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Mad Max's Weekend Movie Guide: 'Furious 6' & More
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"No, then it's like some male fantasy. Meet a French girl on the train, f**k her, and never see her again." - Julie Delpy, 'Before Sunrise'
Greetings from the apocalypse! This here is my twentieth weekend column, which seemed like as good a time as any to reach out to my fellow weekend road warriors to say if you have any suggestions for upcoming films/local weekend events to feature in future editions just write me on Twitter. Signed 8 x 10 glossies will be sent to fans at my secretary's discretion. But seriously, write away — give this wandering rōnin of the desert some feedback, yo.
Friday, May 24
Pow! In Theaters
I'm admittedly not a huge fan of the "Hangover" franchise — only in America and possibly France could such a thing spawn a franchise — so when I tell you "The Hangover Part III" has nary a laugh or even »
- Max Evry
Exclusive TV Spot: 'The Kings of Summer'
2 hours ago
Those of you who caught it at Sundance earlier this year know it as "Toy's House," but now the newly-titled "The Kings of Summer" is ready to break free from the snowy boundaries of Park City to begin its reign as the indie film choice of the Summer 2013 movie season.
This unique and heartfelt coming-of-age comedy chronicles the rugged adventures of three teenage friends — Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and Biaggio (Moises Arias) — who run away from home to spend the summer building a house in the woods and living off the land. The three young leads are certainly poised for superstardom, though the occasional scene is stolen by the grown-ups that make up the supporting cast, including "Parks and Recreation" co-stars, American treasures and real-life couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally.
Check out the exclusive TV spot for the film above, and bow down to "The Kings of Summer »
- NextMovie Staff
Gael Garcia Bernal Joins Jon Stewart's Directorial Debut
14 hours ago
Jon Stewart is sharply hilarious and Gael Garcia Bernal honed his comedic chops against Will Ferrell, but the pair are teaming up for the first time to tackle a grimly serious subject.
Stewart has cast the 34-year-old Mexican actor as the lead in his directorial debut, according to TheWrap.com. "The Daily Show" host will take a leave of absence this summer to work on the Iranian-set "Rosewater." While correspondent Jon Oliver sits at the news desk for eight of the 12 weeks his boss will be gone, Stewart will direct the star of "Amores Perros" in the story of a journalist, Maziar Bahari, who visits Iran on assignment and ends up jailed for 118 days and roughed up by an interrogator who smells of rosewater. Hey, look, it's the title!
Stewart and writer Aimee Molloy adapted the story from Bahari's 2011 memoir, "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, »
- Ryan J Downey
Questions and Answers With Ken Jeong
16 hours ago
Innocent pedestrians would be forgiven for crossing to the other side of the street at the sight of Ken Jeong. After all, the 43-year-old actor is best known for playing the criminally insane Leslie Chow in the successful "Hangover" trilogy. (This when he isn't playing the often equally insane Senor Chang on the NBC series "Community.") For many, the enduring image associated with Jeong's name is that moment in "The Hangover" when he jumped out of a car trunk, naked and screaming, and wrapped his legs around poor, innocent Bradley Cooper's neck. Yikes.
Jeong gets to say "toodaloo motherf***ers" to Mr. Chow in this weekend's "The Hangover Part III," acting as the movie's central antagonist and main provocateur. The man himself couldn't be further from his character, however: In conversation, the father of two is earnest and nice. He even maintains his medical license. (Jeong was a physician »
- Kase Wickman
Morgan Freeman Falls Asleep During Live TV Interview
16 hours ago
Promoting a movie can be hard work. Movie stars find themselves sitting in the same hotel room all day, looking at the same movie posters and being asked the same questions by a bunch of people who have been flown in from all over the world to pester them.
"What was it like working with so-and-so?" "Tell me about your character." "Any funny stories from the set?" "Who is your celebrity crush?" Zzzzzz. In this case, literally.
Morgan Freeman has played Frederick Douglass, the President, Batman's backup buddy and even God, so he's earned the right to sneak in a snooze whenever and wherever he sees fit. Say, for example, while doing a live interview.
In this clip, fellow Bats alum Michael Caine is doing the heavy lifting talking to a Seattle Fox affiliate's morning show about "Now You See Me" anyway.
These news anchors should be glad Freeman didn't »
- Ryan J Downey
The Top 5 'Between Two Ferns' Episodes So Far
18 hours ago
Here lies a true fact: There have only been 17 total episodes of Zach Galifianakis' "Between Two Ferns." Doesn't that surprise you? Meaning, it surprises me, so shouldn't it surprise you?
The esteemed Funny or Die web series has made such a massive comedic impact in such a limited amount of time that the idea that it exists as only a mere 80ish minutes of total running time is downright absurd. And here's the kicker: They're all gold. There's not a single episode of Btf that one would call "weak," just "weaker than the exceptional."
The following episodes are the exceptional.
5. Jon Hamm
If your intent is to find the ideal episode to introduce someone to the Btf series for the first time, the one with Jon Hamm might be your best bet. Of all episodes that don't feature some extreme outlier, be it overt weirdness, overt cruelty, a musical performance midway through the interview, »
- Nick Blake
Script: Deleted Scene Unearthed From 'Before Midnight'
20 hours ago
This week sees the release of the third installment of Richard Linklater's now-legendary "Before" series (Can we call it the "Before" series? Tell you what, we're calling it the "Before" series), where Ethan Hawke's Jesse and Julie Delpy's Celine intimately discuss the complex nuances of life and love, employing every vast, desolate corner of the English language in the process.
In a NextMovie exclusive (meaning, we went through Linklater's trash), we've stumbled upon a deleted scene from the script of "Before Midnight" that was unfortunately rendered a wee bit dated since Linklater first wrote it sometime between 2005 and 2007. It becomes increasingly obvious why the scene didn't make the final cut of the film.
Click on the image below for the extended Pdf, and say hi to Daniel Powter for us.
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- Nick Blake
Helen Mirren Plays Queen to Fulfill Dying Boy's Wish
23 hours ago
Let's re-tool the song to read "God save Helen Mirren as the Queen," shall we?
In today's installment of things that make us go awwwwwwww, American dame Helen Mirren took her regal antics off-stage for just a bit in order to fulfill a dying boy's wish.
Ten-year-old Oliver Burton, who's been given just weeks to live with his third round of cancer and who was also born with Down Syndrome, wanted nothing more than to meet the Queen of England. For one reason or another, though, the tyke was not granted an audience with the real royal herself at Buckingham Palace, so Helen Mirren stepped in.
Mirren has been playing the Queen in a West End Stage production of "The Audience," and so she paid for the boy and his family to come watch the show and have a little tea time afterward.
"She stayed in character for the whole thing, »
- Amanda Bell
Benedict Cumberbatch Lathers Up in New 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Deleted Scene
23 hours ago
Brace yourselves, Cumberbitches.
A portion of that deleted Benedict Cumberbatch shower scene from "Star Trek Into Darkness" Alice Eve was teasin' earlier this month was just served up last night by director J.J. Abrams.
Yep, there's ole' Benny shirtless and Khaning it up. All that intensity plus some sudsies! Aaaaaah and such! If you wanna just watch that on loop (totally normal), here you are.
We do recommend using Conan's sexy sound bite as background music.
Now for why this came out so soon instead of in the eventual Blu-ray combo pack super duper extra special features teaseage which will surely come later, well, here's the deal: Earlier this week, "Trek" screenwriter and producer Damon Lindelof publicly answered criticisms about the film's "gratuitous" display of Eve's voluptuousness (that's just fancy talk for "zoomz on the bazoomz"), so while on "Conan" last night, Abrams himself decided to weigh in with »
- Amanda Bell
'We're the Millers' and You're Going to Want to See This Trailer
23 hours ago
Some movies pretty much just sell themselves. And that's the case with "We're the Millers," which features the comedy team of Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston as a couple of hapless nobodies who get roped into becoming international drug smugglers.
But just in case you aren't sold on that description alone, don't worry, we've also got both the regular and red band trailers right here to convince you, courtesy of YouTube.
Hey, you know what they say: A picture is worth a thousand words.
And in this case, it's also worth $100,000, which is the amount crazy businessman Ed Helms offers Sudeikis' low level dope dealer to bring back a truckload of prime hashish from Mexico. That in turn prompts a brilliant plan: With the help of a stripper acquaintance (that's Aniston! Thank you, lord!) and a couple of mismatched ragamuffins (Emma Roberts and Will Poulter), they'll just pretend to be »
- Scott Harris
Say What? 1981 'Star Wars' Talks Reveal Yoda Didn't Fight and Padme Lived!
23 hours ago
Reverberations are still being felt in the geekosphere from an auspicious meeting of the minds that took place at George Lucas' Park Way house in San Anselmo, California in July of 1981, when he, director Richard Marquand, screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and producer Howard Kazanjian held court for a "Return of the Jedi" story conference.
With J.W. Rinzler's exhaustive "The Making of Return of the Jedi" hitting bookshelves in October, Huffington Post got ahold of a tantalizing transcript of said 1981 meeting included in the book, which fans will surely line up for once they hear how closely Lucas stuck to his guns on the Skywalker backstory… as well as the nutty ideas that changed before cameras rolled on the prequels.
"Anakin gets worse and worse," Lucas explained to his team, according to the transcript, "and finally Ben has to fight him and he throws him down into a volcano and Vader is all beat up. »
- Max Evry
Yes, There Is A God: Andrew Garfield Plays Basketball With Kids In Full Spider-Man Regalia
23 May 2013 7:36 AM, PDT
New York City is currently being bombarded with all sorts of super-heroism, as the cast and crew from "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" are in the Big Apple shooting the highly anticipated sequel. Anytime a big movie like this shoots in a city this stuffed with people, there are inevitably interesting encounters between pedestrians and big screen superheroes and villains (like when Jamie Foxx strolled through Times Square in his lightning-blue Electro make-up). And while amateur paparazzi have been capturing moments of impromptu Spider-mania throughout the shoot, nothing has come close to being as heartwarmingly adorable as the footage of Andrew Garfield, dressed head-to-toe in his Spider-Man ensemble, playing a pick-up game of basketball with two little kids.
The footage was supposedly filmed in Chinatown and if you look off to the side, you can see Garfield's super-adorable girlfriend (and "Spider-Man" co-star) Emma Stone with the dog. The little kids don't »
- NextMovie Staff
Imagining the Next 3 'Before Midnight' Sequels
23 May 2013 7:00 AM, PDT
First came "Before Sunrise." Then, naturally, "Before Sunset." And now, finally, "Before Midnight."
Boy, writer/director Richard Linklater sure enjoys his "one well-matched couple articulately dissect every facet of life and love" movies, doesn't he? He also likes the word "Before" a lot.
Since there are no signs of slowing down the Hawke/Delpy gravy train, we've proposed the following three movies through which Linklater can delve even deeper into Jesse and Celine's relationship as they age — including one that may or may not already exist (and won an Oscar).
More NextMovie Originals View Gallery » »
- NextMovie Staff
Jean-Ralphio Tries To Convince Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson To Star in "The Hobbit"
23 May 2013 6:00 AM, PDT
Above is a video for something called "Youtube Comedy Week," which apparently is a real thing and no one of authority feels it to be in any way redundant, like comedy on YouTube is going to cease after a seven-day window or something But I Digress.
The video features Ben Schwartz as a character that may or may not be Jean-Ralphio from "Parks and Recreation" trying to convince Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn to make either of "Lincoln" or "The Hobbit" into a buddy comedy. The pair scoffs at the idea — or at least Vaughn does — but we have to admit, "Lincoln" as a buddy comedy featuring Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth as roommates-gone-bad at least has some potential, even if that potential could be considered wildly offensive to many.
Vaughn as "The Hobbit" would be kind of funny too, at least for five or ten minutes. "What, do I »
- Nick Blake
Link Riot: George Takei as Every Character in 'Star Trek Into Darkness'
23 May 2013 4:00 AM, PDT
• Oh my! George Takei as every character in 'Star Trek Into Darkness.' [ScreenCrush]
• Obnoxiousness from the Will Smith and family press tour. [FilmDrunk]
• 'Catching Fire' stars discuss new scenes and changes in these new interviews from Cannes. [Hypable]
• Here's a new clip from 'This Is The End.' [YouTube]
• The Great Debate: 'Before Sunrise' vs 'Before Sunset.' [Film.com]
• 'Mean Girls' reference: Aaron Samuels thinks Lindsay Lohan should go to jail. [Popbytes]
• Ever wonder why 'Star Trek' made San Francisco the center of its universe? Here's the answer. [Wired]
• These on-screen graduations make us want to go back to school. [Buzzsugar]
• Who doesn't love good comedy? Well, it's comedy week on YouTube and you gotta check it out. [YouTube]
• ‘We Steal Secrets’ director Alex Gibney talks Julian Assange and the Wikileaks backlash to his film. [Flavorwire]
• 'Arrested Development': Where Are The Bluths Now? [MTV Movies Blog] »
- NextMovie Staff
About Those 'Hangover 3' End Credits
22 May 2013 9:00 PM, PDT
Warning: Spoilers up in here.
Booze, blow, prostitutes, old ladies ... one of the hallowed traditions of the Wolf Pack is to save the sickest, most depraved debauchery for the end credits, and that noble heritage is upheld for this weekend's "The Hangover Part III."
While director Todd Phillips eschews his traditional still photograph montage, the bro excess is chronicled in a brief one-minute scene after the final credits have rolled for a minute or so. When last we saw Alan (Zach Galifianakis), he was about to walk down the aisle with his sassy lady love Cassie (Melissa McCarthy) ... but when they fade back up the house from his wedding is completely destroyed, stuff is on fire, there's a motorcycle lodged in the window, etc.
Phil (Bradley Cooper) wakes up with a raging headache mumbling, "What the f**k?" Alan and Cassie wake up looking confused, too. Doug (Justin Bartha), naturally, »
- Max Evry
Hot People Looking Hot: Elsa Pataky Photos
22 May 2013 3:00 PM, PDT
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Hotness hath no fury like that of "Fast & Furious 6" star Elsa Pataky.
Elsa joined the high-speed action franchise in the fifth installment, "Fast Five," heating up the role of Elena Reves, the Rio police lady who becomes the love interest of Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel). Off-screen, Elsa is creating a new race of superbeings with her equally ridiculously hot husband, Chris Hemsworth. Are we ready for such gods to walk among us? Sure we are!
Start your engines and check out our collection of pics featuring Elsa Pataky looking hot in movies, magazines and on the red carpet. »
- NextMovie Staff
Melissa McCarthy Allegedly Fires Child-Abusing Extra
22 May 2013 2:25 PM, PDT
Melissa McCarthy's onscreen characters may poop in sinks and buy rounds of drinks with a stolen credit card, but she ain't gonna stand back and watch somebody abuse a child in real life.
The star of 2013's first big hit, "Identity Thief," reportedly fired a woman from the set of her new film on Monday after watching her hoist a young child in the air by the wrist.
The 20-something mother had brought her kindergarten-aged child with her to the Wilmington, North Carolina shooting location of 2014's "Tammy," which McCarthy co-wrote and is co-directing with her husband, Ben Falcone. The woman was one of more than 200 extras who spent the day shooting near a lake. She had been loudly telling her kid to "stop it" and "quiet down" all morning, according to TMZ, who first reported the story. After McCarthy witnessed her jerking the kid in the air by the wrist, »
- Ryan J Downey
'Don Jon' Trailer: Some People Love Porn, Some People Don't
22 May 2013 1:44 PM, PDT
No need to adjust your screen; this is not, we repeat, not the "Jersey Shore" ... although we totally get it why someone might be confused for a sec. There is a very "Gtl"-esque vibe going down when the titular guido character in Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Don Jon" repeatedly declares, "there's only a few things I really care about in life: my body, my pad, my ride, my family, my church, my boys, my girls and my porn." Well, alright then.
Gordon-Levitt, in his writer-directorial debut, stars as a twenty-something New Jersey bachelor who's got a very skewed view of romance thanks to his frequency of adult website visits. He somehow meets the girl of his naughty dreams in Scarlett Johansson's gum-smacking Barbara, but she's got the opposite problem of him — she's been conditioned to think of relationships as all kissing in the rain and slurping up a shared »
- Amanda Bell
Scarlett Johansson And Chris Pratt Join Spike Jonze's 'Her'
22 May 2013 11:00 AM, PDT
It was announced yesterday that Spike Jonze's mysterious new movie, "Her," about a man (played by Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with his Siri-like operating system, would be released by Warner Bros on November 20th. And today it was revealed that two previously unreported, very exciting cast members will make appearances in Jonze's film: Scarlett Johansson and Chris Pratt.
It is unclear, of course, what roles the actors play (although it is conceivable that Johansson could voice the computer, especially if the settings on the computer call for "breathlessly sexy"). They join previously announced cast members Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Samantha Morton, and Olivia Wilde. This is going to be good.
Pratt, of course, stars in the hilarious NBC sitcom "Parks and Recreation" but has been making inroads with his big screen career, playing one of the guys who killed Bin Laden in last year's amazing "Zero Dark Thirty, »
- NextMovie Staff
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