I hear that this new United Kingdom trailer for Prometheus, which drops stateside on June 1, is much more plot-heavy than the elegiac, style-driven prior releases. I say “I hear” because I’m already sold on seeing the Ridley Scott-directed sci-fi film, so I’m not watching this. But don’t let me stop you from doing so! In […]
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Peter Jackson has responded to the numerous criticisms bloggers waged against a CinemaCon preview of the 48-frames-per-second shooting style on The Hobbit. This new technology, which uses double the traditional amount of frames to eliminate judder and blur, vastly improving the clarity of action in 3-D presentations, has been
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In the ongoing saga of Mel Gibson… the star appeared last night on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” He addressed the Joe Eszterhas situation–“When you guys [at “The Tonight Show”] get me here and tape me, you let me know what you’re going to do upfront!”–and portrayed himself as a blameless victim. This part
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In its first two days of release in 25 countries internationally, The Avengers has amassed a whopping $36 million — a powerful indication that it will positively explode when it opens in the United States next Friday. As reported by Variety‘s Stuart Oldham, the Joss Whedon-directed superhero ensemble was particularly strong in the United Kingdom, pulling
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Warner Bros. has put out a neat three-minute featurette to promote the upcoming “Dark Shadows” that looks at the history of vampires in cinema and specifically how this history inspired director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp on the project. “Dark Shadows” drops May 11 in theaters and IMAX.
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Fans of Disney’s legendary animated films Beauty and the Beast and Bambi have one final weekend to purchase Blu-Ray/DVD copies for their collections before both become unavailable for an indefinite period of time. As of April 30, production will cease on the current “Diamond Edition” combo packs of both films. They are the latest casualties of the
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This Is 40, Judd Apatow’s pseudo-sequel to his own hit Knocked Up, has a new trailer out today. The film stars Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann (Apatow’s real-life spouse), who reprise their Knocked Up roles as Pete and Debbie, the heads of a nuclear family with a perpetually strained marriage. This Is 40‘s plot sees
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Fringe, the Fox cult hit that has held on despite low ratings, has been renewed for a fifth and final season. Despite an average of 4 million viewers and a 1.6 adult demo rating, the series will have 13 more episodes to close out its story line. Recent sci-fi series have not done well on
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It’s a big day for promotional photos. Whether Summit originally planned to put out these new stills from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 today or decided they’d try to replicate the buzz created by those for Django Unchained (currently Critic Speak’s biggest story) is anyone’s guess. But if you need your Bella and Edward
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The first images from Quentin Tarantino‘s slavery-themed Western Django Unchained have hit the web. One image is of Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, a sadistic plantation owner who makes his slaves compete in gladiatorial combat for his amusement. The picture depicts Candie wielding a hammer, tipping off those who have read the script to the
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