March 6, 2011 - March 12, 2011 Archives
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- MGM has hired Josh Zetumer to write that RoboCop reboot we're all clamoring for. Zetumer has written industry-popular though unproduced scripts for a Dune remake and a fourth Bourne film but has no actual feature credits in his Internet Movie Database, and already he's "the a... / Continue →
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Considering what's just happened in Japan and the surrounding regions, there probably couldn't be a much worse time than now to make a movie about a terrible disaster rising up from the Pacific to assault the people of Nippon. Unfortunately, it sounds like that's exactly what G... / Continue →
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These are the new movies I was speaking of: Battle: Los Angeles Director: Jonathan Liebesman Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan Good if you want to see: army guys fighting some alien guys. Red Riding Hood Director: Catherine Hardwicke Starring: Aman... / Continue →
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While J.J. Abrams has been busy making a film so Spielbergian it will probably birth a World War II drama, Spielberg himself has been working on an adaptation of War Horse, the children's book-turned-stageplay about a special boy-horse relationship that will not make you vomit.... / Continue →
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Those looking for assurance Smurfs will--like its cartoons-in-the-real-world brethren--unnecessarily sexualize its characters and include reference to bodily discharge in the mouth, look no further! Director Raja Gosnell has delivered just such a monster, and he's done so with ... / Continue →
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If you're a fan of Spielberg's old supernatural-things-happening-to-average-suburban-family films, or of astounded faces and flickering lights lending shots an air of epilepsy-inducing wonderment, this trailer for J.J. Abrams' Super 8 is for you. There's an alien escaped from t... / Continue →
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We'll get back to normal updates tomorrow, but in the meantime have these things: - Nickelodeon's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are probably immune to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. - CBS Films has acquired rights to the Coen Brothers-scripted, Colin Firth/Cameron Diaz-starring r... / Continue →
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Are you ready to see 50 Cent in what this trailer calls "the most critically-acclaimed role of his career" (even better than his self-directed acting in Before I Self Destruct, apparently, despite critics not actually acclaiming this yet)? Then absorb this trailer for Things Fa... / Continue →
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I'm still on partial vacation until Friday, but let's try to catch up on some things. OK? - JustJared has the first look at Brad Pitt on the set of Cogan's Trade. He looks like the kind of guy who wouldn't pay you back money he borrowed. - That news about Trent Reznor having ... / Continue →
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I'm sorry, but this is not a poster for a movie. This is a high school yearbook memorial page for the wheelchair kid who died. Below the cut: the companion poster, which foreshadows that a man in a cape is pregnant with Michael Fassbender.... / Continue →
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Sounds like Guillermo del Toro's long-delayed passion project, an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, is going to have to wait a little longer. Word from Deadline is that, despite the involvement of producer James Cameron and potential star Tom Cruise, U... / Continue →
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With Ridley Scott preparing his not-quite-an-Alien-prequel, Prometheus, and Alcon Entertainment hoping to bleed Blade Runner for all its worth, MTV News figured this would be a good time to ask Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner if Scott is still going to make that supposedly Blade Runne... / Continue →
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Today is International Women's Day--an event described on the official site as "a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future"--and what better way to celebrate the empowerment of womankind than with a short video in ... / Continue →
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Japan sure is weird if you're American, and are also a tow truck voiced by the voice Larry the Cable Guy, am I right, Larry the Cable Guy the Tow Truck? YES, he responds in this new Cars 2 trailer, using that voice he affects to let me know he probably drinks too many Budweiser... / Continue →
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It's the French Thor trailer, guys: perfect for if you want to see every bit of footage you can, no matter the language its presented in. Also good if you want to pretend Thor is an quirky French romantic-comedy about a clumsy, bumbling suitor who finds confidence only by retre... / Continue →
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With learning computer-cum-bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger having completed his duty serving California, the governor is returning to what he's long-considered "acting"--to make back some of that $200 million he lost while in office--and has reportedly been considering his co... / Continue →
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Good news, old, stubborn men living in a house amidst rising urban construction: it turns out attaching helium balloons to your house is an effective means of escape. The National Geographic Channel's upcoming series How Hard Can it Be? attached 300 eight-foot weather balloons ... / Continue →
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We've known for a few weeks now that Shane Black would be directing Iron Man 3, but the question had remained if Black--better known for his action-comedy screenwriting than his directing prowess--would be doing the script, and if said script would involve two guys in iron suit... / Continue →
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The weekend's top five: 1. Rango - $38 million--a healthy showing bolstered by family attendance and the reptilian shadow government's continued stream of subconscious imagery that makes us more confident seeing lizards in positions of official power. 2. The Adjustment Bureau... / Continue →
