October 23, 2011 - October 29, 2011 Archives
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- So, it turns out despite rumors otherwise, The Dark Knight Rises is not shooting at Occupy Wall Street protests. They're shooting at Trump Tower, the opposite of that. - Don't worry: David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith have answered some questions about that Beetlejuice ... / Continue →
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Going in knowing that ParaNorman has a celebrity voice cast that includes John Goodman, Anna Kendrick, Leslie Mann, Casey Affleck, Vanessa Huxtable, and more--and also knowing that filmmakers decided on the title ParaNorman--how surprising is it that the trailer doesn't let you... / Continue →
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Those hoping the honeymoon lovemaking of Bella and Edward would be the magical experience of their dreams will soon be finding themselves as disappointed as the Christian girl from high school who got married at 17 just to have sex. Though the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn trail... / Continue →
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What prisons better contain us than the ones we design in our own minds, cells built from fears with bars made of insecurities? Well, how about an ACTUAL fucking prison Sylvester Stallone designed and is now trapped in? Such is the case Sylvester Stallone will argue in The Tomb... / Continue →
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The explosions expected to constitute the majority of The Expendables 2's plot last night brought tragedy, killing one stuntman and leaving another hospitalized in critical condition. The accident happened during second unit filming on Bulgaria's reservoir Ognyanovo, while the ... / Continue →
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Perhaps a sign that adding zombies to a classic period piece is not quite as novel an idea as Lionsgate seems to think it is, Fright Night director Craig Gillespie has abandoned his role on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Gillespie's departure marks the third directorial loss ... / Continue →
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Yes, the "I'm floating! I'm floating!" pose. As if to confirm the rumors that Jeremy Renner would be taking over the Mission: Impossible franchise so that Tom Cruise can flee from one last explosion and continue off into the sunset, the latest trailer for M:I - Ghost Protocol p... / Continue →
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- Here's a look at Tim Burton's latest stop-motion effort, the Frankenstein's dog tale Frankenweenie. Johnny Depp is seemingly not involved in this project, but we're going to keep an eye on that. - Olivia Wilde, Michelle Monaghan, Judy Greer, Sarah Silverman, and Jessica Biel... / Continue →
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Strewn across the internet like so many Woody Harrelson-headed dandelion seeds, the character posters for The Hunger Games have been spread across various websites and are now available, compiled, for your viewing. This shit is going to be the next Twilight thing, so you might ... / Continue →
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Well, there's only about a month before the The Muppets' Thanksgiving release, and the studio has decided to finally call it quits with all the Muppet parody trailers. This is it, everyone: the final Muppet parody trailer. Thankfully, in preparation for the parody trailer fast ... / Continue →
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Having appeared in films that, in total, have grossed over $7.4 billion, Samuel L. Jackson has been named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-grossing actor of all time, which sounds especially impressive because that completely ignores the scattershot quality ... / Continue →
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Continuing with Farrelly news, from USA Today, here's our first official look at Will Sasso, Chris Diamantopoulos, and Sean Hayes in-costume for the upcoming Farrelly film in which these guys will pretend they are the Three Stooges (they are not really the Three Stooges). Accur... / Continue →
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The Farrelly brothers' February claim that the "ball is in motion" on a Dumb and Dumber sequel has today been confirmed with the hiring of Sean Anders and John Morris for scripting duties. As before, when Bob Farrelly mistakenly claimed, "If we could get those two guys back tog... / Continue →
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Remember those blissful days of childhood, when school paper drives and in-class showings of Fern Gully had us thinking that maybe deforestation might be the most worrisome result of reckless corporate greed? Man, we were sure off on that one. It's been ages since anyone remind... / Continue →
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- Director Steve McQueen's Shame had too many wieners and the like for the MPAA, and they've stamped with the film with the box office-killing NC-17 rating. At least the film has Milla Jovovich doing some free promotion. - The Trip producer Andrew Eaton says there have been ta... / Continue →
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Boasting such excitingly meaningless word combinations as The Holcroft Covenant, The Aquitaine Progression, and The Prometheus Deception, the embossed titles of Robert Ludlum are basically begging to either be made into movies or exalted amongst such cherished possessions as de... / Continue →
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Like a divorced mom who's had too much chardonnay, Steven Spielberg has been unusually forthcoming as of late in regards to mistakes, regrets, and who to blame for the high points and low points in his marriage with George Lucas. Last month, Spielberg offered some mild, veiled ... / Continue →
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Hopefully finishing up the long tradition of Django Unchained casting announcements that have plagued this country for too long, Deadline has revealed that actress Kerry Washington has won the role of Broomhilda in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming slave revenge story. Like in Ray, ... / Continue →
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Eddie Murphy has revealed that, despite earlier reports he was attached to a Brett Ratner-directed fourth installment of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, he will no longer be doing that. Instead, Eddie Murphy is going to make a Beverly Hills Cop television show based around Axe... / Continue →
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Sylvester Stallone is being sued for copyright infringement by Marcus Webb, an aspiring screenwriter who claims The Expendables is just like this movie HE wrote about a bunch of awesome action guys doing awesome things. Though, when watching The Expendables, most of us just saw... / Continue →
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Alright, so apparently everyone but me has already seen these fan-made Adventures of Tintin--including Steven Spielberg. As proof of this, director Edgar Wright recently tweeted: So @slimjimstudios does unofficial #Tintin titles http://vimeo.com/30402976, Spielberg sees 'em, g... / Continue →
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It's been three years since we were promised a version of Moby Dick that "isn't your grandfather's 'Moby Dick,'" and while that Timur Bekmambetov-directed effort seems to have been sent to the development Hell that it deserves to be in, a new Melville adaptation has stepped in ... / Continue →
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As foretold, starting early next year, the Star Wars series will be back theaters in price-gouging 3D, and if you're one of the sure-to-be millions who will be re-disappointing yourself with The Phantom Menace's February opening, you should probably at least go in prepared. So ... / Continue →
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While doing press duties to convince the world that Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, and tower robbery is a winning combination, a freshly gelled and blow-dried Brian Grazer this weekend claimed he and Ron Howard's epic Dark Tower is still a go, and on the television side, it will be... / Continue →
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A reminder that Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is more than just a clumsy but familiar name atop shot after shot of Tom Cruise jogging--it's also hooded Cruise sulking around like he's in a James Blunt video--here's the latest poster for the franchise's fourth installment... / Continue →
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If you've got a notion to put on a shirt and see the six-minute Dark Knight Rises prologue promised before showings of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, you're going to have to get really specific about which theater you go to. According to since-removed post from AMC Theat... / Continue →
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According to Mandate Pictures president Nathan Kahane, screenwriter Brian Tucker "writes post-Obama stories that forces audiences to question themselves." And what is a post-Obama story that would force you, the audience, to question yourself, you may wonder? Well, how about In... / Continue →
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If you would like to buy any Harry Potter movies you don't own, or replace any discs you do own that are too marred by scratches or the emotions of a post-Order of the Phoenix breakup, you'd better hurry up with that. Taking a page from Disney's fictional vault plan, Warner Bro... / Continue →
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Over on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's evocatively-titled Mouth-Taped-Shut blog, this new poster showed up last night, clearly surprising Daniel Craig. Under the cut, the full poster contains the tagline, "What is hidden in snow, comes forth in the thaw," and by typing both ... / Continue →
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- Here's a first look at Scarlett Johansson in Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, in which she plays an alien who has seen apparently seen Species and thus takes the form of a beautiful woman to seduce and kill men. You can go back to the naked pictures now. (via) - Eric Bana a... / Continue →
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Fine, we already had Zoltan: Hound of Dracula, but this vampire dog has one key difference: he does not bite, apparently! About time someone got to the business of telling the story of an undead, blood-sucking dog that is utterly benign. 'Vampire Dog' Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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Clearly threatened by Matt Damon's promise to go off and be a director with some other Massachusetts-raised guy, Ben Affleck has already taken steps to reassert himself as both our preeminent Damon-collaborator and the dominant directorial force of that coupling. Speaking to G... / Continue →
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Despite having made some of the more violent and profane mainstream American films of his time, Martin Scorsese would like to be allowed around your children, everyone. As an offering toward that, he presents to us Hugo, his 3D adaptation of the Caldecott Medal-winning novel Th... / Continue →
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Apparently jealous that Kenneth Branagh has a résumé that includes both a superhero movie AND an adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, Avengers director Joss Whedon has remedied the unbalance of that situation, seemingly already finishing up shooting on an adaptation of his own... / Continue →
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Kim Kardashian, seen above with a Dr. Phil look-a-like during a break from shooting her breakthrough role in Disaster Movie, has signed on to co-star in Tyler Perry's latest film adaptation of one of his plays, The Marriage Counselor. Like sort of a female-centric Hitch that wi... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Paranormal Activity 3 - $54 million, marking the biggest fall opening ever, as well as the highest opening gross ever for a pure horror film. And by "pure horror," I mean "pure American's Funniest Home Videos gags being attributed to specters." 2. ... / Continue →
