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Movies We Love: When Harry Met Sally

4 November 2009 2:55 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

When Harry Met Sally (1989) No, no, you did not have great sex with Sheldon. A Sheldon can do your income taxes. If you need a root canal, Sheldon’s your man. But humpin’ and pumpin’ is not Sheldon’s strong suit. It’s the name. “Do it to me, Sheldon. You’re an animal, Sheldon. Ride me, big Shel-don.” Doesn’t work. Synopsis Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) meet while sharing a ride from Chicago to New York City after college. After some awkward situations and interesting conversation, they part ways a little less than amicably. Five years later, they bump into each other again, and once again part under less than ideal conditions. Five more years go by and both have seen their share of love’s ups and downs. This time, however, their friendship is able to blossom, and as it develops the central question of the film is tested: “Can »

- Paul Sileo

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This is Also Happening: Owen Wilson to Voice Marmaduke

3 November 2009 1:55 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

What is it with Owen Wilson and movies about dogs? Last year, Wilson joined Jennifer Aniston in the heart string-yanking, super-melodramatic dying dog movie Marley and Me, and now THR is reporting that he'll be voicing the rascally Great Dane Marmaduke on the big screen. Based on the popular comic strip that was created in 1954 by Brad Anderson and Phil Leeming, with a script by Tim Rassmussen and Vince Di Meglio (License to Wed, Smother), this live-action/CG movie will follow a family named the Winslows who move from Kansas to Orange County with their dog Marmaduke, a slobbery pooch who creates chaos wherever he goes. It will see the title character "navigate a volatile Mutts vs. Pedigrees turf war, woo the purebred of his dreams and overcome a fall from grace." Tom Dey (Failure to Launch, Shanghai Noon) will direct the feature, with Judy Greer, Lee Pace and William H. Macy making up the human cast »

- Neil Miller

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Owen Wilson is in Marmaduke's doghouse

3 November 2009 8:43 AM, PST | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »

Because starring in just one movie about a giant dog wasn't enough for Owen Wilson, the actor has just signed on the dotted line to provide the voice for Marmaduke in 20th Century Fox's live-action/CG movie. I don't berate Wilson for taking a paycheck, and he's got the right kind of personality to make the pooch's pipes interesting, it's Fox that I have disdain for. Really, Fox? It wasn't enough to inflict pain upon us with two Garfield movies? Your investors weren't satisfied with all that money made by the talking rats in the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie? Why do you guys have to be the talking animal movie studio?

Sigh.

The logline for Marmaduke has the Winslow family pack up and move from Kansas to California. Their dog Marmaduke is big, produces a lot of dog slobber and creates chaos at every opportunity. Family friendly comedic hijinks ensue! »

- Patrick Sauriol

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Owen Wilson To Let His Inner Dog Out In 'Marmaduke' Movie

3 November 2009 6:01 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

The last time we saw actor Owen Wilson playing with dogs, it was in the 2008 adaptation of John Grogan's touchingly heartbreaking book "Marley & Me." In this latest bit of news, we learn that Wilson will move from playing with dogs to simply playing one.

Wilson is locked to star in "Marmaduke," a big-screen adaptation of Brad Anderson's long-running newspaper comic strip. The adaptation had itself been revealed a couple of weeks ago, but this final bit of news puts the finishing touch on a cast that includes William H. Macy, Judy Greer, Lee Pace as the titular great dane's human family and Fergie, Emma Stone, George Lopez, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Steve Coogan, Damon Wayans and Marlon Wayans as the voices of Marmaduke's pals in the animal kingdom.

The story, penned by "License to Wed" writers Tim Rasmussen and Vince Di Meglio, sounds like a canine-infused take on "West Side Story. »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Owen Wilson to Play Marmaduke

3 November 2009 1:00 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

I think it's the nose. Owen Wilson has signed on to play the voice of everybody's favorite  Great Dane, Marmaduke, in Fox's upcoming live action/CG adaptation of the comic strip. The script "sees Marmaduke navigate a volatile Mutts vs. Pedigrees turf war, woo the purebred of his dreams and overcome a fall from grace." Blame Tim Rasmussen and Vince Di Meglio for that. The film will be directed by Shanghai Noon(I actually liked that!)/Failure to Launch helmer Tom Dey. Wilson actually bears a slight resemblance to the mischievous dog, but that certainly doesn't soothe my soul about this project existing. Despite how perfect Bill Murray was for Garfield, that movie still ended up being a huge mess (and don't forget he made two of them!). The cast also includes Lee Pace, Judy Greere, and William H. Macy as the humans, and "Fergie, Emma Stone, George Lopez, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, »

- Devindra Hardawar

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Tommy Lee Jones and McConaughey in Talks for ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’

15 October 2009 2:16 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Collider declared that Tommy Lee Jones is in talks to both direct and act in The Lincoln Lawyer, a film that already has McConaughey attached as the lead. I’m already seeing some nightmarish love-child of No Country for Old Men and Failure to Launch.

The Lincoln Lawyer is based on the eponymous 2005 bestselling novel by Michael Connelly and follows an attorney who runs his business out of his car (McConaughey) and through what’s sure to be a funny little twist of fate, ends up representing a well-known Hollywood playboy in a murder case that, for our lawyer, is the chance of a lifetime.  Pardon my cynicism.

 

It just already sounds to me like we’re going to get one McConaughey playing one of three Hollywood cliches: the guy about to quit; the slacker who enjoys his professionally unimpressive life with a devil-may-care charm; or the guy who endearingly »

- Scott Miller

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[DVD Review] Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

24 September 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

False advertising! There are four main reasons I assumed I would love this movie:

1) I’m a fan of the “chick flick.” This just wasn’t a very good chick flick. There weren’t enough laughs, cute moments that you wish your boyfriend would replicate, or the gooey moments where my heart usually melts.

2) Jennifer Garner. I’m not a huge fan of her in general, but I figured she would be good in this movie for her looks alone, but her looks didn’t save the movie this time. I’d rather re-watch 13 Going on 30.

3) Matthew McConaughey. While I still love him for being so darn attractive (my cousin and her friends call him “Matthew McCona-hottie), he really needs to stop playing the exact same character. While leading men tend to play similar characters, his are almost exactly the same.

4) The title.

I thought Ghosts of Girlfriends Past was »

- Erin Burris

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Why Hollywood Remakes Dont Measure up to the Asian Originals Part 3

10 September 2009 6:33 AM, PDT | AsianMoviePulse | See recent AsianMoviePulse news »

The least successful remakes come from social comedies, which makes sense, because the least successful Hollywood exports are also social comedies. Failure to Launch, for instance, isn’t going to crack a smile in India, where a young man is expected to stay in the family home, and even bring his bride to live there. Asian social comedies get their strength from skewering traditional values, so if the values aren’t in the culture, there’s nothing to skewer. The Korean film Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo, better known as My Sassy Girl, a huge hit around Asia, hinges on the fact that a young man is shamed into helping an outrageous stranger because people think she’s his girlfriend; rather than lose face in public, he sticks with her, despite her abusive behavior, until he starts to care for her. »

- Gere LaDue

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Lennertz to score Fox’s ‘Marmaduke’

1 September 2009 2:22 AM, PDT | MovieScore Magazine | See recent MovieScore Magazine news »

Christopher Lennertz has a new project for 20th Century Fox coming up – Marmaduke, a family comedy based on the comic strip by Brad Anderson. The film is directed by Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon, Failure to Launch) and features actors such as Amanda Seyfried, Jeremy Pive, Ron Perlman, Judy Greer and William H. Macy – the real star of the film, though, will of course be the Great Dane that ... »

- moviescore

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Brewster's remake?

17 August 2009 10:11 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

Today on the remake front, it's been decided that Brewster's Millions is the next target. Even though Millions has been adapted 7 other times from the book by George Barr McCutcheon. The folks over at Warner Brothers hired screenwriters, Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan, to provide their take on the original 1902 novel. This will be the first attempt for the duo, aside from Dilberti's work as an assistant on the mind numbing Failure To Launch...but you gotta start somewhere right?... »

- Niki Stephens

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'G-Force' Takes Cake, 'Potter' Plummets

26 July 2009 1:12 PM, PDT | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »

Though G-Force and The Ugly Truth opened well, it was another down weekend at the box office. Driven by less compelling new and recent releases, business as a whole was down from last year for the third weekend in a row. With around $149 million, the drop was 18 percent from the $181 million of the same timeframe last year, when The Dark Knight was in its second session and Step Brothers debuted.

Following the playbook for the perennially popular talking animal sub-genre, G-Force scooted to an estimated $32.2 million on approximately 5,200 screens at 3,697 sites, grossing a bit more out-of-the-gate than Bolt, Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Cats & Dogs, though it was far from the next Alvin and the Chipmunks. In its marketing, the picture looked like it was stitched together from past like-minded movies, from the scatological and cutesy humor of Alvin and the Chipmunks to the gizmos of Cats & Dogs and others. While »

- Brandon Gray

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‘Marmaduke’ Coming To The Big Screen

6 March 2009 12:19 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

In 1954 a cartoonist called Brad Anderson created a newspaper comic strip called Marmaduke, about a Great Dane who lives with a family called the Winslows. The titled canine character has also made several cartoon appearances in the likes of the Heathcliff and in an episode of Garfield and Friends.

Well it seems Hollywood has latched onto the character as one of a dying breed of “not yet adapted” creations and is adapting it for the big-screen. Fox has signed director Tom Dey (Shanghia Noon, Failure To Launch) to direct the film.

Fox declined to release any details about the project, including whether it will be animated, live-action, CGI (or a combination of those), since it’s still in the very early stages of development. However since there’s going to be a sequel to the live-action/CGI Alvin and the Chipmunks, I wouldn’t be surprised if they employ the same technique here. »

- Ross Miller

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'He's Just' a Hit Over Busy Weekend

9 February 2009 2:14 PM, PST | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »

Four high-profile nationwide releases and small declines from holdovers led to one of the highest-grossing February weekends on record. Overall weekend business was up a whopping 38 percent over the same timeframe last year, and one has to go back to 2001 to find a better attended comparable weekend. Topping the weekend, He's Just Not That Into You attracted $27.8 million on approximately 3,700 screens at 3,175 theaters, logging opening attendance in the same realm as How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Failure to Launch. Featuring such familiar faces as Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore and a catchy title, the ensemble romantic comedy was heavily promoted with relatable dating humor and was well timed for Valentine's Day. According to distributor Warner Bros.' ... »

- Brandon Gray

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