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Extended TV Trailer for Up in the Air
Back during the Toronto International Film Festival, Roger Ebert called Jason Reitman the hope of cinema. I imagine much of what he meant is that Reitman is one of those filmmakers who represents the...
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Guillermo del Toro Confirms Hobbit Cameo
The One Ring reports that Guillermo del Toro confirmed on their message boards that he would have a cameo in The Hobbit, much like the ones Peter Jackson prepared for himself in the trilogy....
Read More »Update on Eastwood’s Hereafter: De France Joins, Plot Details
Clint Eastwood’s Invictus is only a few months away, and already he has begun shooting his next project, Hereafter, scheduled for a December 2010 release. According to Variety, Belgium actress Cecile de France, who...
Read More »Flowers for Will Smith
Flowers for Algernon is a story that I first read in grade school and yet remember fondly. It’s the story of Charlie, a mentally handicapped man who undergoes an experiment that drastically raises his...
Read More »The Most Expensive Cinematic Risk of All Time
It’s become an axiom in Hollywood today that the runaway budgets are making studios more and more risk-averse. Then again, 2009 has been a very strange year. Paramount spent $150 million on Star Trek,...
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Viggo Mortensen Discusses Possible Return to The Hobbit
Ever since it was announced that The Hobbit was to be split into two movies, there has been a lot of discussion that the second film would continue beyond the book, conflating appendix material...
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The Wolfman Cometh
Cinematical has an exclusive on the latest The Wolfman poster, which you can see below. The poster is more suggestive of terror than anything, featuring Emily Blunt hiding in an ancient, decrepit forest from...
Read More »Aykroyd, Faris, and Timberlake in Negotiations For Yogi Bear
Cartoon/live action hybrids have had a rocky history. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was excellent, aided by the fact that it was more of an original story, but films like The Adventures of Rocky and...
Read More »Behind the Scenes on the Fantastic Mr. Fox Voice Recordings
Yahoo has an interesting behind the scenes look at the recording of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. What makes it so unique is that the actors are not sitting in a cramped, enclosed, isolated...
Read More »127 Hours Later
There is always the inevitable moment after a survival movie in which you wonder, even if it goes unsaid, whether you have the same will to survive as the character in the film. It’s...
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Sony Buys the Rights to Risk
It now appears that Robot Chicken was prescient. After the mania of comic book movies and films based on old TV shows, the next popular wave might very well be board game movies. Of...
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New Sherlock Holmes Trailer
Sherlock Holmes is only a few months away, and so there is little about the film at this point that cannot be known from previous trailers, but the newest trailer, debuting exclusively on MTV,...
Read More »The Potential is There for George Clooney to Star in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants
Alexander Payne must choose his films very carefully because he has directed only four of them in over thirteen years. Sideways was possibly his best and most complete film yet, and so his followup...
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Michael Bay Has an Epiphany: Characters Are Important
The man who has never seen an explosion that he hasn’t liked talks about the potential direction for Transformers 3 in a DVD extra for Revenge of the Fallen. His prognosis? Smaller, more intimate,...
Read More »Prince of Persia Trailer
The trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which aired on UK’s GMTV, is now up on Youtube, and if you ever wanted to know how many different sand effects can be...
Read More »How to Train Your Dragon Trailer
The title makes it sound like a Japanese monster hunter RPG, but How to Train Your Dragon is actually an animated film by directors Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch), in conjunction...
Read More »Martin Scorsese Imparts the Knowledge of His Craft to Younger Filmmakers
Cinematic evolution – the ability to take what has come before and advance it – is rarely a direct or strictly generational process. Filmmakers will usually have their own personal epiphanies in solitude, while...
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John Rhys-Davies Will Not Return as Dwarf, May Defect to Elves
John Rhys-Davies told Empire recently that he had turned down the opportunity to play Gloin, Gimli’s father, in The Hobbit, stating unequivocally that he had already ruled it out. I’ll forget for the moment the...
Read More »Interview With Precious Director Lee Daniels
I am not aware of very many great movies that treat physical/emotional abuse in impoverished inner city homes as anything more than a personal character conflict meant to be overcome, instead of truly exploring...
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