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12 July 2008 6:40 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Luna can see your nipples with her x-ray glasses... You should get that mole checked out

Photo: Warner Bros. As it is beginning to seem inevitable that a trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will debut any day now rumors are beginning to swirl and spread like wildfire. The big story earlier this week was how the a 15 second (yes, 15 second) teaser would be show in front of The Dark Knight on July 18. That has not been confirmed by anyone at Warner Bros. just yet and is beginning to seem less likely. A new rumor popped up today over at The Leaky Cauldron saying a full length teaser may be attached to Star Wars: The Clone Wars when it opens on August 15. This is a far more likely scenario considering a Potter trailer would help attract attention to a film it seems only hardcore Star Wars fans are truly interested in.

Brad Brevet

8 July 2008 2:58 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

I have reviewed the Batman Begins: Deluxe Edition DVD, the Batman Begins HD DVD and am now tackling the Batman Begins Limited Edition Giftset Blu-ray disc and I am not sure if there are many more ways for me to watch this flick outside of the discontinued PSP edition. What this means, of course, is that this review is going to be short and sweet as there isn't a whole lot more to tell you outside of a couple of details. To begin, the picture is obviously great, just as it was on the HD DVD edition. I had a lot of fun watching the movie again considering I actually hadn't watched it in about a year-and-a-half. I cranked up the audio and let the Dolby TrueHD track boom (I am sure my apartment neighbors were pleased). It was also nice to confirm my belief that replacing Katie Holmes

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3 July 2008 1:15 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Will Smith's box office power is well documented: His last eight movies have earned over $100 million each, and his last three - I Am Legend, The Pursuit of Happyness, and Hitch - have earned $1.25 billion worldwide. Right now, he's hotter than ever...and he has the whole weekend to himself.

Of course, Hancock was originally supposed to open on Friday, but they pushed back the release date within the past few days, so the movie officially opened Wednesday. Except that there were paid sneaks on Tuesday night. So...as of right now, Hancock has already made $24 million and change. That's not a bad number, but I don't get the move from an unopposed Friday to Tuesday night in the first place. All the move does is reward people who were really paying attention. Most people wouldn't go to a new movie on Tuesday anyway, because they're just not trained to.

Colin Boyd

25 June 2008 3:21 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

It seems like just yesterday I was writing up a story about this year's Saturn Awards nominees. Well, last night the winners were announced in Universal City, California.

Walt Disney Studios won six of the golden beauties you see to your right while Paramount received five and Warner Bros. took home four. But I'm sure what our readers want to know is which horror films and TV shows were honored. Drumroll please ...

Best Horror Film: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Science Fiction Film: Cloverfield

Best Actor: Will Smith (I Am Legend)

Best Supporting Actress: Marcia Gay Harden (The Mist)

Best Network Television Series: "Lost" (yay!)

Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series: "Dexter" (double yay!!)

Best Actor on Television: Matthew Fox ("Lost")

Best Actress on Television: Jennifer Love Hewitt ("Ghost Whisperer") (no comment)

Best Supporting Actor on Television: Michael Emerson ("Lost") (triple yay!!!)

Best Supporting Actress on Television:

The Woman In Black

21 June 2008 2:00 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Preparing for a film role can be daunting, but as the daughter of Will Smith, Willow Smith didn’t have to go far for acting advice. “My dad gives me tips,” Willow told People last week at the New York City premiere of Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, in which she costars. “He says listen to the director and feel the moment.” And did she feel the moment? “Yes, I did.”Willow, who hit the red carpet with her mom Jada Pinkett Smith and brother Jaden, also enlisted her family to assist in the wardrobe department. “My mom helped and the stylist helped,

Jeffrey Slonim and Jennifer Wren

2 June 2008 6:44 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Transformers has won the top prize at this year's MTV Movie Awards. Michael Bay's robot action film scooped the best movie award at the event held at Universal Studios last night. Despite a nearby fire that damaged several soundstages and buildings, the ceremony, which hands out awards based on fans' votes, continued as planned. Johnny Depp took home two prizes: the best comedic performance for Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End and best villain gong for Sweeney Todd. Will Smith won the male performance award for his role in I Am Legend. "I haven't always made great movies but I've been trying real hard," Smith said. (more)

By Simon Reynolds

2 June 2008 12:08 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Will Smith is desperate to make a second Bad Boys sequel, and begged director Michael Bay at the MTV Movie Awards to reunite him with Martin Lawrence for a third movie.

The actor tackled Bay backstage at the bash on Sunday (1Jun08), before he stepped up onstage to collect the Best Male Performance award for his movie I Am Legend.

He told Bay, "We need Bad Boys 3. I was just watching Bad Boys 2. with my son and I told him you can't open a movie better. That's the best movie opening ever!"

Bay teamed Smith and Lawrence for the first time in 1995 and then again in 2003.

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2 June 2008 12:08 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Johnny Depp stole the show at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night (1Jun08) picking up two prizes and sending Hollywood's female contingent into a frenzy.

Shy Depp was a surprise guest at the bash, shocking even A-listers in the audience when he appeared onstage to collect his awards for Best Comedic Performance, for the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie and Best Villain for Sweeney Todd. Lindsay Lohan jumped to her feet; while Juno Oscar winner DIablo Cody swooned when the cameras fixed on her.

Depp expressed his surprise to win a comedy award, telling the crowd, "I'm not really sure how this happened. You can ask anyone, I'm not a very funny person."

Elsewhere, Adam Sandler picked up a Generation award from Tom Cruise and treated the audience at Universal City, California's Gibson Amphitheatre to an impressive rendition of Carly Simon's Nobody Does it Better.

There were also awards for Will Smith, Zac Efron, Iron Man and Transformers.

The full list of winners is as follows:

Best Female Performance - Ellen Page in Juno

Best Male Performance - Will Smith in I Am Legend

Best Movie - Transformers

Best Summer Movie So Far - Iron Man

Breakthrough Performance - Zac Efron in Hairspray

Best Fight - Sean Faris and Cam Gigandet in Never Back Down

Best Comedic Performance - Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean:

Best Villain - Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd

Best Kiss - Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman in Step Up 2 the Streets.

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1 June 2008 8:59 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Will Smith is desperate to make a second Bad Boys sequel, and begged director Michael Bay at the MTV Movie Awards to reunite him with Martin Lawrence for a third movie.

The actor tackled Bay backstage at the bash on Sunday (1Jun08), before he stepped up onstage to collect the Best Male Performance award for his movie I Am Legend.

He told Bay, "We need Bad Boys 3. I was just watching Bad Boys 2. with my son and I told him you can't open a movie better. That's the best movie opening ever!"

Bay teamed Smith and Lawrence for the first time in 1995 and then again in 2003.

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28 May 2008 8:22 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Will Smith has insisted that he won't get divorced from wife Jada Pinkett Smith. Speaking on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the I Am Legend star expressed his delight that his second marriage had lasted a decade in Hollywood. "It's like dog years when you're married [in Hollywood]. That's like 50 years, right?" he said. "What I found is divorce just can't be an option. It's really that simple. And I think that's the (more)

By Simon Reynolds

18 May 2008 5:51 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hollywood superstar Will Smith is investing more than $1 million (GBP500,000) in a new school near his California home.

The I Am Legend star has paid $889,000 (GBP444,500) to lease the Indian Hills High School in Calabasas, after failing to find a suitable institute for his two young children, Jaden, nine and Willow, seven.

The actor and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have, until now, been home schooling the pair.

A spokesperson for Smith says of the school - renamed the New Village Academy of Calabasas: "Will is leasing the campus for three years, plus he'll cover all costs such as utilities.

"The academy will be run privately, and will include prekindergarten through grade six."

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6 May 2008 9:09 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Teen comedy Superbad is leading the nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards after picking up five nods, including Best Movie.

The high-school comedy, directed by Greg Mottola, also scooped nominations for the film's stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera, who will compete in the Breakthrough Performance category along with their co-star Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Hill is also up for Best Comedic Performance.

But Superbad will be going up against Oscar-winning Juno - which Cera also stars in - for the Best Movie prize, while the actor is also recognised for his efforts in the teen pregnancy film with a nomination for Best Male Performance.

Meanwhile, the big-screen adaptation of Transformers is nominated for three gongs: Best Movie, Best Male Performance for Shia LaBeouf and Breakthrough Performance for Megan Fox. And Enchanted star Amy Adams also received a trio of nods for the Disney film - Best Female Performance, Best Comedic Performance and Best Kiss for her smooch with Patrick Dempsey.

The winners for the 17th Annual MTV Movie Awards will be unveiled on 1 June at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, California.

The full list of nominees is as follows:

Best Movie:

Superbad

Juno

I Am Legend

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Transformers

Best Comedic Performance:

Amy Adams - Enchanted

Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Jonah Hill - Superbad

Seth Rogen - Knocked Up

Adam Sandler - I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry

Best Male Performance:

Michael Cera - Juno

Matt Damon - The Bourne Ultimatum

Shia LaBeouf - Transformers

Will Smith - I Am Legend

Denzel Washington - American Gangster

Best Female Performance:

Amy Adams - Enchanted

Jessica Biel - I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry

Katherine Heigl - Knocked Up

Keira Knightley - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Ellen Page - Juno

Breakthrough Performance:

Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray

Chris Brown - This Christmas

Michael Cera - Superbad

Zac Efron - Hairspray

Megan Fox - Transformers

Jonah Hill - Superbad

Christopher Mintz-Plasse - Superbad

Seth Rogen - Knocked Up

Best Fight:

Alien vs. Predator - Alien vs. Predator: Survival of the Fittest

Hayden Christensen vs. Jamie Bell - Jumper

Matt Damon vs. Joey Ansah - The Bourne Ultimatum

Sean Faris vs. Cam Gigandet - Never Back Down

Tobey Maguire vs. James Franco - Spider-Man 3

Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan vs. Sun Ming Ming - Rush Hour 3

Best Villain:

Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men

Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Topher Grace - Spider-Man 3

Angelina Jolie - Beowulf

Denzel Washington - American Gangster

Best Kiss:

Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey - Enchanted

Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman - Step Up 2 the Streets

Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer - Disturbia

Ellen Page and Michael Cera - Juno

Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Best Summer Movie So Far:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Sex and the City: The Movie

Speed Racer

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Iron Man.

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17 April 2008 10:30 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The number of DVDs that have remained at the top of the DVD sales charts for two consecutive weeks have been few and far between this year, but Alvin and the Chipmunks managed to stay there last week, despite competition from last year's award-winning sensation There Will Be Blood. In fact, Blood managed only to take third place on the Nielsen VideoScan chart behind The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. At the rental stores, Blood took the top spot with $8.5 million in rentals, according to Home Media Magazine. Alvin, which led on both charts last week, slipped to No. 2 on the rental chart with $7.2 million. The top-selling high-definition disc was I Am Legend.

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3 April 2008 11:34 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

In its second week on the DVD charts, the Will Smith drama I Am Legend took over first place from Disney's Enchanted on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart. It also remained at the top of Home Media magazine's rental chart for a second week, bringing its rental gross to $20 million. But Legend's tenure at the top is likely to be shortlived. Home Media reported today (Thursday) that consumers grabbed 2.6 million copies of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's Alvin and the Chipmunks during its first day in stores on Tuesday.

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26 March 2008 10:04 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Art Aragon, the handsome boxer known as "The Golden Boy," who inspired thousands of women to join their husbands and beaus at Southern California arenas in the late '40s and '50s, died Tuesday in Northridge, Ca at age 80 following a stroke on March 15. In the 1960s Aragon was romantically linked to such actresses as Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Mamie Van Doren and Jayne Mansfield. Although he never held a title, he had an impressive career, recording 90 wins, 61 by knockout, 20 losses, and 6 draws. Following his career in the ring, he became a bail bondsman and frequent actor, appearing in dozens of films and TV shows and counting Bob Hope, William Holden, Robert Mitchum and Sammy Davis Jr. among his close friends. Note:In Tuesday's edition of Studio Briefing, we referred to a statement by the family of the late Bob Marley that it has a policy of not licensing Marley's music for any project, but that it had made an exception in the case of Martin Scorsese's upcoming documentary about the singer. Several readers have pointed out that a Marley recording figured prominently in last year's I Am Legend.

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31 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Hollywood got off to a roaring start in January with the domestic box office reporting ticket sales up 18 percent over January 2007. According to media-measurement firm Rentrak, total sales for the month came in at $773.4 million vs. $657.9 million a year ago. The box office also reported higher earnings than in 2006 ($703 million) and 2005 ($648 million). Particularly auspicious was the fact that three films crossed the $200-million mark in January, including 20th Century Fox's Alvin and the Chipmunks, Warner Bros.' I Am Legend, and Disney's National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Perhaps just as surprising, the Fox Searchlight movie Juno crossed the $100-million mark, an achievement that few independent films can boast about.

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23 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Police in Melbourne, Australia today (Wednesday) staged the country's biggest raid on DVD pirates, seizing more than 400,000 bootleg DVDs and confiscating 170 DVD recorders. Among the seized DVDs, were copies of three films currently playing in Australian theaters, American Gangster, I Am Legend, and Alvin and the Chipmunks. According to Australian news reports, the raids came about following complaints from neighbors of the homes where the DVDs were being manufactured.

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23 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The box office posted solid results on Monday, the Martin Luther King Day holiday, with the top 12 movies recording $27 million in ticket sales, according to final figures released Tuesday by Media by Numbers. Paramount's Cloverfield led the pack with a gross of $6.09 million. It also set a record for the four-day holiday with a total of $46.1 million. It's three-day total of $40 million set a weekend record for January, erasing the previous record of $35 million set by Star Wars (Special Edition) in 1997. Paramount says that the total budget for Cloverfield was just $25 million, although it was assumed that the studio spent far more than that to promote it. In a successful effort at counter-programming, Fox's 27 Dresses came in second with $27.4 million for the holiday, $4.43 million of which was earned on Monday. The top ten films over the four-day Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date): 1. Cloverfield, Paramount, $46,146,546, (New); 2. 27 Dresses, Fox, $27,442,040, (New); 3. The Bucket List, Warner Bros., $16,664,347, 5 Wks., $44,223,780; 4. Juno, Fox Searchlight, $11,966,082, 7 Wks., $87,092,615; 5. National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Disney, $9,606,326, 5 Wks., $199,489,171; 6. First Sunday, Sony Screen Gems, $9,504,908, 2 Wks., $30,170,510; 7. Alvin and the Chipmunks, Fox, $9,433,049, 6 Wks., $198,813,230; 8. Mad Money, Overture Films, $9,273,645, (New); 9. I Am Legend, Warner Bros., $5,905,443, 6 Wks., $248,482,867; 10. Atonement, Focus, $5,528,377, 7 Wks., $32,653,183.

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21 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Cloverfield turned out to be not quite the equal of 1998's Godzilla in its opening weekend, but the monster movie nevertheless became the biggest hit of the year as it took in $41 million domestically. By contrast, Godzilla earned an estimated $55.7 million, but that was during the Memorial Day holiday. Moreover, ticket sales for Godzilla quickly trailed off, and the movie wound up with a domestic gross of $136 million. Cloverfield is now expected to exceed that figure. What's more, Godzilla had a budget of $130 million; Cloverfield was made for just $25 million. Debuting in second place was 20th Century Fox's 27 Dresses, which also exceeded prediction with sales of $22.4 million. Two other newcomers did not fare as well. Mad Money took in $7.7 million. Opening in limited release, Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream performed reasonably well, given generally unfavorable reviews. The movie earned about $501,000 in 107 theaters, for an average of $4,700 per screen. Surprisingly, the film with the highest per-screen average was the French animated film Persepolis which took in $281,000 in 30 theaters, or an average of $9,400 per theater. The overall box office was up 39 percent over the same weekend a year ago with ticket sales of $135.3 million for the top 12 films. The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers: 1. Cloverfield, $41 million; 2. 27 Dresses, $22.4 million; 3. The Bucket List, $15.2 million; 4. Juno, $10.3 million; 5. National Treasure: Book of Secrets, $8.1 million; 6. First Sunday, $7.8 million; 7. Mad Money, $7.7 million; 8. Alvin and the Chipmunks, $7 million; 9. I Am Legend, $5.1 million; 10. Atonement, $4.8 million.

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18 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

In Thursday's edition of Studio Briefing we suggested that Warner Bros.' decision to release I Am Legend on HD DVD on April 8 appeared to be inconsistent with its announcement that it was abandoning the HD DVD format. In its original statement, however, Warner Bros. indicated that it would continue releasing films in both the Blu-ray and HD DVD formats through April.

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