December 4, 2011 - December 10, 2011 Archives
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- Tom Cruise has confirmed rumors that we're getting a Top Gun sequel. Claiming they're "working on it," Cruise explained, "If we can find a story that we all want to do, we all want to make a film that is in the same kind of tone as the other one and shoot it in the same way a... / Continue →
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Though just hours ago we got our first look at What To Expect When You're Expecting's plethora of mildly-humorous relationship situations, already another self-help-book-turned-ensemble-romantic-comedy has arrived. This one is for Think Like a Man, a film that differs from WTEW... / Continue →
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Though Taylor Kitsch has kept himself busy fighting CGI aliens abroad, he has not forgotten his responsibility to defend our own world from CGI alien forces as well. In this trailer for Battleship--ostensibly based on the parlor game of the same name, though no it isn't--Kitsch... / Continue →
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Well, as we suspected would happen, the expiration of the Dark Knight Rises "Operation Early Bird" countdown clock has revealed a map to reserve tickets for an early, Tuesday, December 13th screening of the film's long-awaited six-minute IMAX prologue. Unfortunately for those i... / Continue →
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New releases!: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Director: Tomas Alfredson Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Hurt, Mark Strong Good if you want to see: roughly half of the UK's respectable male actors engaged in some serious Cold War spy shit. ... / Continue →
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Effectively recreating the experience of flipping through decades of network sitcoms, What To Expect When You're Expecting tosses its 50 or so actors into various relationship scenarios and lets them take turns delivering cute lines about being married and/or pregnant. Basicall... / Continue →
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Following up on yesterday's sort of meaningless beginning of a viral campaign, The Dark Knight Rises Twitter today supplied another piece of photocopied puzzle--and this one actually has some utility. This latest xerox repeatedly teases something called "Operation Early Bird" w... / Continue →
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A studio cannot subsist on Saw sequels and Tyler Perry's alone, no matter how hard they might try, Lionsgate has decided they'd better go ahead with a remake of Mary Harron's cult classic, American Psycho. The project is to be written and directed by Noble Jones, a second unit... / Continue →
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Because it's not at all depressing to see that the attendees of a high school reunion have either never moved or did leave only to tragically return to the exact same spot they were at ten years prior, here's the in no way grim American Reunion poster--an updated, heavily-Photo... / Continue →
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Last year around this time, DreamWorks Animation promised us somewhere around four Madagascars, six Kung Fu Pandas, and a minimum of three How To Train Your Dragons, thus providing a lifetime of "DreamWorks face" to comfort us when all the other familiar faces have passed on or... / Continue →
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As part of its regular series in which it finds some slightly varied way to evaluate and rank how much money celebrities make, Forbes has released its (maybe yearly?) listing of "Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck." And as it turns out, the vacant stare of Kristen Stewart was... / Continue →
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Striking fear into those of us foolishly thinking our heads safe from some sort of blade-covered skull vice, Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns has come forward to warn us that the perennial Saw franchise will not end on whatever number the last one was. A reminder that his ... / Continue →
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What if Lisbeth Salander were a really terrible party girl, and Mikael Blomkvist was True Blood werewolf? The answer:... / Continue →
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Back when the massive viral campaign for The Dark Knight had us dutifully scouring the internet for Batman marketing, it took months before anything as relevant as a Heath Ledger Clown photo emerged. More recently, for The Dark Knight Rises, Warner's campaign got right to the p... / Continue →
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So often with a rejected lover, the dismissal of their unwanted advances sends them straight into the arms of a similar substitute, and with Benicio del Toro rebuffing J.J. Abrams' offers to join him on a romantic journey through the stars, Abrams already has his eye on another... / Continue →
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If you like to watch young, well-to-do engaged couples coping with the stresses of a relationship but generally happy overall, you should probably go to a fancy brunch place and just fucking stare. But if that's a bit too much of a hassle, now there's a similar alternative than... / Continue →
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Ever wanted to see Brad Pitt in Eraserhead hair, Rooney Mara as a hot girl's Clockwork Orange costume, or Gary Oldman as either an evil ventriloquist dummy or a lethargic drag king? Look no further! Videos of just such stars doing just such things--as well as videos of Ryan Gos... / Continue →
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The first trailer for the Farrelly Brothers' The Three Stooges is here, and to its credit, it does seem to capture the spirit and mannerisms of the original crew about as well as you could hope for. Unfortunately, it also injects the Stooges with supplemental iPhone gags and Sn... / Continue →
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Marvel's hiring of Monster's Patty Jenkins to direct Thor 2 has always seemed like a somewhat baffling choice for the job. When the decision was announced, I figured it must have been that the studio liked her proposed approach; but no, it turns out they do not like her propose... / Continue →
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Despite making so, so many terrible comedies, Adam Sandler has maintained some slim illusion of standards by at least always starring in original painfully-high-concept premises--never resorting to a sequel, no matter how much Click 2: Wackier Remote would have inevitably made.... / Continue →
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Transformers fans who've been asking Santa for another two hours of spinning metal shards may just be getting their wish. Though Michael Bay officially denied a previous report that he was in talks with Paramount to direct Transformers 4, Vulture claims those talks did happen a... / Continue →
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In a partnership that could create a powerful near-monopoly in the thin-hot-action-lady business, Angelina Jolie and Luc Besson may be teaming up on a thriller in the near future. The project is reportedly a "big-scale" film closer in tone to Besson's earlier work--more La Femm... / Continue →
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If the previous trailers for The Lorax didn't convince you to see the film and stop chopping down trees made of hair, maybe this one will do it. In addition to it showing more of the film's central conflict, an introduction by Danny DeVito gives a peek at what it would be like ... / Continue →
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Backing up what we'd already heard about Up director Pete Docter taking a Pixar film "inside the human mind," Disney•Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter appeared on Charlie Rose Friday with some new details on the project. It isn't just any mind wer'e going to go inside:... / Continue →
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Bad news for those hoping Tom Hooper's film adaptation of Les Misérables would be in 3D, thus lending Hugh Jackman's performance all the in-your-face Jackman showmanship of Hugh Jackman in Performance and Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway. Speaking to the BBC, the director reveale... / Continue →
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With Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close tearfully arriving in theaters next month, a new trailer has arrived to painfully remind Will and Jaden Smith that they for some reason aren't the stars of this mawkish tale. Sorry, Smiths, but director Stephen Daldry apparently decided ... / Continue →
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Back when we first learned that the title of John Carter of Mars was being shorted to John Carter, to many it seemed a strange decision. After all, a guy named John Carter who is of Mars is obviously a lot more intriguing than a guy who is just named John Carter and could be of... / Continue →
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With shooting on Star Trek 2 aiming for a January start, director J.J. Abrams is back to searching for someone to play his film's villain after negotiations with Benicio del Toro failed to come any agreement last week. For the last month, there have been rumors that del Toro wa... / Continue →
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If you've been wondering what sort of monster could possibly not like the Muppets, there is now an answer: the monsters at Fox News, obviously. This weekend, the Fox Truth Train finally arrived to derail all the unbridled positivity that's surrounded the Muppets since their mo... / Continue →
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How is Sam Worthington going to act from under so much hair, you ask? At first, he wondered the same thing, but he quickly found a solution: more screaming! And another stabby thing, please, prop department. The above first look at Clash of the Titans sequel Wrath of the Titan... / Continue →
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"You think you know the story; you think you know the place," teases the Cabin in the Woods trailer. And indeed, the setup of teens going out alone to a spooky wilderness retreat does seem like a story and setting that we should be pretty familiar with. But then... then comes t... / Continue →
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Always eager to show off the hidden plights of the glitterati, Lost in Translation and Somewhere director Sofia Coppola is rumored to be working on a new film to tell the woeful tale of when some kids robbed celebrities of their rich-people shit. According to TMZ's sources, Cop... / Continue →
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Speaking at a Mumbai screening of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Procol on Sunday, Tom Cruise delighted Indian reporters with broad, promissory statements his publicist no doubt can't wait to clarify. Among them? The claim that Cruise would "never say no" to a Bollywood film: "I ... / Continue →
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RoboCop and Buckaroo Banzai star Peter Weller is expected to expand his sci-fi legend and join the cast of J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek sequel. As with most J.J. Abrams news items, the director made everyone promise not to say any specifics or they aren't his friend anymore,... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 - $16.9 million, taking the top spot for the third consecutive weekend. Who knew you could make so much money off of a half-vampire baby birth? The answer: black market baby traders. 2. The Muppets - $11.2 m... / Continue →
