Happy Madison and Sony were quick to snap up the rights to Patrick Jean's short Pixels: Retro Gamers in 2010, but since then their plans for a feature adaptation have been moving pretty slowly. The film was set to open in May 2013 and then May 2014, before being pulled off the studio's release calendar…
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Sure, moviegoers may love standing in the midnight showing line for The Avengers or arguing over The Dark Knight Rises plot holes at the bar, but what do they turn on when they finally go back to the privacy of their own homes? Rental retailer Redbox knows, and in honor of their ten-year anniversary, they're sharing…
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The dream of any young filmmaker who puts a short film online is that it'll get noticed by Hollywood, leading to being whisked away to a life of big budgets, movie stars and sunshine. That dream exists because, on occasion, it happens. Adam Sandler's company Happy Madison, along with Columbia Pictures, has just acquired the…
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It's been a while since we've gotten a real update on the video game-inspired Pixels, but it's moving ahead slowly but surely. While no director has been announced at this time, King of Kong helmer Seth Gordon's signed on to executive produce and possibly direct, and while no star has been locked in at this…
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Apparently the lure of a familiar brand name is so powerful that not even a massive recent flop like Universal's Battleship can dampen studio execs' enthusiasm for turning famous toys into movies. The latest Hasbro property to sign on for the big screen treatment is Tonka, Hasbro's 65-year-old line of toy trucks for kids. The…
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Today's Sequel Bits is all about the number 2. As in Beetlejuice 2, Anchorman 2, Grown Ups 2, Dr. Horrible 2, and Percy Jackson 2 (okay, that's not technically what it's called, but you know what I mean). After the jump: A small update on Seth Grahame-Smith's Beetlejuice 2 Judd Apatow has a wishlist, Adam…
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Proving that just because you can doesn't mean you should, the new green-band trailer for That's My Boy drops much of the cursing, nudity, and bodily fluids that comprised last week's red-band trailer, and is, frankly, all the better for it. The jokes are still pretty hit or miss, but the fact that it has jokes at…
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The first red-band trailer has dropped for Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg's That's My Boy, formerly titled I Hate You Dad. Sandler plays an aging party boy and horrible father who falls into deep debt. He decides to move in with his more tightly wound son (Samberg), who's on the verge of getting married, to…
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Just a month ago we featured the short Pixels: Retro Gamers, which depicted a bunch of classic gaming characters and icons attacking New York City. Patrick Jean's short had a lot of style and no shortage of technique. But the idea was a pretty self-contained one. A short featuring attacking game icons is great, but…
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