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Bizarre Trailer For I Love You Phillip Morris
17 July 2009 12:56 PM, PDT
I Love You, Phillip Morris has gone down a tortured road ever since starting with the promising concept of "Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor as gay convicts." It premiered at Sundance, failed to get U.S. distribution for months, and was finally picked up by a tiny new distributor. With just two months to go until the French premiere, we still don't really know when we'll see Phillip Morris stateside. In the meantime the French distributor, EuropaCorp, has come up with a trailer, snagged by Jim Carrey Online (via Slashfilm). Honestly, watching the trailer, I finally understand why this movie had such a hard time finding a distributor. It's a weird combination of gay panic jokes, genuine gay romance, and serious violence, with Jim Carrey's character doing harm to himself and others to get back in jail and back to the one he loves. Plus Carrey is doing this
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First Official Image Of Jake Gyllenhaal In Prince Of Persia
17 July 2009 12:40 PM, PDT
Months ago we saw an early glimpse of Jake Gyllenhaal in costume as the titular character in Prince of Persia. And while it's been a long wait to find out what he looks like officially, don't get your hopes up too high-- the official photo looks effectively identical to the leaked one, with slightly better production values and hairstyle. Which is, of course, fine. No one was really expecting the images from an expensive video game adaptation to look all that exciting, or different at all from the video game in question. So take the opportunity to look at the new image posted by EW, admire Jake's biceps, and think of all the muscle-rippling glory to come when the movie comes out next year.
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Poster: Richard Kelly's The Box
17 July 2009 12:02 PM, PDT
Aside from the gossip and hilarious one-liners you can occasionally catch, following famous people on Twitter has one distinct advantage: sometimes, you really do here it there first. I recently started following Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly, and today he debuted on his feed the final poster for The Box, his new thriller starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden and Frank Langella. In the film Diaz and Marsden play a couple who are mysteriously given a box that contains a button; if you push the button, you get a million dollars, but someone in the world you don't know will die. Frank Langella is on hand to encourage them to push the button and look creepy in the process. The movie comes out in October just in time for Halloween, and there will be plenty of movie fans with their fingers crossed that this can be Kelly's comeback after the failure
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Exclusive Interview: 500 Days Of Summer Screenwriters
17 July 2009 8:21 AM, PDT
Everyone knows how to tell a relationship story and a breakup story-- we've all been there. But how do you tell that same story, the same elements of early love and then eventual heartbreak, in a way that seems fresh? Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber cracked the code when they wrote 500 Days of Summer, a story about a young man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and a young woman (Zooey Deschanel) whose relationship works great until it goes all wrong. And as hard as I tried, I never really did figure out exactly how they did it, how they knew how to shuffle the scenes of their narrative so the breakup comes first and the meet-cute comes 10 minutes later. I guess the answer is that they're just that good. Read below for my interview with the guys, how Scott wanted to write the story after a particularly nasty breakup of his own, how
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MTV Doesn't Care About Spoiled Rich Kids Any More
17 July 2009 7:33 AM, PDT
I thought the whole trend of telling stories about spoiled teenagers had gone out, given that nobody has any money anymore and all. Even MTV, which has minted money with shows like The Hills and My Super Sweet 16, had ditched the story Bad Girls, about teenage girls sent to a kind of reform school on a Caribbean island, where they're attacked by drug dealers and killers. But a story with that much potential for nudity and blood couldn't disappear entirely, and now Inferno Entertainment has picked up what MTV no longer wanted, and will produce the film described in THR as a cross between Lord of the Flies and Heathers. Inferno, which has financed and produced films like The Women and Just Friends, has hired Alex McAulay to adapt the script from his own book, which was published by MTV in 2005. It's a shame to see MTV abandoning a
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Another Elmore Leonard Novel Heads To The Big Screen
17 July 2009 6:16 AM, PDT
Given how many Elmore Leonard novels have been adapted into film, it feels like we should finally be out of content. But writer-director Charlie Matthau has found yet another, and is planning to adapt Leonard's 1988 novel Freaky Deaky into a feature film. The book is a little different from the usual gangsters-and-guns we expect from Leonard. The story is about a group of former 1960s radicals who find themselves getting into a new kind of trouble in 1970s L.A. "I am the luckiest director in the world to be able to bring Elmore Leonard's favorite and finest novel to the screen," Matthau-- yes, the son of Walter-- told THR. Production on the film is scheduled to begin in January.
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Todd Phillips Spreads The Hangover Cash
17 July 2009 6:02 AM, PDT
Todd Phillips has been on a greenlighting roll ever since The Hangover started minting money for Warner Bros. The latest project going forward with his name attached won't be directed by him, but rest assured that Phillips' name on Staycation is what's propelling that movie. Warner Bros. has picked Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay to handle the screenplay, a male-driven comedy with a plot that's otherwise being kept under wraps. I'm not sure why they feel the need to make a story called Staycation secret, since that word-- coined for people who ditch vacations due to the recession-- suggests a whole story of its own. But that's all Variety got, so it's what we've got. Manfredi and Hay were also rewriters on Man-Witch, the comedy that recently had both Phillips and Zach Galifianakis attached, but has been ditched by them in favor of the road trip comedy Due Date. Phillips
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New Images for Almost Every 2010 Movie
17 July 2009 1:31 AM, PDT
Comic-Con is coming quickly, and as everyone knows, this is the time when studios start showing their big guns. This is a time for exclusive trailers, news, and actor interviews. It.s also the only four days every year where it.s actually okay (popular, even) to be a geek. In preparation for Comic-Con, EW.com has hit the jackpot. They are currently running a feature detailing many of the great movies that will be sneak previewed during the four-day extravaganza. Not only does the piece go through descriptions, cast members, and directors, but it also offers up several brand new exclusive photos. We get to see Tony Stark for the first time since Iron Man. We get to see an exclusive Alice in Wonderland picture, and boy, does it look gorgeous. There.s plenty of Zombieland coverage, and even a write-up on George Lucas. likely-to-fail Clone Wars. Check out
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Fantastic Mr. Fox Pictures Reappear in High-Res
17 July 2009 12:31 AM, PDT
A couple of days ago, JoBlo offered up the first glimpse at Wes Anderson.s Fantastic Mr. Fox. The view was short lived, though, as Fox (ask the studio about that pun) asked very nicely (I imagine) for the picture to be taken down. Now Spanish language website FilmsActu.com has the first high-res photos of the Wes Anderson.s stop-motion flick. One of the pictures included is the one that we saw a few days ago. The site probably says something cool about the pictures, and I should probably be able to read it, being Mexican and all, but you should probably just Google Translate it. It.s hard to imagine how Wes Anderson is going to pull this off, and where he got the idea to do it in the first place. But these animals look far different than any other stop-motion characters I.ve ever seen, so
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Ed Helms Sells Insurance In Cedar Rapids
17 July 2009 12:16 AM, PDT
Here.s a funny thought. Next to Steve Carell Ed Helms, not John Krasinski, is now the most famous person from The Office. Thanks to The Hangover, sales of Andy star mugs should increase exponentially. So by the way, should the number of places you.ll see Ed Helms. Variety says he.s already lined up his post-Hangover followup. Just think, if the movie had sucked right now we could be calling it a Hangover remedy. Then I.d pat myself on the back and go to bed feeling pleased with myself. But The Hangover was great and so I.m forced to stick with simply calling it whatever he.s doing next. What he.s doing next is Cedar Rapids, a comedy in which Helms will play a sad-sack insurance agent who hits an insurance convention to try and save his coworkers. jobs. I.m imagining it as Death
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Twilight Eclipse Casting And Another New Moon Image
16 July 2009 10:46 PM, PDT
Though the second movie has yet to be released, Summit is already knee-deep in casting the third Twilight movie, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Risky Biz says the first new actor being added to the franchise for the film is an Australian named Xavier Samuel. Who is he? He.s done a few films in Australia, played the random Goth teen, but for the most part he.s an unknown. In Eclipse Samuel will play Riley, a newly turned vampire who is used by a vampires villain named Victoria to lead her newborn vampire army. Meanwhile the second franchise film, Twilight: New Moon, is still on track for its November 20th release. The Hollywood Gossip scored a new image from it, click the image below to see it bigger on their site.
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Could Harry Potter Be Bilbo Baggins?
16 July 2009 10:08 PM, PDT
This year.s Comic Con is really shaping up to be a big deal. Avatar will be seen, Tron footage will probably show up, and oh yeah Guillermo del Toro may be there to reveal the star of The Hobbit. That.s right, if everything goes as so many seem to expect, there.s a good chance that Bilbo Baggins may be up on stage in Hall H next week. The question is, who will it be? The La Times has a few theories. They.re dropping names like crazy and chief among them are James McAvoy, David Tennant, Jack Black (wha?), and a former boy wizard by the name of Daniel Radcliffe. Of course the La Times offers no reason to believe any of it, they don.t even have a source, just a lot of vague prophesizing. I.m sure fans will go nuts over the idea of
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Early G.I. Joe Reviews: Not As Bad As You'd Think
16 July 2009 8:45 PM, PDT
All that bad buzz over G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra? It might be unwarranted. Maybe there.s hope for this movie yet. Reviews of the film have started surfacing around the internet in the form of scooper reviews sent in to three different movie blogs. One of them is being widely decried as an obvious studio planet, as in something written by the studio and leaked to unwary movie sites as a way of generating positive buzz for the film or alternatively something written by a movie site which hasn.t actually seen the film as a way of getting web traffic. Since there.s so much controversy and suspicion surrounding it, that review won.t be mentioned here. The other two however, seem to be the real deal. If these other reviews are real, the surprising thing here is that they.re all generally positive. The most credible
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Thirst Fills My Fridge With Blood And Video
16 July 2009 7:51 PM, PDT
Sitting in my fridge right now are two IV bags full of blood. I.ve received one in the mail, once a day for the past two days. Accompanying each bag was a single straw and on the packaging the words .From the director of Old Boy Thirst.. I haven.t quite worked up the courage to taste it yet, but should a third bag show up tomorrow I suppose I.d better start drinking lest I run out of fridge space. So Thirst is an Asian vampire movie and with all the creepy beverages showing up on my doorstep, they have me expecting gore. Except there.s this. a brand new clip from the film which, not only contains no blood but also no gore, action, or violence of any kind. Instead it.s simply a creepy priest, hitting on a hot school girl. Thirst is sending me mixed
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Robert De Niro In Machete?
16 July 2009 4:07 PM, PDT
Robert Rodriguez.s Machete is supposed to start shooting in Austin at the end of this month, and in preparation for that it looks like he.s started filling out the cast. Danny Trejo will of course, play the titular Mexican madman bent on revenge, but Bloody-Disgusting has a line on who may fill other parts in the film. According to their sources, Michelle Rodriguez, Jonah Hill, and Robert De Niro may parts in the movie. Rodriguez makes sense, she.s kind of like a prettier, female version of Danny Trejo. Pissed off is her specialty and she.s tailor made for an action-revenge flick. Maybe this will give her the career boost she.s needed. Bd says she.s playing a character named .Luz.. Hill and DeNiro are a little more unexpected. Jonah could be playing someone named .Julio. and De Niro a senator named McLaughlin. For now consider
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Must Watch: Judd Apatow's Funny People Podcasts
16 July 2009 3:41 PM, PDT
Judd Apatow isn.t just funny, he.s a comedy nerd. If you caught him on the Tonight Show a few months ago then you probably heard him talk about how as a 15-year-old he lured Leno to his parents house and into his bedroom where he. interviewed him. Apatow, even as a kid, was so into comedy that he created a fake interview show and then arranged interviews with various comedians to pick their brains. As part of the promotion for Funny People Universal has posted a series of podcasts on iTunes, the first batch of which features Apatow talking about his lifelong obsession with comedy and showcasing some of those interviews he did as a kid. You.ll also see Adam Sandler and Apatow discussing their early days together in comedy (and living together), with footage of both of them as kids, up on stage doing their thing.
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Do The Math: 8 Reasons Harry Potter Is Greater Than Twilight
16 July 2009 11:28 AM, PDT
Let me preface this by saying that I didn.t mind the first Twilight movie. It wasn.t art, didn.t have much to say, but it was dumb fun aimed at getting little girls. body temperatures all warm, and I thought it was pretty amusing. Girls in the same row as me quoted lines that they knew would be recited on screen, they giggled at the sight of Edward, sighed at that really terrible .And then the lion fell in love with the lamb. line. Yet, somehow, I walked out fairly entertained. But then the Harry Potter comparisons started rolling out. Media pundits everywhere declared Twilight the new Harry Potter. I wondered, flabbergasted, how any person could ever believe such a thing. Potter?! Really? What I saw onscreen was soap opera trash for the tween nation. It didn.t bear anywhere near the universal appeal of the Harry Potter
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Half-Blood Prince Earns $58 Million Opening Day
16 July 2009 10:27 AM, PDT
Harry Potter.s $22 million in earnings at midnight showings may be the biggest of all time, but the boy wizard.s total opening day box office is less record breaking. It.s only the fourth biggest of all time. Erc reports that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince earned a whopping $58 million on Wednesday, its opening day. It.s the fourth biggest single-day gross of all time, bested only by Spider-Man 3 with $59 million, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with $62 million, and the all time champ The Dark Knight with $67 million. That means that after earning that $22 million in midnight showings, fans showed up and handed over $36 million more to Daniel Radcliffe and his friends. Expect equally big numbers over this weekend. Transformers finally has some box office competition.
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Taken Director Heads To A War Zone
16 July 2009 9:56 AM, PDT
Everyone surprised themselves when they fell in love with Taken earlier this year, but even the movie's biggest defenders can admit that the only good parts of that movie are action. Luckily that's what 80% of Taken was, and director Pierre Morel seems to be sticking with what works for his next film too. Universal has picked him to direct Pursuit, which is set in a war zone. Oh boy! More gunfire! The story involved seems to be a bit more realistic and maybe dramatic; according to Variety it's based on the early career of photographer Jason Howe, who went on assignment in Colombia and fell in love with a woman who turned out to be an assassin. Yes, more realistic than the notion that every pretty girl in Europe is bound to be sold into sex slavery, but not really that much more. And there's even more good news! Morel
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Exclusive Interview: 500 Days Of Summer Director Marc Webb
16 July 2009 9:40 AM, PDT
Despite an aversion to romantic comedies, Marc Webb was smitten when he read Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber's 500 Days of Summer, which tells the story of the beginning, middle and end of a relationship in a jumbled, aggressively non-linear style. And even though Webb had no intention of dramatically the script, when developing the project he put the whole thing in order. "I graphed out the 500 days in order, so I would have some sort of idea about the emotional continuity of the scenes," he told me when we spoke at the Fox Searchlight offices earlier this week. And while he said the main reason for making the graph was to help the designers know the seasons and the continuity, a side effect was uncovering the movie's most mysterious character-- the girl of the title, Summer, played by Zooey Deschanel. "It helped me sort of plot out what Summer's
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