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First Images from Warner Bros. 2010 Movies - The Town, Hubble 3D, Going The Distance, More
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Warner Bros. has released their 2010 schedule and included a bunch of first look images from some of their biggest films. While in years past they would include a synopsis for each film to go along with the images, for now they’ve only provided a release date and the category it’s in. Saying that, if you’d like to see the first images from Ben Affleck’s The Town, the new Kevin Smith movie starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, Hubble 3D, The Lottery Ticket, Flipped, Going the Distance, and a lot more, hit the jump and take a look.
I would imagine WB is going to release synopses in the next few days. If they do, I’ll update this story. Until then, enjoy the images:
The Book Of Eli (Action Adventure)
January 15
Edge Of Darkness (Suspense Thriller)
January 29
Valentine’S Day (Romantic Comedy)
February 12
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Mark Wahlberg Says to Expect Two More Seasons of Entourage Plus a Movie
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Right on the heels of one of its most successful seasons, Entourage has been picked up for another year, but executive producer Mark Wahlberg is looking further ahead. At the premiere for The Lovely Bones, Wahlberg told The Hollywood Reporter he feels the series has two more seasons left in it, and then, perhaps, a movie. A spokesperson from HBO revealed that though an Entourage film is not “out of the realm of possibility,” the staff has their sights set on the new season and not much beyond that. But with the success of the Sex and the City movie with its sequel already due out in Summer 2010, an Entourage movie seems very much in the “realm of possibility.”
Ultimately, as much of an Entourage fan I am (it’s really useful for learning about the business!), it’s hard enough watching half-hour episodes during which nothing really happens; I »
- Michael Sullivan
Up In The Air Review
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Up in the Air is a great movie. The script is sharp, Jason Reitman’s direction is astonishing, the cast is outstanding, and its story is as timely as its themes are timeless. The film is a strong awards contender but rather than tap into important figures or controversial issues, Up in the Air finds its hero in the most unlikely of people: Ryan Bingham (played by George Clooney) a man who loves air travel and whose job it is to lay people off because their bosses are spineless weasels. He’s turns both travel and firing into an art, but discovers that a simple and satisfying life can be just as fragile as a personal life he’d rather leave on the ground.
Ryan Bingham has a peculiar goal in life: reach 10,000,000 frequent flyer miles. He is the perfect flyer. He travels light, knows which airport security line to use, »
- Matt Goldberg
Brothers Review
3 hours ago
I’m not sure why Brothers is so shallow. The plot of a man leaving to fight in a war, presumed dead, his wife developing an emotional connection to his brother, and then the resulting conflict which occurs when the man comes home alive. The story feels almost biblical but Brothers prefers obvious emotional markers rather than create real conflict between the characters. In the end, what should be a thematically rich and tense film becomes the story of a man who sacrificed his humanity in order to return to the human relationships that he now finds meaningless. Thankfully, that man is played by Tobey Maguire who manages to build a full character while everyone else is left to function as plot devices.
Sam Cahill (Maguire) is a good father, husband, and soldier. His brother Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) is the black sheep of the family, but Sammy loves him. While »
- Matt Goldberg
Steven Spielberg’s Harvey Remake Won’t Become a Reality
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After spending the last six months trying to set up a remake of the classic 1950 Jimmy Stewart film Harvey, and now he’s letting it go. According to Variety, Spielberg delivered the news to 20th Century Fox who had reserved soundstages for the legendary director to use. Spielberg intended to make Harvey his debut feature under the reconstituted DreamWorks, but Variety reports that one of his major obstacles was finding an actor to play the role of Jimmy Stewart’s character, Elwood P. Dowd. Tom Hanks was Spielberg’s first choice for the role but Hanks wisely turned it down. Why that wisdom eluded him when offered the chance to star as the world’s dullest protagonist in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons remains a mystery.
Now the question becomes which of Spielberg’s fifty billion other projects will he choose as his next project. I’m betting »
- Matt Goldberg
Two New Extended Clips from Avatar
3 hours ago
Two new extended clips from James Cameron’s Avatar have just come online and if the film wasn’t almost three hours long you could probably cobble all the already-released footage and take the film all the way to its third act. What we’ve seen hasn’t been bad and neither are these two new clips…for the most part. I like the first clip of Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) linking up with her banshee because it carries the avatar model to a species on Pandora, but then there’s the clip which gives us our first real introduction to Giovanni Ribisi’s character, Parker Selfridge. The clip is moving along fine as we learn more about Sigourney Weaver’s character and how she clashes with the detached administrator, but then he names the mineral that we’ve heard about in the trailer, the mineral which goes for “$20 million a kilo”. It’s called “unobtanium. »
- Matt Goldberg
Trailer for Antoine Fuqua’s Upcoming Film Brooklyn’S Finest Starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, and Ethan Hawke
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The trailer for Antoine Fuqua’s new film Brooklyn’s Finest has just come online and I don’t believe what I’m seeing. By returning to the setting of his breakthrough film Training Day, has Fuqua made his first good movie since that film? And now with Ethan Hawke playing the dirty cop role, is he going to hold his own along side Richard Gere and Don Cheadle? It all looks that way because Brooklyn’s Finest, which garnered a positive response at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, seems like a pretty damn good movie.
Click over to check out the trailer and hit the jump to read a synopsis. Brooklyn’s Finest hits theaters on March 5, 2010.
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For those just tuning in, here’s the official synopsis:
Burned out veteran Eddie Dugan (Golden Globe®-winner Richard Gere) is »
- Matt Goldberg
2010 Sundance Film Festival Out-of-Competition Films: Spotlight
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Yesterday we gave you a list of all the films playing in-competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. We now have the list of the films playing out-of-competition and they’re divided up into four categories: Premieres, Next, Spotlight, and Park City at Midnight. Since combining these lists would be a lot to read for just one article, we’ve broken it up to make it easier on your eyes. You’re welcome.
Films in the Spotlight category include Louis C.K.: Hilarious; Rodrigo Garcia’s Mother & Child starring Naomi Watts, Annette Benning, and Kerry Washington; the great-sounding documentary Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks; and Enter the Void, the new film from Gaspar Noé (Irreversible). Films in the Park City at Midnight category include High School starring Adrien Brody; and Buried starring Ryan Reynolds.
Hit the jump to check out synopses for all of the films playing in these categories. »
- Matt Goldberg
Leonardo Dicaprio to Make Animated Feature Debut in DreamWorks The Guardians
9 hours ago
DreamWorks Animation has announced Leonardo DiCaprio will make his feature animation debut in their 2012 release The Guardians. The story is when an evil spirit threatens the kids of the world, a group of heroes - Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman and Jack Frost - band together to stop the threat. DiCaprio will play Jack Frost.
While DreamWorks is clearly behind industry leader Pixar, I’m a huge fan of animated films and hope this one works. Check out the full image and the press release after the jump:
Leonardo DiCaprio To Make Animated Feature Film Debut In Dreamworks Animation’S “The Guardians” (working title)
Glendale, CA - December 3, 2009 - DreamWorks Animation Skg, Inc. (Nasdaq: Dwa) announced today that Leonardo DiCaprio will make his animated feature film debut when he headlines the cast of the Company’s November 2, 2012 release, “The Guardians” (working title) as Jack Frost.
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
2010 Sundance Film Festival Out-of-Competition Films: Next
9 hours ago
Yesterday we gave you a list of all the films playing in-competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. We now have the list of the films playing out-of-competition and they’re divided up into four categories: Premieres, Next, Spotlight, and Park City at Midnight. Since combining these lists would be a lot to read for just one article, we’ve broken it up to make it easier on your eyes. You’re welcome.
The “Next” category features filmmakers and actors you’ve probably never heard of before, but that doesn’t mean these films aren’t worth seeing. On the contrary, because there are only eight of them, folks attending the festival may want to find some time to try and check a couple out because part of what makes film festivals so great is you can discover a hidden game and bring it to the attention of others. Check out »
- Matt Goldberg
2010 Sundance Film Festival Out-of-Competition Films: Premieres
10 hours ago
Yesterday we gave you a list of all the films playing in-competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. We now have the list of the films playing out-of-competition and they’re divided up into four categories: Premieres, Next, Spotlight, and Park City at Midnight. Since combining these lists would be a lot to read for just one article, we’ve broken it up to give each category its own article.
Know that while there are a lot of films playing in-competition, most of the films to get buzz will be coming from the out-of-competition categories. First up are the premiers which include John Wells’ The Company Men starring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner; Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s The Extra Man starring Katie Holmes, John C. Reilly, and Paul Dano; Get Low starring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray; Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me starring Casey Affleck, »
- Matt Goldberg
First Images from Holy Rollers Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha
11 hours ago
As the 2010 Sundance Film Festival approaches, more images from films premiering at the fest are popping up online, such as the first photos from Kevin Tyler Asch’s upcoming flick Holy Rollers starring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha. The story is about an impressionable youth from an Orthodox Brooklyn community who is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by a friend with ties to an Israeli drug cartel. Is Ecstasy kosher? Can you take Ecstasy on Shabbos?
No matter the answers to these questions, you can check out the first images from the film after the jump. The 2010 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 21-31st.
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- Matt Goldberg
National Board of Review Chooses Up In The Air as the Best Picture of 2009
12 hours ago
The National Board of Review has chosen Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air as the Best Picture of 2009, but as Anne Thompson states, the National Board of Review tends to be a bellwether of where Oscar momentum is heading, but not necessarily a forecaster of where it will be. However, it’s a near-certainty that Up in the Air will be getting some Oscar nominations because not only is it in the zeitgeist (the main character Ryan Bingham fires people for a living), but it’s just a damn good film and critics agree with an 86% on Rotten Tomatoes (look for my review tonight). If you’d like a track record for the Nbr, its Best Picture choice has gone on to be nominated for Best Picture Oscar nine of the past ten years (their selection of Quills in 2000 was a swing and a miss), and won the award the past two years. »
- Matt Goldberg
2010 Sundance Film Festival: New Photos for Howl Starring James Franco and Jon Hamm
12 hours ago
New photos for Howl, the upcoming film starring James Franco as revered beat poet Allen Ginsberg, have come online as the film approaches its premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. I find these images impressive because we’re once again forced to recognize that James Franco can do anything. Look at these photos and then remember that he’s doing a guest stint on General Hospital and it could be part of an art project. He was also hilarious last year in Pineapple Express. These projects are so vastly different and yet Franco always excels and it looking like Howl will be no different.
For those unfamiliar with the project, Howl is about the 1957 obscenity trial against Ginsberg for his poem, “Howl”. Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the film co-stars Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels, and David Strathairn. Hit the jump to check out the images. The »
- Matt Goldberg
First Images from Welcome To The Rileys Staring Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, and James Gandolfini
13 hours ago
With the 2010 Sundance Film Festival a little over a month away, the first images from films playing at the festival have begun to come online. One of the more highly anticipated films at Sundance is Jake Scott’s Welcome to the Rileys starring Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, and James Gandolfini. We have the first three images from the film for after the jump. We’ve also included the full synopsis after the images but be warned that it gives you almost the entire plot.
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival will take place from January 21 to January 31, 2010.
For those just tuning in, here’s the full synopsis for Welcome to the Rileys:
Their relationship steadily deteriorating in the eight years following their daughter’s untimely death, a married couple unable to break the cycle of grief gets a second shot at love thanks to a scrappy, underage prostitute in this family drama starring James Gandolfini, »
- Matt Goldberg
Johnny Depp May Star in the Biopic Seven Friends Of Pancho Villa And The Woman With Six Fingers
14 hours ago
Variety reports that Johnny Depp is in advanced negotiations to star as the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in the bopic Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman with Six Fingers. Directed by Emir Kusturica, the film is based on James Carlos Blake’s biography of Villa where he described how Villa and his compadres enjoyed dancing, partying, screwing, fighting, and robbing. Not mentioned in any biographies, they also enjoyed needlepoint.
Salma Hayek is also in advanced negotiations to co-star, but due to Depp’s prior commitments, Pancho Villa wouldn’t start filming until 2011. The will be partially shot in Mexico, where Villa is a historical icon, and Depp will act the part in Spanish. In the meantime, Kusturica (who previously collaborated with Depp in the 1993 film Arizona Dream) will shoot Cool Water, which according to Variety is “about a Palestinian stripper working in Germany who returns to her homeland to bury her dead father. »
- Matt Goldberg
International Iron Man 2 Poster
16 hours ago
Paramount and Marvel have released a new international Iron Man 2 movie poster. While the first poster featured Iron Man and War Machine, the new one reminds people Robert Downey Jr. is the star of the show.
Even though I am not crazy about the background of the poster, anytime I see the Iron Man armor and Downey Jr. in costume I get excited. This is one of those films that cannot arrive soon enough, and it’s one of those rare movies that’s guaranteed to make huge money when it gets released. Check out the poster after the jump:
Iron Man 2 is again directed by Jon Favreau and it stars Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johnasson,Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sam Rockwell.
Thanks to Empire for the poster:
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Anna Kendrick Video Interview Up In The Air
2 December 2009 9:53 PM, PST
Opening this Friday, in limited release, is director Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air. Since I have already written many times how much I loved the movie and how I think it’s going to be nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscar’s, I don’t know what else to say except go see this film when it’s playing in your area. Not only does it feature fantastic performances from every actor (George Clooner, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick), it’s one of those films that doesn’t take the typical movie right turn. What I’m trying to say is it’s a film you haven’t seen before. Trust me, Up in the Air is great and you’re going to love it.
To help promote the film, I recently participated in the international press day as a reporter for our partners at Omelete. »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Details Emerge on Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Film; Philip Seymour Hoffman Cast in Lead Role
2 December 2009 8:15 PM, PST
According to Variety, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson will follows up his acclaimed 2007 film There Will Be Blood with an untitled project about the founder of a new religious organization in the 1950s. Frequent Anderson collaborator Philip Seymour Hoffman will play that founder, a character known as “The Master” as in “Master of Ceremonies”. Variety continues explaining the plot as so:
“The Master” is a charismatic intellectual who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952. The core is the relationship between the Master and Freddie, a twentysomething drifter who becomes the leader’s lieutenant. As the faith begins to gain a fervent following, Freddie finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.
Variety explains that this film isn’t a critique of modern religions such as Mormonism or Scientology, but a look at why people choose to believe in a higher power, »
- Matt Goldberg
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels Blu-ray Review
2 December 2009 8:01 PM, PST
We’re ten years on in Guy Ritchie’s career, and from all evidence he’s about to turn the corner into pure commercial filmmaking. For most people there’s only one answer to what derailed him, and that is: Madonna. The pre-Madonna years featured Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and Snatch, the Madonna years featured Swept Away and Revolver, and the post-Madonna’s are now Rocknrolla and Sherlock Holmes, which should be one of the big pictures of 2009. My review of Guy’s Ritchie’s first film after this jump.
Lock, Stock is one of the numerous 90’s crime films to come in the wake of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. It’s a genre that burnt itself out rapidly, with only people like Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie proving themselves above the fray. The majority of the genre was overheated pabulum like Things to Do »
- Andre Dellamorte
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