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Mr. Skin's Best Nude Scenes of 2009

12 December 2009 11:56 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

It is, of course, end-of-the-year list time, and while we're anxiously waiting to see what critics groups crown the best films of the year, Mr. Skin has something else in mind. As he does every year, the industry leader in flesh, has ranked the best nude scenes of the year, combining both films and cable TV.

I think we all kind of expected Jessica Biel to win this year, with her ballyhooed first nude scene in Powder Blue. Had it been a surprise and had it not leaked to the internet and had the film actually made it to theaters, I think it probably would have won. She was upended, however, by Eva Amurri and her revealing stint on Californication. The other TV entrant is Anna Paquin from True Blood; last year, the show's Lizzy Caplan made the list, when Mr. Skin split it into TV and film categories.

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- Colin Boyd

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2009's "Missing in Action" Horror Checklist

12 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

Only two wide-release theatrical genre films remain in 2009 ( New Moon , Transylmania ) and hungry horror fans - bellies full from a busy fall season - will have to scavenge the DVD shelves for titles until January crawls around to give birth to more big screen fare. It should be noted, however, that this year is going to close out leaving a number of completed, yet unreleased, movies in the dust. Victims of indecision, creative tinkering or just plain quality, the following seven films were supposed to reach us this year, but didn't make the cut. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane The Story Amber Heard ( Zombieland , The Informers ) is fantastic as the object of every adolescent boy's obsession. As Mandy Lane, she ventures out to a remote farm house for a weekend of »

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Winona Ryder Makes a Comeback in Aronofsky's Black Swan

10 November 2009 1:06 PM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Since 2002's Mr. Deeds (and an incident with shoplifting), Winona Ryder kept herself quietly busy with indie fare like Sex and Death 101 and The Informers — until she played Spock's mother in Star Trek.

Now Ryder has signed on to star in Darren Aronofsky's supernatural thriller Black Swan, according to THR. Set in the world of New York's ballet scene, Black Swan follows a dancer (Natalie Portman) whose rival (Mila Kunis) may be a figment of the her imagination. Ryder will play an older dancer. Barbara Hershey and Vincent Cassell are also joining the cast in unspecified roles.

Black Swan, which starts production in New York at the end of the year, has a script by Aronofsky and Mark Heyman. Fox Searchlight, who distributed Aronofsky's The Wrestler, is negotiating to co-finance and distribute the movie.

Ryder can be seen next in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which opens »

- Ryan Gowland

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Can Winona Ryder make a final comeback with 'Black Swan'?

10 November 2009 1:22 AM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »

  It seems like every time Winona Ryder tries to kick start her acting career she makes the wrong choice.  If you were to be kind, you'd recognize Ryder's last good performance in "Girl, Interrupted" a decade ago.  Since then she's suffered because of the notorious shoplifting incident and what was perceived as overly strange behavior.  One lucky role in the box office hit "Mr. Deeds" aside, she's made one bad indie choice after another.  Some of the clunkers include "The Darwin Awards," "The Ten," "Sex and Death 101" and "The Informers," just to name a few.  Now, Ryder appears to »

- HitFix Staff

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Billy Bob Thornton Moves Faster in George Tillman Jr’s Upcoming Action-Drama Starring Dwayne Johnson

27 October 2009 10:44 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Taking a break from making radio talk show hosts uncomfortable, Billy Bob Thornton has signed on to play opposite Dwayne Johnson in the upcoming action/drama (you’ll get all of the action and none of the fun!) Faster.  Thornton was most recently seen in the action/unintentional-comedy flick “Eagle Eye”.  While he was also in “The Informers” which came out after “Eagle Eye”, no one saw “The Informers” so it doesn’t count.  Hit the jump for details on the plot for “Faster”, a movie that doesn’t believe in crap like “names”.

I already knew the logline for “Faster” (”an ex-con is bent on avenging the death of his brother, who was murdered 10 years earlier when the two were double-crossed during a heist.”) but I assumed it was just a generic, forgettable action film that further diminished Johnson’s once-glowing potential.  Instead, here’s how Variety describes the plot:

Johnson plays Driver, »

- Matt Goldberg

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News & Notes: Green Lantern Moves, Raimi on Spider-Man 4, Malick’s Tree

16 October 2009 3:16 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

It's the end of the week, and we've got a bunch of news stories in the bin here at Reject HQ that we'd like to share with you. Unfortunately, not all of them are very big news stories -- you know, the kind that don't require the standard 500-word editorial. With that in mind, we'd like to present today's news and notes... - The current global economic situation has pushed Green Lantern out of Australia. Due to the big rise int he Aussie dollar, Warner Bros. is moving back to North America (probably Mexico or Canada). There is still no word yet as to whether they're considering shooting in space. [THR] - Sam Raimi told a Brit publication this week that he's learned his lesson. And when he makes Spider-Man 4 early next year, he will be applying these learned lessons (stuff like "having limitations" and going "back to basics") in an attempt to make a film that »

- Neil Miller

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Suicide Brings Van Sant and Easton Ellis Together

15 October 2009 3:44 AM, PDT | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »

Sad times are known to pull people together, and two unlikely candidates - film-maker Gus Van Sant and novelist Bret Easton Ellis, united only by their two-part surnames - have been drawn close by a mysterious double suicide which they plan to commit to celluloid.

Inspired by a Vanity Fair article titled The Golden Suicides, the pair will recount the death pact between artist lovers Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake who killed themselves within days of each other in 2007.

Van Sant, having piqued the Academy's interest with his gay-rights biopic Milk, is currently working on morality tale Restless for Columbia Pictures, which will star Tim Burton's new Alice Mia Wasikowska. He will co-write the Golden Suicides project with Easton Ellis - who follows his most recent film outing The Informers, with an adaptation of Lunar Park due in 2011 - but so far neither is attached to direct.

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Bret Easton Ellis & Gus Van Sant Writing a Suicide Screenplay

14 October 2009 6:10 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Oscar nominated director Gus Van Sant may already have another project in the works (Restless), but that's not stopping him from teaming with author Bret Easton Ellis (The Informers, Rules of Attraction) to write what sounds like a wholly depressing piece of cinema. Variety reports that Van Sant and Ellis are adapting The Golden Suicides, a Nancy Jo Sales article from Vanity Fair, about the double suicide (in 2007) of the artist and socialite couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. Though Van Sant certainly has the experience behind the lens, it sounds like he will only be brought on board as a writer for this project. Variety sums up the couple's troubles and tragic ends here for those who are interested: "Duncan and Blake formed a popular couple on the downtown New York and Venice, California, art scenes. She was one of the first videogame designers for girls, and his 'digital »

- Ethan Anderton

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Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis Team Up for 'Golden Suicides'

14 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

One remade Hitchcock's "Psycho," the other wrote the novel "American Psycho." and they each often explore screwed up young characters, but otherwise Oscar-nominated filmmaker Gus Van Sant ("Milk") and author Bret Easton Ellis ("Less Than Zero") have little in common. The most significant contrast between them is that Van Sant's characters tend to have good souls, while Ellis' seem to have no souls at all. This makes it all the more exciting and curious to see how the duo collaborates on a script about the tragic true story of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.

The lovers, who both ended their lives in 2007, were not household names, but they were important figures in the art world, and they both made contributions to cinema. Duncan, one of the first designers of video games for girls, made an animated short titled "The History of Glamour" (watch it here), and Blake did the »

- Christopher Campbell

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Bret Easton Ellis and Gus Van Sant to Film The Golden Suicides

14 October 2009 6:29 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Love him or hate him, you must admit that Bret Easton Ellis’ writing is some of the most innovative and unique work to arise out of the past few decades — Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho not only stunned on the page, but translated into three very good films.

However, his only work at adapting his novels into a screenplay by his own hand was the critically lambasted The Informers, which I have been told to avoid at all costs. I’d like to think, however, that this is simply a fluke, because Ellis’ talents will soon be used to adapt The Golden Suicides with Gus Van Sant (Milk, Elephant) at his side.

Currently, Van Sant is only involved in a co-writing capacity, adapting a Vanity article by Nancy Jo Sales that considers the suicides of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. According to Variety:

“Duncan and »

- John Cooper

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Brad Renfro 'hints at untimely death'

30 August 2009 11:20 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Actor Brad Renfro has warned of the perils of the Hollywood party circuit in an interview that took place before his death at the hands of drugs. The Informers star, who passed away at the age of 25 from a heroin overdose in January last year, has hinted in a camera interview shot three months before his death at the fatal dangers of the Hollywood scene, reports Female First. Renfro said: "The advice I have for people wanting to get into acting... I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. "Anything (more) »

- By Marcell Minaya

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Zombieland Amber Heard’s Awesome Sex Scene

27 August 2009 12:47 PM, PDT | HorrorYearbook | See recent HorrorYearbook news »

Backs in January we told you that Zombieland's Amber Heard had a sex scene in the direct-to-dvd movie The Informers. Wellz we just published some screenshots from the film, and it may be the best sex scene of the year. Why it went direct-to-dvd is beyond me. Heard was Mandy Lane in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane and is starring in the upcoming Stepfather remake and the Zomedy, Zombieland, in theaters October 2, 2009. Now this is what I call good PR! »

- Kevin Touch

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The Informers - Blu-ray Review

27 August 2009 8:37 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

I have to inform you that the Informers is not a very good movie. It.s another period piece set during the greedy 80s, but the story meanders through several characters - none of them are particularly compelling. It.s the 1980s and everyone is more concerned with themselves. We have Graham (Jon Foster) whose parents, William (Billy Bob Thornton) and Laura (Kim Basinger), have split because of his father.s affair with newscaster Cheryl Laine (Winona Ryder). Graham.s girlfriend Christie (Amber Heard) seems to have the same problem as his father. Meanwhile, rocker Bryan Metro (Mel Raido) is distressed because his ex-wife (Simone Kessell) has left with their son. Actor/doorman Jack (Brad Renfro) is distressed when his uncle Pete »

- Jeff Swindoll

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Buzz Break: Adventures in Mishandled Star Billing

26 August 2009 1:40 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

· Either the marketing masterminds behind The Informers' DVD cover refused to pay heed to the order of its above-the-title credits, or Winona Ryder really needs to stop going to Mickey Rourke's plastic surgeon.

· That viral ad design of snakes on a cane that you never saw and weren't buzzing about? It was for House.

· Add this, awkwardly, to Ted Kennedy's legacy: He gave us the plot to Blow Out!

· Pivotal questions have been asked: What if your favorite Lost characters were superheroes? And what can Britney Spears teach us about Alzheimers?

· Play me off, Papercraft Keyboard Cat. »

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New on DVD This Week

25 August 2009 5:11 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic and not-so-classic movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.

Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Criterion version of The Last Days of Disco, Batman: Brave and the Bold and the debut of thirtysomething, Booker and Wiseguy on DVD for the first time.

Check them out.

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Adventureland ~ Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds,(DVD and Blu-ray)

Children of the Corn ~ Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong (Blu-ray)

Duplicity ~ Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Julia Roberts (DVD and Blu-ray)

Fighting ~ Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard (DVD and Blu-ray)

How Bruce Lee Changed the World ~ Bruce Lee (DVD)

The Informers ~ Kim Basinger, Billy Bob Thorton (DVD and Blu-ray)

The Last Days of Disco (Criterion Collection) ~ Chloë Sevigny, »

- Joe Gillis

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It's Spy Games And Carnival Rides In This Week's DVD Report For Tuesday, August 25

25 August 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

It's the last week of summer, so how is Hollywood celebrating? By releasing a home video slate of some of the most under-appreciated films of the year. From bickering spies to reluctant amusement park workers, August 25th brings together indie darlings and big-budget gems, and we're breaking it all down in today's DVD Report.

Let's kick it off with one of my favorite films of the year, Tony Gilroy's "Duplicity." The director's sophomore follow-up to "Michael Clayton," the Julia Roberts-Clive Owen spy yarn brings together two of the brightest and most expressive voices working today for a crafty globe-trotting adventure. Filled with twists and turns and superb acting, "Duplicity" wasn't exactly a smash hit at the cineplex, but it's more than worth your time. Sadly, if there's one thing worth griping about here, it's the rather lackluster bonus features...or should we say bonus feature. Both the »

- Brian Jacks

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Rt on DVD: Exclusive Informers clip, Dungeons & Dragons, and more!

24 August 2009 9:05 AM, PDT | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »

This week in home releases, we have a Bret Easton Ellis adaptation (The Informers, which we present with an exclusive clip), a classy Criterion release (The Last Days of Disco), a complete set of a classic 1980s cartoon (Dungeons & Dragons: The Animated Series), some Stephen King horror that's hitting high-def (Children of the Corn), and shirtless guys beating the stuffing out of each other (Fighting). In other words, there's something for everyone this week. keep reading for a guide your best DVD and Blu-Ray options this week. Movies based on Bret Easton Ellis books are always tough sells in »

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Madness or Genius? : The New Vampire Revival

20 August 2009 7:43 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

Ever since Bram Stoker went on the most successful writers retreat of all time and penned Dracula, the vampire story has molded and helped evolve not only the horror genre as we know it today but, really, film as a whole. Watching Max Schreck walk out of the shadows in 1922's Nosferatu is still kinda unsettling and is surely an image we've seen as much as we have Bogart smoking, Eastwood with a smoking gun or Brando looking smoking cool. The count has been remade a countless number of times and to date there are nearly 200 feature film versions of Stoker's fanged one alone. So with the help of this years staggering, pitch perfect Let The Right One In, HBO's new series True Blood doing all kinds of things all over the world, Chan Wook Park's hopefully masterful Thirst on the horizon and some small time franchise thing called The »

- Neil Innes

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DVD Playhouse--August 2009

10 August 2009 2:25 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

DVD Playhouse—August 2009

By

Allen Gardner

Watchmen—Director’S Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Cinema release inspirations including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

17 July 2009 2:44 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

After the months and months and months of waiting, it’s finally here – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Its release postponed from last November to this July, the sixth adventure of the boy wizard opened in cinemas on Wednesday and is already breaking records, the J.K. Rowling adaptation proving to be a cinematic juggernaut that is swamping theatres with multiples screens dedicated to it. Look around and there are a couple of other new movies also out from today such as sci-fi space mystery Moon and ensemble drama The Informers, however, for the majority of you if you fancy catching a film this weekend, prepare to be Pottered!

If you see… Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) take on a new mission with Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) all the while trying to cope with teenage romances in family blockbuster Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Why Not Take a look at some »

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