July 31, 2011 - August 6, 2011 Archives
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- The Rock tweeted this photo of himself prepping to shoot G.I. Joe 2, and added the mysterious query, "Guess who/what I envision in my crosshairs?" Uh... jabronis? (via) - Joining Paz De La Huerta and Katrina Bowden in Lionsgate's Nurse 3D is Corbin Bleu, that curly-haired do... / Continue →
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So, as you may have suspected, the reason Warner Bros. decided now was the time to show how Anne Hathaway's Catwoman looks riding the Batpod was because Christopher Nolan is shooting stuff with Catwoman on a Batpod today in Pittsburgh--and, if history was any indication, we'd a... / Continue →
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Suddenly getting skittish about all the bright lights and clanging metal inherent in the Short Circuit remake he just agreed to do, director Tim Hill is already fearfully retreating back into the warm, familiar fuzz of CGI animals. The Hop director and Tim Curry/Ron Jeremy fusi... / Continue →
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Promising the greasiest ceremony in its long history, the 84th annual Academy Awards telecast will this year be produced by last year's director, Don Mischer, and also by X-Men 3 director and greasy Brett Ratner. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak... / Continue →
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Just a month after the publication of his how-to-sell-out-in-Hollywood scriptwriting manual, Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!, Robert Ben Garant is already producing another lesson by example over at Disney. Th... / Continue →
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Did you think the hiring of the director of Paul Blart: Mall Cop was as low as Dimension's Short Circuit remake could sink? Not the case! At least that news allowed me to make this mildly-amusing graphic. Things are worse now. With Blart director Steve Carr moving on, attaching... / Continue →
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Marvel's new philosophy on finding directors: Look to the world of geek-beloved television. Having already hired nerd hero Joss Whedon to direct The Avengers, the studio is now talking to Brian Kirk about taking on director duties for Thor 2. You may not know Kirk's name off ha... / Continue →
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Skintight black catsuit? Yup. Some kind of high-tech (blue lights mean technology is happening) goggles with rubber bits that slope up into what you might generously describe as something catlike? Yipe, it's Anne Hathaway as Christopher Nolan's interpretation of Catwoman, guys!... / Continue →
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- Here's a new Tower Heist poster that confirms that, yes, there will be a dog in a funny outfit. Phew! - Natasha Lyonne will co-star in Kristen Wiig's Imogene, because this film is apparently set in 1999. - Mark Steven Johnson (Simon Birch, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, When in Ro... / Continue →
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Watching this first, red-band trailer for The Sitter, the first thing you're going to notice is the jarring disparity between the Jonah Hill that introduces the preview and the Jonah Hill that stars within. If you hadn't heard, over the last year or so, Hill lost like all the w... / Continue →
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If it seemed like the last Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy trailer perhaps rested too smugly on its co-opted, super-intense Wolfman score, let this new trailer put to rest the notion this film needs any Danny Elfman music to feel intense. IT DOES NOT. This latest trailer co-opts a... / Continue →
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In theaters this weekend: Rise of the Planet of the Apes Director: Rupert Wyatt Starring: James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto Good if you want to see: super-smart apes take over the planet, starting with James Franco and all of San Francisco's helicopters. If only we had w... / Continue →
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Just when it was starting seem like surely The Change-Up's only contribution to society would be the addition of a nomadic, piss-fueled fountain as a plot device option, suddenly the body-switch comedy has a new, inadvertently pleasant offering: actual humor! Thanks to the film... / Continue →
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Bubba Smith, the football star and actor who time and time again played the part of super huge guy, died of natural causes Wednesday night while in his Los Angeles home. He was 66. On the field, Smith played defensive lineman at Michigan State before being 1967's first overall... / Continue →
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While Relativity Media and Universal's rival Snow White projects have been trading blows over which will come out first and if it's better to get notable actors or actual dwarves for their dwarves, another fucking Snow White project has quietly been developing since 2002 over a... / Continue →
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1. Why does Superman have the texture of a Titleist? 2. Is Superman drunkenly stumbling onto the set of a Charlie Chaplin film? 3. Eyebrows: Does he have them? I do like the cape, but it's a shame director Zack Snyder still can't seem to get that 68% saturation filter off hi... / Continue →
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- Here's the Indian poster for Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Feel free to watch the film in Hindi. - Ryan Guzman has joined the latest chapter of the Saw of competitive street dancing films, Step Up 4. He'll be playing the guy who dances with a girl. - Making $77 million ov... / Continue →
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For those looking for a needlessly detailed backstory of why exactly Tony Stark briefly showed up in The Incredible Hulk, answers are on the way with the September 13 release of Thor on all the home video formats you'd expect. Marvel Studios has included as a bonus feature the ... / Continue →
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The new trailer for Killer Elite doesn't exactly add a lot to the grand mythos of the film. That is to say, like the last trailer, it's still BANG, KABOOM, PUNCH, KICK, ONE-LINER, and every other action movie cliche you'd rightly expect when you see our two human equivalents of... / Continue →
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With the possible exception of organ harvesting, surely nothing ruins a wild Moscow vacation like the unexplained appearance of hundreds if not thousands of invisible electricity specters from another planet. Alas, in The Darkest Hour, just such a fate befalls Emile Hirsch, Oli... / Continue →
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His tenure with the Las Vegas Police Departement's crime scene investigation unit having drawn to a close, Laurence Fishburne is going to bring his iconic diastema the declining newspaper industry now. The actor and chief pharmacist of The Matrix has reportedly been cast as Per... / Continue →
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You ever have that dream where Val Kilmer is a hack horror writer whose face is twice the size of a normal human face, and who has recurring visions involving the ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe and one of the Fannings? Hey, Francis Ford Coppola has that dream, too! But what with him... / Continue →
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With Limitless director Neil Burger taking that Uncharted adaptation off of David O. Russell's hands, Russell has, in turn, agreed to take care of Burger's Limitless cast for him while he's away in the jungle shooting that. According to Deadline, Russell is in talks with Bradle... / Continue →
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If you were excited that Nurse 3D would finally be showing you a nurse, in 3D, wait until you hear about the latest development in that film: another nurse! Deadline has today revealed that the film's modest title betrays the nursely quantities within, with news 30 Rock recepti... / Continue →
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As part of her experiment to test if she can somehow will an Academy Award to develop a frown, Four Christmases and How Do You Know star Reese Witherspoon has attached herself to Disney's Wish List, a comedy about a woman whose childhood wishes come true 25 years too late. In ... / Continue →
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Just in case Miley Cyrus's new, pro-marriage equality tattoo has frightened her Christian conservative audience, the Disney-bred entertainer will soon reaffirm to all her fans, don't worry, y'all, she still loves God, too. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Cyrus will pro... / Continue →
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- JustJared has the first look at Ryan Gosling's bleached, tattooed look for The Place Beyond the Pines. In the film, Gosling plays a criminal stunt motorcyclist who wears the stupidest pants you owned in 5th grade. (via) - Oliver Stone and Joe Carnahan never got their Pablo E... / Continue →
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The next entry in the Die Hard series has lost its director, but rest assured, that's not going to stop John McClane from yet again, for the fifth time in his adult life, finding himself in an unlikely scenario in which he's forced to pull off a long series of improbable, awe-i... / Continue →
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A couple being exceedingly cute and a couple breaking up: clearly, two of mankind's most painful things to endure watching as an uninvolved third party that, um, should probably get going or something. But, hey, sometimes it works as a film, so that we can look at these couple ... / Continue →
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The film that forever belittled all non-over-the-head means of romantically transmitting Peter Gabriel could eventually be getting a sequel. Realistically, probably not, but: While out promoting his Pearl Jam movie, director Cameron Crowe took a question about if he'd ever cons... / Continue →
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Want to see Samuel L. Jackson feasting, dancing with Asian babes, and delivering dialogue with all the subtlety of his performance in Frank Miller's The Spirit? Of course you do. That's why Sam Jackson mixes in all these Snakes on Planes and xXx: State of the Unions amongst his... / Continue →
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Considering we already saw Bane's mask and cargo pants back in May, I suppose it's no big deal to see the guy's sheepskin jacket, too. From neighboring site The Superficial, here's Tom Hardy on the Pittsburgh set of The Dark Knight Rises, dressed as the Batman villain action fi... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1./2. Cowboys & Aliens / Smurfs - It's still too close to call this weekend, with both Cowboys & Aliens and Smurfs pulling in an estimated $36.2 million apiece. Estimates can, at times, be way off, though. For instance, I estimated no humans would want... / Continue →
