October 30, 2011 - November 5, 2011 Archives
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- From the set of Hyde Park on Hudson, here's a photo of Bill Murray as Roosevelt. And here's a photo of Bill Murray as Garfield. - Elijah Wood is attached to play a serial killer in Franck Khalfoun's Maniac, the Alexandre Aja-produced indie thriller about a man who sells anti... / Continue →
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Earlier this year, when Alcon Entertainment bought the rights to Blade Runner--a crown jewel to place alongside such lesser trophies as their Dude, Where's My Car?, Chasing Liberty, Racing Stripes, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, the Wicker Man remake, P.S. I Love You, O... / Continue →
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With A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas opening this weekend to surprising critical approval for a movie so rich with drug and cum gags, Lionsgate is going ahead with shopping an animated version of the franchise around town. No word on if the main cast would be returning for t... / Continue →
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Earlier this year, Errol Morris's Tabloid at last gave crazy former Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney a chance to tell her side of a thirty-some-year-old scandal in which UK tabloids alleged she flew to England, kidnapped a recent Mormon convert, drugged him, chained him to a bed, an... / Continue →
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Speaking to a crowd at the Savannah Film Festival on Wednesday, longtime Universal head Ron Meyer for some reason decided it was about time he no longer spare the feelings of Babe 2: Pig in the CIty, and admitted what pretty much everyone already knew: that his studio has made ... / Continue →
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From Deadline, the above photo is our first look at Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham in Mike Newell's adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. For Tim Burton, this is also his equivalent of when a sitcom wife is awaiting in a slinky nurse outfit, and that's prett... / Continue →
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Your new releases: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson Starring: Kal Penn, John Cho, Neil Patrick Harris Good if you want to see: the Harold & Kumar trilogy end the only way it could: ridiculously, and in 3D. Tower Heist Director: Brett Ratner S... / Continue →
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Recently separated from husband Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez has gained some newfound perspective in her life. After doing a lot of soul searching, considering where things went wrong and where this newly-independent J.Lo needs to go next, Lopez at last has reached the logical ... / Continue →
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Like so many a late-era Simpsons episode, the trailer for Wanderlust takes us in one direction for its first act, then abruptly shifts to reveal its actual plot. To start off, we're given Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston, the Object of My Affection co-stars back together as a ste... / Continue →
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- Here's a first look at Arnold Schwarzenegger, Luis Guzman, Johnny Knoxville, and Jaimie Alexander on the set of The Last Stand. The film will be Arnold's first since leaving office, and yes, it is really a film, not an SNL sketch based around which arbitrary celebrities the ... / Continue →
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Don't let the stoic, armed Denzel Washington fool you: Safe House is somehow not a Tony Scott film. Also do not let the title "Safe House" fool you: this house is not safe at all! Quite the opposite! When rogue agent Denzel is captured and brought into this so-called safe house... / Continue →
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In a seven-figure deal that will keep Andy Serkis in spandex and ping pong balls for a bit longer, Fox has signed Serkis to reprise his motion-capture role as Caesar in a sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes. That film grossed over $450 million worldwide, obviously making i... / Continue →
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As confirmed at a James Bond press conference today, and later relayed by 007's Twitter (naturally), the title and villain rumors were true: Bond 23's official title is indeed Skyfall, and Javier Bardem is our villain. Additionally, director Sam Mendes has now made clear that S... / Continue →
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Ryan Seacrest--seen above as he might appear as you quietly approach him, pillow clutched nervously in your hands--is at last bringing whatever skillset he's been getting by on to the world of film production. The American Idol host, who will soon be featured in the role of Rya... / Continue →
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Clash of the Titans sequel Wrath of the Titans doesn't open until March, but Warner Bros. figures it's never too early to start thinking about what Liam Neeson should release in a third film. Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson, who co-wrote the screenplay for Wrath, have repor... / Continue →
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Confirming yesterday's news that Joel Edgerton has officially stolen Sam Worthington's title of Most Suddenly-Ubiquitous Action Australian, the beady-eyed actor has already been offered another high-profile part. This time it's the role of Russian agent Ilya Kuryakin in Steven ... / Continue →
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Lending some credibility to the '80s television show remake movie genre--a genre that should neither be a genre nor associated with credibility--the R-rated trailer for 21 Jump Street has appeared on Facebook, and it looks like it could be alright in spite of its shared heritag... / Continue →
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So, you know the sitcom episode where Mom and Dad leave for the weekend, and then Junior has a party, but--ut oh!--the party got way out of hand! How is he going to clean up this mess before they get home!? This episode is fucking terrible! Well, thanks to producer Todd Phillip... / Continue →
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As you are probably aware if you have seen a Michael Bay film, Michael Bay is pretty keen on making things explode. Thing is, it can be hard to visualize exactly how many explosions Bay is treating you to while you're still amongst them, your delighted face aglow in CGI flame. ... / Continue →
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Steve Carell is attached to star in and produce Conviction, a heist film that was once being compared to Heat but is now going to be an action comedy for Steve Carell to shout in. The Jonathan Herman-penned script made the 2009 Black List of best unproduced screenplays, and foc... / Continue →
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Claiming the title of Most Suddenly-Ubiquitous Action Australian from Sam Worthington, Joel Edgerton has entered into talks to star in 300 spin-off 300: Battle of Artemisia. Edgerton would play Themistocles, an Athenian archon and general who fought in slow motion against a gre... / Continue →
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Taylor Lautner's plan to just keep his head down, mouth open and let the roles drift in has hit a bit of a snag now that Abduction has shown that his propensity for sit-ups does not translate to box office. To date, the Lautner-starring action film has grossed only $27 million ... / Continue →
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- Speaking to Collider, Albert Brooks revealed that he turned down Burt Reynolds' part in Boogie Nights due to scheduling issues with his own film--and also turned down leads in Big, Dead Poets Society, and Pretty Woman. Women who've spent their whole life looking for a man wit... / Continue →
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Director Terrence Malick didn't make anything for the twenty years between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, but the suddenly-prolific filmmaker seems determined to make up for all that lost time this decade. He already released The Tree of Life this year, and has a still-u... / Continue →
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While some of us feel more than enough shame without even getting laid all that often, Shame's Brandon, played by Michael Fassbender, has managed to work out both a wealth of lady companionship and a shameful existence: an intense sex addiction paired with the embarrassment of ... / Continue →
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It's been over a dozen years since the first American Pie first cast its inescapable spell on Eugene Levy, and a lot has changed for the characters since then. No longer are they movie high schoolers with high school movie problems. Now they're sitcom characters, with sitcom ch... / Continue →
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Just as God created the banana to be held in a hand and consumed by man, it was always the Lord's intent that the Left Behind series be seen on the big screen. Sadly, the slim budgets for Left Behind II: Tribulation Force and Left Behind: World at War resigned Kirk Cameron's co... / Continue →
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The necessity of creating a new version of the Kung Fu series has led Legendary Entertainment to reportedly begin talks with Bill Paxton to direct a film adaptation. The original, '70s-run show starred David Carradine as the orphaned son of an American man and a Chinese woman. ... / Continue →
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Back before Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck, and Michael Peña became involved in the highest stakes tower heist ever recorded by greasy Brett Ratner, Tower Heist was a much different affair. Back then, the film went by the title Trump Heist, and as that equally-di... / Continue →
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- greasy Brett Ratner told the New York Times he's currently working on his "dream project": an adaptation of the hit musical Wicked. Funny, because looking at him, I always imagined his dream project being paying poor women to lick up individually-wrapped margarine patties he ... / Continue →
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Speaking to Deadline about his long-in-development remake of Fantastic Voyage, producer James Cameron revealed that of the many ways his Shawn Levy-directed project will differ from the original, one of the ways will be that his Fantastic Voyage has, by his own decision, been "... / Continue →
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Avengers director Joss Whedon surprised and delighted Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Series DVD owners last week when he revealed he'd somehow snuck an indie Shakespeare adaptation into all his superhero movie crap, and now he's already got another project in the works ... / Continue →
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Showing that Joel and Ethan Coen can both respect their stalwart, familiar casting choices and recognize that J.T. has the voice of an angel, the Coens are working on adding John Goodman and Justin Timberlake to the cast of their next, Inside Llewyn Davis. Loosely based on the... / Continue →
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Bringing together some of our most now-depressing hot talent of the '70s, Robert De Niro and John Travolta will at last be in a movie together, and it somehow is neither a Tarantino nor another Focker. Instead, the two will share screen time on Killing Season, a thriller to be ... / Continue →
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In the interest of finding ever more action-oriented alimony funds, former state leader Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed on to star in QED's Black Sands, a film to be directed by Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy--the guys who made Act of Valor, that movie that looks just as much like... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Puss in Boots - $34 million. Just goes to show, you show off a cat's taint enough and people are gonna take notice. And they're gonna want to see that cat taint again, larger. 2. Paranormal Activity 3 - $18.5 million, holding on to second place tha... / Continue →
