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DVD Playhouse--July 2009

14 July 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news

DVD Playhouse—July 2009

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Allen Gardner

Do The Right Thing: 20th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Spike Lee’s groundbreaking fable about race relations in an ethnically mixed Brooklyn neighborhood during a sweltering New York summer remains as potent, timely and prescient as it was in 1989. Lee is among the cast, which also includes John Turturro, Danny Aiello, Samuel L. Jackson, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Rosie Perez (to name a few), that provide the tableaux-like framework for this stunning work. Criminally ignored by Oscar (it wasn't even nominated for Best Picture, but did garner nods for Supporting Actor Danny Aiello and Lee’s screenplay), it endures as a timeless classic. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Lee, Ernest Dickerson, Wynn Thomas, Joie Lee; Documentary; Deleted and extended scenes; Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.

Coraline (Universal) A young girl moves into an old Victorian house with her parents

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Spider-Man 4 Lands a New Writer

8 July 2009 10:14 PM, PDT | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news

Oscar nominated screenwriter Gary Ross has come on board to rewrite Sony’s highly anticipated Spider-Man 4. Ross joins James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire on the list of high-profile writers who have been working on the project. Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire are back as director and star, respectively, as are series producers Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad. While not being officially confirmed yet, Kristen Dunst, who plays Spidey’s love interest Mary Jane Watson, is also expected to be back. Ross previously wrote Big, Mr. Baseball and Dave and also wrote and directed Pleasantville and Seabiscuit, both of which starred Maguire. Ross and Maguire are also currently developing Tokyo Suckerpunch, a drama set up at Columbia; although that project is now on hold as Ross tackles another writing project, Columbia's Lance Armstrong biopic. Before filming begins on Spider-Man 4 early next year, Maguire will star

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Tobey Maguire Finds More Marital Dysfunction

8 July 2009 5:45 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

One day he's getting tortured by the Taliban and then heads home to discover that his bad-boy brother is getting saucy with his wife. The next, he's taking part in a modern War of the Roses. Variety reports that Tobey Maguire is taking on more marital dysfunction by starring in Jacob Estes' new indie black comedy called The Details alongside Elizabeth Banks.

The pair (which was once set to be Banks and James McAvoy) will play a troubled married couple struggling with infidelity and other marital issues. But here's where things get strange: "their lives [are] further complicated by ravenous raccoons burrowing under the sod in their back yard. A disagreement over how to dispatch the pests creates a chain reaction of mishaps that include a murder by bow and arrow." There's nothing like a few coonies to ruin a marriage! Just in case that insane plot isn't enough to whet your appetite,

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Monika Bartyzel

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Tobey Maguire to replace James McAvoy in 'Details'

8 July 2009 11:39 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Tobey Maguire has signed on to join Elizabeth Banks, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert and Anna Friel in Jacob Aaron Estes' upcoming comedy "The Details." Laura Linney is also in talks to join.

James McAvoy was originally set to star in the project, but as Variety reports, a conflict in schedule forced him to drop out. Maguire will take over his role.

"Details" follows a married couple struggling with their relationship. Things get a lot worse when they discover an infestation of raccoons in their yard and completely disagree on how to handle the situation.

Estes also directed 2004's excellent thriller "Mean Creek." As for Maguire, he's got tons of future projects in development. He will soon be seen in Jim Sheridan's "Brothers" remake. You'll also probably see him return as the lead in "Spider-Man 4."

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Tobey Maguire Will Star In Indie Film The Details

8 July 2009 7:03 AM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news

Tobey Maguire is joining the cast of The Details, an indie black comedy which seeks to address the severe shortage of raccoon infestation movies that has plagued the cinema of late. According to Variety, he'll be husband to Elizabeth Banks, with Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert, Anna Friel and Laura Linney also appearing. Directing is Jacob Estes, whose credit was last seen on 2004's decent and (now) frequently forgotten Mean Creek. Also factoring into the film: a bunch of determined raccoons. This isn't some suburban Caddyshack, though. Maguire and Banks play a couple who are having some problems. There's been some infidelity, they don't know if they should stay together...and then the raccoons show up, like the shark in Jaws. (More maybe more like the winged aggressors in The Birds, if we're talking metaphors.) The critters are destroying the back yard, and "a disagreement over how to dispatch the pests

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Tobey Maguire And Elizabeth Banks To Star In ‘The Details’

8 July 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

Tobey Maguire is really making up for lost time. He briefly dropped out of the spotlight after “Spider-Man 3,” choosing to focus on family rather than film roles. He’s making a return with “Brothers,” due out later this year, and has subsequently lined up roles in “The Limit,” “Good People” and possibly “Robotech.” Of course, there’s also that little movie called “Spider-Man 4” on the horizon. While Maguire waits for his enormous pre-production slate to come together, he’ll be joining Elizabeth Banks in Jacob Estes‘ indie black comedy “The Details.”

The plot revolves around a young married couple who are struggling with infidelity and a rocky relationship, as well as a pack of hungry raccoons that burrow into their backyard. The bickering couple can’t agree on how best to get rid of them, and it creates a terrible chain reaction of events that culminates in someone

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Elisabeth Rappe

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Speaking of Top Tens...

8 July 2009 6:01 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

...oh, don't act like you don't speak of them often.

I don't think I'll be getting to "Best of the Aughts" until late this year or possibly March 2010 given what's sure to be a crazed Oscar season but I was looking over those old Actors & Actresses of the Aughts list (compiled to reflect 2000-2005 cinema) and realizing how much can change within four to five years of cinema. Halfway through this decade Meryl Streep hadn't yet reconquered the world, Christian Bale hadn't yet started alienating fans, Scarlett Johansson hadn't yet started boring people, Heath Ledger hadn't left us, Holly Hunter hadn't moved to the small screen, Jude Law's career hadn't receded, Maggie Cheung hadn't vanished...

Here's what the lists looked like in 2005

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Jude LawGael Garcia BernalEwan McGregorTony Leung Chiu-WaiJohnny DeppClive OwenPeter SarsgaardDaniel CraigChristian BaleGeorge ClooneyJust Missed: Jim Broadbent, Jake Gyllenhaal

Further down... Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Bill Murray,

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Tobey Maguire takes on 'The Details'

8 July 2009 2:44 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Tobey Maguire will replace James McAvoy in indie film The Details, reports Variety. The Spider-Man star joins Elizabeth Banks, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert, Laura Linney and Anna Friel in the cast of Jacob Estes's dark comedy. The movie centres on a couple (Maguire and Banks) who find raccoons living in their back garden. Disagreements about how to tackle the problem set off an escalating (more)

By Simon Reynolds

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Tobey Maguire Joins Elizabeth Banks In "The Details"

7 July 2009 11:21 PM, PDT | From icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news

"Spider-Man" star Tobey Maguire is set to star in an indie black comedy with "The Uninvited" actress Elizabeth Banks. "The Details" is written and directed by Jacob Estes.

According to Variety, Maguire and Banks will play a married couple who are struggling with infidelity issues. Their lives are further complicated when raccoons burrowed under the sod in their backyard. A disagreement over how to dispatch the raccoons creates chain reaction of mishaps that includes murder.

Also starring are Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert, Anna Friel and Laura Linney.

James McAvoy was previously cast as the husband, but a scheduling conflict forced him to back out, making way for Maguire to step in.

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Tobey Maguire Fills Out The Details

7 July 2009 11:01 PM, PDT | From EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news

Tobey Maguire has replaced James McAvoy in the lead role of Jacob Estes’ black comedy, The Details.McAvoy pulled out of the movie owing to a scheduling conflict, but with filming set to start next month in Seattle, Estes moved quickly to ensure that Maguire filled the gap. He’ll now star alongside his Spider-Man co-star Elizabeth Banks as a couple whose rocky marriage disintegrates further when raccoons start burrowing into their yard, setting off a darkly comic and murderous chain of events."Maguire's character is an everyman in the sense that he is composed of a morally ambiguous core," Estes told Variety. "He has good intentions, but he makes a lot of self-destructive mistakes."It’s all worked out rather nicely for Maguire, in fact. He had circled the project back in the day, but nothing came of it. Now he’s found time to squeeze it in before

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Tobey Maguire has The Details

7 July 2009 10:58 PM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Tobey Maguire has joined Elizabeth Banks, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert, Laura Linney and Anna Friel in the dark indie comedy "The Details" which Jacob Estes is helming and writing. The film tells of a struggling married couple who struggle with issues like infidelity and question whether they should remain married. Their lives are further complicated when ravenous raccoons burrow under the sod in their back yard and this brings up disagreements on how to dispose of the pests. Apparently, this includes mishaps like a murder by bow and arrow.

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Tobey Maguire Starring in The Details with Elizabeth Banks

7 July 2009 10:35 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Whenever I see Tobey Maguire playing a character that's not Peter Parker, it's always seems a bit odd to me, like in Seabiscuit and The Good German. Maguire is now set to star in an indie black comedy called The Details written and directed by Jacob Estes (of Mean Creek previously). Shooting begins August in Seattle, which means he'll get to this before reprising his role as Peter Parker in Spider-Man 4. Elizabeth Banks stars alongside of Maguire; the two play a struggling married couple. In addition to those two, the cast includes Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert and Anna Friel, with Laura Linney also playing an eccentric neighbor. The lives of this married couple are further complicated by ravenous raccoons burrowing in their back yard. A disagreement over how to kill the rodents creates a chain reaction of mishaps that includes a murder by bow and arrow. Maguire is replacing

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Maguire Replacing McAvoy in The Details

7 July 2009 10:29 PM, PDT | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news

Tobey Maguire has signed on to star in the indie black comedy The Details, replacing James McAvoy (Wanted) who has dropped out of the project due to a scheduling conflict. Jacob Estes (Mean Creek) wrote the script and is directing. Maguire joins Elizabeth Banks in the film about a struggling married couple who, already struggling with issues like infidelity and whether they should stay married, see their lives further complicated by ravenous raccoons burrowing under the sod in their back yard. A disagreement over how to dispatch the pests creates a chain reaction of mishaps that include a murder by bow and arrow. Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert and Anna Friel round out the cast and Laura Linney is attached to play an eccentric neighbor. Filming is expected to star later this summer in Seattle. Maguire, who was interested in the role very early on, will film The Details before heading

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Tobey Maguire Gets All The Details

7 July 2009 6:46 PM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

Tobey Maguire has signed on to star in the indie black comedy The Details, written and directed by Jacob Estes.

According to Variety, Maguire joins Elizabeth Banks in the film about a struggling married couple who, already struggling with issues like infidelity and whether they should stay married, see their lives further complicated by ravenous raccoons burrowing under the sod in their back yard. A disagreement over how to dispatch the pests creates a chain reaction of mishaps that include a murder by bow and arrow

Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert and Anna Friel round out the cast and Laura Linney is attached to play an eccentric neighbor.

Maguire steps into a role that James McAvoy held, until a scheduling conflict knocked him out of the picture. Maguire, who had flirted with the role very early on, decided to do the film before making Spider-Man 4 with director Sam Raimi in

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Ron Weaseley Has Swine Flu

4 July 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

It may not be a celebrity story to rival the endless coverage of Michael Jackson's death, but actor Rupert Grint, who plays ginger-kid Ron Weaseley in the Harry Potter films, is reportedly recovering from a mild case of swine flu.

Grint's management said that he took a few days off from work on the adaptation of the series' final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which will be released as two movies. The next flick in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hits theaters on July 15.

Swine flu aside, it must be something of a relief for Grint -- along with fellow Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson -- to be finally seeing the end of the J.K. Rowling gravy train. While the massively popular film series gave the trio instant celebrity and all the opportunities that brings, they've been chained to the Potter films for half their lives.

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Dawn Taylor

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Some 'Details' to work out in Stalled Jacob Estes Thriller

1 July 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- I was all smiles when news surfaced last May that Mean Creek's Jacob Estes was quickly jumping into production with the foursome of James McAvoy, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney and Anna Friel for some nutty indie dramatic thriller about neighbors going ballistic. Recent reports from Seattle are that the production has hit a rough patch. This quirky bit of news from CNN shows that The Details has hit some kind of snag - which leads us to think that Mark Gordon Productions has run into some financing issues or logistical problems which would be surprising since the elaborate synopsis (with plot spoilers galore) basically tells us that the production should not be running into financing problems. It all started with those wretched raccoons. The very morning after Jeff (McAvoy) completed his perfect garden with newly laid turf, he wakes up to find it in total disarray, with each

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Laura Linney To Star In Mtc's Time Stands Still, Opens 01/28/2010

30 June 2009 4:18 PM, PDT | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Laura Linney ("John Adams," The Savages) will play the lead role in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming New York premiere of Time Stands Still by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies. The limited engagement, to be directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan (Accent on Youth, Sight Unseen on Broadway, Brooklyn Boy, Dinner with Friends) will begin previews at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 in preparation for a Thursday, January 28, 2010 opening night. The production had previously been announced to play Mtc's New York City Center - Stage I.

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Blu-Ray Review: HBO Brings Home Best Two Mini-Series of 2008 in HD

15 June 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Chicago – If you haven’t seen HBO’s “Generation Kill” or “John Adams,” then you haven’t seen two of the best mini-series of the last several years and the absolute best of 2008. These are both pieces of amazing television, must-sees for fans of intense, adult drama and now available on Blu-Ray.

Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0 The brilliance of “Generation Kill” was somewhat overshadowed by the fact that HBO produced one of the most critically-acclaimed mini-series of all time in the stunning “John Adams” in the same year. With both titles finally available on Blu-Ray, now viewers who may have seen only one of the two or not had a chance to catch up with either can see both in the format most people watch HBO in nowadays - HD.

“Band of Brothers” has long been one of the most successful DVD (and now Blu-Ray releases) on the market and anyone who

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Ted Kennedy's Life On Its Way To HBO

14 May 2009 11:30 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Unlike John Adams, who couldn't watch his seven-part, multiple- award-winning miniseries starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney unless St. Peter hung a TV on Cloud Nine, Ted Kennedy's getting immortalized whilst still with us. HBO is, as we speak, organizing a documentary on the senator. Titled "Teddy," produced by Peter Kunhardt, who's done stuff on Lincoln, JFK and Bobby, a 90-minute job is now in work. Not with actors. Mostly with archival footage and never-before-seen home movies.

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David Tennant to host PBS’s ‘Masterpiece Contemporary’? really?

14 May 2009 10:03 AM, PDT | From www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news

Everyone’s been emailing me about this, and I gotta say, I’m mystified. Sez The Hollywood Reporter: New York -- David Tennant is the new host of PBS' "Masterpiece Contemporary." Tennant will make his debut on the long-running public TV anthology this fall, its producing station, Wgbh, announced Wednesday. The 38-year-old Scottish actor, who follows past "Masterpiece" hosts such as Alan Cumming and Laura Linney, played the title role in the long-running BBC sci-fi series "Doctor Who." His screen credits include "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." "Masterpiece Contemporary" returns on the Public Broadcasting Service in October with "Endgame," a drama about the final days of apartheid in South Africa starring William Hurt and Jonny Lee Miller. It premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival. If someone had asked me to guess what Tennant would do after leaving Doctor Who, I don’t think this would have crossed

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