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Jackie Chan's 'The Spy Next Door' Welcomes Trailer
16 October 2009 8:37 PM, PDT
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Lionsgate has just released a sneak peek into its forthcoming action comedy "The Spy Next Door" in the form of new trailer. Put out via Moviefone, the promo video first introduces Jackie Chan as a secret agent undercover who is about to face his biggest challenge yet. It also takes a look at other cast members, including Billy Ray Cyrus, Amber Valletta and Lucas Till.
In "Spy Next Door", Chan goes undercover as a mild-mannered man and gets asked by his neighbor to baby-sit her three young children. What seems to be a simple task proves to be challenging for the international secret agent, especially when danger comes knocking on the door after one of the kids he is taking care of inadvertently downloads a secret code.
Brian Levant, the director of such movies as "Beethoven", "The Flintstones" and "Are We There Yet?", serves as the helmer, while Jonathan Bernstein,
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- AceShowbiz.com
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Spy Next Door Trailer: Jackie Channels His Inner Hulk Hogan
16 October 2009 3:39 PM, PDT
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What happens when Mr. Nanny meets The Pacifier meets Jackie Chan? A generic and forgettable action-comedy, that.s what. The 55-year-old Chan is back to his family-friendly martial arts ways in Brian Levant.s The Spy Next Door, starring alongside George Lopez and Billy Ray Cyrus. Jackie Chan, whose character.s name is ominously missing from press reports and IMDb, is torn between fighting off secret agents and babysitting his neighbor.s children.
Levant has brought us such gems as Are We There Yet?, Snow Dogs, Jingle All the Way, and The Flintstones.to just name a few. While the director and actor seem like a perfect fit.a healthy dose of fun for the whole family mixed with an overdose of the unfunny.I still can.t help but be disappointed by Chan.s recent filmography. I.d love to see the man pull a Mickey Rourke instead, and
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Brian Levant To Reboot 'Scooby-Doo' With Live-Action Cartoon Network Movie
31 August 2009 10:00 AM, PDT
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Brian Levant is no stranger to translating animated classics into live action features. The "Beethoven" director oversaw both "The Flintstones" in 1994 and "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" in 2000. For his new Cartoon Network production "Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins," however, Levant went in with a lofty goal to reboot the "Scooby-Doo" franchise, which has already seen two feature films with flesh-and-blood actors. The director's first step was to recruit a younger cast.
"When we started filming, the youngest member of our cast was barely 16 years old, and I think the age of the cast reflects the innocence and energy and an openness to new stimuli – in general and specifically – in this franchise," Levant said. "By starting over, we have re-energized the franchise and given it a new reason to exist."
For the dog's last two trips to theaters, Scooby fans watched an older cast led by Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar,
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- Brian Warmoth
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David Newman: The Spy Next Door
23 July 2009 4:13 AM, PDT
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David Newman is currently working on the score for Brian Levan'ts new action comedy, The Spy Next Door, starring Jackie Chan, Lucas Till and Bill Ray Cyrus. This is their fourth feature film together - they first worked on The Flintstones in 1994, and Newman has since then also scored Levant's Jingle All the Way, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas and Are We There Yet? The Spy Next Door is a Lionsgate/Relativity Media film about a babysitter who find himself fighting secret agents after one of the kids inadvertenly downloaded a secret code. Film is slated to hit theatres on January 29 next year. David Newman's other 2009 credits, so far, are My Life in Ruins and Crazy on the Outside.
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- noreply@blogger.com (Mikael Carlsson)
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Emmy Nominations Reveal Few Surprises
16 July 2009 10:01 AM, PDT
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It's a good day for funny people, especially if your name is Tina Fey or Seth MacFarlane.
Fey's series, 30 Rock, was handed 22 Emmy nominations this morning, which stands as a record for a comedy series. She and Alec Baldwin were also nominated for acting awards. Plus, for the first time some of the other actors on NBC's laffer were recognized. Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer and Tracy Morgan all picked up supporting nominations.
MacFarlane's Family Guy was also nominated for best comedy series, the first time an animated show has cracked that category since The Flintstones in 1961. Two years ago MacFarlane decided to pull his show from contention in the animated series category to have it considered for best comedy.
Mad Men, the drama about the advertising world in the sixties, picked up 16 nominations in the drama categories, including a best actor nod for Jon Hamm. Hamm is also nominated as
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Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins Trailer and DVD Release Date
29 June 2009 11:39 AM, PDT
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Growing up I was a huge fan of Scooby-Doo, and as you can probably guess, I despised the 2002 live action adaptation starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar and Matthew Lillard. I didn't bother seeing the sequel, and quietly hoped that the franchise would simply die... unfortunately those hopes were dashed when I heard that there were also doing a third Scooby-Doo movie as a direct-to-dvd prequel with an entirely new cast!
Theoretically, a new cast could have been an improvement on the first two flicks, but after seeing the trailer for this thing it's clear that it's going to be worse. Much worse. Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins stars virtual unknowns Robbie Amell, Nick Palatas, Kate Melton, and Hayley Kiyoko, with Scooby himself being voiced by Frank Welker. Director Brian Levant previously helmed The Flintstones and its sequel The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, which technically should make him the
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- Sean
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Exclusive Interview: The Proposal Director Anne Fletcher
15 June 2009 3:10 PM, PDT
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Before Anne Fletcher was the director of hit movies like 27 Dresses and Step Up, before she was the guiding presence on set whom everyone called "Mama," she was that girl who was up for anything. She started her career as a dancer, making her screen debut in 1994's The Flintstones, and remembers getting tossed around by Chris Farley and usually doing whatever ridiculous thing the scene called for, thanks to her real ambition to be a comedian.
Speaking as a director now, she says, "I love working with actors, because I wanted to be one so badly. But I also had this ability to dance. I came here to Los Angeles to dance, and I would end up dancing in comic things. I was always the comic go-to girl." And she says that when working with Sandra Bullock on The Proposal (Fletcher calls her Sandy), Fletcher told her leading actress
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20 Years of Summer Movies, A Love/Hate Relationship
7 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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With the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the 2009 summer movie season has begun. A cursory glance at the upcoming slate of summer releases looks pretty weak this year, but I’m not here to look ahead. Instead, I noticed that we’ve reached the twenty-year anniversary of the “true” summer movie age. Sure, Jaws and Star Wars were the godfathers of the movement, and the close-following summers since that time often saw two or three big releases looking to cash in on the popcorn-munching crowd, but it was 1989 when the summer movie calendar started to become bloated. The large number of crowd-pleasing titles (and bevy of sequels) included the following: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Ghostbusters II, License to Kill, Star Trek V, Lethal Weapon 2, The Abyss, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and, to a lesser extent, The Karate Kid: Part III. So on the Platinum Anniversary of the summer flick phenomenon,
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- Matt Medlock
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The Jetsons: What Happened to the Live-Action Movie?
27 March 2009 2:32 PM, PDT
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After months of deep space-like silence, it appears that the The Jetsons movie project is still alive -– almost two years since it was first announced. So, when will the futuristic family finally be ready to make the jump from animation to live action? Will we have to wait until the 24th century?
Following the success of The Flintstones, Hanna-Barbera's The Jetsons animated series first aired in primetime during the 1962-63 season. Set in the far-flung future, the show gives a humorous take on our lifestyle and revolves around the Jetson family -- working-stiff father George (George O'Hanlon), mother Jane (Penny Singleton), daughter Judy (Janet Waldo), son Elroy (Daws Butler), Astro the dog (Don Messick), and Rosie (Jean Vander Pyl), their robot maid. Other voices are provided by Mel Blanc and Howard Morris.
Unlike The Flintstones, the show only lasted one season but it became a staple of Saturday morning
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- TVSeriesFinale.com
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77 Appropriate Ways to Celebrate Elizabeth Taylor's Birthday
27 February 2009 10:07 AM, PST
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Be great. Be beautiful. Ride a horse. Get married. Get divorced. Act like a total diva. Wear something spectacularly sexy, preferrably white. Make people want more.
Befriend Michael Jackson. Watch Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? again. Watch National Velvet. Watch A Place in the Sun. Be highly quotable. Get married. Flaunt every piece of jewelry you own. Donate to an AIDS charity. Nurse a sick friend. Get divorced. Show everyone your wicked sense of humor. Fall in love with Montgomery Clift in glorious black and white (any of his movies will do). Ask your best friend to refer to you as "Bessie Mae" for the rest of the day. Get married. Scream "I was the slut of all time!" at the top of your lungs. Survive the loss of someone you loved no matter how hard that is to do. Pretend you've won an Oscar. And another. Drink people under the table.
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- NATHANIEL R
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