January 8, 2012 - January 14, 2012 Archives
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Lionsgate Buying Summit Entertainment, Putting All Our Hugely-Popular Young Adult Eggs in One BasketJoyously marrying like a casual vampire and his human bride, two major independent studios are coming together in a single blessed union, with Lionsgate today announcing the buyout of a young and frightened but excited Summit Entertainment. In a deal for $412.5 million in cash ... / Continue →
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With the departure of Smallville leaving a hole in CW's schedule just waiting to be filled by another collection of attractive young people who correspond to DC comics characters, the still-existant network is nearing a deal to order a pilot based on archery-based superhero Gre... / Continue →
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Your new releases: Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Beckinsale Good if you want to see: Mark Wahlberg tape things to himself, so that you will never know when he sneaks them past you under his t-shirt. Joyful Noise Director... / Continue →
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Catching on a bit late to the whole vampire craze, and catching on even later to the whole youthful sex craze, NBC has put into motion a plan to bring a "young, sexy and supernatural" Count Dracula series to their lineup. Described as "Dangerous Liaisons meets The Tudors"--whic... / Continue →
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While Lincoln is the Abraham Lincoln film stealing most of the spotlight thanks to the involvement of Steven Spielberg and lack of a fictionalized vampire-killin' storyline, the one that will next arrive in theaters is Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. We've ... / Continue →
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Last we heard about those long-talked about plans to make some money on another Beetlejuice film, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies writer Seth Grahame-Smith was rumored to be using his dubious talent at tacking stock Halloween costumes onto ti... / Continue →
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- James Franco is ready to once again get into some biopic homoeroticism by starring as photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the aptly-titled Mapplethorpe. And that Franco-esque shape when you blink? That's just a negative Franco burnt into your retinas. - Drew Goddard and Jos... / Continue →
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Bruce Willis is back in his Breakfast of Champions toupée, Ed Norton is in a scout uniform, Jason Schwartzman is in a mustache, Bill Murray is drunk and shirtless and armed, and every shot and prop has been carefully selected for maximum affecting, nostalgic tweeness when place... / Continue →
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Neither possessing the talent to live out their active sixties in a smooth rock cover band, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger may once again be teaming up to grunt at each other in a big dumb action movie. The two--who sadly only realized twenty years too late that t... / Continue →
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We Need To Talk About Kevin mashed upon Home Alone? Yeah... yeah, I can't deny that works. But is the implication that Tilda Swinton in bed with the Wet Bandits?... / Continue →
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Having been earlier this week implicated in a rape case against actress Kim Novak--not for actual rape or anything, but for using a song from Vertigo in The Artist, but same diff--director Michel Hazanavicius has come forward to defend himself on the hefty charge. "I've done n... / Continue →
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The Dark Knight Rises and its cacophony of Bat-growling, Bane-mumbling, and impressive Cat-breathing won't hit your ears for another six months, and though you should obviously already have tickets or you're fucked, for those of you still needing of convincing that this Batman ... / Continue →
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Well, apparently Jennifer Westfeldt really loved the shit out of Bridesmaids. The writer and star of Kissing Jessica Stein makes her directorial debut with Friends with Kids, and in it she's crammed herself against Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Maya Rudolph, and Chris O'Dowd--as well... / Continue →
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- Though Avatar 2 was once promised as a December 2014 release, a means to ring in the new year with Sam Worthington's blue whatever thing, producer Jon Landau now says the first sequel is "four years away." Nice job ruining Christmas, James Cameron. - Disney has hired X2 and ... / Continue →
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As if there wasn't already enough James Franco to dominate our headlines, fill our screens, clutter up our college classrooms, and Francofy our minds until we eventually succumb to Francophrenia--premiering later this month at the Rotterdam International Film Festival!--omnipre... / Continue →
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If you believe the words of a 12-year-old--which you can't always, because sometimes it turns out they're just making fun of you and DO NOT actually think you look real cool in your scarf--Sam Raimi's Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful, will include the same "holy... / Continue →
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With Thor 2 falling from Monster director Patty Jenkins' grasp and into the hands of generally-good-television director Alan Taylor, Marvel has decided the film should get a new writer, too--one who can take that ewww girl's script for girls and maybe turn it into a powerful mi... / Continue →
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Six months remain before the release of The Dark Knight Rises at least reveals why Batman now uses some kind of modified Super Nintendo light gun to fight crime, but theaters in some major markets have decided you should start buying tickets to the Batman sequel RIGHT NOW, so t... / Continue →
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Jersey Boys, the Broadway hit that absolutely made Mom's visit to New York with its presentation of familiar songs in a showier context, is now going to be a feature film, and John Logan is going to write it. GK Films is producing the adaptation of the jukebox musical, which p... / Continue →
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On today's episode of Michael Biehn's Tales of the Post-Apocalypse, Michael Biehn (Terminator, Aliens) has run out of patience and also run out of budget, forcing Michael Biehn to make today's episode an anger-filled bottle episode. Basically, this means it does not have a lot ... / Continue →
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- Colombiana's Jordi Molla and Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff are in talks to join the latest Riddick chronicle, whatever it's going to be called. Both actors would be playing mercenaries tracking Riddick, though one will probably end up dead, and the other will probably... / Continue →
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Eager to celebrate their 100th and show off how their grandson taught them Photoshop, Universal Pictures has debuted a new, updated version of their logo that sports an anniversary mention and this really happening lens flare. An animated version will soon debut with next month... / Continue →
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Lindsay Lohan's long talked-about plan for a comeback leading role is apparently now scheduled to occur sandwiched between something involving Tracey Gold and Rob Lowe's cries of being untouchable. According to THR, the starlet whose vagina the paparazzi once loved is in talks ... / Continue →
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Well, I hope you weren't too excited about seeing Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton put on their Van Helsing hand-me-downs and murder some Wiccans, because you're going to have to wait another year for that to happen. Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters, the action film that just last... / Continue →
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With God dead, along with Jim Carrey's once-thriving career, Universal is hoping now is the time both will agree to make another broad, high-concept family comedy. The studio is reportedly now in talks with Carrey's Yes Man writing team to write another Bruce Almighty sequel--o... / Continue →
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Concerned the title Resident Evil: Retribution had a bit too much dignity for such a thinly-stretched excuse to make Milla Jovovich slide/jump around shooting pistols, Screen Gems has decided to tweak the name to better identify the film as the lazy, unabashed facsimile it real... / Continue →
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Apparently taking our pained cries of "do not remake Police Academy" as casual cries of "just wait a couple years, then it should be fine to remake Police Academy," New Line is at last moving forward with its two-year-old plan to reboot the near-Harry Potter-length Police Acade... / Continue →
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Everyone's favorite expression for when something is funny enough to elicit laughter, but not so funny as to make one roll around on the ground, is now a movie that's embarrassing to even speak aloud! It's LOL, a remake of a French film with the same unfortunate title, but now ... / Continue →
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Bravely coming forward rather than letting a repurposed film score shame and victimize her, Vertigo star Kim Novak has come forward to accuse the critically-acclaimed film The Artist of being a rapist. In a statement that, mayyyyybe crossing a line in its use of a key term, op... / Continue →
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Back in September 2010, Warner Bros. looked jealously upon Alice in Wonderland, and plaintively wished upon a star that they one day get their very own Tim Burton-esque adaptation of an old Disney cartoon. And today, thanks to a little magic and a ton of money, it seems the stu... / Continue →
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Jeremy Renner has taken the reigns of the Bourne series from a departing Matt Damon, but producers apparently aren't quite ready to trust the back of his head will sell a movie poster. So, the studio has gone with they perceive as the more bankable option: just some kind of met... / Continue →
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A few weeks ago, I had the misfortune of treating myself to a complete viewing of the stirring finale to the Big Momma trilogy, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son. At one point in this viewing, a faux-obese Martin Lawrence shouted "wardrobe malfunction," and as slowly collapsed ... / Continue →
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Always trying to keep up with the Bluths, Party Down now too is claiming a return to screens in a real, less-theoretical sense than the usual flimsy promiseswe've become used to hearing. The latest update to the long-talked-about film follow-up to the cult-favorite series comes... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. The Devil Inside - $34.5 million. The film had dismal reviews, but few could resist beholding the miracle of a Christian cold sore. 2. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - $20.5 million. That's $458 million total worldwide paid to Tom Cruise's jo... / Continue →
