  The Movie Box has posted up a number of new TV spots for big summer flicks that are beginning to wage war on your simple mind. Pirates of the Carribean 2 and Miami Vice have new spots, and linked to here in case you missed it, the trailer to Garfield 2: A Tale of Two Kitties. ? We don't know why we posted the Garfield link either.
23 May, 2006 - 5:50 AM read story |
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Michael Rechtshaffen of the Hollywood Reporter writes, "Brett Ratner has taken the reins, and though the picture is not without its wow-inducing, SFX-driven moments, that potent X-factor is considerably diminished in Singer's absence...with its underlying themes of sexual identity and alienation more pronounced than ever, is intriguing enough, "Last Stand" is more concerned about getting to the next special effects sequence than it is about tapping into those relevant undercurrents." Add this to the back and fourth-it sucks-it's great-it's ok X-Men 3 reviewers debate. Click on for this and more reviews.
23 May, 2006 - 5:28 AM read story |
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 Richard Kelly (dir. Donnie Darko) is a talented young director. In Southland Tales it sounds as if he's gone wildly overboard. Southland stars The Rock, Sarah Gellar, Sean William Scott and lots of others as people still wandering around in 2008 after a nuclear explosion. Interesting detail: there are dance numbers by Justin Timberlake and there was supposed to have been singing (not yet mentioned in reviews but rumored to have been in the script). This could be wonderfully craptastic or horribly bad. Read a review from the Cannes fest.
23 May, 2006 - 5:16 AM read story |
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 The new trailer is here. ?Look for the media frenzy to kick into the 8th dimension from here on out (until the June 20th release). ?To recap, this thing will be attached to most and or all of the Mission Impossible 3 prints and Posiden prints that are due to hit theatres over the course of the month. ?And speaking of caps, Joblo has a few screen caps from the new trailer. ? Click on for direct links to Apple's quicktime page for hi-def and hi-res versions. UPDATED: New TV spots, ?International Trailer (new footage) added.
21 May, 2006 - 4:30 PM read story |
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 Latinoreview has posted a new review of the script for the Transformers toon-to-live action adaptation. ?Michael Bay is helming. Ugh. ?Shia LaBeouf (holes), Bernie Mac, and Jon Voight have all been cast in this huge towering inferno of a marketing ploy. The script review? Here's a taste, "I'm a huge fan. Transformers is the movie I think he (Michael Bay) was born to do. Transformers is about spectacle and robots duking it out on the screen, Bay is the man at spectacle and I love the way he moves and dollies his camera." Smells like trouble to us. Read on.
21 May, 2006 - 3:38 PM read story |
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 The CW, the network created from the merging of the UPN and WB networks, decided not to pick-up the expensive Aquaman series in development at the WB from the creators of Smallville. Here is the preview of the pilot episode likely shown to network and ad execs. Guess it didn't do it for them. Looks to us like standard BS network fare. Maybe the producers are trying to get the fans involved to help them find a new deal... Check it at YouTube.
21 May, 2006 - 3:19 PM read story |
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 YouTube has the first look at Richard Linklater's (dir. Before Sunset, Berfor Sunrise, Dazed & Confused, A Scanner Darkly) fictionalized adaptation of the best-selling non-fiction book, Fast Food ?The cast includes Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Greg Kinnear, Avril Lavigne (yep, her), Wilmer Valderrama and others. Check it.
18 May, 2006 - 5:27 PM read story |
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Kirk Honeycutt of the Hollywood Reporter writes, "...the movie is so drenched in dialogue musing over arcane mythological and historical lore and scenes grow so static that even camera movement can't disguise the dramatic inertia. Such sins could cut into those rosy projections." ?Supposedly, camera work and production design are great, but according to Honeycutt, all else falls flat. Click on for the entire review.
18 May, 2006 - 5:16 PM read story |
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 Blackfilm has a kick-ass [conceptual] test video and some photos from the upcoming "Transformers" live-action movie. Michael Bay is the director, but maybe that won't be so bad if the effects and story can hold up. [Based on this user-generated footage it could be cool]. Click over to see the photos and the footage and let us know what you think.
16 May, 2006 - 12:00 PM read story |
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  This week, the American television networks are set to announce their fall '06 schedules after what has been a busy pilot season in LA. ?CBS is the net in the best position, steadily filling the top ten with its shows on a weekly basis. ?ABC and FOX have huge hits (Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, and American Idol), but huge holes. ?NBC sucks (plain and simple) and the CW (newly formed net, it's UPN and WB combined) is weak but has a few strong shows...
15 May, 2006 - 5:10 AM read story |
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 A new full trailer for this summer's Miami Vice film adaptation in online. Michael Mann (The Insider, Heat, Ali, Callateral) directed the film and co-created the TV show and supposedly took adapting the 80's show really really seriously. ?Not sure if that's a good thing. ?Colin Ferrel and Jamie Foxx are Crotch and Tubbs. ? Check it in quicktime.
11 May, 2006 - 9:58 PM read story |
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 The AICN fellas have got a new X3 review on their hands and no one over there is calling it a plant. ?It's positive and has the readership over there hoping and praying that the third installment is truly decent and that director Bret Ratner has saved the day and not burned down it all down with crap direction. ? We at the D have our small hopes. ?Click on for the review with golf ball-sized SPOILERS.
11 May, 2006 - 4:16 AM read story |
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 M. Night (dir. Six Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village), love him or hate him a lot, he's a talented mofo when it comes to filmmaking. ?The first teaser for this film looked ok but sounded horrible (bad opera soundtrack was way too overwhelming and sappy). ?Take a look at the new trailer and see if you feel better about another summer flick from M. ?This one stars the great Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard. Click on.
10 May, 2006 - 6:48 AM read story |
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 Amy Sedaris is completely nuts. ?This SWC movie has been finished for some time and been dropped by one studio so far, now it's opening this summer. ?Let's hope it's as darkly freaky and funny as the show, but not too much moreso. ?After awhile, Sedaris' Jerry-face starts to haunt you. ?Case in point, the thumbnail used here. ? Click on for more pics of the kick ass cast; Stephen Colbert, Mathew Broderick, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and others.
9 May, 2006 - 7:14 AM read story |
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 The 1st weekend of the summer box office festival of summer ended up being a quiet-ish one. ?If you can call earning $48 million underwhelming(for a film that cost $120m to make), than yes, it was a quiet weekend for giant expectations. ?People just hate this Cruise guy, don't they. ?What happened to that interesting trend in his career when he started doing things like Magnolia? ?Who told him to steer clear of decent, small scripts that matter? ?He was good in that flick. ?Great, even. ?Other weekend openers (Hoot, American Haunting) did poorly. Click over for the numbers.
8 May, 2006 - 6:05 AM read story |
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 Aintitcool's Harry Knowles is alleging that this certain sneak review is the real article (checked against a late copy of the script and accounts from people who worked on the film). ? This review is SPOILER HEAVY and will ruin any surprises you might have going into the film blind. ?Apparently, this review freakin' loved the flick. ? We don't know, though, we didn't read the review. ?You can.
6 May, 2006 - 4:45 AM read story |
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