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Films Of The Decade – Ed’s List
23 December 2009 5:17 PM, PST
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Each decade of celluloid is defined by its psychological preoccupations. Oh yes it is, don’t look at me like that. The 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington cast a long shadow over the first decade of the 21st century. The Nineties had been a relatively stable and optimistic era by comparison and was all the more moribund for it. Tom Sizemore’s speech in Katherine Bigelow’s Strange Days (1995) summed up the emerging consensus – “everything’s been done, every kind of music’s been tried, every government’s been tried, every fuckin’ hairstyle. How you gonna make it another thousand years, for Chrissake?”
But it wasn’t quite the end of history after all. After 9/11 the zeitgeist became politically-charged once more as it had been in more polarised times. Entertainment was not immune from this effect, nor could it afford to be. With rare exceptions such as Paul Greengrass
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- Ed Whitfield
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Interview: Cheryl Hines Talks Directing 'Serious Moonlight'
21 December 2009 9:15 PM, PST
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Though she's best known for playing Larry David's wife on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, Cheryl Hines got her start with The Groundlings, the famed improv group that produced such talents as Will Ferrell and Phil Hartman. That experience prepared her for Curb's largely unscripted comedy, but it also was an unexpected education for her new role as the director of the black comedy Serious Moonlight (read my review here). CinemaSpy participated in an interview with the actress about her transition to working behind the camera.
Hines' first surprise was being offered the job of directing the film. Serious Moonlight began as a script from Hines' director and costar in Waitress, Adrienne Shelly. In late 2006, Shelly was killed, leaving the finished Waitress and several scripts behind, including Serious Moonlight. The screenplay centers on Louise, a lawyer who is surprised to find her husband Ian is having an affair with a young woman.
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New ‘Alvin And The Chipmunks’ Squeakuel Clip Shows Dodgeball Cremation
19 December 2009 1:48 PM, PST
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New 'Alvin And The Chipmunks' Squeakuel movie clip shows Dodgeball cremation. 20th Century Fox has revealed a funny new clip from it's upcoming "Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakuel" movie. It involves their first day of school,and being cremated in a rough game of Dodgeball. The movie stars: Jason Lee, Justin Long, David Cross, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler, and Zachary Levi.
In this clip,Dave finds the chipmunks hiding under a toilet lid because they don't want to go to school.However, Dave forces them to go. Then it cuts to a clip of them being pounded in a rough game of Dodgeball during physical ed.
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Review: Serious Moonlight
14 December 2009 11:30 AM, PST
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Veteran actress Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm) directs her first film, Serious Moonlight, a dark comedy that premiered as the opening-night film at this year's Austin Film Festival. This film depicts a couple who would seem to have a perfect marriage of 13 years, but turns out that the husband thinks otherwise.
Louise (Meg Ryan), a high-powered Manhattan lawyer, is touched when she
arrives for the weekend to her family’s upstate getaway to find it
strewn with rose petals by her husband of 13 years, Ian...
Louise
(Meg Ryan) is a high-powered Manhattan lawyer who finally manages to get away early for the weekend to their upstate home, where she finds her husband Ian (Timothy
Hutton), who has also arrived early. Only Ian is expecting his young girlfriend Sara (Kristen Bell) and is planning on breaking the news to his wife that he's leaving her. Louise appears to take the news
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- Debbie Cerda
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It's Official: Universal Taps Liebling
10 December 2009 11:59 AM, PST
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By Brent Lang
Universal Pictures has officially announced that Debbie Liebling will be the studio's next president of production on Thursday. TheWrap broke news of the expected appointment last week.
Liebling, who is best known for shepherding the comedy films "Borat" and "Dodgeball" at Fox, will take the reins from Donna Langley.
Langley was named co-chairman of Universal with Adam Fogelson last October.
“Debbie’s fresh perspective and years of e
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Vanessa Williams' Brother Cast as Her 'Ugly Betty' Drag
7 December 2009 8:07 PM, PST
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"Ugly Betty" is doing a family casting once again after previously hiring Becki Newton's real-life brother Matt Newton to play the role of the uber-hot Troy. This time, the comedy series is welcoming Chris Williams, who by the last name, is known as the brother of Vanessa Williams aka Wilhelmina Slater.
Entertainment Weekly that got the scoop said Chris will be featured in an early 2010 episode as Willie's "drag queen doppelganger, Wilhediva Hater." According to a tipster, Willie is hearing that someone is impersonating her regularly as a drag in a club. Trying to shut the act down, she realizes that the impersonator could sub for her during meetings and events. They end up working together.
Chris Williams, although not as established as his sister, has starred in a lot of TV series and feature films. Naming some are "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "Californication", "Scary Movie 4", and "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
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Ben Stiller Is A Lazy Bum. And This Trailer For Greenberg Proves It
23 November 2009 8:06 PM, PST
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Ben Stiller is my love / hate actor. I love it when he plays wacky characters like in Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder, but hate him when he plays himself in, oh...every single one of his romantic comedies.So I'm curious as to how he'll be in his new film "Greenberg" directed by Noah Baumbach, who directed The Squid and the Whale and also wrote The Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. He's a great writer and I really liked Squid and the Whale so I'm actually looking forward to this one.Ben Stiller playes Roger Greenberg, a New Yorker who moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.The film also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh who wrote it as well.Check out the trailer below.
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Stephen Root Digs Up Two More Movies
17 November 2009 1:55 AM, PST
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Stephen Root – one of Empire’s favourite supporting actors – will boost two new movies by at least 27%, after signing on to co-star in Robert Redford’s The Conspirator and the Ed Helms comedy, Cedar Rapids.Root – so good in the likes of Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Office Space and O Brother Where Art Thou? (he’s the blind guy who runs the radio station) – will play an insurance company boss in Cedar Rapids, the Miguel Arteta comedy in which Helms plays an insurance salesman who tries to save the jobs of his co-workers.Then he’ll put on his serious face and head over to The Conspirator, Robert Redford’s tale of the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Root will play a principal witness in the trial of Robin Wright Penn’s Confederate sympathiser. James McAvoy also stars.Nice one, Stephen - we're Rooting for ya, buddy! (Sorry about that one - Ed.
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Birthday Suits: Cougar Town
16 November 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Celebrating the birthdays cinematic: actors, actresses, and other filmtypes. If it's your big day, a happy one to you as well.
The Penguin and The Secretary
Today's B-Days 11/16
1908 Burgess Meredith two time Oscar nominee. But no, not for the Penguin in Batman: The Movie. Those honors came back to back in his late 60s for Rocky and The Day of the Locust.
1964 Harry Lennix best known for his TV work in shows like Dollhouse and Commander in Chief but he's cut an imposing figure in the movies too (Titus, the Matrix trilogy). But yes Dollhouse was cancelled last week. sigh.
1967 Lisa Bonet mostly retired actress, Huxtable, one of Marisa Tomei's besties
1970 Martha Plimpton. My friends have this thing where they cast the book they've just read for their book club each month. It's their tradition that they have to give 80s teen film star turned ubiquitous Broadway thespian a role in every film.
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- NATHANIEL R
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‘Tucker & Dale vs. Evil’ Red Band Trailer
2 November 2009 12:36 PM, PST
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Horror and comedy are two of my favorite genres and just like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, I like when they are combined. Last month, Screen Rant writer Ross Miller did a series on horror films that were combined with other genres. One of those combinations was horror plus comedy and the movie he choose was Shaun of the Dead. Other great examples are the always popular Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness with Bruce “The Chin” Campbell.
Well today, courtesy of our friends at Bloody Disgusting, we have a new trailer for the upcoming horror/comedy film Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. If the film is half as funny as the trailer then I am really looking forward to seeing it. The movie stars Alan Tudyk (Firefly, Dodgeball) and Tyler Labine (Zack and Miri Make a Porno) as two redneck hillbillies that want to do nothing more than enjoy
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- Paul Young
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Long is a Conspirator
14 October 2009 4:18 AM, PDT
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He may be best known for shilling overpriced laptops and being crushed by a fat girl in Dodgeball, but Justin Long has landed a role that could solidly put him on the dramatic map. He's joining Robert Redford's The Conspirator, the story of a Confederate sympathizer (Robin Wright Penn) who was tried in the Lincoln assassination, and a Colonel who reluctantly defends her (James McAvoy). Long is set to play McAvoy’s best friend, a soldier who lost a limb in the war.
My intro
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- Paul Tassi
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Long joins Redford's 'Conspirator'
14 October 2009 3:26 AM, PDT
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Justin Long has signed up for Robert Redford's historical drama The Conspirator. The Dodgeball actor will star alongside James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn in the film, which follows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre in 1865. Wright Penn is cast as Confederate sympathiser Mary Surratt, who was charged with conspiring to kill Lincoln. McAvoy will play Frederick Aiken, who defends (more)
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- By Alex Fletcher
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Helen Mirren: 'I love bad boys'
6 October 2009 4:55 AM, PDT
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Dame Helen Mirren has admitted that she loves "bad boys" like Vince Vaughn and Russell Brand. The Oscar winner will appear in The Tempest alongside Brand and considers Vaughn a family friend. Speaking at the Couples Retreat premiere in Los Angeles, Dame Helen told Pa: "Dodgeball is in my top ten movies - that was when I first saw Vince. (more)
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- By Michael Simon
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Classic Cameos: Lance Armstrong in 'Dodgeball'
24 September 2009 4:15 PM, PDT
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With Charlton Heston's stint in Wayne's World 2, Jeffrey M. Anderson wrote about the cameos that take into account the celebrity's personality and comment on it. But I want to take it in a slightly different direction. Love him or hate him (as some commenters seem to), Lance Armstrong managed to take part in one of my favorite cameos, and when he got his shot on screen, he didn't just pop up to say something funny, or show up in the most unlikely of places. He was the only person truly suitable to shame Vince Vaughn's Peter Le Fleur in Dodgeball.
Right before the last big tournament game, Lafleur decides to quit, leaving his teammates stranded. He's drinking, fully wallowing in a self-pity party when he runs into Lance. Armstrong cannot believe Peter is quitting and quickly and casually lays a heap of guilt and shame on Lafleur's shoulders.
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- Monika Bartyzel
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Tweets From The ‘Iron Man 2′ Set And Defending Hayden Panettiere In Today’s Twitter-Wood
13 July 2009 3:30 PM, PDT
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One week after the Fourth of July holiday, Hollywood is back at work and tweeting about it. Jon Favreau gave a status update from the “Iron Man 2” set, where he’s getting ready to shoot scenes with Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow now that Mickey Rourke is finished.
“Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,” which is filming up in Toronto this summer, got some tweet defense today from creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, who was irked by online frustrations that the cast won’t be attending this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The comic book writer and artist shared the simple scheduling conflict that’s keeping them Canada. You’ll find both of these posts, as well as Jeremy Piven’s heartfelt shout-out to Hayden Panettiere and Pen Jillette’s own defense of jury duty. It’s all below in the Twitter-Wood report for July 13, 2009.
@Jon_Favreau Lighting a scene with Robert,
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- Brian Warmoth
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Weekend Recap: Green Lantern, Green Hornet, 'Hangover' Sequel
13 July 2009 6:10 AM, PDT
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Some interesting casting news this weekend, so if you've been otherwise occupied for the past three days, let us catch you up: Green heroes, be they Lanterns or Hornets, made headlines, one for better and one for worse.
We've also got our interview with Jeremy Renner, star of the new war film, The Hurt Locker (which we currently have as the top movie of the year), and some biarre news about a Ben Still sequel. Nope, not Zoolander 2.
Here we go:
Ryan Reynolds is the Green Lantern
The Green Hornet needs a new Kato; Stephen Chow is off the project
Interview with Jeremy Renner from The Hurt Locker
Hangover sequel gets a release date
Megan Fox in the new Jennifer's Body poster
Bruno wins box office, but not by much
Lance Armstrong talking up Dodgeball sequel with Ben Stiller
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Williams Supports Armstrong At Tour De France
13 July 2009 1:06 AM, PDT
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Robin Williams visited France to support his cyclist pal Lance Armstrong's bid for an eighth Tour de France title.
The Mrs. Doubtfire funnyman arrived in the country to watch the ninth stage of the famous race as competitors battled to complete the tough stretch from Saint Gaudens to Tarbes.
And Williams took time out of cheering on Armstrong to pay tribute to the cancer survivor's determination to reclaim his crown as Tour de France's champion.
He told reporters, "He's a great friend and it's great to hang out with him. It's wild to see him back on the Tour.
"You'd think after seven wins he'd think 'c'est fini', but no, he is back for one more time. That is pretty ballsy. To race the Giro d'Italia and the Tour of California already this year, it's kind of great and he is doing it for many reasons which is wonderful to see."
Williams isn't Armstrong's only Hollywood pal to come and watch him from the sidelines - actor and Dodgeball co-star Ben Stiller supported the athlete in Marseilles last week.
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Lance Armstrong Riding Into 'Dodgeball Sequel'?
12 July 2009 2:09 AM, PDT
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As of this writing, Lance Armstrong trails in the Tour de France by only eight seconds. Not bad for a 37-year-old guy who hasn't ridden in that race in a few years. But the seven-time champ may be returning to another old stomping ground: Yahoo! reports that Ben Stiller is pitching Armstrong to sign up for a sequel to Dodgeball.
If you'll recall, Armstrong had a cameo in Dodgeball, encouraging Vince Vaughn to return to the tournament. It's not great news that Stiller is the one pushing for Armstrong's return, since Stiller was the worst thing about the first movie.
Armstrong Tweeted the news on Thursday: "Ben and I in the bus pre-race. In discussions re: the Dodgeball sequel. Could be huge."
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Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine Head for Horror
11 July 2009 9:02 AM, PDT
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I always wondered what would happen if you'd throw a space pilot pirate wannabe in a dilapidated shack with a technology-humping soul catcher. Apparently, it will make college kids think the poor saps are dangerous killers.
The Hollywood Reporter posts that Alan Tudyk (Serenity, Dodgeball) and Tyler Labine (Control Alt Delete, Reaper) have signed on to star in a new indie horror comedy called Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. The brainchild of writer/director Eli Craig (who also happens to be Sally Field's son), the film centers on Tucker (Tudyk) and Dale (Labine), "two good-natured hillbillies mistakenly accused of being psycho killers by a group of college kids camping at the same lake where the hillbillies have just acquired a dilapidated cabin as their 'summer home.'" Where the horror fits in is anyone's guess.
Chelan Simmons (Kyle Xy) blogged last month about the project and writes: "The movie
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- Monika Bartyzel
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Lance Armstrong in Dodgeball Sequel?
10 July 2009 7:00 AM, PDT
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According to Yahoo, Lance Armstrong has been meeting with Ben Stiller to discuss a possible "Dodgeball" sequel. Armstrong blamed one of these meetings for being late for a sign-in at the Tour de France. He apologized to the fans and event organizers and later wrote on his Twitter account: "Sorry we were late for the sign on this am. It was Stiller's fault!!" The site added that the sequel will "be infused with cycling influences." In the original, Armstrong appeared as himself to lay a guilt trip on Vince Vaughn. Check out his clip from the movie below. "Dodgeball" Clip:
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