The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation have announced the "dis-hours" for the year in film that was 2010. M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender swept this year's awards, winning Worst Director, Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay and a brand-new category created for this year's awards -- Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D. Jackson Rathbone also took home the…
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49-year-old supermarket worker Cathy Ward spent £2,000 (about $3,100) and 22-hours in a tattoo artists chair for this extensive Twilight back tattoo. The Daily Mail quotes Ward: “‘I wanted a permanent reminder of the amazing series so I got a small tattoo and that turned into what I have got now.” via: tdw
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Not even a day after word came out on the talented-but-unknown Andrew Garfield making minuscule earnings for the Spider-Man reboot, there's a report of less-talented-but-better-known stars scoring a huge payday. This might not be so frustrating to read if the stars in question didn't happen to be, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, 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. HOT TUB TIME MACHINE Hot Tub Time Machine is so aware of how absurd its storyline is that it doesn't even attempt…
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Last year, The Oatmeal published a comic titled "How Twilight Works" . Epipheo Studios decided to write/produce a three minute video adaptation of the comic strip. The video can be watched right now, after the jump.
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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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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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Yesterday we posted ten seconds of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight series. Now we've got the full trailer for the David Slade-directed chapter, which, based on this trailer, brings the love triangle between Bella (Kristen Stweart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) much closer together. One of the classic…
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It's a teaser for a trailer! The real trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will be online tomorrow in advance of the theatrical premiere Friday, where it will be attached to the Robert Pattinson film Remember Me. In the meantime, you can now see ten seconds from Eclipse. Here we get a truncated bit of…
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From day one David Slade seemed like an odd choice to direct a film in the Twilight franchise - and not least because of his controversial comments damning the first installment. With Eclipse, however, it seemed maybe like Summit were going for a slightly harder-edged feel by choosing him, and it even gave some undecided…
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Say what you will about the Twilight films, but as they go along and prove to be financially successful, they're able to attract high-profile creative talent. If nothing else, I'm happy to see these films as paycheck gigs for people like Howard Shore, who is now the composer for Eclipse, directed by David Slade. Not…
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It's casting notes time again! First up, Michael Fassbender, the British film critic lieutenant from Inglourious Basterds, has been cast in the thriller A Single Shot, working under director David Jacobson. He's appearing alongside a great cast: William H. Macy, Thomas Haden Church and a newly slim Forest Whitaker. (Seriously, check out this pic of…
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Which of the participants in the mini-play that has erupted over the casting of Bryce Dallas Howard in Eclipse do you suppose sparkles is the evil vampire? Is it Rachelle Lefevre, who claims she didn't know that she'd been scrapped in favor of Bryce Dallas Howard? (Shades of Marvel / Terrence Howard / Don Cheadle…
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Update: Access Hollywood talked to Lefevre after the news was announced, and apparently she was stunned by the recast move. It seems that more and more Eclipse is becoming the Twilight film to pay attention to. First we caught word that David Slade would be directing the film---which is interesting not only because he's a…
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Two nights ago, /Film's Brendon Connelly unearthed an old interview segment in which David Slade said he would rather get shot rather than view Twilight during that film's theatrical release. This was an interesting stance, since Slade is now slated to direct the third film in the Twilight saga, Eclipse. Slade related a Twitter message…
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When Peter compiled his epic and useful list of directors, actors and screenwriters plugged into Twitter, one of those included was Hard Candyman David Slade. Today, however, it seems like Slade's Twitter account has been deleted, which is a crying shame. Besides the loss of an interesting tweeter, another of the reasons this is unfortunate…
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In this episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley weigh the stupidity of Fox's multiple Wolverine endings, speculate on David Slade's capacity to direct Eclipse, and grow ever more dubious of McG's credibility. Special guests Tyler Smith and David Bax join us from the Battleship Pretension podcast. You can always e-mail…
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Update: Summit Entertainment has confirmed that David Slade is now officially signed on the direct Eclipse. The list of names in line to direct the third Twilight film Eclipse is getting stranger every week. The list of filmmakers rumored to be in consideration has included Drew Barrymore, Juan Antonio Bayona (The Spanish filmmaker who directed…
Read MoreIn this very special episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Peter Sciretta, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley are joined by writer/actor/director Kevin Smith to discuss Zack Snyder's Watchmen. In this epic, 1 hour and 45-minute long discussion, the five of them delve into the faithfulness of the film adaptation, the effectiveness of the film's soundtrack,…
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When it was revealed that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke would not be returning to helm The Twilight Saga's New Moon, people were up in arms that Summit Entertainment was going to replace her with a male director (which came to pass). The theory is that the Twilight series is a great opportunity for female directors…
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Twilight doesn't hit theaters until next Friday, and Summit Entertainment has already aquired the rights to the next three novels in Stephenie Meyer's vampire romance series. According to THR, Twilight scribe Melissa Rosenberg has signed on to pen the next two screenplays, based on the books New Moon (you can read the first chapter here)…
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Summit Entertainment's big screen adaptation of Twilight just recently entered post production, but the filmmakers are already talking about the possibility of filming the sequels back to back. And for good reason. "Our vampires can't age…if they were like 45, people would say 'What's up?'" laughed director Catherine Hardwicke told MTV. "[Filming them together] could…
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