In this edition, watch a video essay about pop music needle drops in movies, listen to stuntmen react to Mr. and Mrs. Smith action sequences, and more.
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. FANTASTIC MR. FOX Fantastic Mr. Fox is as attuned to Wes Anderson's filmmaking idiosyncrasies as any of his past work, and yet…
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It seems like it's taken forever for the U.S. release of John Woo's epic Red Cliff, but now it's finally scheduled for a November release -- and we have the U.S. trailer to prove it. Even though it's taken us so long to get the film domestically, we're still getting screwed over since we're receiving…
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When you've got a slate of niche films, sometimes coming up with an umbrella label to market them all as one package is the best way to go. Magnolia / Magnet tried this to good effect last year with the Six Shooter Film Series, which packaged international genre films like Let the Right One In,…
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MTV has published their Fall 2009 movie preview, which includes 24 new photos from movies due out in the next four months. Its one of those really annoying page-at-a-time slideshows, so I thought I'd feature a few of the photos. . Above is another look at Peter Jackson's version of "Heaven" in The Lovely Bones,…
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Twitch has the first trailer for the second a part of John Woo's massive epic period war film Red Cliff, based on the The Battle of Red Cliffs in 208 AD. Looks pretty intense. The most expensive film in Chinese film history. The first part broke box office records in China.
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Over the weekend a 9-minute Cannes promo reel for John Woo's Red Cliff showed up online. The 4-hour 2-episode $80 million epic adaptation of The Battle of Red Cliffs is the biggest budget Chinese film ever to be greenlit. Red Cliff stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Lin…
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Chow Yun-fat has dropped out of John Woo's 4-hour $75 million adaptation of The Battle of Red Cliff (titled Red Cliff) three days into shooting, according to Variety. The producers don't know what to do, and are doing the best they can to reschedule the production around the scenes and shots that don't involve the…
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