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A Lot of COPping Out in This Trailer

24 December 2009 7:22 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

If you want a movie where Tracy Morgan plays Tracy Jordan, Bruce Willis plays a shelled version of John McClane, and, somewhere in there, there’s a Kevin Smith film that’s just screaming to be let out, then Cop Out is the flick for you.  It’s the first of its kind, a film directed by Smith that wasn’t written by Smith, and it shows.  Writers Rob and Mark Cullen also wrote the pilot episode of Manchild, the male bonding comedy that was never picked up for a full series and also starred Smith.

Having said that, the new trailer released today over on Apple doesn’t feel like the new film directed by one of the most fan-followed writer/directors of our time.  It feels like precisely what it is, a director for hire working from a buddy cop screenplay that’s giving about as much effort »

- Kirk

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10 Must-Own DVDs (and Blu-rays) from the Decade

22 December 2009 6:56 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

The ReelzChannel 100 began when we asked Leonard Maltin for his favorite Hidden Gems of the decade. His list led the web team into a general discussion about the best movies of the decade and — after no small amount of debate, arguing, and (we're not proud to say) some petty name-calling — we decided we'd better bring it to an end with a company-wide vote. Then it was just a matter of tallying up the votes and hoping for the best. Lucky for us, ReelzChannel is filled with a staff ranging from movie lovers to movie fanatics. What turned out isn't what you'll find on a critic's best of list — instead it's what movie fans really enjoyed.

In day two of the ReelzChannel 100, we highlight the 10 best DVDs and Blu-rays from the past decade.

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World gets a UK Release Date and Synopsis

21 December 2009 12:28 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Universal Pictures have just sent us a lovely Christmas email which, as well as sending us Christmas cheer, also reveals the release date and synopsis for Edgar Wright and Michael Cera’s new movie, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.  The email also contained a new image of Michael Cera wielding a light sabre.  The movie also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Satya Bhabha, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Alison Pill, Aubrey Plaza, Brandon Routh, Johnny Simmons, Mark Webber, Mae Whitman, Ellen Wong and is based on the Oni Press Comic Book series by Bryan Lee O’Malley.

The date in question for this anticipated movie is 27th August. The synopsis gives us a better idea of what we can expect:

Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). A bass guitarist for totally average garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22 year-old has just met the girl of his dreams… literally. The »

- David Sztypuljak

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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Due Out in the UK on August 27th; First Official Synopsis Released

21 December 2009 9:09 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Folks in the UK can break out their calendars and clear a space for August 27, 2010 because The Playlist is reporting that’s the day Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is scheduled to hit theaters.  However, the film is scheduled to hit France on August 18th.  It’s possible that Universal could be staking out August 20th for the Us because they released Inglourious Basterds on the same weekend this year and it worked out pretty well.  Of course, release dates are always subject to change, but if this date holds and also applies to the Us, Scott Pilgrim will have some interesting competition (provided other released dates hold as well).  While nothing is currently holding August 27th in the Us, The Expendables is due a week before on August 13th, would go up against The Baster starring Jason Bateman and Priest starring Paul Bettany, and then The American »

- Matt Goldberg

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The Decade’s Film: 2005-2009

21 December 2009 7:33 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

It had been a successful decade for the comic book movie, with that trend continuing into the latter half of the decade. Just as looked like the public demand for irradiated heroes looked to be diminishing, with lacklustre showings from the likes of Spider-Man 3 and Fantastic Four, out came Iron Man. Coupled with a brilliant script and an excellent performance from Robert Downey Jr as the titular zillionaire industrialist/playboy/freedom fighter/all-round genius, the end result was something truly special. Downey’s career was also revitalised, earning him a role in Tropic Thunder (which would earn him an Oscar nomination). Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk took a similar approach, this time giving Edward Norton of Fight Club fame a shot at getting under the skin of the green goliath.  They set a tough act to follow, but followed they were by one Christopher Nolan. With the Batman »

- Uprising

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Total Film’s Shaun of the Dead Reunion Photo Shoot

15 December 2009 10:18 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

In November, UK movie magazine Total Film assembled a Shaun of the Dead reunion of sorts. They wrangled together director Edgar Wright, along with leads Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost for the fanciest zombie photo shoot you'll ever see. These are the results. A few more pics after the break, and some reminders on where we can see this crew next. You can check out the high resolution versions of these pics over at Total Film. I'm not sure about you, but these images make me want to start (yet another) Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz marathon. It's also a great reminder that we should be on the lookout for information on the trio's next project, The World's End, sometime soon. We've covered a mention of the film previously, in which Pegg described the basic crux of the film: If Shaun of the Dead was about leaving your 30s »

- Devindra Hardawar

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Uncle Creepy's Blu Christmas Buyer's Guide 2009

11 December 2009 1:55 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Note: This Will Be Posted At The Top Of Our Headlines Throughout The Weekend! Happy Shopping! With the holiday shopping season officially upon us, I figured it might be a good idea to start making some recommendations for the lucky horror-loving folks on your lists!

Blu-ray players once again are going to be pretty hot items this year, but what of the movies available for them? If you already own the DVD of your favorite flick, is there a need to replace it with a Blu-ray? I'm here to answer all of your questions in the second annual ...

Before we get into my picks, let's take a second to explain how I rated them. They're broken down into three categories:

Can't Miss -- Must Haves: These are the cream of the crop! The purchases that are guaranteed to bring a smile to someone's face. Items no one with the tech should be without. »

- Uncle Creepy

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First Trailer For ‘Kids In The Hall: Death Comes To Town’

8 December 2009 8:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

A few months ago, we first reported that the Kids in The Hall, Lorne Michael’s bastard Canadian comedy troop, would be making it’s return to (Canadian) TV with an all new series entitled Death Comes To Town. It looks like we’re even closer to getting a return of the outrageous comedy team, as the first trailer has just been released.

The premise feels a little bit like the plot to Hot Fuzz. A local, everyday, suburban town gets it’s world rocked when a series of vicious murders take place, around the same time that Death shows up via Greyhound bus. The entire gang steps in to portray the locals (in typical Kidh fashion), including Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Scott Thompson, Mark McKinney, and Bruce McCulloch.

The story will be doled out in an 8 part mini-series, which will only be available on Canadian Broadcast TV at first »

- Sebastian Suchecki

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Money pressures force Frost to give Twitter the cold shoulder | Media Monkey

8 December 2009 2:40 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

It's not easy being Nick Frost, star of Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Spaced and, er ... BBC2's Hyperdrive. Oh come on, not every sci-fi sitcom can be as good as Red Dwarf. Anyway, fab Frost is busy starring in an BBC2 adaptation of Martin Amis's Money. And he's so busy he's not even got time to tweet. Well, almost. "I'm not on tweet strike!" he tells his 55,610 followers. "I'm in every scene so I'm up at 6 home at 9. It leaves little time for anything else. Sorry." Up at 6? Home at 9? Who'd be an actor?

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- Monkey

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Preview: Not Alone

7 December 2009 1:49 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

The undeniable quality of nominees and winners at last night’s British Independent Film Awards paints a picture of a vibrant, healthy British film industry.

And while the present state of that industry is rightly being celebrated it is time to look to the future and one of the films to look out for is Not Alone from writer/director Tristan Versluis and producer Andy Thompson.

The synopsis is: A damaged emotional Eli Rose arrives at an old long forgotten family cabin along the broken coastline. Arriving unprepared and packed with few supplies she seems anxious at either leaving or someone else arriving.  The house abandoned years ago still holds most of its original decor and memories providing us with hints toward a shattered family, which once filled the space.

Plagued by the reoccurring nightmare of the violent murder of her family, Eli starts to understand her reasons for being there. »

- Jon Lyus

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Paul Movie Still Featuring Pegg and Frost

6 December 2009 11:00 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »

Check out a new movie still of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in the upcoming film “Paul” by director Greg Mottola (Adventureland, Superbad) and starring Seth Rogen (Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, The Green Hornet), Simon Pegg (Star Trek 2), Jane Lynch, Sigourney Weaver (Avatar), Nick Frost and Jason Bateman (Arrested Development). Synopsis: Two British buddies (Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz’s Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) head out on the road in search of Area 51 after attending a comic convention, only to encounter a cute little alien (voiced by Seth Rogen) along the way in this comedy from Working Title and Universal Pictures. Superbad’s Greg Mottola directs from [...] »

- Brian Corder

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Greg Mottola has seen Scott Pilgrim and says its a Classic!

6 December 2009 11:14 AM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

Greg Mottola (Adventureland, Superbad) just posted a couple of tweets about Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Here is what he had to say:

Be very jealous of me. I’ve seen an entire cut of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Edgar Wright has made a classic (again)! It’s amazing.

and he goes on to say:

I would say that Scott Pilgrim is the wittiest action movie you’ll ever see, but that’s just the half of it.

So as if there was any doubt in any of our minds about whether or not Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World was going to be badass, we can thank Greg Mottola and Jason Reitman for putting our minds at ease. Thanks fellas.

For those of you that arent in the know (you must not be reading our site enough!) Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World comes out in 2010 sometime, is directed by Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, »

- Scott

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Empire Release their 20th Birthday Portfolio

3 December 2009 8:20 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

For the 20th anniversary edition of Empire Magazine, not only did they have Steven Spielberg as they’re guest editor and reunite The Goonies, they also did some wonderful photos of famous movie stars recreating famous scenes with a modern twist. The photos featured people like Arnold Schwarzenegger recreating his some Terminator poses, Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins doing Silence of the Lambs and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost re-enacting Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Empire have now collated all these images and given them to us in a lovely gallery which shows them off properly. Some of these were available before today but now all 30 images are there.

I think I’m going to create a collage of them all because they’re too good to be kept on the Internet. They need to be displayed on a wall!

Head over to Empire to check them all out. »

- David Sztypuljak

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Hot Fuzz named top comedy in new poll

30 November 2009 4:03 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

Looking for a good chuckle? A hearty belly laugh to chase away the winter blues? Well, look no further than Hot Fuzz. The 2007 comedy starring and co-written by Simon Pegg as an ambitious London policeman sent to the sleepy country village of Sandford was voted the most popular comedy of all time in a new poll by cinema chain, Odeon. A firm favourite here at Boxwish HQ, the police spoof that co-stars Nick Frost took nearly a quarter of the votes (24 per cent) and claimed top honours in a survey that really lays bare some of the cinema habits of us Brits. »

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UK loves comedy films, but Coventry is crazy about sci-fi

27 November 2009 4:52 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »

Film Fans are choosing to laugh their way through tough economic times, with comedy named as the UK's favourite genre.

Cinema chain Odeon polled more than 5,000 UK moviegoers - and found that comedy came out on top, with just over a fifth of votes (21 per cent). This was followed by action/adventure with 15 per cent, and romantic comedies with 12 per cent.

Nearly a quarter of those who took part in the poll (24 per cent) named police spoof Hot Fuzz, starring Simon Pegg, as their favourite comedy film of all time.

The survey also found regional variations, with the action adventure genre particularly popular in Oxford, Bollywood in Brighton, comedy in Cardiff, gangster in Norwich, sci-fi in Coventry, horror in Wolverhampton, musical in Worcester and rom com in York.

Luke Vetere, sales and marketing director at Odeon and Uci cinemas said: "2009 has proved to be a real treat for comedy fans »

- David Bentley

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Nicolas Cage Lights Up Bath

27 November 2009 3:26 AM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

It’s official. It happened. It actually frickin’ happened. Nicolas Cage – Oscar-winner, ace actor, huge movie star and marvellous eccentric – actually switched on the Christmas lights in his adopted hometown of Bath last night.Cage, who has owned several properties in and around the beautiful Somerset town (just a stone’s throw from Hot Fuzz’s Wells) for a few years now, was asked to turn on the lights – usually the domain of C-list celebs and the town’s Mayor – by a local resident, Emma Samways, who popped a letter through his front door.Cage readily agreed and last night, sporting a long coat, swept-back hair and a snow-white goatee, he appeared on stage in front of thousands of screaming fans (or neighbours) and, egged on by the event’s presenter, professional twonk Toby Anstis, pressed the plunger that turned on the shiny display. Ooh, shiny.“Thank you citizens of Bath, »

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Film review: Bunny and the Bull

26 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Last week in Film&Music, Brian ­Logan discussed the perennially vexed ­question of how to transform Britain's famously high standard of TV comedy into something we can feel good about on the big screen. Here is a case in point. There's no doubt about the ability and the track-records of the people involved. Writer-director Paul King directed The Mighty Boosh on television, and is here making his feature debut with ­something in a broadly comparable vein: a manky male flat-share comedy, with a strong dash of fantasy and delusion. Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding from the Boosh are in the film, but only in supporting roles. The leads are taken by relative newcomers Edward Hogg and Simon Farnaby. Hogg plays Stephen "the Bull" Turnbull, a guy who has ­apparently been traumatised by some past event; he now never leaves his ropey apartment, and is tormented by visions of his old mate Bunny, »

- Peter Bradshaw

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Russell Peters Special, George Lopez Album Among Comedy Central Projects

24 November 2009 9:53 PM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

It may not be Christmas for another month, but Comedy Central has got its stocking stuffers ready in advance.

The humor-based cable network is preparing a wide variety of material for the coming weeks, both in the television medium and otherwise.

The prelude to the holidays begins with a week of all-new episodes of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" running from November 30 through December 3. Also included in the week's schedule of new episodes: the late night Internet comedy sensation "Atom TV," featuring the best of humor that the web has to offer; ventriloquism and comedy sketches on "The Jeff Dunham Show"; the premiere of the new series "Free Radio"; and a new lineup of standup in "Live at Gotham," hosted by Rob Riggle. Comic Gabriel Iglesias' special "I'm Not Fat. I'm Fluffy" will run, as well. Also filling out the week is "Friends with Benefits," with the »

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Anna Kendrick on Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

22 November 2009 8:54 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Yesterday I participated in a roundtable interview with Anna Kendrick for her new movie Up in the Air.  While I’ll have a full transcript soon, I wanted to share what she said about Edgar Wright’s (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) Scott Pilgrim vs. The World today.  If you didn’t know, she plays Michael Cera’s sister in the movie.

While we didn’t spend that much time talking about the film, she revealed she’s seen some of the movie and says, “You should start emotionally preparing yourself now. It’s so good, people are not going to know what hit them. I have a small role in so I’m allowed to gush. It’s so cool. I’ve never seen anything like it. There’s an energy and a style that I’ve just never seen before and I think it’s going to »

- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub

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Wright slams Times over Woodward article

20 November 2009 2:59 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Edgar Wright has criticised The Times for printing his tribute to Edward Woodward without permission. Wright posted an article recounting his memories of Woodward on his EdgarWrightHere.com site earlier this week following the actor's passing. Wright, who directed Woodward in 2007's Hot Fuzz, blasted the newspaper for reprinting his tribute in Tuesday's edition as if it had been written for them. "They just lifted it from my blog without asking," Wright wrote on his Twitter (more) »

- By Simon Reynolds

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