November 6, 2011 - November 12, 2011 Archives
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- Though credited as sole writer of his previous nine films, M. Night Shyamalan has turned to Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan to do a final polish on his lastest script, One Thousand A.E. Ideally, Gaghan's re-write includes an altered ending, thus allowing Shyamalan to fina... / Continue →
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A new Toy Story short will premiere before the November 23 release of The Muppets, and USA Today has the first look at the franchise's newest addition to the cast: a Happy Meal version of Buzz Lightyear. Writer/director Angus MacLane revealed that the short's story deals with a... / Continue →
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Your new releases: Jack & Jill Director: Dennis Dugan Starring: Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler in a Wig, Al Pacino Good if you want to see: fairly comprehensive rundown here, but in short, it's Adam Sandler being angry at his Adam Sandler sister, and it's pretty gross. Immortals ... / Continue →
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Last month, Disney released a Muppets trailer that made claim to being the final parody in a long string of Muppet-based spoofs. Well, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but the Muppets are dirty fucking liars:... / Continue →
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Generally speaking, no one gives an ess about anyone else's baby photos--and that goes as well for those of you thinking you have cute babies. I promise you, your baby isn't really all that cute. Still, even knowing this, parents for some reason can't help but feel the need to ... / Continue →
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In Safe, Jason Statham once again proves himself fully capable of playing Jason Statham, shooting pistols, driving wrecklessly, and snarling threats via flip phone for a combined time of at least 90 minutes. But this could be Jason Statham's toughest assignment as Jason Statham... / Continue →
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Lending dismal validity to all of yesterday's cheap jokes, the Academy has confirmed that, in the interest of injecting the Oscars with some much-needed youthful energy and edge, they have selected hot young comic William Crystal to host their 82nd annual awards ceremony. The s... / Continue →
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Fans of Steven Soderbergh, Michael Fassbender, MMA fighter Gina Carano, and/or vicarious sadomasochism will want to take a look at EntertainmentWeekly's new trailer for Haywire. Like in the last trailer, the mixed martial artist is again shown beating the shit out of a bunch of... / Continue →
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Yesterday's colorful-yet-gothic poster and this first trailer's eagerness to boast of coming "from the producer of Alice in Wonderland" really makes it seem like Universal would love for us to believe Snow White and the Huntsman is a fanciful morsel left dangling off Tim Burton... / Continue →
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In a major PR coup that may at last steal the coveted "adolescent getting ready for school" demographic away from those bastards at Today, ABC's Good Morning America has secured the rights to premiere the first full trailer for Lionsgate's seemingly-anticipated adaptation of Th... / Continue →
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Teaming the absurdly high-concept mind of writer Steve Koren (recent Adam Sandler classics Jack & Jill and Click), the director who played Eric on Head of the Class (recent Eddie Murphy classics Norbit and Meet Dave), and an actor who will do absolutely any broad comedy that ca... / Continue →
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Gareth Evans' Indonesian action film The Raid won the audience award big North American buzz at the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness sidebar, and now it's time to see how that movie's premise does with less Asians and more English. Deadline reports Screen ... / Continue →
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Brendan Fraser and his hair appliances have been excised from the series, but the Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D franchise continues, with star Josh Hutcherson now travelling with a typically-incredulous The Rock, Luis Guzmán, and Vanessa Hudgens on the search for THE MY... / Continue →
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- To yesterday's rundown of all known Jack & Jill gags, also add that Jill apparently finds her way onto the Price Is Right stage--so prepare to bid closest to the LAUGHTER price without going over! (The actual laughter price is the cost of a ticket to see Jack & Jill, in theat... / Continue →
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Lost amongst Brett Ratner's recent, vocal opinions on rehearsals, "banging," and whether or not he should be producing the Academy Awards was news this week that the greasy director would be remaking the 1982 teen film The Last American Virgin. In the same Howard Stern intervie... / Continue →
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Incapable of functioning without his leader, an Eddie Murphy-shaped vessel stranded without the little alien captain in his head piloting him, Eddie Murphy has resigned as host of the Oscars in light of greasy Brett Ratner's departure. If the awards won't be a symbolic celebrat... / Continue →
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Liam Gallagher is currently working with 24 Hour Party People director Michael Winterbottom on a Beatles film centered around late publicist Derek Taylor, but speaking to The Independent, the younger sibling of Oasis revealed there are times, when getting hammered, that he star... / Continue →
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The domestic Lorax trailer was cute and all, but it needlessly lightened the mood of Dr. Seuss's woeful ecological tale with a the Polyphonic Spree song and a tacked-on romance involving a creature that looked like Sissy Spacek as a haunting Muppet. If you want the real deal--t... / Continue →
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Boasting imagery plucked from the ill-defined area between Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and a Britney Spears perfume commercial, here's the first banner for Snow White and the Huntsman. As is my duty to remind you, this is just one of two Snow White adaptations coming out i... / Continue →
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Confirming what should have already been made pretty apparent by last season's Community's paintball epic, Dan Harmon made clear to DigitalSpy that he is truly doing God's work in terms of Alison Brie bouncing. The series creator told the interviewer: I do try many times a sea... / Continue →
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In a move that will give the director a freer schedule to at last legitimately bang Olivia Munn a few times, greasy Brett Ratner has resigned from his position as producer of the 84th annual Academy Awards telecast. In an open letter that, tastefully, never once deems awards sh... / Continue →
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- The Dark Knight Rises shoot in New York City appears to have been a re-shoot of the same scenes shot in Pittsburgh in August--except this time, Batman and Bane probably kissed. - James Bond's official Twitter account has announced Helen McCrory and Ola Rapace as the newest c... / Continue →
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Those skeptical that such career-height giants as Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris would ever agree to share the spotlight today eat their words, as there are now actual photos of both noted jumpkickers on the Bulgarian set of The Expendables 2. Above, JCVD playfully ligh... / Continue →
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Hayley Atwell--the actress who singlehandedly made Captain America: The First Avenger the recipient of my grotesque, lascivious lip-smacking--has signed on to join The Return Of Captain Nemo, a $10 million sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Atwell would play the heroine, S... / Continue →
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Creating what appears to be the craziest video game adaptation since John Leguizamo played Luigi, eclectic and prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike has apparently directed an adaptation of the popular video game series Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban, Japan!).... / Continue →
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Joss Whedon's 2007 attempt at scripting a Wonder Woman movie didn't end up finding its way to screens--instead this woman-shaped latex thing almost found its way onto primetime television--but the Buffy creator has not forgotten his vision of writing yet another geeky action he... / Continue →
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Always eager to play any character running around with a pistol, Clive Owen has signed on to star in Moonstone Entertainment's new action film, Recall. Owen will play an NSA agent trying to work out the details of a failed hostage rescue and quickly learning that he can't trust... / Continue →
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With Yahoo Serious's Young Einstein now far enough behind us that another film about the young, famous genius won't seem too derivative, Universal is developing a movie covering the life of a youthful Leonardo da Vinci. Like The Tick episode before it, Universal's Leonardo will... / Continue →
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With the film opening this weekend--and with no one doing the responsible thing and telling those accountable to stop this--the Adam Sandler comedy Jack & Jill now has quite a wealth of clips and television spots available on its terrible YouTube page. I would never expect you ... / Continue →
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Perhaps called back into existence by the thought of searching for Jennifer Lopez over the course of 90 intolerable minutes, long-forgotten plans to shape Where's Waldo? into a live-action feature film were today spotted amongst a busy array of bullshit and presented as a good ... / Continue →
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For all those wondering how Tower Heist and X-Men 3 came across as such naturalistic, vérité-style pieces of cinema, greasy Brett Ratner has at last revealed the secret motto that guides his filmmaking hand: "rehearsal's for fags." Pithy! Speaking at a question and answer sess... / Continue →
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If you're up for more heartbreaking news from Roger Ebert, he has some for you: unless someone will finance his latest iteration of his thumb-based review program, it's going off the air. Though Ebert Presents: At the Movies is a success by Ebert's own measure, with "a coverage... / Continue →
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With his first 3D film, Martin Scorsese has earned high praise for his use of the technology, with three-dimensional evangelist James Cameron even reportedly calling Scorsese's Hugo "the best use of 3D he had seen, including his own films." So, having bested Cameron at his own ... / Continue →
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As Jaume Collet-Serra's live-action Akira continues to expand and mutate into something that more and more isn't quite Akira, two more actors have been taken into its fleshy folds. With TRON: Legacy's Garrett Hedlund confirmed to play the film's lead, Kaneda, now the search is ... / Continue →
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Want to take an active role in the making of The Dark Knight Rises? Capable of blindly joining in with a cult-like chant? If so, then you, too, can be one of the many providing the next Batman film with a free, uncredited vocal performance. Playful yet casual composer Hans Zimm... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Puss in Boots - After a lackluster opening attributed largely to unseasonable weather and Wold Series viewing, the Shrek spin-off this week fell only an unheard-of 3%, holding the top spot with $33 million. In other words, Puss in Boots has stolen m... / Continue →
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Andy Rooney, the man who for years gave a rambling voice to those too senile or otherwise infirm to themselves deliver monologues on whatever first comes to their minds, died Friday night of complications following surgery. He was 92. Born in Albany, NY, in 1919, Rooney worked... / Continue →
