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Liam Neeson Takes Over For Bradley Cooper in ‘The Grey’ Wolf Project
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It’s been three years since we first heard of The Grey, a spec script Joe Carnahan was writing. His friend had written a short story, Carnahan bought the rights and adapted it, and it floated [...]
Soderbergh to Shoot ‘Contagion’ in Hong Kong
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I saw Outbreak as a wee lad, and for approximately the next 10 years I was convinced that every cough was an early symptom of Ebola. To my over-active imagination, that half-baked Hollywood thriller was just about the most terrifying film conceivable, the invisible microorganisms that bastard monkey brought to the US were infinitely [...]
Stars in Rewind: Zach Galifianakis Does Stand-Up for Pre-Schoolers
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Sure Zach Galifianakis is a big star now — thanks to appearances in films like last year’s The Hangover — but it wasn’t always A-list parties for the funny man from North Carolina. Before he hit the bigtime. Galifianakis was a struggling comic who hosted a really hilarious and short lived show on VH1 entitled [...]
DVD/Blu-ray Announcements: ‘Extra’, ‘Winnebago’ & Joaquin
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It’s a bridge week here at the ol’ DVD announcement column. Those expecting word on Inception, Eclipse or even The A-Team will have to wait a little longer. Instead you get a chance to infuse your Netflix queues and Amazon shopping carts with some of the films from the festival circuit that opened quietly and [...]
Move Over, Terry Gilliam! Miramax is the New Curse in Town
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At the end of July I wrote a post titled “The Miramax Fight is Over: Tutor Takes the Prize.” Oh, what hopeful words. After a long ordeal where the Weinsteins tried to buy back their company, and every rich dude on the block contemplated a movie studio purchase, it seemed like Disney’s sale of [...]
Ian McShane’s Blackbeard Appears in New ‘Pirates 4′ Set Photo
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Shooting on the fourth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, On Stranger Tides, is underway and photographers have been busy snapping photos of cast members on the set. So far, we’ve seen Johnny Depp in his Captain Jack Sparrow regalia and Penélope Cruz as Angelica — and yesterday we got our first peek [...]
Review: Going the Distance
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Long-distance romances suck. You can’t be with the one you love; text messages and phone calls don’t make up for the loss of physical intimacy, and thousands of miles and multiple time zones often doom the relationship to failure. It’s a dilemma faced by millions of teenagers entering college, as well as mature adults [...]
James McAvoy and Tom Cruise Consider Trip to ‘Mountains of Madness’
http://www.cinematical.com/media/feedlogo.gif Few people were more excited than me when it was announced back in July that Guillermo Del Toro would finally be making his version of HP Lovecraft’s creepy novella At the Mountains of Madness. The tale focuses on an Antarctic expedition that uncovers some truly chilling things lurking in a mountain range that dwarfs [...]
Tom Hardy Replaces Michael Fassbender in ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’
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Briefly: Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson is putting together a stellar cast for his adaptation of the John Le Carré novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. He’s got Gary Oldman in the lead as cold war agent George Smiley, working to uncover a mole in the upper realms of the UK secret service.
Ciaran [...]
Cool Stuff: The 3G Art Show: Ghostbusters, Goonies and Gremlins – Part 4
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How does the Los Angeles-based Gallery 1988 top their Crazy4Cult show? By announcing a team-up with The Autumn Society for something they are calling “The 3G Show”. A Pop-Culture art show in tribute to Ghostbusters, Goonies, and Gremlins. 3 movies that defined our generation. How cool is that? The show will have their grand opening [...]