Pierce Brosnan’s been a surprisingly busy guy of late—in fact, he’s so busy that he’s actually filming two different movies, back to back. And that’s a rough schedule for any actor to try and keep up. Just ask Martin Lawrence—I think that guy’s got a personal stake in every bad movie ever released.
But Anyway.
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They’re everywhere - from The Dukes of Hazzard to Bewitched. Before long, every classic T.V. show will make it to the silver screen. It doesn’t even matter if they’re good (obviously), if there’s a nostalgia audience, they will get made. And so comes Get Smart.
Get Smart was a funny show in its time. Steve Carell sounds like good casting, and the teaser trailer looked pretty funny. But now that the full international trailer has been released, fans and critics are slightly less enthusiastic.
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It wasn’t so very long ago that me and a dear friend were talking back and forth over the subject of Frankie Muniz. You know, the poor little schmuck who played brainy socially inept jerk Malcolm for seven seasons of Malcolm in the Middle and then went on to conquer Hollywood by playing the exact same character over and over again in a half a dozen movies, give or take? Well, you may not be too conversant, but Heroes heroine Hayden Panettiere spent a little time with Frankie on Malcolm, but Hayden’s got something of a different problem.
Be! Typecasted! Be-E-Typecasted!
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Sundance! It certainly has the best title of any major film festival. If that’s not enough for you, bear in mind that many small-time movies use Sundance as an opportunity to find a distributor. What makes it to your hometown theatres is determined by studio representatives somehow in Utah. Encouraging, isn’t it?
But now, thanks to blogs, we get a sneak peek at what’s likely to make it to the marquees in the upcoming months. So what’s up with Sundance? What are everyone’s favorites? Let’s take a look.
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Nerd rage is a powerful force. It influences the production of every comic book movie, from Spider-Man to Ghost World. There is a core group of fans who will be camping out on the eve of the film’s release, in full costume, and they are the ones who go home and blog about it and determine how well the film will perform in the following weeks. It’s best to stay on their good side.
So when Warner Brothers secured the rights to the Hellblazer comics, they naturally decided to take endless liberties with the source material and pretty much ignore how the fanbase would feel about the whole thing. Oddly enough, the whole exercise turned out much better than one would expect - but don’t say that to a Hellblazer fan.
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In a truly rare turn of events that already has me somewhat on the edge of my seat, it’s been rumored that the one and only John Carpenter will be making his way back to theaters. He’ll be bringing with him the movie L.A. Gothic, which is rumored to contain lots of vampires, nothing new for him.
All The Greats Coming Out of the Woodwork
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There was a time when high-definition wasn’t so complicated. Years ago, as HD TVs first started appearing on the market, they assured us that soon - not right now, but soon enough - we would have high definition DVDs to go along with them. We smiled, and nodded, and kept buying our lowly regular-type DVDs. We were happy. We unconverted to our HD TVs when we got them, and that was good enough.
But somehow, unlike with HD TVs, nobody agreed on an industry standard before different companies began developing discs. HD DVDs were developed cheaply, with fewer extra features and lower quality. Their players are now much cheaper on the market. Then came Blu-Ray: more expensive, less stable, but with many more enjoyable features and considerably higher picture and sound quality.
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If you remember the Urban Legend movies, you’ll have a memory of a none too shabby teen slasher flick of the kind that was so popular following the release of Scream in the late nineties. Thus, it shouldn’t be any too much of a surprise to hear that Urban Legend director Jamie Blanks will be bringing his film Storm Warning to Dimension Films.
Stormy Weather
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Here’s one for the Shooting Ourselves In The Foot Department—a theater chain called Marcus Theaters, as it’s relayed to me via horror-movies.ca, refuses to show Cloverfield in any of its theaters. They also refused to host any showings of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
There Are No Words For the Sheer Stupidity of Such Action
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This year’s Oscar nominees were announced on January 23rd. Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and Director are always the most popular and influential categories - learn about them below, along with my predictions for front runners.
Best Picture
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