When is it playful homage and when it is copyright infringement? The basis of a new lawsuit alleges that Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks lifted the plot, characters and protagonist for the studio's 2007 hit, Disturbia, from the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window. Note that Spielberg personally did not work as a director or producer…
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Shia LaBeouf plays Kale, a teenager who punches his teacher and is sentenced to house arrest. Trapped in his home without X-Box Live or iTunes (yay, product placement), Kale must find entertainment in the outside world. Using binoculars, Kale spies on the neighbors around him, finding a new hot girl next door and a potential…
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Justin.TV has been online for almost 25 days now. For those of you who don't know, a guy named Justin has been wearing a camera 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He even wears it in the bathroom, and you can even watch him while he sleeps. The Internet Edtv concept is interesting.…
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The 2007 South By South West Film Festival is in full force, and we have a round-up of the early buzz: All The Boys Love Mandy Lane "...a valiant low-budget effort and one that definitely deserves to be seen on the big screen whenever the Weinsteins release, likely Fall. It's certainly better than the vast…
Read MoreWhat if Zack Snyder's 300 were a NES video game? It would probably look and sound something like this. What do you get when you mash up Superman Returns and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth? You get An Inconvenienced Superman, a short trailer for a movie that will never be. Someone reedited The Departed into…
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Rumor has it that Transformers star Shia LaBeouf might be cast as Harrison Ford's son in Indiana Jones 4. We know that Steven Spielberg has an interest in LaBeouf, having cast the actor in Disturbia and Transformers. And the type seems to gel with George Lucas' idea of comic-sidekicks (Indiana Jones and the Temple of…
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We've been really excited about Disturbia since it was first announced. The film is basically a contemporary teen version of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. The trailer worried us a bit, as it wasn't exactly what we were expecting. And now this poster... What were they thinking? The poster, shown to the left, has the tag-line…
Read MoreWe've been excited for quite some time about a movie almost nobody has heard of - Disturbia. Having enjoyed the chain of Shakespeare teen movie adaptations, I've always believed that Hitchcock was the next logical step. Well now a trailer has finally hit the web, and I'm kind of worried. Click here to check out…
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