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Rambo 4 Trailer Rambo's coming back! Here is a trailer for the Rambo 4 film. It's packed with action, violence and one-liners. According to the IMDB entry Rambo 4 is not coming out until May 25th, 2008. Posted on May 30, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati  Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
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the box office over the Memorial Day weekend, making $139,802,190 over the four day period. In second place was Shrek the Third which made $67,010,012, bringing its total take to date to $217,348,470.
In third place was Spider-Man 3, which took in $18,112,261, bringing its take to date to $307,754,583. Bug, a horror thriller starring Ashley Judd, came in fourth with $4,015,846 on its opening weekend. In fifth place was Waitress, which made $4,005,008, bringing its total take to date to $6,522,396. Posted on May 29, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Mary Kate Olson Takes Role on Weeds Mary-Kate Olsen has signed up to appear on the hit Showtime series Weeds, according to TV Guide. Olsen will play Tara, a devoted Christian girl living in the newly developed megachurch community Majestic who becomes a love interest for Nancy Botwin's (Mary-Louise Parker) son Silas (Hunter Parrish). Olsen will appear in 10 of the 15 episodes of the show's third season, which premieres August 13.This is an interesting career move for Mary-Kate. We suppose this means she's given up on college, though? That seems like a shame. Posted on May 25, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati  Variety is reporting that 20th Century Fox is going to make a movie based on The Sims, a popular computer game that simulates real life.
20th Century Fox has acquired feature rights to the life simulation computer game "The SIMS" from Electronic Arts, and has set project up with Fox-based John Davis.How are they going to make a movie about a game that simulates real life. A movie that simulates real life? A simulator of a simulator? The screenwriter is going to be under some heavy pressure to come up with a novel idea for this film. Focusing on the infinite power concept that SIMS Studio head Rod Humble mentioned may be key to developing a good script for this movie. Another question is which Sims will be the focus of the film because The Sims coming out in September for the Wii are a much cutesier version of the Sims than we have seen in the past. We are also curious as the whether the dreaded guinea pig virus will be in the Sims motion picture. Posted on May 24, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Cuba Gooding, Jr. Signs for Teen Comedy 
Cuba Gooding, Jr. has signed
to play a wise high school janitor in what is being billed as an edgy teen comedy in the mold of Napoleon Dynamite. The film is called Harold, which is not to be confused with the cult classic, Harold and Maude. The Hollywood Reporter explains:
"Harold" revolves around the title character, a premature balding young teen trying to adapt to a new high school. Gooding will play the school janitor who befriends and helps him through merciless teasing. Veteran "Saturday Night Live" writer T. Sean Shannon will make his directorial debut from a script written by him and Greg Fields. "It's in the vein of 'Napoleon Dynamite'," said Levy. His M.E.G.A and City Lights teamed to produce "The Ten," and sold North American rights to ThinkFilm and City Lights Home Entertainment for $4.5 million at January's Sundance Film Festival. They also produced the stark drama "Descent," starring and produced by Rosario Dawson.This is as puzzling a casting news as we've heard in awhile. What is Cuba Gooding's agent doing to earn his 15% anyway? We're still reeling from Cuba's love scenes with Helen Mirren in Shadowboxer, the touching story of two assassins who...it's kind of hard to explain, actually. Rent it when you're feeling in the mood for something offbeat. Posted on May 23, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati  Shrek the Third ruled the box office this past weekend, making $121,629,270. In second place was Spider-Man 3 which made $29,022,026. In third place was 28 Weeks Later which made $5,454,168 in its second week. In fourth place was Lindsay Lohan and Jane Fonda's George Rule, which made a miserable $3,745,880 in its second week of release. We think people are looking at it and saying "rental." We look at the reviews and think "not even a rental." Posted on May 22, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Heroes Season One Finale Goes Out With a Bang  (Warning: Major Season 1 Finale Spoilers Ahead) The first season finale of Heroes was tonight and it was excellent. Those who went and read the spoilers for the finale proably didn't enjoy it as much, but we resisted temptation -- barely! -- and went into the episode spoiler free. So, there defintely was more than meets the eye with Simone's father. It appears that he had the power to find out anything he wanted through his dreams. He told Peter that he came to him "because he needed to know." Apparently, what he needed to know is that Mama Petrelli is a very, very naughty girl. Still, at least in the end Nathan did the right thing. And Peter keeps becoming more and more intersesting as a character. We're a bit disappointed that his mentor, the Invisible Man, didn't show up to help him control his nuclear power, but surely he can survive the explosion? Or is he blown up into little, tiny bits in the sky over Manhattan? It's hard to see how either Peter or Nathan survived that one. Let's hope at least Peter did. But it really, really bothered us that at the end no one was looking around for Sylar's body. So, of course he just slithered off into the tunnel system under the streets, leaving a bloody trail behind. We swear, if he finds the shape shifting girl Candice Wilmer (played by Missy Peregrym) and takes her power, we are going to be really unhappy. Because then Sylar is going to morph into Nathan and become president. Or at least a congressman. We were happy that we finally found out H.R.G.'s first name: it's Noah. We were also relieved that Jessica and Nikki got merged, because that storyline was growing quite tedious. Now she's like Wonder Woman, so that works very well indeed. Our favorite storyline of the evening was Hiro's. We were so relieved that Ando made it safely to his cubicle in Japan and that Hiro stepped up to the plate. But that ending! Hiro is in the 1600s in the middle of some kind of battle, with samurai on both sides! And one warrior has the flag with the mysterious symbol on it. Could Hiro's father really be the legendary Japanese swordsman, Takezo Kensei? Could he be immortal? Or at least, really long-lived? He did say he had been waiting a long time for a Nakamura child to manifest the power. All in all, we give it an A+. Now it's time for Season 2. Posted on May 21, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati New Heroes Will Arrive Soon 
Tim Kring, the producer of Heroes talked to Sci Fi about the upcoming season finale, which airs Monday, May 21st at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time.
Kring said that the finale will introduce new characters which will become important to the show. (Spoilers ahead)
"There are several new characters coming in the immediate future," Kring said in an interview. "The idea of the show from the start was always to basically honor the origin story of the first sort of blush and discovery of these powers. And so, in order to do that, new characters will have to be cycled into the show. And by extension, older characters will cycle out of the show."Last week's episode was absolutely awesome. To see Hiro's dad bust out the samurai moves was just amazing. We love George Takei and his casting as Kaito Nakamura was a brilliant choice. We hope Hiro's dad is featured in the stories about the older generation. He said that once he had allies, but some lost their way. Well, clearly one person who lost his way in a big time was Linderman. He is a healer who somehow ended up thinking that it was a good thing to nuke New York City. That's a pretty big change of focus. And what really happened to the Petrelli brothers' dad? And what is up with Mrs. Petrelli? We know she has a power, but what is it? We can't wait to find out. Posted on May 19, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati 
Nickelodeon is debuting a new animated kids show in 2008 called Bubble Guppies. The show will be targeted at preschoolers and is set in a CGI-animated underwater classroom. Bubble Guppies is a new interactive, animated variety show for preschoolers set in a vibrant 3D, CGI-animated underwater classroom. Bubble Guppies has an emergent curriculum: ideas that emerge from preschoolers' own discoveries. Each episode will delve into a preschool topic from a variety of angles as the cast and viewers at home explore the swaying kelp forests, fantastical coral reefs, and undersea gardens of their aquarium-inspired surroundings. Bubble Guppies is created by Robert Scull, who also serves as executive producer on Nick Jr.'s The Backyardigans, and Jonny Belt, supervising art director and co-executive producer of The Backyardigans. Scull and Belt also developed the series along with Janice Burgess, creator of The Backyardigans.There are other animated cartoon shows aimed at tots like Scholastic's The Wonder Pets (technically photo-puppetry). Nickelodeon already has a massive animated hit in SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob has over 60 million+ monthly viewers. Nickelodeon is probably hoping for a similar hit at the young preschool level with Bubble Guppies. Posted on May 16, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Daniel Radcliffe Talks Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Daniel Radcliffe discusses the next Harry Potter film, Harry Potter adn the Order of the Phoenix, which will be released July 13, 2007. Daniel says the film is darker than the others and that Harry is becoming a more interesting character as the series progresses. "On an emotional level there's much bigger stuff than I had to do in the fourth film, like obviously what happens to [a key character] and Harry's reaction to that," Radcliffe, 17, said in an interview during a break in filming last September at Leavesden Studios outside London.If you missed it, you can see the trailer for the film here. Posted on May 15, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Spider-Man 3 Still Rules Box Office  Spider-Man 3
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the box office this past weekend, making another $60 million. That brings its domestic take to date to $242,071,000.
In second place was Fox's 28 Weeks Later, which opened with $10,000,000. In third place was Georgia Rule, which stars Linsay Lohan, Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman. The film opened with a disappointing $5,879,000 and did not get great reviews. In fourth place was the Rear Window ripoff, Disturbia, which made another $4,807,000, putting its total take at $66,295,000. Hitchcock still sells, even now. Posted on May 14, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway in Get Smart Film  Filming has begun on a Get Smart motion picture which is based on the popular television series with the same name. The film from Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures will star Steve Carell (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) as secret agent Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada) as Agent 99.
Other stars in the film include Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Agent 23; Terence Stamp as Siegfried, a key KAOS operative; and Academy Award winner Alan Arkin as the Chief of CONTROL. The film also stars Ken Davitian as Shtarker; Masi Oka (Heroes) as Bruce; Nate Torrence as Lloyd; David Koechneras Agent Larabee; and Terry Crews as Agent 91. The film is directed by Peter Segal (The Longest Yard, Tommy Boy) from a screenplay by Tom J. Astle & Matt Ember (Failure to Launch). Andrew Lazar (Space Cowboys), Charles Roven (Batman Begins) and Alex Gartner (The Upside of Anger) are producing, with Michael Ewing (50 First Dates), Dana Goldberg (Happy Feet), Peter Segal, Jimmy Miller (Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby), Steve Carell, Brent O'Connor (We Are Marshall) and Bruce Berman (Happy Feet) serving as executive producers. It sounds like a good cast. Steve Carell is a great choice as Maxwell Smart. The Would You Believe Get Smart website has more details about the upcoming film but be careful because there are some spoilers on the page. IMDB's listing for the film shows a relase date of June 20, 2008. Posted on May 12, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Warner Bros. Remaking Clash of the Titans  A remake of the 1981 Clash of the Titans movie is in the works. Slashfilm reports
that Lawrence Kasdan has been hired to write the remake for Warner Bros.
Kasden was a legendary screenwriter whose credits included Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Big Chill. The once great screenwriter has had a run of bad luck in the last ten years, turning out two films (and only two films) that were less than successful Mumford and Dreamcatcher. It's exciting to imagine that Kasden will make a huge comeback (both creatively and financially) with this one.The film will need to cast a few stars to draw fans to the theatres. Who will play Perseus, Medusa and Poseiden? Who will replace Ursula Andress as the beautiful Aphrodite? The 1981 film was known for its unique special effects including giant scorpions that emerged from a few drops of Medusa's blood. With a good budget they could do much more with today's advanced special effects technology. Posted on May 10, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Spider-Man 3 Breaks Box Office Records  Spider-Man 3 has
broken box office records, making an amazing $148 million in the U.S. alone in its opening weekend. Worldwide, the film brought in $375 million, breaking the records of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Pirates of the Carribean.
In second place was Disturbia, which made $5,720,000 in its fourth week. Fracture came in third making $3,420,000 in its third week of release. Drew Barrymore's poker romance film, Lucky You, had a dismal opening making only $2,515,000. The film also stars Eric Bana, but it clearly was not the date movie of choice this past weekend. Looks like there's going to be a fourth Spider-Man movie. How could there not be with those box office numbers? Posted on May 7, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Michael Douglas to Return as Gordon Gekko  Michael Douglas is set to reprise
the role that won him an Oscar: playing ethically-challenged financier Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street. A sequel is in the works, and Douglas is on board for the role. The film will be called Money Never Sleeps.
The title comes from one of Gekko's memorable lines, which also famously included: "Greed is good." The character came to represent the worst corporate excesses of the 1980s. Mr Pressman told the New York Times that Gekko went to jail at the end of the first film - but would not give details of the sequel's plot. Original director Oliver Stone has turned down the opportunity to make the follow-up, the paper said.And, of course, Gekko's second most famous line was "Lunch? Are you joking? Lunch is for wimps." So, how will they bring back Gekko? A plea deal? He'll have served his time and become a dot com billionaire? That would work. Or maybe he's doing arms deals now. That would also work. He'll need an innocent young man to corrupt, of course. Because there is no better mentor on greed than Gordon Gekko. Charlie Sheen is too old...we're thinking Bradley Cooper...or... Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes. That's it! Posted on May 5, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Conan O'Brien Visits Lucasfilm Conan O'Brien recently visited the San Francisco-based headquarters of Lucasfilm in this two-part series of video clips from NBC. The second video clip is especially entertaining. Conan gets to put on a special suit and play Lucasfilm's Schwa and C3PO digital characters. The segment was written and directed by George Lucas. Posted on May 3, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Pan's Labyrinth Website Wins Webby Award  Pan's Labyrinth's website from Picturehouse/Deep Focus has won this year's Webby movie award. The film's website includes everything you can imagine a film's website should contain: downloads, trailers, screenplay, buddy icons, avatars, casting information, behind-the-scenes gallery, a podcast and more. The website also contains a digital version of Guillermo Del Toro's fascinating sketchbook with commentary from Guillermo Del Toro.
Other movie Webby nominees included A Scanner Darkly, AtomFilms, Shortbus Offical Movie Site and The Show: Pirates of the Caribbean 2. You can find the full Webby winners list for all categories here. Posted on May 2, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix International Trailer Here is the new trailer for Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix. The film is based on the fifth novel in the Harry Potter series. It will be in theatres on July 13, 2007. Posted on May 1, 2007 Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati |
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