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CinemaSpy's Picks for the Twelve Most Entertaining Films of 2009
30 December 2009 9:25 PM, PST
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As we say good-bye to 2009, we reflect back on a year of space opera spectacles, animated allegories and protracted period pieces. The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds and Up in the Air were favorites among critics in 2009, though one of those films actually didn't make our list of the twelve most entertaining films of 2009. We'll let you read on to figure out which one was omitted—you can feel free to chastise us in the Comments section below if you think we were unfair for leaving it out.
How do we interpret "entertaining," you ask? Not necessarily the best, or most influential…or most "important"…but what we considered to be the dozen most enjoyable and/or absorbing films of 2009—broadly defined, films that pulled you into the story for one reason or another, and weren't forgotten 10 minutes after leaving the theater. Films that elicited an emotional reaction, not through manipulation,
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Blake Lively Among Contenders to Be 'Green Lantern' Girlfriend
21 December 2009 7:40 PM, PST
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Words on the street, "Gossip Girl" star Blake Lively could join Ryan Reynolds in the cast ensemble for "Green Lantern". According to Latino Review, the 22-year-old beauty who has just appeared in "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" is among five candidates who have a chance to take the role of Carol Ferris, the love interest of Hal Jordan/Green Lantern.
However, Lively would not get that role easily as she has to compete with Eva Green, the James Bond's girl in 2006 "Casino Royale", and Jennifer Garner, the depicter of female international assassin in "Elektra". Then, "Mission: Impossible 3" star Keri Russell and Diane Kruger who played Helen in "Troy" are reportedly also named on the list of contenders to be the leading lady in the upcoming superhero flick.
On the script, Carol is described as the daughter of aerospace mogul Carl Ferris. "She works for her father's company Ferris Air,
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Who Will Play Green Lantern’s Girlfriend?
21 December 2009 10:43 AM, PST
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El Mayimbe over Latino Review has posted an exclusive report on the pool of actresses that are said to be in the final rounds of consideration for the role of Carol Ferris, the lady love interest of The Green Lantern, Hal Jordan.
Now, the list of actresses who will possibly star opposite Ryan Reynolds (who will be playing Hal Jordan) is a pretty nice collection of former or current TV and/or film stars. All of them are hot – some of them are even good actresses. We have a nice set of photos for you to look over and consider, which is certainly not a bad way to start your Monday.
If you remember, we got our first notion of how Carol Ferris would be portrayed in The Green Lantern earlier this fall when the casting call for Green Lantern supporting roles was released. here’s what the filmmakers said
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- Kofi Outlaw
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One Of These Five Women Will Play The Green Lantern's Girlfriend
21 December 2009 5:59 AM, PST
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El Mayimbe at Latino Review reportedly has a lot of ironclad sources at Hollywood talent agencies, resulting in a number of casting scoops for them well before the trades get wind. But the stuff he digs up, I have to admit, is usually a bit more thrilling than this. He's posted a list of five women who are in the running to play Hal Jordan's girlfriend in the upcoming Green Lantern movie... and it's pretty much the list you would come up with when listing all eligible 30-something actresses who come for relatively cheap.
The five are Eva Green (Bond's ex-girlfriend, unbelievably gorgeous), Keri Russell (something of a curveball, given that she hasn't had a major movie role since Mission: Impossible 3, Diane Kruger (on the rise, fresh off a SAG nomination, generally awesome), Blake Lively (the Gossip Girl chick? Wha?) and Jennifer Garner (poor thing... once a superhero, now
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Michelle Monaghan, Chris O’Donnell to Announce SAG Awards 2010 Nominations
15 December 2009 9:09 PM, PST
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Michelle Monaghan, who starred opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III and who at one point was touted as a potential awards contender for Trucker (above), and NCIS: Los Angeles star Chris O’Donnell, perhaps best known for playing Robin opposite George Clooney’s Batman in Batman Forever, will join Screen Actors Guild president Ken Howard to announce the nominees for the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The SAG Award nominations in five film and eight television categories will take place at 6 a.m. Pt / 9 a.m. Et on Thursday, Dec. 17, in the SilverScreen Theater at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. The nominations announcement will be telecast live on TNT and webcast live on TNT.TV and TBS.Com. [...]
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Abrams is Great
11 December 2009 1:32 AM, PST
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While Jj Abrams has spent a lot of time bringing a lot of fanboy-esque properties to the forefront ("Lost," Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek, Cloverfield), some of his more recent producing efforts have attempting to branch off from that stigma. Shooting recently wrapped on the romantic comedy Morning Glory with Harrison Ford and Rachel McAdams and now he's set up an adaptation of the award-winning novel "Let the Great World Spin."
Abrams will produce an adaptation
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Fan-Made 'Batman 3' Trailer Casts Johnny Depp As Riddler, Philip Seymour Hoffman As Penguin
20 November 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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Mining the multitude of fan-made trailers on the 'Net occasionally yields a real gem (for example: "Thundercats: The Movie"), and that's definitely the case for this "Batman 3" mash-up trailer that offers up a hypothetical brawl between Christian Bale as Batman, Johnny Depp as The Riddler and Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Penguin.
Created by YouTube user HawkeyeProtagonist, "Batman: Caped Crusader Teaser 1 (Penguin & Riddler)" splices clips from Christopher Nolan's previous Batman movies, as well as clips from Depp's "Secret Window" and Hoffman's villainous turn in "Mission: Impossible III" (among other films I could be missing). The final product is a compelling argument for both actors and their respective villains to make a bow in the next Batman movie.
Heck, with that monologue, Hoffman might even be able to strike terror into the Dark Knight's heart.
Longtime readers will recall that the original source of the Depp/Hoffman rumor was none
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Major Updates on Star Trek 2
17 November 2009 1:19 PM, PST
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To promote the release of Star Trek today on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download, the cast and crew have once again stepped into public to let us know where the U.S.S. Enterprise is heading next. First, a bit of sad but not totally unexpected news: We probably won’t see Star Trek 2 until 2012. It is a bit of a bummer considering that we’ve grown accustomed to a breakout hit having its sequel ready in two years time. The bright side is that they won’t be rushed and can really put their time into making this film better than the first.
Hit the jump for more about the sequel’s villains, timeline, and the tone the filmmakers want to set.
Sci Fi Wire got some major scoops about Star Trek 2 on the red carpet last night as members of the Trek cast and crew celebrated
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J.J. Abrams Boldly Talks Star Trek DVD and Blu-ray
17 November 2009 12:21 PM, PST
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Without a doubt one of the most exciting and invigorating things to happen to the sci-fi genre in years happened this summer when fans got to finally see director J.J. Abrams' re-imagining of the Star Trek franchise, with his hit film simply titled Star Trek. By all accounts, the director hit a home-run by pleasing hard-core fans with all the character nuances and sci-fi gadgets they expect while giving new audiences an exciting and heart-felt plot that they could follow. The film, which cost an estimated $150 million to make as grossed to date nearly $384 million world wide and with it's release on DVD and Blu-Ray today, is on track to add more money to it's impressive total. We caught up with fan-favorite director J. J. Abrams, the man behind Mission: Impossible III and the popular TV show's Lost, Alias and Fringe, at a Paramount event in Santa Monica in
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‘The Dark Tower’ Wont’ be Scaled by Abrams
11 November 2009 1:08 PM, PST
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J.J. Abrams, the wizard behind Lost, Fringe, Alias and Mission: Impossible III told MTV that he won’t be bringing Stephen King’s Dark Tower series to the big screen and Shock Til You Drop overheard it. The producer/director/writer made it clear it wasn’t for lack of love:
“You’ll be hard-pressed to find a huger fan of ‘The Dark Tower’ than me, but that’s probably the reason that I shouldn’t be the one to adapt it… After working six years on Lost, the last thing I want to do is spend the next seven years adapting one of my favorite books of all time. I’m such a massive Stephen King fan that I’m terrified of screwing it up. I’d do anything to see those movies written by someone else. My guess is they will get made because they’re so incredible.
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Star Trek (2009) Blu-ray Review
6 November 2009 10:56 PM, PST
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Space. The Final Frontier. A place few were willing to venture with the last two Star Trek: The Next Generation helmed films. On virtual life support, J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot collaborators reinvented the iconic franchise into something hardened Star Trek fans and casual moviegoers without an ounce of prior interest in the series could equally digest and enjoy. His efforts carried Star Trek into a new frontier of success and riches at the 2009 box office, to a place where Paramount's treatment of the Blu-ray Disc release should . and marvelously does - fall into the esteemed category of exemplary.
Star Trek's reboot begins with a huge bang, a knockout prologue that chronicles the birth of James T. Kirk and the death of his father, a Starship Captain (for twelve minutes), all during a surprise attack by a renegade Romulan Nero (Eric Bana). Flash forward a quarter of a
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J.J. Abrams Producing NBC Pilot Undercovers; May Direct
6 November 2009 12:43 PM, PST
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“Star Trek” director J.J. Abrams is once again using his producing magic to get another TV series off the ground. Yes, I know that “What About Brian” and “Six Degrees” were both cancelled, but he’s had some success with the last two projects he helped launch, “Lost” and “Fringe”. Now he’s going to try to give NBC a dramatic hit they sorely need in their line-up with “Undercovers”. Hit the jump for details.
THR reports that, schedule permitting, Abrams will make “Undercovers” the first TV pilot he has directed since 2004’s “Lost” opener. According to THR, it was the success of that pilot which helped Abrams get the gigs for “Mission: Impossible III” and later “Star Trek”. This means that no one took much notice of the episodes he directed of “Felicity” and “Alias”. Good thing that “Lost” turned out to be one of the best television series of all-time.
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J.J. Abrams to Direct Pilot of NBC's Undercovers
6 November 2009 10:46 AM, PST
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J.J. Abrams, the creator of Alias, Felicity, Lost and Fringe, will slide back into the director's chair for Undercovers, a new NBC pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
NBC wins bidding war for J.J. Abrams' new series
Abrams, who is also executive-producing the married spies project, hasn't directed a TV pilot since the blockbuster, two-hour opening salvo of Lost in 2004. About a year later, he segued into directing such films as Mission: Impossible III and the Star Trek reboot.
Abrams' other TV directing credits include a 2007 episode of The Office and an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2006...
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J.J. Abrams in talks to direct the pilot episode of Undercovers
5 November 2009 11:14 PM, PST
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On top of executive producing his "Undercovers" Warner Bros. pilot at NBC, J.J. Abrams is in talks to direct the opening episode.
Schedule permitting, Abrams will make "Undercovers" the first TV pilot he has directed since 2004's "Lost" rwo-part opener which is considered one of the best-directed pilots of all time. This aided in skyrocketing Abrams' career to directing roles like "Mission: Impossible 3" and the recent blockbuster "Star Trek."
Abrams served as producer for various TV shows including "Fringe" and also directed an episode of "The Office" in 2007.
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TV News: J.J. Abrams Wants to Direct NBC Pilot Undercovers, Cartoon Network Adds Live Action Shows, Comedy Central & The Onion Team Up for Pilot, HBO Developing Transgender Series
5 November 2009 9:46 PM, PST
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We have a bevy of TV updates tonight: First up, it appears that J.J. Abrams is in talks to direct the pilot of his newest series on NBC, a spy drama entitled Undercovers. We previously reported the fact that he was developing the show, and that it seemed to be strikingly similar to Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It's been a while since we've seen Abrams behind the directors chair for one of his own shows. He directed Lost's fantastic pilot, but hasn't yet done anything for Fringe.
Alias's pilot was his first foray into directing action, and he's definitely honed that craft in his subsequent works, especially Mission: Impossible 3 and Star Trek. It's going to be interesting to see how he translates his recent big screen experience to television.
Also, Cartoon Network has given the production green light to two live action series. Tower Prep concerns a
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The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Sands of Not My Freakin' Dime
4 November 2009 1:09 AM, PST
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It's the mid-week report of the good, bad and you-know-what-the-what here, as we compile the movie news from the past week and a half. Yes, you'll have more at the end of the week—but for now, let us all cringe together as we see stomach news of the 2012 motion sickness experience, an Mib without Will Smith, and the audacity of some people to shoot a barely visible topless scene and hype it up like it was Basic Instinct 3.
The Good
• For years, there have been several attempts to do a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, none of them ever came close to moving ahead. Speaking to MTV last week, director Robert Zemeckis set the record straight: that this time he is personally involved and really excited to do the sequel, and that he has commissioned original scribes Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman to write the screenplay. Let's hope
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Martin Landau Addresses Possible 'Mission: Impossible 4' Cameo
30 October 2009 1:57 AM, PDT
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Producer J.J. Abrams has previously talked about how cool it would be if some of "Mission: Impossible" cast members make a cameo in the fourth feature installment, but star Martin Landau apparently shared no similar feeling. In an interview with MTV News, the Rollin Hand of the original TV series insisted that he has no interest to appear in "Mission: Impossible 4".
When asked whether he might take a participation in the in-development fourth film, the 81-year-old stated that he is not excited about making a mere cameo. "Unless it was a great part, which it probably isn't, it would probably be a cameo, a little joke, that wouldn't interest me at all," the Academy Award-winning actor shared.
During the chat, the Bob Ryan of "Entourage" revealed that he was against the film franchise since the beginning. "When they were working on an early incarnation of the first one - not
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J.J. Abrams Won’t Be Directing Mission: Impossible IV
30 October 2009 12:27 AM, PDT
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That’s according to the man himself. Speaking to MTV, “Mission: Impossible III” and “Star Trek” director, J.J. Abrams says he just too busy to consider directing Mission: Impossible IV:
“I’m producing with Tom,” he said recently. “My guess is, given other things, that I will not be directing the movie.”
With Abrams and Tom Cruise both directing, the hunt is on for a new director to take to the chair, just who could fill the boots of Abrams, John Woo and Brian De Palma? As if that wasn’t enough to think about, rumours have bee circulating over the last few years that Cruise may not return to the series as the central protagonist, Imf Agent, Ethan Hunt. So what did Abrams have to say on the matter?
“I don’t want to give anything away yet, but I will say that it’s a story that
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J.J. Abrams Not Directing Mission: Impossible 4
29 October 2009 9:55 PM, PDT
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J.J. Abrams, now one of the big guns in Hollywood, was integral in making Mission: Impossible III not only a success, but a good movie – something we needed after M:i:ii.
Over the last year we’ve heard rumblings that Tom Cruise was planning the inevitable fourth installment. Shortly thereafter, it was reported that Cruise had asked Abrams to join him once again to make Mission: Impossible IV. With those two on board, the ball quickly started to roll and Abrams hired the writers in the summer to pen the screenplay.
The one thing we were still unsure of however, was whether or not Abrams would direct again.
The last update we heard from Abrams was from last month when spoke about Star Trek 2 and M:i IV – he said only this:
“It’s being written right now by Andre Nemec and Josh Applebaum… We’re hoping to get it soon,
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Abrams 'not behind Mission: Impossible IV'
29 October 2009 5:58 PM, PDT
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J.J. Abrams has revealed that he has no plans to direct Mission: Impossible IV. The Star Trek director helmed 2006's Mission: Impossible III, starring Tom Cruise. He told MTV that he will most likely pass on steering the next sequel, but still plans to produce with Cruise. "My guess is, given other things, that I will not be directing the movie," the 43-year-old stated. (more)
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