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We journalist types got a chance last week to check out some footage from Star Trek at a presentation hosted by director J.J. Abrams himself, and attended by most of the cast. I couldn't tell you a Ferengi from a Tholian, and god help me if you ask me what the trouble with Tribbles was, but I can tell you that this movie looks pretty hot (and journos who would likely know the answers to those...
Paramount had been keeping a tight lid on their intriguing, Oscar-baiting film about a man who ages backward, but has now released two posters -- we like the reverse print in the one below -- and a few photos for the Christmas release, and screened the film for selected press and industry types. Variety's early, positive review notes that viewers will witness Pitt's "unnerving...
People who prefer their Will Smith movies on the Fresh Prince side could miss the deliciously nuanced performance he gives in Hancock, in which he plays a wholly unlikeable drunk, stubborn superhuman who puts the "anti" in "antihero," destroying public property with abandon as he saves the citizenry and defending bullied preteens by beating up the preteen bully. A homeless...
Let the awards battle royale begin. Warner Bros. has already started running the requisite For Your Consideration ads in the trades for The Dark Knight. The strange thing is, at this point, the comic book blockbuster really does seem like a viable contender to win Best Picture, and of course, Heath Ledger is a lock for at least a nomination as Best Supporting Actor. Cinematical posted the two...
Last night’s Twilight press screening at The Grove in L.A. included a lot of long lines, squealing, cheers and screaming—all of which I expected. I did not expect to see a lot of males in the theater, but there were more grown men than I anticipated. Dads escorting tweens, I guessed. One sported a Twilight Tee. The crowd squealed excitedly when the lights dimmed. Cheers and claps...
Two wildly different releases, each huge summer successes, come out today: Tropic Thunder and Pixar's Wall*E. I highly recommend both.Tropic Thunder: Hollywood gets a somewhat safe skewering in this meta-tale of a group of egotistic actors shooting a war movie in the jungle who inadvertently end up actually becoming soldiers. The razor-sharp script has Robert Downey Jr., whose character is so...
All Twilight, all the time...now columnist Nikki Finke is reporting fans started camping out Sunday for the movie's premiere tonight at Mann's Village theater in Westwood, Calif. By around 10 a.m. this morning, the crowd of mostly women had ballooned to 300. The phenomenon has created havoc around the country. Hordes of fans braved foul rainy weather in Toronto last Friday to see the...
Twilight's taking over, well, just about everything. On Wednesday, its soundtrack debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. pop chart. I bet rock band AC/DC (which bested High School Musical 3's soundtrack) was irked to find its two-week reign on the top spot cut short as the Twilight phenomenon upped sales to 165,000 copies. Twilight, which boasts tracks from Linkin Park, Paramore, Muse and star Rob...
Not only is he a brilliant director, but Guillermo del Toro's witty and personable too, as he charmed a roomful of us at the launch party for the Blu-ray release of Hellboy II: The Golden Army last night at the club Element in Hollywood. In his lilting Spanish accent, he explained the DVD-making process and described the wealth of special features available, prompting laughs along the way....
For all of you Bondamaniacs who like the numbers, here are a few Fandango stats from a Quantum of Solace poll we recently ran, tallied from over 1000+ Fandango users... - 93% of QUANTUM moviegoers will go on opening weekend- 78% say the edgier Bond, as played by Daniel Craig, makes them more interested in the franchise- 61% say they do not miss the campy one-liners and corny gadgets of the older...
Kung Fu Panda What I'd say is Dreamworks' best animated movie yet, Kung Fu Panda actually arrived on DVD last Sunday, Nov. 9, and let the pandamonium begin. The video release is, in a word, outstanding. Jack Black voices tubby panda Po, an unlikely hero tapped to be the next Dragon Warrior to train under Master Shifu alongside an elite group of kung fu fighters. When evil criminal Tai...
Chris Rock has decided to put his personal stamp on last year’s British farce, Death at a Funeral. Rock, who is a fan of the film, approached Sidney Kimmel Entertainment with a reimagining of the original concept, which centered on hilarious gaffes during a British funeral of a family patriarch. He’s to star, co-write and produce a remake, according to the Hollywood Reporter. I...
If you weren't already pumped to see Quantum of Solace when it opens in a couple weeks, maybe this will get your juices flowing -- reportedly the brand-new, second Watchmen trailer will be attached to it. In an interview on Dark Horizons, Watchmen director Zack Snyder says the final trailer will debut with QoS (the one out now is just the first version). "It’s a little bit more...
By now we've all heard about Joaquin Phoenix's intent to retire from the acting biz to concentrate on a music career, but you better not laugh about it -- at least not to his face. Sounding like he'd just eaten a ladle-full of peanut butter (pal Casey Affleck sounded just as out of it) the legendarily touchy Phoenix mumbled his plans to this Extra reporter, then bit his head off when the...
I had my reservations about Get Smart, being a childhood devotee of the '60s TV show classic with Don Adams and Barbara Feldon and having seen the hardly glowing movie reviews. Good news, though -- with a decent script, a snicker here and there, fleshed out characters and Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart, Get Smart is solid, if a bit vanilla, entertainment. You won't find yourself slapping...
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