May 1, 2011 - May 7, 2011 Archives
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- Here's the first still from Disney-Pixar's upcoming short La Luna. Sorry, films competing against this in the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film category. - Matt Damon will likely star in and make his feature directorial debut with Father Daughter Time: A Tale of Arm... / Continue →
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The whole thing with X-Men: First Class is supposed to be all, "Hey, guys, have a look at these X-Men as younger X-Men," but it looks like we're getting that in spades with at least a few of the film's characters. Previous trailers have already revealed prepubescent Magneto, an... / Continue →
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If you didn't know, DreamWorks' Puss in Boots is more than just a way to extend the cashflow from Shrek for a few more years: it's another Desperado reunion as well, bringing Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek together again outside the watchful eye of chaperone Robert Rodriguez.... / Continue →
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A couple months ago, when it was rumored that Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix were the group of actors in contention to play Kaneda in Warner Bros.' Akira adaptation, the reaction was strong. More specifically, it was, "Ha... / Continue →
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Following the "pile on the couples" rom-com mindset popularized by the likes of Love Actually and Valentine's Day, Lionsgate's plan for adapting the bestselling book What To Expect When You're Expecting is to assault audiences with five different expecting couples (begrudgingly... / Continue →
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If the sudden ubiquity of Jeremy Renner is any indication, getting a good part in a Kathryn Bigelow military film can be just the thing to propel a career from virtual unknown to a name that comes up before Jeremy Irons when you type "Jeremy" into IMDb. Good news, then, for Joe... / Continue →
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Your new releases: Thor Director: Kenneth Branagh Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins Good if you want to see: the comic book guy with the hammer. Something Borrowed Director: Luke Greenfield Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, John Krasinski Goo... / Continue →
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With Steven Spielberg's long-awaited Abe Lincoln biopic readied for a fall shoot in Virginia, DreamWorks today released a statement revealing who all will be putting on old fashioney suits for this thing, and boy does this thing have a cast on it. In the part of Pennsylvania R... / Continue →
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Spring is here, and as Brendan Fraser slowly emerges from his slumber, the sight of a fresh, dense growth of his movie-making hair tells us we can expect a lot of warm-weather activity from that cheery fellow. Deadline has news on just what a busy little guy he'll be, reporting... / Continue →
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"Who are these X-Man people?" you ask? Here, Mom, these videos will sort of explain a few of them for you--and the trailers also have a lot of new footage for the nerd in-the-know. EVERYBODY WINS.... / Continue →
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Ryan Reynolds' war of attrition has taken its toll, and a mopey Bradley Cooper seems to be sulking away from the arrogant-handsome-wiseass battlefield, headed for mopier landscapes more suited to his dejection. He's already got a remake of The Crow coming up to kick off his new... / Continue →
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Well, I hope you weren't too excited about the next Terminator film being a big reunion party for the "entire original cast." Fast Five director Justin Lin, the man charged with somehow delivering us a fifth Terminator that will not make us laugh at how this Terminatorbot has b... / Continue →
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When you hire Marcus Nispel, the director of the reboots of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, to remake something, you shouldn't be too surprised when the result is a dimly-lit recreation that neither does justice to the original nor particularly offends it. He is th... / Continue →
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Unbeknownst to those of us non-Gleeks (or at least to me), the cast of Glee is currently on tour performing their hits--and, more often, the hits of other, better performers--to sold-out crowds of people who really like real Broadway-style karaoke sung by fake teenagers. But if... / Continue →
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When Martha Marcy May Marlene arrived at Sundance early this year, big buzz quickly formed around the picture--particularly on two big newcomers: writer-director Sean Durkin and actress Elizabeth Olsen, a bonus, younger Olsen we'd been saving in case anything were to happen to ... / Continue →
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Set for November, Adam Sandler's next film is a comedy called Jack and Jill, which stars Sandler as both an average man and his outlandish twin sister from the Bronx. After what must have been an exhausting about of time in the wig chair, a lot of hammy comic actors might take ... / Continue →
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Missing the whole respected-indie-people-adapting-children's-books thing by just a couple years, The Kids Are All Right writer/director Lisa Cholodenko is reportedly in talks to direct a live-action adaptation of Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Ve... / Continue →
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Warner's last minute thought that mayyyyybe they should start promoting next month's Green Lantern release, instead of just discreetly slipping it out there and seeing how it goes, has already resulted in one new, CGI-filled trailer. Now there's another that shows off even more... / Continue →
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Warner Bros. today has announced an agreement to acquire Flixster, the "movie discovery application" that apparently over 25 million people use worldwide to feel that "eureka!" moment of true "movie discovery" that's been so lacking from just seeing a trailer online, or hearing... / Continue →
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As an outsider looking in at the beseechingly straight-to-video trailer for the Bruce Willis/50 Cent vehicle The Setup, you'd honestly think the two would be eager to leave that painful experience behind them and return to acting in some of the world's biggest action films and ... / Continue →
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Reasserting that Sam Raimi's definition of "witch" means "big-eyed, pouty-lipped, vampish brunette who you MIGHT guess is, like, Persian, maybe," Rachel Weisz has been added as a second witch to the director's Oz: The Great and Powerful. She'll be playing Evanora, a witch of th... / Continue →
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Remember what a good job Hugh Jackman did shouting at boxing robots in the trailer for Shawn Levy's ridiculous Real Steel? Hey, so does Shawn Levy--so much so that he'd like Jackman to take part in a little more laughable science-fiction with him. The director reportedly has Ja... / Continue →
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It's been almost five years since the Weinsteins first brought up remaking Seven Samurai, but they have not forgotten their promise to do what The Magnificient Seven already did, only worse. The studio has hired The Tournament director Scott Mann to get right to work on this pr... / Continue →
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Twilight may be the Stephenie Meyer series that gets the bulk of your tattoo focus, but it's apparently not her only brainchild we're going to be seeing represented in theaters. Andrew Niccol has written an adaptation of Meyer's non-vampirey The Host, and Hanna star Saoirse Ron... / Continue →
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Since director Nick Cassavetes abandoned duties on Gotti: Three Generation--coincidentally leaving around the time someone decided Lindsay Lohan should be in it--Fiore Films has been looking for someone to director their "new Godfather", and they may have just found someone pre... / Continue →
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Print journalism may be dying--overtaken more and more by a mix of new digital media and people just trusting their hunches about what's going on around them, because reading is sort of a hassle--but for now The New York Times forges on, standing proudly as a trusted periodical... / Continue →
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Force a man to jump off a building under the threat that you'll kill Aerosmith's daughter: It's the Christian way to exact revenge! Or so says The Ledge, at least. In the film, Charlie Hunman stars as the man on the titular Ledge, apparently forced there by a vindictive Patrick... / Continue →
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In a decision that will likely result in the most romantic explosion-filled Milla Jovovich film to date, erstwhile Resident Evil-maker Paul W. S. Anderson has agreed to direct the big-budget disaster-romance Pompeii for Constantin Film and Summit Entertainment. The script, from... / Continue →
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Bridesmaids still has a week-and-a-half before arriving in theaters, but already it's been decided that we need another update about how funny wedding women are. To that end, Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, Adam Scott, and Casey Wilson have joined Bachelorettes, an indie comedy wr... / Continue →
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Focus Features has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Wes Anderson's latest, Moonrise Kingdom, and have released an official description of the film to accompany that announcement. You can already see the carefully constructed, slightly offbeat period uniforms!: Set on ... / Continue →
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- The rumor that Larry David was in talks to join The Three Stooges has ended up being a reality, and he's closing a deal to cross-dress and play a nun named Mother Mengele. I suppose that makes at least as much sense as the rest of the casting. - Guy Pearce has been confirmed... / Continue →
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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Bradley Cooper-starring The Crow remake may be what's getting all the attention and lawsuits lately, but that isn't the next project we'll be seeing from the Spanish filmmaker. That honor goes to Intruders, a Clive Owen horror-thriller that seems to ... / Continue →
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Call me crazy, but I'm not so sure this guy with all the Adam's Apples is really a 16-year-old kid. Andrew Garfield Goes Skateboarding As Spider-Man [Splash] (via)... / Continue →
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Last week, The Hobbit took a hit to its dwarf population with the departure of actor Robert Kazinsky, but today director Peter Jackson has recovered handily, replacing that actor and adding elf royalty to his cast, as well. According to the film's Facebook, New Zealand actor De... / Continue →
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In the wake of last night's huge reveal that Osama bin Laden has been killed, you had to figure Hollywood would be at least as quick to make some money off this story as they were to get a royal wedding movie going last week. Lucky for the studios, they've got a head start, fin... / Continue →
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Various sources are reporting that Quentin Tarantino's latest script is completed, and the title Django Unchained is scrawled-out on its face, declaring this thing totally unchained, guys. Those who have seen the script say it's also reference to Tarantino's long talked-about p... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Fast Five - $83.6 million, setting records for biggest opening of the year, biggest April release, and biggest opening ever for Universal. So more than one big, long-awaited victory for America this weekend. 2. Rio - $14.4 million. Cars have again ... / Continue →
