Screen Gems has finally released a trailer for their teen 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 (Stone) sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school – until…
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Last night Chase Whale alerted me to a tweet from actress Amanda Bynes, who explains that she won't be appearing in The Farrelly Brothers' comedy Hall Pass after all. Bynes tweeted: FYI I am NOT in Atlanta doing a cameo in Hall Pass like people think!! I was, but I left because of scheduling conflicts!!!…
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen, The Losers) will star alongside Sam Worthington in The Fields (formerly titled Texas Killing Fields), to be directed by Michael Mann's daughter Ami Canaan Mann from a screenplay by Donald F. Ferrarone. Morgan will play a detective "transplanted from New York." Previously: Worthington will play Jake, a "tough-minded misanthropic Texan, who…
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Did Michel Gondry steal the idea from Be Kind Rewind from an episode of Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show (starring Amanda Bynes) from eight years ago? Probably not, but watch this video that is circulating around the interwebs. Discuss: Did Michel Gondry steal the idea for Be Kind Rewind from Amanda Bynes?
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Okay, so I'm not as anti-remake or sequels as most critics. I'm probably the only one who was looking forward to Disturbia, D.J. Caruso's contemporary teen thriller remake of Hitchcock's Rear Window starring Shia LaBeouf. The teen audience certainly showed up in numbers and the movie was pretty decent to boot. But ever since the…
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Last night I was lucky enough to be invited to a very special presentation of Adam Shankman's Hairspray at Dolby Laboratories. I must admit, I'm not a fan of musicals, or at least I haven't been in the past. Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge! was my first positive experience in the genre. And Dreamgirls became one…
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The new poster for Adam Shankman's remake of Hairspray is just what you would expect. It's colorful, and feels very broadway-ish. But what's with this new "Who's who behind the do?" tagline? New Line better come up with something better than that. But since they asked, the cast includes John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Blonsky,…
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