With the stress of following-up Ghost Rider with another Ghost Rider clearly taking its toll on Nicolas Cage, the actor seems to be finding his calm in the soothing comfort of another safely-idiotic, expectation-free action role. According to the Hollywood Reporter, he's signed... / Continue →
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Here's something to hold you off until Showgirls 2 comes out (Showgirls 2 didn't already come out, did it?): the original Showgirls made newly melodramatic with audio from Black Swan. Masturbate to it as a 14-year-old again for the first time!... / Continue →
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As you may have heard, Jon Favreau has decided that a post-Iron Man 2 world is not a world in which he wants to be known as the director of Iron Men, and he will not be directing the next film in the franchise. Vulture first reported the news, claiming Favreau was "frustrated" ... / Continue →
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- Universal has plans to make a new film "based on [the] timeless concept" of Stephen King's Firestarter (the timeless concept of a girl starting fires with her mind, obviously). In the 1984 film, a young Drew Barrymore starred as the titular mind arsonist, but in this version ... / Continue →
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It's always a pretty safe bet that any Fast/Furious film is basically going to be some people sort-of-acting over an easy to grasp conflict that functions mainly as an excuse for some elaborate setpieces involving guys doing illegal things in their fancycars. Classic formula fo... / Continue →
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After two previews that looked like bizarre deleted scenes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Gore Verbinski's Rango now has a trailer with a clear narrative and far less of the feeling that I'm losing my mind. Honestly, it doesn't look bad:... / Continue →
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As 2010 draws to a close, what better way to look back than by vicariously reflecting on the past year through fictional characters that did things in two hours that make what you did in 12 months look even more meaningless? With that in mind, here's a montage of the good, bad,... / Continue →
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In case John Cusack sulking around in sneakers didn't give you enough of an impression of how the actor would appear as Edgar Allen Poe in The Raven, here's an official look at the film, with the actor holding a bird that is also the movie name. NOW IT MAKES SENSE. John Cusack... / Continue →
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This year's Golden Globe nominations have arrived, and, sorry, True Grit, but the Hollywood Foreign Press has decided you aren't a Good Grit at all. In fact, you're a Terrible Grit. The Coen Brothers' western--largely considered a safe-bet Oscar nomination in more than one cate... / Continue →
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Those Caribbean-based Pirates are back! Well, not all of them. But those deemed essential within the film's budget (Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Keith Richards) are back, as are new pirates Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane, and this time they're all on the hunt for our Best Spring,... / Continue →
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If you've seen The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, then you should be able to figure out what this is going to be. If you haven't, you should still be able to figure out what this is going to be, because The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Rob... / Continue →
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The Black List is an annual list by which Hollywood types rank the most-liked unproduced screenplays being passed around agency lunchroom tables and such. The 2010 edition has just been released, and this year College Republians--Wes Jones's script about a young Karl Rove, whic... / Continue →
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Looks like Universal ended up actually making that fifth Fast/Furious movie they were talking about, because USA Today today has the first image from the production--a photo that brags, "We got The Rock to be in a second idiotic film with "fast" in the title!" Paul Walker, Tyre... / Continue →
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Packed with nearly as many intense glares as the Comic Con trailer, a new Thor trailer debuted Friday evening to promote the Norse-God-turned-would-be-Grey's Anatomy-character tale. I'd already entered my weekend fetal position when it came online, so here, belatedly, is all th... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - $24.5 million--less than half of Prince Caspian's opening. Looks like it might be time for Liam Neeson Lion to retire and make way for Liam Neeson Zeus and Liam Neeson Great Father. Let the ... / Continue →
