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  • 05 Nov

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    We finally get a glorious look at the new Muppet movie.

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    Thank you to Coming Soon for scanning this new spread in Entertainment Weekly, where we get a look a brand new Muppet character. Here is their description of what the magazine article says:

    Entertainment Weekly is featuring a two-page first look article at Disney’s The Muppets, to be directed by James Bobin from a script by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller. The December 25, 2011 release will stars Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Chris Cooper.

    The article mentions that the new Muppet in the film will be Walter, who you can see holding the smartphone below. He’s described as “a sweet, slightly naive twenty-something Everypuppet who, in the movie, is the best friend and roommate of Segel’s character, Gary. Both Gary and Walter are die-hard Muppet fans.”

    “Walter is the kind of guy who faints when he sees Kermit,” Bobin told the magazine. “Walter has a little bit of a self-confidence issue because he’s the only person like him that he’s seen aside from the Muppets,” Segel explained. “His dream is to meet the Muppets and be around people who are like him.”

    EW says that when Gary and Walter learn that the Muppet Theater is in danger of being torn down, they set out to save it by reuniting Kermit, Piggy, and the entire troupe to stage an old-fashioned extravaganza.

    I am so excited for this. The world could use more quality Muppets.

    Take the jump to see the other half of the spread, which has the new Muppet showing off his iPhone.

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  • 29 Oct

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    William Monahan’s directorial debut: London Boulevard

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    When there is a big-name screenwriter such as William Monahan – the man who inked the likes of The Departed, Kingdom of Heaven, and Body of Lies – making the transition from penman to director, one would think that people would be buzzing with curiosity. That really hasn’t been the case for Monahan’s directorial debut London Boulevard, the gangster love story starring a killer cast that includes Colin Farrell, Ray Winstone, Keira Knightley, Ben Chaplin, and David Thewlis.

    Knightley and especially Winstone are always worth watching, and since his turn to awesomeness in In Bruges, Farrell has been making some good, if not interesting, film choices. Despite being in post-production for over half a year, nobody seems to have watched this thing yet. Whether that means anything for the quality of this film or not still remains to be seen.

    The film will be released in the UK on November 26, 2010.

  • 25 Oct

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    Shorts Program: Morgan and Destiny’s Eleventeeth Date

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    It looks like Joseph Gordon-Levitt and those awesome folks over at hitRECord have put together a sequel to the collaborative Sundance short film hit Morgansen’s Date with Destiny. It’s been finished for some time, but I just stumbled across it as it was posted on Joe’s official collaborative filmmaking site. This time, Morgan and Destiny are apparently on their eleventeenth date – and where else but the Zeppelin Zoo? Co-starring his Stop Loss co-star Channing Tatum, we see Morgan battle Lionel in the most gentlemanly of ways.

    These collaborative shorts are awesome – and both were received warmly at this past year’s SXSW in Austin, Texas. Let’s hope the continued success of Joe’s passion projects can help bring a smile to his face after the recent tragic death of his older brother, Burning Dan.

  • 16 Oct

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    Trailer: Barney’s Version

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    This schizophrenic trailer for Paul Giamatti’s latest film Barney’s Version might be a little too revealing and even more confusing in its selling of the movie’s tone, but there is plenty to suggest that this movie is going to contain a magnificent performance by Andrew’s main man.

    Based on Canadian author Mordecai Richler’s novel of the same name, the movie “is the warm, wise, and witty story of Barney Panofsky, a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. A candid confessional, told from Barney’s point of view, the film spans four decades and two continents, taking us through the different “acts” of his unusual history. … With his father, Izzy (Dustin Hoffman) as his sidekick, Barney takes us through the many highs, and a few too many lows, of his long and colorful life.”

    Despite the sloppy trailer, with everyone involved and the material, this should be a very good movie. We’ll find out early next year when it comes out.

  • 16 Oct

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    Ryan Gosling in a film is a good thing.

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    We have an unabashed crush on Ryan Gosling here in the third row, so when a movie of his makes its way to the theater, we generally squirm with delight at the potential for seeing another special performance. Gosling’s latest is titled All Good Things and it looks like it is going to be another unique performance by the man. Co-starring Kirsten Dunst, and Frank Langella, IMDb describes the film as “a love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history … [which] uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for an imaginative spellbinding story of family, obsession, love and loss.”

    It’s a strange trailer and didn’t necessarily have me on the edge of my seat in anticipation, but just knowing that Mr. Gosling is in it will be enough to get me at least in the theater seat.

    What are your thoughts?

  • 02 Oct

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    Trailer: The Warrior’s Way

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    Had The Warrior’s Way been titled Cowboys & Ninjas, I suspect it would have made an interesting double-feature with the upcoming Cowboys & Aliens. When you have a movie about cowboys and ninjas fighting, the plot hardly matters – but it does star South Korean actor Jang Dong-gun (Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War), Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston, and Kate Bosworth which may be enough to attract some people. Everything aside, it looks to be chock full of an absurd amount of bubble-gummy CGI and over-the-top action – something that will appeal to the younger hormone-fueled crowds when it hits theaters on December 3, 2010.

  • 27 Sep

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    Trailer: True Grit

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    I worship at the alter of Coen. Sometimes there just aren’t words. Let’s just use this as a place where we can talk about how awesome Joel and Ethan Coen are.

  • 19 Sep

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    For Your Consideration: Chris Klein

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    Chris Klein in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Discuss.

     

     

  • 16 Sep

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    Poll: Which end of the year film release are you looking forward to the most?

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  • 16 Sep

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    Trailer: The Tourist

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    The premise of The Tourist is a tired one that has been done nearly to death – so why do I find myself looking forward to this so much? Maybe it is the use of Muse is the final act of the trailer. Maybe it is because it is directed by the director of The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Or maybe – okay, really – it’s because Johnny Depp is the man. Yeah, it’s a cliche to go on about how awesome Johnny Depp is, but for fuck’s sake, the man really is about as awesome as a human being can be. I want to make sweet love to his film career, starting with his first role in A Nightmare on Elm Street, gearing up during Ed Wood, and climaxing with this somewhat fluffy looking action thriller, which should be a pretty refreshing film in the midst of Oscar-bait season when it comes out on December 10th.

    Check out the trailer and let us know what you think.

  • 16 Sep

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    Trailer: The Fighter

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    It seems like I have been looking forward to The Fighter since I was a fetus. I’m talking about the days when Darren Aronofsky was attached to direct the film that was the chronicle the life professional boxer Mickey Ward and the relationship with his retired boxer turned trainer brother. The job would eventually go to another talented director, David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees, Three Kings) and get Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale secured as the two leads.

    Now we finally have a trailer for the movie, which is set to be released on December 10th. It’s poorly constructed and the music is rather off-putting, but we still get a glimpse of what is there beyond the terrible marketing – and that is some rather stellar performances that may make some noise come Oscars season, particularly Bale (who has yet to be nominated for an Oscar) in the supporting category. Amy Adams and Melissa Leo round out the great cast.

    Leave your own thoughts in the comments.

  • 11 Sep

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    ‘Hereafter’ is Eastwood’s ‘spiritual chick flick.’

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    “At the age I am now, I just don’t have any interest in going back and doing the same sort of thing over and over, that’s one of the reasons I moved away from westerns,” Eastwood recently told the LA Times. “The question about what happens after we die is something that we all ask and when I read the script by Peter Morgan it was so intelligent and I knew right away that I wanted to do it.”

    Well, I guess you can’t fault Clint for trying something different. Hereafter, which opens up on October 22, follows three “battered souls searching for answers about the afterlife” – a psychic (Matt Damon), a young London boy (Frankie McLaren), and a French journalist (Cécile de France) who have all dealt with death heavily in some aspect of their lives.

    “It’s a spiritual story but there are no real religious connotations to it,” Eastwood went on to say about his film. “The [major religions] are kind of unsatisfying to the kid in our story because he’s looking for something that can answer his questions. He wants a straight answer and he can’t seem to find anything from people who turn out to be either psychics looking for a fast buck or people just talking … you don’t really see movies like this these days that have a spiritual aspect or a romantic aspect. And it is romantic. These days you have a lot of movies about people jumping on each other in the sack but we don’t have that. This is more about attraction.”

    Now, after having heard from the man himself, I have just one thing to say: the trailer hasn’t sold me on it. I love Clint more than I don’t though, so I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it just is strange to see something like this coming from him. I don’t know. It premieres at TIFF though, so I am sure we are going to here plenty more about it in the coming days.

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