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Cinematical Seven: Bai Ling's Favorite Bai Ling Love Scenes

14 October 2009 8:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Chinese-American actress Bai Ling had her breakout role in 1997's Red Corner, a courtroom drama in which she defended Richard Gere from a corrupt government trial - romancing him, naturally, along the way. But since then, Ling has played a streak of bad girls and scantily-clad seductresses that put her equally-sensual public persona front and center, in films ranging from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to this year's Crank: High Voltage. Even in her latest film, the independent drama A Beautiful Life, Ling plays a stripper - albeit one with a heart of gold.

Some might argue that her career choices lean toward female objectification, and they wouldn't be wrong. But there's something wholly empowered about the way Bai Ling tackles her film roles. Sure, she's played her fair share of strippers, prostitutes, and femme fatales, but does it matter if she totally owns and embraces those characters »

- Jen Yamato

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Fox to Tell Moses Story with ‘300′ Visuals

13 October 2009 1:23 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

20th Century Fox is planning to re-tell the biblical story of Moses using the visual style and modern effects of Zack Snyder’s 300. This is the first major acquisition for new Fox chief Peter Chernin.

The story will start with Moses’ near death experience as an infant, his adoption into the Egyptian royal family, “defiance of the Pharaoh and deliverance of the Hebrews from enslavement.” I can’t wait for a Gerard Butler type to yell, “Let my people Gooooo!” Spartan style.

According to Variety, the idea was pitched by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, who just completed the script for a “re-imagining” of Moby Dick for director Timur Bekmambetov. They’re going for a feel closer to Braveheart than Charlton Heston’s The Ten Commandments, though I doubt Mel Gibson will be involved with this one…

Since 2004’s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, studios have been using »

- Jeff Leins

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Tyler Perry 'Can Do' Good at the Box Office

13 September 2009 5:30 PM, PDT | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »

Tyler Perry's Madea swung her weight at the box office again, handily topping a modest weekend at the box office with her latest appearance in Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself. The weekend also saw a passable start for the animated 9 and the failures of two thrillers, Sorority Row and Whiteout. Overall business was off seven percent from the same weekend last year, when Burn After Reading and Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys opened. I Can Do Bad All By Myself yanked an estimated $24 million out of approximately 3,200 screens at 2,255 sites. It was the third highest-grossing debut for a Tyler Perry movie, though slightly above average in terms of attendance, and a new high for one of his Fall releases, topping The Family That Preys ($17.4 million) and Why Did I Get Married? ($21.4 million). Though not named in the title like Perry's biggest hits, Madea was »

- Brandon Gray

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Review: 9

9 September 2009 7:09 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

It's safe to say that every film starts out small, and that many of them then end up staying small for any number of reasons. Beyond that, only a lucky few make the leap to feature-length, and even then, it doesn't always turn out for the best. Saw was once a mere fraction of itself, a grimy and gritty little morality play unlikely to spawn a seriously successful franchise that just won't die. The minds behind Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow dedicated themselves for years to creating a low-budget trailer for the film, only to then be granted the chance to flesh out their pulpy serial throwback with millions more. Wouldn't you know it, District 9 just became the summer's least expected blockbuster to the tune of $100 million, and even that was born of a like-minded showcase reel.

And then there's Shane Acker, whose original short for 9 was »

- William Goss

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John Carter of Mars Cast Fills Out

23 August 2009 9:03 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

The trades are reporting Samantha Morton (Minority Report), Dominic West (The Wire) and Polly Walker (Rome) have joined John Carter of Mars, Disney's adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series that Andrew Stanton is directing. Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and Willem Dafoe already are on board the production, which centers on a Civil War veteran (Kitsch) who finds himself mysteriously transported to Mars, where he becomes embroiled with the planet's warring people. Dafoe will play the role of Tars Tarkas, a fierce green Martian warrior, who’s unusual among his savage race for his ability to love. Morton plays Sola, the daughter of Dafoe's Tars Tarkas, who must hide her softer side from her warmongering race. West plays Sab Than, prince of the Zodangans who believes he is entitled to rule Mars. The movie marks the first live-action feature for Stanton – whose previous directing credits include Wall-e, Finding Nemo and A Bug’s Life. »

- James Cook

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Trailer, Images Arrive For James Cameron Sci-Fi Epic, 'Avatar'!

20 August 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

I don't know about y'all, but I've been hearing about "Avatar" for such a long time that it's started to feel like something unreal. Director James Cameron has some ambitious plans for the flick, and he's talked about them at great length while sharing very little in the way of object examples. For a long time, I wasn't even sure if it was going to be a live action movie, a work of CGI animation or a mixture of the two, a la "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" or "Speed Racer."

Hell, a majority of the images we've seen from "Avatar" thus far come from the tie-in video game. Until today. Following on the heels of last week's "ThunderCat reveal," come a small collection of additional images. They're mostly character and behind-the-scenes moments, though one does serve up some computer-generated pretty. Just click the image below to check out our shiny, »

- Adam Rosenberg

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The Mutant Chronicles (DVD Review)

4 August 2009 2:54 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

This review also appears on our Starlog website...

Mutant Chronicles tries to be The Dirty Dozen meets Aliens but it’s really more like Pearl Harbor meets The Chronicles Of Riddick. In case you couldn’t guess, that’s Not a compliment. It’s out today from Magnolia (reviewed from the $26.98 single-disc DVD; also available as a $29.98 two-disc Collector’s Edition DVD; $34.98 Blu-ray).

Director Simon Hunter and screenwriter Philip Eisner haven’t been prolific in the last decade. Hunter hasn’t helmed a feature since 2000’s Lighthouse (a decent horror movie) and Eisner has only added Firestarter: Rekindled to his credits since penning Paul W.S. Anderson’s Event Horizon. Perhaps both have gotten a little rusty over the years, because Mutant Chronicles is a boring, flavorless, sermonic flick that dulls with its repetitive, exhausting “action” sequences and tiresome, pedagogical passages on the values of religious conviction and blind faith.

It’s the 28th Century, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Allan Dart)

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New on DVD This Week

21 July 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Here’s a list of some of the new DVD and Blu-ray releases this week we’re particularly interested in. Plus, some old favorites (and not so favorites) coming out this week for the first time on Blu-Ray.

Movies:

• Watchmen (Director’s Cut) ~ Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Malin Ackerman, Jackie Earle Hailey (DVD and Blu-ray)

• Coraline ~ Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, and Jennifer Saunders (DVD and Blu-ray)

• 300: The Complete Experience ~ Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West (Blu-ray)

• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ~ Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, and Giovanni Ribisi (DVD and Blu-ray)

• Made in U.S.A. (Criterion Collection) ~ Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, and Marianne Faithfull (DVD)

• The Great Buck Howard ~ John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, and Tom Hanks (DVD)

• Wolverine and the X-Men: Deadly Enemies ~ (DVD)

• Midnight Express ~ Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, and Paolo Bonacelli (Blu-ray)

• Echelon Conspiracy ~ Edward Burns, »

- Chris Ullrich

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Willem Dafoe Joins John Carter of Mars

14 July 2009 10:18 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Willem Dafoe has joined the cast of John Carter of Mars, Disney's adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series that Andrew Stanton is directing. The acclaimed actor will star alongside Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins – both of whom had roles in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The film centers on a civil war veteran who finds himself mysteriously transported to Mars, where his involvement with warring races of the dying planet force him to rediscover his humanity. Kitsch will play the title character, while Collins is playing Dejah Thoris, heir to the throne of Mars’ Helium kingdom. Dafoe will play the role of Tars Tarkas, a fierce green Martian warrior, who's unusual among his savage race for his ability to love. Tarkas develops an alliance with John Carter in the first film, which is based on "A Princess of Mars." The movie marks the first live-action feature for Stanton – whose previous directing credits include Wall-e, »

- James Cook

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Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins Head to Mars

12 June 2009 10:45 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins, who both had roles in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, have signed on to star in John Carter of Mars, the adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series that Andrew Stanton is directing for Disney. Carter centers on a civil war veteran who finds himself mysteriously transported to Mars, where his involvement with warring races of the dying planet force him to rediscover his humanity. Kitsch will play the title character, while Collins is playing Dejah Thoris, heir to the throne of Mars' Helium kingdom. The movie marks the first live-action feature for Stanton – whose previous directing credits include Wall-e, Finding Nemo and A Bug’s Life. Disney hopes the big-budget production will launch a franchise on the scale of Pirates of the Caribbean. Stanton wrote the screenplay with Mark Andrews. The role of Carter was considered one of the "gets" for a young actor, and »

- James Cook

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Disney's 'John Carter of Mars' Heads to Utah

12 June 2009 4:21 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

SlashFilm was tipped off to a story from the NBC affiliate Ksl, which is reporting Disney's John Carter of Mars is set to begin production in Utah this November. Andrew Stanton (Wall-e) is directing from a script he worked on with Mark Andrews followed by revisions from Michael Chabon (Spider-Man 2). The Ksl report says the film will bring hundreds of cast and crew members to the state during production. "This is over 400 people involved in full-time work for seven-straight months here in the State of Utah. This is going to put our film crews to work. It's really going to put us on the map as a place to film," Governor's Office of Economic Development Director Jason Perry said. I know nothing of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels of which this film will be based, but I can tell you reports have said they are focusing on the first »

- Brad Brevet

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Disney Sets Up Andrew Stanton’s John Carter of Mars in Utah

12 June 2009 12:02 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Probably one of the longest gestating film projects in the history of anything, Disney's John Carter of Mars has had its wagons circling for quite some time. As you may know, the Edward Rice Burroughs written sci-fi fantasy novel A Princess of Mars has been in the eye of Hollywood since not long after the book was published in 1917. And now, more than 90-years later, Disney and Wall-e director Andrew Stanton are going to make the film. According to Ksl (via /Film) in Salt Lake City, Disney will take advantage of up to $5.5 million dollars in tax credits and spend nearly $28 million dollars in Utah when they set up production there in November. The Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon scripted adventure story follows the story of Civil War vet John Carter, who is transplanted to Mars only to find a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. He »

- Neil Miller

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Check These Out: Awesome Stills from Tribes of October!

7 May 2009 5:53 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

No more than three days ago I ran a casting announcement for Philippe Martinez's Tribes of October. Ray Stevenson, Jaime King, Stephen Moyer, Robert Duvall and James Caan had all joined the cast of what was being called a post-apocalyptic thriller on a $25 million budget. It was also mentioned that they were shooting it using almost entirely green screen (think Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) and that a demo reel they had whipped up would be shown at Cannes. Well thankfully some shots of that demo reel have popped up and they kick some serious ass. I was expecting this to look cool, but not this frickin cool! I really love the orange tinge to these - it makes the visual style so distinct. And it's not ripping off anything, because as far as I know,t hat color hasn't been used excessively like this anytime before. »

- Alex Billington

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10 Most Influential Films of the Decade

28 April 2009 3:14 PM, PDT | newser.com | See recent newser news »

Though "the task is ridiculous," Brendon Connelly has come up with 10 films from the last decade that will prove influential 20 years down the road. Slashfilm has the list: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow : "On the list for kick-starting green-screen mania." The Bourne Ultimatum : A technical triumph for its "running man camera" and its "rapid-fire cross cutting between an alarming amount of different angles." Traffic : The film that introduced a "narrative paradigm I think we’ll be seeing a lot of." My Big Fat Greek Weeding : A "puff of wind" that allowed the "pseudo-indie wings of studios" to ... »

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The 10 Coolest Things in Movies: April 24

24 April 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »

Filed under: Features

Arnold will be back ... and so with the Ninja Turtles ... and 'Predator' ...

Life can be hectic, insane even -- and we here at Moviefone sympathize with that. Movie fans don't have all day to bump around from site to site digging for the newest must-see trailers, latest casting news and what not.

That's why we're making things easy: We've compiled the 10 hottest movie trailers, casting tidbits, viral videos and hilarious blog rants to make waves in the movie world over the past seven days and put them all in one spot -- just for you.

From Ahnuld's not-so-surprising cameo in 'Terminator Salvation' to the very surprising returns of live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' and 'Predators,' behold the 10 most buzzed about things in movies this week.

10 Coolest Things In MOVIESFrom Ahnuld's not-so-surprising cameo in 'Terminator Salvation' to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' very surprising live-action return, »

- Thomas DiChiara

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Open Forum Friday: What Makes a Movie Influential?

17 April 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Earlier this week, the folks over at Turner Classic Movies revealed their list of the 15 Most Influential Movies of All-Time [1]. This inspired Brendon Connelly of /Film to put together his own list of the 10 Most Influential Movies of the Past 10 Years [2], which included some pretty unexpected choices such as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Polar Express and Coraline (to name a few). These movies in particular seemed to be selected based on their technical achievements, but it begs the question, have any of them really changed the direction of cinema? And can you even tell after only 10 years that a movie has been influential as opposed to just being trendy? (Is there a difference?) Certainly some of the choices on Connelly's list are hard to debate. The Matrix is the perfect example of a movie that seemingly changed the face of action movies forever, but I'm sure »

- Sean

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'Mutant Chronicles' Review

14 April 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »

Sort of a big, comfy quilt composed of flicks like Starship Troopers, The Dirty Dozen, and the highly undervalued Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Simon Hunter's Mutant Chronicles has lots of stuff "wrong with it," and I'm sure the less amused critics will enjoy poking holes in its muddled narrative, a few overripe performances, some sketchy special effects, and its occasionally wacky dialog -- but it's these components (combined, of course, with some actual assets) that allow the flick to come on like a familiar buddy you haven't seen in a year or two. It's an unapologetically broad (but not silly) mixture of science fiction, horror, and high-mayhem action adventure whatnot, and if you're willing... »

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