This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. AVATAR (Releases on Thursday, April 22) Avatar's crowning achievement is that it could not have been made at any time prior to…
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The Fine Brothers love to spoil everything, In past years, we've featured their popular videos 100 Movie Spoilers in 4 minutes and Spoiling Every Best Picture Winner in Oscar History. After seeing all of the big movies of 2009, the brothers are back once again. Their latest video spoils 50 movies released last year (including…
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley offer up a few reflections on the Golden Globes, try to hold out hope for Marc Webb's upcoming version of Spiderman, and praise The Book of Eli as a decent, post-apocalyptic, B-movie fun. Special guest Katey Rich joins us from Cinemablend.…
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Paramount Pictures has released the first five minutes of Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones online. I had a chance to see this film at the Butt-num-a-thon, and was actually quite shocked at how terrible it is. It's a complete mess with a few moments of brilliance. However, you won't notice this in the first five…
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Fall 2023 trends aren't just about dark colors anymore. Embrace some sunshine with a beautiful butter yellow look. It's the new neutral.
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Paramount Pictures has begun to screen Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lovely Bones, and reviews have begun to appear online. Lets take a look at some quotes from the early reviews: Todd McCarthy at Variety: "Peter Jackson's infatuation with fancy visual effects mortally wounds The Lovely Bones." .... "Jackson undermines solid work from a good…
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Some of the weirdest and most interesting news lately has been about action in the edit bay. We saw that a couple of world-class craftsmen had been brought in to rework The Wolfman, for one. Now there are tales of tweaks that run both ends of the crazy spectrum. When we can run a news…
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I keep looking for something that will sell me on The Lovely Bones. Once upon a time, Peter Jackson's name would have been enough. It's not that King Kong changed that, but between the problems with Kong and the fact that the story in this new film doesn't grab me (based on what I know…
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Paramount Pictures has released a batch of new images previewing their fall film line-up: Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lovely Bones and Jason Reitman's adaptation of Up in the Air. Yes, you have seen some of these photos previously, be it in an MTV Fall preview, Empire Magazine, but some of these are brand spanking…
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MTV has published their Fall 2009 movie preview, which includes 24 new photos from movies due out in the next four months. Its one of those really annoying page-at-a-time slideshows, so I thought I'd feature a few of the photos. . Above is another look at Peter Jackson's version of "Heaven" in The Lovely Bones,…
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Dreamworks Pictures has released the first trailer for Peter Jackson's big screen adaptation of The Lovely Bones . The trailer will be attached to Julie & Julia, which hits theaters this Friday. But you can watch it on your small screen at home right now. The film looks beautifully shot and visually stunning. There are…
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Entertainment Tonight will be premiering the first trailer for Peter Jackson's big screen adaptation of The Lovely Bones on Tuesday, August 4th. The trailer will be attached to Julie & Julia, which hits theaters this Friday. On Monday, ET ran one of those 30-second first look sneak previews, complete with loud blabbering annoying voice over.…
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Those of you who stepped out and snapped up the 20th Anniversary issue of Empire will already have seen the latest - and indeed, greatest - images from Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones. For those of you no lucky enough to live 'over here', the good news is that some industrious souls have scanned those…
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Empire has debuted a photo of actress Saoirse Ronan in the role of Susie Salmon for Peter Jackson's upcoming film, The Lovely Bones. Based on the best-selling book by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones tells the story of Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the…
Read MoreYesterday word leaked onto the interwebs that Peter Jackson and one of his art directors have been supposedly duking it out over the depiction of heaven in The Lovely Bones. The film tells the story of a 14-year-old girl, raped, murdered, and dismembered by a neighbor, who watches from a personalized heaven as her family…
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Pardon the Christopher Guestish humor in this situation, but Flicks.Co.NZ is reporting that Peter Jackson and one of his art directors are in a big tiff on the set of The Lovely Bones. Why? Because they can't agree on the film adaptation's notion of Heaven. Filming has temporarily stopped until The Pearly Gates, a major…
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Last week Paramount and Fox announced major post-writers strike schedule shuffles. I speculated that because of 'the rule of threes', that one more studio would announce a reshuffled calendar by Friday. And here we are on Wednesday, with a bunch of new dates from Disney. Let's take a look at the new Disney schedule: The…
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Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold best-selling novel The Lovely Bones is preparing to shoot in the MacDade Mall in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania. The production is transforming the location into a 1970's shopping mall for the project. J.M. (Janetjunkie1) was able to snap a few photos of the recreations of the 70's era mall stores.…
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Paramount Pictures has announced domestic release dates for Peter Jackson's next film and the upcoming live-action G.I. Joe feature film, and Fox has set a date for Marley and Me. Let's take a look into the future, so get out your calendars. Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's best selling novel The Lovely Bones will…
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Yesterday we reported that Mark Wahlberg had replaced Ryan Gosling in Peter Jackson's big screen adaptation of The Lovely Bones, just hours before the movie began production. The full details of why the last minute change was made, had not been revealed, until now. According to the Los Angeles Times, Gosling's weight gain was too…
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Just one day before shooting is set to begin, Mark Wahlberg has stepped in to replace Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl) in the Peter Jackson-directed adaptation of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. Wahlberg has taken the role of Jack Salmon, the grieving father of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered…
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Academy Award nominated actor Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson) has signed on to star opposite Rachel Weisz in Peter Jackson's big screen adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestselling book The Lovely Bones. Jeeez, so far the cast and crew is stacked with a talented group who has either won or been nominated for an Oscar. The film…
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