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Three New Pictures from ‘The Giver’
The Weinstein Co. has released three new pictures from Philip Noyce‘s The Giver, offering a look at the characters played by Jeff Bridges, Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes, and Alexander Skarsgard. Set for release on August 15, The Giver, based on the young adult novel by Lois Lowry, is described as a haunting story centered on Jonas (Thwaites), a young boy from…
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Simon Pegg Has Beef with Rebecca Ferguson’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ Poster
Last month Paramount released several character posters for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in preparation for the film’s nationwide release tomorrow, and it seems one of the film’s stars has a bit of a bone to pick with how the studio’s marketing department chose to portray the film’s female lead in her poster. “When the posters came out, it was me…
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Box Office Predictions: Can ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Top $175 Million?
Clearly there’s only one game in town this weekend, and that game is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. I’ve thrown out a number at $176.3 million, and keep in mind the first version came in at $152.5 million for its opening weekend. My bump is predicated on this one being better (11 percentage points higher on RottenTomatoes as of…
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Duchovny Talks ‘X-Files 2’ Possibilities
There has been plenty of Internet chatter surrounding the possibility of an X-Files 2 for Mulder and Scully, and in a recent visit to Seattle to do publicity for his new film House of D, I had the chance to ask David Duchovny about the possibility of a second X-Files film, and if they were all going to get back together for…
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Trailer and Poster for the Very Funny Comedy ‘The Oranges’
I saw The Oranges at the Toronto Film Festival last year and quite liked it. The script from Jay Reiss and Ian Helfer made the Black List back in 2008 and the version I saw was fresh… fresh in the sense that director Julian Farino (“Entourage”) told the told the audience before it screened that he’d only finished editing the…
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Wachowskis’ Netflix Series ‘Sense8’ Debuting in June, Plot Revealed
Netflix has announced Andy and Lana Wachowski‘s new television series “Sense8” will premiere on June 5 and judging by what the siblings have been saying and the plot synopsis it is going to be some weird and wild stuff: One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting…
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The Science Behind ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’
Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Digital Domain, Asylum FX, Matte World and Lola FX have all teamed up to put together a special website dedicated to the making of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button including videos, set pieces, costumes, false teeth and just about anything else you can think of and it is all for you to…
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Why are People Upset with ‘Happy Feet’
Am I the only one that goes to movies to be entertained anymore? Is that why I have had such a hard time enjoying some of the shit in theaters now days? Now I didn’t go see Happy Feet. Primarily because I thought it looked dumb, but based on audience reception and the $121 million it…
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New ‘Land of the Lost’ Trailer and Pictures
Universal has just released seven new images and a new trailer for the upcoming prehistoric comedy Land of the Lost. First off, the pictures can all be found in our gallery right here and feature stars Will Ferrell, Danny McBride and Anna Friel in a variety of precarious situations involving Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pterodactyls and Sleestaks.
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First Clip from Reitman’s ‘Up In the Air’ Debuts
On Saturday, during a special screening at the Telluride Film Festival, Jason Reitman’s upcoming film Up in the Air screened for the first time and has since received several great reviews from around the web increasing the Oscar buzz ten-fold and setting the stage for its debut at the Toronto Film Festival. As a result, with the…