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A new website has launched called TwitCritics (http://twitcritics.com/), which essentially trying to be the Rotten Tomatoes of Twitter. But instead of compiling reviews from movie critics, TwitCritics brings you real-time movie reviews and ratings directly from the Twiterverse. Basically, the site compiles a listing of tweets by movie title, and attempts to determine whether a tweet is positive or negative based on keywords used in the tweet. The idea is great, but right now the beta product is not ready for primetime.A new website has launched called TwitCritics (http://twitcritics.com/), which... more
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Hello and welcome!
A long time ago (around 6 months) I co-hosted a podcast out of a bar in the East Village. Seeing as how I'm back in New York for the Film Festival, we got the band back together--so to speak.
So join us as myself, Vadim Rizov (contributor to IFC's Indie Eye blog, Village Voice, The Onion A.V. Club), Glenn Kenny (somecamerunning.typepad.com, The Auteurs) and Keith Uhlich (The House Next Door, Time Out New York) sit down and discuss NYFF's opening night film: Alain Resnais' The Wild Grass and best sheep-doc ever, Sweetgrass.
At Grassroots Tavern!
It's All-Grass baby!
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A long time ago (around 6 months) I co-hosted a podcast out of a... more
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David Goyer is in early talks to create the story and supervised the staff for the sequel to "Ghost Rider".
Columbia Pictures is moving forward the project which is based on the Marvel comic character. David Goyer previously scripted the Blade trilogy.David Goyer is in early talks to create the story and supervised the staff for the... more
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“Well,” I smirked to myself last week, “I guess I’m not jealous of Diablo Cody anymore.”
I had just finished watching the preview of Jennifer’s Body – Cody’s second movie since her Oscar-winning Juno. It could have been a kick-ass post-feminist Scream, but turned out to be just so much blood down the drain.
And believe me, I loooove hot, girl-versus-girl stories – from Wild Things and Poison Ivy to more obscure fare like Old Enough – and 80s TV Show “Double Trouble”.
I mention this because a couple days after I saw Cody’s film, a box arrived – the first of eight (containing books and memorabilia) that I’d shipped to LA from my hometown in New Jersey.
In this box, atop the voodoo tarot card set and art history tomes, were some two dozen candy-colored paperbacks.
These were my “Sweet Valley High“s – Francine Pascal’s fictional series about two blond, identical twins: Elizabeth (the good) and Jessica (the bad) who lived in a mythical California town.
SVH’s appeal back in the 1980s was perhaps no different than that of shows like “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills” today. It was a way for dysthymic girls with zits and worrisome vaginas to evaporate, however briefly, into a fabulous sun-splashed world of skinny, clear-skinned bikini babes and hunky boyfriends.
As recently as last month I found myself twittering about them:
“Since the studios are adapting beloved books, can we get Sweet Valley High the movie, w/ Dakota Fanning as the good twin? Bad twin hmm..? (Sep 9th).”
And now the books sit in piles on my coffee table, as I debate whether to display them on the shelf (as originally intended) or pack them away again, where they can’t remind me of the big news:
Diablo Cody is Adapting Sweet Valley High.
Welp, guess I’m jealous again! And just when I thought I’d overcome my envy of the cool-named-stripper-writing-pregnant-heroine-movie-hit-Oscar-winning-it-girl! Never mind that I never wanted to write a movie about a pregnant teen, that’s not the point!
Check out Current_Movies Blog to see the rest!“Well,” I smirked to myself last week, “I guess I’m not jealous of Diablo Cody... more
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According to HeatVision Blog, Bryan Singer (Superman Returns, Valkyrie) has signed on to direct “Jack the Giant Killer,” the fantasy adventure from Legendary Pictures and New Line.According to HeatVision Blog, Bryan Singer (Superman Returns, Valkyrie) has signed on... more
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Via PR:
IMAX Corporation and Columbia Pictures today announced that the highly-anticipated action-adventure Spider-Man 4, will be released to IMAX(R) theatres simultaneously with the film's worldwide release on May 5, 2011. The fourth installment of the successful "Spider-Man" franchise, based on the Marvel Comicbook character, will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience. The film will be distributed by Columbia Pictures domestically and by Sony Pictures Releasing International overseas.
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Nothing else newsworthy, but at least it's not 3D.Via PR:
IMAX Corporation and Columbia Pictures today announced that the... more
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Patrick Swayze died today after a long battle with cancer. He was 57.
Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January 2008.
He was the star of such movies as "Ghost," "Dirty Dancing," and "Road House." Swayze was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in 1991.
Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2009/09/14/patrick-swayze-dies/#ixzz0R84xMoK1Patrick Swayze died today after a long battle with cancer. He was 57.
Swayze was... more
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Avast! Disney says a new “Pirates of the Caribbean” film is on yonder horizon.
Johnny Depp sailed onstage Friday on a pirate ship at the Anaheim Convention Center to help announce the forthcoming installment of Disney’s blockbuster film franchise. He was welcomed with a rousing standing ovation.
Depp will reprise his role as Capt. Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” slated for summer of 2011. It’s the fourth in a series.Avast! Disney says a new “Pirates of the Caribbean” film is on yonder horizon.... more
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Zombie master George A. Romero had no particular conflict in mind when making "Survival of the Dead," the sixth installment in his long-running horror franchise, but rather discrimination in general.
More than 40 years after "Night of the Living Dead" launched Romero's career in 1968, the 69-year-old American is back to his independent movie making roots with a picture in competition at the Venice film festival.
The self-financed Survival of the Dead tells the story of a band of soldiers lured to an island that promises to be the one place on earth where they can escape from the living dead, who feed on human flesh and appear as if from nowhere.
*more at the link*Zombie master George A. Romero had no particular conflict in mind when making... more
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So… more li’l doll people. Been a good year for that kinda thing — CORALINE, $9.99. And now there’s 9, in which a group of burlapy, goggle-eyed humanoids struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic waste heap. Would it surprise you that Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov were co-producers on this project? Would it further surprise you that the CG animated film — directed by newcomer Shane Acker, based on his deservedly highly-praised short film (do a YouTube search on “9 Shane Acker”; it’s worth tracking down) — has tons of grotty atmosphere and an overall dark attitude?
And monsters. Really weird, disturbing monsters (if the giant, soul-sucking spider robot doesn’t freak you out, the hypno-snake will). Which is a good thing, because the story itself isn’t really anything to speak of. Shame that a voice cast that includes Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Connelly, Elijah Wood, and Martin Landau doesn’t have better lines to deliver, but when you’ve got little burlap people defending themselves against a robot pterodactyl, snappy patter can sort of take a back seat.
Click on the link above to hear Tim Burton talk about the film.So… more li’l doll people. Been a good year for that kinda thing — CORALINE,... more
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"Kevin Smith has announced plans to conduct a 24 hour online Q&A on Twitter for an uninterrupted 24 hours on Labor Day to promote his latest book, “Shootin’ the Sh*t With Kevin Smith” and an upcoming 15-city tour. The tweet-a-thon is almost over, and I thought I’d bring you a collection of the most interesting movie related q&a’s."
“On Entourage-their idea of movie hell was directed by Michael Bay and written by you -whats yours?”
@ThatKevinSmith: Same thing, oddly.
(more at link)"Kevin Smith has announced plans to conduct a 24 hour online Q&A on Twitter for an... more
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Nicolas Cage will not be playing the villain role in the Green Hornet after he couldn't come to terms with Sony Pictures on a deal to fill the roll.
Filming is still continuing but there was problems recently with a chase scene when the driver loss control. (see more here: http://current.com/1lo664c)Nicolas Cage will not be playing the villain role in the Green Hornet after he... more
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The Walt Disney Co. says it is acquiring Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing characters like Iron Man and Spider-Man into the Disney family.The Walt Disney Co. says it is acquiring Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in... more
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The Federal Communications Commission has until the end of this week to give Congress the compendium it asked for of just about every content filtering, blocking, or rating gizmo that's out there. And you can bet that a small battalion of lawyers for the networks, cable, gaming, and computer industries would like to read it right now. But the rapidly approaching deadline for the report (August 29, a Saturday, oddly) isn't stopping them or various media reform advocates from advising the FCC right up to the last minute on what they want the agency to say, or not say, in the document.
Interestingly, the Transformers movies have blundered into the FCC's requisite Notice of Inquiry asking for public input on the report. And the concerns various advocates raise about the marketing of these films suggest how subjective it could be to expand V-chip-like regulation, as many filers want (we've got a quick tutorial on the chip here).The Federal Communications Commission has until the end of this week to give Congress... more
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Warner Bros has hired Shoot Em Up director Michael Davis to direct a remake of the 1981 Sean Connery sci-fi action thriller Outland.
For what it’s worth, Shoot Em Up was a very underrated movie, which due to poor marketing, did very badly at the box office. But if you love over-the-top action like Crank, I highly recommend it.
Davis has a bunch of films on his imdb page, which frankly aren’t worth listing. And yes, he is credited with writing the really horrible 1994 film adaptation of the video game Double Dragon.Warner Bros has hired Shoot Em Up director Michael Davis to direct a remake of the... more
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Rotten Tomatoes renders all this context irrelevant; it gives you an instant snapshot of the establishment, large and small, valid and vapid. You don't have to read the review at all, much less follow a critic consistently over time, measure your sensibilities against theirs and gauge how their viewpoint is applicable to yours. That's exactly what Jonathan Rosenbaum was talking about in 2001 in a holiday movie round-up, responding to a reader complaining "he could never tell from my reviews whether I was recommending a movie or not." His eminently reasonable response: "Recommending particular movies is something I can do for friends or relatives, but trying to make recommendations for strangers -- even though plenty of critics do -- seems a little presumptuous. Why should strangers give up their own tastes and accept my interests and limitations as their own?"
--Rotten Tomatoes renders all this context irrelevant; it gives you an instant snapshot... more
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Disney has acquired the rights to a film version of 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The film will be directed and written by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet, and aims to focus more on Anne's story as a 'young girl's right of pasage.'Disney has acquired the rights to a film version of 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The... more
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Eli Roth from the movie, "Inglourious Basterds", Takes Over Current.
Tuesday, August 18th
11:30/10:30c
Only On Current.Eli Roth from the movie, "Inglourious Basterds", Takes Over Current.
Tuesday,... more
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