Kermit The Frog said it ain’t easy being green, but a certain Marvel Comics character would beg to differ. After starring in two standalone films of his own that were praised by critics but elicited tepid responses from audiences (2003’s Hulk, starring Eric Bana, and 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, starring Edward Norton), The Hulk will get […]
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I wrote earlier about how so heavily scrutinizing the first trailer for Rian Johnson’s Looper was destroying the mystique that the movie’s success depends upon, but poring over photos is a bit different — they give away next to nothing, thereby even strengthening said mystique. The photo above had already been released by distributor Film District, so
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They’re here! In a year or two, at least. THR has reported that Sam Raimi is set to produce a remake of the 1982 horror film Poltergeist, joining producers Nathan Kahane, Roy Lee, and Robert Tapert. Raimi, a famed director of horror movies (The Evil Dead series), blockbusters (the Spider-Man series), and serious dramas (A
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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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“Over my dead body will I introduce texting into the movie theater. It’s our job to understand that this is a sacred place,” said Alamo Drafthouse CEO Tim League at a recent CinemaCon panel on theaters potentially allowing texting during movies, a comment that has been championed by blog after blog in the days since.
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Aside from the fact that Think Like a Man is now officially the year’s surprise hit, the box office for wide releases this weekend has been totally uninteresting, with openers The Five-Year Engagement, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Safe, and The Raven all performing worse than expected. Thus, if there’s a story to be told, it’s that the small
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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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There are a lot of movie-mashups posted to YouTube these days, with varying degrees of success. This is one of the better ones I’ve seen — five glorious minutes of your favorite characters “looking at you.”
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The box office may have been cooking last weekend, but it appears that the kitchen is now closed. Last week’s big winner Think Like a Man reclaimed the #1 spot, trouncing the competition from four new films, including the Jason Segel/Emily Blunt rom-com The Five-Year Engagement, which I had pegged to gross a strong $26 million
