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China Bans Hollywood Films for 3 Months
Oh, those wacky Mainland Chinese. If they’re not doing something silly like banning the innocuous “Rush Hour 3″ for daring to have Chinese villains, they’re banning Hollywood, period. That’s the news from Variety, who reports that the Chinese ban came from the communist country’s Propaganda Ministry. (Geez, is it me or am I the only [...]
December 5th, 2007 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreCrowe Officially Joins State of Play
Well it’s official. After a week of wooing and selling, the producers of the political thriller “State of Play” have finally gotten their man: Russell Crowe has officially signed on to join the film, replacing Brad Pitt, says Variety. He will be joining an A-list cast that includes Edward Norton, Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams, Jason [...]
December 3rd, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreBeowulf Slays the Box Office
To absolutely no one’s surprise, “Beowulf” continued its strong Friday showing by taking the 3-day weekend box office with a combined $28, enough to give it king of the hill status. Other first weekend openers performed reasonably well, with the Natalie Portman children’s movie “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” coming in at fifth place with $10 [...]
November 18th, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreTony Jaa’s Sword Has Been Canceled???
So, you loved “Ong Bak” and “Tom Yum Goong”, and you’ve been waiting with bated breath to see Jaa team up with the director of those movies for a third outing? Well good luck with that, kids, because according to the guys over at TwitchFilm, Jaa and “Ong Bak” director Prachya Pinkaew’s highly anticipated re-teaming [...]
November 18th, 2007 | Nix | 3 comments | Read MoreBeowulf Big at the Box Office
He … is … Beowulf! And he’s taken the Friday box office, clearing $9.7 million after opening wide in 3,153 theaters across the country. The film, which stars motion-captured animated versions of Angelina Jolie, Ray Wise, and Robin Wright Penn, is scheduled to do pretty well over its 3-day weekend debut, if past successes are [...]
November 18th, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreJLA Update: Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern May Have Been Cast
I love the idea of a Justice League of America movie (or whatever they end up calling it, probably minus the “America” part, Hollywood being what it is), but nothing I’ve seen or heard about the movie so far — including all those script “leaks”, the decision to make a man in his ’60s the [...]
November 17th, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Other Boleyn Girl Trailer, Images
Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson play sisters who join forces to seduce Eric Bana in Justin Chadwick’s historical drama “The Other Boleyn Girl”. Well, not really. Yes, they play sisters, but they’re competing for the role of mistress to Eric Bana’s King Henry VIII. The drama is described as “sumptuous” and “sensual”, which brings up [...]
November 17th, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreFirst Look at Diane Lane in Untraceable
Haven’t heard a whole lot about Diane Lane’s “Untraceable” — as in, haven’t heard anything about it at all — but it sounds like a good movie with some potential thrills to be had. How could it not, when you add Diane Lane to a serial killer movie? You don’t normally associate Diane Lane with [...]
November 16th, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreWriters Strike Postpones Angels and Demons to 2009
TV viewers have already sort of gotten used to this type of news, but now movie fans will have to adjust to it as well: the ongoing writers strike has claimed its first movie victim, this time it’s the production of “Angels and Demons”, the prequel/sequel to the unfathomably popular “The Da Vinci Code”. The [...]
November 16th, 2007 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreYour Weekend Movie Preview: Beowulf, Love in the Time of Cholera, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
He … is … Beowulf! Or at least he’ll be Beowulf this weekend at the box office. The CGI/A-list movie will be hitting theaters over the weekend with plenty of sound and fury and heavy advertisements behind it, practically guaranteeing it the top spot. Then again, it better watch out for the Natalie Portman starrer [...]
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