May 13, 2012 - May 19, 2012 Archives
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- Ryan Reynolds is reportedly now the frontrunner to take over the Christopher Lambert role in the long-developing remake of Highlander. Great news for everyone who saw Wolverine and thought, "That was great and all, but could I please see Ryan Reynolds in just one more terribl... / Continue →
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A rare Bill Murray-heavy film to not be driven by an auteur's distinct voice or Garfield's love of lasagna, Hyde Park on Hudson is an adaptation of a BBC radio play about a weekend of monarch-meeting and wild, wild cousin love for noted cousin-lover/president Franklin Delano Ro... / Continue →
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In the latest Alex Cross film, Tyler Perry temporarily strips away his fat suit to play the detective/psychologist--first portrayed by Morgan Freeman in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider--as he hunts for his wife's murderer. Lost's Matthew Fox plays said murderer/MMA fight... / Continue →
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Wise to leave all the film's spurting whipped cream out of this shot. This way it will take the guy defacing the bus shelter at least another twenty seconds to draw in the semen.... / Continue →
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Noting, "the world is too violent now," and fearing he is only encouraging this violence every time he fights a man with a refrigerator, Jackie Chan has announced his retirement from action movies. Just as soon as he does Rush Hour 4. And Karate Kid 2. But that's really more of... / Continue →
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With a Short Circuit remake and a farting dog movie on his plate, one would think Alvin and the Chipmunks and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties director Tim Hill would have more than enough servings live-action and CGI to fill him for a while. But Tim Hill's desire for broad, fam... / Continue →
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Alcon Entertainment's belated Blade Runner franchise initiative is still easy enough to question--as easy as snidely reminding everyone that Alcon had a hand in Dude, Where's My Car?, Racing Stripes, the Wicker Man remake, P.S. I Love You, One Missed Call, The Sisterhood of the... / Continue →
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Before he gets around to bringing Speed to the highbrow world of classical piano, Elijah Wood is starring in Maniac, in which he brings women's scalps to the world of a maniac who wants to put them on his mannequins. This remake of the 1980 William Lustig cult classic was writt... / Continue →
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This bootlegged recording will probably be pulled soon, so if you want to see the Anchorman: The Legend Continues teaser without going to a theater, now is the time to do that. Now is also the time to cream in your jeans:... / Continue →
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In The Words, Bradley Cooper and Ben Barnes--separated from one another by decades, Cooper in the present and Barnes in some de-saturated time in the past--each struggle with writer's block, get inspired by a beautiful woman, and are finally met with rejection after completing ... / Continue →
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Because they love each other, he and his bald brothers, Larry David has decided on Paul's Greg Mottola to direct a largely-improvised comedy he plans to star in for Fox Searchlight.... / Continue →
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From the official site, here's the first Skyfall poster, an image that at last allows James Bond entrance to the one dripping orifice he's been taunted with and denied all these years: the gun barrel. Skyfall's first teaser is due Monday, so try to hold out until then to see wh... / Continue →
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On October 5th, Liam Neeson returns to his definitive role of Whoever Liam Neeson Was Playing in Taken (Assuming Someone Bothered Naming Him) for Taken 2. As we learned last month, director Olivier Megaton is ever-so-slightly altering the "Neeson fucking dudes up" formula this ... / Continue →
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Just when you though the Dark Knight Rises viral campaign couldn't get any more exciting, now a partnership between Warner Bros. and PepsiCo will see select locations decorated with the sight of a dejected Batman standing in a garbage can of Mountain Dew, the woebegone hero's c... / Continue →
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When Eugene Levy unwitting money laundering turns him into a witness against the mob, the state knows he "can't go into one of our regular safe houses," because that wouldn't lead to side-splitting laughs. "What are you suggesting?" Tyler Perry (lawyer variant) asks, still play... / Continue →
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Another chapter of a viral campaign that has included staging a TED talk of the future and stuffing Michael Fassbender in a dry cleaning bag, here's a Prometheus promo in which Noomi Rapace's Dr. Elizabeth Shaw beseeches Peter Weyland to fund an outer space venture that, thanks... / Continue →
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- Isabelle Furhman, who played Clove in Hunger Games and Orphan's orphan, has landed the lead in the Suspiria remake David Gordon Green has long demanded to make. Dario Argento's 1977 horror focused on a dancer who discovers her new academy is secretly a coven of witches, but l... / Continue →
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"You have that knot in your gut... that feeling in the air... that voice in your head... Don't ignore it. Sometimes... it's the only warning you'll get." Such is the cautionary advice of the muttering narrator in this trailer. But he's not talking about just any threat, you guy... / Continue →
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While new Edgar Wright would be shooting The World's End in September was exciting from the perspective of finishing up his Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, the downside to this announcement was that it seemed to indicate Wright's long-gestating Ant-Man film was once again bein... / Continue →
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The one that is not employing any actors from Two and a Half Men to put on a mock turtleneck. / Continue →
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From AV Club and THR, here are some shots from the upcoming Community that will take the Greendale gang inside a video game. The impetus for the pixelated journey is said to involve Pierce fighting for his inheritance against Gilbert Lawson (Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito), ... / Continue →
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Star Trek's Chris Pine has co-written and is now attached to produce and star in Mantivities, a comedy based around a portmanteau Pine apparently thought would make immediate sense to everyone. "Man activities," I guess? That doesn't really work, Kirk.... / Continue →
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By the bird or facial hair of whatever your chosen god, here's the teaser poster for Anchorman: The Legend Continues, which is seemingly what we're calling this Anchorman follow-up now. As mentioned yesterday, this banner goes along with a teaser trailer attached to tonight's D... / Continue →
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Back when we first learned Michel Gondry was making film that would put 35 non-actor kids from the Bronx on a bus, I just sort of assumed that "bus" meant "discarded refrigerator box with beach ball wheels and dreams for fuel" and "non-actor kids" meant, I don't know, "physical... / Continue →
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Hah! It's funny because the animator who did this wished he would die. "Kill Me Now": An Artist's Plea For Help? [CartoonBrew] (via)... / Continue →
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Opening June 1 in select locations, A Cat in Paris is one of the two GKIDS-distributed foreign films to have won a Best Animated Feature nomination over Tintin--partially because the Academy's old guy voters are confused and fearful of whatever soul-stealing technology Tintin e... / Continue →
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Not a lot of new footage in these new featurettes from Wes Anderson's latest, but you will get a lot of behind-the-scenes moments from the production that will make you really wish you were there skipping rocks and falling off bikes with Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, an... / Continue →
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Alfonso Cuarón's eagerly-anticipated sci-fi follow-up to the amazing Children of Men has been delayed until next year, because we have frankly done nothing to deserve it this year. Try harder, everyone.... / Continue →
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Is The Good Doctor a carefully-shot Sundance drama or an ironically-titled Lifetime Original Movie meant to further frighten women against men and hospitals? Is star Orlando Bloom really a "good doctor," or is he a very bad doctor with a proclivity for poisoning anyone it takes... / Continue →
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It's been rumored since last week, but at last Ron Burgundy himself has confirmed: pronounced mustache and wacky beard will come together as fully ridiculous facial hair, with an Anchorman 2 teaser attached to The Dictator. As Burgundy anachronistically tweeted:... / Continue →
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It seems Channing Tatum shall be our Murphy Brown of Die Hard scenarios, nobly highlighting the tiring strain of both single parenthood and fighting a bunch of terrorists while largely unclothed from the waist up.... / Continue →
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Once able to defend himself as alter-ego "Pony-Boy" and, later, the darker "Soul-Man," C. Thomas Howell turns to a fellow superhero to save his son in this clip from the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man. Following the clip, there's also an extended version of something like the last... / Continue →
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Like an episode of Two and a Half Men in which Ashton Kutcher puts on a mock turtleneck and some jeans. (See these jeans below.)... / Continue →
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Lee Hardcastle, the claymation animator who realized the horrors of The Thing through Pingu's wide eyes, has now put together an abbreviated yet way gorier version of The Raid, now with clay cats doing all that film's awesome shit. If you have not seen The Raids: firstly, you s... / Continue →
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There hasn't been much progress on Taylor Lautner playing "19-year-old extreme-sports athlete" Max Steel, but the Twilight werewolf will nonetheless ab-muscle his way into becoming the extreme, radical dude of a new generation of Mountain Dew sponsorship.... / Continue →
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As anyone who has watched the Fast/Furious franchise knows, the most exciting and believable recurring character is the gear shifter, whose appreciable on-screen changes propel the story and give something to cut to between screeching tire shots. Well, now the same guy who edit... / Continue →
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Providing an update on the Pee-wee movie he last danced across our bars almost two years ago, Paul Reubens recently teased the Judd Apatow-produced film is going to happen "any minute, supposedly."... / Continue →
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We've already seen the first two Dark Knight Rises trailers translated into the visuals of Batman: The Animated Series; only makes sense we'd eventually see the final trailer given the same treatment, layering Christian Bale growling over some Bruce Timm drawings. Here it is. W... / Continue →
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While, in the U.S., we reserve the honor of becoming a parade-less float for only the most uproarious Eddie Murphy vehicles, in Japan, this tremendous showing of giant foam respect has been shown for the upcoming Sadako 3D. Cultural differences! The sixth film in the Ringu ser... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. The Avengers - $103.2 million, breaking the second weekend record, pushing the film over the billion-dollar mark worldwide, and easily topping the opening Dark Shadows. And so, for now, massive superhero action franchises remain slightly more popula... / Continue →
