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Joss Whedon Will Write and Direct ‘The Avengers’ Sequel
A quick news blast to keep your eyes open this afternoon – Disney has just announced on their Walt Disney Investors Conference Call that Joss Whedon will return to both write and direct their The...
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‘This Is 40’ Trailer Is the Judd Apatow-iest Of All Judd Apatow Trailers
The only way you can describe the new trailer for This Is 40 is to say that it looks, unmistakably, like a Judd Apatow film. Not only are his wife and kids front and center, but so are a ton of other...
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Michael K. Williams May Force You to See ‘RoboCop’ Despite Your Protests
When you take all of the distaste for remakes and reboots that’s out there and add it with the love that people have for Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 film RoboCop, it adds up to a situation where not very...
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Sacha Baron Cohen to Spoof James Bond Next
In the grand tradition of movie-making teams like Jim Abrahams and David Zucker, Keenen Ivory Wayans and his entire family, and Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (okay, maybe not those last two),...
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Now They’re Just Rebooting Stuff You Don’t Care About: New ‘Little Rascals’...
File this one under “I’m sorry, what?” Universal already made some unexpected mint with their Three Stooges reboot from earlier this year, so why not give that same treatment to something like, oh,...
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‘Trouble With the Curve’ Trailer: Clint Eastwood Shocks the World and Plays...
For a film that opens in less than two months, we’ve seen very little from Robert Lorenz‘s Clint Eastwood-starring feature debut, the father-daughter baseball dramedy Trouble With the Curve, so it’s...
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‘Playing For Keeps’ Trailer: A Real Kick in the Balls
Let’s talk about what Playing For Keeps has going for it. It has a somewhat okay director in Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness). It has a talented cast with Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel,...
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Movie News After Dark: Much Ado About Joss Whedon, Breaking Bad, Crocodile...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column dedicated to having a bit of fun before sending you off to bed. And we don’t care if you ate your vegetables, we’re always down for dessert. We...
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Justin Lin Might ‘Riot’ For Rodney King Story
After the success of Fast Five, Justin Lin might be looking to tackle a difficult and divisive moment in our modern history. According to Vulture, Lin is in talks with Universal to direct L.A. Riots –...
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Dennis Gansel Plans to Attack Everyone in the World on ‘Grim Night’
As we all know, Grim Night is the one night out of the year that we all board up our windows, shove pillows into the chimney and sit fetal-positioned in the corner with a weapon of choice hoping...
View ArticleTrailer Recut: Franco Zefferelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ as a Modern-Day...
Wuv! Twue wuv! While there are a million twists on Shakespeare, Franco Zefferelli‘s version of the star cross’d lovers remains an enduring classic of tragic romance cinema. But what would it look like...
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4 Great Films Hidden in The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection is full of great movies, all carefully tabulated and accounted for with spine numbers and easily made accessible through various search means on their website. But besides the...
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Diablo Cody Giving Julianne Hough ‘Time and a Half’ with an Old One Night Stand
According to Variety, Julianne Hough has just joined Time and a Half, a forthcoming flick scripted by Diablo Cody and directed by Ol Parker (Imagine Me & You). Hough is also playing the lead for...
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6 Filmmaking Tips From Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman is crazy, but he’s not that crazy. This according to Charlie Kaufman. He also can’t tell you how to write a screenplay, which is the frustrating truth straight from the Oscar winner’s...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Curiosity – Mission to Mars’ is Science Fiction Made Real
Why Watch? Our eyes are on the skies right now. Rightfully so. There’s magic up there. The subject matter is obviously compelling, but The Film Artist has made something from NASA footage and...
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Warner Bros. Reportedly Looking to Ben Affleck for ‘Justice League’...
Another day, another quick jolt of comic book news to keep us pumping. This time, however, it’s DC that’s lighting the wires up. Variety reports that Warner Bros. has “approached” Ben Affleck to...
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Marvel and Joss Whedon Make It Official; Filmmaker Signs Exclusive Deal With...
Coming off yesterday’s announcement that Marvel has tapped Joss Whedon to return to their Avengers cash cow for another round of writing and directing on the currently-simply-titled The Avengers 2...
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Review: Solid Performances Almost Save Marriage of Uneven Tone and Terrible...
It’s quite convenient that David Frankel’s Hope Springs kicked its original title – Great Hope Springs – because such a tiny edit saves the film from a rash of mocking spins on its name. Just Okay...
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‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’ Finally Casts Its Big Baddie and...
Seeing as shooting is set to begin next month on Harald Zwart’s adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s smash-hit YA fantasy novel “City of Bones,” it’s starting to become crunch time as far as putting...
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Tony Gilroy: ‘Michael Clayton’ Wouldn’t Pay for ‘The Bourne Legacy’s’...
From the aesthetic to its own protagonist, Tony Gilroy did some work to distance The Bourne Legacy from the previous, Jason Bourne-led trilogy. Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) isn’t Bourne, and The Bourne...
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