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Decade in Review: 2005 Top Ten
19 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST
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2009 is almost over and so many magazines and websites have already offered up their best of the year And decade that I'm afraid y'all will get sick of the retrospectives before The Film Experience has chimed on. Remember: the tortoise wins! 2005's top ten list (in its original form) follows. New comments in red.
Public Favorites (Box Office): Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, King Kong, Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, Madagascar and Mr & Mrs Smith
Oscar Favorites: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck and Munich
My Vote For UnderAppreciated: In Her Shoes, Happy Endings and The White Countess
Top Ten Runners Up (11-15): The Squid and the Whale, Match Point, The New World, Junebug and The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
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- NATHANIEL R
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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Christmas and new year TV films
18 December 2009 5:30 AM, PST
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Not sure what to watch? We can help with our comprehensive guide to the best films on TV this Christmas and new year
Choose a date
Saturday 19 December | Sunday 20 December | Monday 21 December | Tuesday 22 December | Wednesday 23 December |Christmas Eve | Christmas Day | Boxing Day | Sunday 27 December | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 29 December | Wednesday 30 December | New Year's Eve | New Year's Day
Saturday 19 December
Yes Man (Peyton Reed, 2008)
10am, 8pm, Sky Movies Premiere
Remember Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, where he forces himself to tell the truth for 24 hours? Well, here Jim Carrey forces himself to answer yes to any request, for a year. Which is upping the ante somewhat, but doesn't make it a better film. This is a return to the manic, gurning, not-very-funny Carrey, as if The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine etc hadn't happened. Just say no.
The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz, 2007)
11.40am, 8pm, Sky Movies Family
What with Harry Potter, Narnia, Lemony Snicket and all,
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- Paul Howlett
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New Trailer, Stills Released For ‘Alice in Wonderland’ With Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska
16 December 2009 9:20 PM, PST
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Chicago – This eight-image slideshow contains new imagery from the highly anticipated Tim Burton film “Alice in Wonderland,” which stars Johnny Depp (as The Mad Hatter), Mia Wasikowska (Alice Kingsley), Helena Bonham Carter (The Red Queen) and Anne Hathaway (The White Queen).
The film also stars Alan Rickman (The Caterpillar), Michael Sheen (The White Rabbit), Crispin Glover (The Knave of Hearts), Stephen Fry (The Cheshire Cat), Christopher Lee (The Jabberwock), Matt Lucas (Tweedledee and Tweedledum), Timothy Spall (The Bloodhound) and Barbara Windsor (The Dormouse).
The new “Alice in Wonderland” movie trailer, which was released on Dec. 16, 2009, can be watched now below!
The film is slated to hit theaters on March 5, 2010. The synopsis for “Alice in Wonderland” follows.
From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes the epic 3D fantasy adventure “Alice in Wonderland”: a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time.
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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New Alice In Wonderland Trailer
16 December 2009 8:02 AM, PST
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Disney has released a new trailer for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and you can check it out after the jump. While the teaser trailer for Alice looked cool, this new trailer is definitely going to wow you with some pretty incredible visuals. In fact, with this trailer, we’re finally getting a real taste of the movie and in my opinion…it looks like the perfect marriage between story and visuals. Because if there was ever a place that Tim Burton was meant to bring to life, it’s the magical world of Wonderland. Also, the way he’s making the film, with a mixture of live action, animation and CGI, I think it’s going to be amazing. Check out the trailer and judge it for yourself:
Further down is the info Disney gave us about the film. Alice in Wonderland stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter,
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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My ‘9′ favorite Tim Burton movie characters
15 December 2009 7:59 AM, PST
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With the DVD release of 9, and to celebrate some of my favorite Tim Burton movies I have made this list of my favorite characters of his. So without further adieu here are my 9 favorite Tim Burton Characters:
9. James Dale – Mars Attacks!
8. Victor – Corpse Bride
7. Pee Wee Herman – Pee Wee’S Big Adventure
6. Lydia – Beetlejuice
5. Sweeney Todd – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
4. Edward Scissorhands – Edward Scissorhands
3. Jack Skellington – Nightmare Before Christmas
2. Batman – Batman
1. Beetlejuice – Beetlejuice
Well there you have it boys and girls…these are My favorite Tim Burton characters from his movies.
Brought to you by “9”, a film from visionary filmmakers Tim Burton (The Night Before Christmas) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted). Own it on Blu-ray™, DVD, & Digital Download. For more “9” click here.
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- Scott
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Dark Shadows Begins Next Year
8 December 2009 4:52 AM, PST
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It has seemed like we have announced about eight or nine times that Dark Shadows would be the next film on Tim Burton’s plate. In looking back over the site, I see that it was only once, but, still, news of its proposed start date on production has been a long time coming. Sci-Fi Wire caught up with producer Graham King who claims the film will begin shooting next year.
We’re actually going to shoot that film next September/October with Tim Burton and Johnny.
King also went on to talk about how he is beginning preparations for the film while Burton finishes up his work on Alice In Wonderland.
We’ve been working on the script a lot, even though he’s working on Alice. We’ve been given a script. John August wrote the first screenplay. We’re making some changes, but the film’s going to be in production,
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Sir Ridley Boards "Monopoly"...
5 December 2009 9:37 AM, PST
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Director Ridley "Blade Runner" Scott, producer Frank "There's Something About Mary" Beddor and toys/games manufacturer Hasbro, continue developing their feature film adaptation of the board game "Monopoly".
Screenplay is by Pamela "Corpse Bride" Pettler.
Giannina Facio and Hasbro's Brian Goldner are also on board to produce.
Published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro, the board game is named after the economic concept of a 'monopoly', or the domination of a market by a single entity.
Patented by Charles Darrow in 1935, Monopoly is noted as the most commercially-successful board game in the world, where players compete to bankrupt their opponents by the acquisition of real estate, utilities and cash.
The mascot for the game is a mustachioed man wearing a monocle named 'Mr. Monopoly', formerly known as 'Rich Uncle Pennybags'.
The board consists of forty spaces containing twenty-eight properties, three 'Chance' spaces, three 'Community Chest' spaces, a 'Luxury Tax' space,
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- Michael Stevens
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Fantastic Mr. Fox Review
29 November 2009 12:34 AM, PST
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Written by: Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (screenplay), Roald Dahl (book)
Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe
At the beginning of the decade, Wes Anderson was being praised as one of the most unique and talented emerging filmmakers in America. The Royal Tenenbaums was seen by many as his ultimate masterpiece, earning his only Academy Award nomination to date. However, since then, he has arguably become a victim of his own success. Surrounded by copycats and increasingly cynical audiences, he has struggled to break from the mold that he created for himself.
Although I enjoyed both The Life Aquatic and The Darjeeling Limited a great deal, I can't deny that Wes Anderson's style was starting to feel more like a predictable checklist and less like the mark of an auteur. He was stuck in a rut,
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- Sean
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Wes Anderson Interview Fantastic Mr. Fox
27 November 2009 2:41 PM, PST
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I absolutely loved director Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. The film is his first foray into stop-motion animation and it’s like he brought the genre to him rather than attempting to adapt to the genre. Trust me; if you’re a fan of his previous work like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, you’re going to love this movie.
As most of you know, Fantastic Mr. Fox is based on the best-selling children’s book by Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach) and it features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson. But unlike some animated movies that cast famous actors to help sell tickets, everyone who provides a voice is perfect in this film. Again, this is a great movie
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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This week's film event previews
20 November 2009 4:06 PM, PST
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London Children's Film Festival, London
Is it wrong that the prospect of a Tim Burton Bedtime Stories Pyjama Party is as appealing to adults as it will be to movie-loving kids? With a sweet-making workshop and screenings of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride, it's just one of loads of great activities over the festival's two weekends, which also include a play-along musical session to two Buster Keaton classics. Adult fans will be dribbling with excitement at the UK premiere of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo, and there are scores of international features and retro TV treats.
Barbican, Sat to 29 Nov, visit lcff.org.uk
Andrea Hubert
German Film Festival, London
Modern German cinema continues to capture the same spirit of innovation pioneered by 1970s trailblazers Fassbinder and Herzog, with films such as The Lives Of Others gaining a swathe of international awards. And the subject matters at hand
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- Andrea Hubert, Phelim O'Neill
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Terry Loane Casts 'This Beautiful Fantastic'
16 November 2009 11:29 PM, PST
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Ifta nominated Irish director Terry Loane (Mickybo and Me) is readying his latest project 'This Beautiful Fantastic', a film based on Simon Aboud's novel of the same name. Produced by Constance Media's Kami Naghdi (Boogie Woogie) 'This Beautiful Fantastic' tells the tale of an obsessively tidy children's author who falls in love with an erratic inventor – the story will be told like a classic fairytale and will star Tom Wilkinson (Valkyrie, Shakespeare in Love), Christopher Eccleston (Amelia, The Others), MacKenzie Crook (Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End, City of Ember), Joanna Lumley (Corpse Bride, Ella Enchanted) and Carey Mulligan (An Education, Public Enemies).
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Monopoly Movie Plot Details Revealed
15 November 2009 9:32 AM, PST
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In a recent interview with The L.A. Times, producer and author Frank Beddor (There’s Something about Mary), the man behind the concept of a movie based on the board game “Monopoly,” revealed the basic story of the film.
Here is his full explanation of the plot.
“I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he’s not very good at his job but he’s great at playing Monopoly. And the world record for playing is 70 straight days – over 1,600 hours – and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl and they’re playing the game and there’s this big fight. And he’s holding a Chance card and after they’ve left he says, ‘Damn, I wanted to use that Chance card,
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- Allan Ford
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Monopoly Movie Is a "Metaphor for Life"
13 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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When first announced way back in February 2008 that Universal had signed a six-year deal with Hasbro to produce film adaptations of many of the company's classic board games, more than a few people began scratching their heads and rolling their eyes. Even more surprising was the news that Academy Award-nominted filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott, currently at work on his update of Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe, was attached to direct the Monopoly adaptation.
If you're wondering what attracted the acclaimed director of Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, and Body of Lies to a movie about "Uncle Pennybags" and his quest to control the real estate market, just ask Frank Beddor, the man whose plot concept for Monopoly was what won Scott over. Beddor said that after his pitch, Scott shook his hand and said, "What do I have [to do] to be part of this movie?" So, what was the pitch?
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- BrentJS Sprecher
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How the Puppets from Fantastic Mr. Fox Were Made [Slide Show]
13 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST
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Once Wes Anderson had decided that his sixth feature film would be a stop-motion animation version of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, about a raffish fox who outsmarts three evil farmers, he called on some of the best names in the puppet-making business to put his characteristically precise vision to life. Based in Manchester, Ian MacKinnon and Peter Saunders first teamed up 22 years ago on a stop-motion version of The Wind in the Willows. Since then, they’ve collaborated on countless television commercials and on some of the most successful stop-motion feature films in memory, including Nick Park’s Chicken Run, Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride, and Henry Selick’s Coraline. But despite their experience, they found Anderson’s project to be particularly daunting. “Wes had a very clear idea of what he wanted, and I think he made us challenge all our preconceptions about what stop-motion puppets are,
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Interview: F is for 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'
12 November 2009 9:40 PM, PST
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With their matted pelts and porcelain eyes, director Wes Anderson’s stop motion puppets breathe new life into the Roald Dahl classic "Fantastic Mr. Fox" in his analog animated adaptation of the beloved British children’s book. For all you wanted to know about Fantastic Mr. Fox and the unique vision of Wes Anderson, here is CinemaSpy’s A-z guide to the film and the inspiration and processes of its filmmaker, as he described it to us recently in New York.
Fantastic Mr. Fox opened in limited release this weekend.
A is for Anderson
"Each time I've worked with Wes it's been so completely different than the last time, the movie and the situation that we find ourselves in," said Jason Schwartzman, who has collaborated with the filmmaker on Rushmore, Darjeeling Limited and who is the voice of Mr. Fox’s son, Ash, in Fantastic Mr. Fox. "It's a real
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The Monopoly Movie is Worse Than We Thought
12 November 2009 10:46 AM, PST
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Can we get one thing out of the way? Monopoly is boring. The entire game is rolling the dice, passing money around the table and occasionally, when the excitement is at its riveting peak, drawing a card.
It’s an educational game for kids learning to count money or a welcome diversion when a severe thunderstorm sends you back to the stone age, but in this modern, fast-paced world of instant entertainment, sitting down for a 12-hour traditional board game just becomes tedious.
Sure, everyone has played it before, but how recently and how many times have you truly finished a game? Monopoly games usually end when everyone gets bored and surrenders, or a player flips the board in a fit of rage, sending tiny green houses flying.
Universal purchased the movie rights to Monopoly from Hasbro in early 2008 as part of a six-year partnership to bring more toy properties to the big screen.
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- Jeff Leins
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Supposed Plot Details for Ridley Scott's 'Monopoly' Movie Pass Go
12 November 2009 2:38 AM, PST
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If you have been wondering just how Ridley Scott and Universal Pictures were going to turn the popular "Monopoly" board game into a feature film then join the club. Corpse Bride and 9 co-writer Pamela Pettler was brought aboard to pen the screenplay and some interesting details surfaced yesterday with regards to the plot, which had to this point been kept extremely quiet.
Geoff Boucher writing for the Los Angeles Times talked with Frank Beddor, one of the producers of There's Something About Mary and apparently someone involved with the "Monopoly" project even though I have never seen his name mentioned outside of Boucher's article. Not even the Variety article mentions his name or IMDb but that isn't stopping from Beddor saying, "I wrote the story that got Hasbro excited and I attached Ridley Scott. The project was underway but they were in a little bit of trouble I guess and
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- Brad Brevet
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Bajo La Sal trailer; DVDetails
10 November 2009 6:43 PM, PST
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The 2008 Mexican thriller Bajo La Sal (aka Under The Salt) has been making the festival 'rounds for awhile, most recently screening last month at La's Screamfest.
Released in Mexico by Warner Bros., Mario Muñoz' terrifying tale hit DVD in the 'States today via Maya Entertainment, and to spread the word they've sent over the latest trailer along with full details on the film, which has thus far remained under-the-radar for many fright fans.
Synopsis
Commander Trujillo travels to Santa Rosa de la Sal, a small town located near a salt mine in order to solve the mystery behind a series of murders. There he will discover the many secrets that the town holds and meet Victor, a dark youth who will be the key to uncovering the truth behind the murders.
Warner Bros. Pictures present a Películas Imaginarias production; co-produced by Fondo de Inversión, Estímulos al Cine (Fidecine) México and Grupo Financiero Inbursa.
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Hallmark Offering Really Nerdy Christmas Tree Ornaments
10 November 2009 9:02 AM, PST
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Well, it's that time of the year again -- time to wait until the very last minute to buy presents for your loved ones in order to solidify the fact that you'll be waiting on insanely long lines next to people who don't shower and like to scream at their misbehaving kids about once every 10 seconds. Or at least that's what I'll be doing this year. One thing I always look forward to, though, is heading out on a cold winter's night to purchase a way-too-expensive Christmas tree for my living room ... and then decorating it while consuming some nice tasty beverages that may or may not be of the alcoholic variety.
But when you're a movie geek like me, you want to decorate that tree with tons of really random movie references so that your family can come over and be all like, "Um, is that the car from Ghostbusters hanging on your tree?
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- Erik Davis
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