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Daniel Craig Moving into ‘Dream House’
6 November 2009 8:18 PM, PST
Daniel Craig is stepping off of the Broadway stage and heading back to the big screen–but not just in the role of James Bond.
Craig is moving from Pinewood Shepperton’s studio in Britain, where the James Bond films are shot, to the company’s Toronto location to star in Jim Sheridan’s psychological thriller Dream House.
In the film, Craig will be playing the role of a man whose family moves to a small town, only to find out they’ve moved into a house that’s being haunted by its previous inhabitants.
Although the Morgan Creek production is being shot at Pinewood Shepperton’s Toronto studio, the parent company in Britain will earn fees based on the revenue performance of the Toronto studios.
Dream House is scheduled to be shot from January 25th to April 9th, 2010.
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- Carly
Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Kidman to be ‘Danish Girls’
6 November 2009 7:58 PM, PST
Taking on a fairly interesting duo of roles, Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman have both signed on to star in The Danish Girl.
The film is based on the real life relationship between Danish artists Einar and Greta Wegener, but is adapted from a David Ebershoff novel dealing with the same story.
Although dealing with a relationship, the film is not your typical boy meets girl, girl meets girl, or boy meets boy tale. Einar Wegener was, in fact, the first post-operative transsexual, and the film follows his and his wife Greta on the journey Einar takes from playing around with gender roles, to finally getting a sex-change operation.
In The Danish Girl, Paltrow will play the role of Greta, a portrait painter who asks her husband Einar to step in when a female model fails to show up for a sitting. Kidman will be playing the role of Einar, »
- Carly
‘This Is It’ Bringing in Millions
6 November 2009 7:54 PM, PST
Heading into its second weekend in theaters, the Michael Jackson movie This Is It has already brought in the big bucks.
According to Sony, This Is It has raked in more than $100 million from international box offices. This far exceeds the expectation for the film, which many thought would see similar intake as 2008’s concert film Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds. Instead, This is It has brought in over twice the amount that Best of Both Worlds did.
The countries in which This Is It has seen the highest box office take were Japan, Britain, and Germany, bringing in $18.2 million, $11.1 million, and $8.9 million respectively.
Combined with the $44 million grossed in the U.S. and Canada, this takes This Is It’s profit to $144 million so far.
This is It has seen such success that Sony has extended the film’s run to go through early December in the U. »
- Carly
The Men Who Stare At Goats Review
6 November 2009 6:52 PM, PST
Seven out of ten times, I’m going to come out enjoying a film that operates on its own terms. It’s the first and best thing I can say about Michael Mann, which just adds to my fanboy nature when it comes to his work. As a more recent example, the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man just acts as its own entity from beginning to end, and never makes any apologies for it. While not as brilliant or as great as that picture, The Men Who Stare at Goats is that kid we all knew in high school. You’re not really sure who he is or what he’s about, but you know that when you spend time with him, you’re going to be entertained.
So why won’t this appeal to the masses? Very simply because of the script, which goes off the rails midway through the picture. »
- Philip Barrett
The Fourth Kind Movie Review
6 November 2009 9:37 AM, PST
It is up to you to decide.
That’s about as far as the creators of The Fourth Kind are really willing to go in confirming the ‘truth’ behind their new film. Ultimately, that’s probably as far as they should go considering all of the events and ‘footage’ presented in this 90-minute treatise on alien abduction and extraterrestrial paranoia. Despite assertions from star Milla Jovovich and director Olatunde Osunsanmi that the film includes actual footage, there’s a surprising lack of supportive evidence found anywhere outside of The Fourth Kind. I personally couldn’t uncover anything that substantiates that there is an actual Abigail Tyler or even any significant reports of UFO phenomena in the area.
Still, The Fourth Kind sets it all up in the same fashion that a TV documentary might; introducing the real Abigail Tyler, a haunted and frail looking woman, and then switching over to »
- Nathan Bartlebaugh
The Box Movie Review
6 November 2009 6:05 AM, PST
If you push the button on the titular box in Richard Kelly’s new sci-fi opus, two things will undoubtedly happen. The first is that somewhere in the world, a person you do not know will die. The second is that after pushing the button, you will receive a briefcase filled with 1 million U.S. dollars delivered to your home by one Arlington Steward, who looks a bit like Scrooge meets the Phantom of the Opera. If you watch the film The Box, two things will very likely happen. You will be drawn in by a moody, compelling and well-acted 45-minute set-up. And then you will be completely flummoxed by a preposterous, barely cohesive and frustrating second half. The question ahead is clear. Are the initial pleasures substantial enough to warrant enduring the resulting flaws? Let’s look at the facts.
Kelly’s The Box opens in 1976 with the button »
- Nathan Bartlebaugh
A Christmas Carol Movie Review
6 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST
I sit in my seat and look about to see my surroundings; I start to hear clicking sounds getting louder and louder. I start to fly around the city of London, looking around I see people having snowball fights with each other, singing Christmas songs. This might sound like the Star Tours “The Christmas Carol Edition” that would be at Disneyland. You might think wow that sounds kind of cool, well in this film it played out to be too much of something can be a bad thing. It sounds strange that Zemeckis could not pull off a simple adaptation. The last animated film we saw from Zemeckis was “Beowulf” which I found to be an excellent adaptation; it carried strong writing as well as excellent use of 3D effects.
“A Christmas Carol” was written by Charles Dickens, it tells the tale of a decrepit old man named Ebenezer Scrooge »
- Ilya
Universal Grabs Some Desperados
6 November 2009 5:48 AM, PST
It really was only a matter of time before a film was put into production that directly emulates The Hangover in style and content. Universal has their hands on what’s potentially the first of these knock-offs: a spec script from Ellen Rapoport entitled Desperados. The film will be produced my Mark Gordon and Jason Blum, and is being called a starring vehicle for actress Isla Fisher.
The story for the film revolves around a woman who “sends an indignant e-mail to her new beau, who’s gone silent after they have sex. When she discovers he’s comatose in a Mexican hospital, she races south of the border with her friends in tow to intercept the e-mail before he recovers.”
So it’s essentially The Hangover again. With a female-oriented cast. And I’m sure it will sell like gangbusters.
Fisher last starred in Confessions of a Shopaholic, but »
- John Cooper
Ashley Greene Sees ‘The Apparition’
6 November 2009 5:38 AM, PST
Twilight is out of control, and now its floodgates have burst, spilling its contents everywhere. Bit players such as Ashley Greene from the Twilight films are now getting genre work — in this case, it’s The Apparition for Joel Silver’s Dark Castle production house.
(To be fair, I have no idea how big or small of a role Greene plays in the Twilight films, because I haven’t seen either of them yet. All I know is that she isn’t one of the dynamic duo the films center around.)
The Apparition is apparently (*yawn*) based on true events, and revolves around “a young couple haunted by a supernatural presence unleashed during a college experiment.” Ooh. The Stanford Prison Experiment with a supernatural twist?
Production will start in early February with writer/director Todd Lincoln at the helm. He’s pretty much a newbie, only having done effects work »
- John Cooper
Crazy Heart Bumped to December Release
6 November 2009 5:23 AM, PST
It seems that Fox Searchlight, desperate to have at least one film out by the end of the year (looks like they oddly don’t have enough on their plate this season) will be bumping Crazy Heart up to a December 16 release date. It’s a little romantic drama of sorts, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and the omnipresent Jeff Bridges, alongside Robert Duvall.
Written and directed by actor Scott Cooper, Crazy Heart centers around “the story of boozing and broken-down country singer Bad Blake (Bridges), who finds redemption with the help of a young journalist (Gyllenhaal).” I don’t know about you, but it would be refreshing to see Bridges not play alcoholics so often in his latter years. He’s becoming sort of typecast.
Crazy Heart was originally a novel by Thomas Cobb, so if you’re interested, check that out!
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- John Cooper
The Mentalist – Season 2: “Black Gold and Red Blood”
6 November 2009 3:25 AM, PST
In Sutter Valley, California, a man is found dead from blunt force trauma to the head. Before the team can really dive into the investigation, however, Jane is arrested by Bosco for bugging the agent’s office.
Bosco tells Jane he won’t press charges if he will step down as a consultant to the Cbi, but Jane decides he won’t step down and would rather face Bosco in court. Because it is the weekend, however, Jane can’t post bail for three days and must spend those days in the county lock-up.
Although he plays tough, after talking with his cellmate on the first night Jane starts to really regret going choosing prison. The next morning in the common room he uses his suave mentalist skills to both confuse and impress the other inmates, keeping his skin safe for a little while longer.
Meanwhile, Lisbon and the Cbi »
- Jorden
Flash Forward 1.07: “The Gift”
6 November 2009 3:22 AM, PST
At the beginning of tonight’s episode, we find out that the blue hand is actually the symbol of a club, for people who saw nothing in their flash forwards. They gather together to take fate into their own hands, “like a book club, with bullets” says Mark.
At Aaron’s workplace, Mike, an army veteran, gives back Tracy’s knife. Mike tells Aaron that he served with her and she wanted him to have it, as a good luck charm.
Back at the FBI, an agent from MI6 has flown in to help Al after seeing him in her flash forward. In his flash forward, he apparently admits to his attorney that he killed a woman, but we don’t yet know who.
While investigating the Blue Hand Club, Demetri, Mark and Al go to a meeting for members of the club. They meet a man in a room »
- Jorden
Dan Aykroyd: Not Your Average Bear
5 November 2009 7:19 PM, PST
Following the trend of classic books and cartoons finding their way to the big screen, everyone’s favorite pic-a-nic basket stealing bear is making his way from the animated forest of Jellystone to a theater near you.
Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Hanna-Barbera’s Yogi Bear, and will be turning the cartoon into a feature film that combines live-action and CG.
Currently in talks to be part of the film are Anna Faris, Dan Aykroyd, and Justin Timberlake.
Faris will play the role of a filmmaker making a nature documentary who roams through Jellystone park to catch the antics of Yogi, and Timberlake could likely be the voice behind Boo Boo, Yogi’s faithful sidekick.
Aykroyd will be providing the voice of Jellystone’s main attraction, Yogi Bear himself.
This is not the first voice-over role for either Aykroyd or Timberlake. Aykroyd was the voice of Chip in »
- Carly
Bradley Cooper Wandering Through ‘Dark Fields’
5 November 2009 7:18 PM, PST
Bradley Cooper, who shot to stardom in this summer’s The Hangover, has replaced Shia LeBeouf to star in Relativity Media’s Dark Fields.
Cooper will be playing a writer who’s down on his luck and manages to stumble upon a secret pharmaceutical drug designed to make a person smarter. The drug leads to the writer gaining financial and social success, but of course there’s always a catch. In this case, the drug has lethal side effects, including one that causes time to move in a stop-motion manner.
Dark Fields is said to be along the lines of Fight Club and The Game (both stellar movies, by the way) and, also like Fight Club, is based on a novel.
Alan Glynn’s book has been made into a screenplay by Leslie Dixon, the writer behind the screenplay for The Thomas Crown Affair. Dixon will also serve as producer of Dark Fields, »
- Carly
More Voices for ‘Puss in Boots’
5 November 2009 2:57 PM, PST
If you’re a fan of the Shrek movies, then you already know that a fourth film, Shrek Forever After, is set to hit theaters in May of next year. What you may not know is that the Shrek franchise has its first spin-off film in the works.
The new film, Puss in Boots, wil focus on–you guessed it–Puss in Boots, the would-be assassin turned sidekick introduced in Shrek II. The movie about the little orange cat will follow Puss’s adventures prior to his meeting Shrek and Donkey.
Antonio Banderas will reprise his role as Puss in Boots, with Salma Hayek starring alongside him as the voice of “Kitty.” As the film moves forward, negotiations are taking place for the casting of other characters in the film.
Currently, Zach Galifianakis, who played the lovable but slightly-off Alan in this summer’s The Hangover, is in talks to »
- Carly
‘Prince of Persia’ Trailer – With Commentary!
5 November 2009 2:55 PM, PST
We’ve all grown accustomed to being able to learn more about the behind-the-scenes details concerning movies, thanks to the ever so wonderful ‘Commentary’ feature on most DVDs.
What we less commonly see is movie trailers with commentary.
IGN is changing this, though, with a new feature called “Rewind Theater.” With this feature, recent movie trailers are watched, with running commentary.
Even cooler than just commenting on the trailer, IGN rewinds, pauses, and puts clips in slo-mo as they do their commentary. This way, the viewer’s attention is brought to details that may otherwise go unnoticed.
In the following video, IGN takes the trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time to Rewind Theater, accompanied by the creator of the Prince of Persia videogame, Jordan Mechner.
The movie doesn’t come out for another 6 months, but to get a glimpse of what’s to come, and to learn a bit about the movie, »
- Carly
FX Has Western Fever
5 November 2009 2:26 PM, PST
It appears that FX believes Westerns are in after the network has added the post civil war drama Reconstruction to its catalog. The new show revolves around a civil war veteran who returns to his hometown in Missouri and struggles to rebuild his life. Director Peter Horton hopes to draw parallels between current events such as the recent economic collapse and attempts to rebuild a war ravaged Iraq. This should ad an interesting twist as FX continues to develop more quality programming.
Reconstruction won’t be the only Western to make an appearance on FX. Lawman, a contemporary Western starring Timothy Olyphant follows a Marshall’s attempts to clean up a small town. The show was recently picked up by FX and won’t air until sometime next year. Trailer Embedded below Warning, some strong language.
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- Thomas OLaughlin
Free Pirate Radio screening in Baltimore! Nov. 12th
5 November 2009 10:19 AM, PST
Atomic Popcorn would like to invite you to set sail on an exciting journey. Rock & Roll will live forever – but can it float? Pirate Radio, the newest ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis (screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill), is ready to make your belly ache. The film has an all-star cast that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy. Tickets to the screening will be handed out at the door on Thursday, Nov. 12th at 730 pm at a local AMC theater.
Check out more about the film below:
Pirate Radio is the newest ensemble comedy from filmmaker Richard Curtis (screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, and writer/director of Love Actually), spinning the irreverent yet fact-based tale of a seafaring band of rogue rock and roll deejays whose “pirate radio” captivated and inspired 1960s Britain. Playing the music that rocked a nation and a decade, »
- Matthew
‘Area 51′ Gets Alien Cast
5 November 2009 10:02 AM, PST
Well, maybe not quite alien, but certainly unknown.
Although his name is associated with the most buzzed about film this fall, Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli isn’t falling into the trappings of Hollywood just yet.
For his next film, Area 51, Peli has cast three unheard of actors. Out of Reid Warner, Darrin Bragg, and Ben Rovner, only Warner has had even minor exposure, and that was in small, one-episode appearances on TV’s The Unit and Eli Stone.
Area 51 will be a film similar to Paranormal Activity, in that it too will be a movie done in the style of “found footage.” Although details are being kept quiet, the movie reportedly will follow three teenagers whose curiosity leads them to the much speculated about Area 51 Air Force base.
As with Paranormal Activity, employing unknown actors will add to the believability of the film consisting of real »
- Carly
Depp and Cuaron Step Into The Tourist?
5 November 2009 5:54 AM, PST
The Tourist, which will tell the tale of an American tourist drawn into a plot of intrigue with a female Interpol agent, has had an increasingly hard time gearing up to launch into production this coming February. Avatar star Sam Worthington jumped ship a while back, along with director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, over “creative differences.”
Now, fan favorite Johnny Depp is in talks to be the titular tourist, and director Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) is considering taking the reins. If Depp is indeed attached to the project, he’ll be performing alongside Angelina Jolie, so we’re in for a vortex of sexiness the likes of which the world has never seen.
Julian Fellowes (Vanity Fair) wrote the original script for The Tourist, with rewrites by Christopher McQuarrie and Jeffrey Nachmanoff.
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- John Cooper
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