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Interview: Mike Tyson
9 June 2009 7:15 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
It seems redundant and pointless to talk about how intimidating Mike Tyson is, but I admit that I was nervously excited when Cinematical was offered the opportunity to interview him in conjunction with the release of The Hangover. Having spoken to Tommy Lee Jones, the toughest of tough celebrity interviews, I'd survived gauntlets far more fearsome than dealing with a former heavyweight, especially since I'd recently seen Tyson, which offers a portrait of him at his most reflective, self-aware and lucidly articulate. But I did want to get a good, and more importantly real interview with him, not just lob softballs in his direction and be yet another guy who was too scared to ask a substantive question.
Tyson's cameo in The Hangover is just one great moment in a film with plenty of other ones, but it seems to mean more for him, if not also to him:
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Todd Gilchrist
'Celebrity Rehab' Next Stop on Tom Sizemore's Sad Career Descent
2 June 2009 9:03 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
In the case of most reality-show stars, it's obvious that they've found their level. Humiliating themselves on TV is the only way they'll ever be famous, and they're all too happy to dance like monkeys for a shot at celebrity.
In some cases, however, it's simply a sad, last rest stop between fame and obscurity. In the case of Tom Sizemore, who starred in a painfully raw six-episode VH1 show called Shooting Sizemore and has signed on for the new season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, it hurts to watch the decline of a genuinely talented performer.
Some actors, you remember the first time you saw them. But it's not like that with Sizemore. For me, it's like he was just suddenly always there. In the 1990s, he was a sort of a poor man's Tommy Lee Jones, except with his own distinct, streetwise edge -- where Tommy Lee
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Dawn Taylor
News: “Alien” the Prequel, Blockbuster Video shows their desperation and more…
1 June 2009 10:38 PM, PDT | From SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news
"Alien" the Prequel: An "Alien" prequel has been verified by director Tony Scott. He is the brother of Ridley Scott, the director of "Alien." The prequel will be directed by Carl Rinsch, director of 1994's "The Quiz." http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727754/ [1] Tony Scott guesses that production will begin "Hopefully (at) the end of the year." http://www.collider.com/2009/05/29/exclusive-tony-scott-confirms-carl-rinsch-is-directing-alien-and-its-a-prequel/ [2] I am hoping this will allow the franchise to dig itself out from the hole of 1997's "Alien: Resurrection" as well as the "Alien vs. Predator" flicks. The former was just ridiculous; (dead Ripley is back...but as a clone with a different personality? Huh?) I hope Fox compensated Sigourney Weaver very well for being in that complete mess. The latter films were just bad CGI wrapped around terrible dialogue. Maybe this latest installment will act at least as a companion piece that can at least stand alongside the original trilogy.
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Drew
Boos! and Whoop-doos!: The Epic Origins of a Future Summer
1 June 2009 10:54 AM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news
The Origin Film? Whoop-doo!
The origin film has dominated the box office for most of May. We learned how Wolverine got his claws, how James T. Kirk came to captain the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, how John Connor came to lead the Resistance, and how Robert Langdon settled for that goofy-ass hairdo. Despite these tales being repetitive and unnecessary, they've pulled in record grosses. Some have been enthralling; others have left their fans irate. But all have been successful on some level. That can only mean one thing in Hollywood: More of the same. For each origin film that tops $100 million in ticket sales, another five are being placed into production. Why are they so popular? Because they breed familiarity. They are an easy sale item. Even though we know these epic myths and legends by heart, that won't stop some lofty director from churning them out
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Blockbuster to Sell Movie Prop Replicas
29 May 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | From WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news
Blockbuster, the nation's top renter of DVDs, said Thursday that it's getting serious about branching out into new territory, and that anything movie-related is fair game. Therefore, expect to start seeing replicas of the sunglasses Tom Cruise wore in "Top Gun" and that Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith wore in "Men in Black" on Blockbuster shelves. The company has struggled to remain relevant amid competition from Netflix, Redbox and numerous VOD options, but Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes noted that Blockbuster not only has DVD-by-mail, kiosks and Internet-delivered VOD, but also its brick-and-mortar stores. Granted, some analysts see the stores as more hindrance than help, but Keyes called them "strong points of differentiation." Wall Street isn't convinced, and shares of Blockbuster have sunk 90% in less than two years, closing at 71 cents on Thursday.
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Blockbuster to Sell Movie Prop Replicas
28 May 2009 10:10 PM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news
Blockbuster, the U.S.' top retailer for DVD rentals announced yesterday that it wants expand its core business into other sectors of the movie business. Specifically: movie prop replicas.
Therefore, in the next little while, don't be surprised to see replicas of the sunglasses Tom Cruise wore in Top Gun or that Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith wore in Men in Black on Blockbuster shelves.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the company has struggled to remain relevant amid competition from Netflix, Redbox and numerous VOD options such as iTunes, but Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes noted that Blockbuster not only has DVD-by-mail, kiosks and Internet-delivered VOD, but also its brick-and-mortar stores.
Indeed, 5 to 6 percent of the company's DVD rentals are Blu-ray Disc and Blockbuster's by-mail service is said to be profitable.
Some analysts see the stores as more hindrance than help, but Keyes called them "strong points of differentiation." Wall Street remains unconvinced,
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Marcia Cross, Fran Drescher Named Stand Up to Cancer Ambassadors
27 May 2009 3:45 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
Many of Hollywood's top stars - including Marcia Cross, Kirsten Dunst, Sally Field, Mandy Moore and Fran Drescher - are standing up for a good cause: The fight against cancer. The women have been named as celebrity ambassadors by the Entertainment Industry Foundation, a group of media, entertainment and philanthropic leaders whose lives have been affected by cancer in significant ways. Drescher, who is a uterine cancer survivor, wrote about her battle with the disease in her book, Cancer Schmancer. Cross has also been touched by the disease: Her husband, Tom Mahoney, is currently undergoing treatment for cancer. The group's
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Townsend Coleman Reminisces on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
22 May 2009 2:23 PM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news
The voice of Michelangelo on the highly-popular animated series takes a look back on the 25th anniversary of this creation.
Townsend Coleman was a DJ and radio personality in Cleveland, Ohio for many years, when he decided it was time to pursue his dreams of becoming an actor, and moved his family to Hollywood in 1984. Due to his radio experience, he found more work as a voice actor and in 1987 he took on the voice of a character that would be part of a cultural phenomena in the 80s and 90s: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. Coleman performed the voice of my personal favorite turtle, Michelangelo, and I recently had the chance to speak with him over the phone about the 25th anniversary of these wonderful characters' creation and the four-part Season 7 DVD set that was broken off into four "slices" - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 7, Pt.
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Writers ready to 'Ratchet'
21 May 2009 4:19 PM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news
Douglas Cook and David Weisberg have been hired to write the mystery thriller "Nick Ratchet," one of Stan Lee's Pow Entertainment projects set up at Disney and based on an idea of Lee.s. Cook and Weisberg have writing credits that include Michael Bay's "The Rock" and the Ashley Judd/Tommy Lee Jones film "Double Jeopardy." According to The Hollywood Reporter, Richard Lagravenese will be handling directing duties. The story revolves around the internal struggle between a passive, ineffective police officer and his online alter-ego, a tough avatar cop named Nick Ratchet who jumps from inside a video game to present day reality to one-up the life of his creator. Larry Jacobson and Sonny Grosso are producing. Lee is exec producing
Adnan Tezer
Natural Born Killers: Director's Cut Gets Violent on DVD and Blu-ray on August 25th
20 May 2009 8:32 AM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news
You can relive the tale of Mickey and Mallory Knox in a special new edition on DVD and Blu-ray this August. Natural Born Killers: The Director's Cut will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 25. The standard DVD will be priced at $20.97 Srp while the Bd will be priced at $28.99 Srp. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones and Tom Sizemore.
The story of a husband and wife who are serial killers involved in a cross country killing spree that elevates them from fugitives into media celebrities.
Special Features:
- Commentary by Director Oliver Stone
- Introduction by Oliver Stone
- Chaos Rising The Storm Around Natural Born Killers (featurette)
Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Oliver Stone
- The Desert
- The Courtroom
- The Hun Brothers
- The Drive-In
- Alternate Ending with introduction
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Watch The Fugitive With Us
12 May 2009 8:23 AM, PDT | From TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news
This evening the TotalFilm.com DVD club will be watching the Harrison Ford chase movie The Fugitive, with a movie stealing performance by Tommy Lee Jones. Such a well-loved programme deserved a movie adaptation that could do the concept justice. Enter Harrison Ford as Richard Kimble, pursued by Marshal Sam Gerard in the role that made Tommy Lee Jones a household name. He steals the show with an Oscar-winning performance that’s become part of cinema history and spawned Us Marshals – another successful flick based around...
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Marc Forster is Ready To Disconnect
8 May 2009 1:00 AM, PDT | From EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news
Director Marc Forster is to reteam with his Quantum of Solace producer William Horberg for a techie thriller called Disconnect, written by Andrew Stern, writer of the David Duchovny/ Minnie Driver romance Return To Me.The movie will follow a group of people, and examine how modern technology that's designed to bring them together in fact causes them to drift further apart. Or to "disconnect".Disconnect will be made by Nala Films, responsible for Steve Carell's recent indie slowburner Dan in Real Life and Tommy Lee Jones army drama In the Valley of Elah. The company's next project is Shelter a supernatural chiller starring Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.Forster, who found moderate success with the most recent installment of Bond, is currently working on zombie apocalypse actioner World War Z with Brad Pitt's Plan B for Paramount.
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20 Years of Summer Movies, A Love/Hate Relationship
7 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
With the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the 2009 summer movie season has begun. A cursory glance at the upcoming slate of summer releases looks pretty weak this year, but I’m not here to look ahead. Instead, I noticed that we’ve reached the twenty-year anniversary of the “true” summer movie age. Sure, Jaws and Star Wars were the godfathers of the movement, and the close-following summers since that time often saw two or three big releases looking to cash in on the popcorn-munching crowd, but it was 1989 when the summer movie calendar started to become bloated. The large number of crowd-pleasing titles (and bevy of sequels) included the following: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Ghostbusters II, License to Kill, Star Trek V, Lethal Weapon 2, The Abyss, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and, to a lesser extent, The Karate Kid: Part III. So on the Platinum Anniversary of the summer flick phenomenon,
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Matt Medlock
Terrific Trailers: The Fugitive
2 May 2009 4:33 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Taking a trip down the memory lane of 1993 led me to hit up YouTube for trailers. Movie marketing wasn't nearly as pervasive as it was today, and so I often find myself trying to remember when exactly I heard about this movie, or that one. I've always envied friends who remember when they saw the trailer for The Empire Strikes Back and how they felt, and I can't even remember how the hell I knew I wanted to see Braveheart. I have no memory for movie marketing prior to 1999, it seems, which why I started looking up the trailers for 1993. I only got as far as The Fugitive and decided it had to be shared as a Terrific Trailer.
Most trailers of the '80s and '90s were pretty cheesy, despite the sultry tones of Don Lafontaine. They're edited badly, they give too much away, and are the wrong tone for the fillm.
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Elisabeth Rappe
Scenes We Love: In the Line of Fire
30 April 2009 2:15 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
If a movie is really only as good as its villain, the summer of 1993 proved it with the double-whammy of In the Line of Fire and The Fugitive in July. Everyone else had Jurassic Park fever, but I was swept up by these two excellent, evenly-matched bouts. The latter, The Fugitive, reveled in some gray areas; Tommy Lee Jones's character wasn't all bad, but in In the Line of Fire, John Malkovich was pure bad. (They were both nominated for Oscars, and Jones won.) Malkovich plays Mitch Leary, a former military man who feels the need to assassinate the current U.S. president (Jim Curley -- who looks a bit like John McCain). Clint Eastwood plays aging Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan, who blames himself for allowing JFK to be shot, and is determined not to let it happen again. Mitch knows all about Frank's history and leaves him clues,
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Jeffrey M. Anderson
Mid-Week Movie News Wrap Up - April 30, 2009
30 April 2009 12:07 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
Another week means another wrap up.
This week:
We Tell No One about a new remake; Hollywood decides to tell us about The Day They Stole The Mona Lisa; Wolverine’s Danny Huston is beyond the Poseidon adventure; Maria Bello and Craig T. Nelson are Company Men and Amanda Peet Travels with Jack Black.
1. Miramax will produce a remake of hit French thriller Tell No One.
The original film saw a French doctor discover that his dead wife may be alive - don’t get funny - I know that would mean she’s not really dead but get over it.
The film sounds like a 1990’s Hollywood thriller starring Michael Douglas or Harrison Ford (that’s not a bad thing). Jurassic Park producer and Spielberg protégé Kathleen Kennedy will produce the film.
The original film was based on a novel by Haralan Coben.
Source: Variety
2. Roger Donaldson the man
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Niall Browne
Don Murphy and John Wells to produce "The Forgotten"
29 April 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news
John Wells and Don Murphy will produce the indie comedy "The Forgotten" via their John Wells Productions and Angryfilms banners.Claire Rudnick Polstein will produce with Wells and Angryfilms' Susan Montford is also producing.The comic tells of a man who is forgotten after five minutes, no matter who he meets or what he does. This gift of sorts aids him in his investigations and problem-solving but unfortunately leaves him quite lonely. His powers will be used for good when a long-lost friend's son is wrongfully accused of murder and he has to get to the bottom of a conspiracy. Wells is helming "The Company Men" which stars Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Maria Bello and Craig T. Nelson and Rosemarie Dewit. Murphy is a producer for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."
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Don Murphy And John Wells Are Forgotten
28 April 2009 11:48 PM, PDT | From EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news
Producers Don Murphy and John Wells have teamed up to option the movie rights to the indie comic book, Forgotten.First published as a four-part series in 2004, the Evan Young/Jareth Grealish comic revolves around a man who is forgotten by everyone he meets after five minutes, something to which Empire, obviously, can’t relate (damn damn Damn!).When the son of a long-lost friend is wrongly accused of murder, our hero uses his power – which has left him incredibly lonely, like the last biscuit at the bottom of the tin - to solve the mystery, in a style that’s been described as Philip K. Dick meets Memento. In other words, this one is going to make your brain hurt. Don’t worry, though, you’ll forget all about it in five minutes.The pairing of Murphy and Wells is an intriguing one. Wells is the creator of ER,
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Maria Bello Is A Company Man
27 April 2009 7:48 PM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news
Times are tough. Even though you can't necessarily tell from the box office enumbers, the recession is hitting Hollywood too. That's how Maria Bello is finding herself in the enviable position of firing Ben Affleck... at least, within the context of a movie. Variety announced that Bello and Craig T. Nelson are the most recent actors to join the cast of the independent comedy The Company Men, a movie about corporate downsizing and the consequences felt by the company's employees. No, this isn't another remake of Fun With Dick & Jane, at least as far as we can tell. The movie already included Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, and Kevin Costner. Now Bello joins as a vice president of human resources who fires the character played by Affleck, while Nelson joins the cast as the CEO of a global conglomerate. The movie is written and directed by John Wells (who served ...
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News Bites: 'Tetro' Rethinks Cannes & 'Company Men' Gets a 'Coach'
27 April 2009 3:45 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
You may have heard that Francis Ford Coppola had said no to screening Tetro out of competition and had decided to keep his latest film out of Cannes. Well, all that's changed now. Variety reports that Olivier Pere countered Coppola's refusal with a new offer, one that proved too irresistible. Now the Vincent Gallo film will open the 41st edition of Directors' Fortnight, which also boasts I Love You Phillip Morris amongst a number of international selections. For the unlucky Cannes-free people: Coppola will be distributing the film through his American Zoetrope, but no release date has been announced.
Meanwhile, the cast of The Company Men, the drama that has Ben Affleck getting sacked, keeps growing. First Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones signed on, and now Variety reports that Craig T. Nelson and Maria Bello are joining the film, which is currently kicking off in Boston. Company focuses on
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Monika Bartyzel
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