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Reed’s Bargain Bin: S1m0ne

6 July 2009 10:15 AM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news

Reed’s Bargain Bin [1] is a recurring column where Reed Farrington tells us about a movie he bought for under $5, and whether or not he regrets the purchase. Despite the clever title and participation of Al Pacino, S1m0ne did not receive much attention from critics or movie theatre audiences when it came out in 2002. The director, Andrew Niccol, had some acclaim as a result of having directed Gattaca (a smart science fiction film about a physically defective human in a genetically manipulated world) and having written The Truman Show (a smart allegorical film about a man who's oblivious to the fact that his life has been manufactured for the purposes of a television show). S1m0ne also has a high concept idea behind it: a movie director creates a computer generated actor who becomes a star while only he knows that the actor is computer generated. I think I’ve had

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Red Carpet Lineup & 1980 Pflashback

20 June 2009 5:45 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

Another random sampling of ladies hitting the red carpet or being caught by the paparazzi these past few days...

Kathy Bates was not at the press day for Chéri. But that's good. I was experiencing sensory overload anyway. Imagine if I had been made to feel even crazier than I already did about being in the same room with Michelle Pfeiffer. I didn't need Bates there as a freaky "I'm your no. 1 fan" reminder of the obsessive vibe I was probably giving off (uhhhh) New Topic!

Remember how fun Bates was on Six Feet Under a few years back? I kind of want her to do another TV series which is uncommon for me, given that I like my film actresses to stay put.

Sacha Baron Cohen, excuse me, Brüno at a photocall in Spain. That outfit... he really can't help himself. I'm drawn to the "too much" factor, I think.

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NATHANIEL R

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Gun Battle Clip From Public Enemies

18 June 2009 6:17 AM, PDT | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news

The first full clip from Michael Mann's Public Enemies is now online. Just follow the link here.

The scene is a full-blown night shoot-out complete with tommy guns, broken glass, and a heck of a lot of bullet holes. FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) and his team attempt an ambush outside the forest hideout of gangster John Dillinger (Johnny Depp). In terms of style, the scene seems to borrow not only from Scarface (the 1932 Howard Hawks version), but also the first big shoot-out scene in The Godfather: Part II, which sees Al Pacino diving for cover indoors while shooters ambush from a wooded area outside.

Public Enemies is based on the Bryan Burrough book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, which tells the stories behind the rise and fall of Dillinger in the 1930s. Melvin Purvis pursued Dillinger and eventually

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Rich Z Zwelling

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Michelle Pfeiffer 'made Al Pacino bleed'

17 June 2009 11:38 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Michelle Pfeiffer has revealed that she secured her role in Scarface by making Al Pacino bleed during a screen test. The Witches Of Eastwick actress made the admission on David Letterman’s chatshow that she “sliced and diced” the actor, The Huffington Post reports. While promoting her new movie Cheri, the 51-year-old also said that originally Pacino did not want her for the character of Elvira Hancock in the 1983 picture. However, the pair shot a screen test (more)

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Michelle Pfeiffer: How I Landed 'Scarface' (Video)

16 June 2009 9:59 PM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news

Michelle Pfeiffer told David Letterman how she landed her role in 'Scarface' by making Al Pacino bleed. Appearing on 'Late Night' Tuesday night to promote 'Cheri,' Pfeiffer said that Al Pacino already didn't want her cast in the role of Elvira when she was asked to screen test. Shooting an argument scene where she clears a table of dishes, Pfeiffer finished the take and saw blood everywhere. As the crew rushed her to see where she'd been cut, she looked up and realized it was Pacino who was bleeding, thanks to her gestures and dish throwing. And that's when, she says, Pacino's affection towards her turned and she got the job. Watch:...

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Hugh Hudson Takes Us Back with Revolution

26 May 2009 2:35 PM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

The director of the 1985 film talks about the new director's cut of the Al Pacino film

Sometimes, in the movie business, things just don't work out the way they should have, and one such instance would be the box-office and critical bomb Revolution. The film starred Al Pacino, right off the heels of Scarface, and also starred Donald Sutherland, Natassja Kinski and Joan Plowright in this epic tale set against the backdrop of the Revolutionary War. Director Hugh Hudson had come off such hits as Chariots of Fire and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes also, so you would've thought this would be a massive hit... but it wasn't even close. The film, which cost an estimated $28 million to produce, took in less than $350,000 at the box office in 1985, and the overwhelming failure of the film apparently even cause Pacino himself to go on an acting hiatus,

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Cannes Favorite: Jacques Audiard's "The Prophet"

19 May 2009 2:21 AM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news

So far, Jacques Audiard's Un Prophete is the favorite at Cannes. The violent story of a young poor defenseless thug who ends up in jail for a minor crime, only to become -- through the brutality of prison life -- a hardened murderer; its appeal lies, above all, in its lack of morality. "Your film has no message," I said to Jacques Audiard after the screening, as he faced me on a terrace overlooking the bright Cannes bay. "It is refreshingly free." "Of course it has no message," quipped Audiard, a wiry fast-talking dynamic Frenchman, while he unpeeled a pill from a packet and jumped up to ask for a glass of water. "It is cinema. Cinema like Cronenberg's A History of Violence. I couldn't get into Scarface, for example, because Al Pacino was...

Karin Badt

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[DVD Review] How It All Went Down

13 May 2009 11:22 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

From the title alone you can pretty much infer that it didn’t go down too well, because it’s doubtful that they make a movie about how well it all went down. So, there’s that. There’s also the fact that the preview trailers on the DVD consist of low-rent, low budget crime thrillers starring a bunch of D-listers straight out of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew (Gary Busey, Daniel Baldwin, Tom Sizemore…need I say more?). So you can imagine how low my expectations were for this particular low-rent, low budget crime thriller.

Our story concerns Carmine “Istante” Cavelli, a young filmmaker attempting to scrounge up money to finance his feature film, aptly titled V.I.O.L.E.N.T, with each letter corresponding to a separate story. Unfortunately, few others [read: no one] share his enthusiasm for the project, and thus he is forced to go back to

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Inna Mkrtycheva

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What's Old Is New Again in Theaters

11 May 2009 5:45 AM, PDT | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news

It's not just that this is the year for film reboots and sequels. Empire Online is reporting that that Universal Studios will re-release five classic movies in theaters. On deck for the digital big-screen treatment are Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas (June 9), The Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi (July 28), Brian De Palma's Scarface with Al Pacino (August 25), Kurt Russell in John Carpenter's The Thing (September 15), and John Landis's Animal House (November 2).

Next Showing:

Link | Posted 5/11/2009 by Rich Z

Al Pacino | Brian De Palma | Dan Aykroyd | John Belushi | John Landis | Kurt Russell | Stanley Kubrick | John Carpenter | Kirk Douglas | National Lampoon's Animal House | The Blues Brothers | The Thing | Spartacus | Scarface

Rich Z Zwelling

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Classic Films Returning To Big Screen

11 May 2009 12:54 AM, PDT | From EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news

Good news for film fans: some of our favourites are set to be re-released in digital cinemas this year, with Spartacus, The Blues Brothers, Scarface, The Thing and Animal House all headed back to the big screen. You can see the trailer for the lot below.The films are due out over the next few months. Kirk Douglas's none-more-epic turn in Spartacus leads the pack on June 9, followed by the musical stylings of The Blues Brothers on July 28. Al Pacino will ask us all to say hallo to his leeetle friend in Scarface on August 25, before Kurt Russell tangles with alien life in The Thing on September 15. Animal House finishes things off on November 2.

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Great Cigar Moments In Screen History: Al Pacino In "Scarface"

2 April 2009 4:13 AM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news

When gangster Tony Montana made reference to his "little friend", you thought he was referring to his machine gun. However, another little friend also had a lot of firepower: his cigar. Pacino carried on the tradition of movie tough guys who were associated with smoking stogies. Sponsored by the Metropolitan Society, New Jersey's finest private club for cigar lovers. For more information, click on the logo above.

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Scarface named the public's top gangster movie

26 March 2009 5:56 AM, PDT | From Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news

Famous for its swearing, violence and Al Pacino’s invitation to “say hello to my little friend”, Brian De Palma’s 1983 gangster epic Scarface has been voted the public’s favourite gangster film in a poll by entertainment website IGN. It’s not surprising that the flick proved popular in the survey as 26 years after Al’s Tony Montana climbed to the top of Miami’s underworld drug hierarchy, hygienically-challenged boys still emulate him, quoting his famous phrase, plastering his image on their walls and wishing they had a chance with Michelle Pfeiffer. But being named more popular than The Godfather, really? The masterpiece that always sits smugly at the top of best film ever lists? That’s a shock. Click over to find out where the Oscar-winning mafia classic did chart in the poll.

Missing out on the top spot, the Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino (him again!

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Nicholson's Catchphrase Voted Top Movie Quote

10 February 2009 8:05 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Jack Nicholson's infamous "The truth? You can't handle the truth" line in A Few Good Men has topped a poll of the most memorable movie quotes.The uttering quickly became a movie favourite after Nicholson barked the line at Tom Cruise in a courtroom in the 1992 film.

Second in the poll was "These go to eleven", from 1984's This Is Spinal Tap, followed by Marlon Brando's "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse" from 1972's The Godfather.

Rounding out the top five was Tom Cruise's "I feel the need, the need for speed" from Top Gun in 1986, and "Go ahead, make my day" from 1983 Dirty Harry movie Sudden Impact.

The top ten is as follows:

1, A Few Good Men (1992) - "The truth? You can't handle the truth."

2. This Is Spinal Tap, 1984 - "These go to eleven."

3. The Godfather, 1972 - "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."

4. Top Gun, 1986 - "I feel the need, the need for speed."

5. Sudden Impact, 1983 - "Go ahead, make my day."

6. Scarface, 1983 - "Say hello to my little friend."

7. The Italian Job, 1969 - "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off."

8. The Terminator, 1984 - "I'll be back."

9. Taxi Driver, 1976 - "You talking to me?"

10. The Shining, 1980 - "Here's Johnny."

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Pacino Is Crowned King Lear

4 February 2009 4:10 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hollywood legend Al Pacino is joining forces with filmmaker Michael Radford for their second shot at Shakespeare - the pair is planning a big screen adaptation of King Lear. The Oscar-winner will take on the film's title role of an ageing pre-Roman British monarch who loses everything due to his scheming daughters' plots.

It's the first time Pacino has tackled the part, although he has played a string of the playwright's other famous characters during his career.

The Scarface star previously worked with Radford on 2004's The Merchant of Venice, in which he played the story's central character, Shylock.

And Pacino will be in good company - some of acting's most revered talents have played the ageing King, including Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles and most recently Sir Ian McKellan.

And King Lear's producer Barry Navidi, who also worked on Merchant of Venice, insists it has taken years to persuade Pacino to play the role - but is adamant it was worth the wait.

He tells Variety, "Al (Pacino) has been offered this role many times over the years, but didn't feel ready.

"He's ready now. The film will be true to its period, very similar to the classical look of Merchant of Venice. Michael (Radford) came up with the most brilliant adaptation and Al and I flipped for it."

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Homemade Tony Montana Scarface snow globe

1 January 2009 2:12 AM, PST | From Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news

It’s been 25 years since Al Pacino first asked us to “say hello to his little friend” as Cuban gangster Tony Montana in Scarface and the crime drama’s legacy lives on. Some of it is a hearty pat on the back, quality celebrations of the film such as comic books, video games and T-Shirts, but for every cool piece of merchandise there’s something naff like cheap bed sheets or ratty bath towels (those you won’t find on Boxwish). Yet adding a new and quirky spin to Scarface goodies is this homemade snow globe, the hard work of Carl from the Warehouse blog.

The enterprising chap started with an unwanted snow globe belonging to his father that had a very dull looking silver star in it. He started by removing said star and the music box component which played “I Believe I Can Fly” (though it’s a

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15 articles from 2009

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