August 28, 2011 - September 3, 2011 Archives
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Have a fine Labor Day weekend, everyone. But please, keep in mind: - The sneeze fetishist community's reaction to all that hot, hot sniffling in Steven Soderbergh's Contagion? Surprisingly mixed, discovered Gawker, with one sneeze lover cynically predicting, "Knowing Hollywood... / Continue →
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In Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer's 3, we follow a couple that is not doing so great with the monogamy thing: she's kissin' up her fellow science guy (and it isn't even Antonio Banderas, James Franco, or Will Smith) and he's humping some dude he picked up in the gym locker ro... / Continue →
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"Vote for Pedro" t-shirt sales kept the Napoleon Dynamite coffers filled for a while, but as the nation's Hot Topics stop re-ordering, producers of the sleeper hit need to look for new ways to wring some income out of Jon Heder's hair pile. What they've come up with: suing Fox ... / Continue →
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As the latest trailer for Gonzalo López-Gallego's found-footage-horror Apollo 18 opens, a title card reveals, "The following is the recovered footage from Apollo 18." Thus, it would seem to we astute audience members that there actually was a hitherto unknown 18th Apollo missio... / Continue →
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Nowadays--especially with the upcoming, unnecessarily-updated release of Star Wars on a new format--George Lucas is rightfully seen as the ultimate money-grubbing revisionist, a man able to add CGI Ewok eyelids with the push of a button and willing to wield that power all too l... / Continue →
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- Effective February 28, Starz will no longer stream its content on Netflix. So if you're going to watch the Jason Alexander/Faye Dunaway chimp comedy Dunston Checks In, you'd better get on that. - Disney's decision over whether to give Gore Verbinski a shit-ton of money to ma... / Continue →
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New, dismal releases! Shark Night 3D Director: David R. Ellis Starring: Sara Paxton, Chris Carmack, Dustin Milligan Good if you want to see: three-dimensional sharks, but probably fewer three-dimension tits than you're hoping. Apollo 18 Director: Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego Starrin... / Continue →
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It's the one on the right. The one on the left, who looks like Kenneth Branagh, is Kenneth Branagh in costume as Olivier for the upcoming, Michelle Williams-starring Marilyn Monroe film, My Week with Marilyn. How did you do? If you got it right, don't forget to enter for the bi... / Continue →
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Sean Durkin's psychological drama Martha Marcy May Marlene has been earning solid reviews on the festival circuit--particularly directed towards newcomer Elizabeth Olsen, whose performance is said lie somewhere between Oscar-worthy and capable of immediately rendering her the d... / Continue →
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Look, teenage girls, I know you get horny and you want to sleep with whatever Culkin brother answers the phone first, but please, be careful: in your haste to rough-up the maidenhead, please do not contribute to a bus accident that kills a woman. Such is the apparent lesson of ... / Continue →
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John Moore, director of 2008's Max Payne, will at last get a chance to put to practical use all his practice at making office buildings explode with gunshots, glass, and implausibility, Die Hard style (because nothing in Max Payne was practical for anyone). After a month of dec... / Continue →
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The power, sadly, is not our when it comes to whether or not there will be a Captain Planet and the Planeteers movie, and a live-action version of the preachy animated series is coming despite the protests of the sane and pollution-minded. But, hey, at least now we have a previ... / Continue →
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Sorry, purists, but it looks like lack of visual underwear isn't the only change in Superman's costume. While half-heartedly miming a rope pull on the set of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, new Superman Henry Cavill was spotted in a costume that, free of the natural shadows of an e... / Continue →
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- Dwayne Johnson tweeted the above photo as evidence that actor/comedian DeRay Davis has a part in G.I. Joe 2. Also as evidence that the two of them arm wrestled outside a ladies' room. - Actor Ben Whishaw says Tom Tykwer's Wachowski-produced adaptation of Cloud Altas will see... / Continue →
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With all the free-range Olivias we have wandering around Hollywood these days, it was inevitable one would eventually find their way into the vast casting pen of Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike. Deadline is reporting the living geek fetish object is in talks to join Channing Tat... / Continue →
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With Fast Five assuring the studios that what audiences want is a face-off between two muscular, ecru action stars (either that or audiences want to see cars do things; we'll find out), Relativity Media is going to try to replicate that success with an all-new Rock-and-other-mu... / Continue →
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Alright, guys, ready to play? Here are the rules to The Double trailer drinking game (average game length: two-and-a-half minutes): - One swig every time Gere pulls out his watch-contained choking wire. - Two swigs every time someone says the name "Cassius." - Do a shot ever... / Continue →
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George Lucas's Original Vision of Star Wars continues to evade the writer/director/producer/action figure profiteer, but with each new release of his epic he comes ever closer to at last capturing that elusive, CGI white whale he's always intended. We've already seen that the u... / Continue →
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- Have you guys been seeing these Drive one-sheets hanging around places? Pretty good. - There is some evidence that Sam Mendes's upcoming Bond film may be titled Carte Blanche. Hopefully that won't cause any international confusion with foreign releases of the 1994 Disney com... / Continue →
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Last year's Oscars was a painful display of awkward interaction and uneven humor that left no one wanting more, but hey, at least Anne Hathaway might have gotten another job out of it! And that's all that matters, right? See, at some point in that onerous ceremony, Hathaway bel... / Continue →
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If you're dying to know whether it's Tom Hardy or Joel Edgerton who becomes our titular Warrior of Warrior (God, what if they both become Warrior!?), good news: you can find out a little earlier than expected. Though the film won't officially hit theaters until September 9th, L... / Continue →
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As evidence of just what a boring this lazy, late-August day this is, allow me to delight you with the following bit of non-news: Lars and the Real Girl and Fright Night director Craig Gillespie is still attached to direct Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, just as he previously ... / Continue →
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It's been nearly a year since we learned Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney had designs on doing a film remake of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., but it seems they may have at last sunk to the point of shrugging disinterest everyone else was at when they heard first about these plan... / Continue →
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James Franco and Will Smith have a new member in their Unconvincing Science Club: It's Antonio Banderas, star of Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In! This first domestic trailer for the film doesn't give away a lot of plot specifics, but it does lend the strong impression that... / Continue →
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Real Steel: a movie starring Hugh Jackman, and co-starring a CGI robot that Hugh Jackman trains in fisticuffs. Here's a poster representing that, with the image of Hugh Jackman and a CGI robot whose fists sort of look like boxing gloves--the perfect reminder to go see this on O... / Continue →
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Jennifer Lawrence is in the forest. Ut oh, now the forest is exploding! Now she's shooting an arrow! What is happening!? I don't know; I haven't read these Hunger Games books. But if you have, prepare to get excited about seeing Jennifer Lawrence in an exploding forest and shoo... / Continue →
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- Director Ruben Fleischer has been adding actors to Gangster Squad at a pretty steady rate, and he's assembled a pretty impressive cast that includes Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin, and Anthony Mackie. But there was one element his cast did not have, and that... / Continue →
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Well, Spike Lee's unfortunate Oldboy remake is still happening, and now we know who's going to star in it. Though originally set up as a Will Smith vehicle back when Spielberg was going to direct and imbue it with all his classically Spielbergian hardcore violence, Spike Lee ha... / Continue →
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So, as you may have caught at the tail end of the last post, Martin Scorsese will once again be directing Leonardo DiCaprio, this time in a remake of The Gambler that's currently being scripted by The Departed's William Monahan. Despite all the lingering remake weariness, it's ... / Continue →
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With Beyoncé's VMA pregnancy announcement came the promise of a new Destiny Child that could one day be forcefully shoved into the spotlight, where the young autocelebrity could thrive and hopefully eventually create a super-spawn with a Smith kid. But it wasn't all good news i... / Continue →
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Ryan Reynolds puts away his superhero spandex and exchanges them for Serious Guy beard and glasses in Fireflies in the Garden, a film that sees Green Lantern attempting to make up for all his popcorn movies by cramming a career's worth of family melodrama into 98 minutes. Reyn... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. The Help - $14.3 million, still holding on to the lead in its third week of release, and boy is Emma Stone ever looking smug about that. 2. Colombiana - $10.3 million. Sorry, Zoe Saldana, you aren't yet ready to level up to Female Jason Statham. 3... / Continue →
