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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Three
17 December 2009 11:42 PM, PST
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Dinner for Schmucks
Opens: July 23rd 2010
Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams
Director: Jay Roach
Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.
Analysis: A remake of director Francis Veber's 1998 César award-winning "Le Diner des cons", 'Schmucks' is one of the highest profile comedies of next year with one of the strongest casts for the genre in recent memory. It also marks the return of "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" helmer Jay Roach who has produced several films in recent years but hasn't directed since 2004's "Meet the Fockers".
The question now lies not in the performers or director but the material itself and whether a Gallic comedy can
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- Garth Franklin
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Two
16 December 2009 3:18 AM, PST
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Case 39
Opens: January 1st 2010
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley
Director: Christian Alvart
Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.
Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out as the lone release on New Year's Day for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman
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- Garth Franklin
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Blood Creek Trailer
3 December 2009 10:26 AM, PST
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Joel Schumacher has had what could best be described as a “mixed career”. There have been many highs – and many lows. For every Falling Down or Tigerland, there’s a Batman and Robin or Dying Young. One peruses his CV and expects stinker after stinker, but in fact, he’s directed some brilliant films down the years.
His latest flick – Blood Creek – starring Dominic Purcell and Henry Cavill looks barking mad. Mixing Nazi occult rituals, action scenes and lots of blood, the trailer offers a glimmer of something quite interesting. Schumacher has always had a rather camp and fun sense of humour, so don’t expect anything too serious. With a script by David Kajganich (The Invasion), this could be b-movie heaven – or hell. The poster is pretty cool, though. Is it a monster or a man?
Blood Creek is out early 2010.
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Eli Roth Plans An Invasion
1 December 2009 1:05 AM, PST
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Eli Roth's planning his own sci-fi movie called Endangered Species, but that hasn't stoppped him from getting involved in another alien-themed project, called Invasion and written Ben Magid, according to the good people at Shock Till You Drop. That's not to be confused with either the Nicole Kidman film The Invasion, which we're doing our best to forget, or the TV series starring William Fichtner. This one is described as Cloverfield-esque, opening with an accident in the Los Angeles underground (not the one The A-Team disappeared into though; the subway). The survivors emerge into a changed world, where snow is falling, the city's in ruins and survivors roam in mobs. Oh, and there are patches of (presumably alien) acidic goo all over the place, which never makes for a tropical destination hotspot.Magid's also worked on the movie adaptation of Hack/Slash, and sold another original script in Pan,
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Top 10 flops of the 00's
30 November 2009
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With the decade coming to a close at the end of the year, it's time to take stock. Here is a list of the biggest financial flops of 2000's first decade.
#10: 2008's "The Spirit". With a price tag of $60 million, graphic novelist Frank Miller's movie took in barely a third of that, despite a fabulous cast that included Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson and Spain's Paz Vega.
#9: The ambitious but too-pointed 1970¹s B-movie homage "Grindhouse". The movie made only $25 million but cost $67 million, which tainted maker Quentin Tarantino a loser in 2007. Meanwhile, America's enfant terrible has redeemed himself with "Inglourious Basterds".
#9: The remake of the 1970's classic, "Rollerball", released in 2002. $70 million price tag, $19 million in sales. The failure seems to have tanked the career of formerly success director John McTiernan, who later got 4 months for lying to the FBI in the Anthony Pellicano affair.
#7: "The Invasion
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Eddie Murphy's "Pluto Nash" Tops the List of Movie Flops of the Decade! See Complete Top 10 and Weep!
28 November 2009 8:27 AM, PST
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Eddie Murphy's "The Adventure of Pluto Nash" is the No. 1 flop of the decade according to The Hollywood Reporter. Big budgets, big stars with big egos, all clash to give us the biggest flops of the past ten years.
"Pluto Nash" was made for $100 million and only grossed $4.4 million, even out-flopping John Travolta's Scientology-homage "Battlefield Earth."
But Murphy and Travolta are not the only ones on the list. Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, and Halle Berry also made the cut. Even Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were not safe!
What other films made it to the Top 10? Here's the complete list of the Top 10 Flops of the Decade, The Biggest Turkeys:
1. The Adventures Of Pluto Nash
* Release date: August 6, 2002
* Estimated cost: $100 million
* Domestic gross: $4.4 million
2. Battlefield Earth
* Release date: May 12, 2000
* Estimated cost: $75 million
* Domestic gross: $21 million
3. Land Of The Lost
* Release
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Five Minutes of Heaven (review)
12 November 2009 1:51 PM, PST
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After a disastrous foray into Hollywood with the tepid sci-fi potboiler The Invasion German director Oliver Hirschbiegel returns to the realms of uneasy morality he explored in his portrait of Bunker Hitler in Downfall... and this difficult, uncomfortable film, which similarly deconstructs the notion of what “evil” is, hits even closer to home for today’s mess of a culturally fractured world. Back in 1975, a teenaged Protestant hitman (Mark Davison) killed a Catholic man, because that’s what “good” Protestant men did in Northern Ireland back then, in front of the man’s 11-year-old brother. Now, today, the two men are brought together by a television show seeking a sort of Irish version of the South African truth-and-reconciliation plan: Liam Neeson (Taken) is the former hitman who has put his life, since he got out of prison for that murder, to better use; James Nesbitt (Bloody Sunday) is the grownup
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- MaryAnn Johanson
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Review: Five Minutes Of Heaven
6 November 2009 4:30 AM, PST
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When one thinks of a powerful film, what comes to mind? An epic saga? A grandiose drama? A hard-hitting film of controversy? For me, the films that have the greatest impact, the films that offer the most honest and realistic portrayal of contemporary concerns, are those that present themselves in their purest form. All the fancy camera work, all the flashy visual style and emotionally-charged music in the world will never take the place of a powerful story. And, that story does not necessarily need to be complex.
As they say, less is more. Five Minutes Of Heaven is 90 minutes of raw, unfiltered human emotion. Not the over-done, exaggerated type that makes for good Hollywood drama, but the kind that makes an audience sit up in their seats. The kind of tactile human sensory emotion that makes an audience stare, unflinching, mesmerized into the lives of another human being. Plain and simple.
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Robert Pattinson, Brad Pitt And More Overnight Sex Symbols
29 September 2009 2:52 AM, PDT
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'Twilight' has catapulted RPattz into the stratosphere where he joins some other beefcake breakout stars.
By Larry Carroll
Robert Pattinson
Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage
Every now and then, a movie comes out that transforms a male actor into someone to be desired, adored and often watched for decades to come. We're experiencing such a phenomenon now with Robert Pattinson, who has essentially starred in one wide-release movie and had "Twilight" transform him from "Who's that?" to "Hottest Man Alive" overnight.
But where does RPattz go from here? Will he launch a decades-long career? Work with directors like Spielberg and Scorsese? Or will he become another Hollywood cautionary tale? Below are a handful of beefcake breakouts transformed by one major role, whose careers could perhaps give guidance to the Sparkly One.
James Dean
Arguably the greatest male cinematic sex symbol of all time, actors like Pattinson and James Franco continue to
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Ninja Assassin - New poster from the film starring Rain!
23 September 2009 12:41 AM, PDT
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"Ninja Assassin" has a new poster. The Warner Bros. Pictures actioner stars Rain, Naomie Harris, Rick Yune, Randall Duk Kim, Kang Sung, Ben Miles, Sho Kosugi and Togo Igawa.
James McTiegue ("V for Vendetta," "The Invasion") directs from the writing by Matthew Sand, J. Michael Straczynski based on the story by Matthew Sand.
"Ninja Assassin" follows Raizo (Rain), one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan
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Morgan Creek Signs Daniel Craig for Dream House
27 August 2009 10:42 PM, PDT
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Almost two months to the day after negotiations first began between Morgan Creek and Daniel Craig for the latter to topline the production house's first new project in three years, the deal is done. Craig has signed on the dotted line and will appear in six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan's Dream House.
Variety reports that in the film, which starts shooting January 25, 2010, Craig will portray a New York publishing exec who relocates his family to a small New England town only to learn that their new home was the scene of a vicious murder.
Morgan Creek fully finances its films, which are distributed through Universal. Dream House was written by David Loucka. It will be produced by James G. Robinson along with David Robinson, Daniel Bobker, and Ehren Krueger.
Here's hoping Craig fares better in Sheridan and Morgan Creek's Dream House than he did during The Invasion (review here), his last genre flick.
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Life In The Belfast Lane
20 August 2009 10:42 PM, PDT
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It's hard to come up with a new take on the violence that wracked Northern Ireland in the '70s and '80s, but "Five Minutes of Heaven" does it very effectively, in no small part thanks to terrific performances by Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt.
The second English-language film by German director Oliver Hirschbegel (the endlessly YouTubed Hitler flick "Downfall" and the disastrous "The Invasion" with Nicole Kidman) opens with a prologue featuring the actors' characters as teenagers.
It's 1975 and Neeson's 17-year-old self, a Protestant terrorist,
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- By LOU LUMENICK
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Exclusive: 'Five Minutes of Heaven' Poster Premiere
19 August 2009 1:32 PM, PDT
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Do not be confused by the title of the film Five Minutes of Heaven, as it does not refer to the game you played as a middle-schooler where a boy and girl were chosen at random and locked in a closet together. (I believe that was "Seven Minutes in Heaven.") Five Minutes of Heaven is, rather, a thriller from the U.K. in which a man confronts the guy who killed his brother many years ago. James Nesbitt plays the bereaved, and Liam Neeson plays the killer.
The film debuted at Sundance this year, where it won awards for its director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, and screenwriter, Guy Hibbert. Cinematical's Scott Weinberg gave it a rave review, saying it's "bolstered by a smart, insightful screenplay, directed with low-key style and restraint, and supported by two fantastic performances." Hirschbiegel's last film was the Nicole Kidman flop The Invasion, but before that he made the Oscar-nominated Downfall,
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- Eric D. Snider
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Basterds, the Ira and the real Mad Men
17 August 2009 7:01 AM, PDT
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Another monster release slate this week finds, amongst other things, interpretations of the Irish troubles, both real and imagined. Also, we meet the real life Mad Men, Qt's Basterds and the godfather of African-American indie film as a bearded ten-year-old boy.
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Filmmaker Doug Pray ("Surfwise") goes inside the advertising industry to uncover the creative minds behind such iconic slogans as "Got Milk?" and "Just Do It," encountering a multitude of contrasting viewpoints, from those who feel they have whored themselves out in the name of commerce to those hopelessly addicted to the rush of satisfying the constantly changing needs of the modern world. Don Draper, eat your heart out.
Opens in New York.
"The Baader Meinhof Complex"
This year's German nominee for the best foreign-language film Oscar, Uli Edel's adaptation of
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Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up - August 5,
6 August 2009 8:21 AM, PDT
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This week:
Maggie Grace takes part in The Experiment with Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker; get ready to Stare At Goats and George Clooney in November; Leonardo DiCaprio goes down to the woods with Little Red Riding Hood; Liam Neeson is an Unknown White Male, Josh Duhamel ruins Life As We Know it alongside Katherine Heigl; Sony Pictures Classics buy Blood Simple and find out which Silent Hill star has joined Twilight.
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1. Lost star Maggie Grace will join Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker in The Experiment. The plot (according to IMDb) is as follows:
“26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.”
The Experiment is a remake of Das Experiment directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (The Invasion).
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2. George Clooney’s forthcoming The Men Who Stare At Goats will premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
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'V for Vendetta' Director Takes on Edgar Allan Poe Investigation
4 August 2009 7:31 PM, PDT
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James McTeigue, director of The Invasion, V for Vendetta and the forthcoming Ninja Assassin, has been tapped to helm The Raven for FilmNation Entertainment and Endgame, reports /Film.
Its like the poem, 'The Raven', itself, crossed with 'Se7en'," he tells the site. "It should be pretty cool. The script is really good and everyone responds to it really well. Im in the middle of casting.
Written by Hannah Shakespeare and Ben Livingston, the film is a thriller set in the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, when he gets wrapped up in a serial killer investigation.
Machinist/Session 9 director Brad Anderson had been previously developing the project.
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"Five Minutes of Heaven" - First poster in.
1 July 2009
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We have the first poster in from "Five Minutes of Heaven," the winner of the Directing Award World Cinema as well as the Screenwiring Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
Oliver Hirschbiegel ("The Invasion," "Das Experiment," "Downfall") helms from the writing by Guy Hibbert ("Saigon Baby," "The Russian Bride"). The film sees theatres on August 21st and stars Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Juliet Crawford, Conor MacNeill, Jonathan Harden, Mathew McElhinney, Diarmuid Noyes, Mark Davison and Katy Gleadhill.
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Reel Talk Mixtape: Wednesday, June 24th
24 June 2009 1:15 PM, PDT
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Could this be the end of Oscar snubbing? Well, probably not. There will always be films people think didn’t get the recognition they deserved, but at least now there will be less of them. Academy Motion Picture Arts and Science President Sid Ganis said “After more than six decades, the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field competed for the top award of the year. The final outcome, of course, will be the same – one Best Picture winner – but the race to the finish line will feature 10, not just five, great movies from 2009.” I see no harm in including more films in the running. While it will make voting more difficult for the Academy, more films will get proper recognition rather than being pushed into other categories. Nominees will be announced on February 10th, 2010 and the Oscars will be presented on March 7th.
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Popular Picks at This Year's Sydney Film Festival
23 June 2009 12:32 AM, PDT
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Louie Psihoyos' stirring documentary The Cove has won the Showtime Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sydney Film Festival. The Cove follows a group of activists determined to expose the horrors behind the capturing of dolphins in the world's biggest supplier of dolphins, the town of Taijii in Japan. The Cove will open in cinemas on general release from August 20.
Festival jury member and director Oliver Hirschbiegel's study of the cyclical nature of violence in Belfast with Five Minutes of Heaven won the audience award for Best Fiction at the State Theatre, marking a great return for Hirschbiegel (Downfall) after the disaster that was The Invasion.
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Kidman Runs from Woody Allen
12 May 2009 9:25 PM, PDT
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Nicole Kidman has departed from her role starring in the next, presently untitled, Woody Allen project.
She was set to star alongside Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts and Freida Pinto, with shooting reportedly due to commence in the summer in Allen’s most frequent new city muse, London.
Variety says nothing has yet been announced as to who will replace Kidman in the role, and merely cites a "scheduling issue" with her other film, Rabbit Hole (co-starring Aaron Eckhart).
It seems like an interesting move for an actress who seems to be struggling somewhat to maintain any kind of box-office power. Australia was a complete flop and, prior to this, she was in the debacle that is The Golden Compass, the mean-spirited and somewhat irritating Margot at the Wedding, and the truly terrible The Invasion.
Allen, on the other hand, seems to be in an upward swing.
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