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Top Ten Greatest Beards in Horror History

21 December 2009 7:45 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

You know what really makes a man? A beard. Beards have been featured in films throughout the history of cinema, some great, some good, and some not so great or good. But over the years a few beards have stood the test of time and deserve a little attention. So without further ado ...

The Buz presents:

The Top Ten List Of The Greatest Beards In Horror History

10: Laurence Fishburne as Max in A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors

Max had one of those beards that just looked like it belonged there. It was a part of his face. While it wasn’t the fullest or longest beard, it makes an impression. And if I’m not mistaken, it’s the only film in which Larry Fishburne had a beard, making it both unique and stylish. Let us hope he brings it back soon.

Unique and Stylish, …

- The Buz

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Hunter’s Avatar Review: James Cameron Succeeds Where the Prequels and The Hurt Locker Failed

19 December 2009 7:57 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

[Editor's Note: We have published reviews of Avatar by David Chen, Brendon Connelly, and Russ Fischer. Here is a different take on the film from Hunter Stephenson.] No man is an island, so James Cameron humbly ventured off several years into the future to create one for his own damn self called Pandora. And now he's inviting the unwashed masses to explore it for a small fee, with permission to return, preferably in the company of an unsuspecting elder skin, if one so chooses. In my mind, the phrase "movie gods" as it applies to mainstream blockbusters had nearly become obsolete. Agree? The exciting, previously unimaginable computer generated wow-factor that Cameron and Steven Spielberg defined with Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park was followed by challengers to the SFX throne that, even at their best, never quite felt as revolutionary and transportive. Of course there were numerous bold and admirable attempts made, notably by a pre-King Kong Peter Jackson, Zack …

- Hunter Stephenson

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Avatar Review

19 December 2009 2:06 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

After 12 years of preparation and months of hype, James Cameron’s Avatar surpasses expectations for a unbelievable, immersive experience showcasing a new step in the evolution of cinema.  Comparisons to FernGully or the Smurfs are fallacious and juvenile, belittling a true rebirth of 3D and the most impressive visual effects to ever dazzle an audience.  I’ve never seen anything like it.

In 2154, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic ex-marine, is a last-minute recruit for a mission on Pandora.  An establishment of scientists, military grunts, and greedy administrative types are embedded on the far away moon, exploring avenues for mining “unobtanium,” a mineral resource capable of restoring a dying Earth.

A debate rages between the corporation that intends to raze any indigenous life, and the intellectuals, who find value in the world surrounding the priceless rock.  There are imperialism, 9/11, and Iraqi conflict subtexts boiling below the surface, but Cameron avoids …

- Jeff Leins

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Director updates on Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Brood

19 December 2009 7:13 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »

It's been taking rather a long time for the Creature from the Black Lagoon to re-emerge on to the big screen for the planned remake. And now it's evolving yet again...

The project has been in development at Universal for more than a quarter of a century and the studio has just hired a new director, Carl Rinsch.

Rinsch, whose previous work is mainly in commercials, was recently linked to the new Alien prequel (now being helmed by Ridley Scott) and will be in the hotseat for the samurai film 47 Ronin (starring Keanu Reeves).

Meanwhile, Breck Eisner - who had dropped out of the Creature remake earlier this year - is now directing a new version of The Brood, David Cronenberg's 1979 horror film about mutant children instructed to carry out violence through a psychic link with their mother.

The original Creature from the Black Lagoon, about an amphibious missing …

- David Bentley

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Avatar Review

18 December 2009 2:10 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Avatar Written and Directed by: James Cameron Starring: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel Moore We've been waiting for over a decade now to see James Cameron return to the world of big budget filmmaking. After Titanic there was simply nothing left for him to conquer, and everyone knows that the one thing that drives James Cameron is a challenge. Now that technology has had time to progress to the next stage, he has finally decided to up the ante all over again. Despite Cameron's untarnished track record, many questions remained. Had he been away from the game too long? Was the hype starting to exceed all reasonable expectations? And was he asking too much of audiences to embrace a strange new world when they've grown accustomed to so many familiar sequels, remakes and spin-offs? Valid questions, perhaps, and yet they quickly fade away after …

- Sean

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Avatar – in 3D

18 December 2009 5:00 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

Avatar

Directed by: James Cameron

Cast: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi

Running Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: December 18, 2009

Click Here to read … The Many Questions of ‘Avatar’

Plot: In 2154, A marine (Worthington) who is now a paraplegic, goes to the distant planet of Pandora. It’s inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. The marine and scientists must gain their trust, otherwise it could mean war.

Who’S It For? Teenage boys, and those who love where 3D technology is going. This isn’t a film for old folks.

Expectations: I knew a little, and only saw a little of the previews heading into this film. Expectations are an odd thing here because I’ve been told this should be jaw-dropping and a huge advancement on 3D technology. So if it doesn’t accomplish that goal, …

- Jeff Bayer

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Peter Bradshaw reviews Avatar

17 December 2009 7:10 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

After all the hype, James Cameron's 3D sci-fi spectacular is supposed to be the fast-track to the future of film. But is it just too weird for its own good, asks Peter Bradshaw

After a run-up lasting 12 years, James Cameron has taken an almighty flying leap into the third dimension. His first new film for over a decade is in super-sleek new-tech 3D, and it is breathlessly reported to have taken the medium of cinema to the next level. And who knows? When Michelangelo completed his sculpture of David in 1504, he probably thought it made flat paintings look ever so slightly Betamax. Maybe he put a consoling arm round the shoulder of Sandro Botticelli as the two men looked ruefully at Primavera, and murmured caustically: "Little bit eight-track, isn't it darling? A touch Sinclair C5, a smidgen video top-loader – compared to, you know, sculpture?" That extra dimension makes the difference, …

- Peter Bradshaw

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TV News: Pacific Premiere; First Casting on New Shows From J.J. Abrams and Burn Notice’s Matt Nix; New Chuck Poster and Marathon

16 December 2009 6:09 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

According to Variety, HBO’s The Pacific, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ highly-awaited, spiritual-sequel to Band of Brothers, is set to air its first of ten parts on March 14 with a new hour-long episode set to air every Sunday through May 16th.  The miniseries follows the Pacific campaign of World War II and stars James Badge Dale (24), Jon Seda (Bad Boys II), and Joseph Mazzello (Jurassic Park).

Hit the jump to learn about new casting in J.J. Abrams’ new show Undercovers and in Jack and Dan, the new show from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix.  Plus, check out a new poster for the third season of Chuck and when SyFy will be airing a Chuck marathon in preparation for the show’s season premiere.

Gerald McRaney (Deadwood) is the first actor to be cast in J.J. Abrams’s pilot for the upcoming series Undercovers.  Not much is known about the …

- Matt Goldberg

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2009 in review: Television

12 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

While talent shows provided national talking points, it was a slew of dramas that really gripped this viewer

This year I'm devoting the top 10 to drama, partly because it feels as though the genre is having a harder time of television's indisputable Hard Times than, for example, anything featuring Cheryl Cole, but also because, despite this, there have been some truly extraordinary TV dramas in 2009.

Though this decision did seem slightly perverse when, looking back over the year's reviews, I noted an unprecedented amount of coverage of pretty much anything but drama – in marked contrast to, say, 1999, when I started my TV-reviewing career and when the big drama of the week, whether a one-off mini-series or a soap episode, was invariably the cornerstone of a review.

Regular readers will know that I am rarely snobby about populist/reality telly, so I was just as gripped by Susan Boyle's Britain's Got Talent …

- Kathryn Flett

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Books: Review:Michael Crichton: Pirate Latitudes

9 December 2009 10:00 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Michael Crichton has never been a terribly graceful writer, but he was a master at plotting. His novels The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park wed terrific premises to rock-solid structures that practically force readers to continue turning pages. Even his lesser works tend to have plots that are more raw momentum than anything else. It’s a pity, then, that his posthumously published Pirate Latitudes is so poorly plotted. It’s a book full of barely sketched-in vignettes starring privateers who barely deserve to be called one-dimensional. Latitudes takes its sweet time to get going, but thoroughly describing his settings …

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Conspiracy! Greengrass Says No More Bourne And Call Of Duty Director To Now Direct Movies.

1 December 2009 10:55 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »

If there's one thing I love, it's good old fashioned conspiracy theories. Nothing like making a bunch of stuff up to make yourself feel better and give those around you a reason to think you're even more insane than they had imagined.Two stories broke today that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Or do they?First up, is the so not news of a director not doing a movie he was never attached to direct in the first place. Huh? The trades has more:Paul Greengrass has opted out of helming another installment of Universal Pictures' successful Jason Bourne franchise, and Matt Damon's participation is not sealed. That's a blow for the studio looking to assemble another sequel to one of its most important franchises, but hardly a fatal one. Hollywood's top franchises, including the long-running James Bond series and Warner Bros.' Batman pics, …

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Check Out The Wolf Pack – New Moon Stills

24 November 2009 11:57 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

For those of you who have yet to see this year’s most talked about film – The Twilight Saga: New Moon, how about a few new film stills to beat those Winter blues? Courtesy of MTV, the new images feature a much closer look at Taylor Lautner and the rest of The Wolf Pack in canine form.

As well as the new VFX shots below, MTV were also lucky enough to talk to the man responsible for our furry friends, along with some of the industry’s most groundbreaking films including “Star Wars” and “Jurassic Park,” visual-effects maestro Phil Tippett:

MTV: You worked on Chris Weitz’s “The Golden Compass.” So, did he just call you up and ask you to do “New Moon” as well?

Tippett: No, actually we didn’t deal with Chris that much. We were involved in “The Golden Compass,” then everything came our way …

- Craig Sharp

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First Full Scene From Avatar Released

23 November 2009 8:10 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Previous Avatar trailers have elicited baffingly mixed responses, but this new two-and-a-half minute clip posted at IGN shows us exactly what we needed to see-- a congruent action sequence with a lot of time for us to get a really good look at the movement of the Na.vi. And predictably, there.s more jumping off of really high cliffs. Up until now all we.ve seen are two minutes of epilepsy-inducing trailer footage cut so fast you can barely tell one blue streak from the next. While this scene is still nothing but action, you get a really good look at Sam Worthington.s avatar battling (read: running the hell away from) a really pissed off Thanador, which sounds strikingly like a Jurassic Park T-Rex. Not only does the movement as a whole look great, but the finer motions, like that of the mouths, really get showcased here in …

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'New Moon' Wolf Pack: How The Characters Came To Life

23 November 2009 12:49 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

'It gets a lot more tricky to make them digital, yet photographically representational,' visual-effects master Phil Tippett says.

By Larry Carroll

Photo: Summit Entertainment

From "Star Wars" to "Indiana Jones" to "Jurassic Park," visual-effects maestro Phil Tippett has had a hand in some of the greatest movies of the past 30 years. This past weekend, if the wolves of the record-setting blockbuster "New Moon" thrilled you, then you have him to thank.

In an exclusive interview with MTV, the owner of Tippett Studio was eager to chat about making the wolf pack come to life, the intensive research that had his computer artists hanging out with the real thing, and why trips to the "New Moon" set often became a hairy proposition.

Brand-New Special Effects Shots From "New Moon"

MTV: Congratulations, Phil, the fans seem pretty pleased with the movie so far.

Phil Tippett: I suppose so; I'm not quite one of that ilk. …

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The Sunday Movie Quiz – The Answers

22 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Here are the answers to yesterday’s weekly Sunday Movie Quiz. If you missed the quiz yesterday, go here and give it a try before you look at the answers. Hope you had fun, and will come back for another quiz next Sunday.

 

Movie Quotes – Name the films

1 I’ll probably piss blood tonight – The Usual Suspects

2 Dodson! Dodson! We got Dodson here! Nobody cares. – Jurassic Park

3 You get the series 4 de-atomizer and I get the midget cricket? – Men in Black

4 They sucked out his brain – Starship Troopers

5 You have twenty seconds to comply – Robocop

6 Could you please repeat the destination? – Total Recall

7 Put me back in, put me back in! – Look Who’s Talking

8 I’m your worst nightmare, an eight year old with a badge – Cop and a Half

9 Ohh, you would’nt be interested in that – Batman Begins

10 I have a bad feeling about this – Star Wars. …

- Barry Steele

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Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla Blu-ray Review

21 November 2009 8:01 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Recently, I reviewed Waterworld. Now I’m talking about 1998’s disaster opus Godzilla. These are two of the biggest flops of the 1990’s. Overhyped and overproduced, and expensive as all get out, perhaps they’re hitting Blu-ray in the hopes of eeking out profits. Someone thought they might have had something here, but when Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin came off of Independence Day, this was going to be the next big thing, but instead they misfired. My review of 1998’s Godzilla after the jump.

Mathew Broderick stars as Dr. Niko Tatopoulos, a scientist who studies the effects of nuclear mutations. He’s brought in by the American government when Godzilla begins fucking things up. At first, Godzilla is outside of Tokyo, but then he comes to New York. Long swim. Emmerich stages everything like ID4, so there’s some moments, but the destruction doesn’t take your breath away. …

- Andre Dellamorte

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Daybreakers: First TV Spot and Quad Poster

18 November 2009 3:39 PM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

A brand new TV spot and quad poster for Lionsgates “Daybreakers” have been released.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out.

However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

The film is directed by Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig (Undead), also stars Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Perfect Strangers), Isabel Lucas (Transformers 2), Christopher Kirby, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo and will hit theaters on January 8th, 2010.

Check out our “Daybreakers” Photo Gallery

Click below to take a look at this unusual Public Service Announcement (PSA) TV spot from the new vampire film.

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- Allan Ford

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Zack Snyder's Guardians of Ga'hoole Movie Rounds Up a Cast

18 November 2009 1:50 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

It's been quite awhile since we heard about Zack Snyder's forthcoming adaptation of the children's book series Guardians of Ga'hoole. After the project was announced in early 2008, there was some minor casting news way back at the beginning of this year, but development has been pretty mute since then. Now THR's Heat Vision adds a whole bunch of new cast members who will lend their voice to the 3D animated feature including Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean), Hugo Weaving (The Matrix Trilogy) and David Wenham (300) as well as a handful of even more actors after the jump. Also voicing characters will be Aussie actors Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Emilie de Ravin, and Jay Laga'aia, as well as English actors Miriam Margolyes, Helen Mirren and Jim Sturgess. This rather impressive voice cast will bring characters to life in the story of Soren (Sturgess), a young …

- Ethan Anderton

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HBO’s ‘The Pacific’ Trailer

18 November 2009 11:43 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

HBO is bringing us The Pacific, a WWII story of what went down in the Pacific while the men from Band of Brothers were fighting in Europe.

The series is based on the memoirs of Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie, both of whom were Marines that served in the Pacific Theater of Operations.  It was produced by (you guessed it) Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks (both of whom produced BoB) and Gary Goetzman (producer of Charlie Wilson’s War). 

 

Joseph Mazzello and James Badge Dale have tackled the roles of Sledge and Leckie, respectively.  John Seda rounds out the lead parts playing Sergeant John Basilone.  Mazzello played the little boy in Jurassic Park (!) all those years ago, Dale popped up in The Departed and The Black Donnellys and Seda’s a former boxer who appeared in Twelve Monkeys and more recently, Bad Boys II.

Here’s the trailer for The Pacific. …

- Scott Miller

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Top Editors Brought In to Re-Cut The Wolfman

18 November 2009 9:47 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Of all the big films on the docket for next year, the one I’m most concerned about is The Wolfman. The second trailer for the film looked pretty badass, I’ll admit – but this movie has suffered a plagued production from the get-go. A change in directors, callbacks for reshoots and re-designs in the creature effects… It all points to a studio trying to turn lead into gold through the usual movie alchemy.

Well, the guys over at Slash Film must have magnifying glass eyes, because they spotted something deep-six buried in an article over at Variety, which names editors Mark Goldblatt and Walter Murch as the two guys hired to do a recut of The Wolfman!

 

This revelation comes without the usual fanfare from the blogosphere that goes with every little development on a major movie – suggesting that the studio is trying to keep the continuing problems with …

- Kofi Outlaw

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