Atlantic Culture

  • Old, New, and Transgender Rockers: The Week’s Best Pop-Culture Writing
    Welcome to our weekly roundup of the most intriguing articles about pop culture we’ve come across in the past seven days. Click the links in the article titles to read the full pieces, and let us know what we’ve missed: Please use a JavaScript-enabled…
  • June 1book140 Reading Schedule: ‘The Name of the Rose’
    A few weeks ago we decided to read a Whodunnit for June. In a short, intense bit of voting, all y’all picked the Umberto Eco classic, The Name of the Rose. It may not be a traditional mystery, nor quite fit the profile of light, summer reading, but then,…

The Movie Blog

  • Loopy new poster for Looper
      Looper is one loopy movie. JGL and Bruce Willis playing the same character and time travel and all sorts of mayhem that comes in between. Time travel never works out as intended, just as Bruce Willis who’s done this before in 12 monkeys….

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Deadline.com

  • EMMYS: Producers View ‘Downton Abbey’ “In Quite A Contemporary Way”
    Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage It’s been 100 years since the Titanic sank but less than a year since a TV event that kicked off with that very disaster, Downton Abbey, took the Emmy Awards by storm last September. Relatively…
  • Better Box Office: ‘Snow White’ Hot In U.S., ‘Prometheus’ On Fire Overseas
    FRIDAY 9 PM, 3RD UPDATE: My sources now say Universal’s PG-13 Snow White And The Huntsman (3,773 theaters) will climb to $21M for today and $55+M for this domestic weekend. That result is better than expected for the 2D original fantasy actioner…
  • Hot Trailer: ‘Branded’
    This trailer for Branded looks more than a little creepy with echoes of David Cronenberg, John Carpenter and even David Fincher. The premise? Mind control and global domination via advertising with subliminal messages that trigger irresistible appetites…
  • 28 Projects Make First Cut In State’s Production Tax Credit Lottery
    UPDATED 7PM: The California Film Commission completed its production tax credits lottery this afternoon and of 322 projects submitted today, 28 were selected to receive credits before this year’s $100 million total allocation runs out. Other qualified…
  • Damon Lindelof Finalizing Deal With WBTV: “I’m Ready To Come Back To TV Full Time’
    Exactly two years after Lost bowed out with one of the most talked-about finales in TV history, the series’ co-creator/co-showrunner Damon Lindelof is returning to the TV island after treading feature waters for the past two years. Lindelof is finalizing…
  • Andy Samberg Confirms Exit From ‘SNL’
    Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg today ended months of speculations that he would be leaving the veteran NBC sketch comedy show. He confirmed his exit through his publicist. Samberg, Kristen Wiig and Jason Sudeikis are the three SNL cast members…
  • EMMYS: Ballots Go Out, Race Heats Up As Spartacus Meets Spartacus At TV Academy
    Emmy voters received official ballots in the mail today with instructions that they must be returned by 5 PM on June 28. However, voting can’t actually take place until ballot listings are posted at a secure Emmy address online after 6 PM Monday,…
  • WME Signs NFL Star Ray Lewis
    EXCLUSIVE: Ray Lewis of the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens has signed with WME. The Super Bowl XXXV MVP will be repped by the agency for all off-field opportunities including public appearances, speaking engagements, TV, film and books. Lewis will continue…
  • Will Hollywood Become The Next Publisher’s Row?
    The idea is starting to catch on, and is sure to be front and center next week in New York at BookExpo America, the largest book industry event in North America. The thinking is that it’s relatively easy for studios to turn publishing into a useful…

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Guardian Film Blog

  • Has One Shot blown it by changing its name to Jack Reacher?
    The producers of the Lee Childs adaptation, starring Tom Cruise, forgot one rule. Films named after characters usually perform anonymously at the box office So far, Tom Cruise has played his re-entry from the wilderness remarkably well. Tropic Thunder…
  • The Bourne Legacy trailer: will it bring you running?
    Jason Bourne was an athletic modern riposte to the suaveness and gadgetry of Bond. Jeremy Renner as Not-Bourne throws genetically altered chromosomes into the bargain Who’s better, Bond or Bourne? It’s a question that’s been posed ever since Matt Damon…
  • Prometheus has landed … to mixed atmospheric readings
    Reviewers have praised Ridley Scott’s latest venture into Alien territory, though some wonder if it lacks a sense of direction Those who have dared to believe that Ridley Scott is still capable of adding something to the Alien canon can breathe a sigh…

Total Film Features

  • 50 Greatest Movies About Movies
    Singin’ In The Rain (1952) Lights! Camera! Action! Silent movie star Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly), working on his first talkie, The Duelling Cavalier. Trouble On Set: Cumbersome sound equipment and the shrieking voice of co-star Lina Lamont (Jean…
  • Sam Ashurst’s House Of Horror: Return Of The Living Dead Special
  • 15 Craziest Cronenberg Moments
    Motherly Love The Movie: The Brood (1979) The Moment: Nola welcomes another member to her murderous brood, ripping open her external womb to welcome her latest delivery into the world. Possibly the most upsetting birth scene ever committed to celluloid…
  • 50 Greatest Cannes Breakthroughs
    Steven Soderbergh The Breakthrough: Still in his twenties, Soderbergh wins the Palme D’Or in 1989 for his debut sex, lies and videotape, against stiff competition from Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing.  Post-Cannes: Cursed with expectation…
  • 15 Greatest Alien Moments
    Chestburster The Moment: Poor old Kane recovers from his ordeal with the facehugger by shakily getting to his feet and joining the rest of the crew for a celebratory dinner in the mess hall. All appears to be fine until Kane starts to develop a bit of…
  • The Making Of Prometheus
    Alien 5 The last thing the Alien franchise needed was another sequel. Or, for that matter, another mandible-crunching clash with a Predator. Still, after 1997’s divisive Alien: Resurrection, rumours of an Alien 5 were more persistent than a Facehugger…
  • Rick Baker On Rick Baker
  • 50 Greatest Cannes Moments
    Lars The Nazi The Moment: The press conference for Melancholia goes awry when Lars Von Trier digs himself into a massive hole by claiming he admires Adolf Hitler and jokingly claiming to be a Nazi, to the obvious discomfort of his star Kirsten Dunst….
  • Worst To Best: Movie Threequels
    Superman 3 (1983) A low point for superhero movies and threequels alike, the Man of Steel’s third outing takes a turn for the comic, with laughable results. As soon as the risible opening sequence kicks in, complete with wind-up penguins, you know that…
  • 15 Greatest Wes Anderson Moments
    Final Curtain The Moment: Rushmore comes to a close in spectacular style as Max finally gets to share a dance with Miss Cross, stepping on to the dancefloor in slow motion just before the final curtain falls. The Music: Ooh La La by The Faces, possibly…

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