Next to the $1B+ grosses for The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, Project X's respectable $100M worldwide take seems like spare change. But there is one arena in which the Todd Phillips-produced raunchfest is king: illegal downloads. Project X has emerged as the single most pirated film of 2012 -- as well as the lowest grossing of…
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At their core, all narrative features are lies. We can will ourselves to believe we're watching superheroes save Manhattan, but we know deep down that what we're really seeing is costumed actors zipping around on wires and jumping in front of green screens. And like all great, big whoppers, the more moving parts there are,…
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Watch enough movies, and you'll find that you occasionally walk out of the theater sometimes with the vaguely disappointing feeling that you've just shelled out $14 to see a movie you're already seen before. Sometimes, it's no surprise that a film looks derivative -- did anyone really expect Underworld: Awakening to wow us with its…
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How did it take this long for someone to cut The Dark Knight Rises footage to the tune of the Karen O cover of 'Immigrant Song' from the trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? Maybe there have been other versions of the same idea that I've missed, but this one is worth a…
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When crafting my potential summer box office top 10 for our annual wager with the Totally Rad Show, one film that I highly underestimated was Ice Age: Continental Drift. The first three films all opened at over $40 million, all grossed just under $200 million and you can be sure this one will be more…
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"It’s hard to do a 20-minute Maggie episode, but in four minutes it’s great. She's like Charlie Chaplin." That's Simpsons executive producer Al Jean describing to Entertainment Weekly why the youngest member of The Simpsons was chosen to star in The Longest Daycare, a four-minute 3D short film that'll play in front of Ice Age:…
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A highly underrated moment in the history of The Simpsons was in 2006 when 20th Century Fox sneakily placed the first teaser trailer/announcement of The Simpsons Movie in front of Ice Age: The Meltdown. That relationship between Homer and Scrat continues next month as a 3D Simpsons short film will play in front of Ice…
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After the Avengers face off against Loki in next month's The Avengers, Tony Stark will be striking out in his own to contend with his own nemesis -- but who will it be? After the jump: Is Iron Man 3's big bad the Mandarin? G.I. Joe is testing two different endings Peter Farrelly talks Dumb &…
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In the decade or so since the start of Fox's Ice Age series, the franchise has pulled in a range of high-profile stars including Jack Black, Will Arnett, Jay Leno, and Simon Pegg to compliment its central quartet of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge. This time around, for Steve Martino and Michael…
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I'm not sure exactly how this new featurette, no matter how well-assembled it might be, is going to do when it comes to selling the latest Fox and Blue Sky Studios film Ice Age: Continental Drift. At least, it might not do a lot of good now. After this weekend things might change. The conceit…
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Since the run-up to the release of Blue Sky Studios' Ice Age in 2002, the best spokesman -- spokesanimal? -- for the film series has been a creature that can barely speak. The acorn-obsessed Scrat, a sabre-toothed squirrel, has starred in trailers and shorts and is one of the most consistently entertaining parts of the…
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Sometimes there's no way to make a casting roundup conform to any sort of sense. Such is the case here, as we've got info on a wild reality-based political thriller set in 1979, an animated sequel, and an indie family drama with a very unlikely cast. In other words, after the break you'll find info…
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20th Century Fox has announced yet another unfunny Ice Age sequel. Okay, it might be unfair to label the sequel unfunny at this point, but all indications point towards... Fox has announced that the 3D computer animated film will hit theaters on July 13th 2012. 2012 is turning out to be jam packed with sequels,…
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