Adam Sandler in Grown Ups 2. Adam Sandler Grown Ups 2: One of Sandler’s biggest domestic openings ever? Directed by Dennis Dugan, and starring Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Kevin James, Grown Ups 2 opened with $41.5 million from 3,491 North American locations…
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‘Pacific Rim’ Jaeger ‘Pacific Rim’ review: Dumb movie made by smart director As summer tentpole films become increasingly reliant on the international box office to earn back their enormous costs, certain elements synonymous with good cinema tend to get left out. Character exploration, clever humor,…
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Twiharder poster with John Gearries, Tanya Zoeller and Christopher Sean. Twilight parody $500-million lawsuit against Lionsgate Pictures and Summit Entertainment: Serious business Twiharder, not the son of Twilight and Die Harder but just Another Twilight Parody, reportedly had a planned late 2012 release date to…
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RoboCop 1987 with Nancy Allen and Peter Weller. ‘RoboCop’ 1987 special screening featuring Nancy Allen & Peter Weller + Paul Verhoeven RoboCop, the 1987 original directed by Paul Verhoeven, and starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen, will have a special screening at 12 noon on…
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Need for Speed: Tom Cruise Top Gun 3D IMAX. Tom Cruise in Top Gun 3D IMAX Trailer (in 2D) Tom Cruise tells Anthony Edwards: “I feel the need … The need for speed.” High five. Whether you find that hip and cool, or if you…
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Best Actress Academy Award nominee Doris Day (Pillow Talk, 1959), one of the world’s top box office draws of the 1950s and 1960s, has sent a letter thanking the nearly 3,000 participants of AIDS/Lifecycle 11. Doris Day’s on-screen romantic partner and off-screen friend Rock Hudson…
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Samuel L. Jackson, The Avengers The Avengers actor Samuel L. Jackson, whose self-righteous Nick Fury looks like an amateur next to Tom Hiddleston’s brilliantly wicked Loki, has gone the James Cameron way. It’s “either you like my movie, or you have no job writing…
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Sergi López in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth “If you expect to get laid after this screening,” Guillermo del Toro told the midnight (actually, closer to 1 a.m.) audience at the AFI FEST Los Angeles 2007 premiere of Pan’s Labyrinth, “it ain’t gonna happen.” Indeed,…
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley: Transformers casting drama. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Replaces Megan Fox in ‘Transformers 3’ Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has been cast as Megan Fox’s replacement in Michael Bay’s Transformers 3. She has no acting experience – not that much emoting will be required from her.…
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‘The Dark Knight’ with Heath Ledger as The Joker and Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes: Latest Batman movie trailing only ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Titanic’? ‘The Dark Knight’ has climbed to third spot on all-time domestic box office chart – or has it? Aug. 11, ’08,…
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Mamma Mia!: Meryl Streep as Amanda Seyfried’s Mamma. But who’s the Papa? In the upcoming musical romantic comedy Mamma Mia!, based on the phenomenally successful stage hit of the same name, a young bride-to-be tries to find her real father – out of three men…
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Al Pacino in Scarface. Los Angeles Film Festival Awards 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival: June 19-29. Prince of Broadway tells the story of a Ghanaian immigrant living in New York City, whose ex-girlfriend disappears after dropping their 2-year-old son in his arms. Target Filmmaker Award…
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Guillermo del Toro at Mexico’s Ariel Awards. © Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairy-tale Pan’s Labyrinth/ El laberinto del fauno was the big winner at the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (website)’ 49th Ariel Awards ceremony held…
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Volver with Penélope Cruz and Carmen Maura. Pedro Almodóvar mother-daughters comedy-drama Volver – literally, “To Return” – marks the filmmaker’s Goya Awards comeback, topping five categories, including Best Picture and Best Director. Almodóvar had been at odds with the Spanish Academy after two of his…
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Pan’s Labyrinth with Doug Jones as the Faun. Whereas Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver received on single Academy Award nomination – Penélope Cruz is up for Best Actress – Guillermo del Toro’s Spanish-Mexican dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth / El Laberinto del fauno has been shortlisted for a…
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Pan’s Labyrinth: The Pale Man (Doug Jones) in underground, dark fantasy. Guillermo del Toro’s post-Spanish-Civil-War-set Pan’s Labyrinth / El laberinto del fauno was the National Society of Film Critics’ surprise Best Film winner. Perhaps even more surprising, its two runners-up were both movies featuring non-English-language…
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