October 16, 2011 - October 22, 2011 Archives
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Sure, you may be aware that Three Musketeers is opening this weekend, but did you know that Three Musketeers is a "fun family film" and a "grt family adventure"? Milla Jovovich fears you do not, and she pins the blame squarely on Summit Entertainment. Questioning if the company... / Continue →
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- Is Kevin Sorbo in some kind of Buried knock-off starring TV's Hercules? Without doing any research whatsoever into the matter, I'm going to look briefly at this poster and say yes. - As for director George Sluizer's claim that he'd been talking to River Phoenix's family abou... / Continue →
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As Joseph Gordon-Levitt will already be opposing slavery as Abraham Lincoln's son, in Steven Spielberg's biopic on the president, the actor had now decided to seemingly support the practice in another role, thus keeping his slavery stance at a safe political neutral. According ... / Continue →
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Despite his supposed eagerness to finish his filmmaking career and become "the painter that brought you Ocean's Twelve," Steven Soderbergh is not going to let George Clooney's withdrawal from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. spoil what could have otherwise been a perfectly good remake n... / Continue →
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Ignoring the Prince song that happened last time Tim Burton designed a parade float, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade commissioned a new balloon design from the director, and the results pictured above will be floating above the streets of New York next month. With an utter d... / Continue →
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Unaware that working with some of the most reliably talented directors around will only encourage my stalking, the lovely Carey Mulligan has entered talks to work with both the Coen Brothers and Spike Jonze on their upcoming feature projects. For the Coens, Mulligan would be t... / Continue →
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Written by Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and marking the directorial debut of the one from Girl, Interrupted whom your ex-girlfriend drunkenly claimed she'd make out with, In the Land of Blood and Honey takes a heavy, melodramatic look at a romance between a beautiful civilian and an... / Continue →
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These things! Paranormal Activity 3 Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman Starring: Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown, Christopher Nicholas Smith, Ghosts! Good if you want to see: a special retro edition of Paranormal Activity, in which the crew lets lose the Paranormal Pran... / Continue →
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- Bryan Singer's long talked-about plans to have his own Battlestar Galactica re-imagining that's different than the wildly-successful SyFy re-imagining is finally going to happen, as Universal is closing a deal for John Orloff--the writer of Legend of the Guardians and Roland ... / Continue →
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The story within the The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its proceeding novels has already been told in a 2009 film and across grocery store magazine/book aisles worldwide, but that isn't going to stop Columbia Pictures from teasing their tale with some viral stuff. They've put... / Continue →
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With the Wachowskis' hard-R, gay Iraq romance film set in the future having an unexplainably hard time finding funding, and their Will Smith-starring "modern, urban take on the Robin Hood myth" still stuck in the mire of sounding like Hollywood satire, the siblings that first a... / Continue →
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Always a dynamic religious leader, Equilibrium star Christian Bale once again returns to the cloth to kick some more ass in Flowers of War, from House of Flying Daggers director Zhang Yimou. Based on the Nanjing Massacre, during which Japanese soldiers raped and murdered untold... / Continue →
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In the cold war for gratuitous use of 3D, Piranha 3DD's three-dimensional fake breasts and real Hasselhoffs are starting to look pret-ty weak in comparison to A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas's offerings. Today, a new trailer for the latter has arrived in a red-band variety, ... / Continue →
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Back in May, French video game developer Ubisoft gave us the heads up that all those popular games they've made--specifically Assassin's Creed and anything with a "Tom Clancy" prefix--would eventually be dealt the disservice of being turned into feature films. At the time, they... / Continue →
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Having felt each other's All-American energy by proxy, using Emily Blunt hand-holding as a conduit, Matt Damon and John Krasinski will at last merge in a yet-untitled drama for Warner Bros. The two--seen above being particularly All-American in what TMZ describes as "a guitar/... / Continue →
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Well, you're getting an Akira remake, and TRON: Legacy's Garrett Hedlund is probably going to star in it, at last putting all his light-trail-leaving futuristic motorcycle training to use outside a computer program. Last we heard about Warner Bros.' plans to adapt the breakthr... / Continue →
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- This Hong Kong poster for Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked demonstrates that puns as great as "Chipwrecked" sometimes must be sacrificed in translation. - Despite reports that Hasbro and Paramount are in talks with Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay to make a couple billio... / Continue →
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Just as the Joker robbery prologue for The Dark Knight preceded I Am Legend, taunting the audience with a much better film than the Will Smith film they were about to see, so too shall a sequence from The Dark Knight Rises go out before the film of a prominent, grinning Sciento... / Continue →
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Working with designer Olympia Le-Tan and French filmmaker Simon Cahn, director Spike Jonze has assembled for us a short film involving romance, animated felt, and embroidered book covers come to life, and it's definitely the most precious little drop of saccharine that will hit... / Continue →
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It's been 18 years since the apparent drug overdose of River Phoenix at age 23, and in the mind of Dutch director George Sluizer, it's about time to finally finish that movie he'd been shooting with the actor back in 1993. Now that the spirits haunting the print have been adequ... / Continue →
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When one works on a Saw sequel, one does not brag about that. That's a bit of work experience one tends to keep hidden, or at least tucked down into the depths where M. Night Shyamalan lists The Happening in his LinkedIn profile. And yet here we have not one but two new posters... / Continue →
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Not wanting to place all their eggs in two Transformers baskets, General Motors is in talks for a new way to show off their cars without making them turn into robots. The plan? Partnering with Warner Bros. for a remake of Cannonball Run, the 1981 film that starred Burt Reynolds... / Continue →
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Easing any worries that Piranha 3DD's title might not actually be referring to breasts, a trailer for the sequel has arrived and unveiled its silicone bounty, proudly proclaiming, yes, there will be giant boobs. Other promises made in this brief teaser: David Hasselhoff! And Vi... / Continue →
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Sherlock Holmes is back, and this time the lose idea of some sort of plot has been slung about even more explosions, gunshots, punches, and quips than the last film. Jaston Statham is going to be so pissed he was not involved in this:... / Continue →
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- As previously rumored, Anne Hathaway has joined Hugh Jackman, Helena Bonham Carter, and Russell Crowe in Tom Hooper's adaptation of Les Misérables. For the part of Fantine, Hathaway is rumored to have beaten out Rebecca Hall and Amy Adams--who would have, as always, delighted... / Continue →
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If you think being in Hawaii means carefree days by the ocean, listening to Don Ho, George Clooney will sure set you straight in this new trailer for Alexander Payne's The Descendants. As it turns out, Hawaii still has all the heartbreak and melancholia of the rest the world--p... / Continue →
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Those looking to marry Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, and dwarfism need no longer endure Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Though perhaps with less gothic whimsy than Tim Burton, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have brought those elements together in Life's Too Short, t... / Continue →
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"A lady never reveals her age," a lady often says before the attending nurse tells her no, they seriously need her age before they can operate. But the Internet Movie Database reveals all ages, lady or not, and for that a Texas actress is suing IMDb parent company Amazon. The w... / Continue →
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While Fast/Furious producers have reportedly been considering getting The Transporter back behind the wheel of a car again, other minds have far more ambitious plans: what if we get Jason Statham in a car again, THEN have that car turn into a giant robot? According to Variety's... / Continue →
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German production studio Bavariapool has decided to get into the English-langauge filmmaking business, and in the interest of not delaying the inevitable, they're going to get right to a Nicolas Cage thriller. Though Cage's last film, Drive Angry, is only in the 75th spot in th... / Continue →
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Shia LaBeouf may have just been aggressively clobbered by a fat, shirtless, wasted guy, but all is not fat, shirtless, wasted clobberings in the LaBeouf world. On the brighter side, the ripple-headed actor will play the male lead in a "quirky" love story written and directed by... / Continue →
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In an August clip from The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy as Bane urged a stadium full of football fans to "take control," then proceeded to make other garbled, unclear demands. So, now that an entire political movement has formed with the purpose of taking control for the 99%--a... / Continue →
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Though typically thought of as a younger woman's affliction, shaky-cam demonic possession affects ALL ages of nightgown-wearing female, guys. Our latest evidence of this: The Devil Inside, a film that features the menopausal exorcism of multiple demons and promises a rationale ... / Continue →
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The Hangover, Part II has already been at the center of a lawsuit involving an injured stuntman, another lawsuit about Mike Tyson's stupid tattoo, and a third suit over whether it's OK to serve drinks and show monkey blowjobs in the same room, and now a fourth suit has arisen o... / Continue →
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On July 1, 2011, the fate of Earth and, indeed, the fate of the [Dark of] the Moon was thrown into question when Shia LaBeouf revealed he would no longer be assisting the Transformers with any of their popular transforming. Speaking at the Moscow International Film Festival, La... / Continue →
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It's been four years since the last offering of the Hostel franchise, and it was starting to seem like maybe we were finally in the clear--but just as that moment of relief is always just when someone shows up to torture some people to death, now is when this unexpected Hostel ... / Continue →
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Real Steel director Shawn Levy has proven time and time again that with just a wish upon a star, and maybe a few million in CGI, he's able to bring toys to life--whether it be for those toys to punch each other or to chase Ben Stiller around a cultural site. As such, the modern... / Continue →
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Once again answering the long-pondered existential question of whether Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson character continues in the spaces between expensive superhero movies, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer is the second film in Marvel's One-Shot series, and shows ... / Continue →
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Finally realizing a world's dreams of combining outdated anti-drug sloganeering with a lazy Three Stooges reference, here's the poster for the Farrelly Brothers' upcoming Stooges film. Funny how this film was once going to star Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, and Benicio Del Toro. Now, ... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Real Steel - $16.3 million. Just as Hugh Jackman's scrappy, junkyard boxing robot had everyone asking, "How does he do it?", so too does Jackman's film have crowds begging to know how it has stayed at the top in its second week. The answer is expens... / Continue →
