Sacha Baron Cohen’s in-character publicity tirades are always good for a laugh, and this clip–a mock interview with Larry King–is no exception. If only King were senile enough to be fooled into thinking General Aladeen of Wadiya were real, allowing Cohen to pull a “Borat”-style candid camera gag.
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Countless film bloggers post their lists of best films of the year “so far” at the end of June, because it’s “halftime.” While the occasion may be convenient, it’s also arbitrary — the year being halfway over coincides with nothing relevant to the film industry. Thus, I’ve decided to buck the trend and do three
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There is a potentially huge movie called The Watch releasing this summer that has been floating under the radar. Why? Because the studio, 20th Century Fox, was reticent to promote it under its previous title, Neighborhood Watch, with the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case still making headlines. Well, now the movie has its new title and a redband trailer,
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Adam Yauch, better known as Beastie Boys rapper MCA, has passed away at 47. That Yauch had recently been fighting cancer was well known. In 2009, he went public with this battle, against a cancerous parotid gland. In addition to making musical hits for decades with the Beastie Boys, Yauch created the film distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories
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Hello and welcome back to my weekly Box Office Beat column. After a rough weekend of prognosticating last go-around–all four new films underperformed my expectations, one of them (The Five-Year Engagement) by a wide margin–it’s good that my job is easier this weekend. There is only one opener, Marvel’s The Avengers, and the question is
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It all started with a tweet: Samuel L. Jackson decided that even though The Avengers had already amassed $200 million internationally and was one day away from pleasing millions of fans in the United States (many of them already lined up for midnight shows), he needed to declare war on longtime New York Times film critic
Just because Lost is over doesn’t mean writer/producer Damon Lindelof is done keeping his cards close to his vest. It was announced today that Brad Bird (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Ratatouille) will be directing Lindelof’s script 1952, of which almost nothing is known. In reporting the news, Deadline‘s Mike Fleming conceded that the project is “secrecy-shrouded,”
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In a cruel joke that seems designed to torture “Breaking Bad” fans who are having Walter White withdrawals, stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul have made a video touting Season 5… without including any footage. “You gotta see this… if we panned over… which we’re not… you’d see something that was revealing a plot point!”
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Hillary Clinton won’t be lighting up the silver-screen anytime soon, but if she ever does, there will be Muppets. It all started when Jason Segel, star of “The Muppets” and “The Five-Year Engagement,” told US Weekly that he thought that the Secretary of State could be a decent actress. “I just feel like she would be good
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In a sprawling 43-minute interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference (embedded above), George Lucas opens up considerably about his life and film career. Also of interest to “Star Wars” fans: he weighs in on the infamous the Han Solo-Greedo, who-shot-first question (38:29 in). Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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