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Can’t Stream ‘Game of Thrones’? Cable Companies Are the Real Villain
You gotta hand it to the writers over at The Oatmeal…they know how to start a debate. Whether it be here on this site or any of the other number of sites, the comic about pirating Game of Thrones due...
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Second ‘Men in Black 3′ Trailer: First, We Gotta Get High
A funny thing happened when I watched this second trailer for Men in Black III – I realized that I couldn’t remember a damn thing about the second film, which is funny, because that film deals with...
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Austin Cinematic Limits: Fewer Austin Filmmakers Represented at SXSW Film
It is still very unclear to me why SXSW Film opted to forego their Lone Star States category in 2012, but what seems abundantly clear is the shortage of feature-length films by local filmmakers at the...
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The ‘Immortals’ Drinking Game
Fans of sword-and-sandal action flicks have plenty of options these days. Whether they’re watching Spartacus or Game of Thrones on television or anticipating the upcoming Wrath of the Titans this...
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Move the Planchette Back to YES: Universal Resurrects a Cheap ‘Ouija’
Back in August of last year, Universal Pictures chucked their big-budget Ouija back into turnaround – usually the kiss of death for a project like this, one meant to cost over $100m and to tap into...
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Kristen Bell Will Get Jilted By Adam Brody in ‘Some Girls’
A couple months ago it was reported that The OC’s Adam Brody was attached to star in an adaptation of a Neil LaBute play called Some Girls. To be helmed by Mad Men and Flight of the Conchords director...
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‘Bill & Ted 3’ Script Finished: Excellent! Movie Still Hasn’t Been Green Lit:...
Ever since Keanu Reeves intimated that he was into the idea of doing a third Bill & Ted movie, it’s been pretty hard to focus on anything other than how awesome it would be to see him and Alex...
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UPDATED: Zoe Saldana, Robert Duvall, and Viggo Mortensen May Come ‘Out of the...
UPDATED: Since publication the Variety story sourced has been updated to reflect breaking news that Mortensen is out as far as this film goes, and that Casey Affleck is being thought of as the front...
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Box Office: ‘The Lorax’ and Its $70m Weekend Could Change Movie History
Maybe it was the message. Maybe there are so many people out there just dying to hear how trees save us all, how we have to take a stand for what we believe, how it’s our Earth, too. Maybe people just...
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Movie News After Dark: Remembering Ralph McQuarrie, Watching Film Critics,...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly collection of links, movie news, happy things and sad things. Tonight we begin with something sad, because it’s easily the biggest story of the night. We...
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Trailer: ‘That’s My Boy’ is the Unofficial Sequel to ‘Big Daddy’
It wasn’t until watching the newest green band trailer for That’s My Boy that everything became clear. Underneath the baffling, annoying voice Adam Sandler makes through the whole thing, the simple...
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‘Mean Girls’ Gives Birth to ‘Mean Moms’
Despite the obstetrical impossible, Mean Girls has labored to deliver Mean Moms – a follow-up of sorts to the Lindsay Lohan-starring comedy. It also stems from an advice book written by Rosalind...
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Will ‘Harry Potter’ Return to the Big Screen…as LEGOs?
While doing press for 21 Jump Street, Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and, more importantly, Clone High) discussed their “LEGO” movie over at Warners and name-dropped The...
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A Bitter Lesson About Big Breaks: The Rise and Fall of an Animation Studio
Hollywood is filled with people clambering to get noticed in a sea of noise. When that hard work has paid off and an aspiring filmmaker catches the eye of a studio or producer, this appears to be a...
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Want to Buy Iron Man’s Suit, Red Skull’s Face or Thor’s Hammer From Marvel?
These items would have no doubt made Simon’s list this week, but they all come with a hefty price tag. Marvel is auctioning off several pieces of screen-used props, and according to The Hollywood...
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Short Film Of The Day: The Breathtaking, Animated Free Fall of ‘Divers’
Why Watch? It’s absolutely the look of the animation that steals breath here, but in this shot from Paris Mavroidis, it’s also the tension created by the simple act of falling. He turns it into an...
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This Week In DVD: March 6th
Welcome back to This Week In DVD! A wide range of movies are hitting shelves today, but the two best releases happen to be television series including HBO’s Game of Thrones and my pick of the week...
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Over/Under: ‘This is Spinal Tap’ vs. ‘A Mighty Wind’
The mockumentary is a relatively recent genre of storytelling whose origins are probably as recent as the last hundred years. And that’s including all stories that could be considered mockumentaries...
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Tribeca 2012 Gets James Franco on James Franco, Harmony Korine, and Amazing...
The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival will attack eyeballs from April 18-29, and they’ve launched their first offensive by declaring some of the movies they’ll have in their arsenal. That group includes...
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Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg Set to Punch Up Michael Bay’s ‘Pain and Gain’
Paramount and director Michael Bay seem bound and determined to turn Bay’s next big picture, true-life tale Pain and Gain, into a real piece of work (read – not a film that gets its big gags from...
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