
In TV news tonight: It looks like Heroes may finally be put out of its misery come the end of its fourth season (which is currently airing). A source tells E! online, “Everyone is expecting this to be the last season. The cast, the crew, everyone.” The news comes after Sendhil Ramamur...
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Antoine Fuqua reunites with his Training Day star Ethan Hawke for another cop tale, this time set in Brooklyn, NY. (Did the title give it away?) Hawke is joined by Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Wesley Snipes in this three-part story that premiered at Sundance this year. Now there’s a traile...
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If you’ve run any IMDB searches for The 40 Year Old Virgin recently, you may have come across The 40 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It. You may have also hoped that you had entered a cinematic bizarro world, because surely nobody would greenlight such ...
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Warner Bros has released the publicity materials for their 2010 film slate preview, which as you might expect, contains a bunch of new production photos for the upcoming films: The Book of Eli, A Couple of Cops, The Town, Flipped, and Going the Distance. It should be noted that Kevin Smith’...
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The first big award every year that is often interpreted as a bellwether of Oscar gold is the National Board of Review’s award for Best Film. The board named its entire award slate today, and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air took Best Film. That’s not a lock for the film as a guara...
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Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing author and renown pop culture critic, Chuck Klosterman, for /Film on subjects ranging from whether or not Avatar will be the cinematic equivalent of Chinese Democracy to the abstract theory that our society is unconsciously working for Don Draper. I...
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A lot of Airbender fans were hoping to see a new trailer for M Night Shymalan’s live-action adaptation of the American-anime The Last Airbender this Christmas, but it isn’t going to happen after all. Producer Frank Marshall mentioned on Twitter that “Not enough” visual eff...
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Yesterday, the Sundance Institute announced the in competition line-up for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Today Sundance unveiled the out-of-competition line-up for the annual January fest. And I have to admit, while there isn’t any huge surprises, but the line-up is pretty solid across t...
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Every year LucasFilm sends all their employees, associates and friends a LucasFilm Christmas card. I’m still not lucky enough to be on this list (and probably never will be), but that won’t stop me from admiring the cards from afar. The cards usually feature cool custom Star Wars holi...
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MTV just broadcast their 30-minute Avatar webcast roundtable with James Cameron, Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington. While the extended clip promised was disappointing — it was the Thanador chase scene that many have already seen as part of the Comic Con, Avatar Day and online presentations &#...
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For Gallery1988’s new show, The Vivisect Play VI, they have released a special print by artist Dan May. The Edward Scissorhands-inspired painting “Portrait of a Gentle Man” was on display at the last Crazy4Cult show, and is now available as a limited edition giclee print. The 12...
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Screen Gems is getting into a different kind of genre film — while still working with Resident Evil and Underworld movies, the outfit is also putting together Love Don’t Let Me Down, a country music picture produced by Tobey Maguire. The primary cast now includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim ...
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For weeks, there have been big rumblings about a potential buyout of NBC Universal by the cable company you love to hate: Comcast. A deal was consummated today, though it remains pending regulatory approval.The deal is ridiculously convoluted. Appropriately, perhaps, it’s the sort of thing ...
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Earlier this week in Page 2 we featured a Twilight gag web comic strip from Hijinks Ensue which featured a funny gag with a Team Edward t-shirt. The comic went viral and received so much attention that they actually decided to produce the Team Edward James Olmos t-shirt. So if you want to support...
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With the announcement of the Sundance 2010 lineup, it’s time to start seeing images from some of the invited films. Until now, for example, all we’ve seen of James Franco as poet Allen Ginsberg in Howl has been one photo released back in June. Now here’s a new one, and it’...
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Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment have premiered the international movie poster for Iron Man 2 in Empire Magazine. While the domestic poster featured the first reveal of War Machine, the international poster instead features a more stripped down version of Iron Man, selling the sequel o...
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Han Solo is Tony Montan in the first Star Wars/Scarface mash up, “Scar Wars” edited by Devodana71. Watch the video now embedded after the jump.Page 2Cool Stuff: Star Wars: 1,000 Collectibles: Memorabilia and Stories from a Galaxy Far, Far AwayDarth Vader is Carved Into The National Ca...
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Ronie Midfew Arts and DamonCarltonAndAPolarBear.com are proud to announce the LOST Underground Art Project, an art show at Gallery1988: LA celebrating one of the greatest television programs of all-time. This event, opening December 15th 2009 from 7-10 PM will mark the first time that all 16 prin...
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It doesn’t look like John Woo will be returning to Hollywood anytime soon. After a string of not-so-great Western films, Woo returned to China and delivered the massive two-part epic Red Cliff. I’ve only seen the first film of the Chinese release (haven’t yet seen the condensed ...
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20th Century Fox has released 21 high resolution images from James Cameron’s Avatar. Check them out after the jump.Release: December 18th 2009Director: James CameronWritten by: James CameronProducers: James Cameron, Jon LandauCast: Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldana, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigou...
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We haven’t heard much about the Michael Bay-produced remake of The Birds since Comic-Con, where we were told that Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, Goldeneye) would be directing the film, and that Naomi Watts wanted to star. Now according to the folks over at Pajiba, and their increasingly re...
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It took five years between Punch Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood, but we won’t have to wait until 2012 to see Paul Thomas Anderson next film. That’s right, the filmmaker has decided on his next project, set it up at Universal, and cast Philip Seymour Hoffman, who has played support...
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The always-awesome Empire magazine has really been pulling out the stops for their 20th anniversary. They asked 27 stars to participate in a photo shoot and recreate some of their most iconic performances from the previous two decades, but with a slight twist: Dress stylishly (with a few exceptio...
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I’m an enormous fan of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (I even kind of liked parts of Alien: Resurrection. Kind of). So when I saw the teaser for his newest film, Micmacs A Tire-Larigot (or Micmacs to us Yanks), I was pretty psyched. The man hasn’t made a movie since 2004’s A Very L...
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Star Wars: 1,000 Collectibles: Memorabilia and Stories from a Galaxy Far, Far Away is one of the coolest Star Wars coffee table books produced in a couple years (probably the coolest book since the Star Wars Vault). The book takes the reader on a journey through cool and kitsch, from toys and cos...
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Back in October, Terry Gilliam told Empire he thought he’d found his Don Quixote to play in the revised version of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. He refused to reveal the name. Suggestions were that we’d have to wait for some time to discover who he had in mind. But now the actor has...
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We’ve just received word from Sundance about its lineups for the U.S. and World Cinema Documentary and Dramatic film competitions. Even the selection process is punishing: For the World Cinema Narrative Competition, only 14 films were selected out of 1,022 entrants. That means if you submit...
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In the months since The International opened to generally dismissive reviews, there have been a few really intriguing hints about future projects from director Tom Tykwer. He’s been linked to films based on Cloud Atlas, the postmodern novel by David Mitchell, and What is the What, the Dave ...
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As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been eyeing the UK thriller 44 Inch Chest for some time, in part because it’s written by the lads behind Sexy Beast (Louis Mellis and David Scinto) and in part because it has a pheomenal cast: Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Ian McShane and Tom Wilkinson,...
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Before he fathered the young actress Juno Temple, filmmaker Julien Temple became known for music videos and films like The Great Rock’n'Roll Swindle, in which he looked at the Sex Pistols from manager Malcolm McLaren’s point of view. Pistols singer John Lydon decried much of Swindle a...
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Last night it was announced that Dreamworks Animation had signed a deal with video game company THQ. In the press release, a new name was listed for the upcoming 2010 superhero comedy Oobermind. The new title will be MegaMind, which off the bat is not only a lot easier to say, but gets the point ...
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