  With Mission Impossible 3 opening this weekend, the summer-palooza festival-of-hollywood-dollars has begun and studios will be nipple-slipping their products all over the place to get us hooked from now until the brief pause in September when they regroup for the Thanksgiving-mukah-mas year-end blowout. ?Here are more looks at X-Men 3, the Break Up (Anniston and Vaughn), and the Devil Wears Prada (Streep and Anne Hathaway) film adapt.
5 May, 2006 - 5:47 AM read story |
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 Manohla Dargis of the New York Times says, "Although he slams into stationary objects with his customary zeal, the usually dependable Mr. Cruise is off his game here, sabotaged by the misguided attempt to shade his character with gray. The domestication of Ethan Hunt may have seemed like a good idea, a humanizing touch, perhaps, but it only bogs down the action. Worse, it turns a perfectly good franchise into a seriously strange vanity project..." Click on for the whole review. ?* A link to Rolling Stones' positive review has been added to balance for the flipside.
5 May, 2006 - 5:43 AM read story |
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  In an interesting move to start a relationship with fans, Jon Favreau (actor, Swingers; dir. Elf), director of the coming Iron Man adaptation, has opened up a MySpace page to discuss elements of the flick (like who do we want to see play Tony Stark and why). ?Cool, eh? ? Yeah, it is. Click on to add your two cents.
4 May, 2006 - 4:21 AM read story |
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 Aintitcool has a few plant-like sneak looks at Darren Aronofsky's (dir. Pi, Requiem for a Dream), The Fountain. ?In some form of production for a number of years (once months away from shooting when Brad Pitt suddenly dropped out), The Fountain is rumored to be about a man in search of the fountain of youth and is told in three time periods at the same time. Click on for the reviews and the solid and compelling teaser trailer.
3 May, 2006 - 1:15 PM read story |
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 It wasn't very publicized (unless you are a C-SPAN nut), but Stephen Colbert spoke at last weekend's Press Correspondence Dinner. ?At the dinner, a roast of sorts for and by the president in front of lots of press folk, Colbert delivered a KICK ASS routine with Bush just a few feet away. ? Watch it now. ?Link courteousy of OneGoodMove.org.
3 May, 2006 - 7:09 AM read story |
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 A French version of the first teaser for the new Bond do-over-refresh-remake, Casino Royale, is online. ?Why is it in French? ?Well, maybe because they're going to preview it at Cannes and they need to drum up a little hype to go with screening. ?Anyways, it's your standard Bond trailer. ?Explosions ands people jumping up and falling from high places. ? Check it in WMV and YouTubed flash.
3 May, 2006 - 6:19 AM read story |
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 According to New! Magazine and the Clooney Studio website (well respected and media outlets), Hugh Grant has been approached by Clooney about joining the famous, successful, and good-looking party and taking a role in Ocean's Thirteen (starts shooting this summer for a Christmas or Spring '07 release). ? Read more and find who else has joined Ocean's lately.
3 May, 2006 - 6:19 AM read story |
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 Garth of darkhorizons writes, "There's a few points where the movie could've taken some real chances but in every case it dangles the possibility and then pulls back - sometimes to the point of cheese (most notably the laughable "The Abyss" style CPR scene at the end). On top of that the assorted subplots heavily cannibalise other and better works - there's pieces of 'True Lies' (wife/girlfriend deceived, jet missile attack on bridge), a wee bit of James Bond, and of course lots of scenes harkening back to key episodes of 'Alias' - especially the pilot.." Click on for his entire review.
2 May, 2006 - 6:58 AM read story |
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 Tim Burton's semi-classic stop-motion story about death and Christmas is on it's way back to the theatres, this time in 3D. ?The new process which allows CGI flicks to be converted into Imax 3D prints is given studio heads serious wood. ?Look for them to begin to 3D everything animated with a computer from here on out (ie this Monster House and Ant Bully this summer).
2 May, 2006 - 6:23 AM read story |
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 Jack Black had been linked to another project of kickass filmmaker Michel Gondry's (dir. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Human Nature), but now it seems the two will team up to shoot what sounds like a kickass fucking script called, Be Kind Rewind. It's about a guy whose magnetic brain implant... Click on.
2 May, 2006 - 6:09 AM read story |
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 Bluetights.net (a site supported whole-heartedly by the official WB peeps) has posted a link to a downloadable Coke commercial from Austrialian TV that has glimpses of new Superman Returns footage. Anyone else find it a little interesting that the hype machine has yet to truly start churning for this flick? ?Maybe they feel like it's such a huge property that there's almost no need to dump a ton into marketing? Odd, eh? ?It's so unlike them. ? NEWS UPDATE: Full, new trailer will be attached to all prints of Mission Impossible 3 (opens Friday, May 9th). THE TRAILER IS LIVE, Click here
30 Apr, 2006 - 8:33 AM read story |
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 Spider-Man 3 is still shooting in Cleveland (and will be for one more day) and Cleveland.com is publicizing the hell out of it. ?Either this is a pretend-closed set and Cleveland.com is in cahoots with Sony PR, or the locations department and the set PA's on this bitch suck at their jobs. ?Spidey does appears in a pic or two. ?The video is pretty silly and shows little to nothing. Click on.
29 Apr, 2006 - 2:09 PM read story |
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 Last night, Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) brought an X3 clip with him on Jay Leno. ?The Moviebox have it and are streaming it (click on). ?The scene contains no spoilers very little action (only off camera action which just ain't the same). ?What the scene does reveal is that large robots attacking cities is so hot right now. Click on.
29 Apr, 2006 - 6:11 AM read story |
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  Monster House and Over the Hedge are the CGI-animated pics coming out in the next few months. ?Hedge looks like solid Dreamworks-quality work. ?House looks interesting, could be decent, but doesn't smell as strong. ?Invincible is a based-on-a-true-story flick about a regular joe (Mark Walberg) who attends an open tryout for the NFL and makes the team. ? Click on for the media links.
29 Apr, 2006 - 5:43 AM read story |
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 Sometime actor (Swingers), moretime director (Zarathura, Elf) these days, Jon Favreau (so money) has inked a deal to direct Iron Man. He hopes the pic will go into production next year.?In other news Marvel spilled yesterday, writer David Self (Road to Perdition) is still working on Captain America and Zak Penn (X2, X3) is still working on Hulk 2. Arthur Marcum and Matt Holloway are working on the Iron Man script (they wrote an Afghan war truckdriving script that Michael Bay and John Singleton are really digging on for some reason called Convoy). Read on.
28 Apr, 2006 - 7:25 AM read story |
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 Have you seen the new POTC 2 (Pirates of the Cariibean 2: Dead Man's Chest) trailer yet? ?Yeah, there's a new trailer and it looks fun. ?Also new, a slightly longer (but in french) trailer for Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst. ?And lastly, but nowhere near leastly, a 1st look at the crossword puzzles doc, Wordplay starring puzzle-master Will Short. ? Watch'em all now, damnit.
28 Apr, 2006 - 6:16 AM read story |
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