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Toronto Film Festival Announces 2009 Galas and Special Presentations

14 July 2009 10:37 PM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news

The first wave of major titles for this year's Toronto International Film Festival [1] were announced yesterday, and there were certainly more than enough high profile picks to get people talking. Ricky Gervais's The Invention of Lying, Neil Jordan's Ondine and Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising were among the world premieres unveiled for September, along with North American premieres of such films as Steven Soderbergh's The Informant!, Bong Joon-ho's Mother and Johnnie To's Vengeance. There was some controversy over the choice of Jon Amiel's Darwin biopic Creation as the festival opener -- not because of the subject matter, but rather because of the fact that this is the first time the fest will kick off with a non-Canadian film. It does seem like a bit of a strange choice, but how can you say no to Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly? Sundance hit Precious, Based

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First Tiff (Toronto International Film Festival) titles announced

14 July 2009 3:05 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

The first announcement includes 12 world premiers including Nicholas Refn's (Bronson, Pusher trilogy) Valhalla Rising which looks nothing short of stunning.

Full list after the break.

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Get Low Aaron Schneider, USA

World Premiere

Inspired by the true story of Felix "Bush" Breazeale, this stately frontier drama stars Robert Duvall as a backwoods eccentric who stages his own funeral.while still alive. Ten thousand people arrive to hear him speak and to learn why this local legend exiled himself 40 years ago to the foothills of Eastern Tennessee. Set in the early 1930s, Get Low is a story of mystery and discovery that speaks of timeless things. Can we know who we are? Should we judge anyone? Is there redemption for those of us lost in the dark catacombs of our past? Also starring Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Lucas Black.

The Invention of Lying Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson, USA

World Premiere

From Ricky Gervais,

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Fox Announces Comic-Con Schedule

10 July 2009 2:30 PM, PDT | From The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news

Things are really starting to heat up on the San Diego Comic-Con front this week with more and more studios and networks announcing their schedules and what talent they will be bringing to the show. This time around we’ve got the word from a network with some of our favorite shows on it including 24 and Dollhouse. I’m talking, of course, about Fox.

The kind PR folks at the network sent us over their Comic-Con schedule so we could share it with you. Also remember that The Flickcast will be at Comic-Con in force so be sure to check back right here for all our coverage of the show. Also, for the complete Comic-Con schedule, go to the official Con site.

Now, without further to do, here’s all the info from the official Fox Press Release:

Non-Stop Action, Thrills, Laughs And Excitement Are Coming To Comic-Con From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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Friday's schedule for Comic-Con 2009 revealed

10 July 2009 2:24 PM, PDT | From Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news

The breakdown of what's planned on Friday, July 24 at Comic-Con International has just been released. As with our rundown of Thursday's schedule I'm focusing on just the film/TV/DVD panels happening that day and leaving out a lot of other good stuff to do with comic books, video games, costumes and fandom. For the complete list of what's happening 7/24, hit the Comic-Con website.

 

Friday, July 24:

 

10:00 - 11:00: Batman: The Brave and the Bold screening and Q&A. In attendance will be voice actors Diedrich Bader (Batman) and John Dimaggio (Aquaman) as well as executive producer Sam Register, producer James Tucker, producer Michale Jelenic and voice director Andrea Romano.

10:00 - 12:30: Warner Bros. panel. Previews of The Book of Eli, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Box, Jonah Hex, Sherlock Holmes and Where the Wild Things Are.

10:15 - 11:15: Farscape 10th anniversary panel.

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San Diego Comic Con 2009 - Frightening Friday Schedule

10 July 2009 12:27 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Take a look at Friday's schedule for this year's San Diego Comic-Con; it's a solid genre lineup so far, with more on the way!

Friday – July 24

10:00-12:30 - Warner Bros. — Join WB for a look at their much anticipated slate of upcoming genre films, including Where The Wild Things Are, The Book of Eli, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Box, Jonah Hex, and Sherlock Holmes. Hall H

10:30-11:30 - Coraline - Visionary director and screenwriter Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman discuss the making of the Laika/Focus Features 2009 breakout animated hit film Coraline. In celebration of Universal Studio's Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD release of the critically acclaimed stop-motion film, Selick and Gaiman will be joined by lead animator and Laika CEO/president Travis Knight, producer Bill Mechanic (CEO of Pandemonium and producer of Dark Water and The New

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"Love" Finds Larry Doyle

10 July 2009 7:52 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

Inspired by writers like Woody Allen and Donald Barthelme, Larry Doyle began his writing career with humor pieces for the New Yorker and then moved into television, where he wrote for "Beavis and Butthead" and "The Simpsons." He also started scripting film, among them "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" and "Duplex." Doyle estimates that for every four or five screenplays he writes, one might make it to the screen, and so the rejection of one of those scripts -- the story of a nerdball high school senior who blurts out his love for the school's alpha cheerleader during his valedictory speech, and the aftermath of his outburst -- wasn't that unusual. What was was his decision to turn the script into a novel, 2007's "I Love You, Beth Cooper," a crossover publishing hit (attracting high school readers and post-grads alike) that immediately drew Hollywood's attention, as well as that of director Chris Columbus.

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The Horrors of Comic-Con 2009: Friday

10 July 2009 | From shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news

For the horror lot seeking info in the film and comic book mediums Friday is fairly balanced. Notably, Platinum Dunes is trekking back to San Diego, this year bringing guests from A Nightmare on Elm Street and perhaps your very first look at actor Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger. No, Haley won't appear in make-up but hopefully they'll have photos to debut. Also, cool: Sony is previewing Legion , which has been in the works for over a year now, and Peter Jackson is in attendance for District 9 ! What puzzles me is the capper to the schedule: Danny DeVito is going to show off a new fright flick called The Blood Factory . Have to look further into this one. We'll be updating live from this year's event, so stay tuned! 10:00-12:30 Warner Bros. - Join WB for...

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Comedy Central's Reno 911! finale Wednesday July 8, Videos

7 July 2009 8:32 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news

Tomorrow marks the end of the sixth season of Comedy Central.s Reno 911! Sadness. Reno 911! is quite possibly the funniest show on American television. Danny DeVito's production company has delivered us a faux reality show that features the lives of seven of the worst, most incompetent sheriff's deputies - all detailed in this "Cops" style parody. The leader is Lt. Jim Dangle, the spandex bicycle shorts-wearing, gay supervisor; Deputy Trudy Wiegel, a delusional depressive, racist sociopath; Deputy Travis Junior, the redneck who might have gay sex if pushed; Deputy S. Jones, the large chocolate love-stud, in his mind; and Deputy Raineesha Williams, the bootylicious babe with Bwa, black woman's attitude. The tag line says it all: They Might

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Exclusive: Ponzi Schemes, Octomoms And Roddy Piper On The New Season Of ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’

2 July 2009 11:18 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

I’ve been hurting. Probably my two favorite comedies on TV—“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm”—have been on hiatus far too long, and there’s only so many times you can re-watch episodes before your neighbors, behind thin NYC apartment walls, begin to complain. But! Larry David’s “Curb” is coming back to HBO in the fall, after a two-year break. And now comes word that “Sunny,” the debaucherous comedy about four friends who run a dive bar in Philly and make one another’s lives hilariously uncomfortable, will be resurfacing on F/X on September 17th for a 12-episode run.

While Charlie Day, along with his fellow writer/producer/co-stars Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton are still in the midst of shooting episodes, Day stepped away from the set to kick MTV News the inside scoop about what “Sunny” fans can expect when

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DVD Review: Nobel Son

2 July 2009 10:24 AM, PDT | From BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news

“Nobel Son” is a film about a weathered relationship between a genius father and his overshadowed son. It’s also a film about kidnapping, adultery, lust, extortion, poetry, cannibalism, revenge, amputations, and just about anything else dramatic. Alan Rickman (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Sweeney Todd) plays Eli Michaelson, a philandering, arrogant physics professor who just won the Nobel Prize. His son Barkley (Bride Wars) has yet to gain his approval for anything, including his Phd work on cannibalism. On the eve of the Nobel Ceremony, Barkley is kidnapped and held for a two million dollar ransom. His father, thinking it’s a joke, yells at Barkley and refuses to pay the kidnapper. The circumstances change when he receives a severed thumb in the mail. A great cast supports Rickman and Greenburgh, including: Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Pullman, and Eliza Dushku. Danny Devito also has a ...

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Red Carpet: Radioactive Lohan & Gangster Depp

1 July 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

It's that time again, Red Carpet Lineup. Here's a (truly) random sampling of actors at events this past week. Let's check in with...

Ever classy Lindsay Lohan who celebrated her 23rd birthday (it's actually tomorrow) at a Vegas pool wearing that, flashing a peace sign, and sporting bright blue contacts. Unless she's been spending too much time on Nevada's nuclear testing grounds, those are contacts. I should never ever look at Lohan as she's become the avatar of Lost Potential. She found the empty calories of fame more enticing than the rich nutrients of good actressing.

Public Enemies opens today and it should be an interesting test of Johnny Depp's box office pull. The public is generally averse to period dramas but they do like gangster crime films so it's a bit of a toss up, really. It's already on IMDb's Top 250 but that's typical for masculine "cool" movies when they first open.

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F/X Reveals Fall Schedule

30 June 2009 7:22 AM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

F/X, home to critically acclaimed and award-winning original series, has set its fall schedule with the return of three of its hit original series kicking off with the sophomore season of the drama Sons of Anarchy on September 8, followed by the comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia on September 17, and season six of Nip/Tuck which begins this October. FX also has plans to launch a new original comedy series this fall to pair with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

In addition to the return of original series, this fall the network features a slate of blockbuster feature film premieres including Ghost Rider, Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer, Spider-Man 3, and Live Free or Die Hard.

Sons of Anarchy returns for its second season (13 episodes) on a new night, Tuesday, beginning September 8 at 10 Pm Et/Pt. Starring Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal and Ron Perlman, Sons is an

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Alice in Teaserland

22 June 2009 6:50 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

Maybe "Tweedle Dee!" should be the new "Squeeeee!" for excited exclamations. You've probably seen the new images via USA Today and the info on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland? But I'd like to talk about the cast and the polish. One of the only pluses of mainstays like 'Wonderland' being retold each decade over original work is to see how the different eras and visual artists interpret them.

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

Wonderland. If you click over to USA Today you can move

around in the gardens with your mouse. For what it's worth it looks like

Edward Scissorhands has been hired as Wonderland's landscape artist.

Mia Wasikowska as Alice (the oldest Alice since Meryl Streep?) and

Matt Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedleydum

Helena & Anne Hathaway as Red & White Queens. Depp as Mad Hatter.

I love what My New Plaid Pants says about the latter: "if Elijah Wood

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DeVito Scared By Killer Scorpion

19 June 2009 12:05 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

A terrified Danny DeVito feared he was staring death in the face when he came across a killer scorpion in his bedroom during a recent vacation in Costa Rica.

The pint-sized Twins star was warned about one particular poisonous stinger before his trip - and couldn't believe it when he found the creature scuttling across his floor.

He says, "They say these things (scorpions) will get into your clothes, you gotta check your boots... Some of them are, like, little tiny things that can't hurt you and other ones are so poisonous you drop like a stone.

"I'm sitting there in shorts, no shoes and socks, on the edge of the bed looking at the computer and my focus goes to the floor because there's some movement. And there is a scorpion... with the coloration of the one the guy said would kill you!

"I immediately leap onto the bed... and I'm hyperventilating, and the thing is coming towards me."

The scorpion shuffled off under furniture and DeVito decided to test his "zen" skills - by trying to reason with his uninvited guest.

He adds, "I get down (from the bed), I say, 'Look, to hell with this...' and I start talking to the teak wood.

"I say, 'Look pal... I know you don't wanna bite me, you don't wanna kill me, and I don't wanna kill you - and I mean it from the bottom of my heart... You just walk out that door.'

"He starts walking very tentatively towards the door... He goes out the door."

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Danny DeVito Explains Drunk Behavior To Letterman (Video)

19 June 2009 10:15 AM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news

Danny DeVito went on the "Late Show" last night where Dave asked him about two now infamous television appearances in which he appeared drunk. The first involved a little limoncello and "The View." DeVito had been partying with George Clooney into the wee hours before his appearance and was a little "out of sorts" as a result. He managed to turn the crazy segment into a springboard for his own brand of liquor. The second incident is more fresh: Last week DeVito was shooting a scene for his show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," when a reporter stopped by and got footage of DeVito drinking out of a beer can and acting flirtatious at 8 in the morning. DeVito told Letterman last night that the beer was a prop and that it wasn't filled with alcohol. He said his jabs at...

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‘Batman Returns’ Star Michelle Pfeiffer Offers ‘Whipping Lessons’ For The Next Catwoman

16 June 2009 11:29 AM, PDT | From MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news

For many Bat-fans, 1992’s “Batman Returns” is regarded as the best Batman film of the pre-Christopher Nolan era. While it sacrificed Jack Nicholson’s impressive Joker for Danny DeVito’s oily Penguin, it evolved beyond a feature-length Prince video and presented audiences with the darkest take on Gotham’s Dark Knight up to that point.

It also put Michelle Pfeiffer in a skin-tight Catwoman suit — possibly the greatest triumph of any Batman film to date.

That’s why, during a recent press event for Pfeiffer’s upcoming film “Cheri,” we had to ask her what she thought about the current crop of “Batman 3” rumors involving the return of a certain feline-fixated felon.

“You would think so,” Pfeiffer told MTV News when asked whether she thought Catwoman would return to Batman movies with Nolan behind the camera. “They better… They should!”

Presented with the rumors tagging both Angelina Jolie and

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Link Time!!!

12 June 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | From Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news

Jimmy Fallon challenges Betty White to beer pong - D-Listed Kate Moss to do September's W? - Fashionologie Megan Fox's Entertainment Weekly outtakes - JustJared Shania Twain is doing okay - Wonderwall Lc and Kyle getting hitched? - Pink Is the New Blog Total recall: Eddie Murphy's best films - Rotten Tomatoes Karl Lagerfeld insults Heidi Klum - Lainey Gossip Doutzen Kroes puts on her bikini for Calvin Klein - Egotastic Danny DeVito, adorable drunk - The Superficial Hilary keeps up the pilates - Hollywood Tuna Guess the celeb legs! - cityrag Gisele is very sexy for Vs - Hollywood Rag

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DeVito Brushes Off Boozy TV Interview

11 June 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Danny DeVito has brushed off reports he was boozing during a bizarre U.S. TV interview on Wednesday - insisting he was only "acting".

The Twins star shocked morning viewers in Philadephia, Pennsylvania by belching his way through a lewd live interview on the set of his sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

In an awkward moment, DeVito hit on the local TV female reporter, noting, "You wore that short skirt, which is really nice... Easy access."

His inappropriate behaviour and remarks prompted the host to ask the actor if he was intoxicated on the early morning beer he was drinking on set. But the actor insists he was clean and sober when the cameras were rolling.

He tells Radaronline.com, “I was only trying to make a TV interview fun. In the scene the TV people were covering, my character was drinking (pretend beer). When you see the scene on the show... you will understand. It’s called acting.”

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Danny DeVito Acts Drunk on Morning TV Again

11 June 2009 8:10 AM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news

Danny DeVito always knows how to do morning shows right. Last time he was drunk on The View after a night of limoncello shots with George Clooney, which is an entertaining enough excuse to earn a pass. But yesterday morning during an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia set visit by Fox TV, the pint-size actor was openly drinking what appeared to be beer at 8 a.m. without a glamorous "Clooney made me do it" alibi. Reporter Jenn Frederick, who calls herself JennFred, seemed amused by his shameless flirting—calling her skirt "easy access" and asking this question about her newborn daughter: "Was she cute coming out? Did you get a picture of the legs...

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Boozy DeVito Hits On TV Reporter

10 June 2009 6:30 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Danny DeVito shocked breakfast TV viewers in Philadephia, Pennsylvania on Wednesday by belching his way through a lewd live interview.

His inappropriate behaviour and remarks prompted the local TV reporter to ask the actor if he was intoxicated on the early morning beer he was drinking on the set of TV show It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

She reminded DeVito that the last time she chatted to him they had "a belly-off" because she was pregnant, prompting the star to state, "I was thinking about what that would look like when that kid was born... was she cute coming out?"

He then hit on the reporter, noting, "You wore that short skirt, which is really nice... Easy access."

Reminded by castmates he was live on breakfast TV and shouldn't be crude and drinking beer, DeVito belched and said, "You know it's not real beer."

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