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7 October 2008 9:08 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Ask fans to name their favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie, and they'll likely split among "North by Northwest," "Psycho," "Notorious," "Rear Window" and "Strangers on a Train," among others.

But the one that's held me spellbound for the past 50 years - the first Hitchcock I ever saw in a theater, thanks to my Aunt Rose - is his masterpiece "Vertigo." The film opens with a rooftop chase in San Francisco that ends with a detective hanging on a ledge. A cop

By LOU LUMENICK

7 October 2008 3:08 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

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Psycho, Rear Window and Vertigo If you haven't yet checked out my Movie Magic article from Monday it was inspired by the audio commentary from Psycho and I have yet to check out the special features for either Rear Window or Vertigo, but I did get a chance to watch Vertigo just last night. While Psycho is great and Rear Window may be my favorite Hitchcock film I have no idea what people see in Vertigo. That film is long and for the most part downright boring. I don't think the con pulled on Scottie is all that intriguing and the hokey dialogue is just too much to bear. The AFI recently named Vertigo the ninth best American movie ever made, with Psycho at 14 and Rear Window at 48. Maybe I am in the minority, but Vertigo

Brad Brevet

6 October 2008 4:50 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

The Psycho toilet... You scared yet?

Photo: Universal Home Video This last weekend saw the release of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and it came in third at the box-office so I am assuming some of you saw it and for those that didn't there is a scene where Norah's drunk friend, Caroline (Ari Graynor), is seen in a public restroom where she first vomits and then accidentally drops her cell phone and chewing gum in the very same toilet she just vacated her stomach. The toilet looks like it hasn't been flushed or cleaned in about ten years but is still regularly used. Caroline proceeds to fish out not only her cell phone, but the gum as well. The gum is then passed on from character to character throughout the film. Obviously, the Nick and Norah example was an attempt at drastic gross-out/potty humor. Sh!t, vomit, farts

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27 September 2008 6:25 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news

Hollywood legend Paul Newman has died after a battle with cancer. He was 83. The star of such films as Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler, The Color Of Money, Road To Perdition and many more over a career spanning 50 years, was surrounded by members of his family at the time of his death.

Newman was nominated for ten Oscars over the years, winning three, the first for the 1986 film The Color Of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese.

Newman acted in 60 films in all, appearing in some with his wife, Joanne Woodward, in like Long Hot Summer and Paris Blues. He worked alongside legends like Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall and Tom Hanks. He even provided his voice for the 2006 Pixar movie Cars, which turned out to be his last role.

Newman gave up acting in 2007 because he felt that he couldn't give the

26 September 2008 10:44 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Eagle Eye is not as exciting as the trailers might lead moviegoers to believe, several critics have suggested. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times writes, "This film contains not a single plausible moment after the opening sequence, and that's borderline. It's not an assault on intelligence. It's an assault on consciousness." Claudia Puig in USA Today makes the identical criticism: "Mostly, the plot is mind-numbingly preposterous, never stinting on overblown action." Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News suggests that the film "feels as if it were created, directed and acted, soup to nuts, by a computer program. See, everyone complains about humans in movies but no one does anything about it, so it fell to Eagle Eye to make everything laughably, ridiculously fake." Numerous critics make the point that the screenwriter "borrowed" plot devices and scenes directly from other films, most of them directed by Alfred Hitchcock. But Ty Burr in the Boston Globe concludes: "The borrowings from older, better movies are used the way you'd retrofit a classic engine into an assembly-line chassis. No one in the audience needs to know that's the Albert Hall climax from The Man Who Knew Too Much rumbling under the final scenes set in the Us Capitol. But no one who's seen The Man Who Knew Too Much will think Eagle Eye does it remotely as well."

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20 September 2008 10:04 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Just when you didn’t think you could see any weirder stuff on this here site, we slap you upside the head with Barbie! But she’s not just any Barbie, oh now; she’s a Tippi Hedren Barbie from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds!

Entertainment Earth has The Birds Barbie up for pre-order now, and since we have an affiliate deal with Entertainment Earth and you guys love to support us while getting cool stuff, you should click here to get your Birds Barbie now!

Words I never though I’d type running a horror website.

No worries. Like I said the other day, there’s no shame in owning a doll; in this case you can justify it because she's in the process of getting eaten alive by homicidal birds!

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10 September 2008 1:19 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

The Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up this week features:

The makers of Disturbia are sued, Val Kilmer gets busy, is there too much Salt for Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise, could Colin Farrell be joining Robert Downey Jr in Sherlock Holmes and will Fox be giving us more X-Men, Daredevil and Deadpool?

1. The makers of hit Shia La Boeuf film Disturbia are being sued by the rights holder of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. The Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust states that the films are too similar and that the Dreamworks film should have obtained the movie rights to the original short story by Cornell Woolrich.

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Source: Deadline Hollywood

2. Although a lot of actors in Hollywood attach themselves to films, nobody signs on to as many as Val Kilmer. The former Batman has just signed on to two new films (take that Tom Cruise!) Kilmer has put his signature

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9 September 2008 9:30 AM, PDT | From Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news

Minnie Driver gave birth to a baby boy named Henry Story Driver last Friday in La. The father has not been revealed but will have an active role in Henry's life. — lilsugar Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks, and Paramount Pictures are being sued for allegedly copying Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window when making Disturbia. The estate of the man who wrote the short story Hitchcock's film is based on filed the lawsuit. — AP Alec Baldwin confirmed that Oprah will guest star on 30 Rock. — Extra! Lil Wayne ended up backing out of his scheduled performance at Fashion Rocks after he refused to go through security and let his bag be checked. — Page Six Jerry O'Connell apologized to his wife Rebecca Romijn for referring to her as "huge" on the Conan O'Brien show and clarified his statement. — People Former Ufc champion Evan Tanner was found dead in a desert near San Diego yesterday. Cause of death is undetermined.

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9 September 2008 4:28 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Steven Spielberg and two major Hollywood studios have been accused of stealing the plot of last year's Disturbia from Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic Rear Window. According to Reuters, Universal and Spielberg's studio DreamWorks are named in a lawsuit filed by the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust, claiming that they broke copyright for producing Disturbia without the permission of the rights holders. Hitchcock's Rear Window was based on Cornell Woolrich's short story Murder From A Fixed Viewpoint. The British director acquired the film rights in 1953 and the lawsuit argues that DreamWorks should have done the same. The lawsuit stated: "What the defendants have been (more)

By Simon Reynolds

9 September 2008 12:12 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Cybill Shepherd landed her lead role in TV hit Moonlighting thanks to a sexy dress she wore in an Alfred Hitchcock remake.

The actress reveals her look in The Lady Vanishes inspired Moonlighting's sexy Maddie Hayes character.

She tells WENN, "(Creator) Glenn (Gordon Caron) realised after writing the first 50 pages that he was writing it for me because of a dress I wore in The Lady Vanishes.

"I wore this one dress - they only made eight of them - cut out of silk satin, and I didn't wear a bra. My breasts were so much less versatile back then.

"I asked him why did he think of me for the part and he said, 'It was that dress, that dress.' He couldn't even remember the name of the movie."

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8 September 2008 10:06 PM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

This should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who has seen Disturbia. Steven Spielberg is being sued for ripping off Alfred Hitchcock. According to Reuters, Spielberg's company DreamWorks and its parent companies are accused of copyright infringement and breach of contract. The lawsuit alleges that DreamWorks never properly obtained the rights to the story Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is based on, before making Disturbia, and the lawsuit points our rather correctly that both Disturbia and Rear Window are essentially the same. Even reviewers who liked the film were at the time, unable to avoid the comparisons, and the movie seemed almost to embrace the notion that it was Rear Window for MySpace teens and tweeners. The basic structure of the plot does unfold in much the same manner, though many of the specifics, like the reasons for our lead character's home-incarceration, are changed. Yet the similarities are hard to

8 September 2008 5:32 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Filed under: Classics, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, Universal, Celebrities and Controversy, Dreamworks, Steven Spielberg, Remakes and Sequels

The basic plot of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window -- man believes he witnessed a murder, has to prove it really happened -- has been reused for so many films and TV shows that it's not that surprising when another homage or ripoff comes around. Yet last year's Disturbia, starring Shia Labeouf as a guy under house arrest who thinks his neighbor is a serial killer, bore close enough resemblance to be labeled an update on Hitchcock's film. And now, not surprisingly, the film's executive producer, Steven Spielberg, along with Dreamworks, its parent company Viacom and Universal Pictures, is being sued for creating an unauthorized remake.

The defendant in the case is not exactly related to Hitchcock's film, though; the lawsuit was filed by Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust, which owns the rights to Cornell Woolrich

Christopher Campbell

28 August 2008 1:48 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

From left to right: Quentin Tarantino, M. Night Shyamalan, Kevin Smith, Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, Ethan and Joel Coen, Ron Howard and Martin Scorsese In search of an idea for another top ten list I got to thinking about directors. Who is the best director? Who is the worst director? Those two questions require some serious research and I just don't think I am learned enough to say one way or another. Then I got to thinking about who may be the most overrated director? The best thing about this question is that it eliminates the likes of Uwe Boll from the conversation and I don't need to regurgitate what so many others have said concerning the directors that have gone down in history as great. I don't have to worry about telling you how great Alfred Hitchcock is and why. It's fantastic. However I

Brad Brevet

27 August 2008 1:33 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

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While it stars some great names in the world of film, we haven't heard too much about Easy Virtue. But now, as it gears up for that spanky Canadian festival known as Tiff, CinEmpire has published a whole slew of pictures -- a retro Jessica Biel, Colin Firth, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, and more.

The film focuses on an American divorcee (Biel) who has to meet the parents (but hopefully without the cat milking). But unlike Stiller's version, she's already tied the knot with a sexy young Englishman (Barnes), so Mom (Scott Thomas) and Dad (Firth) can't stop the wedding. But I'm sure there'll be lots of dirty looks, and more than one smirk, like the one above.

Virtue is yet another romcom, but at least it heads back in time a little, and originally comes from a Noel Coward play that Alfred Hitchcock

Monika Bartyzel

21 August 2008 7:56 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

This month, we honor the birth of Alfred Hitchcock and the 50th anniversary of Vertigo, one of his masterpieces. Hitchcock found actual filming a bore, but loved pre-production and transferring images from his mind to paper. Dozens of memorable visuals come to mind -- Psycho: water swirling down drain, stabbings. ...

Maggie Van Ostrand

19 August 2008 11:47 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Reliving the horror of the classic 1982 scary movie from notable filmmaker Steven Spielberg, MGM move forward with their plan on remaking "Poltergeist". The studio have now signed a pair of screenwriter Juliet Snowden and Stiles White to make some reworks on the reboot project's script.

This project won't be the two's first horror movie project. In fact, Snowden and White have been known to be the specialists on this movie genre. They are known for their work in Sam Raimi-produced 2005 horror film "Boogeyman". They have recently hired to develop the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror thriller, "The Birds".

Considerably one of the most scariest movies ever made, the original "Poltergeist" tells the creepy story of a family home being haunted by a band of ghosts. Though firstly the spirits appear to be friendly, they soon turn evil putting the family in constant fear and eventually kidnap the family's youngest daughter.

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16 August 2008 12:17 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

If you study cinema, you might have heard of the Hitchcock/Truffaut book, a remarkable book-length interview where film critic-turned-filmmaker François Truffaut chatted with his idol Alfred Hitchcock. The book was originally published in 1967, and has since became textbook reading for many film schools. After Hitchcock's death, Truffaut revised the book to include his latter years. Tom Sutpen got ahold of the 25 interview tapes between them and had been posting it on his blog monthly since 2006. The series only recently concluded with tape #25, which you can hear below.

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8 August 2008 5:25 AM, PDT | From Moviescore Media | See recent Moviescore Media news

John Frizzell has recently recorded his orchestral score for The Lodger, David Ondaatje's film which is based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, previously reworked for the silver screen by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927. Rachael Leigh Cook, Simon Baker and Shane West star in the thriller where a couple begin to suspect that the young and mysterious man who rents their room is a psychotic murderer. Michael Mailer Films produces for release by Sony, release date to be confirmed. Frizzell's other recent scores include Evil Angel, 100 Feet and Henry Poole Is Here. He is best known for Office Space, Alien: Resurrection and Ghost Ship.

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7 August 2008 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news

At comic con we caught up with Brad Fuller and had a chance to talk to him about a bunch of his upcoming remakes. One of those remakes is The Birds which they are remaking from the Alfred Hitchcock classic. Obviously times have changed since that movie first came out and terrified movie goers so they are going to adapt it to suit a new generation of film goers and horror fans. Brad Fuller from Platinum Dunes told us they are working on a whole new take; We're working that out now but there's only so much that can happen. Birds attack. It's the explaining of why is it happening or if you exp...

7 August 2008 10:38 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Shia LaBeouf will not become the next Indiana Jones, George Lucas has told MTV News. Although Lucas has previously hinted that LaBeouf would take over the franchise, he reversed himself Wednesday, saying, "Indiana Jones is Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones. If it was Mutt Williams [the character LaBeouf plays in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull] it would be Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis or something." Lucas did say that he's planning another Indiana Jones sequel and that Ford will star in it. What he's looking for now, he indicated is what Alfred Hitchcock used to refer to as a "McGuffin," an artifact to propel the story. "They are very hard to find," he said. "It's like archeology. It takes a huge amount of research to come up with something that will fit."

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