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A Dark Knight for Fans
7 January 2009 3:03 PM, PST
Awards season began tonight and the people have spoken. As box-office records have already shown, The Dark Knight is a huge hit with fans. It won five "favorites" at the People's Choice Awards: Movie, Action Movie, Cast, On Screen Match Up, and Superhero.
Other multiple award winners include The Secret Life of Bees and Will Smith. For more details, see our list of Winners in the 35th Annual People's Choice Awards.
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Will Smith | The Dark Knight | The Secret Life of Bees
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Taylor Lautner to Howl at the New Moon!
7 January 2009 1:00 PM, PST
Taylor Lautner, the teen heartthrob who played pre-pubescent werewolf Jacob Black in Twilight will indeed be kept on for the sequel New Moon -- this according to StephanieMeyer.com, the author's official website.
Earlier rumors circulated that Summit would cut Lautner loose because of his lanky and youthful look. In New Moon, Jacob undergoes a feral transformation which requires a radical change in the character -- going from fun-loving youngling into hot and hairy hulk, but activist Twilighter's have lobbied hard for the movie company to keep Lautner, and the 16-year-old will have packed on nearly 30 pounds for the part by March -- which is when shooting starts.
"Jacob is a totally different character in New Moon," Melissa Rosenberg, screenwriter of both Twilight films, told Entertainment Weekly. "He's a foot taller and huge—and he's supposed to look 25. It's really a question of whether or not the same actor can play the role.
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Jim Littler
H2 Gets a Release Date
7 January 2009 8:50 AM, PST
Now Rob Zombie has even less time to put together the sequel to his Halloween. Initially, H2 was set for release sometime in October, but Dimension Films has decided to release H2 on August 28 instead, the same weekend that Zombie's Tyrannosaurus Rex was supposed to open, but has now been put on hold so Zombie can work on H2. None of this seems to bother Zombie, who unveiled the new Michael Myers mask and wrote in his blog: "[Myers] is bigger, meaner and more psycho than Dr. Loomis ever thought possible."
Shooting for H2 begins in March.
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Rob Zombie | Halloween 2 | Rob Zombie's Tyrannosaurus Rex
Ryan Gowland
Our Picks for the Breakout Stars of 2009
7 January 2009 8:07 AM, PST
Prognostication is tricky business, especially in a town as fickle as Hollywood. At the beginning of '08, who would have thought that Robert Downey Jr. would re-emerge as a superstar, or that Mickey Rourke would be considered a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination, or that a pale, skinny British lad named Robert Pattinson would displace Zac Efron as America's reigning teen heartthrob? Certainly not us, and we tend to consider ourselves pretty learned on such matters.
With that in mind, we humbly offer our picks for the Breakout Stars of 2009. We probably won't be right about all of them -- in fact, we hope we're wrong about a few. Otherwise, we'd really freak ourselves out.
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The Expendables Cast Adds Mickey Rourke
7 January 2009 7:57 AM, PST
Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables star-studded cast is adding a potential Oscar winner. The Wrestler's Mickey Rourke is set to join the production that already has Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren and recently announced Forest Whitaker set to star in the action movie. Variety reports Rourke will play an arms dealer that becomes a liason to a group of mercenaries that are trying to bring down a South American dictator.
Production begins in Brazil in March with Stallone directing from his own script.
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Forest Whitaker | Jason Statham | Jet Li | Dolph Lundgren | Sylvester Stallone | Mickey Rourke | Randy Couture
Ryan Gowland
Nasa Casts Kirks and Vaders in 3-D Animated Quantum Quest
7 January 2009 7:00 AM, PST
Voice cast has been announced for the 3-D animated film Quantum Quest, a joint venture from Nasa and Digimax. Ironically, all four castmembers announced have previously piloted either the Starship Enterprise or the Death Star. They are William Shatner, Hayden Christensen, Chris Pine and James Earl Jones.
Fellow Star Wars vocal castmembers include Samuel L. Jackson and Mark Hamill. Amanda Peet, Jason Alexander, Sandra Oh, Spencer Breslin, Abigail Breslin and Neil Armstrong round out the impressive cast list.
The picture will be directed by Harry Kloor and Dan St. Pierre. It will debut in IMAX in late 2009.
Source: Variety
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William Shatner | Hayden Christensen
Jeff Otto
Tron 2.0 Finds a New Lead
7 January 2009 5:39 AM, PST
Disney has picked their lead for the Tron sequel, says The Hollywood Reporter, and it is the newcomer Garrett Hedlund (Friday Night Lights). Hedlund may not be a household name at this point, but neither was Bruce Boxleitner back in 1982. Hedlund beat out Ryan Gosling and Star Trek's Chris Pine for the role.
Like Boxleitner, Hedlund will play a man who gets sucked into a video game and fight the Master Control Program. He joins Boxleitner, Jeff Bridges, and Olivia Wilde (who recently gushed about the project) in the multi-million dollar sequel.
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Bruce Boxleitner | Chris Pine | Ryan Gosling | Garrett Hedlund | Tron 2.0 | Friday Night Lights
Ryan Gowland
Judge to Settle Watchmen Dispute
7 January 2009 5:30 AM, PST
The drama over Watchmen continues. According to the La Times, warring studios Warner Brothers and Fox have agreed to allow U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess to decide whether Fox has the right to block the theatrical distribution of Watchmen, currently set for release on March 6. Judge Feess ruled in December that Fox did have a claim on the Watchmen rights, but asked for both studios to come up with a settlement, but, so far, that has not happened.
The distribution hearing for Watchmen is set for January 20, and any possible trial over the issue will be resolved after Feess makes his distribution decision.
Next Showing: Watchmen opens whenever Judge Feess decides
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Watchmen
Ryan Gowland
Robert Pattinson Won't Be Sinking Teeth into Indie After All
7 January 2009 3:47 AM, PST
Parts Per Billion, an indie flick about how various people respond to some major catastrophe, now has one less part to account for: Robert Pattinson, who was supposed to star in the movie alongside Juno alum Olivia Thirlby, is dropping out due to the speeded-up production schedule of New Moon.
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Robert Pattinson | New Moon | Parts per Billion
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Shankman Says Hello to Bye Bye Birdie
6 January 2009 12:02 PM, PST
Adam Shankman (The Pacifier, The Wedding Planner) will produce an adaptation of the 1958 musical Bye Bye Birdie. Shankman directed the hit musical Hairspray in 2007 and is a former choreographer. Columbia Pictures hopes the musical vet will breathe some new life into the long-gestating adaptation, which has undergone a number of different incarnations, including a proposed re-imagining with a hip-hop star in the lead.
Shankman's next directorial efforts are Bob: The Musical and The 8th Voyage of Sinbad.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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Olivia Wilde talks Tron 2.0
6 January 2009 9:52 AM, PST
Cameras have yet to roll on Tron 2.0, and won't until March, but doesn't mean Olivia Wilde (TV's House) can't start giving away a few spoilers about the sequel. First, Wilde confirmed Bruce Boxleitner's association. "He's so fantastic, Bruce," she told Sci Fi Wire, "He's been telling us all about the process of making the first one."
As far as the technical side goes, a lot of advancements have been made in movie making since 1982. Several new technologies will be used, including the face replacement technology used in Benjamin Button, but Wilde says Tron 2.0 will not be some greenscreen movie created on computers. Director Joseph Kosinski is "a really big fan of using as much sets as you can, because he's an architect as well, so he likes to build these worlds. And with something like Tron, I think it helps to create the environment as much as
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Ryan Gowland
Behold the Slammin' Salmon
6 January 2009 8:56 AM, PST
Wondering what those wacky lads of Broken Lizard are up to? Wonder no more. Kevin Heffernan, Jay Chandrasekhar, and the rest of the comedy team behind Super Troopers and Beerfest are hard at work putting the finishing touches on their latest ensemble effort, The Slammin' Salmon. The film stars Michael Clarke Duncan as a former heavyweight boxing champ-turned-celebrity restaurateur who concocts a ridiculous scheme to earn enough cash to pay off his debts to Yakuza mobsters. Which comes as a relief to those of us who had assumed the plot centered around a promiscuous fish.
No release date has been announced yet for The Slammin' Salmon as the Lizard men are still looking for a distributor for the film. Let's hope they find one soon. Until then, our good pals at Collider have some pics for ya.
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Thomas Leupp
Marvel vs. DC: Superhero Movie Showdown
6 January 2009 7:42 AM, PST
With the success of The Dark Knight and Iron Man, comic book publishers Marvel and DC have tasted movie success. Both have a long association with superhero teams and have put movie adaptations in motion -- Marvel with Avengers and DC with Justice League: Mortal. Both companies want to dominate, but they have opposite strategies on how to get it done. What are those strategies? And more important, who will dominate this cinematic battle? We compare superhero movies in development in Marvel vs. DC: The Battle of Comic Book Movie Heavyweights in 2009 and Beyond.
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Justice League: Mortal | Avengers Movie
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All Odette Yustman All the Time
6 January 2009 7:37 AM, PST
A foreign object in her eye, bugs in her bra, researching exorcisms on YouTube, and beheading porcelain dolls. They are all on the menu in a Fear.net interview with Odette Yustman about her role in The Unborn. Some of the more uncomfortable scenes to movie came as a bit of a surprise, she confesses. Director David Goyer sneaked in an eye speculum scene without much warning, and she had no idea that the potato bugs crawling all over her could bite. Not to mention the very real earthquake that happened during shooting. And when researching amateur exorcisms on YouTube she found out just how crazy some parents could be. Her childhood did give her a good background for horror though. She says she first watched The Exorcist at the age of 7 and dealt with a fear that her doll collection was possessed by beheading the lot of them with a hammer.
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Two New Clips From My Bloody Valentine 3D
6 January 2009 6:59 AM, PST
A couple of new clips from My Bloody Valentine 3D have popped up. The first features Twilight star Edi Gathegi receiving what promises to be a pretty gruesome holiday package. The second shows a terrified women hiding under the bed, watching as her mama gets surprised by the pickax-wielding man in the closet.
Next Showing: My Bloody Valentine opens January 16, 2009
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Edi Gathegi | My Bloody Valentine 3-D
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Horton Director Now Taking On Jonah Hex
6 January 2009 6:52 AM, PST
Jimmy Hayward, the director of animated movie and Dr. Seuss story Horton Hears a Who, will be entering the world of live-action movies with the comics/western Jonah Hex, about a confederate soldier turned bounty hunter.
This news comes only a few weeks after Crank creatives Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor had been attached as writers and co-directors, but then left the project over "creative differences."
Also attached in the title role is W star Josh Brolin. The property comes out of DC Comics via Warner Bros., and will be put into production as early as March.
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Brian Taylor | Josh Brolin | Mark Neveldine | Jimmy Hayward | Jonah Hex | Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who
Jim Littler
Hold Me Now: Pegg and Frost to Play Tintin Thompson Twins
6 January 2009 6:25 AM, PST
Comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) have joined the cast of Tintin, the 3-D motion-capture adaptation of George Remi's classic comic. Rather than aging '80s pop icons, these Thompson Twins are a pair of bumbling detectives identical in every way except for the shape of their mustaches.
Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings, King Kong) will play Tintin's sidekick, Captain Haddock. The lead role of Tintin has not yet been cast.
Tintin is a two picture project being directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson.
Source: Variety
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Nick Frost | Simon Pegg | Steven Spielberg | Peter Jackson | Tintin
Jeff Otto
Hollywood Promo Posters Heating Up
6 January 2009 4:41 AM, PST
Conventional wisdom says Hollywood overrelies on sex to sell movies, but have you been checking out movie posters lately? Out of Hollywood's 150 top-grossing movies last year, do you know which one boasted the most risque promotional poster? Mamma Mia! Seriously, we are not joking. Unless you have a thing for Ben Stein showing some seriously flirty knee in a schoolboy's uniform, Amanda Seyfried in a shoulder-revealing wedding dress was as provocative as Hollywood got in 2008, poster-wise. (Unless you live in Canada, that is, where they are not afraid to show fully clothed actors making silly faces.)
Just a week into 2009, however, things are looking better, thanks to The Unborn, whose poster features budding scream queen Odette Yustman's better half -- and worst half -- simultaneously. We have no idea why Yustman is hanging out in what appears to be an elegant but shabby subway station restroom in her undies.
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Superman Sequel Seeks New Villain... Finally!
6 January 2009 4:28 AM, PST
Tired of seeing Lex Luthor as the baddie in all but one of the previous 5 Superman movies? Yeah, so are we. And it seems, according to The Latino Review, so is Warner Bros. Reports say that they're on the lookout for a new nemesis in the sequel.
Since 1978, when Christopher Reeve first slipped on the blue tights, baldy bad-guy Lex Luthor has been his antagonist in all the major motion pictures. Now we agree that Lex is probably Supe's ultimate opponent, but come on Warner Bros, this is The Man of Steel we're talking about. He's had a history of fighting for truth, justice and the American way since the 1940s. He's trounced thousands of villains in his time. Even Batman in his 6 movies has only had to fight the Joker twice.
It is indeed time. But who will it be? Braniac? Doomsday? Metallo? And what actor will play the
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Jim Littler
Shazam Movie Declared "Dead" by Scripter
6 January 2009 4:05 AM, PST
In a post on screenwriter John August's blog, the Shazam scripter sent out the sad news that his efforts on Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam are over, and that the project is for all intents and purposes "dead."
August gives an insider's peek at the maddening process of scripting for commercial entertainment. A few behind-the-scenes frustrations were the change of management brought on by the dissolution of New Line Cinema, the Writer's Guild strike, and studio anxiety over what makes a box office blockbuster.
Here's a bit from the blog:
By the time I got back [from travel to France], the project was dead. By 'dead,' I mean that it won't be happening. I don't think it's on the studio's radar at all. It may come back in another incarnation, with another writer, but I can say with considerable certainty that it won't be the version I developed.
Yes, that sucks.
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Jim Littler
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