June 19, 2011 - June 25, 2011 Archives
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Peter Falk--legendary acting icon, loving grandfather of Fred Savage, and cyclops--reportedly died yesterday in his Beverly Hills home. He was 83. Like an episode of Columbo, we'd known for some time how this was going to end--Falk's mental capacities had been diminishing from... / Continue →
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If you're able to momentarily avert your eyes from the sub-C.H.O.M.P.S.-level robot dog effects seen above, you may notice that the Spy Kids: All the Time in the World posters proudly bragging of "4-D Aroma-Scope." Well, I'm afraid that is not a satirical note added by a transf... / Continue →
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Welp, looks like Beach Boys are the new vampires/Snow Whites/Frankensteins/etc. Just days after Diablo Cody revealed that her dream assignment would be writing a biopic on Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson, River Road Entertainment has announced they have separately acquired th... / Continue →
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Apparently feeling that the straight-to-video WarGames: The Dead Code was not enough of a desperate, confused modernization of the original WarGames, the remake enthusiasts over at MGM have hired Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon to develop and direct a theatrical reboot of ... / Continue →
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Ever wonder what it's like to work alongside Will Smith? Well, aside from negotiating around his enormous trailer, it turns out it's mostly hearing a lot of, "So, want to help make my kid an even bigger star?"--or so it seems from today's news that Smith wants his Men in Black ... / Continue →
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In theaters: Cars 2 Director: Joshn Lasseter, Brad Lewis Starring: Owen Wilson, Larry Cable Guy, Michael Caine Good if you want to see: Pixar bring out their laziest character designs--cars with eyeballs--to once again do some things and sell some merch. Bad Teacher Director:... / Continue →
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When the U.S. Government discovers that America's greatest patriotbrain lies within the scrawny, asthmatic body of Steve Rogers, they find in the obvious gym-class-wedgie recipient an ideal candidate for their latest tactic in the fight against the Nazis: creating a fit guy, an... / Continue →
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- If you're interested in making a Men in Black sequel, that's cool and all, but just to warn you, it's probably going to cost you about $215 million even after tax rebates, as that's reportedly what Men in Black III is running up to after paying for Will Smith's huge-ass trail... / Continue →
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Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy: They're best friends, probably! The two have already shared scenes in X-Men: First Class and fluids with Keira Knightley, and now they're going to have a little trade for the lead in Danny Boyle's Trance remake. While Fassbender had been in ... / Continue →
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We've got Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as Superman's adoptive father and mother, Russell Crowe as biological father Jor-El, and today comes the final player in the Clark Kent, This Is Your Life "family" section with news of who will play Superman's blood mother. Continuing with... / Continue →
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A new Captain America trailer is due later this evening, but in the meantime Yahoo is tiding you over with this new poster of Chris Evans as Captain America. Would you look at the attention to detail? He even has dark tan lines below his eyes, like how NASCAR spectators get whe... / Continue →
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So, that secret project that was meant to finally get Warren Beatty out of his husband pillow and back into a director's chair? It's a Howard Hughes movie, it turns out! Avoiding the Hughes DiCaprio years already so thoroughly covered in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, Beatty's ... / Continue →
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"KICK! KICK! BANG! BANG! CRASH! KICK! SLAM! BANG! KICK! KABOOM! PUNCH! PUNCH! KICK! KICK! BANG! BANG! KABLOOEY! STAB! BANG! STOMP! ELBOW! ELBOW! SLAM! KABOOSH! BUTT! BANG! KABLAMMO! BANG! PUNCH! ELBOW! UNF! UNF! KICK! STAB (scrotum)!" Starring: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, and in... / Continue →
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Spy Vs. Spy, the long-running Mad comic that has since 1961 pitted two pointy-faced freaks in an eternal back-and-forth of espionage, will soon be a film if Ron Howard can squeeze it in. Howard has several other projects in the wings--including a huge Dark Tower adaptation that... / Continue →
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Yesterday's note that Jamie Foxx was the likely frontrunner for Django Unchained has now been upgraded to a full "this is happening," with word from Deadline that Quentin Tarantino "has made his choice" and is beginning negotiations with the former Jamie Foxx Show star. After ... / Continue →
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With The Hobbit's over 250 days of shooting now progressing in the southern hemisphere, Entertainment Weekly has debuted our first look at Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins from the set of Peter Jackson's two-part series. He looks just like I always pictured Bilbo readings things... / Continue →
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- Mike Tyson, Spike Lee, L.A. Riots' John Ridley, and Entourage creator Doug Ellin are working with HBO to create a series called Da Brick, which would depict the early life of Iron Mike growing up in Newark. Already there's opposition to my plea to never, ever replicate any of... / Continue →
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Brave doesn't come out until a full year from today, but seeing that the animated feature doesn't have the name recognition of a Toy Story nor the talking cars of Cars, Disney•Pixar is getting a good jump on promoting this goddammer with this teaser poster. Basically all it sho... / Continue →
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Think Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the only upcoming film to feature its young star scooting around helicopters and exploding high-rises? You couldn't be more wrong! Abduction totally has that, too--and adds the danger that Taylor Lautner is almost assuredly going to end u... / Continue →
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Unless they're some kind of a-hole, everyone who's seen The Wire and/or the BBC series Luther wants to see big things come for the actor. Unfortunately, his recent big screen, leading man opportunities have mostly taken the shape of forgettable films like Obsessed, Takers and T... / Continue →
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Remember how Rise of the Planet of the Apes used to go by catchier, more memorable Rise of the Apes, but then Fox got so, so worried no one would get it? Well, that sentiment basically encapsulates the whole spirit of this new UK trailer for the film. They really want to make s... / Continue →
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With Universal rushing to get their Snow White film out within a close enough timeframe to Relativity's Snow White film that it will be really annoying, the studio has added a few more actors to fill outs its dwarf population. Joining lead dwarf Ian McShane will be Eddie Izzard... / Continue →
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When city coolguy Ren McCormack moves to the small Tennessee town of Bomont, he's shocked to learn that the city had banned dancing. Their reasoning? Last time some kids gathered together to recreate scenes from the Step Up series, they ended up getting in a car accident! And w... / Continue →
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From MTV, here's the poster for Black Snake Moan director Craig Brewer's remake of Footloose that, like Morningstar Farms, tries to pass off some kind of unknown substitute as something equivalent to Bacon. I'm not buying it, but hey, at least they're trying--in times like this... / Continue →
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I don't consider making money to be the ultimate sign of success--if I did, I would live in even more of a state of perpetual sadness than I already do--but if you're the type who does, then start considering Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides the tenth most successful... / Continue →
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A history lesson in psychoanalysis as told by David Cronenberg, with Michael Fassbender as Jung, Viggo Mortensen as Freud, and Keira Knightley as a Russian girl literally begging to be spanked? My, what a fine substitute for that chapter in your psych book this will be. Let's h... / Continue →
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Though he hasn't been in a film since 2001's Town & Country, it seems Warren Beatty is not as resigned to being "old man accompanying Annette Benning" as it's appeared for the last decade. According to Deadline, Beatty has agreed to star in, write, and direct a comedy for Param... / Continue →
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Fear not, home video consumers: when The Hangover, Part II comes to DVD and Blu-ray in its Unrated Wild Monkey Edition, the tattoo on Ed Helms' face will remain true to Mike Tyson's original. A lawsuit from S. Victor Whitmill, the Missouri tattoo artist who designed and owns th... / Continue →
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The first full-length trailer for Puss in Boots is here, and believe me, it does not waste any time getting to the "he is anthropomorphic but he sometimes behaves like a cat" gags. When he goes to a bar, he LAPS MILK, for example, etc. But after too many Shrek films and a multi... / Continue →
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In The Great Snow White Movie War being waged between Universal Pictures and Relativity Media, a clear rift now divides the competing films in terms of their dwarf populations. While Tarsem Singh's Relativity project went the authentic route, casting seven honest-to-god little ... / Continue →
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It's been over a year since we first learned Megan Fox was fired from the Transformers franchise--replaced by an inconsolable blow-up doll with the screen presence of a video game cutscene (i.e., a peer)--reportedly due to comments she made comparing series director Michael Bay... / Continue →
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- Woody Allen has announced the full cast for his Rome-set The Bop Decameron, currently in pre-production. The film's central cast is Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, and Ellen Page, while the support cast wil... / Continue →
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Nicolas Winding Refn long ago revealed an interest in tackling a Wonder Woman movie, and at the Friday premiere of his latest, Drive, he provided an update on the status of his dream project. In short, he still doesn't have permission to do that--but if he did, he'd sure like t... / Continue →
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On The Hobbit's official Facebook page, Peter Jackson has announced the addition of two more names to his cast of millions. Lost actress and uncredited White Chicks partygoer Evangeline Lilly will lend her elf-like, Kate Beckinsale-esque features to Tauriel, a newly-created Woo... / Continue →
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2013 is going to be so, so rich with Pixar-quality CGI. Disney has just revealed that, in addition to the June 21, 2013 Monsters University release, there is apparently going to be ANOTHER Pixar film released that year on November 27. Thus far, all that's being reported is that... / Continue →
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Almost twenty years later and still Bob Hoskins remains haunted by the memory of putting on overalls and fighting Dennis Hopper. In an interview published Saturday, the actor reflected on his forty year career, matter-of-factly telling The Guardian what a shitstorm that Super M... / Continue →
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In a accident that seems likely the result of drunk driving, Jackass cohort Ryan Dunn and an unnamed passenger were killed this morning when Dunn's Porsche went over a guardrail, slammed into a tree, and exploded into flames. Dunn--who appeared in all the Jackass films, and was... / Continue →
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Just days after Jason Segel himself questioned the lack of a genuine Muppets trailer among ever-increasing pile of parodies, here it is: the actual Muppets trailer, with action, adventure, innumerable Muppet group shots, a severely deadpan Amy Adams, and even a little Mah Nà Ma... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Green Lantern - $52.7 million, falling behind Thor, Iron Man, all the X-Men, the Spider-Men, both Fantastic Fours, The Incredible Hulk, The Hulk, and, in terms of attendance, even Daredevil and Ghost Rider. Better than Billy Zane's The Phantom, thou... / Continue →
