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10 Movie Events That Shaped the Decade (For Movie Fans)
21 December 2009 10:29 AM, PST
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We’ve come to the end of 2009, so we thought we’d weigh in with a look back at the first 10 years of the 21st century in the movie world and discuss the various different “events” which shaped the decade. Obviously we can’t cover absolutely everything, but sticking true to our core movie genres on the site, we’re just going to concentrate on the comic-book, sci-fi, action (and so forth) types of movies and take a look at what films had the maximum impact over this decade.
It’s amazing to think that it’s been 10 years since movies like The Matrix, American Beauty and Fight Club (to name but a few) came out in 1999 (check out our 1999 decade highlight, if you haven’t already). A Lot of movies – somewhere in the vicinity of 5,000-6,000 – have been released since then. We’ve had the good, the bad and
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Trailer for indie creature-feature Maneater
21 December 2009 10:04 AM, PST
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The first trailer dropped for Michael Emanuel's spiritual creature-feature based on the Algonquian Wendigo myth and I'm still trying to figure out if it'll be worth tracking down when it finally arrives. It looks like it's well made and full of some decent creature scares, but the way the promo's cobbled together just isn't doing it any favors.
Synopsis:
A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter, begins to profile a series of unexplained murders only to learn that the monster he's profiling may be himself.
Maneater stars a decent cast in Dean Cain, Conrad Janis ("The Cable Guy"), Stephen Lunsford, Walter Phelan ("House of 1000 Corpses"), Maximillian Roeg and Lacy Phillips ("Pushing Twilight").
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Weekly Poll Results: Favourite Jim Carrey Movie
12 November 2009 9:44 AM, PST
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I think we all knew from the start what movie was going to win last week's poll, but still, I was kinda hoping for an upset. Don't get me wrong, I love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but I didn't want people to count out Carrey's early comedies either. I thought the subtle wording of the poll question ("favourite", not "best") would help. Ah well. The good news is, Dumb & Dumber managed to place second, and both Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Mask broke the top 5. Man on the Moon wasn't as high as I expected though... I guess people have cooled off on that flick. Don't you miss the days when Ace Ventura quotes were cool? "Alllllrighty then!"
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- 28.2%
2. Dumb & Dumber -- 22.6%
3. The Truman Show -- 14.4%
4. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective -- 12.5%
5. The Mask -- 6.4%
6. The Cable Guy -- 6.1%
7. Liar Liar --
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Will Ferrell And Charles Napier Hang With Ken Jeong In Today's Daily TwitPic
21 October 2009 6:00 AM, PDT
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This morning's Daily TwitPic brings together a talented trio of performers into one mildly disturbing image. Will Ferrell hardly needs any introduction. The "Saturday Night Live" alum exists somewhere in the suburbs of pop culture's nerve center. It's been awhile since he had an "Anchorman"-level success, but his fans remain numerous.
Standing off on the right side of the pic is veteran actor Charles Napier. Here's a guy that puts the "working" into "working actor." He has 190 screen credits in film and TV according to IMDb, including roles in classics like "The Silence of the Lambs," "The Blues Brothers" and -- a personal favorite -- "The Cable Guy" (one of Jim Carrey's cop buddies). Standing between the two men is Ken Jeong, who had a solid summer with notable appearances in "The Hangover" and -- as you can tell from the writing on his chest -- "The Goods: Live Hard,
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Exclusive Portrait: Emmy-Winning Chicago Comedian Kathy Griffin For ‘Official Book Club Selection’ Signing
7 October 2009 9:07 PM, PDT
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Chicago – Chicago comedian and self-described Emmy-winning D-lister Kathy Griffin bit her tongue and beamed for the HollywoodChicago.com lens on Oct. 7, 2009. She was signing her memoir “Official Book Club Selection” for hundreds of waiting fans at Borders on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
Griffin is performing four shows at the Chicago Theater from Oct. 8 to Oct. 11, 2009. She has been on 92 episodes of “Suddenly Susan,” 15 episodes of “Dilbert” and has been featured in “Pulp Fiction” and “The Cable Guy”. Our exclusive portrait of Kathy Griffin is below.
Chicago comedian and self-described Emmy Award-winning D-lister Kathy Griffin bites her
tongue and beams for the HollywoodChicago.com camera on Oct. 7, 2009 prior to signing
her memoir “Official Book Club Selection” at Borders on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
By Adam FENDELMANEditor-in-Chief/PublisherHollywoodChicago.comadam@hollywoodchicago.com
© 2009 Adam Fendelman, HollywoodChicago.com LLC
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Top Ten Underrated Films (Of All Time)
2 September 2009 11:15 AM, PDT
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Great movies sometimes do not hit it off with the audience upon first viewing. Not even the sublime Citizen Kane found much appreciation on its release in 1941, taking over twenty years and critical re-discovery in order for everybody to agree it was a pretty special movie.
Cult films are different (and this is not a list of cult movies) – those do tend to find an audience (usually people who become hardcore fans) allowing the film to become celebrated in alternative ways – as opposed to garnering a multitude of awards.
This is a list drawn up of films I consider under-rated; overlooked; not thought about; dismissed, and so forth. I am not suggesting they should be regaled as masterpieces anointed and placed in a cinematic pantheon of greatness.
Compiling lists is very tough and as this is limited to a mere ten films, some wonderful films did not make final cut.
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- Martyn Conterio
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That Dastardly Henry Fonda! When Good Cowboys Go Bad
28 August 2009 10:01 PM, PDT
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From Robin Williams playing a psycho in One Hour Photo to Jim Carrey playing, well... a psycho in The Cable Guy, actors have always enjoyed upending expectations with their roles. Home Alone's Macaulay Culkin? Check (The Good Son). E.T. cutie-pie Drew Barrymore? Check (Poison Ivy). But those role reversals are particularly jarring in Westerns, where the line between good and bad is so firmly etched in the sand. Which
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That Dastardly Henry Fonda! When Good Cowboys Go Bad
28 August 2009 9:01 PM, PDT
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From Robin Williams playing a psycho in One Hour Photo to Jim Carrey playing, well... a psycho in The Cable Guy, actors have always enjoyed upending expectations with their roles. Home Alone's Macaulay Culkin? Check (The Good Son). E.T. cutie-pie Drew Barrymore? Check (Poison Ivy). But those role reversals are particularly jarring in Westerns, where the line between good and bad is so firmly etched in the sand. Which
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Naughty Intentions: Bobcat Goldthwait’s “World’s Greatest Dad”
17 August 2009 8:15 AM, PDT
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This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. One of the oddest comedic star vehicles since Jim Carrey reached his outer limits in “The Cable Guy,” Bobcat Goldthwait’s “World’s Greatest Dad” provides Robin Williams with his best role in years. Obscene in concept and execution, the movie functions as a highly subversive anti-morality tale disguised as a mainstream laughfest. Williams plays single father …
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Naughty Intentions: Bobcat Goldthwait’s “World’s Greatest Dad”
17 August 2009 8:15 AM, PDT
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This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. One of the oddest comedic star vehicles since Jim Carrey reached his outer limits in “The Cable Guy,” Bobcat Goldthwait’s “World’s Greatest Dad” provides Robin Williams with his best role in years. Obscene in concept and execution, the movie functions as a highly subversive anti-morality tale disguised as a mainstream laughfest. Williams plays single father …
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Judd Apatow & James L. Brooks Are 'Funny People' With Similar Careers
5 August 2009 12:00 PM, PDT
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History isn't typically a laughing matter, but in the case of famed director-producer-writer James L. Brooks, it usually is. Brooks, whose credits include "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Taxi" and "The Simpsons," has a long and esteemed history in the movie and television business, though his hasn't always been an easy road. Still, it's also not a unique road; the path that Brooks traversed has been walked before, and it's certainly being walked again.
Look no further than "Funny People" director Judd Apatow, whose career is starting to mirror that of James L. Brooks. Sure, the two have wandered down different forks in the road at times, but Apatow's trajectory is nonetheless similar to Brooks' own in some very meaningful ways.
For one, both Brooks and Apatow are well-known for their works on high quality television programming. Brooks created "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," which paved the way for spin-off series' "Rhoda" and "Lou Grant.
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Top Ten Tuesday: Comedians Turned Actors
28 July 2009 7:29 AM, PDT
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They make us laugh. They make us cry. Okay, maybe not so much. But they sure make us laugh. In honor of Judd Apatow’s latest film about stand-up comedians, we felt it was time to come up with our top 10 list of comedians turned actors. Some of them have found more success in one area over the other. Others have done a fine job walking the line between the two. Regardless of how the success is dispersed, each individual on this list has reached it at some point in their career.
10. Chris Farley
One of the most successful SNL stars to branch out into the film world, Chris Farley is a legend in the comedy world. Imagine if he had survived longer than his 33 years. One of the most iconic images in the last 20 years of SNL is Farley dressed as a Chippendale’s dancer along with Patrick Swayze.
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NBC Kicks Off Viral Marketing for Funny People
28 May 2009 11:37 AM, PDT
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Judd Apatow's latest film Funny People will be released in theaters on July 31 and the viral marketing campaign has already begun. NBC has launched a new viral site for the TV series within the movie, Yo Teach!, which stars Jason Schwartzman's character Mark Taylor Jackson.
On the site you can see a small video clip from one of the episodes and photos as well. When we were on the set of the Apatow film, Schwartzman described his character's show as, "somewhere between Dangerous Minds and The Cable Guy."
to take a look at our report from the set and to take a look at this new viral marketing site.
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Apatow: 'Carrey's Cable Guy Was Not A Flop'
21 May 2009 2:55 PM, PDT
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Jim Carrey's The Cable Guy was treated like a "disaster" film because it failed to make hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, according to producer Judd Apatow.
The moviemaker fears the 1996 dark comedy, which was directed by Ben Stiller, has been overlooked thanks to bad reviews and the thinking it was a flop - but it actually made a lot of money.
Apatow says, "It cost 42 (million dollars) and it made 60 here (in America) and 40 overseas, and we thought, 'That's alright, no one can get hurt there,' but the expectation was that it was gonna make a bazillion dollars and so it was treated like this gigantic disaster."
The director/producer admits he still has happy memories from working on the film - he fell for his wife, actress Leslie Mann, during the auditions, when he was playing Carrey's role.
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Ben and Owen Team Up For Another Night at the Museum
15 May 2009 1:30 PM, PDT
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The stars of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian reunited on the red carpet last night for the premiere at the National Air and Space Museum in DC. Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, and Owen Wilson took their characters to Washington this time around, with Amy Adams adding a feminine touch to the cast. Last night Owen dished about how much fun it is to make movies with his longtime buddy Ben, saying, "It's unbelievable. This is like I think the 10th movie that we've worked on together. And then we're working on another one too coming up. Who knew way back when, when I was in The Cable Guy, that that was gonna lead to us kind of teaming up and being in the same movies so much." We'll get to see if Ben and Owen still have that box office magic when the movie hits theaters next Friday.
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Stiller to Help 'Spread Goodness'
4 May 2009 7:45 PM, PDT
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Ben Stiller has dived into the Black List from last year and is attached to direct Help Me Spread Goodness, a screenplay by Mark Friedman, which was included on the aforementioned list of the best unproduced screenplays of 2008.
The story follows a banker in Chicago who is duped by email spammers into giving away his son’s college and then travels to Nigeria to confront those who have wronged him.
It sounds like an interesting project, but I can imagine the key will be Stiller finding the right tone for the story. Care must also be taken, it seems to me, not to make the story too serious given the current climate of Wall Street distrust.
Stiller himself is currently also attached to The Trial of the Chicago 7, previously under the control of Steven Spielberg, which tells the story of the protests and subsequent trials at the 1968 Democratic Convention in the city.
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Ben Stiller to Direct Drama About Nigerian Bank Scam
4 May 2009 2:03 PM, PDT
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Ben Stiller might be best known for comedies with huge box-office clout, movies like Night at the Museum and Meet the Fockers. But he's also shown consistent interest in less-commercial, sometimes-risky projects. In the mid-90s, he directed the often-overlooked The Cable Guy, one of the best things Jim Carrey ever did with his career.
Now Stiller will take another risk, directing a drama about the all-too-familiar Nigerian bank scam. (You know, the one from the Nigerian prince who promises you millions of dollars if you just cough up your bank account numbers.) Help Me Spread the Goodness centers around a Chicago banker who gets swindled by the scam.
Stiller is also slated to direct The Trial of the Chicago 7, which was scripted by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Charlie Wilson's War) and tells the story of the Vietnam War protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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My Faith in America Is Restored
11 April 2009 2:36 PM, PDT
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Hannah Montana, the Movie's opening weekend boxoffice more than quadruples that of Observe and Report, the throw-up make-out feel-queasy guy-fave comedy of the Easter season. Having watched as much as I could stand of Jody Hill's Eastbound & Down HBO series, with its cloddish, deliberately dumb anti-pc-in-air-quotes humor ("I thought the blacks in Baltimore were bad, but turns out, they're nothin' compared to these fags you have in San Francisco") and sketch-comedy caricatures of lower-Slobovia suburbia, I have no interest in returning Seth Rogen's stare from the big screen in a film that sounds like The Cable Guy goes to the mall. I realize The Cable Guy has developed a cult over the years, which I chalk up to the contrarianism of those with more brains than taste. But perhaps I'm being unfair and should give The Cable Guy another try; nah, forget it.
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Maul Cop
8 April 2009 4:18 AM, PDT
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Even if the early buzz around Jody Hill's "Observe and Report" weren't grouping it with "The Cable Guy," the comparison would be obvious. Like that film, "Observe and Report" is said to be a "dark" comedy. In this case that means that calculated outrageousness, brutalism presented for laughs and easy cynicism passes for daring. When "Observe and Report" fails with audiences -- as it will, and as "The Cable Guy" did -- the myth will start about it being rejected because it disturbed its detractors. What disturbed me about "Observe and Report" was that the people around me who were laughing could let themselves be suckered by such a lunkheaded, crummy piece of moviemaking.
Seth Rogen's Ronnie, the mall cop hero, is a paranoid schizophrenic who sees himself as the only man capable of keeping order in the retail jungle. Ronnie seems meant to be a cross between Travis Bickle and Ralph Kramden.
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Celebrity Birthdays - 03/21/09
21 March 2009 7:35 AM, PDT
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Can you guess whose birthdays are today based on the following clues? He was an important character in the Harry Potter world but did not live past TOotP. Although he has many interesting credits to his name, he is best known for portraying Lieutenant Groves in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. She plays the role of Blair Cramer in One Life to Live - in over 300 episodes! He's done everything in his power to control the life of his ex-wife, Britney Spears! One of his very first movies was WarGames, a cult classic now. He's famous for many reasons, but perhaps you'll remember him best as Inspector Gadget? We're not quite sure what originally made her famous, but she's a household name, sort of like Madonna, but we call her Rosie. First up, Sirius Black of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Gary Oldman, 51, has quite a long and distinguished career.
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