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As we all know, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen opens this week. If you are a true fanboy, you’ll skip work and go see the flick at the afternoon showing. If you feel like you can’t skip work to go see a movie, here are ten reasons that will hopefully persuade you to play sick for the afternoon.
10: Fred Jones is in it
9: Megan Fox is in it
7: Lots of things blow up.
4: Peter Cullen is still the voice of Optimus Prime.
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Are you going to see Transformers 2?As we all know, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen opens this week. If you are a... more
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Iranian state television's Channel Two is playing a Lord of the Rings marathon in an attempt to keep people inside watching hobbits and not protesting in the streets. Normally people in Tehran are treated to one or two Hollywood movies a week, but with recent events the government hopes that sitting through a nine hour trilogy will take the fight out of most. Perhaps this was not the best choice in films if you want your people not to believe that "even the smallest person can change the course of the future."Iranian state television's Channel Two is playing a Lord of the Rings marathon in... more
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Farrah Fawcett has lost her battle with cancer.
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This isn't an official announcement (I don't know why Warner Brothers hasn't made one yet), but our good friend Frosty over at Collider talked with Zack Snyder himself today and got re-confirmation that the extended Director's Cut of Watchmen will indeed be officially hitting theaters on July 17th, the weekend before Comic-Con. He confirmed that it will only show for one weekend in one theater in only Los Angeles, Dallas, Minneapolis, and New York City. So if you live in one of those four cities, you'll want to make sure you buy your tickets in advance for this re-release. I know I'm already planning to be there!This isn't an official announcement (I don't know why Warner Brothers... more
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A scattered people, the descendents of storied sea kings of the ancient West, struggle to survive in a lonely wilderness as a dark force relentlessly bends its will toward their destruction. Yet amidst these valiant, desperate people, hope remains. A royal house endures unbroken from father to son....
This hour long original drama is set in the time before the War of the Ring and tells the story of the Dúnedain, the Rangers of the North, before the return of the King. Inspired by only a couple of paragraphs written by Tolkien in the appendices of the Lord of the Rings we follow Arathorn and Gilraen, the parents of Aragorn, from their first meeting through a turbulent time in their people's history....
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Copyright (c) Actors At Work Productions 2002-2009A scattered people, the descendents of storied sea kings of the ancient West, struggle... more
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Let’s call a spade a spade: it’s no secret that file hosting service Rapidshare has long been a haven for distributing copyrighted content. However, it’s a question of principle: must a file hosting service, essentially unrelated to the actual content of the files it hosts, also act as a policeman, actively seeking and removing content that violates copyright? German court says – yes.Let’s call a spade a spade: it’s no secret that file hosting service... more
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I just got the newest GQ in the mail and was shocked to see their first nude cover featuring Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno… bahahaI just got the newest GQ in the mail and was shocked to see their first nude cover... more
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AMSTERDAM -- "The future's so bright I gotta wear shades!" James Cameron cried Tuesday as he strode onto a stage -- with his 3-D glasses on -- to unveil the first publicly shown clips from his $300 million 3-D sci-fi actioner "Avatar."
The fittingly epic film promo literally added an extra dimension to Fox's presentation at the ongoing Cinema Expo.
"Avatar" actors Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana and Stephen Lang, pic producer Jon Landau, and Fox film chairman Jim Gianopulos also greeted the clearly wowed exhibs at the RAI convention center auditorium.
"Three years ago, I stood up here and said the 3-D renaissance is coming," Cameron said. "And from what we've seen in the business, we can now say it has arrived."
In introducing the 24-minute assemblage, Cameron said much of it came from the first third of the film but that there were also glimpses from unfinished portions of later battle scenes involving warring sides clashing over control of the fantasy world Pandora.
end of excerptAMSTERDAM -- "The future's so bright I gotta wear shades!" James... more
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Well, Michael Bay has apparently done it again. "The Twins," two formally conjoined robots in the new film are offending people with their overblown urban swagger, illiteracy, and "stoned" persona. WTF, Michael Bay?Well, Michael Bay has apparently done it again. "The Twins," two formally... more
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(Loosely) based off Avatar: The Last Airbender, this is the teaser footage for M. Night Shyamalan's live-action adaptation that hilariously can't call itself Avatar due to the James Cameron film coming out around the same time.
Give us your thoughts, but we're still fairly non-plussed by this. It is a teaser after all and mainly just to draw up some excitement.(Loosely) based off Avatar: The Last Airbender, this is the teaser footage for M.... more
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a little public service announcement viral video for the Neil Blomkamp directed, Peter Jackson produced sci-fi film ‘District 9′.a little public service announcement viral video for the Neil Blomkamp directed, Peter... more
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"Movies are different things to different people, but to the average moviegoer it’s all about the event. Most ticket buyers there are for the excitement of seeing something on screen they’ve never seen before. Few directors are better at delivering bigger and louder better than Michael Bay, his Transformers movies are all brilliant spectacle and flash, a pulse-pounding series of explosions and giant robots. Sure they contain actors, but I submit that Transformers doesn’t actually need them. We’re there for the robots not that annoying kid who’s supposed to be our cipher. Should the audience take a moment to turn away from the cybernetic, CGI creatures stomping around on screen it’s only to stare at Megan Fox’s rack and, let’s face it, nice as her bosom is making it bounce doesn’t exactly qualify one for an Oscar. Plug any random nookie girl into the film, stick her in a hot outfit next to Optimus Prime and you have a movie."
Here are a few other movies that didn’t need actors. Some might even have been better without them.
AVP: Alien Vs. Predator
Fantasia
King Kong, Or Any Giant Monster Movie
WALL-E
Showgirls
Drunken Master 2, Or Any Jackie Chan Movie
The Fast and the Furious
Saw/Hostel And Torture Porn In General
The Day After Tomorrow
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones"Movies are different things to different people, but to the average moviegoer... more
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Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures, which suffered the first big bomb of the summer last weekend with an Eddie Murphy comedy, has fired its top production executive after barely 18 months in the job.
The Viacom Inc-owned studio said on Friday it would replace Paramount Film Group president John Lesher with former DreamWorks production chief Adam Goodman. Also out is production president Brad Weston.
Paramount, which is struggling to regain its momentum after a lengthy reliance on co-productions led to a major shakeup four years ago, did not cite a reason for the latest personnel shift in its statement.
The studio has the top film of the year so far in North America with "Star Trek," but its slate has otherwise been boosted by films from partners such as DreamWorks Animation ("Monsters vs. Aliens"). The unrelated DreamWorks Pictures has also been a major supplier, but it quit Paramount last year, leaving Goodman behind at Paramount.
Murphy's "Imagine That," which Paramount said cost $55 million to make, has earned $9.2 million after eight days.
Paramount will likely top the worldwide box office next weekend with "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," although the sequel is a legacy of its DreamWorks partnership.
Goodman becomes the third executive to oversee all of Paramount's film production since studio chairman and CEO Brad Grey arrived at the studio in January 2005 with a mandate to produce more films in-house. Lesher, who had been closely involved with such Oscar-winning arthouse fare as "Babel" and "There Will Be Blood," took over as head of the film group in early 2008...Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures, which suffered the first big bomb of the summer... more
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"It's all right. It's okay. You have something to live for. Jesus told me so."
If you don't know who Mark Borchardt is, you should do everything in your power to find out. But first, you should find "American Movie," a documentary which features Borchardt as he writes, obtains financing, shoots, edits and screens his now notorious horror short, "Coven" (1997). But trust me, he is no average filmmaker and "American Movie," if you haven't seen it is no average "making of" documentary by genius filmmakers Filmmakers Chris Smith and Sarah Price. FIND IT AND WATCH IT!
Now Borchardt stars and shines as the lead of Jon Springer's new film "The Hagstone Demon."
What is really cool is that it appears that Borchardt, who I absolutely love from what I saw in "American Movie," appears to BURN UP THE SCREEN with his acting chops.
"The Hagstone Demon," which played at Tromadance last year (A festival with no entry fee which runs in Utah during Sundance and Slamdance) is a prime example all that is great in Independent Film and why every fan should work a little harder to seek out and support these great works of art that seem to be flying under the radar.
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Twitter: loopmovie"It's all right. It's okay. You have something to live for. Jesus told... more
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The indie world has been buzzing about a new indie "studio" that launched last night. DF Indie Studios, run by CEO Mary Dickinson, is planing to finance a dozen low budget features in the next year. This is a big deal to independent filmmakers since most of the indie labels closed in the last two years.
The only problem is Mary doesn't have any films to release, no lot, and not a lot of experience (according to Forbes). She is hoping to convince people to give her $100 million by fall to get this all going. Heck, if someone would give me $100 million by this fall I'd have a film studio too!
I think this is an example of the entertainment media not poking a story too thoroughly before they report. There are literally thousands of independent filmmakers with a shingle hanging outside their garage that claims they are a studio. One guy, an editor named David Frankfurt, already has the domain name DFStudios.net. Imagine how many people are going to try to find Mary's studio and will end up doing business with David instead.
Mary really doesn't understand how important your domain name is. If you try to visit the full moniker than Mary has chosen (DFIS.com) you get "Data Flow Information Systems, the Future of Information Processing Today". I sure hope Mary knows more about raising money than she does about maintaining her web presence.The indie world has been buzzing about a new indie "studio" that launched... more
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Sacha Baron Cohen's latest alter ego, Austrian fashionista Bruno, arrived for the premiere of his film to a trumpet fanfare of disco classic I Will Survive.
Dressed in a bearskin and his own take on the Queen's guardsman's uniform - including a sleeveless jacket and frighteningly tight hot pants - he told the crowd: "This is the most important movie starring a gay Austrian since Terminator 2."
Inside the cinema, he greeted the audience and said he hoped the film would undo "all the negative stereotyping of the gay community done by Milk" - referring to Sean Penn's Oscar-winning turn as gay rights activist Harvey Milk earlier this year.
His controversy-baiting comments set the tone for the film, which is clearly intended to shock and amuse in equal measure.Sacha Baron Cohen's latest alter ego, Austrian fashionista Bruno, arrived for the... more
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An academic researcher leads a group of people in a fight to counteract the apocalyptic events that were predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar. Cast includes: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
2012 is directed and co-written by epic German filmmaker Roland Emmerich, of films like Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot, The Day After Tomorrow, and 10,000 B.C. previosuly. It was also co-written by Harald Kloser, of The Thirteenth Floor, The Day After Tomorrow, Alien vs Predator, and 10,000 B.C. as well. Sony Pictures is bringing 2012 to theaters everywhere on November 13th this year!
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What do you think?An academic researcher leads a group of people in a fight to counteract the... more
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Forget Son of Rambow. A New York film-maker has made an even more lo-fi version of First Blood for the princely sum of $96
"Thank you for coming out on a rainy night," Zachary Oberzan told the back room of Monkey Town, a bar-restaurant-art-space in Brooklyn's Williamsburg, last Thursday. Dressed in a camouflage-print T-shirt, jeans and black leather boots, he was addressing two dozen people slumped on low beige sofas arranged around the room's four walls, on each of which was mounted a video-projection screen. "I know it's hard to leave your apartment," he continued. "In fact, no one knows that better than I."
The line got a chuckle: that night's feature attraction, which would shortly be projected simultaneously on to all four screens, was made possible only by Oberzan's failure to leave the house. Flooding With Love for the Kid, a 107-minute version of First Blood, was made entirely within the film-maker's Upper East Side studio apartment for less than $100 (£61) and with a cast of one: Oberzan, 35, played every part himself, from John Rambo and Will Teasle – police chief of Madison, Kentucky, the town devastated by the pair's confrontation – to Merle, proprietor of the local diner.
The film offers genuinely impressive split-screen shots, potent use of ambient sound effects, strong editing and heartfelt performances. If Oberzan's accents and female impersonations don't always convince, he delivers the key two roles – Rambo and Teasle – with real power. "It looks like a joke to most people," Oberzan had told me a few weeks earlier in his studio-turned-studio, "but there's no irony in it whatsoever."
"It's a fuck-you to the world of TV and films that says, 'This is the only way to make films,'" Oberzan told me. "How much do you need to make a good film that you can get into? If it succeeds, it transports you to a place where the energy and emotions and love for the characters are sincere. Every time I watch a [studio] film all I can see is the catering truck and the contracts the actors signed."Forget Son of Rambow. A New York film-maker has made an even more lo-fi version of... more
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This makes it a lot less scary, now doesn't it.
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The Museum of Modern Art in New York is hosting a major Tim Burton retrospective later this year. From his early childhood drawings to blockbuster Hollywood projects, such as Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, MoMa will bring together hundreds of never-before-seen paintings, sculptures and puppets from the artist's own collection... The collection will run from 22 November 2009 until 26 April 2010.The Museum of Modern Art in New York is hosting a major Tim Burton retrospective later... more
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