Author: Solani Verma
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‘Twilight’ Stars Getting $12 Million Each for ‘New Moon’
If you thought Summit wasn’t going to spend more on the recently announced sequel to this weekend’s $69.6 million box-office success Twilight think again. Bill Zwecker at the Chicago Sun-Times reports its two leads, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, are set to take home $12 million each for New Moon as Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. The article says Stewart and…
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‘Prometheus’ Set Pics Reveal an Alien Tunneling System
The plot for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus remains shrouded in mystery and speculation. What was once described as a prequel to Scott’s Alien is now said to be something completely different, though strands of Alien remain. Scott was quoted back in January saying, “While Alien was indeed the jumping off point for this project, out of the creative process evolved a new, grand mythology and universe…
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‘The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies’ Extended Edition is Rated R
It was recently announced Warner Bros. and Fathom Events would be releasing the extended versions of The Hobbit trilogy in theaters beginning October 5. The three films would be shown over the course of three nights and will include an exclusive introduction from director Peter Jackson. One new and rather interesting piece of information regarding the upcoming extended release…
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‘True Blood’ Season Two Paley Festival Clip
HBO just sent over the following clip from the upcoming second season of “True Blood” which was recently shown at the Paley Festival. Season two of “True Blood” debuts on HBO on June 14th and season 1 of the series will be released on DVD/Blu-ray on May 19th. The soundtrack will also be released on May 19th.…
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‘Man of Steel’ Gets a PG-13 Rating in Latest Batch of MPAA Ratings
The biggest title of note in today’s batch of MPAA ratings is Zack Snyder‘s Superman film, Man of Steel, which like producer Christopher Nolan‘s Batman franchise is rated PG-13. No surprise there, but I’m sure some will be interested in the reason for the rating, which is “for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and destruction, and for…
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‘Paperman’ Threesome – Disney’s Oscar-Winning Short Film… Extended
So what happened after the couple in Disney Oscar-winning animated short film Paperman got together? Well, College Humor takes a stab at answering that question and it goes in a direction you may not have otherwise expected as it seems those paper airplanes had an agenda of their own, forming an actual paperman interested in getting in on the fun…
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16 New Pictures from ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’
In advance of tomorrow’s new trailer celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” and what is being dubbed “Hobbit Day” around the world, Warner Bros. has released 16 new pictures from the upcoming December 14 release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, or as many will surely refer to it, The Hobbit:…
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‘Gravity’ Sweeps Empire, Sight & Sound and Cahiers du Cinema Top Ten Lists of 2013
The Wolf of Wall Street screened for a variety of guilds over the weekend and from what I understand, members of the New York Film Critics and National Board of Review will be seeing it today or tomorrow as they will begin announcing their 2013 awards tomorrow and the next day. That said, some outlets went…
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“Orange is the New Black” Recap & Review: Season 3, Episodes 10, 11, & 12
A bit of a change of pace this week as I’ll be looking at the three episodes leading up to the third season finale of “Orange is the New Black” in order to leave the 90-minute, final episode to be discussed on its own. These were interesting episodes to watch together. All three take on…
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A Second Trailer for Reitman’s ‘Up In the Air’
You know, almost immediately after posting the original announcement spawned news across the online movie sites and now the fact the date had changed again offered up the same amount of buzz. Thus, Paramount had now double-dipped the news cycle and each time scored word on how the film has been ballyhooed from east to west… those…