April 10, 2011 - April 16, 2011 Archives
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- Though Mark Wahlberg already has half-a-dozen films or so on his schedule, he's added a couple more projects to produce and possibly star in: the mob lawyer drama When Corruption Was King and a reboot of the '70s Billy Jack series. I'm just trying to think if Wahlberg would b... / Continue →
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From the Daily Mail, here's our first look at Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Killer: a shot of Ewan McGregor and Eddie Marsen on the British countryside. Can YOU calculate their Armor Class? (via)... / Continue →
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Robert Zemeckis has some free time now that Disney told him they're not going to pay for him to make a horrifying version of Yellow Submarine, and according to the Hollywood Reporter, the producer/director has figured out just the thing. Coming off the spectacular failure of M... / Continue →
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As a little bonus to add to yesterday's treat of a full trailer for Abduction--a riveting two-and-a-half minutes of slack-jawed action punctuated with a particularly thought-provoking aphorism--JustJared has now premiered the film's poster, a colorless driver's license photo th... / Continue →
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Well, here's a weird thing: some sort of Spanish-language telenovela parody starring Will Ferrell, along with the male cast of Y Tu Mamá También. So you'd better watch yourself, mustached guy on Telemundo who comically dresses up like a schoolchild: you might be losing your rep... / Continue →
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Last night, a new trailer for Jon Favreau's first post-Iron Man addition to our summer blockbuster compendium, Cowboys & Aliens, debuted during American Idol, presenting Mom with a combination of two disparate elements that made her at last declare she'd finally seen everything... / Continue →
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- Do you like lens flares? Then check out these Hangover, Part II character banners. They're rife with them! - That ridiculous looking, Hugh Jackman-starring boxing robot movie, Real Steel, doesn't come out until October, but already DreamWorks has commissioned a sequel script... / Continue →
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"I want to watch a Jim Carrey movie," demands the Jim Carrey fan in your household! "I want to watch a bird movie," demand birds! Try both, you knuckleheads! Mr. Popper's Penguins. It's a debate ender. (From Entertainment Weekly.)... / Continue →
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Proof that the long-troubled production on The Hobbit has finally gotten going, director Peter Jackson has put up a ten-minute video blog--the first in what will be a series--showing the actors and crew coming together to shoot this son of a bitch. Of all the times a disheveled... / Continue →
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Oh, how quickly Emily Browning has somehow been typecast, going straight from the strange, dangerous brothel of Sucker Punch and into another, this time in Sleeping Beauty, playing a girl caught up in a bizarre prostitution service that delivers old guys the beautiful, sometime... / Continue →
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News from seemingly over a decade ago arrived today, with word red-hot redneck comedian Jeff Foxworthy will be given a shot on the big screen, making his on-screen film debut in the sports comedy Crackerjack. The film stars Wes Murphy as a southern slacker coping with the timel... / Continue →
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Just in case you don't think dismal reviews and a laughable catalog of increasingly poor films is enough of a sadness legacy for Hollywood whipping boy M. Night Shyamalan, there's now a new way to toss a little "fuck you" over Manoj's way. Some guys have set up a site to send h... / Continue →
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Ready for the least convincing delivery of the "not if I find you first" cliché ever recorded? Well, here it is, in the first starring vehicle for our supposed newest young action hero, Twilight werewolf Taylor Lautner. Even when his participation in school athletics and party... / Continue →
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You made the apes too smart, James Franco! Now they're getting off on sneaking into residences and silently observing the blissful sleep of a loving couple--LIKE WE DO. Watch our greatest modern Renaissance man create the hyper-intelligent ape species that will eventually hold... / Continue →
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- There's also a trailer to go along with this poster, but it sort of seemed superfluous after this image summed it all up so well. - Adding to a cast that already has Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, and Penelope Cruz, Woody Allen's next, Rome-based film will reportedly also in... / Continue →
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Perhaps, by now, you've watched the awkward trailer, read some of abysmal TIFF reviews, or taken the hint from its brief, three-week theater-to-DVD release window and thought to yourself, "You know, this Passion Play might not be such a great investment of my time." But why rel... / Continue →
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If last year's report that John Davis--the Fox-based producer behind Alien Vs. Predator and I, Robot--was taking on an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles still has you down, I've got some good news: Fox isn't going to make that, after all! Unfortunately, that's... / Continue →
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While Universal didn't think giving Guillermo del Toro $150 million to make an R-rated, Tom Cruise-starring H.P. Lovecraft adaptation was a good idea at all, that taste of spending a ton of money on a Tom Cruise tentpole is a flavor they just can't shake, and the studio seems t... / Continue →
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Now that we've cast all our Banes and Catwomen and all that, you may think we'd be running out of major casting announcements for The Dark Knight Rises. Not the case! Have you forgotten the crucial role of "rookie cop who is looking to make a difference"? Someone has to make a ... / Continue →
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As Relativity Media continues to try to get their misguided The Crow remake going, they're reportedly now looking at adding the dark, gothic presence of Bradley Cooper in the title role. According to Heat Vision, the studio is in talks with the Limitless star to take on the rol... / Continue →
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- Just like the Avatars, The Hobbit films are being shot at 48 frames per second, and director Peter Jackson has taken to Facebook to both justify and praise the process. Curiously, he never addresses my suspicions about something I call "Frame Madness"... - So you know how we... / Continue →
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Legion Director Scott Stewart underwhelmed us with one tale of Paul Bettany being a Christian-themed action star, but, not one to give up on conquering such a ridiculously specific niche market, he's going to give it another shot with Priest. This time Bettany plays a priest, n... / Continue →
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I'm still not entirely sure how going back in time to the 1960s sends us to a Tommy Lee Jones still in his mid-40s--and considering all the script rewrites, maybe no one is entirely sure how that works out--but I have to admit, it looks like it was pretty genius casting Josh Br... / Continue →
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As Woody Allen continues to unlock neuroses achievements in all the major European markets, he'll next be heading to Italy to shoot a still-untitled talkie on the street of Rome, and two actors are already getting lined up to play facets of the Allen psyche. According to Deadli... / Continue →
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Of all the points of contention I could see coming up with Martin Campbell's Green Lantern, I never once thought the costume's toe definition could ever possibly be an issue. Yet here we are, with what I think is our first clear full-body shots of Ryan Reynolds' complete CGI co... / Continue →
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We've got Jason Biggs and Seann William Scott signed, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Chris Klein, Mena Suvari, and Jennifer Coolidge were in talks a month ago, and Eugene Levy, of course, has a faustian pact whereby appearing on American Pie DVD covers rids him of the shame of... / Continue →
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"This Superman thing--it's ridiculous," says our new Zod, Michael Shannon, speaking to a crowd at RiverRun 2011. We're sure it will be, Mike, but can you tell us how you ended up with the part, what Zack Snyder's screen testing was like, and if you had "chemistry" with Superman... / Continue →
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- Let Me In director Matt Reeves is adapting a new take on the Ray Nelson short story 8 O'Clock in the Morning that he says will be less of a satire than John Carpenter's 1988 adaptation, They Live. I fear that means less of a Rowdy Roddy Piper vehicle, also. - Blur Studio vis... / Continue →
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The horror-loving luddite community's hope for a less technologically demanding The Ring is here: now a scary ghost lady emerges from a zoetrope! Or maybe she's just behind it, being scary. Either way, dapper Daniel Radcliffe is none too pleased that his amusement over primitiv... / Continue →
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I suppose news about a gangsta rapper-turned-producer of the TBS sitcom Are We There Yet? selling out isn't exactly a shocking revelation, but if you were hoping that Ice Cube might return to the anti-establishment soon, it doesn't sound like that's going to be the case. Instea... / Continue →
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Fox has already teased the impressive Francoscience in their franchise prequel, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (née Rise of the Apes), but if shots of James Franco wearing enormous Bluetooth headsets isn't your thing, WETA today posted a brief clip of some of their effects work... / Continue →
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When you've got Bill Murray and Mickey Rourke sharing scenes in your film, how can you go wrong? Add some Megan Fox acting, and trap some prosthetic angel wings on her, you say? Apparently so, because reviews for Mitch Glazer's Passion Play have not been kind, and despite its s... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: [UPDATE: whups, turns out Hanna beat Arthur too.] 1. Hop - $21.7 million. Expect the film's box office success to continue into Easter, after which seeing it no longer counts as going to church. 3. Hanna - $12.3 million. America's desire to watch a c... / Continue →
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Prepare to face a haunting bug-eyed glare, Superman. Just as rumor foretold, Boardwalk Empire's Michael Shannon will indeed be the villain in Zack Snyder's Superman reboot, and the official press release reveals that vilain will be General Zod, the evil Kryptonian previously po... / Continue →
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Some sad news from the weekend: legendary director Sidney Lumet died of lymphoma in his Manhattan home on Saturday. He was 86. His esteemed catalog included films like 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict, and Serpico, and though the Academy still wouldn't give him an d... / Continue →
