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Black Friday Movie Deals: Walmart

23 November 2009 5:35 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Our good friend and Eic Erik Davis (that's me!) had a very thoughtful idea for the holiday season: Why not scan the early flyers for the Black Friday sales, and report back to you -- the ravenous movie junkie -- to let you know where to find the best treats on the day after Thanksgiving? We'll be bringing you deals for a variety of stores and online retailers all week long. Here's what we've posted so far so you can keep track:

Black Friday Movie Deals: Best Buy

Black Friday Movie Deals: Target

Walmart opens at 5am on Friday, November 27th. I've highlighted the most notable (for being awesome) deals in bold.

DVD/Blu-ray

17 Again (DVD) $9.00

Aliens In The Attic (DVD) $9.00

Blazing Saddles (DVD) $2.00

Blood Diamond (DVD) $2.00

Braveheart (Blu-ray) $10.00

Casino Royale (DVD) $2.00

Facing Giants (DVD) $2.00

Fast & Furious (Blu-ray) $10.00

Fireproof (DVD) $9.00

GI Joe (DVD) $9.00

Gladiator (Blu-ray) $10.00

Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets »

- Erik Davis

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Is Gerard Butler a lover or a fighter?

8 September 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Back in 2007, Scottish actor Gerard Butler earned next-big-thing status in Hollywood by playing King Leonidas in the $210 million hit 300. He followed it up by co-starring with Hilary Swank in the tepid rom com P.S. I Love You and Jodie Foster in the tepid kid pic Nim's Island, before returning to action with Guy Ritchie's little-seen Rocknrolla (2008). Then came another rom com: The Ugly Truth, opposite Katherine Heigl. The movie has earned $88 million so far, making it Butler's biggest hit by far since 300. And now the great Scot is back in a new action pic, Gamer, that barely eked out a fourth-place finish at the box office this weekend (check out the trailer below). It's enough to make anybody wonder: What do audiences want from this guy? Personally, I think Butler's at his best in action roles. Great abs translate to any genre, but for me, his brawny charm gets »

- Adam Markovitz

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Mel Gibon to play with Jodie Foster's 'Beaver'

10 July 2009 1:02 PM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »

Oscar winner Mel Gibson is set to star in Jodie Foster's latest directing gig "The Beaver" from a script by Kyle Killen, according to Variety.

Gibson gets to play a crazy dude who starts walking around with a beaver puppet, which he treats just like a human. Foster will star as his (poor) wife.

"The Beaver" marks Foster's third job as director; she previously helmed "Little Man Tate" and "Home for the Holidays." She was last seen onscreen in the disappointing adventure flick "Nim's Island."

As for Gibson, he's got Martin Campbell's cop drama "Edge of Darkness" coming up soon. "Beaver" sounds like a cool idea, and I guess Gibson is just the right guy to play the crazed lead.

Btw: Steve Carell was originally attached to the role, with Jay Roach in talks to direct. »

- Franck Tabouring

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Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster Teaming for 'The Beaver'

10 July 2009 3:08 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Casting news out of the trades has become a sketchy deal lately as everything seems to jump the gun with "in talks," "circling" or "in negotiations" attached to every casting and directorial announcement. The most interesting one today can't even get Variety or The Hollywood Reporter to agree on who is doing what as Jodie Foster has apparently signed on to direct and co-star with Mel Gibson in The Beaver with Anonymous Content's Steve Golin and Keith Redmon producing. Variety's report says it's a done deal while THR says Foster is "in negotiations" and Gibson is "in talks". Who has it right? Who cares? We'll act as if it's a done deal for now... The script was written by Kyle Killen and apparently topped the 2008 Black List (the most popular unproduced screenplays) and will center on a grown man (Gibson) who wears a beaver puppet on his hand that »

- Brad Brevet

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Gibson and Foster Reuniting for The Beaver

9 July 2009 11:19 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Oscar winners Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster, who shared the screen in Richard Donner’s western comedy Maverick, will reunite for The Beaver. Gibson will play the lead with Foster co-starring as well as directing the whimsical drama. The script, written by newcomer Kyle Killen, topped the Blacklist (Hollywood’s list of the most popular unproduced screenplays) in December. The story is said to fall into the fantastical territory somewhere between Being John Malkovich and Lars and the Real Girl. Gibson will play a depressed man who walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand, treating it as something close to a human creature with human feelings. Foster will play the role of the man’s wife. Gibson’s last starring role was 2002’s Signs. He recently wrapped the Martin Campbell-directed police drama Edge of Darkness, which hits theaters early 2010. Foster, whose previous directing credits include Little Man »

- James Cook

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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 30

4 July 2009 12:06 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

Here's the updated Top 30 list! The names are getting more »

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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 30

4 July 2009 12:06 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

Here's the updated Top 30 list! The names are getting more »

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Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses - Top 30

4 July 2009 12:06 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Not only are they capable of lighting up the silver screen, they are also some of today's most talented young actresses, commanding huge fees - in some cases, in the millions. Many have won multiple awards, while others have starred in some of today's biggest box office hits. In short, we're listing down the cream of the crop!

Just like our recent Top 50 hottest young actors, we've narrowed down our list from 88 to 50, and set an age limit. If you miss seeing some of your favorites, so do we - including Maggie Gyllenhaal (31 years old) and Amy Adams (34 years old). Definitely some of the names you'll see on the list are emerging talents - the ones you will see getting the big roles in the near future - and some of them already have, with awards and nominations to boot.

Here's the updated Top 30 list! The names are getting more »

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134 New Names Invited to Join the Academy

1 July 2009 1:08 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Yesterday came the yearly announcement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as it extended 134 invitations to several artists and executives "who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures" read the press release. Of course all of them can decline, but I wouldn't necessarily expect that to happen as all who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2009 to the Academy's roster of voting members. "These filmmakers have, over the course of their careers, captured the imagination of audiences around the world," said Academy President Sid Ganis. "It's this kind of talent and creativity that make up the Academy, and I welcome each of them to our ranks." The list follows below and reading around the best analysis I saw of it came from Nathaniel Rogers at The Film Experience who, among other things, pointed out the addition of longtime Darren Aronofsky's »

- Brad Brevet

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Box Office Continues to Beat 2008 Numbers

8 April 2009 12:54 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

The troubled economy has not slowed Hollywood in 2009, not one bit. It turns out that this past weekend was not just big for Fast & Furious, which topped out a little south of the Sunday projections but still over an astonishing $70 million. In fact, it was the biggest April weekend in the history of April weekends.

All told, the top 12 films at the box office this weekend accounted for $149 million, which is a great number for a non-peak month like April. If you rewind a year, this weekend in 2008 was nearly $70 million below that mark, according to Media By Numbers, which means that even if Fast & Furious hadn't beaten even the most liberal estimates by around $30 million, this weekend would have still been significantly better than the same stanza last year. Blame that on the two big debuts last year, Leatherheads and Nim's Island.

I say this a lot, but the »

- Colin Boyd

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DeGeneres to Return to Live Action Films as Mother Nature

18 March 2009 4:15 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I love Ellen DeGeneres. I really do. I loved her as a stand-up comic, I think she's great as a talk-show host, and she was marvelous as an animated fish in that little Disney movie. But her track record in live-action films has been horrible.

So it's hard not to cringe at the announcement that she'll play Mother Nature in as-yet-untitled film produced by Walden media, the folks behind Chronicles of Narnia, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Charlotte's Web, and Nim's Island -- all of which were heavy on superb special effects and short on everything else that might make them, well, good. (Their upcoming releases include a Duane Johnson flick titled Tooth Fairy, and ... oh, dear. That doesn't sound good, either.)

Adding to the cringe factor: The script will be written by Jenny Bicks, a writer and producer on TV's Sex and the City and Men in Trees. »

- Dawn Taylor

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'Iron Man' Leads the Way in the Visual Effects Society Nominations

19 January 2009 4:33 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

As the Society noms continue to roll in, the latest comes from the Visual Effects Society as they announce their nominees for the 7th Annual Ves Awards, a ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects in over a dozen categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Of course all I really care about are the film noms, but you can check out the full list of nominees by downloading the Pdf press release right here. Iron Man led the way with five nominations and is competing with The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Cloverfield in the Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture category, the category probably deemed the highest profile of the bunch and it went to Transformers last year only to see The Golden Compass pull out a surprise win at the Oscars. »

- Brad Brevet

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'Iron Man' Leads Visual Effects Society Nominees

19 January 2009 11:06 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

I was particularly impressed by the creation of Iron Man in the film of the same name last summer. As much as I dug Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, the real star, for me, was that Iron Man suit, a terrific visual effect that has now earned the film some nominations for the upcoming Visual Effects Society Awards.

There are way too many awards to go through, because the Ves has a broad scope that includes TV series, commercials, movies, and video games, but the highlights for our purposes are that Iron Man leads the nominees with five total, followed by four each for The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones, and Bolt.

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Motion Picture:

Prince Caspian

Benjamin Button

Hellboy II

Cloverfield

Iron Man

Oustanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture:

Changeling

Eagle Eye

Valkyrie

Nim's Island

Synecdoche, New York

Oustanding Animated Character »

- Colin Boyd

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Nominees of 7th Visual Effects Society Awards in Motion Picture

19 January 2009 2:03 AM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

On Monday, January 19, Visual Effects Society have announced their nominees for the 7th annual Visual Effects Society Awards and "Iron Man" dominates the fields with five gongs. The superhero movie starring Robert Downey Jr. is up for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture and Best Single Visual Effect of the Year among other things.

In those two categories, the Jon Favreau-directed action movie will be facing strong competition from from "Cloverfield" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Still, for the Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven title, it also has to overshadow "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" and "Hellboy II: The Golden Army", while for the Single Visual Effect of the Year prize, it has to go up against "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull".

Aside from "Iron Man", other multiple »

- AceShowbiz.com

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