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James Cameron to Produce Fantastic Voyage Remake
11 December 2009 6:51 AM, PST
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A couple of days ago we posted a short news story [1] about James Cameron being involved in a new futuristic sci-fi action movie written by Shane Salerno. At the time, there was speculation that it might be Doomsday Protocol, a previously announced project written by Salerno, but today we have learned what the mysterious project will actually be: a remake of Richard Fleischer's 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage.
Variety [2] reports that Cameron will not direct, but that he is planning to use the same 3-D technology as Avatar -- even going so far as to re-use the same "CG mountains, plants, trees, leaves, flowers, bugs"! The movie centers on a scientist who is left comatose after an attempt on his life. His colleagues must shrink down using his own experimental technology and inject themselves into his blood stream to help save his life.
Roland Emmerich was attached to direct the remake once upon a time,
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Exclusive Interview: Possesion(s) star Laurence Fuller
1 December 2009 3:51 PM, PST
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Possession(s), a new Australian short, featured one of the most notable launches in recent memory. To coincide with the film’s release a famous Peter Booth artwork, Painting (Man With Bandaged Head), was sold off in The Deutscher and Hackett Important Fine Art Auction.
The tie-in between the film and the auction comes in the shape of actor Laurence Fuller who used the painting, which he owned, as inspiration for the dark, brooding short. His character Frank, upon seeing the Peter Booth work, becomes embroiled with a sense of obsession; he simply has to own the piece and will do anything to make it so. However, it soon becomes clear that Frank is not the only one consumed by the desire to possess.
Laurence Fuller shines in the lead role and it is easy to see why he is a much sought after young actor. Having attended the Method
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Jennifer Lopez: Self-Appointed Patron Saint of 2000?
10 November 2009 6:59 AM, PST
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Glenn from Stale Popcorn here to throw in two cents worth of discussion about the year 2000 per Nathaniel's request.
It was quite surprising to read the other day that Nathaniel Rogers had not seen Tarsem Singh's The Cell. I know he can be a bit queasy when it comes to horror, but there are quite a few cinephiles who swear by that movie as some sort of masterpiece. From two completely different ends of the spectrum there is Roger Ebert, whose four-star opinion might not hold much (much?) weight these days, but reading his four-star rave (and later top ten placement) of the time in 2000 was influential in my desire to see the film. And then there's Nick Davis' rave, which makes me sit here and scream "Yes! Of course!" a lot. In my own humble opinion I say that The Cell is a stunning very-very almost masterpiece.
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- Glenn Dunks
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Fanboys: It's now official -- half of them are girls!
14 October 2009 1:14 PM, PDT
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Old stereotypes die hard. You may think you already know that fanboy culture includes a heck of a lot of girls. But the fact that we even still use a catch-all term like "fan-boy" exerts its own pesky, prejudicial influence. It makes it sounds as if all those girl geeks are somehow, you know, interlopers -- mere guests at the party instead of equal-time hosts.
Now, though, there's an eye-opening new study, released yesterday by the Online Testing Exchange, that takes the conventional image of the fanboy and locks it away in the archaic-cliché box where it belongs. According to the study,
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- Owen Gleiberman
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Top Ten Underrated Films (Of All Time)
2 September 2009 11:15 AM, PDT
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Great movies sometimes do not hit it off with the audience upon first viewing. Not even the sublime Citizen Kane found much appreciation on its release in 1941, taking over twenty years and critical re-discovery in order for everybody to agree it was a pretty special movie.
Cult films are different (and this is not a list of cult movies) – those do tend to find an audience (usually people who become hardcore fans) allowing the film to become celebrated in alternative ways – as opposed to garnering a multitude of awards.
This is a list drawn up of films I consider under-rated; overlooked; not thought about; dismissed, and so forth. I am not suggesting they should be regaled as masterpieces anointed and placed in a cinematic pantheon of greatness.
Compiling lists is very tough and as this is limited to a mere ten films, some wonderful films did not make final cut.
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- Martyn Conterio
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I'm going to shell out $12.50 for a Jennifer Lopez movie...thanks to Alex O'Loughlin
12 August 2009 6:41 AM, PDT
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Fool me once (The Cell), shame on you, Jennifer Lopez. Fool me twice (The Wedding Planner...sorry but when the lead character agreed to that arranged marriage to Justin Chambers, my inner feminist tried to knock himself unconscious with a blunt object), shame on me. Fool me three times (Enough...which should've been Rated J, for Jank!), and you can understand why back in 2002, I made a promise to myself that I would never again waste my hard-earned money seeing a J.Lo movie in the theater. (No, that free press screening of Monster-in-Law does not violate my vow.) Last night, however, a publicist sent me some new photos of Moonlight's Alex O'Loughlin, shirtless and driving a tractor*, in a scene from Lopez's 2010 rom-com vehicle The Back-Up Plan. Suddenly, the reasons for my seven-year boycott are fleeing my brain like the seeds of a late-fall dandelion in a stiff wind.
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- Michael Slezak
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Natalie Portman Confirmed for Thor!
13 July 2009 11:47 AM, PDT
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Rumored to be up for the role for the past few months, Marvel has now officially confirmed that Natalie Portman has landed the female lead in the upcoming Thor. Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek) stars as the title character and Tom Hiddleston is Loki, the god of mischief who serves as the movie's villain.
Portman has been cast to star as Jane Foster, who in early comic book lore was a nurse who became Thor's first love. The studio said the character will be updated for the feature adaptation.
Thor is an epic fantasy adventure, spanning from present-day Earth to the realm of Asgard. The story centers on Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. As punishment, Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans but once here, he learns what it takes to be a true hero when the
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The Cell 2 Movie Review
26 June 2009 8:00 PM, PDT
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I really enjoyed The Cell which starred Jennifer Lopez. I often forget that she got into acting at the same time she got into music. She also has equal talent for both. So when I heard the Cell 2 was coming out I was mildly interested. It is however a real shame the movie is absolutely horrible. The plot for the sequel is as follows;
The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life; over and over again; until they beg to die! Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp's first victim! Now the Cusp Killer is
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Coroner’s Report: The Cell 2 on Blu-ray
18 June 2009 2:56 PM, PDT
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You probably remember The Cell as that movie that had Jennifer Lopez before she became annoying and Vincent D'Onofrio being slightly creepier than normal. The Cell 2 wants you to remember this movie, so they show a short little introduction that features J. Lo but then quickly moves away from anything really resembling the first movie.
In The Cell 2 Tessie Santiago stars as Maya, a psychic investigator who left the FBI after she blames herself for a woman that died at the hands of The Cusp, a new serial killer. The Cusp has the cool and interesting methodology of killing his victims, then resuscitating them, only to repeat the process until they eventually die. The Cusp goes underground for a year but comes out of semi-retirement to lure Maya back into the fold by kidnapping the niece of a local Sheriff. Maya must explore the memories of the killer in a race to find him in
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- Robert Fure
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DVD Review: The Cell 1 and 2
4 June 2009 8:30 AM, PDT
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Plot: Catherine Dean (Jennifer Lopez) is a psychotherapist working for a unconventional and innovative new technique of treatment, allowing her mind enter in to her patients minds. They have found a revolutionary approach to helping patients through their authentic thoughts and memories. However, the researchers are in risk of getting shut down since they haven’t been able to prove any concrete progress. Catherine decides to take a risk to save the work they have been doing when F.B.I. agent, Peter Novak (Vince Vaughn), asks her to step in to the mind of a serial killer. She is in danger of being under his control by doing this, but she believes she might be able to reach out to him, get him to trust her, and help uncover where his existing victims are. Catherine learns about the killer’s tragic past of child abuse and aggression. She forms
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- Kelsey Zukowski
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Celebrity Biography: Jennifer Lopez
21 May 2009 8:16 PM, PDT
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Jennifer is the second child of David Lopez and Guadalupe Rodriguez. She has two sisters, her eldest is named Leslie and Lydia is the youngest. They are of Puerto Rican descent and lived in the South Bronx. Jennifer started taking singing and dancing lessons since she was five years old. The first major job she had was as a dancer in the television show In Living Color in 1990. Soon after that she became a back-up dancer for Janet Jackson and even made an appearance in one of her videos in 1993. That same year she continued to pursue her acting career, making small appearances in shows like South Central and Second Chances. Her breakthrough into the big screen came in 1995 when she played young Maria in My Family, a drama produced by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Edward James Olmos and Jimmy Smits. Money Train followed and she worked with Coppola again in 1996's Jack.
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Warner Bros. Finds a Death Note
30 April 2009 11:47 PM, PDT
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Warner Bros. has acquired rights to turn the Japanese manga series Death Note into a live-action film, report the trades. The studio has signed on Charley and Vlas Parlapanides to pen the screenplay.
The story centers on a college student who accidentally finds a misplaced "death note," infusing him with the power to kill merely by writing anyone's name on the page while picturing the person in his mind.
The 13-volume manga is a bestseller in Japan, and the film will be drawn from the first three installments, written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata for Shueisha Inc.
Warner Bros. Pictures Japan made three Japanese-language Death Note films. The new film will be adapted from the manga, not the previous movies. Vertigo's Roy Lee and Doug Davison will produce with Dan Lin's Lin Pictures and Brian Witten.
Charley and Vlas Parlapanides also wrote the upcoming sword and
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- James Cook
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Behold... "The Cell 2"
29 April 2009 6:31 PM, PDT
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Direct-to-video sequels aren't new. Sure, it's a quick way to make a buck off the established names, regardless of the involvement of the original actors. The Butterfly Effect 3 just came out, in case anyone's interested, and this summer we'll see the direct-to-dvd release of the (not) hotly anticipated Donnie Darko sequel, S. Darko.
But those movies, at least, have huge cult followings that the sequelmakers are hoping to cash in on. It amuses me when they do it to a decade-old movie that was critically mauled and a moderate but hardly long-lasting success at best.
Movies like The Cell.
I certainly don't look back on the first movie that fondly. While I admired Tarsem's gorgeous eye-candy (which he applied much more proficiently in The Fall), Mark Protosevich's script was all but a disaster, and the performances by Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn pretty much killed it. Still, it
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- Arya Ponto
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Trailer, DVDetails for New Line's The Cell 2
26 April 2009 8:08 AM, PDT
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Back in 2000, Jennifer Lopez starred in the supernatural thriller, The Cell. 9 years later, The Cell 2 will arrive on DVD and Blu-Ray on June 16th. The sequel stars Tessie Santiago (Kitchen Confidential) and Frank Whaley (Pulp Fiction, The Dead Zone), and was helmed by Tim Iacofano (Haunted, Supernatural).
The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life; over and over again; until they beg to die! Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp's first victim! Now the Cusp Killer is back and Maya has little time to do what she has never done before, go into the mind of a killer unprotected, and save his latest victim.
Check out the DVD trailer, along with the package shots after the cut.
The DVD includes both Widescreen and Fullscreen editions of the film,
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Trailer for straight to DVD sequel The Cell 2
24 April 2009 9:33 PM, PDT
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There has been some discussion about the quality of the direct to DVD sequels for the Pulse franchise going on in our forums and it got me thinking that we hadn't yet seen a trailer for The Cell 2. Well now we have as it's been floating around under the radar for a few days.
If you haven't seen the first Cell, don't be scared off by Vince Vaughn or Jennifer Lopez. Tarsem Singh's film is not only a taught thriller but it's stunning to look at. Unfortunately the sequel is, well I'll let the trailer speak for itself.
Synopsis:
The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life; over and over again; until they beg to die! Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp’s first victim! Now the Cusp
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Trailer and DVD Cover Art for The Cell 2
13 April 2009 9:46 AM, PDT
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Hey, remember 2000’s “The Cell”? The movie where Jennifer Lopez plays a psychiatrist who goes into people’s heads to help them? She was so good, the FBI used her to go into the head of a comatose serial killer in order to locate his latest victim before she dies. Well they’ve made a sequel called “The Cell 2″. The original was directed by Tarsem Singh and written by Mark Protosevich (”I am Legend”). The sequel is directed by TV director Tim Iacofano and is going straight to DVD. Trailer and DVD covers for “The Cell 2″ below.
The plot of the sequel:
The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life; over and over again; until they beg to die! Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp’s first victim!
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The Cell 2 Goes Direct to DVD This June
10 April 2009 9:26 AM, PDT
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Direct-to-dvd sequels... we all love to hate em. In this day and age, the concept of a movie going direct-to-dvd is no longer always a terrible thing, however, when it's an unwarranted sequel without the director or any original cast members, it's still a very bad sign. In the case of The Cell 2, Warner Brothers is truly producing a continuation that no one asked for.
Don't get me wrong, I did like The Cell to an extent. There were some mind-blowing visuals in the film, but director Tarsem is not involved in the sequel which pretty much eliminates the only interesting thing the original had going for it. The Cell came out back in 2000 and I think it has mostly been forgotten at this point. Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D'Onofrio are not returning for obvious reasons, and so instead they've recruited a bunch of TV actors to take over.
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The best train set a boy could ever want
27 March 2009 12:43 PM, PDT
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It's a good thing Ebertfest is no longer called the Overlooked Film Festival. One of my choices this year, "Frozen River," was in danger of being overlooked when I first invited it, but then it realized the dream of every indie film, found an audience and won two Oscar nominations. Yet even after the Oscar nods, it has grossed only about $2.5 million and has been unseen in theaters by most of the nation.
Those numbers underline the crisis in independent, foreign or documentary films--art films. More than ever, the monolithic U.S. distribution system freezes out films lacking big stars, big ad budgets, ready-made teenage audiences, or exploitable hooks. When an unconventional film like "Slumdog Millionaire" breaks out, it's the exception that proves the rule. While it was splendid, it was not as original or really as moving as the American indie "Chop Shop," made a year earlier. The difference is,
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Watch The Cell 2 Online June 23rd
8 March 2009 4:53 PM, PDT
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Remember that flick The Cell from a few years ago? What it lacked in story it more than made up for in visuals, and I'm not just talking about J-Lo's amazing ass either. Warner and New Line have been sitting on the sequel for a while now, but they've finally decided to release it ... in the strangest of ways.
Starting June 23rd, 2009, you'll be able to watch The Cell 2 as part of Amazon.com's video-on-demand service. Expect a DVD release some time after that.
The Cell 2 is directed by Tim Iacofano and stars Frank Whaley, Tessie Santiago, and Chris Bruno. It follows the exploits of a serial killer called the Cusp who kills his victims and then brings them back to life over and over again until they beg to die. Maya (Santiago) is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after being in a year-long coma
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- Uncle Creepy
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Watch The Cell 2 on June 23rd
8 March 2009 4:00 PM, PDT
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Some of you may not know that a sequel to the Jennifer Lopez-starrer "The Cell" has already been made. Warner Bros and New Line have been trying to figure out what to do with it and have now decided to release it on Amazon.com. Click on the link below to pre-order "The Cell 2" and come back to watch it when it is officially released on June 23rd. Expect for the film to appear on DVD around the same time. Plot: The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life; over and over again; until they beg to die! Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp's first victim! Now the Cusp Killer is back and Maya has little time to do what she has never done before, go into
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