February 20, 2011 - February 26, 2011 Archives
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- IWS friend and Simpsons devotee Kyle McCoy has constructed a huge, 10' by 4' replica of Springfield made entirely of those little melty beads you iron together. Sadly, he isn't revealing the fully-assembled finished product until April 2, so we'll have to keep using the old c... / Continue →
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If Kick-Ass and Defendor have not yet tired you of the average-guy-turned-loser-superhero genre, Slither director James Gunn asks that you go see Rainn Wilson also be a lame superhero in Super. As posted by Gunn himself, here's the latest poster for the film, ideal for showing ... / Continue →
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Actor/writer/director/producer/artist/student/teacher/Broadway star/Oscar host/nominee/SCIENTIST is finally closing the deal to play the title role in Sam Raimi's Oz, the Great and Powerful. Whatever issues were previously standing between him and the part have apparently been ... / Continue →
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After serving as screenwriter for all three Bourne films, Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy has at last been handed the keys to the franchise and given the chance to make a Bourne all his own. Kudos, Tony Gilroy. One caveat to that, though: Matt Damon is out, and with him go... / Continue →
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If you want to believe the ever-reliable Mail Online, actors Idris Elba, Sean Harris, and Kate Dickie have been added to the cast of Prometheus, joining Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, and Noomi Rapace in Ridley Scott's Alien not-a-prequel, set for release June 2012. In th... / Continue →
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Making the same daring trek once braved by the cast of Full House featuring the Beach Boys, the sentient playthings of Toy Story will be visiting Hawaii (or rather a toy-based replica thereof) in a new short set to precede showings of Cars 2. Entertainment Weekly has provided t... / Continue →
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Here are the new releases that will probably once again tempt you away from finally seeing The King's Speech. Because is it even worth it at this point? Drive Angry 3D Director: Patrick Lussier Starring: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner Good if you want to see: thes... / Continue →
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With Tom Hooper already taking home a the Directors Guild's award for Best Director, and possibly earning more trophies for both himself and The King's Speech on Sunday, the English filmmaker is in hot demand--and not just to make some more award-bait historical dramas, like yo... / Continue →
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Add Erik Van Looy to your studylist of directors who have remade their own work. Variety reports the Belgian director is attached to remake Loft--a film he already directed in 2008, and in Belgian--with Patrick Wilson and James Marsden in talks to star as two of a group of five... / Continue →
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So, here's the first look at James Franco in the latest entry to the uneven Planet of the Apes franchise, Rise of the Apes. He's looking pretty confident here pretending to do science, that's for certain, but the question I have is: Is his conspicuously-fit scientist more or le... / Continue →
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Speaking of bleak-looking films, About a Boy director Chris Weitz has taken a break from doing Golden Compasses and Twilights to return to less vampire/polar bear-driven fare with A Better Life, the tale of an illegal undocumented worker struggling to give his son A BETTER LIFE... / Continue →
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You wouldn't think footage consisting largely of bald-headed Zach Galifianakis, Tyson-tattooed Ed Helms, and Bradley Cooper-with-a-monkey-familiar strutting to Jay-Z would give off a sense of foreboding. But let me tell you, it kind of does. The Hangover 2 teaser trailer:... / Continue →
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After Clash of the Titans' murky, universally-hated post-production 3-D conversion made it the whipping boy for after-the-fact gimmickry, you were probably under the impression Warner Brothers would make sure not to repeat their mistake for the film's sequel, right? Well, that ... / Continue →
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We've been offered a few trailers for Greg Mottola's upcoming alien buddy comedy, Paul, before, but none of those included extra-terrestrial sexual molestation. This one does--both ways, I think!... / Continue →
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Warner Bros. does not love you, either, because they've decided to go ahead and remake their tale of forbidden diva-on-chaperon love, 1992's The Bodyguard. The original--first written by Lawrence Kasdan as a vehicle for Diana Ross and Steve McQueen--starred Whitney Houston as ... / Continue →
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- Terrence Malick's Tree of Life hasn't yet hit theaters and already there's a shot from the director's next film, a still-untitled romance with Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams. Do you think it takes place in an Andrew Wyeth painting, then? - Wolfgang Petersen is attached to di... / Continue →
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Bowie progeny Duncan Jones's sophomore effort, the Quantum Leap/12 Monkeys-ish Source Code, has a new trailer, giving us all one more chance to smugly declare that it's Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, general Amtrak negligence, or another party that blows up the plane. My b... / Continue →
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As Stephen Sommers preps his Ghost Whisperer-esque project, an Anton Yelchin-starring adaptation of Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas, fellow near-satisfactory director Chris Columbus is setting up his own "I see, and then assist, dead people" film under his 1492 banner. Deadline has ne... / Continue →
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Back in the days of watching Gerard Butler wearing a cape and screaming, who would have thought he'd one day become as much a mundane chick-flick fixture as his Ugly Truth co-star Katherine Heigl? Yet here we have it, the star of Bounty Hunter and P.S. I Love You in a romantic-... / Continue →
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Seeing that none of Mitchell Hurwitz's more recent television ventures to reach broadcast--Sit Down, Shut Up and Running Wilde--ever managed to capture the acclaim, or even the meager longevity, of his cherished modern classic, the Arrested Development creator has decided to go... / Continue →
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Last weekend's successful number one launch of Unknown proved it: everyone loves watching Liam Neeson on a mission, apparently. Taken wasn't a fluke, and the studios is demanding more of the genre--and, you know, they wouldn't mind some more awesome, end-of-the-world CGI shit, ... / Continue →
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Ready to get even more worried about the hypothetical Ghostbusters sequel? Then watch this trailer for Bad Teacher, written by the Ghostbusting script team--and writers of the exhausting Year One--Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg. In the film, Cameron Diaz plays a teacher, an... / Continue →
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- Ut oh, James Cameron: James Nguyen, director of the laughable cult hit Birdemic: Shock and Terror (evidence of what a "birdemic" looks like above), said in an interview he has "completely mastered the art of 3-D cinematography," which should make his planned 3-D sequel to Bir... / Continue →
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Hey, want to own a bunch of floundering video rental stores and untold boxes of bright teal "No More Late Fees" t-shirts? You're in luck! Says the Hollywood Reporter: Video rental firm Blockbuster said Monday it has initiated an auction process for the company with a $290 mill... / Continue →
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No reason to continue squandering brain-spit chewing on the idea of what a modern-day sequel to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial might look like. We've got it. This is it. These guys nailed it with this trailer for E.T.-X (aka E.T. Extinction). Spliced together from clips of Henry T... / Continue →
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Of all the apologies Charlie Sheen could make for his behavior, the actor has decided to start with Major League? Yuuuuup. Calling the series' third film an "abortion," the Two and a Half Men star has vowed to make reparations for abandoning the franchise after two movies, forc... / Continue →
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Hey, we may finally have someone to direct that Preacher movie! The comic book adaptation--a dark tale of a former preacher, his ex-girlfriend, and a stereotypically Irish (i.e. drinky) vampire on their hunt to literally find God--has now ended up in the hands of Disturbia's DJ... / Continue →
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Bad news, my Villistas: Johnny Depp won't be playing Pancho Villa anymore. Over a year ago, Depp was in talks to play the lead in director Emir Kusturica's awkwardly-titled biopic, Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman With Six Fingers, but he's now reportedly been forced... / Continue →
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If you're in the mood to be sold something by famous directors and celebrities, I've got two options for you today--boy flavor or girl flavor. Finally, commercials presented to you with the same demographic options as the Happy Meals with Hot Wheels or My Little Pony! First of... / Continue →
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While Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's daughter, Megan, has been throwing her trust fund at Paul Thomas Anderson so he can get some films made, the male Ellison heir, David, has less prestigious, nerdier productions in mind. He's reportedly negotiating for rights to a live-action ada... / Continue →
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Kevin Costner, an oil removal machine salesman and frontman for the country-rock outfit Kevin Costner & Modern West, is reportedly being considered for a part in Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman reboot. Deadline doesn't have much more in the way of concrete information, only des... / Continue →
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The rumors that Baz Luhrmann would eschew taste and make his adaptation of The Great Gatsby in 3-D seem to be true. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the director will begin production starting in August, with Australia's Sydney-based Fox Studios lot filling in for '20s New ... / Continue →
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When forced to deal with the crippling loss of one of your parents, sometimes the only way to get through it is to let an asshole metal enthusiast crash with you for a while, you know? At least I think that's the point of this trailer for newcomer Spencer Susser's Hesher, which... / Continue →
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During Sunday's broadcast of the Daytona 500, Paramount took advantage of the "yay, cars!" mentality overwhelming America during those four hours of Sisyphean oval-driving, airing a new 30-second spot for their own "yay, cars!" production, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. I gues... / Continue →
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Since the day man first dreamed of stepping foot on the moon, there has always loomed the terrifying possibility, "Whuh oh, what if there are some malevolent aliens up there waiting for us!?" Similarly, since the late '90s, the terrifying possibility has also loomed that someon... / Continue →
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The weekend box office, for you to paste into Excel: 1. Unknown - $21.7 million, because basically any time you let Liam Neeson run around being awesome, people are going to watch that. 2. I Am Number Four - $19.5 million. This apparent disinterest in super-powered alien teen... / Continue →
