April 17, 2011 - April 23, 2011 Archives
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- Oliver Stone has expanded the cast of his adaptation of The Savages, adding the suddenly ubiquitous Blake Lively and old co-workers Uma Thurman and John Travolta, giving us what will likely be our best Pulp Fiction reunion since Snakes on a Plane reunited Samuel L. Jackson an... / Continue →
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Looks like Zach Braff isn't the only one upset he rammed his car into some innocents. Another Earth's Brit Marling shares a similarly melodramatic tale of reckless driving, but with one big difference: she might have just the contrived science-fiction method to stop herself fro... / Continue →
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After an exhaustive search that included rattling off the names of pretty much every young actor in Hollywood (a list inclusive enough to note Paul Dano), and screen-testing the rest, Universal has decided on who next will carry the mantle of the Bourne franchise: Jeremy Renner... / Continue →
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Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happpy Family Director: Tyler Perry Starring: Tyler Perry, Loretta Devine, Old Spice, Fully-Grown Bow Wow Good if you want to see: Tyler Perry in a wig and fat suit, indiscriminately adding one hysterical letter to numerous words. Water for Elephants ... / Continue →
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30 Minutes or Less has a lot going for it: the much-in-demand director of Zombieland (who has since been handed the highly anticipated Gangster Squad), the recently Oscar-nominated Jesse Eisenberg, the generally entertaining presences of Aziz Ansari and Danny McBride, a stupidl... / Continue →
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If the last trailer for Richard Ayoade's Submarine didn't do anything for you, sorry to say, this new recipe trailer probably hasn't changed things up enough to get you interested. But if you, like me, were ready to ask this thing to prom, the preview has enough newness that yo... / Continue →
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This Green Lantern thing thankfully isn't entirely about selling audiences on Ryan Reynolds abs; Warner Bros. is reasonably proud of their film's Geoffrey Rush-voiced CGI freaks as well, and have released this new poster on Yahoo. Still, I wonder what disconcerting surprises hi... / Continue →
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In 1998's You've Got Mail, already-involved small bookstore owner Meg Ryan falls for her arch-rival, big chain bookstore owner Tom Hanks, because--thanks to the anonymity of their internet communication--she's unaware that he's secretly the bane of her existence. It turns out t... / Continue →
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Don't put your face on just yet, Coops: we've got problem with this The Crow remake, and not just that it's a generally bad idea that will rouse the already rightfully-angered soul of Brandon Lee. Relativity Media just last week added Bradley Cooper to the production, and they... / Continue →
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Diane Kruger and Kate Bosworth were in a tight race for the part, but in the end, nepotism won an easy victory in the competition for the latest part in Len Wiseman's Total Recall remake. Kate Beckinsale--who just happens to be Wiseman's wife, having hooked up in the darkness o... / Continue →
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Yes, it's exactly what it looks like. Married-with-children Jason Bateman switches bodies with single asshole Ryan Reynolds. Two of our most generally likable actors have been placed in the thoroughly unlikable position of taking the tired, married-guys-trying-to-act-single com... / Continue →
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Having found a way to take what should be a single story about a part in a film and painfully prolong it just as ably as she has the rest of her post-career relevancy, Lindsay Lohan has returned to her position of supposedly acting in Gotti: Three Generations, and will ostensib... / Continue →
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It's mostly been Dark Knight Rises news--what with its riveting updates on Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing "police guy", and some other guy also playing a cop--keeping us breathless lately, but there's another Batman film in development we should probably also be paying attention ... / Continue →
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- Here's a first look at sexy Jessica Alba poisoning an infant Spy Kid. - The vocally bipolar Catherine Zeta-Jones has been added to the cast of Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages adaptation. The director describes her character, who's been created specifically for the film, as "if ... / Continue →
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Director Baz Luhrmann's plan to put Ben Affleck in The Great Gatsby 3-D, finally delivering to us the three-dimensional Ben Affleck Armageddon so clearly deserved, just isn't going to work out. See, Affleck has been enjoying how much more respect he gets for being a serious dir... / Continue →
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Filmmaker and photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary Restrepo, has reportedly been killed in the midst of heavy fighting in the Libyan city of Misrata. He was 41. Details are still coming out on the tragedy, but photographer Andr... / Continue →
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With The Devil's Double, director Lee Tamahori goes a bit deeper than the sweet snowboarding shit he documented in xXx: State of the Union and takes a look at the true story of Latif Yahia, a man forced to be Saddam's son Uday Hussein's body double--which, if you couldn't guess... / Continue →
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In the teasers for J.J. Abrams' Super 8 thus far, it's been repeatedly shown that the impetus for the film's plot comes from the crash of a government train, giving something--presumably an ALF of some nature--the opportunity to bang its way out of its railcar prison and into a... / Continue →
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There's a new international trailer for X-Men: First Class and, like the last international trailer for the film, it might be worthwhile if you're interested in a few previously-unseen moving images of this film. We need something to form a premature opinion about, right?... / Continue →
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- Here's a first look at Christian Bale's American priest impression in the Chinese production Nanjing Heroes. He is already a way cooler minister than any bleached-haired guy who asks his teen congregation to have "a sitdown" to discuss the power of Christ.* - The Lost/Alias/... / Continue →
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Well, the rumors were half right. All those insiders and unnamed sources and obviousness staters who assured us Christopher Nolan would continue to cast The Dark Knight Rises from his Inception stable have been proved correct, with Warner Bros. today releasing a statement confi... / Continue →
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Making Gary Ross's Hunger Games a little more blonde, The Next Three Days star and 30 Rock regular Elizabeth Banks has been added to the adaptation of the Suzanne Collins post-apocalyptic young-adult novel. She joins the already cast Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam ... / Continue →
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Ensuring the Fast/Furious series will maintain voice continuity in more than just the sense of keeping Vin Diesel's drone, Universal has hired Chris Morgan--writer of the last three chapters of Fasting and Furiousing, as well as the scripts for Wanted and Cellular--to a two-yea... / Continue →
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I'm guessing the only difference between this and the real Monopoly movie we're supposedly getting will be a $50 million opening weekend and Bradley Cooper.... / Continue →
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See? It's like the old X-Men movies! Except now there's a particularly large-headed and coquettish James McAvoy. New X-Men: First Class One Sheet [Empire]... / Continue →
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If your preferred way of exploring racial inequality in the 1960s American South is through TV movie-level inspirational melodrama, here's a treat for you. In The Help, you'll learn about the historical plight of the African-American hired help, a group of strong women who cook... / Continue →
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If all the abdominal flashing in the trailer for the romantic-comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love wasn't enough of a clue that Ryan Gosling might be ready to trade in some indie credits for actual American dollars, this should make it more apparent: the actor, who's already agreed to pu... / Continue →
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- Last Monday, it sounded like Let Me In director Matt Reeves was doing a They Lives remake, but now it seems he might instead be doing an adaptation of The Passage. "Is that inevitably something about vampires," you ask? Yes, of course it is. - Winona Ryder and the ubiquitous... / Continue →
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Well, Shark Night 3D didn't get director David R. Ellis's idiotic proposed title change, but it is still scheduled for a September release, so Relativity has sent out this photo of stars Sara Paxton and Shark to start promoting this goddammer. Is it the underwater trenchcoat's ... / Continue →
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While we're talking about HBO stuff, also on the network's upcoming lineup is Luck, Michael Mann and writer David Milch's show about the drama behind the world of horseracing, and a new behind-the-scenes featurette has just given us a first look at scenes from the Dustin Hoffma... / Continue →
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A new political comedy from the brilliant writer/director of In the Loop and starring actors from two of the modern world's greatest sitcoms (plus, Girl from My Girl)? Alright, HBO, you got me. I will lie with that beast. The network has confirmed that they've picked up The Th... / Continue →
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Yeah, it was cute to play family-friendly doing a CGI gnome voice for Gnomeo & Juliet, but deep down, like the stock character he endlessly plays, Jason Statham always knew he'd have to return to the world of crime and fucking dudes up, and thusly he's signed to star as the tit... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Rio - $40 million. There's now a 85% higher chance that the next time you ask what the awful noises coming from someone's den are, the answer will be a regretful, "We thought we'd get a pet bird..." 2. Scream 4 - $19.3 million. No Jamie Kennedy? No... / Continue →
