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The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Sands of Not My Freakin' Dime

4 November 2009 1:09 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

It's the mid-week report of the good, bad and you-know-what-the-what here, as we compile the movie news from the past week and a half. Yes, you'll have more at the end of the week—but for now, let us all cringe together as we see stomach news of the 2012 motion sickness experience, an Mib without Will Smith, and the audacity of some people to shoot a barely visible topless scene and hype it up like it was Basic Instinct 3.

The Good

• For years, there have been several attempts to do a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, none of them ever came close to moving ahead. Speaking to MTV last week, director Robert Zemeckis set the record straight: that this time he is personally involved and really excited to do the sequel, and that he has commissioned original scribes Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman to write the screenplay. Let's hope »

- Arya Ponto

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CinemaSpy's Week-End TV Recap (Oct. 31)

31 October 2009 9:30 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Two shows were out of the mix again last week, Fringe and Dollhouse, both of which will be absent this coming week as well.

Meanwhile, for the shows that did air first-run episodes this past week, the spotlight was on Thursday, which was a bit disappointing for ratings. Fox's airing of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies dominated the airwaves, garnering a 10.6/17 share, according to Fast National ratings from The Nielsen Co. By comparison, even the reality juggernaut Survivor couldn't compete with America's favorite pastime, returning a 7.1/11 for its Survivor: Samoa iteration.

Both, however, finished well ahead of FlashForward, which is settling back down a bit. The ABC skein earned a 5.7 rating/9 share, matching the all time low it had back on Oct. 15. That's an eight percent drop from the previous week, and nine-and-a-half percent below its season average so far.

FlashForward remains the highest-rated network genre show, »

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Lang’S “Metropolis” To Be Featured At Berlinale

30 October 2009 4:10 PM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Fritz Lang's Metropolis, arguably Germany's most famous production during the silent-movie era, has been painstakingly restored and will be shown -- all two hours and 23 minutes of it -- at the the Berlin Film Festival -- the Berlinale -- on February 12, festival officials said Thursday. According to a press release, this will mark the first time that the film has been seen in its entirety since it was released in 1927. A 2001 restoration ran some 30 minutes shorter. The new one was constructed from a 16mm negative discovered at the Museo del Cine Pablo in Buenos Aires last year, believed to be the only complete one in existence. The festival screening will be accompanied by the Berlin Runfunk Symphony Orchestra conducted by Frank Strobel, which will be performing the original score written for the movie by Gottfried Huppertz. »

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Complete Version of Metropolis to Screen in February

30 October 2009 2:45 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Movie history buffs rejoice! One of the most highly regarded and influential movies of all-time will play on the big screen in its complete form for the first time in more than 70 years, according to Variety.

Until last year, viewers had to accept that the German silent Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, was incomplete and would likely never see restoration. The movie debuted in May 1927, but performed poorly, prompting producers to axe several key sequences. The resulting shorter running time eliminated key plot advancements and character developments.

The trimmed material was eventually lost, leading to the current version of Metropolis, which features intertitles describing certain plot details. But in July 2008, a complete print of the movie was found unexpectedly in the archives of an Argentinean museum.

Since then, the print has undergone extensive restoration, leaving fans, critics, and historians to wait eagerly for an announcement regarding the first screening. Today, »

- Rich Z Zwelling

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The Lost Cut of Metropolis To Play at the Berlinale

29 October 2009 4:59 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Finally, after over a year of me holding my breath and wishing big chunks of my life away, the restoration has been completed and the full, original cut of Fritz Lang's Metropolis is nearing it's re-premiere. Of course, I won't be there to see it, and chances are you won't be either, but at least we know that widespread distribution is approaching fast. The re-premiere is to take place during the 2010 Berlinale. The gala screening on February 12 next year is to take place at the Friedrichstadtspalast while a parallel event will see the film screened at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, both with live performances of the original score. This long-lost version of the film was discovered in Buenos Aires last year. After the break is a step-by-step of the amazing chain of events that led to it being found again. This is one heck of an odd series »

- Brendon Connelly

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Uncut "Metropolis" to be Shown at the Berlin Film Festival

29 October 2009 10:53 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

Without the heart there can be no understanding between the Hands and the Mind.--Fritz Lang

Those immortal words from the glorious "Metropolis" will be seen on the big screen again in its full, uncut glory!

The Berlin Film Festival will show the original cut of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" at a gala ceremony on Feb. 10.

The great sci-fi silent film, written by Lang and Thea von Harbou, is one of the most influential films in the history of cinema. It originally bombed at the box-office when it opened on Jan. 10, 1927.

So the Ufa studio re-edited the film, took away 30 minutes of the movie, and then re-released in eight months later to great acclaim!

The outtakes were considered long gone, but Variety is saying that in 2008, "a 16 mm negative of the original was found in Buenos Aires. The original has since been restored by the Murnau Foundation in cooperation with Zdf, »

- Manny

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CinemaSpy's Week-End TV Recap

17 October 2009 9:05 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

We've been a bit neglectful so far this fall season with our television coverage, particularly when it comes to analyses of episodes week to week. So we're going to do our darnedest to correct that oversight, starting right here, right now, with a look back at last week.

After careful consideration, we began to realize that detailed reviews of every episode of every major series, every week, was just too unwieldy—we haven't the manpower, and we doubt you have the patience to sift through long deliberations about the lives of your favorite characters on your favorite shows. We'll still do more detailed reviews every once in a while, but expect analyses of partial seasons more often than individual episodes.

So what's the alternative? Mini recaps/reviews. Think of them as Bk Burger Shots for your pop culture soul.

Ok, that's a wee bit disgusting. Think of them as "reviews you can use, »

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Smallville: Preview of Episode 9.04 "Echo"

16 October 2009 3:30 AM, PDT | buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news »

We're going to play a bit on Smallville because tonight marks the return of the Toyman.  Actor Chris Gauthier is back to portray this villain, and Oliver (Justin Hartley) better watch his back.  The grudge held by Winslow Schott still hasn't dissipated, which means trouble for Queen and possibly even the whole of Metropolis.

On tonight's episode titled "Echo," we see Tess (Cassidy Freeman) persuading Oliver to attend a gala held for Queen Industries.  He doesn't like the idea, but she tells him that they need to put the Board at ease regarding his status.

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- editor@buddytv.com

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Queens Theatre In The Park Announces 2009-2010 New York Film Series

1 October 2009 12:35 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Cinema Retro has just received the following press release

Queens Theatre in the Park (Qtp) announces its 2009/2010 season of film.  Qtp and the Museum of the Moving Image have partnered to present Moving Image Masterpieces, a series of six of the greatest films of all time at Qtp's home, a 464-seat auditorium at the former New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, which also has a 99-seat performing arts space.  The new series is programmed by David Schwartz, Chief Curator of the Museum of the Moving Image, who will introduce each screening:  Citizen Kane, Metropolis, Rules of the Game, Toyko Story, 8 ½, 2001: A Space Odyssey.  Tickets are $10 per film ($8 multi-show discount).

Queens Theatre in the Park's2009-2010 Film Series includes:

Citizen Kane - Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 7:30pm

Directed by Orson Welles

With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead

Wunderkind director Orson Welles used Hollywood as his playground to make his astonishing film, »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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Smallville Season 9 Premiere Clip – Savior

2 September 2009 6:56 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

This is the year that Clark finally begins to embrace the costumed superhero reality that will become his destiny as Smallville kicks off its historic 9th season.  Rumors of the suit were the rage at this year's Comic Con, let alone the Smallville panel, and rumors continue to swirl concerning the future of Smallville after the Metropolis rumors turned out to be so much fan boy mongering.  One thing that seems for certain is that we will be seeing a lot more of that iconic 'S' symbol that has come to symbolize someone as yet un-uttered in the Smallville-verse:  Superman. Here's a little peek at that symbol, as well as the debut of Brian Austin Green.

Yeah, I would have liked to have seen a little blur action myself, but this is none-the-less intriguing.  The season 9 premiere will launch a couple of overarching subplots, including the hotly anticipated introduction »

- Jon Lachonis

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Smallville: The Complete Eighth Season - Blu-ray Review

29 August 2009 1:05 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

It may be called Smallville, but this season finds the series moving more and more to Metropolis. Clark Kent is gradually leading up to his career as Superman, but before that he has to be a cub reporter at the Dailey Planet. Clark Kent (Tom Welling) has gotten a job. He.s a reporter at the Daily Planet and sits across from Lois Lane (Erica Durance). Is this starting to sound familiar? Clark also decides to champion justice in the big city, but uses his super speed to conceal his identity and becomes known as the Red-Blue Blur under the tutelage of Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (Justin Hartley) though the student and teacher don.t see eye to eye. The »

- Jeff Swindoll

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[TV] Smallville: The Complete Eighth Season

26 August 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Eight seasons. It took eight seasons for Smallville to finally reach the universally accepted Superman paradigm: Clark Kent works at the Daily Planet as a reporter, and skips out to save the world every now and then. When the show first started, I wouldn’t have believed you if you told me Smallville would follow Clark through high school, then college and finally to his premiere days as Metropolis’ own man of steel. To the preceding seasons’ credit, there was a lot of Superman mythos to build up and reinterpret – and it did an admirable job in that. Now, we’re finally in the big city and Clark is moonlighting as the “red-blue blur”. The best part? Seeing full-blown Superman glory is just a season away.

The events of season eight follow on the heels of quite a few major story arcs. Brainiac has seemingly been expelled from their lives, »

- Lex Walker

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Mezamashii: Getting Wet with Asuka Kurosawa in A Snake of June

6 August 2009 8:35 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

BeRightBack here, visiting from the Wordsmoker collective at Nathaniel's kind invitation to gab about one of my most fervently-held obsessions: Japanese cinema. "Mezamashii" (目覚ましい) is a Japanese word for "eye-opening," and I'm going to be using this feature to look at some revelatory and memorable moments that have opened my eyes to the distinct pleasures to be found in Japanese films.

I was reminded of today’s pleasure when Robert mentioned that the third film in director Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo series will be showing at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo movies are gritty and abrasive stories of men who begin sprouting metal from their bodies as if undergoing a form of post-apocalyptic puberty. But there's another side to the director, one that gets a bit obscured by Tetsuo's bristling, metal-engorged shadow. In his more beguiling, less confrontationally "avant-garde" films like Gemini and A Snake of June, »

- BeRightBack

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Ridley Scott picks up a writer and Leonardo Di Caprio for 'Brave New World'

6 August 2009 3:00 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »

As long as I've been writing about movies online, Ridley Scott has had the itch to make a big dystopian science-fiction movie again.  For a while, he was developing a script called "Metropolis" that wasn't a remake of the Fritz Lang film.  It was more of an original Sf thing based around a future city.  When "The Matrix" came out, "Metropolis" dropped dead because enough of the ideas in the films were similar that Scott's project became redundant. Obviously, he just last week stated that he is serious about making an "Alien" prequel.  I can't imagine he's going to want to... »

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Blade Runner Named Top Sci-fi Movie

5 August 2009 5:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Blade Runner has been named the greatest sci-fi film of all time in a new online poll of 100 iconic movies.

The futuristic picture, starring Harrison Ford, went on to become a cult classic despite a poor performance at the box office when it was initially released in 1982.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was voted into second place, while Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979) and 1927 classic Metropolis rounded out the top five in the survey, compiled by Totalscifionline.com.

The top ten is as follows:

1: Blade Runner (1982)

2: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

3: Star Wars (1977)

4: Alien (1979)

5: Metropolis (1927)

6: The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

7: The Terminator (1984)

8: Planet of the Apes (1968)

9: E.T. (1982)

10: Solaris (1972) »

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The Latest on the 'Metropolis' Restoration

22 July 2009 1:50 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

It was around this time last year that the film world got an astonishing bit of news: A huge chunk of footage that was missing from Fritz Lang's 1927 classic Metropolis -- and presumed lost forever -- was Found in a museum's archives in Argentina. The film, a futuristic sci-fi thriller that has influenced everything from Blade Runner to Tim Burton's Batman, was 153 minutes long when it premiered in Berlin, where it was a huge flop with critics and audiences. It was subsequently chopped down to about 90 minutes, and once the American copyright expired, in 1953, various people started releasing "restored" versions, none of them complete. And that missing footage just sort of disappeared.

The copyright was re-established by the F. W. Murnau Foundation in 1998, and in 2002 a 127-minute version was released on DVD, all the footage cleaned up as much as possible and the original musical score re-recorded. Intertitles »

- Eric D. Snider

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Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" Will Finally Be Complete

20 July 2009 12:06 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

After a year-long wait, the re-editing and restoration process of Fritz Lang's iconic silent film Metropolis has finally begun.

Shortly after its 1927 premiere, Metropolis' producers weren't too happy with Lang's original cut and trimmed the film. Since then, the excised footage had gone missing and the original version never seen again.

Over the years, several versions of the film were released, with varying amounts of footage. The most complete treatment to date was the 2002 restoration by Germany's F.W. Murnau Foundation and distributor Kino International, which had title cards describing the missing sequences. Those gaps will finally be filled.

The lost footage was discovered in Argentina last summer. Shortly afterward, Kino announced that the planned Bluray release of Metropolis will include said footage, originally planned to be a 2009 release, but it looks like it'll have to wait a little longer.

The footage is finally in the hands of the F.W. Murnau Foundation. »

- Arya Ponto

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Might Smallville Make It To Season 10?

5 July 2009 6:37 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

The debate goes on and on as to whether Smallville is going beyond the upcoming 9th season.  In fact there are many things that are up in the air as far as what we know about the show.

The few things we do know:

Tom Welling, who plays Clark Kent, has signed a 2-year contract renewal with the CW network. Allison Mack’s contract ends next year. Callum Blue & Brian Austin Green are hopping on board to play a few characters. Things have been up in the air ever since Al Gough and Miles Millar left the show to the supporting showrunners Darren Swimmer, Todd Slakin, Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson.  They’ve proven themselves, more or less with season 8, despite the emptiness of the season finale.

 

But after having stepped up, Swimmer and Slakvin are moving on to take over Melrose Place, leaving Souders and Peterson to run the shop. »

- Bruce Simmons

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Smallville May Get Another Season

2 July 2009 9:12 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

This past year’s eighth season of Smallville was rumored to be the last for quite some time, and fans were ecstatic, but a little shocked when news came that The CW was close to signing the series, and its star Tom Welling for a nineth season, which will begin on Friday September 25.  But it may come as an even bigger surprise that the rumor mill is starting to spread word that Smallville might once again shock us, and get extended for a tenth season.

SciFiWire is reporting that Justin Hartley, who plays Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, has said that reports of the ninth season being the last may be premature.

“Look, they’re so busy right now, they don’t know if they’re doing one more season or eight more seasons or two more seasons,” Hartley said last week at the Saturn Awards in Burbank, Calif. “They have no idea. »

- AstroJones

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'Moon' Director Will Go 'Mute'

29 June 2009 9:10 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Award-winning director Duncan Jones can’t stay quiet about Mute, his mystery-thriller follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Moon.

In an interview with ScreenDaily.com, the British-born helmer said the upcoming project would revolve around a woman whose disappearance creates a mystery for her partner, who is a mute bartender.

"When she disappears, he has to go up against the city’s gangsters," said Jones, who is expected to start shooting Mute early next year.

While he was mostly tight-lipped about the new film, Jones did say it would have a bigger budget than Moon, a different tone and feel, and would feature an ensemble cast, whereas Moon revolved around one character.

"It will definitely be bigger than Moon, probably something up to $25 million," said Jones, who will be re-teaming up with Moon producer Stuart Fenegan of Liberty Films for Mute. "Moon is about alienation and isolation. The next one will have a different vibe. »

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