July 22, 2012 - July 28, 2012 Archives
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Speaking to Empire Magazine, A Good Day to Die Hard director John Moore has warned us not to expect much in the way of lightheartedness or wisecracks from John McClane in his latest adventure. After all, Moore explained, in the midst of a worldwide financial crisis, who can rea... / Continue →
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Lupe Ontiveros, an actress whose 100+ screen roles most frequently saw her cleaning houses, has died after a battle with liver cancer. She was 69.... / Continue →
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Like the Resident Evil franchise, fellow video game-based series Silent Hill continues to, unchecked, expand and develop new, ambiguous subtitles to put in theaters. The newest is Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, which--despite the possible implications of the "3" in "3D"--is just t... / Continue →
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His relationship with HBO still proving healthiest of all his real and fictional relationships, Larry David is abandoning theatrical release plans to bring his upcoming feature-length comedy straight to his Curb Your Enthusiasm network.... / Continue →
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Yesterday's Cloud Atlas trailer premiere brought with it a deluge of Hanks, providing far too much everyman likability for the human brain to absorb all at once. Let's slow it down and breathe in these many newly-discovered Hanks species one at a time.... / Continue →
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Part of what will be a six-part series of Lawless infographics planned to take advantage of how the internet likes infographics, this latest poster (from Crave) for John Hillcoat's Prohibition-era crime film presents us with some graphical facts about moonshine. The most import... / Continue →
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With yesterday's photo from Machete Kills revealing just how eager Robert Rodriguez is to show off his former Spy Kids star's well-developed body, the director today is distracting us from how that's sort of gross with the tweeted news he "just finished working with @LadyGaga o... / Continue →
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PBS and musician John Boswell continue their series on resurrecting deceased public television hosts as spectral auto-tuned voices with "Happy Little Clouds," a new song built Bob Ross's most enlightening teachings--like how just sort of stabbing your brush at the canvas makes ... / Continue →
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Spy Kids star Alexa Vega is re-teaming with with director Robert Rodriguez for Machete Kills, and, inciting many excited "ALL GROWN UP" cries, she today posted this Instagram photo of herself in as much costume as she'll be wearing in the film. Guess this means Sin City's "Bruc... / Continue →
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Seemingly losing himself at his 8 Mile star's behest, Oscar-winning director Curtis Hanson has made only two features since 2002's Eminem vanity project, and it's unlikely anyone recalls those films nearly as fondly if at all compared to past Hanson works like L.A. Confidential... / Continue →
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As tweeted by series narrator Ronald Howard, here's the most "h. shit this is really happening" bit of Arrested Development redux evidence yet: an actual page from a script that will later be filmed and turned into a thing we will watch. Creator Mitch Hurwitz previously suggest... / Continue →
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Well, isn't this a slap in the perfectly-uniform beard. / Continue →
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His recently-acquired Tonka truck collection proving too cumbersome for staging cool chase scenes across the back of a Denny's booth, Adam Sandler has bought some new, faster-looking toy cars to play with.... / Continue →
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Since losing his showrunning job on the show he created, Community's Dan Harmon is working quickly to make sure we don't forget him the moment we're given a new Arrested Development episode to pore over.... / Continue →
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Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski's Cloud Atlas adaptation is a vast, time-spanning epic with a huge cast of characters, so only appropriate that this first, international trailer for the film runs a suitably epic 5:45 and reveals several of the eye-coverings Tom Hanks has been give... / Continue →
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The upcoming adaptation of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas takes on the epic tale by dividing writing and directing duties between Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis and tasking stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Ben Whishaw, and others with multiple roles and for... / Continue →
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Bob Byington's Somebody Up There Likes Me, an indie comedy produced by and starring Nick Offerman, has officially been picked up to be distributed by Tribeca Film next March. To announce this news and assure the film some coverage, Offerman, his wife/co-star Megan Mullally, and... / Continue →
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Alleging that he hasn't received any payments for 1991's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in the last two years, Kevin Costner has filed a lawsuit against Morgan Creek Productions for the amount of all that money he figures Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has been making, because it... / Continue →
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All the cool old stuff Terry Gilliam has been hoarding from his long career of animation and film work is slowly making its way to the internet, thanks to the filmmaker's daughter. Holly Gilliam has taken on the massive task of organizing and archiving her father's vast collect... / Continue →
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In a battle of the network stars that pits the cast of The West Wing against former competitors from Fox and the CW, The Oranges stars Hugh Laurie, Alia Shawcat, Adam Brody, Catherine Keener, Leighton Meester, Oliver Platt and Allison Janney, as neighboring families thrown into... / Continue →
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It hasn't even been a month since Peter Jackson gleefully announced the end of principal shooting on The Hobbit, but already the director is looking for a way to return to the fantasy realm of Middle Earth. Nerd.... / Continue →
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Well, here's the first trailer for Life of Pi, Ang Lee's adaptation of the book about a kid adrift on a boat, with a tiger. Beyond the boat and tiger stuff, the original Yann Martel novel gets into some heavy issues of spirituality and personal identity, but you won't get a lot... / Continue →
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Actor, singer, dancer Sherman Hemsley has died at the age of 74, TMZ is reporting. Hemsley began his acting career in 1973 playing George Jefferson on All in the Family, and the character quickly became popular enough to earn his own spin-off series. After the The Jeffersons, H... / Continue →
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Offering a grim vision of a future in which powerful learning computers wage war against humanity with "a testosterone-heavy riff on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians," Variety is reporting that Terminator Salvation star Sam Worthington is in talks to join Arnold Schwarzeneg... / Continue →
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In the just-released book The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy, director Christopher Nolan had provided a foreword in which he formally offers his farewell to the series he's guided through three films, wishing it a cool summer and promising to be friends4ever YOLO. Lu... / Continue →
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Was the image of a naked, blood-covered Paz de la Huerta too subtle a Nurse 3D poster for you? Well, here's a new one-sheet that cuts out all the extraneous stuff like "a face" and "anything besides a boob" and gets right to the point. The point being sucking on a boob (it is n... / Continue →
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Universal and Illumination Entertainment are going to make sure to suck alllll the flavor out of their little Tic Tacs.... / Continue →
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Why do I get the sense this will be prematurely geek-beloved? / Continue →
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His towering form has long managed to remain in collaborator Ricky Gervais's substantial shadow, but it looks like Stephen Merchant is finally ready to awkwardly strike out on his own.... / Continue →
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The trailer for Dead Sushi left unresolved a lot of questions about the killer sushi film. Among them: What the fuck is happening here? Why does this man have a fish head? The sushi are humping each other, too? Again, Japan? Is this really how you want to continue to be known a... / Continue →
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Writer/director/producer Frank Pierson, whose screenplay for Dog Day Afternoon earned an Oscar, has reportedly died at the age of 87.... / Continue →
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Maybe this will finally get Ray Winstone started on his Mitch Hedberg movie. / Continue →
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Using $10,000 from Kickstarter and a lot of time and horrifying pig prosthetics, Tulsa-based independent filmmakers Pocket Full of All Stars have been putting together the most inappropriately dark interpretation of the Three Little Pigs story since Green Jellÿ's take: The Bric... / Continue →
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Confronted on whether she'd fetishize herself again should Christopher Nolan develop a Catwoman solo movie, Anne Hathaway recently said, well, just the sort of safe answer you'd expect her to say. But hey, how about that Catwoman, huh?... / Continue →
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The director behind such imaginative favorites as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away is dialing back the whimsy to levels scarcely fanciful enough to support charming spirit life.... / Continue →
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Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, and director Shawn Levy are going to Hawaii! Strangely, they aren't going for Night at the Museum 3: Polynesian Cultural Center Adventure, even though that really seemed like where the series was headed.... / Continue →
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Who says a superhero movie can't be pieced together entirely from the "Americana" and "Gone Fishin'" stock footage collections? Director Zack Snyder this weekend made his case for the matter with the first Man of Steel teaser, which debuted before The Dark Knight Rises in two v... / Continue →
