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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Six
27 December 2009 10:09 AM, PST
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The Last Airbender
Opens: July 2nd 2010
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.
Analysis: Its been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan who started it as a household name with labels of a moodern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".
Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of the hit cartoon series
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- Garth Franklin
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Six
27 December 2009 10:09 AM, PST
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The Last Airbender
Opens: July 2nd 2010
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.
Analysis: Its been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan who started it as a household name with labels of a moodern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".
Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of the hit cartoon series
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- Garth Franklin
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Amy Adams 'Leap Year' trailer: More than just another witless rom-com? Or...not?
13 November 2009 12:29 PM, PST
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Okay, full disclosure: I loathe movies in which seemingly smart, talented women consider snagging a man (a barftastic expression in and of itself) to be the be-all, end-all goal of their existence. It's an insidious trope that reduces us to a flock of retrograde numbskulls. As an anthropological experiment/exercise in masochism, I dragged my husband and some pals to see Bride Wars on opening night earlier this year and I'm still scarred. (Serves me right, I know, I know.) There was a scene in which a small Tiffany box (i.e. The Coveted Ring!) falls from a closet shelf
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- Missy Schwartz
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Leap Year Trailer: Amy Adams Loses Control, Remains Cute
12 November 2009 1:17 PM, PST
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Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for the upcoming romantic comedy Leap Year, starring Amy Adams, Matthew Goode and Adam Scott. Written by Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy and directed by Shopgirl's Anand Tucker, the film tells the story of a girl who is more than desperate to get hitched.
When their four-year anniversary passes without a marriage proposal, Anna (Adams) decides to take matters into her own hands. Investing in an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on February 29th, Anna decides to follow her boyfriend Jeremy (Adam Scott) to Dublin and get down on one knee herself.
But airplanes, weather and fate leave Anna stranded on the other side of Ireland, and she must enlist the help of handsome and surly Declan (Matthew Goode) to get her across the country. As Anna and Declan bicker across the Emerald Isle, they discover that the road to love can take you to
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- Neil Miller
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Dempsey feels heisty
4 November 2009 1:08 AM, PST
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Patrick Dempsey has signed on to star in an upcoming untitled heist comedy from Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the writers of The Hangover. Dempsey, who has been reevaluating life since Made Of Honor, will star as a bank manager who gets caught in the middle of two simultaneous yet different robberies while trying to keep a bank teller he's crushing on safe. Paul McGuigan, who last directed this year's Push, will direct the film, which seems like an odd choice for a movie that seems to be
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Trucker
23 October 2009 6:00 AM, PDT
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Trucker
Directed by: James Mottern
Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Bratt, Jimmy Bennett
Running Time: 1 hr 30 min
Rating: R
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Plot: A truck driver (Monaghan) begins to re-evaluate her life after her ex-husband gets cancer and she’s reunited with her 11 year old son (Bennett).
Who’S It For? Any hardcore Michelle Monaghan fans out there? Otherwise, fans of first time feature filmmakers.
Expectations: Full disclosure: I’m a big Firefly fan so I’ll see pretty much any movie with Nathan Fillion in it.
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Michelle Monaghan as Diane: Best known for mediocre thrillers (Eagle Eye) and romantic comedies (Made of Honor), Monaghan attempts to get out of her box in Trucker. As a woman with the titular job, she’s a tough chick. In her first scene she’s having sex with a man in a cheap motel room before walking away
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- Megan Lehar
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M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Devil’ Headed for the Screen [Updated]
16 October 2009 8:48 AM, PDT
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[Update: We've now have a synopsis about the plot of Devil]
M. Night Shyamalan is one of those divisive directors in Hollywood - not because of politically controversial film topics like say Michael Moore, or over-the-top art house edge like Lars von Trier. He doesn’t even make it into the mainstream news media spouting off-hand remarks, or getting picked up while driving drunk, flinging anti-Semitic racial slurs. No, Shyamalan divides audiences into those that love his work and those that don’t because of his story telling; there’s no real fence-riding when it comes to his films.
Shyamalan’s next story, Devil, a horror-thriller, is being backed by Universal and directed by brothers John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle (Quarantine) with actor Chris Messina (Julie and Julia) attached to star. Brian Nelson (30 Days of Night) wrote the script based on Shyamalan’s story, the details of which are being kept a tightly guarded secret. I’m not really sure
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Review: Trucker
10 October 2009 7:02 AM, PDT
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By Erik Davis, reprinted from the Tribeca Film Festival 4/26/08
I was completely honest with actress Michelle Monaghan yesterday when I told her, right at the beginning of a one-on-one interview, that I'd been waiting a long time to watch her come alive in a role. In her relatively short career, Monaghan has already racked up quite the resume -- appearing in films like Mission Impossible III, Gone Baby Gone, The Bourne Supremacy, The Heartbreak Kid and Made of Honor. She's got a great, girl-next-door quality about her, but is she memorable? The good news here is that Monaghan finally delivered the sort of performance I've known was trapped somewhere inside her, hidden behind a variety of big, flashy Hollywood films. Make no mistake, this is her film. She owns it. But is that enough to convince you to see it?
In Trucker, she plays Diane, a female truck driver with
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Road Talk with 'Trucker' Star Michelle Monaghan
9 October 2009 2:05 PM, PDT
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By Steve Pond
Oscar voters often love it when beautiful models, or starlets accustomed to playing the one-dimension girlfriend roles, reveal that they can actually be serious actresses when given a chance. The transformation has worked for the likes of Jessica Lange and Charlize Theron in the past – and this year, Michelle Monaghan looks to be shaking up the perceptions of people used to seeing her in the likes of “Made of Honor” and “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” with her tough, subtle work in James Mottern’s “Trucker.”
Yesterday, Roger Ebert gave the film f
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- Steve Pond
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Downey, Jr. and Galifianakis Get A ‘Due Date’
2 October 2009 5:00 PM, PDT
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Since playing the leading role in Iron Man Robert Downey, Jr. has rocketed back onto the film scene and everyone it seems wants to work with him. The latest is director Todd Phillips in his new film Due Date. If you don’t recognize Phillips’ name you’ve certainly heard of his last project, The Hangover, which grossed over $400 million worldwide. With that film such a critical success, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Due Date become another hit.
Downey leads an all star cast including Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover, Bored to Death), Michelle Monaghan (Made of Honor) and Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, who starred opposite Downey in The Soloist. Due Date also brings back much of the talent behind The Hangover and sounds like it will draw on the same elements that made that film so hilarious:
“Downey plays Peter Highman, an expectant first-time father whose wife
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Jamie Foxx Joins Due Date
1 October 2009 4:01 AM, PDT
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Jamie Foxx is the most recent actor to join the ever impressively growing cast of Due Date, the upcoming comedy from The Hangover director Todd Phillips.
Already in the comedic line-up are Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover) and Michelle Monaghan (Made Of Honour). Downey will play an expectant father who finds himself on a road trip with a mismatched partner (Galifianakis), as he races to get home before his wife (Monaghan) gives birth to his first child.
Foxx joins the ensemble as Downey's oldest friend who once dated his wife and secretly still keeps in touch with her.
Filming begins this autumn in expectation of a November 5, 2010 release date.
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Michelle Monaghan Joins Robert Downey Jr And Zach Galifianakis In New Comedy
18 September 2009 6:02 AM, PDT
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"Made of Honor" star Michelle Monaghan has been tapped to star alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis in the Todd Phillips-directed comedy.
The 33-year-old actress will play the pregnant wife of a man, to be played by Downey Jr, who races home, hoping to arrive before she delivers their first child. Galifianakis will be the man's mismatched traveling companion.
According to Variety, Phillips will produce through his Green Hat shingle along with Daniel Goldberg. Scott Budnick is executive producing with Downey Jr's wife Susan.
Warner Bros is partnered with Legendary Pictures for the project.
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Simon Beaufoy To Write Leap Year
28 January 2009 11:08 PM, PST
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Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-nominated writer of The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire, has bagged his first high-profile gig since the release of the Danny Boyle film: he’s been tapped to write a new draft of the Amy Adams romantic comedy, Leap Year.Regular readers may recall that we’ve been highly cynical about Leap Year since it was first announced – not because of Adams, who’s excellent, and not because of the high-concept (Adams travels to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend on Feb. 29, a la the ancient tradition, only for things to go hilariously wrong), but because of its writers, Deb Kaplan and Harry Elfont, the duo who wrote the unspeakably bad Made Of Honour, Surviving Christmas and, just for bad measure, The Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas.Given the hideous Scottish stereotypes they inflicted upon us with Made Of Honour (a film which features an actual caber-tossing competition
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