Whether or not you like the original Red Dawn, a product of Walter Sobchak inspiration and notable Hollywood conservative John Milius, it at least has a specific ideology beyond the basic concept of "blow s*** up real good." (Part of that ideology is a strong anti-gun control sentiment, as invading forces use firearm purchase records…
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After taking a hiatus for the birth of her son, Natalie Portman is gearing up to get back to work. Portman, who won Best Actress at last year's Academy Awards, has found her first post-Oscar roles in two upcoming Terrence Malick films, Knight of Cups and Lawless. Details on the two films are still scarce, but…
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As we head into Thanksgiving weekend and gear up to watch what feels like a dozen new releases this weekend, FilmDistrict and Sony have quietly announced new release dates for a few of their projects. That long-delayed Red Dawn remake that FilmDistrict picked up earlier this fall is now scheduled to drop next fall, while…
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I don't know what meds Terrence Malick started taking last year, but I like the result. From 1973 to 2011, the director released only five films. Now he has another four in the pipeline. Malick took years finishing The Tree of Life and is still reportedly working on the IMAX doc Voyage of Time. That…
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FilmDistrict is turning into the distributor of odd orphans. It grabbed the former Miramax project Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, and is now reportedly about to pick up the Red Dawn remake directed by Bourne second-unit shooter Dan Bradley. MGM financed and shot the film in 2009 before undergoing bankruptcy and reorganization. The movie…
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Here's the third trailer for Tarsem's stylishly violent Immortals. (See the first and second ones if you haven't already.) I like this trailer a lot more than either of the previous ones; there's a good voiceover that explains the background and early plot beats, and helps contextualize some of the pretty shots we've been seeing…
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A second trailer for Tarsem's Immortals -- aka his Fight Club + Caravaggio + Clash of the Titans + 300 -- has arrived. There isn't a lot of new footage within, but there is a much greater focus on story this time out. If you watched the first trailer and wondered what the hell the…
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The official release of the trailer for Tarsem's Immortals is now out. Now you can see just what Tarsem meant when he said he was going for a sort of "Caravaggio meets Fight Club" approach -- really, it looks more or less like established Tarsem style as seen in The Cell and The Fall, filtered…
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Tarsem Singh's Immortals had its coming out party at WonderCon in San Francisco this weekend. On Friday they revealed the first character posters for the film, and at the panel on Saturday they screened the first teaser trailer for the film. Find out the details after the jump. While they called it a teaser trailer,…
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There are five new character posters for Tarsem's Immortals, which tells a very Clash of the Titans-style story. These images dramatically play up the sort of imagery that became the accepted mainstream way of envisioning burly ancient warriors thanks to 300, but if you look at the actual stills for the film you'll see the…
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Good news for fans of director Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor, Game of Thrones), as his new film Win Win will open on March 18 instead of March 25. The film stars Paul Giamatti as "Mike Flaherty, a senior-care attorney and high-school wrestling coach in small-town New Jersey, he compromises his ethics to…
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As MGM has come out of bankruptcy and inched closer to being a real working studio once more, we've heard a lot about the potential for The Hobbit and a new James Bond film. We haven't heard much at all, however, about the completed remake of Red Dawn, which has been sitting on the shelf…
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Entertainment Weekly has revealed four new members of the cast of the 2010 Dan Bradley's remake of Red Dawn. MGM is producing the redo of the 1984 John Milius action war drama about a bunch of Colorado high school students who must run for cover then Soviet and Cuban troops invade their school. The students…
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Above is the first official photo, thansk to MichaelBay.com, of one of the new additions to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. -- Isabel Lucas as Alice, a potential new love interest for a college-bound Sam? Or something else entirely? Paramount Pictures has released a bunch of new production photos from the film, check them out…
Read MoreIt has been a few days since our last Transformers 2 Update. On Wednesday, filming continued at Laurel Hill Cemetery, where both Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and that Chevy Beat concept car (not pictured) were spotted in alt mode. [tflive] The crew has been busy shooting scenes at UPENN, which will double as Sam Witwicky’s (Shia…
Read MoreLast month it was reported that Australian hottie Teresa Palmer had been cast in Michael Bay's Transformers 2. Bay denies the casting on his personal blog, claiming that "Teresa Palmer was not considered for a role." To complicate things further, IGN is now reporting that another Aussie actress Isabel Lucas (pictured right), has been cast…
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