Remakes can be tricky propositions under the best of circumstances. When the property in question is a former Academy Award winner or a beloved classic by a revered auteur -- in other words, something that's still held in very high esteem by plenty of people -- the project gets even tougher to pull off without…
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This morning Megan Fox, Ed Helms, and Jessica Alba announced the nominations for the 2013 Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the event, is famous for nominating films and performances simply based on their star factor -- if there's an actor that members of the HFPA want to hang out with,…
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Anvil! director Sacha Gervasi has roped in quite a cast for Hitchcock, a film which dramatizes the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho in high style. Previous trailers have shown us Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren as Hitch and his wife Alma, and Scarlett Johanssen as Psycho's first-act star, Janet Leigh. Now, a…
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Alfred Hitchcock was a consumate showman who had pretty specific ideas about how films should be viewed, at least when it came to using the theater experience as a promotional tool. At a time when multi-film programs were common, Hitch was the face of a marketing campaign for his film Psycho as he stipulated that…
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Here's the trailer for Hitchcock, which stars Anthony Hopkins as the Master of Suspense, caught during the period in which he made Psycho. This is our first taste of Hopkins' Hitchcockian affectation, and we can still hear quite a lot of the actor's signature tone in there. It's rather like Hitch by way of Hannibal…
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We've got a hodgepodge of new images after the jump, including set photos from Robocop and The Wolverine, stills from Hitchcock and Beautiful Creatures, and even a snapshot of the National Lampoon's Vacation cast, reunited. PHOTOS NOT HERE While we've quite a bit of Joel Kinnaman in his futuristic Robocop suit already, these new set…
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We've seen a good bit of footage for one of the Alfred Hitchcock movies that are in post-production right now: The Girl, which will air on HBO with Toby Jones playing Hitch during the making of The Birds. The other film is Hitchcock, from Anvil! director Sacha Gervasi, and it features Anthony Hopkins as the…
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Danny Elfman often seems to be everywhere, and this year in particular he's omnipresent with several films under his belt in 2012 already. (Tim Burton's Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie; Men in Black III; and Silver Linings Playbook.) And while he's already set for some films that hit in the next few months, like Sam Raimi's Oz: The…
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Scarlett Johansson had a quiet couple of years, with only Iron Man 2 and We Bought a Zoo hitting theaters in 2010 and 2011, respectively. But her profile is back up in the stratosphere thanks to The Avengers, and now a couple other productions she's involved in are taking advangate of the attention lavished on…
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