April 22, 2012 - April 28, 2012 Archives
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Chernin Entertainment's "futuristic Jungle Book" now has some company: Warner Bros. and Disney, too, are preparing skewed takes on Rudyard Kipling's world of unlikely community childrearing.... / Continue →
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Here's the trailer for This Is 40, the upcoming comedy that returns writer-director Judd Apatow to the characters of Knocked Up and the desperate mid-life crisis of The 40 Year-Old Virgin. In this case, though, the arrival of a fortieth birthday is not disconcerting because of ... / Continue →
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In a departure from his usual routine of telling Will Ferrell to take it from the top, even dimmer this time, Adam McKay may direct Will Smith and Denzel Washington in Warner Bros.' planned remake of Uptown Saturday Night. But don't worry, it would be after Anchorman 2. We'll s... / Continue →
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Appropriate for the impending release of superhero conglomeration The Avengers, editor sleepyskunk has put together this awesome five-minute montage containing pretty much every superhero movie you can remember--and even some you can't remember until you see Robert Townsend and... / Continue →
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Colin Farrell has been offered a lead alongside Downton Abbey's Jessica Brown Findlay in Akiva Goldsman's feature directorial debut, Winter's Tale. With the talent of Will Smith and Russell Crowe already attached to supporting roles, and Variety describing Farrell's proposed ro... / Continue →
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At CinemaCon this week, Fox debuted some footage from their sequel to the film that suddenly made Liam Neeson an icon of murdering dudes, Taken. As you probably recall, the first film involved some guys kidnapping (takening?) Neeson's daughter and refusing to give her back, for... / Continue →
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Did you know Jeff Goldblum got his start in film as a grown man in a Jughead hat ("Freak #1", naturally)? Well, time to see that, as well as other film debuts, with Flavorwire's video essay of first film appearances, "Encore." As its name implies, it's actually a sequel to an e... / Continue →
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Speaking to a CinemaCon crowd in Las Vegas yesterday, Martin Scorsese basically told a crowd that Taxi Driver would have been way more awesome if Travis Bickle's sleeve gun popped out AT THE AUDIENCE in thrilling 3D.... / Continue →
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Popping up all over a vast network, mirroring Stallone's all-too-visible circulatory system, character posters for The Expendables 2 are here, debuting at JoBlo, Yahoo, Moviefone, Hitfix, AICN, CinemaBlend, MTV, Collider, IGN, Facebook, Fandango, and AllianceFilms. As you maybe... / Continue →
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A FOLLOW-UP TO THE UNFORGETTABLE 1998 ROMANCE BETWEEN SANDRA BULLOCK AND HARRY CONNICK JR.??? God, if only. No, I'm sorry, Hope Springs is not a sequel to Hope Floats. Hope Springs is a lighthearted comedy about Meryl Streep being in a boring, sexless marriage with a husband wh... / Continue →
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With Sacha Baron Cohen's latest hair appliance entering theaters May 16, Paramount has put the opening of The Dictator online as a way to introduce the titular character to those unfamiliar with his work harassing Al Roker and making Ryan Seacrest cry. It's embedded below, but ... / Continue →
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Christina Ricci has agreed to follow-up roles in Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star that stewardess show with a part in The Smurfs 2, as that doesn't seem like such a bad career move at this point. According to the THR report, Ricci will be lending her voice to Vexi, a newly-inven... / Continue →
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In keeping up with the newly-founded American tradition of inexplicably inviting the Three Stooges to professional wrestling matches, Japan too is finding ways to utterly confuse sports spectators with out-of-place, unfocused film tie-ins. In promotion of the upcoming Ringu seq... / Continue →
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From EntertainmentWeekly, here are the first photos from Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film in which freed slave Jamie Foxx attempts to reunite himself with his still-enslaved wife by probably killing everyone in his path in really brutal, cool ways. Above is t... / Continue →
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Here's an interview in which Avengers star Samuel L. Jackson, clearly bored by his press rounds, finds a way to relate all of the interviewer's questions back to Hulk--"Hulk" in this case being an extremely-potent, iridescent, Hulk-shaped strain of weed that Samuel L. Jackson i... / Continue →
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- Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life writer Dean Georgaris has been hired to adapt Relativity Media's recently-acquired Stretch Armstrong property into "a plausible, action-oriented" film. Finally, we'll have a convincing, reasonable action film about a stretchable huma... / Continue →
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Hey, look, the Disney Facebook has been updated with the above piece of Muppets 2 promo art to get us excited about the upcoming sequel! Yay! Unfortunately, now that movie's future is in peril, because Kermit the Frog might be going to German prison.... / Continue →
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Hot on the heels of yesterday's big dumb trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation, here's another big dumb trailer for the action figure-based sequel. This is an international trailer, with less emphasis on Bruce Willis and more focus on ninjas and the fact that The Rock refuses to us... / Continue →
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Oh my, what a nerdy little orgy of superheroism The Avengers will be. As we learned earlier this week, the ensemble superhero film is coming with a brand new Dark Knight Rises trailer attached, as Warner Bros. is counting on the fact that if you like The Avengers, you probably ... / Continue →
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As the Weinsteins were reminded of back in February, Scary Movie sequels do not just spontaneously manifest as soon as enough horror catchphrases reach the ears of a grinning Ghostface mask.... / Continue →
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Here's the trailer for Lawless, the Nick Cave-scripted John Hillcoat film formerly titled The Wettest County until it was realized how quickly every subway ad would have its "o" scratched out. The Prohibition-era drama focuses on a group of violent, bootlegging brothers heroica... / Continue →
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Since we've already seen what The Avengers would look like if it were made in 1952, here's what it would look like as a hypothetical 1978 TV movie. If you're anything like me, your first thought about this will be, "Well, clearly Paul Lynde is involved in some capacity, right?"... / Continue →
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Over the last few years, the inconsistent writing team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have typed-out vivid description of explosions into a long, CGI chain-robot of blockbusters and lesser, would-be tentpoles. Since 2005, the two have shared credit on The Island, Mission: Im... / Continue →
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The first teaser trailer for Hotel Transylvania did a good job assuring everyone that Adam Sandler and friends would pal around vocally just as readily as they pal around in person for any number of Grown Ups films. But, as lovers of scatological humor surely noticed, it did no... / Continue →
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Mistaking Mel Gibson's recent battle cry, "Who wants to eat?! Who the fuck wants to eat?! Go have something to eat! Hurrrrraaaaayyyyyy!", as an enthusiastic hunger to redeem himself in the public spotlight, Robert Rodriguez has reportedly closed a deal for Gibson to appear in t... / Continue →
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Here's the latest trailer for Disney-Pixar's Brave, the animated film about a Scottish princess who does not want to get married but does want to shoot arrows and fight bears and have a ton of hair. This one keeps a lot of the tone and plot points of prior trailers, but adds a ... / Continue →
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Tree of Life's Jessica Chastain and Chinese icon Andy Lau are in talks to join Shane Black's Iron Man 3, lending that film more scientists of the sexy and/or Chinese variety.... / Continue →
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If we didn't care about Lionsgate's Chaos Walking adaptation before, now we're going to have to start, because Charlie Kafuman is adapting the first book in the young-adult series.... / Continue →
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This latest trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation wastes little time in explaining why Joe star Channing Tatum was so absent from the last trailer for the film. As the preview--and presumably the actual film--opens, the entire G.I. Joe action figure line is attacked by the U.S.'s o... / Continue →
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Ever wonder how a belated Today show filler segment would be improved by the addition of impossible-to-hate comic actors? Well, here's something like that: Mansome, the latest documentary from Morgan Spurlock (of Guys, Look! Look How Many McDonald's I'm Eating! fame). This time... / Continue →
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Well, the Fast Six team failed to procure the high-mileage import Statham they had their eyes on, but they have managed to secure Haywire star Gina Carano.... / Continue →
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Following up on some old rumors, Russell Crowe and Lindsay Lohan have now been confirmed to play heroes of the Bible and White Diamonds commercials.... / Continue →
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Lionsgate's The Hunger Games has been doing so well with Jennifer Lawrence in the lead, the studio is going to try giving the actress a new starring part that involves less dystopian murdersport.... / Continue →
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May 4th will truly be a landmark day in the field of adults make-believing they're superheroes: It turns out the day will see not just The Avengers release but a new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises.... / Continue →
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As most suspected when the first photo from The Lone Ranger revealed Johnny Depp with a bird on his head, it was Johnny Depp's idea to litter avian matter atop his usual combo of makeup and wigged headband. But why did Johnny Depp decide Johnny Depp's Native American should hav... / Continue →
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This has probably been around for some time on a bonus disc of one of the many Lion King releases, but since it's just recently been uploaded to our internet: here's video of voice-over legend Frank Welker doing an amazing job acting like a hobo, snarling into a garbage can to ... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Think Like a Man - $33 million. After a month at the top, Hunger Games has been dethroned by an adaptation of another book. (The book where Steve Harvey is like, "Men are like THIS, ladies," and it's laughable because it's so indisputably true.) 2.... / Continue →
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As you'll see all over the internet today, here's a short time-lapse made by a filmmaking father who filmed his daughter, Lotte, once a week from her birth until her twelfth birthday. It's an interesting study of the slow but steady changes the body makes as it progresses from ... / Continue →
