Freshly Popped Movie Blog Archives - April 2009

April 2009 Archive

Help Bruce Willis Choose His Next Movie

By: Erik Davis on April 30, 2009 at 3:10PM Comments

Not long ago we put up a poll asking you all to help Tom Cruise choose his next movie based on the several different projects roaming around Hollywood with his name attached. In the end I believe we all chose The Matarese Circle, a spy thriller co-starring Denzel Washington which is based on the Robert Ludlum novel. With David Cronenberg potentially directing, it just sounded the coolest. So...

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Will Roger Rabbit Return to the Big Screen?

By: Erik Davis on April 30, 2009 at 2:42PM Comments (2)

A lot of you are probably a bit too young to remember how big of a deal the first Who Framed Roger Rabbit movie was. When it hit theaters in 1988, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards (it won four), and was hailed as a huge technological achievement – what with its mixing of live action and 2-D animation. And of course, who could forget Jessica Rabbit? Sleek and sexy, she's...

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Scoop This: Megan Fox Transforms, Portman, Gordon-Levitt Line up ‘Hesher’ and Hansel, Gretel … and Will Ferrell?

By: Erik Davis on April 30, 2009 at 2:18PM Comments (2)

A brand-new somewhat pristine photo of Megan Fox from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has arrived online via Yahoo, and in it she’s wearing a pure white dress while smiling. Hmmm … white dress and smiling? Do you think her character gets married to Shia LaBeouf’s character at the end of the movie? Perhaps I’m reading too much into it, but this image seems like...

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Scoop This: Bale Talks 'Batman,' Goonies Talk Sequel and Ricky Gervais Does 3-D

By: Erik Davis on April 29, 2009 at 5:27PM Comments

While the world awaits concrete news regarding the third Batman movie (of this particular franchise), we’ll have to settle for somewhat boring non-news quotes from actors and actresses who may or may not be a part of the next installment. While speaking with Christian Bale recently, Total Film learned the guy is donning the Bat-suit once again, regardless of whether Christopher Nolan...

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Oliver Stone Grabs Shia LaBeouf for 'Wall Street' Sequel

By: Erik Davis on April 29, 2009 at 2:40PM Comments (2)

In the original Wall Street, Michael Douglas played a high-powered stockbroker who mentors a young hot shot (played by Charlie Sheen) looking to make his mark in the industry. Now, over 20 years later, a sequel to Wall Street – called Money Never Sleeps --- is starting to heat up, with Michael Douglas reprising his career-defining (and Oscar-winning) role as Gordon Gekko. The film had been...

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Would You Rather: 'Gremlins 3' or 'Clueless 2'?

By: Erik Davis on April 29, 2009 at 11:47AM Comments

If there's a theme to today's blog posts, it's sequels. Lots of sequel-talk across the web over the past 24 hours, but no worries -- I've got you covered. First up we have a potential third installment in the Gremlins franchise. Bloody Disgusting spoke with Gremlins and Gremlins 2 director Joe Dante, and thankfully he's not interested in going anywhere near the beloved...

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Scoop This: Drop Dead Russell Brand, a Humpty Dumpty Movie and Channing Tatum Joining 'Twilight' Saga?

By: Erik Davis on April 28, 2009 at 3:33PM Comments

Do any of you actually remember the 1991 comedy Drop Dead Fred? Some of you might be a bit too young to remember the movie in theaters, and from what I’ve heard you actually have to travel to Middle-Earth (and more specifically, Mordor) in order to find a copy of this film on video or DVD. That said, someone brave enough in Hollywood (ahem, Universal) thought Drop Dead Fred needed to be...

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Your Favorite Movie of the Year So Far…

By: Erik Davis on April 28, 2009 at 3:28PM Comments (2)

We’re just about a quarter way through the year, which means we should probably take some time to look back and chat about which films have been our favorites so far. One way to describe the first quarter worth of films in 2009 would be ‘fun’. Obvious frontrunner Watchmen was a smidge below a three-hour epic; it felt original and fresh, even though it was based on one of the...

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Say It Ain't So: Ridley Scott Wants to Reboot 'Alien'?

By: Erik Davis on April 28, 2009 at 3:08PM Comments (1)

When you begin to list the greatest sci-fi movies of all time, there’s no doubt Ridley Scott’s Alien is somewhere near the top. But after several sequels (the best of which came with James Cameron’s follow-up, Aliens), the quality had begun to fade and all we were left with were two half-baked Alien vs. Predator films that came nowhere near the quality of the original.Not long...

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DVD of the Week: 'JCVD.' Plus 'Hotel for Dogs,' 'The Uninvited'

By: Stacie Hougland on April 28, 2009 at 9:47AM Comments

Mickey Rourke may have gotten all the love for The Wrestler earlier this year, but real-life kickboxing star Jean-Claude Van Damme deserves kudos and a comeback career with this super-meta, darkly comic experiment in which he plays...himself. As the film's aging, action has-been battling personal problems, other actors for roles, and his ex over child custody, he's in the wrong place,...

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Boldly Go and Enter to Win 'Star Trek' TV & Movies on Blu-ray!

By: Stacie Hougland on April 27, 2009 at 4:12PM Comments

If you're any kind of Trekkie at all (or Trekker, whichever you prefer), you already know brand-spanking-new collections of the first few Star Trek movies and Season One of the original series make their Blu-ray debuts in the next few weeks, and we have three copies of each to put in your hot little hands.Star Trek: The Original Series: Landing tomorrow, April 28, this seven-disc set contains...

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Scoop This: First 'Avatar' Image, 'Bioshock' Movie on Hold and Swine Flu Hurts 'Wolverine'

By: Erik Davis on April 27, 2009 at 3:02PM Comments

All we’ve seen of James Cameron’s Avatar so far are behind-the-scenes green-screen images of James Cameron and his actors hard at work on what some think could eventually become the grandest moviegoing experience of the year. Cameron has promised that his $200 million-plus film will present us with a new kind of 3D experience (mixing live-action and animation) the likes of nothing...

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'Twilight' Kids Shoot Documentary About Being a Celebrity

By: Erik Davis on April 27, 2009 at 2:54PM Comments

While the Twilight franchise continues to keep millions of pre-teen girls (and their moms) busy, the film’s actors are helping with a new documentary on what it’s like to be a celebrity in a time where someone (like, say, Kristen Stewart or Robert Pattinson) can go from being an unknown to one of the world’s most famous faces in the span of only a few months. Folks don’t...

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Natalie Portman's New Website: Kind of Like a Virtual Film School?

By: Erik Davis on April 27, 2009 at 2:34PM Comments

A special congrats goes out to actress Natalie Portman, who just debuted her brand new movie-related website during the Tribeca Film Festival this past weekend. MakingOf.com was created by Portman and Christine Aylward as a web portal that "provides an intimate, fresh look into the process of creating entertainment by the insiders themselves."A quick scan of the website reveals new...

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Scoop This: New 'Predator' Sequel, Denzel is 'Unstoppable' and First 'New Moon' Footage

By: Erik Davis on April 24, 2009 at 6:20PM Comments

Forget Sin City 2, Robert Rodriguez has just signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to bring a brand new Predator sequel to the big screen that, according to reports, will be "a bold new chapter in the Predator universe." Right off the bat, the studio has slapped a July 7, 2010 release date on the film – which, on the surface, feels a little rushed, but Rodriguez likes to move fast...

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