May 29, 2011 - June 4, 2011 Archives
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After a five film series, a remake, a television show and a cartoon series, finally, a Planet of the Apes film that abandons all the cool advanced ape-based society parts, instead seemingly constructing a film out of 70% laboratory squabbling with James Franco, 20% CGI chimp gl... / Continue →
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- Ryan Gosling is going to be so busy being a pro-motorcyclist-turned-criminal, Logan, and in a Gangster Squad that he no longer has time to direct and star in MGM's remake of The Idolmaker. What, does James Franco need to come in and take care of this for you, Gosling? - Matt... / Continue →
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Michael Bay knows what he likes (unconvincing actresses that look like sex dolls, the sensation of staring into a blender, kabooms), but when it comes to what other people are looking to see in his films, he still doesn't really have a clue. God knows he's trying, though. If yo... / Continue →
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Ut oh. Someone let military uniforms, muted colors, handheld camera, and David Strathairn loiter around a film crew too long, and now we've got another political thriller we're going to have to distribute this summer. This one stars Rachel Weisz as an American peacekeeper, sta... / Continue →
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Bringing together our top brunette sitcom crushes of the last couple years, director Mike Mohan has cast Party Down's Lizzy Caplan and Community's Alison Brie in his upcoming indie romantic comedy, Save the Date. Those hoping the two might kiss will be disappointed to learn the... / Continue →
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As always, check your local listings for times, because I haven't even listed any. X-Men: First Class Director: Matthew Vaughn Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence Good if you want to see: an X-Men film that finally involves Kevin Bacon and the Kennedy... / Continue →
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- Even posthumously, Leslie Nielsen loves a good fart gag. (via) - Platinum, the studio behind Cowboys & Aliens, will make Alien at Large its next comic adaptation that also has aliens in it again. - MGM has officially given the next Bond film a November 9, 2012 release date,... / Continue →
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And that's what it would have looked like if the '40s spawned anti-pedophilia propaganda.... / Continue →
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Since at least 2008, Warner Bros. has been hopelessly attempting to relaunch a Tarzan franchise--first hiring Stephen Sommers to direct the thing, and more recently taking the time-honored approach of throwing shit at a wall, hiring two writers to simultaneously bust out script... / Continue →
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Like a handsome, aryan ouroboros, Bradley Cooper will chase Ryan Gosling in Derek Cianfrance's crime-drama follow-up to Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines. Before he gets around to playing Lucifer or The Crow, Cooper will play Pines's central cop character, a rookie in ... / Continue →
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Now that Elizabeth Taylor is dead, unable to take to Entertainment Tonight Special Reports to complain about inaccuracies in any future biopics that might be made, it's about time we get on making just such a fictionalized account of her life. And lucky for Taylor's vengeful sp... / Continue →
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Reprising a part made popular in the SNL Digital Short Motherlover, Susan Sarandon will play mother to Andy Samberg in the Columbia comedy I Hate You, Dad. Sarandon's part is Mary McGarricle, a "sexy teacher" who seduces Samberg's in-film father, Adam Sandler, at a young age, t... / Continue →
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The bizarre casting of the Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges continues, now with former American Idol and current Weight Watchers spokesperson Jennifer Hudson joining the cast. Like Jane Lynch and Larry David before her, Hudson is joining the monastery as one of the nuns at the ... / Continue →
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- Here are some new Captain America character posters. Red Skull is warning you: do NOT make him uncross his demurely folded arms! (via) - Stuntman-turned-director Ric Roman Waugh will direct Evel, a biopic on celebrity daredevil Evel Knievel. Someone better hurry up and start... / Continue →
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I'm not sure if numerous release date changes are necessarily that bad of a sign for a film, but if they are, man, what a rock hard turd this Apollo 18 must be. The Weinstein Company has now moved the Timur Bekmambetov-produced pseudo-found footage astronaut horror to September... / Continue →
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Author Suzanne Collins' senseless decision to contain her trilogy to only three books sure isn't gong to stop Lionsgate from getting a fourth ticket purchase out of you. This morning, Lionsgate executives had a chat with Wall Street analysts and assured them to not worry, becau... / Continue →
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Taking trendy, Polaroid-esque photos of yourself with your fashionable friends: it's not just for the worst people at the bar! Or at least it wasn't in 1981, when a 22-year-old Sean Young took some photos of herself with the actors and crew on the set of Blade Runner. Have a lo... / Continue →
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Competent writing and some well-crafted intrigue may sell books to the masses, but you know what sells a movie? The promise of topless women, mostly (also, fighting robots and/or lightsabers). That in mind, here's the first poster for David Fincher's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... / Continue →
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And they're going to Hawaii or something. Here's the first poster to hold us off until the trailer brings those hula-dancing-to-a-high-pitched-Ke$ha-cover scenes we've been jonesing for.... / Continue →
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In case you hadn't already guessed after The Hangover, Part II opened to $200 million worldwide, yeah, there is probably going to be a Part III. According to Deadline, Warner Bros. has already started on the process, and already they've got a writer on board. Craig Mazin is the... / Continue →
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You know how sometimes you'll see a movie and be like, "Wow, that was great writing, solid acting, top notch special effects... but why was so little spent on whispers?" You will not see that problem facing Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Producer Guillermo del Toro and directing ... / Continue →
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- You can keep your viral campaign, The Dark Knight Rises; X-Men: First Class will stick with the tried and trued methods used by guys looking to make eccentric marriage proposals: skywriting. Maybe a surprise ad on the Jumbotron next? - If you have a way to shoot a Star Wars ... / Continue →
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In their quest to create a version of Pi that's more of a date movie, Disney has bought a pitch for The Girlfriend Equation, a film to be based on a This American Life story about an MIT grad student's attempts to use equations to locate and seduce a mathematically ideal partne... / Continue →
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After sweeping through airport bookstores like a Dan Brown-borne plague, the Millennium Series (aka, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo et al.) began making its way into theaters in 2009, with Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace in the lead roles. BUT those movies were in Swedish, an... / Continue →
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Well, looks like Alec Baldwins pleas--begging to not be in a jukebox rock musical--fell on deaf ears, because today Rock of Ages director Adam Shankman produced this first photo of Baldwin and co-star Russell Brand on the film's Miami set. If you're wondering why the actors loo... / Continue →
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With shooting on a two-part The Hobbit franchise underway, New Line and MGM have gone ahead and sent out the official titles and release dates for the films. As previously rumored, the first film has been assigned the puberty pamphlet-esque subtitle An Unexpected Journey, and i... / Continue →
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Just like with the Bond franchise, the Spy Kids series' eponymous heroes are not so much specific actors as general spy concepts, utterly replaceable from film to film. Thus, for Robert Rodriguez's degrading child agent franchise's latest chapter, Spy Kids 4: All the Time in th... / Continue →
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Hugh Jackman, a kid, and a robot with boxing glove hands. Could there be an image more appropriate for a movie about Hugh Jackman, a kid, and a boxing robot? Maybe the image of an 11-year-old at Pizza Hut, a third eye emerging from his forehead to project a thought beam directl... / Continue →
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The Hangover, Part II debuted as the biggest opening ever for an R-rated comedy, leading the way for what became the biggest Memorial Day weekend box office ever. When entering these numbers into your tablets, jot a note that they are four-day holiday numbers. 1. The Hangover,... / Continue →
