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Casting Net: 'The Terminator' in talks to play the Exterminator in 'Toxic Avenger' reboot; Plus, Olivia Wilde, more
13 May 2013 9:19 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
• Arnold Schwarzenegger is in talks to star in a reboot of The Toxic Avenger to play the Exterminator, who helps the Toxic Avenger (a weak kid who has an unfortunate accident at a toxic chemicals plant) learn to use his newfound powers for good. So, they team up to take on the evil polluters. Writer and director Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) is leading the adaptation, and Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz (directors of the 1984 cult classic) will serve as executive producers. [Deadline]
• Olivia Wilde (Tron) and Mark Duplass (The League) are set to star in Reawakening, a medical thriller »
- Lindsey Bahr
Billy Crystal Leading 'Winter's Discontent' for Director Frank Oz Now
13 May 2013 4:37 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
For about five years now there's been a script waiting to be produced called Winter's Discontent. The adult comedy has been described as follows: When Herb Winter's wife of fifty years dies, the faithful but sexually frustrated widower moves into a retirement community to start living the swinging single life. Last we heard back in 2009, Borat and The Dictator director Larry Charles was on board the project written by first-timer Paul Fruchbom and featured on last year's Black List. But now Deadline has word that In & Out and Death at a Funeral director Frank Oz is at the helm with Billy Crystal attached to lead the comedy. This is exactly the kind of project Crystal needs to reinvigorate his big screen career. The star of such favorites as When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers and The Princess Bride has only had Monsters Inc. to keep him relevant. Last year's abysmal »
- Ethan Anderton
'Divergent': The movie's most highly anticipated scenes -- and a few we're worried about
1 May 2013 12:09 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Veronica Roth’s Divergent is not a book that comes off as unfilmable. From its opening pages to its dramatic, action-packed conclusion, this dystopian tale seems like it was always designed to be turned into a movie — which may be why Summit Entertainment bought the book’s film rights months before the novel was even published.Given this, it’s not tough to pick out five scenes from Divergent that I can’t wait to see rendered on the big screen. (Caution: Book spoilers follow, of course.) Specifically:Tris’s big jump into Dauntless The story’s first real action setpiece — minus the aptitude test, »
- Hillary Busis
Jennifer Garner's Mothering Improves Alexander's No Good Day
25 April 2013 1:00 AM, PDT | kidspickflicks | See recent kidspickflicks news »
Update: Jennifer Garner (The Odd Life of Timothy Green) will play Alexander's momin Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Steve Carell will play the dad. No word yet on which kid gets the plum role of Alexander, a kid who wakes up with gum in his hair and the day just goes downhill from there.
March 14, 2013 -Miguel Arteta is in talks to become the Third director for Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for Disney. Arteta's forte seems to be outrageous comedy, his previous films are Michael Cera's Youth In Revolt and Ed Helms' Cedar Rapids, both of which were Rated R. Lately, he's been directing episodes of TV shows including the pilot for "The Carrie Diaries" and an episode of "New Girl." This is a straight up children's movie, I'm not sure why this project keeps attracting directors »
- tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
Parental Guidance Kid Tweets His Way to a Role in The Maze Runner
24 April 2013 1:00 AM, PDT | kidspickflicks | See recent kidspickflicks news »
Update: Salesmen have a saying, "Always ask for the order." That's exactly what Blake Cooper did to get the role of Chuck in The Maze Runner. The young actor did the digital equivalent of raising and waving his hand in the air. He tweeted the film's director Wes Ball to let make him aware that he wanted the role - and it worked! Cooper doesn't have too many credits, although plays a speech student in Parental Guidance. Still, he had the look and it turns out, the chops, so he got the job.
Other new hires are Anl Ameen ("Harry's Law") as Alby, Kaya Scodelario (Clash of the Titans) as Teresa, Ki Hong Lee ("The Nine Lives of Chloe King") as Minho.
April 19, 2013 - "Teen Wolf" star Dylan O'Brien will play Thomas in The Maze Runner, one of the boys who wakes up in the maze with his memory wiped clean. »
- tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
Parental Guidance Blu-Ray Review
12 April 2013 12:16 PM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
Parental Guidance is one of those efforts that lives in a similar world to the majority of romantic comedies. It exists because a certain demographic wants to catch a flick once in a while, and we put it together using the most straight-forward devices and simplest common denominators. Like those rom-coms, as the credits roll we often wonder how certain stars were enticed to lend their names to what we just watched. On the other hand, we have to admit that we usually find them all to be mostly harmless, especially if it’s a genre that has any appeal to us at all.
A kind of old vs. new battle, Parental Guidance follows the “hilarious” events that transpire when Artie Decker (Billy Crystal) and his wife, Diane (Bette Midler), agree to babysit their grandkids so that their daughter, Alice (Marisa Tomei), can have a week away with her husband. »
- Marc Eastman
Blu-ray Review: Learn a Lesson by Not Seeing ‘Parental Guidance’
5 April 2013 1:34 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – “Parental Guidance” is embarassingly bad. Why on Earth Billy Crystal chose this anemic, cliched comedy to essentially come back from retirement is something I’ll never understand. Maybe the star of “City Slickers” and Oscar legend thought this would be his “Meet the Parents”. It’s not.
Rating: 1.0/5.0
What really baffles me about “Parental Guidance” is not the predictable comedy that’s basically about as fresh as a stand-up comedian who does a bit about his dad leaving the Vcr blinking on 12:00 but the emphasis on gross-out humor. At one point, a kid pees on an X Games half pipe being skated by Tony Hawk. I think this is officially the moment that skateboarding becomes no longer cool. If the lame jokes weren’t bad enough the lessons about parenting and generational gaps are just embarrassing. Subplots about imaginary friends and speech therapy are handled in ways that Nick Jr. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Ratings: The Voice Rises, New Normal Finale at 11-Week High, Splash and Smash Down
3 April 2013 9:22 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
NBC’s The Voice led this Tuesday in both total viewers (up 10 percent week-to-week to 13.61 million) and in the demo (rising two tenths to a 4.3), opposite an NCIS rerun.
NBC notes that the 4.3 marks the best demo delivery for any Tuesday broadcast program since Dec. 18, and is The Voice‘s best rating since Oct. 30.
Related | The Voice Recap: Dull Encounters of the Fourth Blind
Leading out of that, The New Normal‘s special 9 o’clock installment did Go On-caliber numbers, with 5 mil and a 1.9, while the freshman comedy’s subsequent finale episode (3.56 mil/1.4) rose 7 percent to its best rating since Jan. »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Parental Guidance's Kyle Breitkopf Thanks You for His Award
28 March 2013 5:11 PM, PDT | kidspickflicks | See recent kidspickflicks news »
You voted for Kyle Harrison Breitkopf as the winner of the Pick Scene Stealer Award. He played Barker in Parental Guidance and went toe to toe with Billy Crystal, truly stealing every scene he was in. Here's what Kyle had to say on Twitter when he received the award:
"Look what I just picked up!! I can't believe it! Thank you to everyone who voted for me! Thanks to @KidsPickFlicks!"
Watch Kyle on the SyFy series "Being Human" on Monday nights. And, Follow Kyle on Twitter @KyleBreitkopf »
- tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
New DVD Blu-Ray: 'Lincoln,' 'Killing Them Softly'
28 March 2013 3:17 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Moviefone's New Release of the Week "Lincoln" What's It About? Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis take on the story of The Great Emancipator in "Lincoln." The film centers on honest Abe's final months in office, trying to unite a divided country and abolish slavery. See It Because: With the incomparably method Day-Lewis at the forefront, looking like the spitting image of the 16th President, he successfully altered the public's perception of Lincoln -- and went on to win an unprecedented third Academy Award for Best Actor . New on DVD & Blu-ray "Easy Money" What's It About? Three men -- a status-chasing business student, a two-bit crook, and a single-dad mafia hitman -- collide in this heavy, stylish Swedish crime thriller. In or Out?: In. "The Collection" What's It About? A poor man's version of the "Saw" franchise tries to get a sequel off the ground, and fails. In or Out? »
- Eric Larnick
Bring home the laughs with a free copy of Parental Guidance
28 March 2013 1:10 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Billy Crystal and Bette Midler prove that laughter is relative with the hilarious comedy Parental Guidance on Blu-ray and DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. M&C is getting in on the laughs by giving away two copies of the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack edition of the film! Old-school grandparents Artie (Crystal) and Diane (Midler) get more than they bargained for when they get stuck babysitting their type-a daughter.s (Tomei) overprotected kids. But things go from hectic to hysterical when Artie realizes the kids are running the house with their newfangled technology. By playing by his own rules, which include sugary snacks, old fashioned games and tough love, Artie manages to outsmart the kids and achieve the impossible- »
- Patrick Luce
New On Demand: Watch 'Hyde Park on Hudson' Before Disc and 'Room 237' While It's Still in Theaters
26 March 2013 4:00 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
Check out what's new to rent and own this week on the various streaming services such as cable On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and, of course, Netflix. Cable On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pre-theatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods Lincoln (Steven Spielberg's historical drama; Daniel-Day Lewis in his Oscar-winning role, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones; rated PG-13) Killing Them Softly (crime thriller with a message; Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini; rated R) Parental Guidance (family comedy; Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei; rated PG) On the Road (drama; Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart; still in theaters; rated R) Kiss of the Damned (horror; Joséphine de La Baume...
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- Robert B. DeSalvo
New to Blu-ray: Lincoln, Jurassic Park, Killing Them Soflty, and More
26 March 2013 9:56 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Here’s a brief look at this week’s new Blu-ray releases: The Borgias: The Second Season [Blu-ray] - $34.99 (47% off) The Collection [Blu-ray] - $16.99 (32% off) Jurassic Park (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet) - $16.99 (51% off) Killing Them Softly [Blu-ray] - $19.96 (50% off) Lincoln (Two Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack) - $22.99 (41% off) Lincoln (Four Disc Blu-ray / DVD + Digital Copy) - $27.99 (39% off) Monsieur Verdoux (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] - $31.99 (20% off) Parental Guidance [Blu-ray] - $22.99 (43% off) A Royal Affair [Blu-ray] - $24.86 (17% off) The Sandlot: 20th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray]- $14.96 (25% off) Veep: The Complete First Season (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) - $19.99 (60% off) Hit the jump for details on the extras included on the aforementioned Blu-rays. The Borgias: The Second Season [Blu-ray] The entirety of the extras included on this Blu-ray are accessible only through Bd-Live, but they include episodes of Californication and House of Lies, a short featurette that includes behind-the-scenes interviews, and a collection of short featurettes that focus on Vicar of Rome, Gunpowder Revolution, »
- Adam Chitwood
Parental Guidance Exclusive Blu-ray Bonus Clip Gets Hammy With Technology
26 March 2013 9:44 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Parental Guidance stars Billy Crystal and Bette Midler, who are now both old enough to play grandparents in a movie where former young whippersnapper Tom Everett Scott now plays a parent. The hammy comedy is a family friendly endeavor that makes the most of Midler and Crystal.s characters, and as the exclusive Blu-ray bonus clip above notes, even when the movie skews toward an older audience, there.s enough Yo Gabba Gabba references to include the younger folks, too. In Parental Guidance, a worn-out couple (Marisa Tomei and Scott) decides to get out of town for the weekend, but unfortunately, the favored grandparents aren.t available to babysit. They eventually opt to bring Crystal and Midler.s characters in to watch over their two little darlings. The kids and the grandparents don.t get along at first, but through some teaching moments and a variety of wacky circumstances, the »
'Killing Them Softly' and 'Lincoln' Come Home to DVD and Blu-ray This Week
26 March 2013 8:30 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Killing Them Softly I watched my digital copy on my plane flight home from Park City, Utah on Sunday and enjoyed Killing Them Softly all over again, but I was also able to understand a little better why the film didn't necessarily work for audiences. Though I still can't understand the "F" CinemaScore, I can see where audiences that felt duped into the theater, thinking they were getting a gangster film only to be served an allegorical tale of corporate America would be lost and wondering just what the hell they were watching. Granted, you would hope people would look on and say, "This isn't what I thought it was going to be, but I'm wiling to explore what the film has to offer," but I guess that would be asking too much. The Blu-ray comes with a making-of featurette and some deleted scenes, neither of which I have had a chance yet to watch, »
- Brad Brevet
New on DVD and Blu-ray: 'Lincoln' and More
25 March 2013 12:00 PM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
This week: Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in his Oscar-winning role in "Lincoln" as the 16th President of the United States who spent the last few months of his life making changes that would affect generations of Americans.
Also new this week is the crime drama "Killing Them Softly" with Brad Pitt, the horror sequel "The Collection," the family comedy "Parental Guidance" and Stuart Gordon's cult favorite "From Beyond" on Blu-ray for the first time.
'Lincoln'
Box Office: $182 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 89% Fresh
Storyline: Steven Spielberg directs this revealing historical drama about the final months of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. In a country torn apart by the Civil War, the 16th President of the United States ((Daniel Day-Lewis) pursues a course of action that will end the conflict and abolish slavery. On board for the history lesson are Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Joseph Gordon-Levitt »
- Robert DeSalvo
Is a Revolt coming for the Alexander & The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Movie?
14 March 2013 1:00 AM, PDT | kidspickflicks | See recent kidspickflicks news »
Update: Miguel Arteta is in talks to become the Third director for Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for Disney. Arteta's forte seems to be outrageous comedy, his previous films are Michael Cera's Youth In Revolt and Ed Helms' Cedar Rapids, both of which were Rated R. Lately, he's been directing episodes of TV shows including the pilot for "The Carrie Diaries" and an episode of "New Girl." This is a straight up children's movie, I'm not sure why this project keeps attracting directors who prefer more grown up material. The good news is that Shawn Levy of Night at the Museum movies is still planning to produce this film.
Feb. 22, 2013 - While Disney decided to make Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day after 20th Century Fox dropped the project, director Lisa Cholodenko will no longer helm the project. The »
- tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
Suri Cruise & Bff Skip Through NYC With Katie Holmes — Cute Pic
11 March 2013 12:28 PM, PDT | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »
This celeb kid acts just like any other 6-year-old, and was seen holding hands and strolling through NYC on March 10 with one of her friends! So adorable!
Suri Cruise had a play-date with a blonde pal, and the two seemed to be the best of friends! They were walking through New York City, hand-in-hand and all smiles! No worries, mama Katie Holmes, 34,was following right along, behind the duo!
Katie Holmes & Suri Cruise: Fashion Gets Turned On High
While Suri may be acting like any other kid her age by hanging out with friends and just enjoying life, she wasn’t about to leave her cute clothes at home. She wore a charming purple-striped maxi dress and a puffy faux fur coat that she had come up over her neck to keep warm. She even had her hair slicked back with a sweet headband. Such a cutie!
This was Suri »
- HL Intern
Franco's 'Oz' May Not Be So Great And Powerful
6 March 2013 5:37 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
-- "Oz the Great and Powerful" aims for nostalgia in older viewers who grew up on "The Wizard of Oz" and still hold the classic dear while simultaneously enchanting a newer, younger audience. It never really accomplishes either successfully.
A prequel to the groundbreaking 1939 film, "Oz" can be very pretty but also overlong and repetitive, with a plot that's more plodding that dazzling. Director Sam Raimi also is trying to find his own balance here between creating a big-budget, 3-D blockbuster and placing his signature stamp of kitschy, darkly humorous horror. He's done the lavish CGI thing before, with diminishing results, in the "Spider-Man" trilogy, but here he has the daunting task of doing so while mining an even more treasured pop -culture phenomenon.
The results are understandably inconsistent. "Oz" features a couple of fun performances, a handful of witty lines, some clever details and spectacular costumes. And it's all »
- AP
Alexander & The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Just Got Worse...Or Did It?
22 February 2013 12:00 AM, PST | kidspickflicks | See recent kidspickflicks news »
Update: While Disney decided to make Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day after 20th Century Fox dropped the project, director Lisa Cholodenko will no longer helm the project. The great news is that Steve Carell Is still planning to star as Alexander's dad!
Cholodenko quitting the project makes this movie down 2 directors so far. But let's be honest: her leaving may be the best thing for this movie. Cholodenko is a very talented director of very adult material - most of her movies are Rated R including the only one that included kids: The Kids Are All Right (which really isn't about the kids as much as about the parents of the kids). In the meantime, may we make a suggestion? Disney, hire Andy Fickman, who directed You Again, Race to Witch Mountain and The Game Plan for Disney (and recently Parental Guidance for 20th Century »
- tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
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