July 8, 2012 - July 14, 2012 Archives
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The first trailer for Dredd strongly hinted that a slow-motion drug in the film might function equally as a source of conflict and a bizarre contrivance to excuse the film's excess of slow-mo action. This first clip from the film quickly (but also realllly slowly) confirms this... / Continue →
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Have a celebratory pint: Edgar Wright officially has the greenlight for The World's End. The film--meant as the closing chapter to the Wright-Pegg-Frost Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (see: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz)--has been being prepped for a spring 2013 release since Ma... / Continue →
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Despite the above shot of a recovering Bowser teasing Nintendo's cooperation with Disney's Wreck-It Ralph, don't expect to hear anyone declaring "It's a'me!" Maybe expect to hear a bass drop, though.... / Continue →
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With found-footage horror diversifying to handle such topics as porn boxes and Marlon Wayans, some daring filmmakers have decided to stand on the shoulders of Paranormal Activity and see if the genre might also work to shakily re-film Michael Crichton's mid-'90s catalogue. Thei... / Continue →
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Just premiered at Comic Con, this new "homage" trailer for Tim Burton's Frankenweenie goes retro, featuring some campy '50s-style voiceover and--in an apparent secondary homage, to stop-motion body horror--a scene in which a girl's cute cat grotesquely mutates, erupting with lo... / Continue →
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Well, looks like Sam Raimi has his Alice in Wonderland. Here's the first trailer for Oz: The Great and Powerful, the director's Wizard of Oz prequel that follows the black & white-to-technicolor balloon flight James Franco rode into fiction's most eccentric dwarf and witch comm... / Continue →
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Of the many, many Dark Knight Rises trailers to come out in the last few weeks, this one, courtesy of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, is both the stupidest and most important.... / Continue →
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If you're making a film about Noah's ark, you're either going to need a lot of green screen or a lot of gopher wood. For his upcoming Noah, director Darren Aronofsky seems to be going with the latter, tweeting the above photo and mentioning Genesis 6:14 ("Make thee an ark of go... / Continue →
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Do you guys like movies? Do you like the miniature art traditions of the Ottoman Empire? You're in luck! Turkish artist Murat Palta has put together a series of illustrations that re-imagines modern films as they would have been depicted in Ottoman miniatures. Highbrow! Above i... / Continue →
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Fox's superhero movie progress for today remains at a cumulative standstill. Well done, everyone.... / Continue →
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Both recently losing their respective jobs making good things, Charlie Kaufman and Community creator Dan Harmon are now combining convoluted, self-aware narrative forces to make something else that sounds pretty good. So pay them to do that right now.... / Continue →
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This guy is getting pretty desperate to keep his chest exposed. / Continue →
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Hey, look: The Dark Knight Rises and The Bourne Legacy have some new posters that look far more stylish than the usual posters. The secret? The studios did not make these posters. Instead, these come, respectively, from artists at Mondotees and Gallery1988, and if you act fast,... / Continue →
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Sorry, Anthony Michael Hall, but you can't be given a comedy if you're just going to intensely stare all the time. / Continue →
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And 48 Hrs. director Walter Hill is going to be the one remaking it. / Continue →
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As we learned last month, buying the so-called "Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One" Blu-ray collection will get more than just the entire Marvel Universe movie lineup so far: you also get a big, shiny briefcase sadly likely to become the most-utilized business accessory you e... / Continue →
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Providing the new Spider-Man movie one more mixed review, a 42-year-old Amazing Spider-Man audience member was earlier this week arrested after snoring through the majority of the film, then climbing around like a spider and punching a kid in the back of the head.... / Continue →
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As tweeted by Ron Howard, "IT'S ALIVE": Arrested Development's straight-to-Netflix series revival continues to be actually happening, and according to Jason Bateman, shooting begins in just four weeks. Providing some evidence for these still-unbelievable claims, Howard and Bate... / Continue →
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Promoting the upcoming release of the 50th anniversary James Bond 22-film box set, 20th Century Fox has put up this two-minute montage of the many fancy cars, boats, and Lego jet skis 007 has cruised around in over his long career of conspicuous spying. Watch below, and reignit... / Continue →
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Having proved herself a viable star by successfully shooting a Lifetime Original Movie, a vindicated Lindsay Lohan is ready to sink her newsprint-shaded teeth into the kind of juicy role you only find hidden amongst some lazy Paranormal Activity references.... / Continue →
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Noboru Iguchi--director of such all-the-way crazy things as Machine Girl and RoboGeisha--has created a new film for the prosecution to use as evidence in his inevitable trial. Promising "sushi action," "sushi violence," and "sushi erotica" (this is accurate by any interpretatio... / Continue →
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The question of what to do with a post-X-Files David Duchovny--aside from ever-stretching his tenure on Californication and letting him shill for dog food--has a new answer: uh, cover him in hair and have him do some goat calls? Christopher Neil's directorial debut, Goats, is a... / Continue →
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It seems Dan Aykroyd's claim of a new Ghostbusters 3 writing staff was not just an empty promise filling our heads with his vodka of lies.... / Continue →
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To a day that's already shined a light on the harsh lie of Bat-flight and the true, haunting face of Mountain Dew sponsorship, we can now add a couple more Batman revelations with two new Dark Knight Rises videos. At Xfinity, there's a trailer that follows threads from the firs... / Continue →
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With poorly-lit, nearly-inaudible instant classics like Julie and Jack and Birdemic: Shock and Terror, director James Nguyen--like fellow San Francisco-based auteur Tommy Wiseau--established himself as a bizarre outsider artist more than worth following to see where his apparen... / Continue →
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And we were cynically assuming they'd just use a heavily-eyelinered Ben Kingsley and some old Mickey Rooney outtakes.... / Continue →
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Want to give your workday all the auditory intensity of grappling with a muttering, bald man in a steampunk S&M mask? Then spend some time with Hans Zimmer's Dark Knight Rises soundtrack, the entirety of which is available to stream below thanks to Empire. Look out, Carly Rae J... / Continue →
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In 2005's Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan introduced us to a crime-fighting billionaire dressed like a bat but put the guy in sort of a body armor-looking suit, so it looked a little less silly than when we usually get introduced to this crime-fighting bat guy. But still, as G... / Continue →
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Just in time for Comic Con, giving Peter Jackson and his team something to burst through, here's a huge-ass banner depicting a series of scenes from The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey. The above thumbnail is only maybe a third of the total image, so make sure to click to look a... / Continue →
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In the usual Andersonian tradition, director Wes Anderson's next diorama will feature both new, popular figurines and old favorites he's carefully hand-painted with new outfits.... / Continue →
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On The Hobbit's official Facebook page, Peter Jackson has revealed the first poster for An Unexpected Journey, the first chapter of his two-part expanded adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic. The one-sheet will be available later this week at Comic Con, so if you're going, ... / Continue →
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Kicking off a RoboCop viral campaign that will almost certainly lead to a costume reveal and all the internet-based vitriol likely to come with that, Columbia Pictures and MGM have set up a product site selling the war machines of OmniCorp, the Hugh Laurie-led mega-corporation ... / Continue →
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Rotoscoping Super Friends Batman, Aquaman, Superman, and Robin into the Golden Girls intro, artist Kevin Bapp has created something crazy and magical that I have to assume will forever be the acme of superhero-meets-'80s/'90s sitcom cross-overs: Super Golden Friends. I know wha... / Continue →
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We've already proven that superhero movies and long-belated franchise entries can be improved with the involvement of Fassbender; now, time to find out if the same is true for the similarly-maligned video game genre.... / Continue →
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If Michael Bay's upcoming Ninja Turtles is the wrong way to reinterpret the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (until absolutely any evidence suggests otherwise, let's assume that to be the case), then this is the right way: a charming animated tribute that stylishly re-imagines the ... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. The Amazing Spider-Man - $65 million. With its Tuesday opening and gross through the holiday week, the film is up to $140 million total--which puts it behind all previous Spider-Men, but those films didn't have similarly-costumed competition from Ma... / Continue →
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The world won't have a Grandpa for Christmas this year: actor Ernest Borgnine, who won an Academy Award for his title role in Marty, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 95.... / Continue →
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Finally putting an end to the long silence on whether or not a third Batman movie exists, this 13-minute featurette goes behind the scenes and interviews the director, writer, producers, and stars of Christopher Nolan's superhero series to confirm, yeah, there's a third Batman ... / Continue →
