July 24, 2011 - July 30, 2011 Archives
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- One of our many Olivias--Wilde, this time--is in talks to star in Lovelace, a film about Deep Throat deep throater Linda Lovelace that is entirely different than the Malin Ackerman-starring film about Linda Lovelace. This one has James Franco. - Entourage executive producers... / Continue →
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Quick quiz: can you name any of the last three feature films Joel Schumacher has made? Answers portion: the last three films the Batman & Robin director made were Twelve, Blood Creek, and the one where Jim Carrey hates numbers. Not that I expected anyone to remember those. I on... / Continue →
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It turns out TeenNick's nostalgia-sating, late-night block of retro programming, The 90s Are All, is good for more than just saying, "Hey, I remember this too"; it also provides haunting evidence of the prescience of Clarissa Explains It All. Just have a look at this clip, wher... / Continue →
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The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African-American pilots who valiantly flew in World War II, is an inspiring story that should definitely be told--which is probably why it was told with Laurence Fishburne, Theo Huxtable, and Cuba Gooding Jr. back in 1995. The questi... / Continue →
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Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen, seen above describing his vision for 2005's Stealth, will direct the highest-budgeted film ever planned by the Korean film industry. Handing over $100 million to Cohen as if he's not the guy who made DragonHeart, CJ E&M Pictures of Korea... / Continue →
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Now in theaters: Cowboys and Aliens Director: Jon Favreau Starring: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde Good if you want to see: the title pretty much covers it. Crazy, Stupid, Love Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore... / Continue →
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Like The Smurfs, Crocodile Dundee, and so many other fish-out-of-water tales, Captain America, in its final scene, feels the need to plop our hero right in the middle of Times Square, where he stands in awe, gawks in bewilderment, and basically fits right in with everyone else ... / Continue →
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- Here's the new Tower Heist poster, still greasy from where Brett Ratner put his fingers on it. - The Fall's Lee Pace has joined Steven Spielberg's Lincoln as New York City mayor Fernando Wood, any early supporter of the Confederates. I suppose being an early supporter is bet... / Continue →
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No one gets away with telling Joe Pesci to get huge and then not paying him for it. Furious that he put on 30 pounds to play a role that's been taken from him, Pesci is suing Fiore Films for his $3 million fee, him claim being they owe him for using his name in promoting Gotti:... / Continue →
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Continuing the newfound tradition of aggressive, unabashed title straightforwardness seen in the likes of Cowboys and Aliens and Horrible Bosses, greasy Brett Ratner's Tower Heist is, naturally, a film about a tower heist. More specifically, it's about a tower heist committed b... / Continue →
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Having thoroughly exhausted themselves and everyone else over the course of two feature films, Alvin and the Chipmunks are going on vacation, and, like it or not, we're going along with them as they sing high-pitched cover songs on a cruise ship and, later, sing high-pitched co... / Continue →
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Idealism versus ambition; Philip Seymour Hoffman versus Paul Giamatti. Such are the difficult moral and respected supporting actor choices Ryan Gosling is forced to make in the Clooney-directed The Ides of March. Based on the Beau Willimon play Farragut North, which itself was ... / Continue →
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Well, if you hadn't noticed, server issues have put things way behind today and lost all of yesterday's posts. Sorry. But on the plus side, here's a collection of all Taylor Lautner's most agape faces from the Abduction trailer. In the long run, I think we've come out ahead.... / Continue →
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20th Century Fox is working out a deal to acquire the movie rights to James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales' ESPN: Those Guys Have All The Fun, an oral history telling the story of how the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network went from a joke network showing Australian rul... / Continue →
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If Pearl Jam's nine studio albums, seven live albums, and 263 official bootlegs still have not satisfied your Jam-boner, here's something else for the pile: the Cameron Crowe-directed Pearl Jam Twenty, which weaves together new interviews and old, rarely-seen footage into a fea... / Continue →
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In a purchase that almost guarantees we'll be seeing Zach Galifianakis's shirtless belly comically jiggle as he demos a machine gun, Todd Phillips' Green Hat Films has optioned the film rights and hopes to direct an adaptation of Guy Lawson's "Arms and the Dudes," a Rolling Sto... / Continue →
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Crank directors Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine are currently in post-production on another Ghost Rider movie--one that retains Nic Cage but moves the action to Europe, just in case locale was the issue with the first Ghost Rider film--and the first evidence of their progress h... / Continue →
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Though I wouldn't expect anyone to remember, the last time a feature-length Nutcracker adaptation opened was just last November. The Elle Fanning-starring 3D film, descriptively titled The Nutcracker in 3D, opened in only 42 theaters and, over its entire domestic run, made just... / Continue →
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Hey, remember that financial crisis? Phew, sure glad that's completely over. And now that we're so far removed from that time wherein America's financial history looked so highly questionable, let's take a look back at it and see what got us there. How? By watching Zachary Quin... / Continue →
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Throughout the San Diego Comic Con, as the lines and human scents grew, so too did the concept art for The Avengers. This past weekend, Marvel released a series of seven posters for their upcoming superhero film, each poster featuring a superhero painting that, when placed alon... / Continue →
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Want to know which character in Rise of the Planet of the Apes dies by way of ape booting a helicopter off a bridge? Answers await in this action-heavy, plot-lean Comic Con trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Hint: it is not J. Franco.... / Continue →
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It sure seemed like Captain America was untouchable, and inconsolable, when it came to sulky faces, but suddenly a new contender has emerged in Dredd's Karl Urban, who today has made the Comic Book Movie Petulance War interesting again by premiering this impressive new frown th... / Continue →
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In the recent documentaries Darkon and Monster Camp, the world of live-action role-playing (LARPing, duh) was brought wayyyy too far into the realm of fact, with the films introducing a real world wherein adults get dressed up in little armor outfits, shout, throw things, and f... / Continue →
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Harrison Ford's weary face says he's completely over this cowboy shit, but his negotiations to play Wyatt Earp say maybe he'll keep his earring out and ascot on for a bit longer. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ford is in talks to star as Earp in Black Hats, a Max Allan Co... / Continue →
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While Relativity Media's Tarsem Singh-directed, still-untitled Snow White film seems to be going for a born-of-a-Thomas Kinkade painting approach for their title character, it looks like Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman is going a less traditional, more Lord of the Rings... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office top five: 1. Captain America: The First Avenger - $65.8 million, just beating out Marvel's earlier summer release, Thor. And yet, still, Captain America pouts. 2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 - $48 million, granting noseless, bald villa... / Continue →

