Badass Barry Pepper Forges Knives For Every Role He Plays
You may recognize him as a familiar character actor, but you'll soon respect him after you watch this Barry Pepper knives video.
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Adam Sandler's 'Grown Ups 2' Leads Razzie Nominations
For the film industry, the first couple months of each year are basically one long marathon of high fives. In glitzy ceremony after glitzy ceremony, filmmakers congratulate themselves and each other for making such awesome movies. It can all feel like a bit much after a while, even for the most enthusiastic of awards season…
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Quentin Tarantino Explains 'The Lone Ranger' Love, Dismisses Batman
In truth, I wasn't surprised to hear that Quentin Tarantino found The Lone Ranger to be a personal favorite of 2013, so far. Sure, earlier this year I broke down in detail why I think the movie doesn't work, but that process included a lot of discussion about what The Lone Ranger wants to be…
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Quentin Tarantino's Favorite 2013 Films Include 'Gravity' And 'The Lone Ranger'
Even Quentin Tarantino will tell you his taste in movies is far from in line with any one person. Much like his movies, Tarantino has a very unique and personal sensibility, which is part of the reason why his movies are so unique. The Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained director recently put those tastes on…
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Four Of The Fifty Biggest Box Office Bombs Are In Theaters Right Now
Summer 2013 is on track to become the best ever at the domestic box office, but you wouldn't know it from the number of flops that have limped through theaters over the past few months. Indeed, by some measures, this season includes five of the fifty biggest flops of the past two decades. Moreover, of…
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Critics Made 'The Lone Ranger' Fail, Say 'The Lone Ranger' Filmmakers And Stars
There's no question at this point that The Lone Ranger was a big fat flop, but why it failed so badly remains up for debate. Were audiences turned off by the cultural insensitivity? Does Johnny Depp need to put down the white makeup? Was the movie just not very good? According to director Gore Verbinski,…
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Grant Morrison Reviews 'Man Of Steel', David Gordon Green Weighs In On 'Pacific Rim'
As Us Weekly's familiar refrain goes, celebrities are just like us! They, too, like to check out the summer's big studio releases and then talk about their opinions afterward. The difference is that when the famous people in question are comic book writer Grant Morrison and filmmaker David Gordon Green, they're weighing in as pop…
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Disney Could Lose $150 Million On 'The Lone Ranger'
After months of trailers, TV spots, posters, and other marketing for The Lone Ranger, it's easy to forget the movie almost never happened at all. Back in 2011, Disney slammed the brakes over concerns about its over-$250 million budget, and decided to move forward only after director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer trimmed it…
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/Filmcast Ep. 235 - The Lone Ranger
Dave, Devindra, and Russ reflect on how many great coming-of-age films are being released this year, praise HBO's customer retention strategies, and explain why they think Jim Carrey can do or say whatever the hell he wants. Be sure to read up on why The Lone Ranger is bad for our society and check out Jim Carrey's video on gun…
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'The Lone Ranger' Is Lost In The Desert Between Tradition And Subversion
Why is a film in which a magic horse eats scorpions off Armie Hammer's face so insufferably fractured and dull? Now that I've got your attention, consider the unfortunate fate of a film, one eager to subvert Western tradition, which becomes deeply lost in the wilderness between the arthouse and multiplex. The Lone Ranger, masterminded…
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/Film Interview: 'The Lone Ranger' Director Gore Verbinski - "We Are On A Crazy Road To Extinction"
When George Lucas and Steven Spielberg said Hollywood would implode because of a reliance on massive blockbusters, they were probably thinking of films like those made by Gore Verbinski. The director has done small films -- even winning an Oscar for the animated Rango -- but he's best known for the three Pirates of the Caribbean movies…
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/Film Interview: 'The Lone Ranger' Star Armie Hammer On Leading A Franchise, Guy Ritchie, And Batman
For actor Armie Hammer, things are going pretty damn well right about now. He broke out in an Oscar-nominated film, worked with one of the best directors of all time, and is now the title character in a big budget Disney blockbuster. That last one is, of course, Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger, a brand-new…
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Jerry Bruckheimer Still Working On 'Top Gun 2', Hopes For 'Lone Ranger 2'
Top Gun 2 was put on hold last year following the tragic death of director Tony Scott, but now the project is slowly but surely getting back on track. "For 30 years we've been trying to make a sequel and we're not going to stop," producer Jerry Bruckheimer said at this weekend's Produced By conference.…
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The /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - 2013 Summer Movie Wager (GUEST: Jeff Cannata From Newest Latest Best)
Did you think the end of the Totally Rad Show would mark the end of the annual Slashfilm/Totally Rad Show Summer Movie Box Office Wager? Well, you were right! The wager, as you once knew it, is gone. But we always have so much fun with the contest that Peter Sciretta, Jeff Cannata and I…
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Watch A Single Movie Trailer For (Almost) All The Major Releases Of Summer 2013
Trailers! Who has time to watch them all? There are something like forty wide releases due out this summer alone. If you assume each trailer runs about two minutes, that's about an hour and half of your life you'll never get back. That's time you could've spent actually watching one of these movies. If you…
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'The Lone Ranger' International Trailer: There's No Stopping This Train
In conjunction with yesterday's new domestic trailer for Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger, a new international trailer has also hit the web. While this one gets into the plot a little bit -- Tonto's (Johnny Depp) reaction to meeting the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) is a highlight -- its focus is really on the action. The…
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New 'The Lone Ranger' Trailer And Live Q&A
Disney is getting into the last phase of its push for Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger, starting with a presentation of footage at CinemaCon today. The next step is a new trailer, which you can watch below, and a live-streamed Q&A with Verbinski and his stars Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. You can…
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'The Lone Ranger' Unveils Three More Character Posters And A New TV Spot
The first two character posters for The Lone Ranger highlighted two figures we already know pretty well -- the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) and Tonto (Johnny Depp) -- but now the marketing team has moved on to some other folks we're not quite so familiar with. Helena Bonham Carter's Red, Ruth Wilson's Rebecca Reid, and…
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Johnny Depp And Armie Hammer Get 'The Lone Ranger' Character Posters
Odds are you're already plenty familiar with the Lone Ranger and Tonto, who've been kicking around the pop cultural landscape for the better part of a century. And you probably also have a fairly good idea of what Gore Verbinski's done with the characters in the upcoming The Lone Ranger film, thanks to all the…
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Fiery New 'The Lone Ranger' Photo
We'll see a new trailer for Jerry Bruckheimer's The Lone Ranger soon as Disney plans an April 17 event to show off twenty minutes new footage accompanied by a Q&A and other bells and whistles. But for now the studio has dropped a fiery new image. It's a stark, appealing pic that could be from…
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'The Lone Ranger' International Trailer: Big Explosions Need No Translation
As a former Texas Ranger who fights for justice in the Old West, the Lone Ranger is a quintessentially American hero. But as a big-budget Disney spectacle, The Lone Ranger will be riding all over the globe this summer. The studio has just unleashed a new international trailer for the tentpole pic, which stars Armie Hammer…
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'The Lone Ranger' Super Bowl Spot: Ghosts Of The American West
Disney's biggest movie of the year might just be The Lone Ranger, which resurrects the classic American hero with Armie Hammer behind the mask. But the real hero of this take is really the Native American warrior Tonto, played by Johnny Depp. Gore Verbinski's movie looks lie a big western in the style of WB's…
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6 Ways To Nail A Monochrome Winter White Outfit
Wearing all-white might seem intimidating, but it's easier to pull off than you think.
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Super Bowl Teases: 'Iron Man 3,' 'The Lone Ranger,' 'Oz The Great And Powerful', And More
Super Bowl Sunday is fast approaching and that means new movie trailers. Word is there will be six this year: our first look at Fast and Furious 6, new ones for Star Trek Into Darkness and World War Z, and then three from Disney: Iron Man 3 directed by Shane Black, The Lone Ranger, directed by Gore Verbinski and…
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Hans Zimmer Replaces Jack White As 'The Lone Ranger' Composer
The full-length trailer for Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger released this week promised plenty of good stuff from the film: sweeping Western vistas, death-defying stunts, massive explosions, a banged-up Armie Hammer, and a weirdo Johnny Depp. One thing we won't be getting, however, is a score from Jack White. The former White Stripes frontman signed…
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Watch The Full-Length 'The Lone Ranger' Trailer
Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: The trailer has been released and is embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Disney has released a new trailer for Disney's The Lone Ranger. Gore Verbinski directs Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the Ranger in a version of the classic American…
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'The Lone Ranger' Trailer Starring Johnny Depp And Armie Hammer
Walt Disney Pictures has released the first trailer for the Gore Verbinski-directed big screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger. Johnny Depp stars as the Native American spirit warrior Tonto who joins forces with the title character (played by Armie Hammer of The Social Network). The unlikely duo, "brought together by fate, must join forces to…
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