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Man arrested over online leak of X-Men Origins: Wolverine
16 December 2009 3:27 PM, PST
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The FBI tonight announced it had arrested a man in connection with the online leak of 20th Century Fox's X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
An unfinished version of the movie was illegally distributed on the internet more than a month before its release. It is estimated to have been downloaded 4.1million times and topped piracy charts for most of the summer.
Today it was revealed that 47-year-old Gilberto Sanchez was arrested at his home in the Bronx, New York, and charged with violating copyright law.
He is accused of uploading the film to filesharing network Megaupload.com on March 31 under an alias.
The $150million film was commercially released on April 29 in the UK and May 1 in the USA, taking $373million worldwide; it's not known how much the leak damaged the film's earnings.
Sanchez faces up to three years' jail and a $250,000 fine, or twice the gross gain or gross loss attributable to the offence,
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- David Bentley
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Taking Woodstock’ Has Plentiful Atmosphere, Little Depth
16 December 2009 9:05 AM, PST
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Chicago – Ang Lee’s take on the landmark music festival isn’t a film so much as a filmed idea. It aims to capture the atmosphere of the concert without ever showing the actual music. Of course, the real show was the crowd itself.
There’s one lovely shot in “Taking Woodstock” where its protagonist, high on acid, gazes at the countless hordes gathered around the distant main stage. Suddenly, the crowd starts to move like ripples in the water, as they become united by their shared vibes. The image may sound pretentious on paper, but it has a poetry and wonderment that’s largely missing from the rest of the picture.
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.5/5.0
There are few writer-director teams in film history that have tackled as many diverse genres as James Schamus and Ang Lee. Their collaborations include “The Ice Storm,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” and “Lust, Caution,” though “Taking Woodstock
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Taking Woodstock Blu-ray Review
16 December 2009 5:59 AM, PST
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Ang Lee is an interesting filmmaker. He’s just one of those guys who tend to get fascinated by the right things, and even when he misses, there’s usually something there. And he’s definitely one of the most interesting voices of the 21st century. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk, Brokeback Mountain, Lust, Caution are easily some of the better films to emerge over the last ten years. He can be seen as mercenary (his choice of material is often as commercial as art cinema can get, though sometimes that’s by smart marketing and catching a zeitgeist at the right moment), but he still has a way behind the camera. Taking Woodstock is one of his least, and my review of it comes after the jump.
The film follows Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) as he and his family tries and survives in upstate New York. Their hotel isn’t doing excellent business,
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- Andre Dellamorte
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More From Stan Lee On His 'Thor' Cameo And Kenneth Branagh
11 December 2009 9:29 AM, PST
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It seems like comics icon Stan Lee and I have been chatting every other week lately about one project or another — and as someone who learned to read with Lee's "Amazing Spider-Man" comics, that's certainly not a bad thing.
In my latest chat with the co-creator of Peter Parker, the X-Men, Hulk and so many other characters, we discussed his recent comments confirming that he'll have a role in Marvel's upcoming "Thor" movie directed by Kenneth Branagh. After heaping praise on Branagh, Lee offered up some thoughts on what his role might be and why there's some good and bad elements of the cameo confirmation.
"I have absolutely no idea," said Lee of when we might know who he'll play in the film, "but [Branagh] told me that he has a good, small cameo."
"I loved the word 'good,' [but] I wished he hadn't used the word 'small,'" he laughed.
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- Rick Marshall
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Decade in Review: 2003 Top Ten
8 December 2009 6:30 AM, PST
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As you may have noticed, I will not be done with my Decade in Review until sometime into the new year. Hopefully we'll wrap up shortly after the Oscars; You know how distractingly all-consuming the Oscars can be! I hope you'll stay with it even though the rest of the media will move on any second now. They're always in such a rush. No stopping and smelling of the flowers. I've still got to update that "Actors of the Aughts" project for final compilation/statement. For now, let's move on to 2003. What follows is my original top ten list, based on films released in NYC in 2003. If I have anything new to say that'll be in red after the original text.
Special Mentions: The Cremaster Cycle and Angels in America
Most Underappreciated: Hulk (Ang Lee), In the Cut (Jane Campion), Anything Else (Woody Allen), Charlies Angels: Full Throttle (McG) and
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The Other Shoe Drops: David Maisel Resigning When Marvel/Disney Deal Closes
7 December 2009 2:38 PM, PST
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Updates Marvel Sets Dec. 31st For Disney Merger Vote By Stockholders
This was expected because why does Marvel Studios need a chairman after December 31st? Since Kevin Feige, the president, will be running things at Marvel Studios under Walt Disney Studios new boss Rich Ross' direction. Hollywood can say what it will about Maisel (and believe me, people do, since he was not Mr Popularity), but the facts are he launched Marvel Studios by creating the $525M non-recourse finance facility so that Marvel could self-finance its hot propeties. He launched the successful Iron Man franchise, and less successfully the Hulk reboot. And he [...]
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- Nikki Finke
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Who will survive Marvel's Fall of the Hulks?
7 December 2009 3:43 AM, PST
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While the Hulk may have struggled to be a huge smash at the box office, the green giant is a roaring success in Marvel's comic books.
The comics have seen an expanding family of related characters as well as acclaimed series taking Bruce Banner's angry alter-ego to new settings, such as Planet Hulk and World War Hulk.
There are now so many gamma-irradiated guys and gals that Marvel is organising a cull, in the form of a storyline called Fall of the Hulks coming in 2010. It will be set up in a title called Fall of the Hulks Gamma 1, out this month.
Written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by World War Hulk artist John Romita Jr, the official Marvel synopsis for the story is: "With the Hulk family growing exponentially over the past year, it was only a matter of time before things came to a smashing head.
"But what
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- David Bentley
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Our 10 Favorite Stan Lee Cameos
3 December 2009 3:20 AM, PST
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For someone about to turn 87 (Dec. 28), Stan Lee sure gets around. Not that this is news to anyone who’s been to a Comic-Con in the past decade or watches talk shows with any degree of regularity. From what we can gather, the only thing Lee loves more than adding exclamation points to his comics is appearing on-screen.
While his appearances used to be limited to what he could talk himself into, Lee's been seemingly everywhere this decade — ever since the explosion of Marvel properties being adapted into movies. Well, everywhere for about 15 seconds a movie.
With all the talk surrounding his upcoming cameo in Iron Man 2 (and an almost-for-certain appearance in Spider-Man 4), we decided to take a look back at his best appearances so far. Check out Our 10 Favorite Stan Lee Cameos.
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Lou Ferrigno Will Do Your Bidding For Twenty Dollars
2 December 2009 8:19 PM, PST
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This isn.t exactly news. Presumably this service has been around for awhile but I.ve just stumbled on it and it.s simply too pathetic not to comment on it. Ever wanted to meet a celebrity? Now you can have the next best thing with Hollywood Is Calling! If you tune into Blendcast this week you.ll hear the boys talk about the most sad, bizarre service this side of the D-list. Apparently there.s a place on the internet where you can actually force D-list celebrities to amuse your friends with random phone calls.
It wouldn.t be quite so humiliating if say, they got a couple hundred bucks for it. But for the low, low price of $19.95 you can get a phone call from the Incredible Hulk Lou Ferrigno or prank your friends by throwing a couple of ten.s in the direction of Saved By the
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Joe Quesada Talks About How Awesome Thor Will Be
29 November 2009 9:02 PM, PST
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Both The Iron Man and Hulk movies have been pretty darn good, and Iron Man 2 will doubt be awesome. But what about Thor? It's a big question mark as to how this film will turn out. According to Joe Quesada, it's the bee's knees.Comicbookresources.com has more from Joe:
We are incredibly confident. And there isn't much I could say to convince people beyond, "Look at these designs! Look at this script! Look at the moments in this story and tell me it won't be a huge success." But, that's obviously something I can't do, so the one thing I can say – and I've said as much to Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige – is that people are going to go into this movie with a preconceived idea about what it will be. If you're a comics fan, you'll have a preconceived notion of what you're going to get.
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A Serious Man and the odd movie out
29 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST
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A Serious Man may be getting rave reviews – but it's like nothing the Coens have made before. Joe Queenan on weird one-offs and the directors who make them
About halfway through the very funny, very disturbing, very ethnic new film A Serious Man, the modern-day Job who is the serious man in question climbs up on to the roof of his ghastly 1960s Minneapolis suburban home and tries to adjust the antenna to improve his TV reception. Beleaguered on all fronts – conjugally, professionally, medically – Larry Gopnik, a dorky physics professor who may be about to lose his job and is very likely to lose his family, is a bright, principled Jewish man whose children have begged him to fix the antenna so they can watch F Troop, an idiotic 1960s comedy. Many of Larry's travails unfold as songs from Jefferson Airplane's seminal 1967 LP Surrealistic Pillow play in the background.
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Anyone Wants Another Amityville Remake? No? The Weinsteins Do…
26 November 2009 1:11 PM, PST
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It’s either a bold, brave move on the part of a company who know how to reinvent a horror classic merely five years after the last rehash, or it’s the desperate flogging of a horse that’s not only dead but was set six feet under a few years ago.
Nevertheless the Weinstein Company and Dimension films believe the time is rife again for a return to The Amityville Horror, according to Bloody-Disgusting, and despite the 2005 remake starring a bearded be-sixpacked Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George not exactly chilling friends and unnerving people, the prospect of another visit to Long Island looks to be in our future.
Of course the project is in the very early stages and there’s little chance that this will see the inside of a cinema for a good long while, yet it points to a disturbing trend, namely the rebooting of a
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- Jon Lyus
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Week in Geek: Kenneth Branagh's Thor is coming together
26 November 2009 7:45 AM, PST
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From Anthony Hopkins to Natalie Portman, Thor is picking up steam with a raft of castings, but how closely will the film stick to Stan Lee's 1962 comic?
Kenneth Branagh is a lucky man. Unlike the unfortunate director who will, eventually, be tasked with reviving the fortunes of Superman, Branagh is bringing to the big screen a superhero (Thor) with no movie precedent. The closest thing to the son of Odin who's popped up on film so far has been the hunky car mechanic who slightly resembled him in Chris Columbus's trashy 1987 comedy Adventures in Babysitting.
And Branagh seems to be making all the right moves. He's avoided reported studio pressure to cast a famous face – Josh Hartnett was said to be in the running – and instead plumped for the little-known Chris Hemsworth, who was Captain Kirk's dad in Star Trek for about five minutes. As everyone who saw Daredevil knows,
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Stan Lee Talks More About ‘Thor’ Cameo
19 November 2009 1:45 PM, PST
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Given his history of cameos, (Iron Man, Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, Daredevil, etc.) it’s not exactly shocking that Lee will be getting one in Thor. Here’s what the George Washington of Marvel Comics said to MTV about meeting with the film’s director, four-time Academy Award nominee, Kenneth Branagh:
“I had lunch with Branagh, [who's] the nicest guy in the world as well as the most talented… months ago, when he was first starting on the movie, he said he would get a cameo for me.”
There ya have it. In case you’re insane and want to know exactly when Stan Lee will appear in the background of the film selling hot dogs or whatever, he had this to say to those dogged MTV folks when pressed for details:
“I think he has more important things to think of at the moment with the movie — like who he
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Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - Rt Interview
16 November 2009 8:21 AM, PST
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Not a lot of people know that actor Eric Bana, familiar to most from roles in the likes of Star Trek, Munich and Ang Lee's Hulk, is a massive petrol head. With the release of Love the Beast, Bana aims to change that. It's a love letter to his pride and joy, a Ford Gt Falcon Coupe which he's owned since he was 15, a documentary about his obsession with it and with racing, and the mourning attached to his crash during the Targa rally in 2007. Along the way Bana interviews the likes of Jeremy Clarkson, Jay Leno and
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Stan Lee Talks Twitter With MTV Splash Page
12 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST
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From Splash Page: It's no secret that many creators in and around the comics scene have embraced Twitter these days—and many of them make regular appearances in our daily Twitter Report. Perhaps one of the most surprising creators with a regular presence in the Twitterverse, however, is one of the industry's most beloved icons: Stan Lee.
The co-creator of Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, the X-Men and countless other popular characters, the 86-year-old Lee has taken to Twitter with surprising ease. A typical 24 hours with @SmilinStanLee offers readers a host of witty observations, tongue-in-cheek commentary and self-deprecating humor that reveals why Stan "The Man" Lee is one of comics' living legends.
I spoke with Lee about his arrival on the Twitter scene, why he's taken to the microblogging tool so easily, and why communicating with fans on Twitter actually has him feeling like he's gone back in time.
"I heard
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Stan Lee Talks Twitter: 'I Feel Like I'm Back Writing Stan's Soapbox'
12 November 2009 11:01 AM, PST
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It's no secret that many creators in and around the comics scene have embraced Twitter these days—and many of them make regular appearances in our daily Twitter Report. Perhaps one of the most surprising creators with a regular presence in the Twitterverse, however, is one of the industry's most beloved icons: Stan Lee.
The co-creator of Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, the X-Men and countless other popular characters, the 86-year-old Lee has taken to Twitter with surprising ease. A typical 24 hours with @SmilinStanLee offers readers a host of witty observations, tongue-in-cheek commentary and self-deprecating humor that reveals why Stan "The Man" Lee is one of comics' living legends.
I spoke with Lee about his arrival on the Twitter scene, why he's taken to the microblogging tool so easily, and why communicating with fans on Twitter actually has him feeling like he's gone back in time.
"I heard that some of
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Taylor Swift Achieves 'Fearless' Feat at Cma Awards!
11 November 2009 11:00 PM, PST
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There was no upstaging Taylor Swift at the 43rd Annual Cma Awards in Nashville on Wednesday night. The 19-year-old singer/songwriter became the youngest-ever winner of the entertainer of the year award and captured four trophies in all. “I will never forget this moment because in this moment everything that I have ever wanted has happened to me,” an emotional Taylor said after being named entertainer of the year. She also scored awards for best female vocalist, best album (Fearless) and best music video (“Love Story”), adding good-naturedly while accepting the vocalist award: “I want to thank every single person in this room tonight for not running up on the stage during this speech.” Co-hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood also poked fun at Taylor’s encounter with Kanye West at the "2009 MTV Video Music Awards,” singing: “Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be Kanye … because cowboys have manners,
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Supernatural 5.08 "Changing Channels" Recap
6 November 2009 1:06 AM, PST
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This week's hijinks begin with the Winchesters investigating a "bear attack" in Wellington, Ohio. An interview with the victim's wife reveals that the attacker was not a bear, but the Incredible Hulk (the Lou Ferrigno version). Sam finds candy wrappers at the crime scene, and it seems the victim was quite a hothead himself and thus received his just desserts. The situation reeks of the Trickster (in case you weren't paying attention during the 'Then' section five minutes ago). Sam, being of the utilitarian sort, wants to ally with it. Presumably because he doesn't want to wake up to 'Heat of the Moment' every day for the rest of eternity. Dean, having been killed upwards of a thousand times by the damned thing, is understandably skeptical. The boys hear an emergency call over their police scanner and head out to an abandoned warehouse to check it out. They bust through the door and…
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Ang Lee May Adapt Life of Pi
3 November 2009 2:48 AM, PST
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After the box office disappointment of his last movie, Taking Woodstock, director Ang Lee is apparently looking to adapt an award-winning novel from Canada next. Averaging one feature every two years since The Hulk in 2003, Lee said that his next project "is two years ahead," but he told Digital Spy that he has a story in mind.
I think I'm going to do Life of Pi. A little boy adrift at sea with a tiger. It's a hard one to crack.
Written by Yann Martel and originally published in 2001, Life of Pi tells the story of Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, a young Indian boy stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a Bengal tiger named "Richard Parker." The British edition of Life of Pi won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the year after its release, and M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening
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