May 22, 2011 - May 28, 2011 Archives
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- Jeff Conaway--known best for prominent roles in Grease, Taxi, and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew--died today after spending two weeks in a medically-induced coma. He was 60. - Orlando Bloom's previously-rumored part in The Hobbit has been confirmed by Peter Jackson. He'll be ... / Continue →
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Finally, an indie dramedy in which the thin, white, relatively well-to-do 20-something at its center has a reason to be all whiney and despondent: he's got cancer! Written by and based on the experiences of actual 27-year-old cancer survivor/Seth Rogen friend Will Reiser, 50/50... / Continue →
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With the trailer for the dark comedy Salvation Boulevard, I promised you a second The Matador re-teaming was imminent--and I DO NOT jest about Greg Kinnear/Pierce Brosnan team-ups. So here it is: I Don't Know How She Does It. While Kinnear and Brosnan do make appearances as hus... / Continue →
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Yogi Bear only opened to a disappointing $16.4 million weekend when it was released last December, but somehow--thanks to persistence, the ineffectiveness of dismal reviews, and not-so-subliminal advertising--the $80 million film managed to make $100 million over its run, and a... / Continue →
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Deadline reports that Zach Braff will be donating his hangdog pout to Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful, with the actor in final talks to play a character named "Frank." Though it seemed the film's casting had been pretty much wrapped up with the addition of Michelle Willi... / Continue →
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Back in March, when the Mr. Popper's Penguins trailer came out, it all seemed so cut and dry: if you wanted to see CGI penguins perform a choreographed dance to a dated song, THAT was your movie. Not the case! It turns out Happy Feet Two also offers this luxury:... / Continue →
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Some things coming to theaters: The Hangover, Part II Director: Todd Phillips Starring: Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong Good if you want to see: The Hangover again, but in Thailand. Like how Home Alone 2 was in New York. Kung Fu Panda 2 Director: Jennif... / Continue →
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So, remember how Book of Eli director Albert Hughes was supposed to be making an Akira adaptation with 40-year-olds, and David O. Russell was making a completely out-of-character video game adaptation with Drake's Fortune? Well, forget all that, because it isn't happening anymo... / Continue →
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The "Muppet domination" promised in Monday's Muppets teaser apparently refers mostly to spoof trailers, because today there's another preview and, while the last one presented itself as a mock romantic-comedy, this one is an obvious nod to The Hangover, Part II's first teaser. ... / Continue →
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If you thought January Jones's push-up bra and miniskirt still seemed too much like actual clothes for anyone's good, then how about these new photos of the actress in her other X-Men: First Class costumes? Like the costume that is actual lingerie she walks around in. This movi... / Continue →
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Like a little infant-like freak maintaining an attachment to humanity only through his conjoined relationship with actor Marshall Bell, Len Wiseman's Total Recall remake is drifting farther and farther into the territory of gross mutation, only vaguely recognizable by the name ... / Continue →
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With all the talk of release date battles and sudden, overriding presence of Huntsmen, I haven't even considered the possibility any of the Snow White films in development were still bothering to put dwarves in this thing. Well, it turns out at least one of them will, as Relati... / Continue →
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In April, Alan Rickman wrote this open letter, published in Empire, reflecting on his time on the Harry Potter series and thanking J. K. "Jo" Rowling for inventing and telling this vast story. It's a pretty nice little dedication--so long as you don't read it in the voice of Ri... / Continue →
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Alright, all you would-be The Wolverine directors, you all can stop calling Fox to make sure they got your résumé. Unless your name is José Padilha (Elite Squad), Doug Liman (Jumper), Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), Mark Romanek (Never Let Me Go), Justin Lin (Fast Five), Gavin O'... / Continue →
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Ah, what would the indie movie scene be without a steady stream of films about neglectful, well-to-do fathers belatedly redeeming themselves to their children and themselves? Our latest comes from Alexander Payne, who's at last re-emerged from a seven-year feature hiatus to bri... / Continue →
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These intolerable college kids just wanted a break from their studies! They just wanted to spend some time on a lake, taking their shirts off and engaging in forgettable dialogues that a screenwriter thought sounded just like how real people talk! They couldn't know there would... / Continue →
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Sex and Zen 3D: Extreme Ecstasy, a Chinese film that got some press earlier this year for being "the world's first 3D erotic film," and for being the first film to top Avatar's opening day gross in horny Hong Kong, is coming to North America, thanks to China Lion Film Distribut... / Continue →
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Alright, Raja Gosnell. I know you're the director responsible for Big Momma's House, both Scooby-Doo films, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and therefore I should not expect a lot from a live-action adaptation of The Smurfs guided by your forceful hand on its lower back, leading i... / Continue →
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What an exciting day in release dates, guys! First we learned Brothers Grimm: Snow White will be coming out a few months earlier, and now comes word from Disney that Sam Raimi's 3-D debut, Oz: The Great and Powerful, will hit theaters March 8, 2013. Jot it down. James Franco (... / Continue →
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If you thought Universal moving Snow White and the Huntsman up six months to get out before Relativity's The Brothers Grimm: Snow White was the last you'd be hearing about that battle you never really cared about in the first place, I'm afraid that's not the case. In response t... / Continue →
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For years, Vin Diesel has made vocal his desire to reprise his role as Riddick in a minimum of one more film, last year alone describing to us plans for a new movie with several degrees of Dieselmuscle and tragically deformed bison. Already, though, times have changed for Vin: ... / Continue →
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There's something sort of ballsy about eschewing the Twilight poster norm--you know, showing off how glittery and muscular Hair Vampire and Ab Werewolf are, respectively--and going with something a little less blatant. At the same time, there's something sort of incredibly lazy... / Continue →
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- After eight films, everyone in the Harry Potter is fucking filthy as shit. - RT Features has signed Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn to adapt Peter Ackroyd's The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein for screens, marking at least the fifth Frankenstein project in dev... / Continue →
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If the 2005 comedy The Matador left you super horny for more murderous Pierce Brosnan on Greg Kinnear action, 2011 is going to be a great year for your sensation center, with TWO films re-teaming Brosnan and Kinnear in the next four months. In September comes I Don't Know How S... / Continue →
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Unless you count his short segment in Paris, Je T'Aime or his draft of the I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, we haven't seen anything from Alexander Payne in theaters since his well-received 2004 comedy Sideways. The director will finally make his return this December with The... / Continue →
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I figured we'd be about done with the Hunger Games cast at this point--what with how we've already got Jennfer Lawrence putting on her wood elf costume, and a release date set for next March--and yet, still it grows, today adding Lenny Kravitz and Toby Jones. Kravitz--whose pr... / Continue →
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WALL-E and Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton's live-action debut now has a briefer, less interesting title, Walt Disney has announced. The Taylor Kitsch-starring film, about a Civil War veteran's misadventures on the Red Planet, had previously been in production under the ti... / Continue →
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Rogue Media has just released the first poster for Shark Night 3D, and, like the first image from Shark Night 3D, it's only making us two promises: there will be one or more girls in a bikini, and there will be a shark. Fair enough, Shark Night 3D. You run on a simple platform ... / Continue →
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What do you get when you take the re-emergence of the body-switching comedy, the timeless popularity of talking CGI pets, and studio executives' continued obliviousness to the modern connotations of the word "furry," then hand that over as a stack of notes to the co-writer of P... / Continue →
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Well, despite the existence of this hilarious novelty item that allows one man to effectively play all three stooges at once, the Farrelly Brothers have gone ahead and cast three separate guys to play the buffoonish trio, and have dressed them up in little wigs to make a Three ... / Continue →
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Well, we can now add another Little Mermaid to our abundance of stockpiled Snow Whites, Wizards of Oz, Peter Pans, Hansels and Gretels. While Working Title and Hanna director Joe Wright have had a dark, live-action adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen planned for going on ... / Continue →
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If you still have any lingering questions about Michael Shannon's acting ability before he plays the ever-important part of dude Superman fights, have a look at his work here in this trailer for Take Shelter and rest assured. Shannon's part is basically "guy really freaking out... / Continue →
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He sure is! Following in the "why is this guy in Batman?" footsteps of The Dark Knight's Anthony Michael Hall and Eric Roberts, Matthew Modine has been cast in the latest chapter of Christopher Nolan's superhero franchise, and will be playing a character only described as "Nixo... / Continue →
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You've waited this long to see what writer/star Jason Segel et al. have prepared for our first legitimate Muppet film in over a decade; can you wait a bit little longer, and slog through a minute of fake romantic-comedy trailer? So asks the first teaser for The Muppets, which a... / Continue →
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From ComingSoon, here's the first poster for Shawn Levy's Real Steel. It's a robot arm in a boxing ring. Because Shawn Levy made this movie, and it's about Hugh Jackman training a robot to box other robots.... / Continue →
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Not a ton of new stuff in this trailer, but with extremely detailed narration from Geoffrey Rush, this is definitely the one to show family and friends confused by this Lantern Man's complicated mythology. His urbane manner makes all the stuff about special colors and magic jew... / Continue →
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Mushy-skulled parodists Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have made themselves a two-man factory dealing solely in the manufacture of lazy, slapdash spoof comedy. Together, they've haphazardly assembled references into no less than seven scripts, themselves co-directing five of... / Continue →
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While Jay Leno's 2010 return to The Tonight Show gave a nation's dads back their Headlines to fall asleep to, NBC's fickleness created a media fiasco and left Conan O'Brien without a job and unable to work on television for nearly a year. In the face of such adversity, O'Brien-... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - $90.1 million, a huge take but also a big underperformance for the series. Perhaps the Jack Sparrow character has finally worn out his welcome after four films and multiple appearances at every Halloween... / Continue →
