Warner Bros. has taken a bit of time to shift around its release schedule, and there's both good news and bad news for film fans. On the plus side, the studio has set Andy and Lana Wachowski's Jupiter Ascending for a coveted summer 2014 release date, which reads as a vote of confidence in the film. Not…
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The Alamo Drafthouse brand is beloved among moviegoers for their plush theaters, but it's revered for their impeccable taste in movies. Whether programming a film festival or picking up indies for distribution, they've demonstrated an eye for films that aren't just good, but unique. With 2012 on its way out, the company has just released its list…
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Anyone who's really eager to see the Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer's Cloud Atlas has likely already pored over that six-minute trailer released over the summer, but for the rest of the moviegoing public there's now a more traditional two-minute theatrical version. Whichever camp you fall into, the new cut is worth checking…
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The same breathtaking ambition that makes Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer's David Mitchell adaptation Cloud Atlas so intriguing also gives it the potential to flop, hard. Weaving together six interlocking stories that cut across time, space, and genre is difficult enough to do within the confines of a novel, to say nothing of…
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Black Swan star Natalie Portman was hotter than hot coming out of last year's Oscar season, a freshly minted Best Actress winner with one just-released film (No Strings Attached) and two more (Your Highness and Thor) lined up for the next few months. Since then, however, she's been laying low, with no new projects on…
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Matrix directors Andy and Lana Wachowski are currently busy shooting the David Mitchell adaptation Cloud Atlas (with co-director and co-writer Tom Twyker), but for their next project they'll be returning to the kind of tentpole sci-fi that brought them so much success a few years ago. The siblings are set up to direct a mysterious…
Read MoreDirector James McTeigue looks to follow-up his gig on the Wachowskis-produced Ninja Assassin, currently in production, with Revelation, a thriller with a sci-fi twist from Inferno Distribution. The pic will follow a female journalist following a string of "bizarre murders and discovers that the victims were all treated by the head of an org that…
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