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Michael Shannon’s one humble dude. You probably wouldn’t expect that after seeing some of his insane performances (BUG, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD). I spoke with Michael on the phone last week about his recent role, THE MISSING PERSON, and the man’s answers to all my questions ...
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The Missing Person
Revolutionary Road
Hi, there, readers! Have you been living under a rock? No? Good! That means I won’t have to tell you anything you don’t already know in our fun Sunday afternoon weekend box office wrap-up. Oh, wait, one thing you may not know as of yet. Team Jacob. What? You heard me. Team Jacob . ...
Drama
New Moon
The Box
Giant
The Blind Side
Planet 51
NBC’s recent attempt to bring AMERICAN GLADIATORS did not work with a new TV show based on the original series about extremely fit average Joes taking on ultra-buff ‘gladiators’ in various challenges. Apparently if a TV show based on a former TV show does not work, the next ...
Comedy
Sex and the City
I love graphs like these because they help put certain movies in perspective. In this case, comic book movies and how they’ve been doing at the box office over the past few decades.
Read more on Graph shows the evolution of superhero movies…
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Superman
The exchange of words between Michael Bay and Megan Fox continues with no end in sight, but it looks like things are beginning to die down. At this point it’s almost impossible to follow everything they’ve said to each other, but I believe it started when Fox said downplayed ...
Action
Michael Bay
Megan Fox
Transformers
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The world of animated film has seen more dramatic fare in the past couple of years, with titles like PERSEPOLIS and WALTZ WITH BASHIR. The Rauch Brothers are a team of animators who have followed in those footsteps and made their own animated emotion-filled tale. Their black and white short ...
Animation
Waltz with Bashir
With FURY ROAD, the fourth installment of MAD MAX, now confirmed, someone finally asked the original Max himself, Mel Gibson, his thoughts on the whole thing.
”I was just talking with George [Miller] the other day, he dropped me a line, so you kind of keep in touch with them and see ...
Action
Mel Gibson
Max Payne
The Road
Tom Hardy
Charlize Theron
The full-length trailer for SEASON OF THE WITCH just premiered over at Fandango . It gives us a much better look at the film than that Halloween sneak peek that was released exactly one month ago. From the looks of it, the film is an old-fashioned mythology movie with a good bit of horror ...
Drama
Season of the Witch
Halloween
Nicolas Cage
Dominic Sena
Ron Perlman
Last week , Wilhem told us about the twenty animated features competing for the Academy Award nomination. Today, we’ve got the list of the ten animated shorts seeking their own noms. The Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...
Comedy
The Ten
Academy Awards
Shorts
Martin Short
Mike White is writing the script for SANTA WARS, a holiday comedy based on the true story of rival factions that developed within a union of professional Santa Clauses. Many of you may remember the story from the “Scenes from a Mall” episode of the radio show “This American ...
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Mike White
Let the record breaking begin. The second film in the TWILIGHT franchise, NEW MOON, opened with $26.7 million in revenues from special midnight (well, 12:01AM) screenings at 3,514 theaters. The previous record for midnight openings belonged to this summer’s HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD ...
Drama
New Moon
Twilight
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Dark Knight
The Box
It’s looking like Dustin Hoffman won’t be back for the third film in the MEET THE PARENTS series, tentatively titled LITTLE FOCKERS. Dustin played Bernie Focker in the second film of the series, MEET THE FOCKERS.
Read more on Hoffman may be out of LITTLE FOCKERS…
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Dustin Hoffman
Now these are some casting ideas I can get behind. Almost a month ago , Rusty told us about SIN NOMBRE director Cary Fukunaga’s next project – a new JANE EYRE adaptation. Now we’re starting to get some casting rumors that are ratcheting up my already-extreme level of ...
Drama
Jane Eyre
Jane Campion
Idris Elba, who many of you probably know from his extensive TV work, has joined the cast of Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation of THOR.
Elba played Russell “Stringer” Bell on the very acclaimed TV series “The Wire.” He also appeared in several episodes of ...
Drama
Idris Elba
Kenneth Branagh
Obsessed
Beyonce Knowles
Ali Larter
John Hlavin has been hired to write the fourth UNDERWORLD film. So far, Hlavin has primarily worked in TV. He has written episodes of “The Shield” and “Day Break.” In case you were wondering, the episodes Hlavin wrote for “The Shield” had nothing to do ...
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Check out what Dimension Films and The Weinstein Company have in store for us this holiday season! A pretty nice line-up from Dimension with the highly anticipated THE ROAD and the new indie comedy starring Michael Cera, YOUTH IN REVOLT. The Weinstein Company also has some solid fare with ...
Drama
The Road
Michael Cera
Youth in Revolt
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When a new James Cameron movies comes out,
it’s an event. The guy just gets what great
film making is all about, and a lot of it comes down to the details. I remember reading about his obsessive attention to detail on TITANIC, and it looks ...
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Rating: 6/10
Writers: John Lee Hancock (screenplay), Michael Lewis (book)
Director: John Lee Hancock
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Kathy Bates
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
THE BLIND SIDE tells the real-life story of Michael Oher, the pro football player who, in ...
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John Lee Hancock
Sandra Bullock
Kathy Bates
Rating: 7.5/10
Directors: Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell
Studio: Variance Films
Be warned, UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US is not a standard rock doc. You’re not going to find tricked out concert footage here, glory shots of rock stars wailing away. It’s a much quieter documentary, much sadder, ...
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Aaron Eckhart
The other day I saw a commercial for Stephen King’s new book “Under the Dome” and for the first 15 seconds I thought It was a trailer for an actual movie. I guess that’s both a credit to the marketing team and King’s ability to write books that translate well to ...
