Ben Lee’s music video for "Song For the Divine Mother of the Universe" has been developed in collaboration with the World Wildlife Foundation Australia to "raise awareness of the devastating impact the human race could have on the planet, unless a more meaningful, healthier and sustainable way of life is adopted to help preserve its…
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Earlier today we reported that Shia LaBeouf would star in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, the feature directorial debut of award-winning commercial director Dante Ariola. The project, based on an original screenplay was featured on the 2007 Black List (a Hollywood insider listing of the top unproduced screenplays of the year) written by Matt…
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Years ago, toy companies went on a film feeding frenzy, attempting to convert many of their products into movie adaptations. Movies like Transformers, Bratz: The Movie, and G.I. Joe were the result. At the time, a movie based on the Magic 8-Ball was also on the table, but as the years passed, the film wound…
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Remember The Muppets cover of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody? It was one of those viral videos that went around the world 50 times in the matter of hours. It was also nominated for the Webbys in two categories: viral video and music video. Seeking votes of support, Muppet Studios have released a video featuring Animal making…
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This 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. THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS I'm conflicted. Deeply, deeply conflicted. I'd really love nothing more than to tell you that The Imaginarium…
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Bret Easton Ellis has a long history with Hollywood. Over twenty years ago he was less than impressed with the film version of his novel Less Than Zero, though thirteen years later Mary Harron would adapt his American Psycho into a film that quickly attained cult classic status and The Rules of Attraction generally stayed…
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Most of you probably know Amber Benson as Tara Maclay from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but in recent years, while Benson has continued to rack up acting gigs, she's also parlayed her clout into a thriving indie film career. Her newest film, Drones, premiered at Slamdance and is currently making the film festival circuit. It…
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The weekend box office estimates are in, and we have some good news and some bad news: The bad news: Word of mouth did not help Lionsgate's Kick-Ass, the comic book adaptation dropped an estimated 52% in its second weekend at theaters. In fact, it will place #5 on the Box office results listing this…
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I love Documentary Shorts programs because they're fascinating little slices of life from around the world that I'd never otherwise be privy to (plus, the films are so short that if you don't like one, all you need to do is wait 15 minutes for it to be over). Last night, I saw IFFBoston's Shorts…
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Joel and Ethan Coen are in New Mexico right now filming True Grit, their take on the Charles Portis novel that inspired the 1969 film of the same name. We know that this version will hew closer to the source novel than the original film did, and given the fact that the Coen Brothers are…
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The Hollywood Reporter (via The Playlist) has a fascinating feature on the challenges and pleasures of creating a film score for a summer blockbuster. Longtime listeners will know that I am a film score junkie, so this piece was right up my alley and I'd strongly suggest you check it out if you are too.…
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The Independent Film Festival of Boston has begun! I'll be here over the course of the next week providing coverage, hopefully in the form of interviews with exciting people from the indie film scene. Here are some of the movies I'm most looking forward to, and here's a link where you can find all of…
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In May of last year, we told you that Disney was planning to build a 20,000 square-foot computer animation studio in Vancouver, British Columbia. Well, Pixar Canada officially opened its doors this week. The new facility will employ 75 to 100 people, but right now has about twenty employees on staff. The purpose of the…
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This past weekend, Kick-Ass barely won the box office crown in a photo finish with How to Train Your Dragon. Since then, people have been throwing a lot of numbers around about how profitable the film will actually end up being. In the past, Millar has been quoted as saying that Vaughn raised around $70…
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. AVATAR (Releases on Thursday, April 22) Avatar's crowning achievement is that it could not have been made at any time prior to…
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I had an awesome time at last year's Independent Film Festival of Boston, and this year, the festival promises to be even more exciting, with tons of indie directors and actors showing up to chill in the Bay State. The festival will quickly upon us (it begins this Wednesday), so if you're in Boston or…
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Over the past five years, /Film has traveled the globe, covering events such as the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, Toronto Film Festival, Independent Film Festival of Boston, London Film Festival, Comic-Con, WonderCon and many others. One event we've never been able to attend is the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Bottom line,…
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There are a lot of overused phrases in movies, and "We've Got Company!" is at the top of the list. Guy Bauer created a one-minute montage showing some of the movies and television show in which the phrase has been used. Watch it, embedded after the jump. via: Elizabeth Banks
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Briefly: The lineup for the official selection and out of competition films for this year's Cannes Film Festival was announced this morning. The big news: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life is not among the films that will play on the Croisette. That isn't a huge surprise, as we've known the film is still in the…
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. PIRATE RADIO Pirate Radio—also known by its original, less insipid title, The Boat That Rocked—really wants you to like it. It's an…
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What if South Park wasn't a cartoon? What if it was a live action weekly show? What might that look like? Watch now in this international Comedy Central commercial. via: nerdcore
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The public hasn't had a chance to check out Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, which premieres at Cannes, but if the receipts are high, we may see more than one episode featuring Russell Crowe as the famous British character. Speaking to the Times Online, Scott defines this film as an origin story, saying, "It is the…
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. BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS Never before has an actor so quickly ascended the ranks of my heavily deliberated 'greatest…
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One of my favorite new features of the new Blu-ray releases of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 is a series of bonus features called "Studio Stories". The short films feature animated reenactments of interesting or funny stories that took place during the making of the two films. From the original Pixar animation building which…
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Magnolia Pictures has acquired the domestic distribution rights to the big screen adaptation of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's bestselling book Freakonomics. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in…
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Elsewhere on /Film, you can read about how virtual unknown Todd Strauss-Schulson has been hired to direct the third installment of the Harold & Kumar series, A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas. The television and commercial film director caught the attention of Hollywood with his short film titled Mano-a-Mano, which premiered at the 2008 South…
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Have I told you guys enough how much I love all the Muppet viral videos that have been hitting the web recently? The newest video features Big Mean Carl performing a horrifying rendition of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me”. Watch it now, embedded after the jump.
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Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street is finally in theaters everywhere today. Personally, my enthusiasm for the project has waxed and waned over the years. I was wary when I first heard at Comic-Con that the project was under way, but when I had the chance to chat with the director a few weeks…
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There's a joke at the center of A Nightmare on Elm Street, a very simple one, that would be hilarious if it wasn't so damning. The joke is that a film about kids desperately trying to stay awake is so incredibly good at putting me to sleep. A hybrid re-imagining and remake of Wes Craven's…
Read MoreNO PHOTO The first set photo of Hank Azaria as Gargamel in Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures' big screen CGI/live action hybrid 3D adaptation of The Smurfs. has been released on SplashNews (via: ComingSoon). I'm not sure what to think of this. He definitely looks like the real life version of the animated character, but at…
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Not long ago we heard that John Singleton would be in full-on director for hire mode as head of the Taylor Lautner action thriller Abduction. Everybody's got to eat, right? And if Lautner really is going to be as huge as studio execs believe, that could buy a hell of a banquet for Singleton. Now…
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Walt Disney Pictures bought the billboard located at Santa Monica/Westwood in Los Angeles for an entire year. Beginning in mid-December, the studio has been updating the location with new Tron Legacy advertisements, at the rate of one every month and a half or so. And it was revealed they will keep doing so up until…
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Entertainment Weekly has learned that 20th Century Fox is in talks with Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn to direct the X-Men series prequel/reboot X-Men: First Class. This is a weird turn of events, as you might recall that Vaughn was originally set to direct X-Men 3: The Last Stand after series director Bryan Singer left the…
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Nothing like a good rumor to close out a Friday. Today's tantalizing but unconfirmed tidbit is that Tommy Lee Jones is circling a role in Captain America. What role? We don't know. Or, more to the point, the sources that told UGO that this is happening don't know. It's a good idea -- hell, it's…
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Last week, the teaser trailer for Piranha 3D which was attached to Daybreakers in January, was finally released online. Dimension Films has now decided to release a two plus minute movie trailer for the upcoming 3D B-level horror. The new trailer is framed more like a traditional horror movie trailer, and not until the second…
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The first Saturday in May is always Free Comic Book Day, when you can stop by your local comic shop and pick up some FREE strips to enjoy. Of course, you don't need me to tell you this when, embedded below the break, we have Kevin Smith's commercial for the event and he does a…
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Lionsgate has released the first teaser trailer for the Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried. You might remember that the independent film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical and audience acclaim, sparking a multi-studio bidding war. The story follows a private contractor who is kidnapped in Iraq and buried alive. He has 90 minutes…
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If you don't recognize director Joe Dante's name, than chances are you didn't grow up watching movies in the 1980's. His filmography includes Gremlins, Small Soldiers, The Howling, a segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie, Explorers, Innerspace, and The Burbs. The Hole is Dante's first feature directing gig since Looney Toons: Back in Action. In…
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Last week, IMAX announced that they had signed a 20-film deal with Warner Bros. One of the most interesting parts of the news was that Batman 3 was listed as one of the films which might be released sometime between 2011 and 2013. For a project which had not yet been officially greenlit or announced…
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Almost two years ago we reported on Good Vibes, an animated show being put together by director David Gordon Green. At the time it was looking like Fox would be the corporate home, but now the roof over the show's head will likely be provided by the channel once known as Music Television. Deadline says…
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Awards Daily has found the first official photo from William Monahan’s London Boulevard on ONTD. Monahan is the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's The Departed and Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven. Boulevard is Monahan's directorial debut. Based on the novel by Ken Bruen, this London-based crime drama stars Colin Farrell as "a man newly…
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I just thought those pesky Tribbles in Star Trek were just cute little balls of fur. Turns out they actually have a complete anatomy. The illustration apparently comes from a Starfleet Reference Manual book. And an extra bit of trivia: Did you notice the Tribble hidden in JJ Abrams new Star Trek film? Check out…
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One might look at the rise and fall of Blockbuster as a portrait of the hubris of big business in action. The video rental chain dominated the market in the '90s by having more copies of more titles than smaller stores, and financed the business with late fees and simple brute force. But the business…
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in theaters. But have you ever seen the original theatrical trailer for the Star Wars sequel featuring a 1930's-style radio voice over by Han Solo himself -- Harrison Ford? Check it out now, after the jump. According to Star…
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No preamble here: the chap seen above is Chris Hemsworth decked out in costume as the star of Marvel's upcoming film Thor. See a full image after the break. This photo comes courtesy of Yahoo. I like it. I'm sure there will be complaints that Hemsworth doesn't look big enough, but when I see this…
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The film adaptation of I Am Number Four, the first book in a sci-fi novel series co-authored by James Frey, became a big deal pretty fast. First it was because the film was rumored to be set up as a project for Michael Bay to produce and, possibly, direct. Then DJ Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia)…
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There are a couple of very notable films that have been stuck in limbo for the past couple years. One is Margaret, by You Can Count on Me director Kenneth Lonergan. That one has been stuck in a perpetual editing cycle. Another is Nailed, David O. Russell's film about a waitress (Jessica Biel) who has…
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UPDATE: Well, I'm told that 'reportedly' should be downgraded to 'not.' In other words, a good source says this isn't happening. Sorry to dash your hopes. Mine are kinda dashed, too. Original article follows. This is a comic book adaptation I can really get behind. As DC Comics starts to get more films in development…
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Stephen King fans were very optimistic over the last couple of years as J.J. Abrams' company Bad Robot held the option on King's expansive, ambitious series The Dark Tower. Easy to see why -- King's labyrinthine, multi-layered storyline seems like perfect raw material for the guys behind Lost. But that wasn't to be, as Abrams,…
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/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. This is my own private domicile. I will not be harassed, bitch!" - Jesse Pinkman From an opening shot…
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Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic Roger Ebert has been extremely vocal of his dislike of 3D movies. This time he's even venturing outside his home at the Chicago Sun-Times to write an op-ed piece for Newsweek titled "Why I Hate 3-D (And You Should Too)". Here is an excerpt of the first paragraph: 3-D is a…
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Yes, you read the headline correctly -- filmmaker James Cameron plans to shoot a 3D movie on the planet Mars. I'm not talking just about Mars, but actually on the surface of the not-so-distant planet. Okay, you caught me, it's not exactly as simple as that. It was revealed today that the next generation Mars…
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Mike Flemming has learned that 20th Century Fox is developing a big screen adaptation of Ed Brubaker's graphic novel Incognito. Fox has hired Robert Schenkkan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Kentucky Cycle, to pen the big screen adaptation. For those of you who didn't read the six-issue comic book limited series when it was…
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy director Adam McKay just revealed on twitter that Paramount Pictures has officially passes on making an Anchorman 2, even after they did a massive cut to the project's budget. This comes after a report two days ago that the Anchorman sequel was much closer to happening than anyone had…
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When Christopher Smith's movie Black Death was announced, I was interested simply for the fact that Smith was making a film set in the dark ages starring Sean Bean. I'd liked Smith's first film Creep and loved his follow-up, Severance. And now, after recently seeing his excellent third film, Triangle, I'm more interested than ever.…
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As remakes go, we could do a lot worse than a new take on a mid-'60s heist picture that originally starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. Especially when the script is by Joel and Ethan Coen. Back in January word came out that producer Mike Lobell was still trying to mount a film based on…
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Sarah Polley is putting together a film she'll direct as a follow-up to the sad and terrific Away From Her, and she's just landed Sarah Silverman to appear alongside Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams. Take This Waltz is about "a young woman (Williams) whose struggles with infidelity leads her to the realization that she may…
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Mandate Pictures just announced that Shia LaBeouf would star in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, the feature directorial debut of award-winning commercial director Dante Ariola (check out some of his commercial work in our commercial director spotlight). The original screenplay was featured on the 2007 Black List (a Hollywood insider listing of the top…
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There has been some rumor talk about a sequel to Neill Blomkamp's District 9 -- District 10, as the film is being branded in advance -- but none of the recent chatter actually seemed to be on point. In fact, it isn't, says D9 star Sharlto Copley. He and Blomkamp want to do the sequel,…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the day is the House: Seasons 1-5 DVD box set for only $98.49, 67% off the $300 suggested retail price. Grab it while you can as the deal will disappear tonight at midnight.
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Some of you have been waiting to see what Warner Bros. film version of Jonah Hex really looks like. Now's your chance, as the trailer has finally hit, with all the scarred Josh Brolin you can handle. The poster above minimized John Malkovich and Michael Fassbender, but they're both on hand here, as the evil…
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The action thriller Protection was once to have starred Paul Walker, then Clive Owen before he bowed out and Dwayne Johnson stepped in. Now, after the actor's shuffle, it has a new director. But the new director is actually the old director: Simon West, who was on the project when Walker was the star, then…
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/Film Reader Matt B dropped me an e-mail giving a nice rundown of director James Cameron's appearance at Ohio State. He talked about Avatar 2, post 3D conversion, Clash of the Titans, his Titanic suicide letter, the science of Avatar, and Jamie Lee Curtis' unexpected contribution to the pole dancing scene in True Lies. Read…
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Walt Disney Pictures have released a movie trailer for Secretariat, a horse-racing drama about "three people whose lives intersected, thanks to the champion horse Secretariat." For those of you, like me, who don't follow horse-racing history: Secretariat is... possible spoiler warning (I guess? Is history a spoiler? And isn't the achievement of a true story…
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We've known that J.J. Abrams had a movie in mind to make for Paramount -- thanks to Brad Grey for talking about it in nebulous terms back in December -- but we haven't known any real details about it. Now, however, there is some interesting info. Supposedly Abrams, the guy who masterminded Cloverfield in addition…
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What if you took Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and mashed it up with Steven Spielberg's E.T.? It might look something like today's t-shirt from TeeFury. Designed by Joao Lauro Fonte, "The Shining Finger" is "the cross-over you've never known you needed in your life until now!" The good news is the t-shirt design is only…
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THR published a recent article about how producer Avi Arad believes that "Hollywood will do for video games what it has done for comic-book superheroes". Honestly, the article is almost totally pointless. Arad also believes that a big screen adaptation of the Robosapian toy is a great idea. But hidden in the article is a…
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We've heard before that Fox wants to remake Commando, which was directed by Mark L. Lester in 1985 and famously starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as a retired elite soldier attempting to rescue his daughter (Alyssa Milano) from an exiled dictator (Dan Hedaya). It was rumored to be a project for Dwayne Johnson at one point, but…
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There's been a lot of consternation about spoilers today, thanks to the news that went around about the very final scene of Iron Man 2. When Peter ran that info for us he hid it behind quite a few spoiler warnings. Now I'll do the same for the first image of a character from Marvel's…
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Platinum Dunes has so far been known for horror remakes and one or two original films. But the label is preparing to branch out, thanks in part to a first-look deal with Paramount to make genre films on frugal budgets. The planned Ouija Board movie has an action-adventure bent, for example. Now Dunes has bought…
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Wes Craven has premiered the official teaser poster for Scream 4 in Entertainment Weekly. The poster doesn't reveal much about the upcoming sequel, the first part of a new trilogy written by screenwriter Kevin Williamson. The one-sheet shows a close-up of the Ghostface mask and features the tagline "New Decade. New Rules." And the letter…
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Warner Bros has released a new poster for Christopher Nolan's sci-fi film Inception. The poster comes from NolanFans, where it was apparently found inside the Mind Crime viral online game. Check out the full poster, in not-so-high-res after the jump. The film's logline is “a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind."…
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Did you ever watch Hudson Hawk and think, "man, Leonardo Da Vinci really got screwed out of a chance for action stardom"? If so, you're one of about five people, but Warner Bros. still has you covered. The studio is moving forward on Leonardo Da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever, which Green Lantern writer…
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Today's This month's most bizarre casting news has broken: Sam Rockwell is going to play Batman, or at least The Bat-Man. Joining him will be Josh Hamilton as Superman, Leslie Bibb as Wonderwoman, John Hodgeman as The Penguin and Justin Long as Robin. All together now: Wha??? Didn't see this coming? Well, I did... kinda...…
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We've already seen one trailer (and a couple clips) from Vincenzo Natali's Sundance hit Splice, which Warner Bros. will release this summer. Now there is a second trailer that shows a little more of the story and amps up the tension as Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody create a new life form. Releasing a film…
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The Life of Pi, which depicts a boy, Pi, stranded on a boat with a tiger, hyena, zebra and orangutan for 227 days after a shipwreck, was optioned years ago but has long been stranded in development hell. The simple fact of those characters on screen together is only part of why the movie has…
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No, this super high resolution computer rendering is not concept art from Joe Johnston's The First Avenger: Captain America. This is a fan created concept rendering of what Red Skull could look like in movie form. The computer generated image was created by Sven Juhlin, and passed along to me by /Film reader cole. In…
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Summit Entertainment has released a press release confirming what we've been hearing for awhile now: Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Kinsey, Gods and Monsters) will be directing The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. On the Twilight series, Condon stated, "I'm very excited to get the chance to bring the climax of this saga to life on-screen. As fans…
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I was thrilled a couple weeks ago to see that Oren Moverman will rewrite and direct Rampart, based on a story and script by James Ellroy. The film covers the scandal that engulfed the Rampart Division of the LAPD in the '90s and now, perhaps appropriately, Ice Cube is in the cast. The guy went…
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Disney has released a new internet exclusive movie trailer for Pixar's Toy Story 3. The trailer profiles the toy's mission in the new film, to escape the daycare center and find Andy, and focuses on Buzz and Woody. I think the 1-minute edit is a bit on the corny side of the spectrum, which is…
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Samsung have just last night unveiled their latest size-zero-slim range of LED TVs at a big shindig in the Saatchi Galleries of London. In attendance, as well as the journalists and tech bloggers that Samsung will have been very keen to impress, were a host of celebs with Kevin Spacey, Noel Clarke and newly-ordained Film…
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UPDATE: According to THR, the Hobbit date listed in IMAX's press release is a mistake. The first film in the two-part release is set for December 2012, and the second for December 2013, according to the trade. Original article follows: Warner Bros. and IMAX have had a successful partnership over the last few years, and…
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We have a bunch of new release date announcements/changes to report on, including the Kevin James comedy The Zookeeper, the Matt Damon/Emily Blunt thriller The Adjustment Bureau, the 2010 Sundance sensation Catfish, David Gordon Green's medieval comedy Your Highness, the James Cameron-produced Sanctum 3D, Ron Howard's comedy Cheaters, and The Night Chronicles: Devil. All the…
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The inevitable news of a How to Train Your Dragon sequel broke yesterday, courtesy of a Dreamworks conference call and press release. We learned that the film would be made for cinemas, released in 2013 and... actually, that was it. But what more information about this proposed follow-up is actually out there? There's a quote…
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I don't imagine there's going to be much fan loyalty to either Louis Letterier or Eric Brevig for their first films in the Clash of the Titans and Journey to the Centre of the Earth franchises, and it looks like there's going to be no studio loyalty either. As sequels to both films start to…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today has five blu-ray movie bundles featuring Denzel Washington, Ben Stiller, Bruce Willis, Gene Hackman, and Keanu Reeves. Three movie packs for $29.99, 57-63% off the $70 or $80 suggested retail price. The Gene Hackman Blu-ray Collection (French Connection / Hoosiers / Behind Enemy Lines) The Bruce Willis…
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An open request to Bill Murray: Please don't ever change or become more easygoing about films you're clearly not interested in making. As a corollary to that request, please don't make it any easier to tell when you're really, truly serious. Murray has been said to be one of the big holdouts for Ghostbusters 3,…
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A couple weeks ago, a report was published that claimed knowledge of a secret after-credits easter egg scene in Iron Man 2. That report ended up being false. And there was no extra easter egg scene following the credits of the Iron Man 2 press screenings and premiere this past week, leading many to believe…
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I don't know how Brad Pitt really has time to schedule anything of late, but evidently he's trying to get The Hatfields and the McCoys made at Warner Bros. The film would cover the legendary American family feud, and now has Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper attached to direct. Jeff Wells got this info from…
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In August of last year, we heard that Robert Redford was going to, in some measure, beat Steven Spielberg to the punch with a film about Lincoln. But Redford's film, The Conspirator, isn't quite about Lincoln himself -- it is about Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), one of the accused members of a conspiracy to assassinate…
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There's been some talk aready this week about how Carey Mulligan (An Education) may end up playing the central character Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's new version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. But despite one report that claims she's a lock, other sources, including the film's producer, Scott Rudin, say otherwise. The Times…
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20th Century Fox has released another new featurette for the Robert Rodriguez-produced, Nimrod Antal-directed Predators. You've seen the introductory featurette, the teaser trailer, the featurette focusing on Adrien Brody's character Royce, a Q&A with Antal /Rodriguez, and an introduction to the character Isabelle played by Alice Braga. In the newest video, Robert Rodriguez gives us…
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Recently Sex Pistols manager and rock impressario Malcolm McLaren passed away, which prompted Roger Ebert to write about his memories of working with McLaren on a film that never fully materialized. In 1977 Ebert worked with McLaren and director Russ Meyer on Who Killed Bambi?, meant to be a punk rock A Hard Day's Night,…
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The photo features the office of LOST executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse from WiReD Magazine's latest epic article on the television series' final season. The article features the following quote from Lindelof, which I will admit, worries me a bit about the ending of the series: Absolutely. I assume that as a physicist,…
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There's been very little Jonah Hex material out there for the past year, but why do I get the idea that after this week we're going to see a lot of the film? The trailer hits on Thursday and now Warner Bros. has released a new poster, via Yahoo. This image makes relatively clear the…
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One of the big movie events of this year was the premiere of a restored version of Metropolis at the Berlin Film Festival. The outdoor screening drew large crowds despite cold and snow, and was watched via webcast by many film fans who couldn't make the fest. (Despite the fact that you could barely see…
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Today, Dreamworks Animation announced its earnings for the first quarter of 2010. Not that much to report, but there is one tidbit that will be heartening for fans of How To Train Your Dragon: Hot on the heels of Dragon again winning the weekend box office in its fifth week, Dreamworks is making a sequel…
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There has been a lot of talk over the years about the potential for Anchorman 2. It has often seemed like something that would never happen, despite the fact that most of the players involved in the first film all appear game to do it again. Now director Adam McKay says it's really about Paramount…
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From ScreenRant's Mike Eisenberg comes this well-edited epic movie trailer mash-up presenting a two and a half minute movie trailer for the 2010 summer movie season. Watch it now after the jump.
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Ron Howard's Cheaters already has Vince Vaughn, Kevin James and Winona Ryder. Now it has put out an offer to Jennifer Connelly for what will be, for her, a rare comedic role. She would be Vaughn's girlfriend; Vaughn plays a guy torn on the question of whether or not to tell his best friend (James)…
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Universal Pictures held their junket for Ridley Scott's Robin Hood over the weekend, but I was unable to catch a screening of the film. A /Film reader named Ruggerman has sent in an early review. Their opinion of the movie seems to be in line with the views of some of the critics I've talked…
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Georgia-based artist Gideon Slife loves Lost, and has decided to make a movie poster for every episode, from every season, leading up to the finale. As of this article being published, he has created minimalistic poster designs for every episode up until mid-way through the fourth season. That is 78 posters thus far and counting.…
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After last night's LA premiere and with the film scheduled to open this week in much of the world, the review floodgates are pretty much open on reviews for Iron Man 2. While I don't see the movie for a few more days, there is enough material out there to compile some profile of the…
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The new UK Trailer for Grown Ups has hit the web, and it promises to feature more of the generic, mind-numbing humor that have become the hallmark of the careers of the featured comedians. Seriously though, this one features more jokes relating to the kids. Other than that, you can see most of the scintillating…
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In various studies (of varying quality), violent, adult media has been linked to aggression, lower grades, early smoking, early sex, and antisocial behavior. Adding fuel to the fire is a new study that will be out in the May issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, linking the watching of R-rated films…
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Last month, I was complaining about the fact that Olivia Thirlby had seemingly disappeared from the movie world, and now the talented indie actress is attached to two high profile projects. A couple weeks ago it was announced that Thirlby had landed a role in a big budget sci-fi action film The Darkest Hour produced…
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We have a bunch of cool new movie posters today, including Lionsgate's first teaser poster for Buried (one of my favorite movies of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival), an international poster for Get Him To The Greek, four international character posters for The A-Team, and another cool international one-sheet for Toy Story 3. I really…
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Someone at Pixar is having a great time coming up with ad materials for Toy Story 3. Just a few hours ago we pointed out the 'vintage' commercial for Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear, which purports to be a 1983 commercial, recorded on videotape, for the real-world version of the new bear character in Toy Story 3. Now…
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I didn't have much doubt that a distributor would quickly move on Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist. (Refer back to our previous articles detailing the film, which has origins in an unproduced screenplay by the great Jacques Tati and features a character very much designed after Tati.) In fact, I didn't have much doubt that it…
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It has been five years since the original sequel to the US remake of The Ring. 2005 saw the release of The Ring 2, in which Naomi Watts was directed by Hideo Nakata, the man behind Ringu, the Japanese version of the film which helped kickstart the early '00s infatuation with J-horror. Now the easy…
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Brad Fuller isn't the only member of the A Nightmare on Elm Street team talking about future projects. Director Samuel Bayer has been linked (or hopes to be linked) to an adaptation of the Garth Ennis comic series The Boys. But now he's saying that he might not have the job, as the current favorite…
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Update: Someone in the comments points out that the prop was "constructed for class by Eric Zapata- he's a student at Tom Savini's FX school." We, like many others, missed this news item as it hit late last week. Last year it was announced that The Mirage Group/Legendary Pictures were developing a new live-action big…
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In 2008, we heard that Platinum Dunes had the option to make a film based on the classic slumber party and devil-summoning game Ouija Board, with few details beyond the assertion that it wouldn't be like Jumanji. Now, as the release date approaches for the latest Dunes movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street, producer Brad…
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We always love running well crafted fan made movie trailers and posters. The best of the bunch was probably that Green Lantern movie trailer featuring Nathan Fillion from last year. The newest fan edited trailer to hit the web is for Marve's Thor. But while admiring that trailer, I noticed that the YouTube user, who…
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We have a couple first looks for you today: Dwayne Johnson in Faster, Mia Wasikowska in Jane Eyre and Diane Lane and John Malkovich in Secretariat. Check out the photos, after the jump. CBS Films has premiered a new production photo from their upcoming action film Faster on FilmTotaal. The George Tillman Jr.-directed revenge thriller…
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Universal Pictures has released 54 high resolution production photos from Ridley Scott's Robin Hood. Check them out now, after the jump. And check back tomorrow for an unofficial early review of the film. Photos: [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] Official Plot Synopsis: RUSSELL CROWE is the legendary Robin Hood. Academy Award® winner RUSSELL CROWE reunites with…
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What was it I just said earlier about today being a day for coverage of sequels nobody wants? Oh, hello there, Saw VII 3D! LionsGate is at work on what may be the final chapter in the Saw franchise (oh, who are we kidding?) with editor turned director Kevin Greutert literally chained to the wheel.…
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Amazon has Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut Blu-Ray on sale for only $10.99, 63% off the $30 suggested retail price. Not sure how long this deal will last, so jump on it while you still can. Kingdom of Heaven is one oif the few movies where the director's cut is night and day…
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The ESPN documentary series, 30 for 30, continues a phenomenal and original run at uniting fans of sports history and cinema with Straight Outta L.A. Directed and narrated by Ice Cube, in O.G. gruff mode, the doc examines the stylistic endorsement of the Los Angeles Raiders in the mid-to-late ’80s by West Coast gangsta rap pioneers…
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The teaser trailer for Piranha 3D was attached to Daybreakers in January, but never got an official online release. You may have seen it in the theater, or have watched one of the many bootlegged copies online, but there has never been an official crisp and clear digital copy online... until now. You can now…
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There have been reshoots and delays, but Warner Bros. will still release Jimmy Hayward's Jonah Hex, starring Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, John Malkovich and Michael Fassbender, on time. A trailer will premiere later this week, but in the meantime there's a small teaser montage available via SyFy. It resembles the footage we saw last year…
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For a few months now we've been telling you about Due Date, the upcoming comedy from The Hangover director Todd Phillips starring Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. The buddy-comedy story has been described as kinda Hangover meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The screenplay by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland (with rewrites by Adam…
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I hope that today we're not writing about sequels no one really wants, but so far we've had Ghost Rider 2 and now Final Destination 5, which Warner Bros. head Alan Horn mentioned at ShoWest. Yet someone wants these movies. Take The Final Destination. No one expected it to be a critical success, but despite…
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A video appeared online last week on YouTube claiming to be a television commercial from 1983 advertising the Lots-o'-Huggin'. Many of you following the site know that Lotso is one of the new toys/characters in Pixar's Toy Story 3. The thing is... I'm 99% sure Lotso was a custom creation of Pixar and didn't actually…
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You may recall that we ran a UK teaser trailer for The Disappearance of Alice Creed in a March edition of This Week in Trailers. A Bigger Boat and Anchor Bay Entertainment have finally released a proper U.S. trailer for the film. The movie is about the kidnapping and ransom of a daughter of a…
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Despite the fact that Ghost Rider didn't exactly set the fanbase on fire (ahem), star Nicolas Cage has often talked about the potential for a sequel, and Columbia has been slowly moving towards a 'go' point for the second film in the series no one really wants. Or, no one wants another film in the…
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For the past month or two, we've known some of the cast details for the film that Woody Allen will shoot in Paris this summer. Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard and Rachel McAdams were all known to have parts. And now, counter to his usual practice, we already have a title: Midnight in Paris. Allen usually…
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At this point, I'm not sure if we'll ever see the Spider-Man Broadway musical that has been in development for years. We certainly have a much better chance of seeing Batman on the stage. HeatVision has learned that Warner Bros and DC Comics are developing a Batman live stage tour, produced by Nick Grace Management…
Read MoreNote: This post will be sticky'd to the top of the site until Monday morning. I didn't have high expectations for Sylvain White's The Losers. White's filmography wasn't terribly impressive to me, and the plot led some of my fellow critics to refer to the film's titular group of operatives as "a poor man's A-Team."…
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Just a week after we reported that Jason Eisener was finally about to roll cameras on a feature-length version of his Grindhouse trailer Hobo With a Shotgun, there is already some footage available to check out. The full-length version of the film stars Rutger Hauer as the title character, and started shooting this past Monday.…
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Is this stunt casting or a genuinely good idea? I'm going with stunt casting for now. Apparently Mickey Rourke is meant to play Mongol emperor Ghengis Khan. I know Rourke's face has undergone some drastic changes over the last decade, but unless recent images are hiding a lot, he hasn't yet transformed into an appropriate…
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The new Shrek sequel is titled Shrek Forever After, but recent in theater advertising and television marketing for the film sports a different title: Shrek: The Final Chapter. In fact, even the official website for the movie, Shrek.com, even features the "The Final Chapter" title, but no mention of "Shrek Forever After". This is the…
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While a lot of filmmakers are jumping at the opportunity to convert their films into 3D, Samuel Bayer, the director of Platinum Dunes' remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, fought against the idea. When New Line initiated several conversations about converting "A Nightmare on Elm Street" to 3-D, "we pushed back," says director Samuel…
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Are you watching NBC's popular comedy series Community? Are you a fan of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas? Then you MUST watch the latest episode, Contemporary American Poultry, which parodies and plays homage to the gangster film classic. I won't say anything more, because I've already said enough. Watch the episode right now, embedded after the jump…
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Yesterday we finally learned early details about Ridley Scott's upcoming Alien prequel (you can read the story here). Turns out there is more to the story -- or should I say STORIES. Collider was at the Robin Hood junket today and learned that Ridley Scott has plans for not one, but two prequel films. Scott…
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Last week, Devin Faraci reported that producers were in talks with Jamie Kennedy to reprise his role as the love-able horror film-geek Randy in Scream 4. At the time, we wondered how that would be possible. For those of you who don't remember, Kennedy played Randy in the first two films in the series, a…
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Ricardo de Montreuil's six minute sci-fi short film The Raven hit the web this week and has been making noise around Hollywood. The film tells the story of Chris Black, who "possesses a power that could lead to the destruction of the current regime, and they will stop at nothing to destroy him. The chase…
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There wasn't much news that came out of the Iron Man 2 press conference today regarding the future of the Marvel movie universe. But one of the interesting bits was Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige in response to the question of if Scarlett Johansson's character Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow would be getting her own…
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The full trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse debuted on today Oprah, and if her stamp of approval isn't enough to get you excited about the third film in the Twilight series, I don't know what is. OK, enough sarcasm, but I will say this: perhaps the trailer has deliberately gone extra heavy on a…
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James Cameron has been talking about the possibility of an adaptation of the manga Battle Angel Alita for many years, but any actual film has remained on the distant horizon. Last year, as the release of Avatar was approaching, Cameron said he wasn't positive he was still going to make the film, and that The…
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After over a year of speculation, yesterday it was finally officially announced that Pixar is working on a Monsters Inc sequel. Not only that, but Monsters Inc 2 even has a release date: November 16th 2012.But the one thing absent from the announcement was any mention of a writer or director. Who is writing Monsters…
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Yesterday it was announced that M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender would be released in 3D (post converted). And today, Paramount Pictures has released an awesome new full length movie trailer for the upcoming big screen adaptation. The new trailer shows a lot more, most noticeably are the creatures. Watch the trailer right now after…
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AMC Theatres will be giving Iron Man fans a double feature. The company announced today that 150 AMC-owned multiplexes across the country will be showing the original Iron Man film on May 6th at 9:00pm, back to back with the midnight release of Iron Man 2. The bad news is that tickets for each film…
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It's a delicate balancing act, deciding which elements from a comic book to bring into its film adaptation. We've gotten drips and drabs recently about who might be showing up The First Avenger: Captain America, but we've now learned that The Howling Commandos will be making an appearance too. Devin Faraci from CHUD has spoken…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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With the release of Christopher Nolan's Inception just a few short months away, the film's marketing machine is starting to up its game. Just the other day, we got wind of four new photos from the film. Above, a new image that we've just received. After the jump, you'll find a viral video featuring Christopher…
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America's very own Kenny Powers aka The Man with the Golden Dick is officially leaving North Carolina and shipping off to play ball(s) in Mexico, better known as Hell on Earth in recent months due to drug cartel violence, kidnappings, and the rest of it. So, yikes, the "sour patch" seems only to worsen for Danny…
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Earlier this week we reported on the fact that The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a remake project that has been kicking around studios for over a decade, seemed to have new forward momentum. An offer has reportedly gone out to Sacha Baron Cohen to play the central character, who has classically been a guy…
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If you've seen the hideous monstrosity that is Clash of the Titans, replete with its horrendous and eye-torturing attempts at 3D imagery, you probably don't have much love at all for post-production dimensionalisation. I've seen the online reaction to two upconvert projects that have been announced in just the last 24 hours, Michel Gondry's Green…
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John Hillcoat's 2009 film The Road proved that Hillcoat has the ability to craft a dark, thematically rich drama, but Hillcoat's Proposition also showed that he has a knack for westerns. Presumably, it's this talent that Rockstar Games hoped to tap into when they hired Hillcoat to produce a 30-minute trailer/machinima for their new game,…
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Does the Blu-Ray-buying public at large care at all about special features? Record-breaking first-day sales for James Cameron's Avatar would indicate that no, they don't. Despite the fact that the recent release of Avatar contains no special features to speak of, the disc has destroyed the previous record-holder for first-day Blu-Ray sales: The Dark Knight.…
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Last year it was announced that 20th Century Fox had hired Ridley Scott to direct a prequel to the classic sci-fi film Alien. At the time I believed that would never happen. Why would Scott return to film a prequel of one of the most popular sci-fi film franchises of all time? Why compete with yourself?…
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TeeFury has a cool Ghostbusters-parody t-shirt today. Rodrigo's Ghostbusting design shows what happens after a Ghostbuster defeats a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. The bad news is that with all of Teefury's designs, the t-shirt will only be available for today and today only. The good news is that the t-shirt is available for only $9…
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USA Today has a first look at Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) as a 16-year-old killing machine in Joe Wright's Hanna. In the film, Saoirse plays the title character in Hanna, who has been "raised from childhood to be the perfect assassin by her ex-CIA man father (Eric Bana) in rural Finland."…
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Amazon has The Dark Knight on Blu-Ray for only $9.49, 62% off the $25 msrp. I'm not sure how long this price will be valid, but get it while you can.
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The have been a couple crazy rumors in the last 24 hours. Yesterday E! reported that Universal has met with Kristen Stewart to possibly star in Wanted 2. This morning MTV UK is reporting a wacky rumor that High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens is in talks to play Spider-Woman in her own stand-alone movie…
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Disney has announced that Pixar will in fact make a Monsters Inc 2, and we can expect that sequel in theaters on November 16th 2012. The original film was released on November 2nd 2001. Disney has also made it official that The Bear and The Bow has been retitled "Brave". That film also has a…
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Deadline has learned that Paramount Pictures is jumping on the post-conversion 3D scam bandwaggon with M. Night Shyamalan-directed The Last Airbender. I had a feeling this was coming as producer Frank Marshall filed the following tweets earlier this month: Looking at 3-D test... Looking at 3-D for various projects, I think it's here to stay,…
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A couple years back, New Line Cinema was trying to remake John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi actioner Escape from New York. They first hired Live Free or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman, who got replaced with Brett Ratner. I wasn't excited about either of the two filmmakers rebooting Snake Plissken, although Wiseman's production design background made…
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Shrek Forever After premiered Wednesday night at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. Does DreamWorks Animation have another critical hit on their hands like How To Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda, or is this just another lackluster pop-culture-joke-filled Shrek sequel, one final money grab? We take a look at the early…
Read MoreSony has announced that they have decided to push the release date of Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet back three weeks. The reason given is that Sony is releasing the film in 3D and the original December 22nd 2010 release date was overcrowded with 3D films. 3D Films opening around that time include: The Chronicles…
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Fan Fest takes place at the London Film Museum (on Google Maps) this Saturday and Sunday, the 24th and 25th April. The official website describes it as "The Ultimate Spy and Sci-Fi Event" and an "Action & Entertainment Weekender For All the Family". I can also tell you that it's going to be the single…
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Bruce Robinson's big screen adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp test screened last night in Huntington Beach, California, and a few reviews have appeared online. I have compiled a bunch of early thoughts from around the web, message boards, twitter and other websites. Check them out now, after the…
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The Hollywood Reporter has word that Helen Mirren will be joining Russell Brand in the remake of the 1981 comedy Arthur. The original '80s film focused on class, alcoholism and romance, and starred Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli. Brand is on board to play a wealthy drunk playboy who is set to "inherit a fortune…
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Not so long ago we learned that Angelina Jolie left Wanted 2 to peruse other projects, basically dumping the movie in development heck. Now E! Online is reporting that director Timur Bekmambetov has met at least once with Twilight star Kristen Stewart to replace Jolie in the comic book sequel. According to the report, Stewart…
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MSN/Sky Movies has premiered a new 40 second clip from Iron Man 2 featuring Tony Stark's interaction with Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell). Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is also featured and Leslie Bibb, reprising her role as Christine Everhart from the original film, makes a cameo. Gotta love Pepper's "spread" dig at Everhart. Watch the clip…
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Okay, so we took a day off from the Poster round-up and it seems like the one-sheets have really stacked up fast. Today we bring you two Iron Man 2 IMAX movie posters, the one-sheet for The Disappearance of Alice Creed, A Nightmare on Elm Street Motion Poster, an Italian one-sheet for Despicable Me, Ken…
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Hollywood is even more youth-obsessed than usual of late, so the very fact that a studio might make a film that could be vaguely compared to Grumpy Old Men is enough to make me happy. Dan Fogelman, the screenwriter behind the Steve Carell / Ryan Gosling comedy that still doesn't have a name, has a…
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The 'special forces soldier versus Mexican gangs' action film Protection has gone through a lot of changes. Originally to be directed by Simon West, the film got a new director in District 13: Ultimatum helmer Patrick Alessandrin. Paul Walker was originally the lead, then he was replaced by Clive Owen. Now the film has a…
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[Update: The Wrap now have the updated logline for the film. It now reads: "Two best friends, both of whom are spies, go to war with each other after falling in love with the same woman. It's about what's more important -- your best friend or the love of your life -- and what happens…
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Here's some pretty solid indication that apocalyptic zombie epic World War Z will finally be coming to the big screen soon: Paramount have renewed their option on the book for what its author Max Brooks described as "half the time and twice the money". That's not the kind of cheque you just throw out there, so I can…
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Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America are all leading up to Marvel's big superhero team-up cross-over film The Avengers. The question is: where do you go from there? The obvious answer is The Avengers 2. The less obvious answer is Ant-Man. But then what? How do you…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series for over 60% off: This means you can buy the Blu-ray set for $37.99, 62% off the $100 msrp, or the DVD box ser for $31.99, 60$ off the $80 msrp. As with any of Amazon's Gold Box Deals, the price…
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When I was on the set of Samuel Bayer's remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, producers Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller were so very sure that a sequel to Friday the 13th would be their next project. That no longer seems to be the case. Someone named Mayroth_Tucker3 asked Fuller on Twitter about the…
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San Francisco-based audio/video mash-up artist/performer Mike Relm has created a cool remix of the Iron Man 2 trailer. Director Jon Favreau saw it and even showed it to the Paramount marketing department. If you haven't seen it yet, watch it now embedded after the jump.
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/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. For this installment, /Film discourses with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, a sharp-witted, caps-friendly writer at The Awl and author of the new book Mad Men Unbuttoned, due this July from HarperStudio. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recap and for the comments section. Meth heads…
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Strand Releasing has released the official US trailer for Florian Gallenberger's historical drama John Rabe. The film tells the true-story of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the 1937 Nanjing massacre. German actor Ulrich Tukur (The White Ribbon) stars as John Rabe, alongside Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds), Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny,…
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Teresa Palmer has become the newest go-to good looking actress for geek film properties. The Australian actress had a small role in The Grudge 2, but had her big break in the Adam Sandler family comedy Bedtime Stories. She's one of the leads in Disney's upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer-produced fantasy adventure The Sorcerer's Apprentice and is…
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It has been rumored for a while now, and now it has been confirmed by the Los Angeles Times -- Hulu plans to begin testing a $9.95 subscription service called Hulu Plus as soon as May 24th 2010. Of course, Hulu is not responding to requests or comment. The popular online video site would continue…
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One of the films I really dugg at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival was this Irish film titled Kisses by Lance Daly. In my review, I described the film as "Lost in Translation but with two irish 10-year-olds." The story follows two kids who run away from home and spend a "night of magic and…
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Warner Bros/New Line Cinema has released the official production notes and 18 final high resolution production photos from Samuel Bayer's reamke of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Hit the jump to check them out now. Photo Gallery: [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] Synopsis: A Nightmare on Elm Street In Theatres Friday, April 30 Nancy, Kris, Quentin,…
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A couple new clips hit the web today, including a nightmare sequence from Samuel Bayer's remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street and one-minute of a battle sequence from Ridley Scott's Robin Hood. Watch both now, after the jump. Robin Hood (clip via yahoo): Oscar winner Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by…
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) will reteam with director Bryan Singer on a rewrite of Jack the Giant Killer. The 3D fantasy/adventure project has been billed as an "adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend." The original script was written by Lost (the indie film, not the TV show) scribe…
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As you know, Joss Whedon is rewriting Marvel's big screen superhero team-up film The Avengers, which he is also attached to direct. Our friends at Hijinks Ensue have a funny take on the matter: Whedon’s projects don’t always turn out as he plans. Often the suits and execs and various other meddlers twist his creative…
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Okay, yeah, we just posted a cool stuff item a couple hours ago but this one can't wait. RIPT Apparel has a Lost-parody t-shirt design called "Smoke Buster". The reason why this can't wait for tomorrow is that this design will only available until midnight eastern. So grab it while you still can. The good…
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A couple weeks back we published four new photos from Christopher Nolan's Inception. With only a few months until release, more and more is beginning to be revealed. Themoviemash alerted us to three new photos which have recently hit the web: two of which appeared in Entertainment Weekly's Summer Movie Preview, and the last photo…
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I've always been fascinated with the topic of geek fandom, which is why I'm usually on the look-out for new documentaries that deal with that topic. Many of them aren't so great. There are a few that focus on the people who waited in line for Episode One. A couple of them focus on subsets…
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We've featured a bunch of New Zealand artist Glenn Jones t-shirts in past editions of Cool Stuff. This week Glennz rereleased a popular Robocop parody tee with a new and improved design. Here is an explanation from Glenn: I drew the original design for this about 5 years ago, and it's always been a favorite.…
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Designed by illustrator Kostenko Maxim, these Russian print advertisements for Stroy Master (????? ??????) Soundproof Windows parody popular comic book superheros Superman and Spider-Man. Hit the jump to see them both. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] via: Colorbus
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The fact that there will be another Batman film in Christopher Nolan's presumptive trilogy is assumed by just about everyone, despite the fact that there has been no formal announcement of the film. But in the runup to the release of Nolan's Inception, which opens on July 16, there is already some talk about what…
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Movie tickets for huge summer films tend to go on sale a few weeks early. When you think of movies that have benefit from this, you might think of Star Wars, The Dark Knight, and....Sex and the City 2? According to The Hollywood Reporter, tickets for Sex and the City 2 are already selling at…
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Whether because of the Hawaiian location and sometimes unpredictable schedule of ABC's Lost or because they're so associated with their island characters, several of the show's primary actors have yet to book sizable feature gigs outside of the series. Now that the show is about to wrap, however, expect to see Lost mainstays showing up…
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Straight from director Barry Sonnenfeld comes news that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are set to return for a third Men in Black picture and, in a move which will surprise precisely no-one, Sony will be releasing it in 3D. The official line seems to be that while Smith and Jones have both agreed…
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Bad Boys was a breakout hit for Will Smith, Martin Lawrence and director Michael Bay, and the sequel Bad Boys II was so deliberately outrageous that it was almost a total parody of the very idea of an action movie. After the excess of the second film, a third chapter seems not only superfluous, but…
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A couple of new featurettes hit the web today. First up is a one minute behind the scenes look at the villains of Iron Man 2, which aired on Monday's Entertainment Tonight. The segment focuses on Mickey Rourke as Whiplash and Sam Rockwell as Justin Hammer. And next up is a new featurette for the…
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I've very much enjoyed Bobcat Goldthwait's career thus far as a director, much more so than as a comic actor. His latest film, World's Greatest Dad, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival to critical accliam but was unable to find a big audience when it was released (likely due to the comedy's dark subject…
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If we hadn't just had word of the possible Benicio Del Toro / Cameron Diaz romantic comedy pairing, the cast currently attached to star in Rupert Wainwright's film Waco might seem like one of the strangest casting collections of the day: Kurt Russell, Adrien Brody and Sharon Stone are potentially teaming to recreate the ATF…
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This might be the year's most unlikely romantic comedy pairing: Cameron Diaz and Benicio Del Toro are tapped to appear in the screen version of Jane Heller's novel An Ex to Grind. Del Toro would be a star athlete who has supported his wife, a waitress. But an injury sidelines his career, after which he…
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The Los Angeles Times has interviewed James Cameron to promote the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray release of Avatar. The interview features a bunch of newsworthy bits, including a confirmation that Avatar will be rereleased theatrically in August with new footage, and that the sequel will focus on the Oceans of Pandora. Check out the highlightes…
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For a while now we've been hearing about Todd Phillips and Joel Silver's super secret low-budget, hard-R comedy movie which is being referred to as Project X. The project is set-up at Warner Bros with a $12 million budget. Phillips is working as 'producer and creative godfather' for commercial turned first time feature film director…
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Who is going to direct the Steve Oedekerk-scripted big screen adaptation of Stretch Armstrong? And why should you care? Originally there were rumors that Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon) would helm the toy adaptation. Then Twilight sensation Taylor Lautner joined the cast, skipping out on Max Steel. And last month it…
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A few new photos which have popped up in the last 24 hours, all of which are worth sharing. The photos include a high resolution look at Josh Brolin in Jonah Hex,the first photo from Ringu and The Ring Two helmer Hideo Nakata's The Chatroom, and photos from the set of Green Lantern. The Chatroom…
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Mark Hamill and Jennifer Aniston: What they really want to do is direct? It would seem so. Jen has apparently let slip that she's developing a film to direct. Why now? Here's her thinking: After you get enough movies under your belt you sit back and go, 'What's next?' It's getting to a time where…
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Update: The LA Times mentions that another director who is a top candidate for the film is Adam Shankman (Bedtime Stories). So let that temper your excitement a bit, at least for now. Guess this answers the question about what Sam Mendes is doing while EON Productions figures out the future of James Bond. While…
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We've heard before that Neill Blomkamp would, in theory, like to bring Sharlto Copley back for a follow-up to District 9. But that's probably not happening any time soon. But you can see Copley as Wikus van der Merwe once more, thanks to Wikus and Charlize, in which the District 9 character attempts to track…
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Many of us have at one point enjoyed the seeing Hitler scream at some random object or wrath in a re-subtitled scene from Oliver Hirschbiegel's Der Untergang (Downfall). Even the director has confirmed that he enjoys the meme, saying that "The point of the film was to kick these terrible people off the throne that…
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We'd heard earlier this year that a new Treasure Island movie was in development, the idea being to create a version of the story that has the same appeal as the Sherlock Holmes and Pirates of the Caribbean films -- in other words, a mostly modern take that happens to be set in the original…
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Leaving Hollywood was the best thing John Woo ever did for his career. After a string of action films of steadily declining quality, Woo made the Chinese epic Red Cliff, which landed on several critics top 10 lists of 2009. Now comes Reign of Assassins, a new film that Woo produced with longtime partner Terence…
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Today's Amazon Deal of the Day is the Planet of the Apes 40th Anniversary Collection on Blu-Ray. Presented in a multi-panel fold-out booklet, 5-disc collection includes all five films, a full-color book of photography, and a comprehensive timeline of the Apes universe. For the next 24 hours, Amazon is selling the collection for $42.99, 67%…
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One of our most anticipated films of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was the stoner comedy High School. I attended a midnight screening of the film, and the crowd was hysterical with laughter. That said, I thought the premise was much more clever than the actual film. What's the premise? Here is the official description…
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Steven Spielberg has found a show-runner for his upcoming time travel dinosaur Fox television series Terra Nova: Brannon Braga, a producer and writer of various Star Trek tv shows from 1990-2005 including The Next Generation, Voyager and Enterprise, in addition to Flash Forward and the last couple seasons of 24. Deadline reports that no deal…
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Paramount Pictures has signed Superbad/Adventureland director Greg Mottola to direct a big screen adaptation of Leanne Shapton’s book Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, which the studio acquired last year. That's not all -- Risky Business reports that Brad Pitt and…
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Craig Stiles' screenplay The Architect has been going around Hollywood since February, and has finally found a buyer in RKO. The contemporary Hitchcockian Thriller is said to be more akin to North by Northwest than Vertigo or Strangers on a Train. I've heard that it will probably draw more comparisons to Taken or Breakdown. The…
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Expect to be bombarded with Iron Man 2 television commercials over the next few weeks. The newest commercial, #9 for those counting, hit today and features a bunch of new footage from the sequel: Some new shots of Whiplash and Iron Man's battle at the speedway, and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow offering Tony Stark…
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/Film reader Kelly E alerted us to this early teaser clip for Screen Gems comedy Easy A starring Emma Stone (Superbad, Zombieland). After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl (Emma Stone) sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently…
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Samuel L Jackson has confirmed rumors that Nick Fury will NOT appear in Marve's Thor, but will have a part in The First Avenger: Captain America. Jackson told IESB that he had no idea why he wasn't featured in the upcoming Marvel film, despite being name-dropped in the Hollywood trades. When asked about a potential…
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Bloody Disgusting is reporting that Lionsgate is scheduling some "additional photography" for the Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried. You might remember that the independent film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical and audience acclaim, sparking a multi-studio bidding war. While they don't know exactly what they are adding to the film, they do…
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A few new movie posters have popped up over the weekend, and we have collected them for you after the jump. Posters include Phish 3D, Nowhere Boy, a final poster for Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, and Solitary Man. Nowhere Boy (via: yahoo): Phish 3D (via: IMPA) Robin Hood (via: AICN): Solitary Man (see the poster…
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Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment has released 23 production photos from Iron Man 2. Click after the jump to check them out. About half of the photos are brand new. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] “IRON MAN 2” Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment Present A Marvel Studios Production A Jon Favreau Film Co-Producers Jeremy Latcham Victoria…
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/Film reader Ian G noticed something funny in David Goyer's 2006 interview with the screenwriting-focused interview series The Dialogue. You may recall that we've featured The Dialogue Series in a previous edition of Cool Stuff (read more here). You probably also recall that David Goyer was hired to write a new Superman screenplay based on…
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Get Low, which features Bill Murray as a scheming funeral director hired by an irascible hermit (Robert Duvall) to stage his own funeral while alive, did well at the Toronto Film Festival and was quickly bought by Sony Pictures Classics. Now there's a trailer for the odd-looking comedy. Word out of TIFF was that Duvall's…
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Remember last year when MGM's bankruptcy troubles first came to light and we were relatively optimistic that the future of the James Bond franchise was not much in doubt? Well, we're less optimistic now; at this point I might even bet on a SPECTRE plan to succeed before I'd put money on seeing a Bond…
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Of all the animation properties from the '70s and '80s that have been targeted for remakes and updated feature versions, the only one for which I feel the least bit of nostalgia is Gatchaman. It was seen in the US in heavily edited and reworked form as Battle of the Planets, which was designed to…
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Summit Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to the popular/famous relationship book franchise Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. The book series Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus assesses marital and relationship problems in terms of distinct and pervasive gender differences. The Mars-Venus series has sold over 50 million books in 45…
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Back in 2008, I posted about a Tron-inspired hoody design which was submitted to Threadless. That design, sadly, never made it to sale. I had always assumed that either it was too geeky, or maybe the design was too much like the one in the film. Two years later, that design has finally been made…
Read MoreThere's something in the air of late that has projects that have simmered for years finally coming to life. On the Road may finally be moving forward, the Mighty Mouse adaptation is happening again, and now there may be steps taken on one of the films that has kicked around Hollywood for years: The Secret…
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Marvel seems to be getting all the attention as of late, but what about the DC Comics film adaptations? Where's the love?! With the recent buzz ramping up for the now-in-production big screen adaptation of Green Lantern, I thought this video might be in order. Videoprototype has created a eight and a half minute video…
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Lucasfilm Director of Fan Relations Steve Sansweet made a couple of big Star Wars-related revelations this weekend at Chicago's C2E2 convention. The first of which is kind of expected: A Blu-Ray release of the six Star Wars live-action feature films is being worked on, and while no official date was announced, Sansweet says "it won't…
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Update: The original Sunday Box Office estimates were a bit off, and Kick-Ass did end up beating How To Train Your Dragon, but with only a $200,000 differential. Kick-Ass wins the weekend with a $19.8 million take for the three days, while Dreamworks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon came in second with $19.6 million,…
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It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies that offer proof. Slashfilm’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review, or a look at a book on a filmmaker's life. Any self-respecting male should take a few moments each year to…
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Update: I have been contacted by Zooey Deschanel's publicist who claims "Zooey is not connected to the project". You can read the original story below. Ada Lovelace, a nineteenth-century writer and daughter of Lord Byron, was a wildly interesting woman. She worked on Charles Babbage's early Analytical Engine, and she is considered a forerunner in…
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Production Weekly had a lot of late-breaking casting info at the end of this past week. Among the brief missives was a note that Tron Legacy star Garret Hedlund is in talks to play Dean Moriarty in an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, to be directed by Walter Salles. A film version…
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"I'm gonna sleep in your bloody carcasses tonight!" In 2007 there was a contest at SXSW that invited filmmakers to create their own fake grindhouse-style movie trailers to go along with the promotion for the Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez film Grindhouse. The winner, by a great margin, was Hobo with a Shotgun, from Nova…
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Oren Moverman's debut feature, The Messenger, was an excellent film. I've been eagerly awaiting final word on what his follow-ups might be. He's working on The Other Side of the Looking Glass now, for one. Today there's indication that, rather than making a Kurt Cobain biopic, he could make an LA cop drama called Rampart,…
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Back in January, 20th Century Fox bought distribution rights to Machete, the film from Robert Rodriguez that expands his jokey Grindhouse trailer into a feature. Now the picture has a release date: September 3, aka Labor Day Weekend. I'm not sure if that's a good date or not for the film -- traditionally the last…
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It's tax week, so you might not have a lot of money right now, which could be limiting your weekend entertainment options. Sure, there's Kick-Ass opening, and Exit Through the Gift Shop if you're in New York or LA (seriously the best movie I've seen yet this year -- my current draft of a review…
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Where's Jonah Hex? We saw footage from the film at last year's Comic Con, but aside from a few reshoot reports and word of Mastodon sharing scoring duties, there's been basically nothing to report on the film since then. Few pics, no trailer. Earlier this week, as part of a rumor that suggested Lobo was…
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While visiting the sweltry set of Red this month, /Film had the pleasure of hanging and chatting a bit with John Malkovich. The iconic actor's thoughts on the 2010 Warren Ellis comic book adaptation remain under wraps, but Malkovich also took a sec to extend on his rumored involvement in Sam Raimi's (thankfully?) never-to-be Spider-Man…
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Disney has issued a press release announcing that British actor Sam Claflin has officially joined the cast of producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Rob Marshall 's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. According to the release, Cladlin will "star in the key role of Philip, a youthful missionary." Claflin is currently working on British…
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Kick-Ass is the logical culmination of the last decade of popular American cinema, displaying many of the trends we’ve seen in recent memory and upping them to their nth degree. Consider that this film includes the following: the manifestation of the superhero origin story in its most extreme form; the over-stylization of balletic violence that…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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There isn't much to this story, just the screen capture included above. It is of a tweet from Edgar Wright, director of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the upcoming film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, that reads: I just met Joss Whedon for the first time. Speculation commence! Edgar is in town…
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A couple weeks back, Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment released a new viral website for Iron Man 2: AccuTech Research & Development, a subsidiary of Stark Industries, which has plans to premiere a breakthrough in anthropo-robotics -- the new HazTech robotic exoskeleton, at Stark Expo 2010. Earlier this week a video leaked on YouTube, appearing…
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Dark Horse Comics has announced that they will create a companion graphic novel for Hammer Films' upcoming suspense thriller Let Me In, an american adaptation of Tomas Alfredson's Swedish film Let the Right One In. As you know, Let Me In is written and directed by Cloverfield helmer Matt Reeves. While the storyline of the…
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In the summer of July 2008, FBI agents in Missouri arrested Bill Anthony Jakob for fraud. But his crime is a lot more interesting than most, as Jakob had arrived in the small Missouri town of Gerald, where he posed as a federal agent who was part of a "multi-jurisdictional task force" (a line he…
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Hot Toys has released photos of the Iron Man 2: 1/6th scale Mark IV Limited Edition Collectible Figurine, part of their Movie Masterpiece Series. More details and photos available after the jump. Hot Toys is proud to present the 1/6th scale Mark IV Limited Edition Collectible Figurine from the Iron Man 2 movie. The movie-accurate…
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Back in November, we got our first look at Control helmer Anton Corbijn's The American, staring George Clooney as "an artful assassin with a lengthy track record, constantly on the move and always watching his back." A new production photo has appeared on the film's official facebook page (found via theplaylist), seen above. Corbijn also noted…
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Columbia Pictures has released a full movie trailer for the new Adam Sandler comedy Grown Ups. The film stars Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Maria Bello, Gary Busey and David Spade, and is directed by Dennid Dugan, the filmmaker behind of some of Sandler's earlier films like Happy…
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At WonderCon, Geoff Johns hinted that a Justice League of America live-action feature film might be in development, responding that he "Can't talk about it yet, but we'll talk in San Diego." Today Comic Book Resources posted their annual 20 question reader Q&A with Johns which prodded CCO of DC Comics about what other potential…
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Magnolia Pictures has released the official movie trailer for Neil Jordan's Ondine The dramatic fantasy story stars Colin Farrell as an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman in his fishing net who he believes to be a mermaid. Farrell's current girlfriend and actress Alicja Bachleda plays the suspected mermaid. The film premiered at the 2009…
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Briefly: Going to keep this one short until more detail comes in, but here are the basics. About an hour ago THR ran a piece saying that Bob and Harvey Weinstein would again be in control of the Miramax name and library thanks to a $600m bid made with/through Ron Burkle and a small consortium…
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It doesn't look like he's getting to it any time soon, but after Martin Scorsese finishes The Invention of Hugo Cabret and the planned follow-up Silence (his 'Jesuit priest drama') there has been talk of finally making The Irishman, which would reunite the director with Robert De Niro. The Irishman is based on the book…
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Gotta hope Kirsten Dunst knows what she's getting into. The former Mary Jane Watson has signed, along with Kiefer Sutherland and several others, to appear in Melancholia, the new film from Lars von Trier. Not by any stretch the kindest of directors, Trier has been known to test his actresses in outlandish and subversive ways.…
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20th Century Fox has released a new international (UK) movie trailer for the new Tom Cruise action/comedy Knight and Day. Directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line / 3:10 to Yuma / Girl, Interrupted), the film centers on a fugitive couple (played by Cruise and Cameron Diaz) on a "glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where…
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/Film reader Jimmy W attended the RED Camera convention in Vegas this week, and got a chance to check out all the new awesome cameras they are working on. But the most interesting bit of information he learned had to do with David Fincher's upcoming adaptation of The Social Network. While there, they screened some…
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In our continuing mission to bring you the newest movie posters from around the web, today we have a look at the official poster for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, a teaser poster for The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and the final movie poster for Shrek Forever After. Check them out after the jump. 2010 Cannes Film…
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Nothing makes me happy in quite the same was as seeing a small, odd western come together with a top-notch cast. I've got new hope for a film called A Thousand Guns, based in part on the fact that Vera Farmiga has just signed on. The film, which is about "a preacher's wife and her…
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Mark Millar is one of the most exciting people working in the entertainment industry today. Millar's Wanted was made into an action film that grossed over $300 million worldwide and his upcoming film Kick Ass (based on a comic book that he wrote, which was then adapted for the screen by Matthew Vaughn and Jane…
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There's always a serious cachet to making a film based on a 'lost' story or treatment from a deceased talent. For example, we've just been talking about Lunatic at Large, which will be based on a long treatment Jim Thompson wrote for Stanley Kubrick. Today an old Bruce Lee story is coming back to light.…
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Now that Marvel has tasked Joss Whedon with directing The Avengers, it's time to wonder what will happen with the script as it currently stands. When you've got a guy whose primary facility is with writing rather than directing, obviously there's the assumption that he'll have a pass at the script. Indeed, Whedon is apparently…
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Not long ago, a bidding war erupted in Hollywood over the rights to remake a Swedish crime thriller called Snabba Cash (Easy Money). Now there is a winner: Warner Bros. The studio will remake the film with Zac Efron producing and starring. THR's report suggests that the studio has to get on this one, as…
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Want to become a director? Start working as an editor, and angle for horror/thriller gigs. As an example, Kevin Greutert edited the Saw films before directing the sixth and now seventh films in that franchise. (And was tapped to direct Paranormal Activity 2 before LionsGate said no.) And now Tom Elkins, who edited The Haunting…
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A couple viral updates for Iron Man 2 and Tron Legacy. First up, a new video has turned up on YouTube which appears to be a bootleg clip from a presentation of technology from Stark Industries. I'm not sure if there are any clues in this short 33 second clip, or if more will be…
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Earlier today, Hayley Atwell was cast as the female lead in The First Avenger: Captain America. When geek news like this breaks, I'll often talk to Steve from Collider on the phone and we'll tell each other what we think. It's conversations like these that originally led to us to record our first video blogs.…
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On Tuesday Night's edition of the Tonight Show, Jay Leno had Nicolas Cage compete against Adam West (the original Batman from the 1960's television show) in a Batman trivia contest. For those of you who don't know, Cage channeled West for his Big Daddy performance in Kick-Ass and is a huge comic book geek. So…
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Update: Olivia Munn does not play Janet Van Dyne aka The Wasp in Iron Man 2. Ever since G4's Attack of the Show co-host and geek diva Olivia Munn was cast in Iron Man 2, geeks around the webosphere have been trying to figure out what role she might play in the upcoming sequel. Actress…
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A day can't go by in the past week without another name being added to the cast of the comedy/satire Butter. Now it's Hugh Jackman's turn. He'll be "an old flame" for Jennifer Garner's character. Not sure how large a role this will be, but I like the idea of Jackman turning up in smaller…
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/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. In previous recaps, I have discussed the slower pace and subdued tone of season three, and several Slash readers…
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It's been a hell of a day for rumors and doom and gloom reports. There is word that Sony isn't happy with The Green Hornet, and that Warner Bros. is rather down on The Losers (about which I've heard good things) and Jonah Hex, which has led to a disinterest in pursuing Lobo. (According to…
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French Actress Astrid Bergès-Frisbey has been selected by producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Rob Marshall to star in the key role of Syrena, a beautiful and alluring young mermaid, in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. How big of a role will Syrena the Mermaid have in the fourth installment of the Pirates franchise?…
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As we get closer to the announcement of the Cannes lineup for this year (that hits tomorrow) there aren't a huge number of films I'm already excited to see. But a few already stand out. Hell, a new film from Takeshi Kitano is always going to stand out. And when it is his return to…
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Who would have guessed that a little movie about gay men and prison breaks would generate a full-on distribution saga? I Love You, Phillip Morris , directed by Bad Santa writers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, was bought a while after Sundance '09, then had release dates pushed…
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which originally saw life as a TV show in the mid-'60s, has long been in the Hollywood remake pile. Back in 2004 or 2005 Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn was set to direct, but dropped out to make another film that eventually didn't happen. (He made Stardust instead.) But the film keeps…
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Hot Toys has released images of their upcoming Iron Man 2 1/6th scale Whiplash Limited Edition Collectible Figure from their Movie Masterpiece Series. Eighteen photos and more information, available after the jump. The figure is available for pre-order through Sideshow Collectibles for $179.99. Hot Toys is proud to present the 1/6th scale Whiplash Limited Edition…
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Marvel has finally found an actress to play the lead female role in Joe Johnston's The First Avenger: Captain America. 28-year old British actress Hayley Atwell will play the Captain's World War II girlfriend Peggy Carter. As you might recall, a couple weeks back it was reported that Marvel Studios was testing British actresses for…
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One of my favorite things about going to the movies as a kid, besides the movies themselves and the trailers, was walking through the lobby of my local multiplex and checking out all the posters, banners and standees for the upcoming films. The art of poster design has gone to hell, I've grown up and…
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Writers turned producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Alias, Transformers, Star Trek) have put together a pitch for a thriller set in an airport and set it in motion at DreamWorks. The key element of the equation is their partner in the pitch: screenwriter Jeremy Slater, whose work has ended up on the Black List…
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So maybe those rumors of Jamie Foxx writing Laverne & Shirley were a little out there, but the guy is all over the place right now. For instance, in addition to working on a new sketch comedy show and having a role in Kane & Lynch, Foxx will produce, score and voice a character in…
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Anyone who has seen Iron Man knows about the little easter egg "button" that was included at the conclusion of the credits, which featured Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury telling Tony Stark about a new group he is putting together. This scene was rumored in the weeks leading up to release, but most everyone…
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Last month, it was revealed that Steven Spielberg was shepherding yet another film as producer, a film titled Jackie, a Noah Oppenheim script based on the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. At the time it was reported that HBO was the most interested party, and that Jackie could be developed as a cable movie project…
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Could the 450ft-long iconic Hollywood sign which stands proudly on the land overlooking Los Angeles be turned into a boutique hotel? You might have heard that the land around the famous Hollywood sign was put on the market two years ago. The non-profit Public Trust For Lands group, fearing that the land would be bought…
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We have yet to really cover this project, so now is probably the time. Last year an interactive art project was launched called Star Wars Unut. The idea was to recreate Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope using 472 15 second fan recreated scenes. Fans that participated recreated a 15 second segment of the…
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In March, we broke news that Paramount Pictures and Roth Films were developing a movie using John Hughes' unproduced screenplay Grisby's Go Broke. Paramount later denied the rumor (which probably means they considered the property, but decided not to), but I've been itching to get my hands on Hughes original script to see an unmade…
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Back in March,Academy Award-winning filmmaker and historian Martin Scorsese announced his approval of Digital 3D filmmaking, stating "We see in depth, for the most part. We go to the theater — it's in depth. Why couldn't a film like `Precious' be in 3-D? It should be." Scorsese even admitted that he'd love to make a…
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Sharlto Copley, better known as the star of District 9 and the upcoming A-Team big screen movie adaptation, is in talks to star in Dreamworks' Michael Bay/Steven Spielberg-produced D.J. Caruso-directed teen sci-fi alien adaptation I Am Number Four. He will join Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker and Beastly star Alex Pettyfer , who is set to…
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Over the last couple months Logan Lerman's name has been the focus of the Spider-Man rumor mill. But Sony keeps denying that Lerman is in consideration for Marc Webb's Spider-Man reboot. IESB has a new candidate to add to the mix: Josh Hutcherson, who you may have seen in films like Cirque du Freak: The…
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The casting info continues to pour in for Jim Field Smith's political satire called Butter. There's already quite a lineup: Jennifer Garner, Rob Corddry, Ty Burrell, Ashley Greene and more. Now Olivia Wilde (Tron Legacy) has been added, as has Alicia Silverstone. But there's some confusion. Movieline reports that Wilde is cast as a tattooed…
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On April Fool's Day, IESB had the bad timing to report that Joss Whedon was on the shortlist to direct The Avengers for Marvel. Really bad timing for that scoop -- while Whedon is the sort of guy a lot of fans would like to see on this film, there was too much reason to…
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20th Century Fox has released a new featurette for the Robert Rodriguez-produced, Nimrod Antal-directed Predators. You've seen the introductory featurette, the teaser trailer, and the featurette focusing on Adrien Brody's character Royce. The new featurette is more of an interview Q&A with Rodriguez and Antal, explaining why they made a new Predators movie, and now…
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Restless authority-types and newscasters have referred to him as “the Teen Houdini,” “the Boy Who Loved to Fly,” and “the Barefoot Bandit.” Over a two year period, he's allegedly stolen and crashed a handful of cars and aircraft, having taught himself to fly from video games and a flight manual purchased using a stolen credit…
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Paul Verhoeven, a director best known for films like Robocop, Starship Troopers, Total Recall and Basic Instinct, hasn't stepped behind the camera for a few years (2006's Black Book). But is now appears the filmmaker is developing a big screen adaptation of a video game. The filmmaker told MTV: "I am working on a movie…
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Briefly: Despite the fact that he lost Christoph Waltz, I'm seriously interested in David Cronenberg's new film, which is now called A Dangerous Method. Production Weekly reports the title change for the film, which is based on Christopher Hampton's play The Talking Cure. Filming starts next month and will take place in Berlin, Vienna and…
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Today's t-shirt at TeeFury is probably one of the coolest Lost-inspired t-shirts I've ever seen. Julia Sonmi Heglund's design "Wrong Island" pictures Gilligan and the Skipper from Gilligan's Island, alongside the Hatch and the smoke monster from Lost. The good news is that the t-shirt is available for only $9 plus shipping. The bad news…
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Who knows how, but Earth's Mightiest somehow got director Joe Johnston to comment on the recent casting of Chris Evans as Captain America/Steve Rogers in The First Avenger: Captain America. Johnston reveals that Evans didn't even have to audition for the role, as the filmmaker had already seen all of his films and was "championing…
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Today's Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day is the video game Batman Arkham Asylum, in both X Box 360 and Playstation 3 flavors, for only $26.99, 33% off the $40 retail price. We've covered this video game on the site in the past, and it has been very well reviewed. Of course, the price…
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A bunch of new movie posters have been released in the last few days, so I thought it was time to do a round-up. The posters include various international posters for Toy Story 3, Prince of Persia, Nightmare on Elm Street, Survival of the Dead and some domestic one-sheets for Sex and the City 2…
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Update: I'd originally had the film's title as I'm Mortal, but the spelling seen in the headline and below is actually the correct one. Looks like Gattaca and Lord of War director Andrew Niccol may have a new 'next movie' set up. Last year, it seemed like Niccol was moving forward on The Cross, but…
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As much as the /Filmcast crew and I want one, we might not ever get a sequel to How To Train Your Dragon. Although, that movie is proving to have legs at the box office, dropping only 14% in its third weekend of release. I guess that might be enough for Hollywood to think they've…
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Chris Rock revealed his next project to Black Voices: writing the screenplay remake/adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 detective thriller High and Low for director Mike Nichols. If you were going to ask me who might replace David Mamet on this modern day remake/adaptation, Rock would certainly have been near the bottom of the list. Here…
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While I don't normally have time to read screenplays, it would be nice to read them on my new Apple iPad. And as a former aspiring screenwriter (you could say I've been on a five year hiatus), I'm also interested to know how writers might be able to write a screenplay on the iPad. Reading…
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A few years back, Roman Polanski and Robert Harris spent a lot of time developing Pompeii, which would have seen Polanski directing a script by both men based on Harris' historical novel about the days leading to the ancient volcanic disaster. That film fell apart when the Screen Actors Guild threatened to strike -- either…
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There's been no small amount of speculation about what the previously untitled Jack Ryan film starring Chris Pine will feature in terms of plot, where it might fit amongst the existing films starring Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck, and what it will mean for the character. Now we've got a working title --…
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Tim Doyle has a new Ghostbusters-inspired print on Nakatomi, and today is the last day that the print will be available for preorder (midnight CST Monday night). But you'll have to subscribe to their e-mail list if you want one. "Ready To Believe You" is available in two different editings, a regular edition (red, white…
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David O. Russell's The Fighter still doesn't have an official release date (although I've heard it may hit theaters the week of the Thansgiving holiday), and we haven't heard anything about the project since that test screening report in January. For those who haven't been following the project, here is a recap: Darren Aronofsky was…
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The Guardian seems to suggest that Kick-Ass helmer Matthew Vaughn is signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of English television and radio presenter Jonathan Ross' new comic book mini series Turf. Comic book fans will notice a connection: Ross has been married to author, journalist and broadcaster Jane Goldman for over a decade.…
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Briefly: Last week there was a bit of lamentation and gnashing of teeth over the fact that the Jim Carrey / Ewan McGregor comedy I Love You, Phillip Morris had been yanked from any reliable release schedule. Now it has been given a new date, with Consolidated Pictures Group still distributing. The film will now…
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If DreamWorks Animation greenlit a sequel to Monsters vs. Aliens featuring the crossover with the Alien film franchise, it might look something like the above image imagined by Jacob Sparks. via: superpunch
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So there's a lot of speculation about what Ryan Reynolds will be like in Green Lantern. And while it likely won't give you much of an idea, you can have some fun seeing him as a much goofier superhero in the trailer for Paper Man. Here, Reynolds isn't even real; he's the imaginary creation of…
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Back in January we brought you the first still from Ari Folman's upcoming The Congress, which adapts (and makes significant changes to) Stanislaw Lem's story The Futurological Congress. Now we've got the first bit of footage, and it looks wonderful. The story follows a man living in a world in which reality has been supplanted…
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AMC seems pretty high on Frank Darabont's The Walking Dead, a series adaptation of Robert Kirkman's comics. Andrew Lincoln stars as Rick Grimes, with Jon Bernthal as his partner before the story's zombie apocalypse takes place. Now there's word that Brandon Routh is 'a lock' for a role in the series. No role is mentioned,…
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Last week's episode of South Park, titled "You Have 0 Friends" contains a Tron parody. Here is a brief description of the episode (yes, possible spoilers): Kyle, Cartman and Kenny make Stan a Facebook profile against his will and he becomes embroiled and frustrated with everyone asking him for friend requests. After he gets fed…
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Everyone is curious to see what Ryan Reynolds will look like in costume in the big screen adaptation of DC Comics' Green Lantern. Production started earlier this month in New Orleans, and while the first set photos have begun to hit the web -- don't expect to see Reynolds in the green suit. Not today,…
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Summit Entertainment and Transformers/GI Joe producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura are in talks to acquire the feature film rights to Andrew Klavan's young-adult book series Homelanders. THR, who broke the story, describes the series as being in the tone of "The Bourne Identity crossed with Disturbia." The novel begins with a high school student who wakes…
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Columbia Pictures has hired Predators scribes Mike Finch and Alex Litvak to pen the new big screen adaptation of Masters of the Universe. HeatVision reports that the scribes "attempted to balance a treatment that would convince the studio it was cinematic and keep the toy company satisfied that its characters were being portrayed appropriately" in…
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Update: Mike Fleming has gotten comment from Sony, who "were very definitive in denying the story, and were sure that Lerman was 100% not going to be Spidey and that he is not on the list of candidates being seriously considered." So we now know who isn't going to play Spider-Man -- Logan Lerman. Original…
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It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies that offer proof. Slashfilm’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review of a film about a murderous nerd, or an interview. Another week, another serial killer film. The British import, Tony, follows…
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Last week we reported that Olivia Thirlby (Juno, The Wackness) would be starring in the Timur Bekmambetov-produced alien invasion movie titled The Darkest Hour. Variety is now reporting that Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer, Into the Wild) has now joined the cast. Described as a 28 Days Later-type thriller, the story follows a group of American…
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Universal Pictures has released the first two photos from George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau. The movie is a sci-fi romance based on the Philip K Dick short story The Adjustment Team. The movie follows an affair between a politician and a ballerina, which is "affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart." The film stars…
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Comic co-creator Cully Hamner has posted the on-set logo for the big screen adaptation of the DC Comics/Warren Ellis graphic novel Red on his blog. Of course, the temp logo, which appears on the chairs on the New Orleans set, looks almost exactly like it does on the comic book covers. Check out a close-up,…
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Paramount Pictures has released new high resolution photos from The Last Airbender. Check them out now, after the jump. [gallery columns="2"] “THE LAST AIRBENDER” Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies Present A Blinding Edge Pictures/ Kennedy/Marshall Company Production An M. Night Shyamalan Film “The Last Airbender” Co-Producer Jose L. Rodriguez Executive Producers Kathleen Kennedy Scott Aversano…
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Will Ryan Reynolds' superhero costume in Green Lantern look anything like this recently posted piece of concept art? I hope not... Comic artist Jason Palmer posted the following message to his Deviant Art blog last week: "Hello all, Been busy with, among other things, two movies each based on DC comic characters (one has a…
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British actor Stephen Graham, Sam Claflin, and Max Irons are in talks to join the cast of Rob Marshall’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Graham has appeared in Public Enemies, This Is England, Gangs of New York, Band of Brothers and Snatch. Irons, the 24-year-old son of actors Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack,…
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We've already shown you a teaser trailer for Ong Bak 3, in which Tony Jaa reprises the action of the previous two films. (This is a continuation of the story from Ong Bak 2.) That teaser was pretty crazy, but it was nothing compared to this full trailer, which pulls out all the stops. Watch…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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I just wrote about Butter the other day -- that's the Black List script by Jason Micallef that is becoming a comedy with satirical overtones starring Rob Corddry and Jennifer Garner. Now Ashley Greene, aka the one reason I'd think about ever wanting to watch any of the Twilight films, is signing on to play…
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It's been a week since Clash of the Titans opened, and I've already forgotten the movie, for the most part. There's too little there worth remembering, as the handful of good moments are overwhelmed by an excess of chaff and a terrible structure. (Read my thoughts on the film, or listen to the /Filmcast discussion.)…
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As you probably know by now, San Diego's contract with Comic-Con comes to a close in 2012. Everyone wants to know if Comic-Con will leave San Diego. And if the convention goes elsewhere, where could that be? Las Vegas, Anaheim and Los Angeles are all bidding for the right to become the future home of…
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Here's the thing about Preacher: making it into a movie that makes any sense and retains the spirit of the original comic is going to be a hell of a task. (ahem.) Even if Kick-Ass is quite successful, the collision of sex, religion and violence that is Preacher won't be an easy sell. Producers have…
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Vera Farmiga quickly broke into the big time. Her early credits came in the late '90s, and by 2004 she was working with Jonathan Demme (his Manchurian Candidate remake) and then there was The Departed. Up in the Air landed her an Oscar nomination, and she's continuing to work in movies that aren't quite mainstream:…
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Sony has finally released a teaser trailer for the upcoming Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg-starrer Adam McKay-directed action/comedy The Other Guys. Strangely, we're getting the teaser after the release of a funny motion poster a few weeks ago. So while this is the first teaser trailer, we've technically already been teased, in full motion. The teaser does…
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Never mind the French audio, just look at these beautiful images. After the break are four clips from Luc Besson's incoming The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc Sec. I promise that as soon as subtitled versions appear, I will update - but the French language teaser and full trailer went down so well I was…
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I can't say I'm surprised about this, but I am quite sad: Consolidated Pictures Group, the small distributor that picked up I Love You, Phillip Morris quite some time after Sundance 2009, has decided to shelve the film. Sorry, not 'shelve.' The phrase is, I believe, 'delay indefinitely.' Last time we wrote about the movie,…
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A couple days ago we posted a short film by Ridley Scott protege Carl Erik Rinsch. Titled The Gift, the futuristic action thriller tells the story of a robotic manservant who must go on the run from the Russian police. The short quickly spread around the internet (if you haven't watch it yet, click here).…
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Warner Bros has released the first full length movie trailer for Sex and the City 2. To be quite honest with you, I never got around to watching the original film. I did see a few episodes of the series, and was not a fan (I'm also not the right demo or sex). So my…
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Last month, Universal Studios finally announced details of the centerpiece attraction of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, "a revolutionary, 360-degree theme park experience and first-ever combination of live-action, advanced robotic technology and innovative filmmaking." We've been interested since that announcement to finally see what this attraction might look…
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We've got a story that sounds pretty crazy on the surface, but the source is interesting. The Financial Times is reporting that Ridley and Tony Scott are interested in "steering MGM back to solvency after submitting a restructuring plan" to the studio's lenders. MGM, remember, has been in dire straights for months. A $3.7b (that's…
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Today I learned that Spike Jonze (Where The Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich) was casting a secret film project in Austin Texas. Apparently Spike has been casting mostly late teen actors for the project, which is supposedly a story which involves "friends growing apart." The only bits of information I've been able to uncover…
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Discovery Channel announced yesterday that not only are they working with Pixar on an upcoming special, but they're also working with Steven Spielberg on a new mini-series which will imagine out sci-non-fi future. Future Earth aims to be an epic mini-series examining what life on Earth will be like in 25, 50 and 100 years.…
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This story is, to some extent, just an incremental step forward from one we ran a couple weeks ago. Specifically, Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) was said to be in talks to direct Mission: Impossible IV. He was on a shortlist with a few other guys. A couple of them can't (Edgar Wright, Ruben Fleischer)…
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Earlier today we posted 34 high resolution photos from the big screen adaptation of The Losers. I'm not sure why, but after all the trailers, photos, clips and interviews, I haven't really been excited to see this movie. That is, until Warner Bros premiered a sizzle reel for the film at WonderCon this past weekend. …
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One of the many Sundance debuts this year was Holy Rollers, from first-time feature director Kevin Asch. It features Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Ari Graynor and Q-Tip in the seemingly unlikely story of a young man (Eisenberg) who is drawn by a neighbor (Bartha) into a scheme to smuggle ecstasy into the US. Now there's…
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One of the surprise film premieres at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was The Kids Are All Right. I didn't get to write about this movie on the site, but I did quite enjoy it (but not as much as my friend Katey Rich, who said it "may be the first great relationship comedy of…
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You might recall that last August, Pixar fans spotted some concept artwork featuring a boy and his dinosaur, on sculptor Greg Dykstra's wall in behind the scenes b-roll footage for Up. Someone also noticed some interesting postings made by Pixar animator and paleontology buff Austin Madison on his personal blog recounting a trip taken by…
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Barry Sonnenfeld was low on the feature directorial radar for a while. In the last year, however, he's frequently been in the trades with announcements of new projects, most of which are still in development. (Such as The How-To Guide For Saving the World and Swift , both with writer BenDavid Grabinski, and Men in…
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/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads and readers' thoughts welcome. For previous recaps, click here. The third episode of the third season, “I.F.T.” continues the series' slow burn this year and…
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Not long ago I posted the trailer for Kooky's Return, a beautiful-looking film by Jan Sverák (director of the Best Foreign Film Oscar-winning Kolya) that combines live-action and puppets for a slightly off-beat, very imaginative look at childhood. At the time the trailer featured no subtitles. Just after posting, however, I got in touch with…
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Intacto and 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo hasn't done much since he helmed the sequel to Danny Boyle's zombie film. He's been working on the feature version of the video game BioShock since last summer, but that seems to be stalled. So Fresnadillo is moving on to a horror/thriller picture called Intruders, based…
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Last month I received an e-mail from a friend informing me about a screenwriter-focused interview series called The Dialogue. The 70-90 minute long-form interview series features interviews conducted/hosted by Mike De Luca (former president of production at DreamWorks Pictures and New Line Cinema, where he produced American History X, Magnolia, Boogie Nights) and Jay Fernandez,…
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The Steve Carell / Ryan Gosling comedy that may or may not be called Crazy, Stupid Love is quickly adding actors. I Love You, Philip Morris directors John Requa and Glen Ficarra have already nabbed Emma Stone and Julianne Moore, and now they're bringing in ex-figure skater Analeigh Tipton. She's been part of America's Next…
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Warner Bros has released the final press kit for The Losers, which contains 34 high resolution production photos (some of which you've seen before) and production notes. Check them out now, after the jump. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] Synopsis An explosive action tale of betrayal and revenge, "The Losers" centers around the members of an…
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Our friends at PixarTalk inform us that Disney/Pixar has launched some creative viral marketing to promote the upcoming Toy Story 3 cliffhanger screenings. The flyer, seen above,has been posted at various college campuses around the US. Is Pixar Planet hiring drivers? Nope. The website address attached to the flyer points students to information about the…
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Yesterday we posted a short film by Carl Erik Rinsch's called The Gift, a futuristic action thriller which involves a robotic manservant on the run from the Russian police.Our headline contained the words "Watch This Now", but I know some of you probably didn't. Well here is your second chance - click here. In my…
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There are two big movies based on canceled TV series that continue to be in that stage of development limbo that leads to ceaseless "yes, it's happening / no it's not" quotes from parties involved. One is Veronica Mars, the other Arrested Development. Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas is now saying that the movie based…
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Much of the success off 2008's Iron Man can be attributed to the performance of Robert Downey Jr., who brought humor and charisma to the character of millionaire playboy Tony Stark. But according to Hero Complex at the LATimes, Sam Rockwell was on Jon Favreau's short list of people to play the role. Jon Favreau…
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In what is shaping up to be a top shelf action comedy, tonight brings news that Aziz Ansari is in negotiations to star in 30 Minutes or Less from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer. The dapper comedian and co-star of Parks & Rec would play a junior high school teacher thrown into a ticking clock scenario…
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Since Wanted 2 fell into development heck a couple months back, Wanted/Night Watch helmer Timur Bekmambetov has been searching for his next project. Last week we reported that William Morris was going out to various studios with a big screen adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's novel Casebook of Victor Frankenstein with Bekmambetov attached to direct. The…
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Taylor Kitsch will star in Peter Berg's water based epic action adaptation of the board game Battleship. The story unfolds as "a massive Naval adventure across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force." The superior force are aliens from another planet known as The…
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Philips has just released Carl Erik Rinsch's futuristic action thriller short film The Gift, which is about a robotic manservant who flees the police. Rinsch is not only Ridley Scott's protege, but also a commercial director for Scott's company RSA. You might recognize Rinsch's name as he was originally tapped to direct a prequel/remake of…
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Marvel: is the top contender for the female lead role in Captain America out of your league? E! Online reports that 28-year old British actress Alice Eve has become Marvel's current top choice to play Peggy Carter in Joe Johnston's The First Avenger: Captain America. Here is a description of the character from the comics…
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Last week Marvel launched a viral website for Iron Man 2 promoting the 2010 Stark Expo. Yesterday we got a first look at the website for AccuTech Research & Development, a subsidiary of Stark Industries. At the time the website was revealed, all we knew is that Accutech will premiere a breakthrough in anthropo-robotics --…
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Vincenzo Natali is hardly a new talent. He's been on the scene for years, starting out as a storyboard artist (primarily in animation) then moving into the director's chair with films like Cube and Cypher. But Splice has brought him to a new level, in part because Joel Silver, Dark Castle and Warner Bros. picked…
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Tony Scott has many, many projects on his plate. Almost a year ago we ran down many of them: his Hells Angels picture, Potsdamer Platz, an LA-set remake of The Warriors, Emma's War and Unstoppable, for starters. Unstoppable is in post-production now, with a release scheduled for November, so it's time for Scott to sort…
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Our friends at Dutch Southern have released a new t-shirt tribute to the Quentin Tarantino-written Tony Scott-directed film True Romance. It's called "You're So Cool" and was designed by Joshua Kemble. The design is printed on a royal blue American Apparel tee using 7 inks. Check out the full t-shirt design, complete with legend, after…
Read MoreNO PHOTO We've reported briefly on Coriolanus before -- that's Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, and an update of Shakespeare's play about a Roman general who attacked Rome after being exiled from the city. Now we've got the first images from the film, and even though an updating of a story about men of war would…
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Yesterday it was rumored that Harrison Ford might be joining the cast of Cowboys and Aliens. Today director Jon Favreau has confirmed the casting, via Twitter: @Jon_Favreau: Please stop asking if Harrison Ford is in Cowboys & Aliens. Okay? He is. Please don't tell anybody. Previously: I haven’t read the comic, but I will admit…
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Briefly: Just the other day I ran some info about the prequel to The Thing, which stars Joel Edgerton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and is being directed by Matthijs van Heijningen. The film is shooting exteriors now in Toronto, and we've just been sent an image of the set for the Norwegian research camp where the…
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The 'who will direct Breaking Dawn' stories are getting pretty crazy. Not long ago, Summit reportedly started approaching a pretty high-minded list of directors to direct the last two-part chapter of The Twilight Saga: Sofia Coppola, Gus Van Sant, Stephen Daldry and Bill Condon, among others. Stephen Daldry recently took the Jonathan Safran Foer adaptation…
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As expected, Kevin Dunn and Julie White have officially signed on to reprise their roles as Ron and Judy Witwicky, the parents of Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) in Michael Bay's Transformers 3. We've previously reported that LaBeouf, and co-stars Megan Fox and Tyrese Gibson are set to return for the third installment. Ehren Kruger penned…
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It's about time we got some really overt (and good) satire about the political events of the last couple years. The Jason Miscallef script Butter, which placed high on the 2008 Black List, may be the ticket. It tells the story of the contestants of an Iowa butter-carving competition, but as an allegory for recent…
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The Josh Brolin-starring, Asger Leth-directed Cartel could be this year's Moneyball. Universal has just killed the picture, reportedly over concerns about several issues: budget, script and the logistics of shooting a drug-oriented drama in Mexico. Deadline reports that the production is dead, and passes along a note from Universal: Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment ceased…
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Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer is evidently now locked to follow-up his aforementioned hit horror-com with 30 Minutes or Less, a most-likely R-rated comedy about a slacker pizza delivery man facing an explosive ultimatum at the instruction of a pair of goons. It was previously one of several projects being mentioned online for the director, alongside…
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My favorite movie from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was a documentary titled Exit Through The Gift Shop. While the project was being touted as a feature film by street artist Banksy, the film actually has no credited director. The film starts out as a documentary by a video camera-obsessed Frenchman named Thierry Guetta --…
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In February, we wrote a piece about an upcoming collaboration between Philips and five filmmakers from Ridley Scott Associates, called Parallel Lines. Scott's commercial division RSA was asked to create a series of groundbreaking short films in a genre of their choice, using "the same unifying theme." RSA directors submitted forty-five treatments and Philips selected…
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CBM has gotten their hands on a photo that appears to be from the Madisonville, LA set of Green Lantern. The photo features a spaceship and some rubble. This could be our first look at Abin Sir's spaceship that crash lands on earth. Fans of the comic book series know that Abin Sur is a…
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Troma's Toxic Avenger has long been one of the signature characters of Lloyd Kaufman's low-budget, schlocky and gory stable of films. Since the first film in 1984, Toxie has both lampooned horror films and culture at large and offered up some silly, gory entertainment. Not that it's ever been particularly sharp satire, but the movies…
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The computer animated short film Meet Meline was created and animated by just two french filmmakers, Virginie Goyons and Sebastien Laban, over the course of two years during their spart time (nights and weekends) with no budget. The story follows a little girl "whose curiosity is sparked by a mysterious creature as she plays in…
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I've been hearing for months now that Disney is over the roof happy with what they've been seeing from Joseph Kosinski's Tron sequel Tron Legacy. As you know, they've announced a computer animated television series spin-off, rumors of possible Theme park attractions won't stop, and now Disney has hired screenwriters to pen a third film.…
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We have been given an exclusive first look at a new viral website for Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment's Iron Man 2. The website, located at starkexpo2010.com/accutech, is for AccuTech Research & Development, a subsidiary of Stark Industries. Accutech will premiere a breakthrough in anthropo-robotics -- the new HazTech robotic exoskeleton, at Stark Expo 2010.…
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Paramount Pictures has released the first movie trailer for the Steve Carell/Paul Rudd comedy Dinner for Schmucks. The film, helmed by Jay Roach (the director of the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents films), tells the story of a rising executive who "succeeds" in finding the perfect guest, an IRS employee, for his boss's monthly…
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When I last mentioned AMC, Robert Kirkman and Frank Darabont's The Walking Dead, it looked like Johnny Lee Miller was the favourite for the lead role. Now, whatever goes on behind the scenes went on and it seems that, in lieu of Mr. Miller, the production has plumped instead for Andrew Lincoln. Two groups of…
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One of the standouts at Sundance 2010 seems to have been I Am Love, a melodrama by Italian director Luca Guadagnino that stars Tilda Swinton and focuses on family, food, sex. By many accounts it is a film that dispenses with narrative logic in favor of the pure pleasure of sensory experience. There's even a…
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David R. Ellis has signed on to direct a film titled Shark Night 3D, which Deadline claims is aiming to be "Jaws for the 3D Generation". You can't help but get flashbacks to Jaws 3D with that statement. It always bothers me when Hollywood execs use Jaws as an example when they are clearly aiming…
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There are three projects in development with the working title of Friends with Benefits, and now one of them has landed Justin Timberlake. Will Gluck is directing this one for Screen Gems, about "a headhunter [who] recruits a magazine editor and since each is too busy to find a mate, they agree to sleep together…
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Disney has been teasing the release of Pixar's Toy Story 3 by releasing more information, photos and video of each of the new characters, week by week.
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The theatrical poster for Best Worst Movie is designed by /Film favorite Tyler Stout. We've been writing about artist Tyler Stout since we first found his "Remember the Alamo" poster at the Alamo Drafthouse. The Austin based artist frequently provides kick ass posters for the Alamo's special events, most of which we have featured on…
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There has been talk in the last couple months that War of the Gods, the new film from Tarsem Singh, might be retitled. Dawn of War seemed to be an option at one point. Now the film has been given a new title -- Immortals -- and has gained a few new cast members as…
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Between his work on The State and Wet Hot American Summer, David Wain pretty much has a free pass from me. Role Models was more a work for hire gig for the director, and I've been hoping his next film would be something brewed more from (or in accordance with) his own sensibility. Now there's…
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The release of Iron Man 2 is barely a month away, and Marvel and Paramount have been careful not to show off too much of the film in advance of the May 7 opening. While we've seen a couple of trailers and TV spots, we still haven't seen much of Mickey Rourke's Whiplash character, or…
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One of my favourite screenwriters at work today is Peter Hedges. He's a master of light-touch characterisation and sweetly woven plotline, and in the two films he's directed as well as scripted, he's shown that his eye for acutely telling detail and clear storytelling can be manifest visually as well as on the page. His…
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Dante Harper's film CV is a varied one: editing a documentary about Static-X; directing and acting in the surrealist black comedy The Delicate Art of the Rifle; a small mountain of production manager credits, very often on DVD supplements; a little role in The Onion Movie; scripting an adaptation of Charles Burns' Black Hole. Add to…
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He's had experience with aliens, and he's turned up in the Old West before, but never at the same time. It could be time to pull one ridiculous fanboy daydream into reality, as it seems like Harrison Ford might well be joining the cast of Cowboys and Aliens. In case you haven't been keeping up,…
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In March 2007, New Line Cinema announced they would be making a big screen adaptation of Microsoft's popular video game Gears of War. Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl screenwriter Stuart Beattie was hired to pen a script after turning in a 21-page treatment. A few months later Live…
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You might be irritated at the idea of a prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing, but I don't see how any fan of Carpenter's movie couldn't be at least a little bit curious about what's been cooked up for the film that is currently shooting in Toronto. I don't figure this film will even vaguely…
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Lone Scherfig gained a lot of new admirers with An Education, in which she deftly directed a small ensemble cast through an excellent period recreation and a tonally on-point coming of age tale. The director has said recently that she wouldn't mind switching gears slightly, to tackle a film with an overt criminal element. Now…
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Robert Zemeckis is set to direct a big screen adaptation of Kat Falls' upcoming young adult novel Dark Life for Walt Disney Pictures. No word on who will pen the adaptation, but considering that Illinois-based first-time author Falls is a graduate screenwriting program professor at Northwestern University, the logical choice would be the author. Imagemovers…
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"What happened to Olivia Thirlby?" I asked this very question to a friend a couple weeks back, while riding the tube in London. The actress broke onto the scene with a small role in the Paul Greengrass-directed Oscar-nominated United 93, and proceeded to go on a tear, starring in some of my favorite indie films…
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I love visiting WonderCon every year because it's like Comic-Con, but not as packed and uncomfortable. You can easily get a seat in the main hall and you can actually walk the show floor without being in the middle of a big pack of sweaty geeks. Some people over the weekend told me that this…
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Anyone who regularly reads /Film should know that I'm a huge fan of Back to the Future (it's my favorite movie of all time, my computer sits underneath a replica of the Flux Capacitor and a signed poster from the original film). Io9 discovered some original concept art from Back to the Future Part 2…
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During their relationship, Rose McGowan and Robert Rodriguez were planning to remake a couple films, notably Barbarella and Red Sonja. The latter is one that is still on the boards, to come after the new version of Conan, albeit with all new talent. Now, in addition to some recent interviews that shed light on what's…
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While attending Christopher Nolan's Inception panel, /Film's own Peter Sciretta was given a ticket for some Warner Bros swag which included a mysterious t-shirt. The full size image is lurking beyond the break. The back of the shirt features a QR code that I assume will play some part in upcoming viral activity. Here's the…
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Variety is reporting that LucasFilm is developing a new animated Star Wars animated television sitcom series. The Daily Show/Frank TV writer Brendan Hay will be the head writer, and Robot Chicken creators/producers Seth Green and Matthew Seinreich will be "creatively involved" while daytime Emmy and Gemini Award-winner Jennifer Hill (The Backyardians) will produce with Todd…
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Branding consultant Gregory Littley has revealed on twitter that the first official production photos from Marvel's Thor will hit on May 5th. But you won't have to wait until then to see a glimpse at Asgard and the warriors of that world. Over the next few weeks we can expect to see "the release of…
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Paramount Pictures has released 10 new photos from Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2. A couple of these photos were posted last week, but I thought I'd give you the whole batch. Hit the jump, click on the images to see the stills in high resolution. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"]
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Over the past year, as we've reported on Floria Sigismondi's film about the girl-group The Runaways, a great many comments have been irritated that the film in question wasn't the planned project based on Marvel's comic of the same name. Now The Runaways, the Marvel version, is finally moving forward. There's a report that the…
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Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures has released a press release announcing the beginning of production of the big screen CGI/live action hybrid 3D adaptation of The Smurfs. The release features a couple bits of new info: Anton Yelchin (Star Trek, Terminator Salvation) has joined the voice cast to play Clumsy Smurf Fred Armisen (SNL) will voice…
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It's a great day for bad trailers. We had the Step Up 3-D trailer earlier today, and now here's a clip showing off Joel Schumacher's Twelve, a film that didn't actually set audiences on fire at Sundance. (Here's Peter's review.) And yet it did get a quick distro deal, from movie newbie Hanover House. Now…
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Just prior to being fired, former Disney chairman Dick Cook announced National Treasure 3. For a moment, there was some doubt as to whether the third film would still be made after Cook was ousted. But with almost $800m in global ticket sales between the first two films, yes, it is happening. Again. And the…
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The shroud of mystery around Christopher Nolan's new film Inception is beginning to dissolve. That was inevitable. As the film gets closer to release, the previously well-concealed plot has to be revealed. So now we know for certain -- confirming many rumored explanations of the film's story -- that Leonardo DiCaprio is "a specialist in…
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Our love for the Step Up series has been well-documented, but nothing could prepare me for the awesome-tacity of this trailer (thanks for all the tips, readers!). Jon Chu's Step Up 3-D is "the first dance film shot in 3-D," and will hit theaters in August 2010. I present it here with minimal comment, except…
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Geoffrey Fletcher's screenplay for Precious has won awards from The Academy, Independent Spirit, NAACP, AAFC, Black Reel and more. It would seem he's also being rewarded with a pair of cracking leads for his upcoming directorial debut. Violet and Daisy is described as "Thelma and Louise meets Superbad and Pulp Fiction". What does that mean?…
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It's videos like this that make me love the internetz. Somebody has re-created the trailer for Law Abiding Citizen, and superimposed characters from the Valve video game Team Fortress 2. The animation is pretty good, and the choices for characters are actually pretty clever (Gerard Butler's character is played by an Engineer for obvious reasons,…
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Mike from Red Letter Media (AKA the guy who put together the epic, 70-minute review of The Phantom Menace) is back again with his even epic-er review of Attack of the Clones. This time, seven Youtube videos were insufficient to contain the hatred, so Mike spread out a 90-minute review over nine Youtube videos. See…
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Last night, Wonder Con got a chance to see the world premiere of the Resident Evil: Afterlife teaser trailer. Today, that trailer has hit the internet. View it after the break, and feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below. The trailer has several big surprises. Well, actually, one big surprise that it…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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On Friday night, fictional software company ENCOM held their first public press conference in years (possibly ever) in San Francisco, CA. A renegade group who believes that revolutionary programer Kevin Flynn is still alive (despite having disappeared from the public eye two decades ago), infiltrated the event and took over the press conference. Of course,…
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A couple weeks back it was reported that Marvel Studios was testing leads for the female role of Peggy Carter in Joe Johnston's The First Avenger: Captain America. All three actresses were British: Keira Knightley, Alice Eve and Emily Blunt are under consideration.Apparently Marvel made an offer to Blunt, but the Hero Complex has confirmed…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the Rambo Blu-Ray Box Set for only $21.99, 56% off the $50msrp. The set includes the movies First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Rambo III. As with all of Amazon's Gold Box Deals, the price will change back at midnight.
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Chilean-based graphic designer Juan Pablo Bravo put together an awesome infographic showing "100 pixar characters" with their estimated sizes. While it is not perfect (For example, I think Flick from A Bug's Life is a few times bigger than a normal ant), the graphic gives you a good idea of how most of the Pixar…
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With the official grand opening date finally announced (June 18th 2010), Universal Studios Orlando is continuing to tease the upcoming The Wizarding World of Harry Potter extension of the Islands of Adventure theme park. Today they released a photo of Hagrid's Hut, which looks to be very accurately recreated from the films. HAGRID'S HUT -…
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Crafting a new version of Clash of the Titans shouldn't be a difficult task. You've got a hero, a quest, a few monsters and a handful of gods and humans kicking around as interested parties. It's fun stuff, as long as the proportions are all correct. The first time this story was told, by writer…
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Geoff Johns spoke at WonderCon today, and there were a few interesting bits said involving the future of DC's superhero movie adaptations. First off, Johns explained his new role as the CCO of DC Comics, stating that he's "in charge of the creative consistency of the DC Universe" and promised that we're "going to see…
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Sitting opposite Ed Norton in an empty conference room in a skyrise, one can’t avoid thinking about the hyper-charged situations he’s glared down on film. Clad in a black shirt and noticeably relaxed, he takes a moment before responding to a question, pressing a small washer-like object into the table and letting it spring back.…
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So I was in a car driving back from a great dinner at San Tung's Chinese Food in San Francisco when Great White Snark looked over at me from behind the wheel and said, in all seriousness, "So I got this big scoop today about a jabba the hutt cat photo today!" I thought it…
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Noah Baumbach and Ben Stiller are doing pretty well together thanks to the current film Greenberg, and now the pair may end up working together once more. This follow-up won't quite be in the same vein of their current film, however, in which Stiller could be charitably called an unlikable guy. The new film would…
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Vincenzo Natali's Splice, starring Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody as researchers who create a not quite human life form, has seemed like an exiciting prospect from the get-go. The film did well at Sundance, garnering good reviews and an appreciative, if appropriately befuddled reaction from our own David Chen. Joel Silver, Dark Castle and Warner…
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Tonight, it looks like the Tron Legacy viral is going to take things to the next level. The Flynn Lives website has announced that they are going to try to disrupt a special "Encom Press Conference" where "Alan Bradley" making an appearance. Fans of the original Tron will recognize that Encom is the fictional company…
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I like the fact that Marvel and Kenneth Branagh have been shooting Thor in relative secrecy. Not so secret, as I know people outside the production have seen the costume designs, been on set, etc. But there aren't many spy photos floating around, and Marvel has kept almost everything about the look of the film…
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Brian Henson is out promoting Stuffed and Unstrung, formerly Puppet Up!, the live adults-only puppet improv show with undeniably Muppety stars. Of course, they can't call them Muppets - the name now belongs to Disney - but there's a recognisable style, and quality, to every foam face the Henson craftsmen make. If you want to…
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In about 24 hours, Apple stores across the east coast will open and the eager public will finally get a chance to purchase the company's latest computing creation: the iPad. My feelings for the table device have changed dramatically over the past few months, from "It's too expensive, it doesn't do anything I need it…
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For months new, industry analysts have wondered about "Twitter Effect." Does Twitter have the capacity to change people's perceptions of films? Did it make Bruno fail at the box office? Did it alter the outcome of the Academy Awards? Whether or not any of that is true, some recently-released research by HP (via Mashable) purports…
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A couple months ago it was reported that Universal Pictures was looking to bring the American Pie franchise back to the big screen, but not as a reboot, but a fourth film in the series featuring the cast of characters from the original trilogy. That's right -- Jim, Stiffler, Nadia, Oz, Michelle, and all the…
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A bunch of new movie posters hit today, so I thought I'd do a round up of some of the one-sheets we didn't get to on the site. The movies include: MacGruber, The Losers, Beastly and Easter-focused posters for Despicable Me and Toy Story 3. Hit the jump to see all the new posters. Click…
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Bruce McDonald isn't really a household name, especially outside Canada. Let's try to change that. McDonald is a versatile, ambitious filmmaker with a rock and roll spirit who has been experimenting in features and TV for more than twenty years. In 1991 or '92 I saw his film Highway 61, an oddball road trip music…
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/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. “You see I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name. It felt good to be out…
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The obvious tagline: from shortlist to short pants! A couple weeks ago, Sebastian Stan was on the rumored list of actors in whom Marvel was interested for the role of Steve Rogers, aka Captain America. That role went to Chris Evans, but Stan must have made some impression on Marvel. (Or he's got a great…
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Earlier this week we learned that Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker and Beastly star Alex Pettyfer was in talks to play the lead character in Dreamworks' Michael Bay/Steven Spielberg-produced D.J. Caruso-directed teen sci-fi alien adaptation I Am Number 4. And today Disney has launched an official Facebook page for the film, which includes a release date:…
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A couple months back, we told you that producer Lionel Wigram, a former Warner Bros creative executive who oversaw the first three Harry Potter films and went out to create/pitch/write Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, was developing an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic 17th-century adventure novel The Three Musketeers. Then last month we learned which filmmakers…
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Earlier this week I took a trip to Jerry Bruckheimer's Santa Monica offices to get a special sneak preview of scenes from Jon Turteltaub's upcoming film The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The movie stars Nicolas Cage as Balthazar Blake, "a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina)."…
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Marvel Entertainment has launched the official website for Iron Man 2 at ironmanmovie.marvel.com. The website is loaded with all the goodies you might expect, from videos (trailers, tv spots, clips), Image gallery, downloads (wallpapers, buddy icons, screensavers), and 14 clips from the unreleased Iron Man 2 soundtrack.
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Update: The new trailer was taken offline within an hour of when we posted this story a few days back. The trailer is now back online, and embedded after the jump. Anchor Bay Films has released a movie trailer for Brian Koppelman/David Levien's Solitary Man (not to be confused with Tom Ford's A Single Man…
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I'm going to let a couple of pictures do most of the speaking for me here. I've popped them below the break because I appreciate a lot of readers won't want anything even mildly spoiler-ish in their path. The pictures show what is, apparently, a new Decepticon from Transformers 3. Before we jump over to…
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The fiction of Jonathan Safran Foer represents a very specific way of looking at the world, and celebrate the ways in which language works and fails. Foer is extremely skilled at creating images that are both fantastic and genuine; his prose can generate such an impression of seeing things unfold that they seem like natural…
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I know we're a bit late on reporting this, but after listening to Adam WarRock's excellent Scott Pilgrim rap recap, I just had to share it with you all. The song recaps the first five volumes of Scott Pilgrim in five minutes with some awesomely geeky rhymes. It also recently got some love from director…
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We've already seen one red-band trailer for MacGruber, in which director Jorma Taccone and Will Forte expands their MacGyver-spoof shorts from Saturday Night Live into an unlikely feature comedy. Now there's a second red-band clip which emphasizes the action a bit more…or, wait, the comedy? No, definitely the action. See the confusion below. Among other…
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I'm not sure how Todd Solondz managed to shrink Tilda Swinton into the form of a young boy, but he appears to have done so; the figure graces the overseas poster, seen below, for his new film Life During Wartime. (It's actually the young actor Dylan Riley Snyder. But still.) Much more important, we've now…
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Briefly: Leaves of Grass, the film directed by Tim Blake Nelson in which Edward Norton plays twin brothers, was scheduled for a tiny opening this week courtesy of First Look Studios, run by the film's producer Avi Lerner, who decided to release the film himself after sales didn't happen at the Toronto Film Festival last…
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In September of 2009, word came down that Leonardo DiCaprio was set to star in The Deep Blue Goodbye, an adaptation of the 1964 novel by pulp author John D. MacDonald. The book is the first in a long series of novels featuring Florida detective Travis 'Trav' McGee. Now we hear that Oliver Stone is…
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20th Century Fox has released a new movie trailer and poster for Joe Carnahan's big screen feature film version of The A-Team. The film features Liam Neeson as Col. John “Hannibal” Smith, Bradley Cooper as the playboy mercenary role of Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck, Sharlto Copley as Capt. 'Howling Mad' Murdock, and UFC champion Quinton…
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Sony Pictures has released a new movie trailer for Phillip Noyce's thriller Salt on Apple. The film tells the story of a CIA officer Evelyn Salt, played by Angelina Jolie, who is outed as a Russian sleeper spy, and must evade capture by those who are convinced she's aiming to assassinate the president. As a…
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If you're expecting Lost to end with definitive answers think again. The Hollywood Reporter conducted an interview with Lost co-creator-showrunner Damon Lindelof, who revealed that the series finale will "end lost in a way that feels 'Lost'-ian and fair and will generate a tremendous amount of theorizing." "The Sopranos ending only would have worked for…
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Michael Bay is set to launch his first Reality TV Series, One Way Out. The action-adventure series pits ordinary people from all walks of life against each other. It is being pitched as "a game with no rules" and is described as a "cross between an extreme Survivor, The Mole and The Amazing Race." Here's…
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When Conan O'Brien left/got pushed out of The Tonight Show spot, everyone assumed the he would be relocating to FOX. Wrong. Turns out that Coco's new show will be on TBS. TBS is likely gambling a lot of money that Conan will bring over millions of viewers. This is no late April fools day joke.…
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In this week’s /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley have mixed feelings about a sequel for How to Train Your Dragon, and get apprehensive about the 3D upconversions for The Last Airbender and The Green Hornet. Special guest Katey Rich joins us from Cinema Blend. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or…
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Lots of cool film-related stuff happens in Boston, Massachusetts and not that many people are here to document it, preserve it and spread the word about it. Special screenings, Q&As, panel discussions — we have them all, and frequently too. /Film Boston aims to be a bi-weekly column that will bring you audio and video…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already…
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Successful horror franchises have often been used as launching pads for new and upcoming directors and it looks like the Saw series is no different. We've recently learned details about the next projects for Saw helmers Darren Bousman and David Hackl. Hit the jump for what we know so far. According to The Hollywood Reporter,…
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For years after the original broadcast of Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy struggled with identification as his most famous character, the half-Vulcan Mister Spock. He agreed to make Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan only on the condition that Spock would be killed off in grand fashion, but the film turned out well enough that…
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In this week's /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley praise the virtues of Tommy Wiseau's The Room, and lament the state of a Hollywood that doesn't allow a James Bond movie to be made. Special guest Jeff Goldsmith joins us from Creative Screenwriting Magazine and its podcast. You can always e-mail us at…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every week I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already…
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Stephen imagines describing himself to a group of strangers. The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky. You can always e-mail Stephen at stephentobolowsky(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or you can e-mail…
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I'll be fairly well amused if Kellan Lutz ends up being the real breakout star from Twilight. He's in a few films now, and even though he lost the lead role in Conan, the fact that he's not angling for ridiculous paydays (a la Taylor Lautner) makes me think he'll be around for a minute.…
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In this week's /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley assess whether or not Joss Whedon would make a good Avengers director, try to figure out what Summit Entertainment is trying to do with the final Twilight films, and discuss why the Green Lantern's CG-only suit...actually makes a lot of sense. You can always…
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Lots of cool film-related stuff happens in Boston, Massachusetts and not that many people are here to document it, preserve it and spread the word about it. Special screenings, Q&As, panel discussions — we have them all, and frequently too. /Film Boston aims to be a bi-weekly column that will bring you audio and video…
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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Stephen and Beth discover how surprising the road can be in this concluding episode of "The Tobolowsky Files: Season One." The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky.…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already played…
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In this week's /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley express reservations about Paul Greengrass's upcoming 3-D film, reflect on recent incarnations of The Three Musketeers, and respond to M. Night Shymalan's recent interviews about race in The Last Airbender. Special guest Keith Phipps, editor of the AV Club, joins us for this episode.…
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In 2008, Ray director Taylor Hackford made a film called Love Ranch. Starring Helen Mirren and the return of Joe Pesci, the film is based on the real story of Joe and Sally Conforte, who in 1971 founded famed brothel the Mustang Ranch. Had the film not ended up on the shelf, it would have…
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My favorite thing about Terminator: Salvation, and the only aspect of the film I've had any interest in seeing again, was the performance of Anton Yelchin. In general, I think Yelchin is among the better up and coming actors. He was just cast in The Smurfs (yeah, OK, everybody needs one total gimme) and now…
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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An unexpected love story. The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky. You can always e-mail Stephen at stephentobolowsky(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or you can e-mail David at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com. You can…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already played…
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