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Ten Things We'd Push 'The Box's Button For

4 November 2009 3:03 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

A cool ass box with a shiny red button!

Photo: Warner Bros. The picture you see above comes from this week's upcoming release of The Box and could it be any more enticing? Look at that button unit. I mean, who doesn't want to push the plunger on that bad boy to see what will happen?

Now imagine Frank Langella tells you that by pushing it you will receive $1 million! There is, of course, the one caveat, someone you don't know, somewhere in the world will die as a result of your button mashing, which could potentially open the possibility that the next person that pushes it will ultimately end up killing you and so forth...

However, if you follow that logic down the line that would mean you died without $1 million should you have decided not to push the button. This would leave you with one massive regret as you fade down the drain. »

- Brad Brevet

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Airman To Fly With Zemeckis and Disney

20 October 2009 2:48 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

I'm not entirely sure what happened in his career, whether he was looking for a new type of film making or he just fell in love with the technology, but Robert Zemeckis quickly transformed from the director of Back to the Future to the guy who likes to play chicken with the uncanny valley. Though he won't be directing, Zemeckis has signed on to produce Airman through Disney and ImageMovers, and, as you probably guessed, the film will be entirely motion capture. Based on the book by Eoin Colfer, being adapted by Nights in Rodanthe writer Ann Peacock, Airman is a fantasy story that centers on a boy in the Saltee Islands who is thrown in prison after he is suspected of killing the king, for whom his father is a bodyguard. Locked away, he begins to design a flying machine that can be used to save him and his »

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Balloon Boy Has Nothing To Do With Robert Zemeckis' Next Performance-Capture Project

20 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

This may not be the best time to be developing a movie about a young boy and a flying contraption, but I guess the adaptation of Eoin Colfer's "Airman" won't be arriving in theaters for awhile. The movie, which Variety reveals Robert Zemeckis is producing as his latest entry into the performance capture animation trend, will be directed by Gil Kenan ("City of Ember") and scripted by Ann Peacock, who previously adapted "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."

Set in the 19th century off the coast of Ireland, "Airman" tells of a flight-obsessed boy wrongly sent to prison for allegedly killing his king. Not only does he escape from his jail by building a flying machine, he also constructs gliders that help him rescue a princess, save his family and otherwise act the hero as a swashbuckling pilot of homemade air transports. He even »

- Christopher Campbell

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Trailer: Channing Tatum And Amanda Seyfried In Dear John

14 October 2009 7:27 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Wouldn't you have figured Channing Tatum would have found his way into a Nicholas Sparks movie before now? He's hunky and Southern and non-threatening, which is pretty much the ideal for any male star of the movies based on books by the author of The Notebook, A Walk to Remember and Nights in Rodanthe, among others. Finally Tatum is taking the role he was born for in Dear John, a new weepie whose trailer has popped up on YouTube and is embedded below. Given how long it is and how rough it looks, I don't think this is an official trailer, so don't be surprised if it gets taken down soon. Still, if you want a good cry, you can't do much better than these three minutes and 50 seconds. Tatum plays a soldier on leave in North Carolina who meets a local girl (Amanda Seyfried) and starts up a letter-writing »

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Tommy Lee Jones to Direct Matthew McConaughey in "The Lincoln Lawyer"

14 October 2009 9:46 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

Tommy Lee Jones is in talks to direct and co-star in "The Lincoln Lawyer." Matthew McConaughey heads the cast of this film adaptation based on the 2005 best-seller by Michael Connelly.

McConaughey is set to play Mickey Haller, a Los Angeles lawyer whose office is the back of his Lincoln. He defends run-of-the-mill criminals until he lands the case of a lifetime -- defending a Beverly Hills playboy accused of murder.

It's still unclear what Jones will play because in the book, the playboy character is a lot younger than the actor, But, they may change the age to fit him.

John Romano ("Nights in Rodanthe," "Intolerable Cruelty") wrote the script. Jones has directed a film before, the excellent "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada." He also starred in that movie, winning a Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival.

McConaughey has played a lawyer before in the John Grisham adaptation, »

- Manny

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Tommy Lee Jones and Matthew McConaughey to Co-Star in The Lincoln Lawyer

13 October 2009 8:55 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Tommy Lee Jones is in talks to co-star and direct the adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel “The Lincoln Lawyer,” about a Los Angeles lawyer who sets up shop in the back of his Lincoln. McConaughey will play Mickey Haller the hotshot lawyer, and though Jones’s role is unknown as of now, he looks to be playing the Beverly Hills playboy Haller must defend for murder. More on the project after the jump.

According to the Risky Biz Blog, the project is set up at Lakeshore Entertainment and the screenplay was penned by John Roman of “Intolerable Cruelty” and “Nights in Rodanthe” fame. This feature is Jones’s second stab at directing for film after “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” in 2005, which was a critical–if not financial–success for Sony Pictures Classics.

The project is still in development, but in the meantime, you can look forward to »

- Michael Sullivan

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Sr Pick [Video]: How ‘Terminator’ Should Have Ended

1 October 2009 3:24 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Screen Rant seriously has some of the best readers anywhere. They are always on the lookout for new and interesting things to share with us, which we in turn share with you. Today we bring you a video courtesy of long time reader/commenter/troublemaker Lencho - Thanks Bro!

Today’s Sr Pick was created by a very talented group of individuals over at HowItShouldHaveEnded.com, and after watching a handful of their previous videos I can safely say “they put their foot in this one” (I know someone has heard that saying before). They have some excellent Flash animators and have chosen to share their skill with the world. They take some great movies that had less than great endings and then, well, show us how it should have ended.

 

They just put out episode 20 and it addresses how the Terminator franchise should have ended. It’s odd that »

- Paul Young

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3 Actors Jump Onto ‘Secretariat’

25 September 2009 4:27 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Seabiscuit just got some steeper competition. ‘Secretariat,’ currently in pre-production for a 2010 release from Walt Disney Pictures, has added three more actors to a cast that already boasts Diane Lane (Nights In Rodanthe). The Hollywood Reporter states that Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck), John Malkovich (Burn After Reading) and Scott Glenn (W.) have signed on to the film centering on the owner of the famous thoroughbred racehorse that captured the United States Triple Crown in 1973.

Malkovich will play the horse’s trainer Lucien Laurin. Glenn plays Ogden Phipps, the thoroughbred owner/breeder who famously lost the hall of fame racehorse in a coin toss while Walsh plays husband to Lane’s Penny Tweedy – also known as “the first lady of racing” – Secretariat’s owner.

While selling a film about horse racing might seem like a stretch, the aforementioned Seabiscuit managed to earn $120 million plus at the box office. By throwing in »

- Sal Loria

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Robert Pattinson no longer rumored on IMDb for Nicholas Sparks adaptation Memoirs

27 April 2009 1:27 AM, PDT | Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news »

Much adieu has been made about whether The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Little Ashes, and How To Be star Robert Pattinson should take on the lead role in 2011's Memoirs, a love story based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. Other Nicholas Sparks books which made it to the big screen have included: The Notebook (Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Marsden, James Garner and Gena Rowlands), Nights In Rodanthe (Richard Gere and Diane Lane), A Walk To Remember (Shane West and Mandy Moore), and Message In A Bottle (Kevin Costner and Robin Wright Penn). In addition, The Last Song (Miley Cyrus) and Dear John (Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried) are in the works. Memoirs, which is being written to screenplay by Will Fetters, according to Hollywood Reporter has been on the Robert Pattinson fans' watch-list for quite some tim... »

- thetwilightexaminer

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Blu-Ray Review: Shockingly High Levels of Melodrama Sink ‘Nights in Rodanthe’

16 February 2009 10:15 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0 Chicago – I have a very high threshold for melodramatic romance. I was raised on cheesy musicals and will admit to pausing on the underrated “The Notebook” more than once when I pass it on cable. Having said that, I hated “Nights in Rodanthe,” a film that mines rarely seen lows in manipulative soap opera dreck and washes away the screen presence of two of the genre’s most physically blessed stars in a sea of fake tears and ridiculous plot twists.

The script for “Nights in Rodanthe” by Ann Peacock and John Romano from a best-selling book by Nicholas Sparks would get most writers laughed out of a pitch meeting for an episode of “Days of Our Lives”. I am easily moved and will admit to openly crying at films more often than a grown man should, but rarely have I seen a melodramatic script rendered more ineffective »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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