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Inside Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ and that Pesky Plot Hole with Director Pete Docter
Pixar’s Inside Out enjoyed the largest opening weekend for an original property, animated, live-action or otherwise, this past weekend and before the film was ever released I had a chance to sit down with director and screenwriter Pete Docter and the film’s producer Jonas Rivera to largely discuss the ins and outs of turning this movie from a seedling of an…
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Matthew Vaughn Confirms ‘Kingsman’ Sequel Plans
Earlier this year Kingsman: The Secret Service, director Matthew Vaughn‘s very R-rated spy movie sendup, became a surprise hit at the box office, playing well opening weekend and bleeding slowly each weekend thereafter on its way to earning $128.2 million in North America and an astonishing $403.7 million at the worldwide box office. Just over a month ago we found out…
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Keanu Reeves Hitman Starrer ‘John Wick’ Added to October Release Slate
ionsgate has announced they’ll be releasing John Wick starring Keanu Reeves on October 24, putting it up against Universal’s board game adaptation Ouija and the Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy starrer St. Vincent. The film, directed by stuntmen turned directors, David Leitch (Jupiter Ascending) and Chad Stahelski (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), centers on a retired hitman (Reeves) whose murderous instincts are reawakened when a thug steals his 1969 Ford Mustang…
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Did Christopher Nolan Ever Say Robin Wouldn’t be in the Bat Franchise? Looks Like No, He Didn’t
I guess I need to keep a more watchful eye on my RSS feeds for stories to lift from other sources as I completely missed Deadline’s February 1 report that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was in talks to reunite with Inception director Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight Rises. I clicked around the net to see if anyone else missed the…
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Richard Roeper Names His Top 25 of 2008
With screeners of some of the final films I need to see in order to complete my movie watching of 2008 on their way it looks like by Tuesday of next week I will have seen it all (or enough to determine my top films of 2008), but that’s in the future. For now, the…
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New ‘Rush’ Trailer and Pictures
On the heels of the international trailer earlier this week, Universal has debuted the domestic trailer for Ron Howard‘s F1 film Rush along with a batch of eight new pictures. The film stars Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers) and Daniel Bruhl (Inglourious Basterds) as Formula-1 race stars James Hunt and Niki Lauda respectively and follows their racing teams of McLaren and Ferrari. Olivia Wilde and Alexandra Maria Lara co-star. The script…
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Oscar Talk: Lesley Manville in ‘Another Year’ for Supporting or Lead?
It was a busy morning for me and my Oscar prognostication duties as I already had plans to do a bit of Best Picture shuffling after seeing Love and Other Drugs last night, a screening that would also cause me to shift my Best Actress predictions. However, I also needed to clear up things regarding Lesley Manville’s…
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Blu-ray Review: The Dark Knight (2-Disc Special Edition)
The movie remains fantastic, but the special features don’t really live up to expectation No matter what film wins the Oscar for Best Picture in February 2009, The Dark Knight will always be the movie of 2008. So, when the Blu-ray shows up in my mailbox on the last day of a long week you bet it…
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Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’, ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ and More in Today’s MPAA Ratings Bulletin
The big surprise in this week’s MPAA ratings bulletin is the inclusion of Alfonso Cuaron‘s Gravity starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. Originally intended to hit theaters this year, the film was pushed to an undetermined 2013 release date as effects work on the sci-fi feature was taking longer than expected. Now it would appear the film is at least in…
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Should ‘Avatar’ Be Considered for Best Animated Oscar?
I’m not going to ask why Avatar isn’t on the Academy’s short list for Best Animated Oscar because the answer to that question is obvious… it wasn’t submitted. Perhaps that’s just the problem though. Why not? And don’t go jumping to a quick decision. Let me give you a little food for thought. I might be able to make…