December 2009
The Movie Blog
Jeremy Renner is Not Hawkeye
There was rumour surrounding Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner that he was approached to play Hawkeye in the Avengers after a cameo in Thor. But Renner himself was faced with the rumour and fessed up. It did happen, and nothing came of it. Worst Previews…
Furry Vengeance Trailer Online
This has been a slow week for news with Hollywood on vacation, but because I am...
Collider » Blu-ray
District 9 Blu-ray Review
Behind District 9, one of the most kick-ass, and awesome films of the year, is a question that has been part of the public (especially America’s cinematic consciousness) for a very long time. The question is this: what if you were the thing you…
A PERFECT GETAWAY Unrated Director’s Cut Blu-ray Review
The problem with the thriller is that formalists like Brian De...
Rotten Tomatoes - US Boxoffice
The Princess and the Frog
The warmth of traditional Disney animation makes this occasionally lightweight fairy-tale update a lively and captivating confection for the holidays.
Avatar
It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but Avatar reaffirms James Cameron’s singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking.
Sherlock Holmes
Guy...
Rotten Tomatoes - News
Critics Consensus: The White Ribbon Is Certified Fresh
The final week of the year brings no wide releases, but Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner The White Ribbon hits theaters in limited release. What do the critics have to say? Michael Haneke’s films are not for the faint of heart. Best known in the United…
RT’s 2010 Movie Preview — Happy New Year!
It may be...
Slashfilm.com
The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 82 - The Top 10 Films of 2009
In this episode, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley countdown their top 10 films of 2009. They also run down some honorable mentions and name some of their biggest disappointments. Thanks to everyone who listened for a great year! You can…
LOL: Nic Cage as Everyone
There’s a serious backlash building against the...
First Showing
Kevin Feige Looks Back at a Decade of Marvel on the Big Screen
By now you probably all know who Kevin Feige is - if not, he’s the current President of Marvel Studios and is now responsible for bringing us Iron Man 2, Thor, and The Avengers. He began his Marvel career as associate producer on Bryan Singer’s X-Men…
The Many Uses of Green Screen Virtual Backlot Demo Video
It seems...
Guardian Film Blog
Week in geek’s best of 2009 | Ben Child
These were the top five science-fiction, fantasy and comicbook movies this year that set my pulse racing. Which were yours? In this season of lists, I thought I’d run down my top 10 science-fiction, fantasy and comicbook movies of the year. Easy peasy,…
Best films of the noughties No 2: Borat | Andrew Pulver
Sacha Baron Cohen’s...
Cineuropa - European cinema
Industry - UK - Optimum restoration for British classics
Optimum Releasing and StudioCanal have joined hands with Pinewood Studios to restore and preserve StudioCanal’s 1400 strong British Library Archive. First up will be restorations of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, Robert Hamer’s Kind Hearts and Coronets…
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Movieline
The Forecast Calls For Rice
· People tuning in to The Weather Channel got a surprise marriage proposal from Kennesaw, GA police Sgt. Marty Cunningham to his girlfriend, Weather Channel meteorologist Kim Perez. We love you too, Marty Cunnigham! [The Daily What]
What’s On: Launch My Lawman
Fierce disciplinarians fill out tonight’s TV schedule — Steven Seagal, Launch My...
Cinematical - News
Cinematical Presents: The 25 Lamest of 2009
We’ve arrived at the very end of 2009, which means it’s finally time to unveil our hotly-anticipated 25 Hottest and Lamest lists of 2009. Tonight we conclude the festivities with our 25 Lamest of 2009 list, which includes a number of movie-related events…
Discuss: Your Favorite Movie Novelizations and Tie-ins
Wandering through...
HD-Trailers.net - Movies
Toy Story 3 (ABC First Look)
Link to Catalog The creators of the beloved Toy Story films re-open the toy box and bring moviegoers back to the delightful world of Woody, Buzz and our favorite gang of toy characters in Toy Story 3. Woody and Buzz had accepted that their owner Andy…
How to Train Your Dragon (Trailer 2)
Link to Catalog The son of a Viking chief must capture a dragon in order to...
Hollywood Reporter
Peter Jackson named a New Zealand knight
Film writer and director Peter Jackson, whose widely acclaimed “Lord of the Rings” trilogy scooped 17 Oscars, has been made a knight in New Zealand’s New Year Honors’ list.
Nicole Kidman added as Globe presenter
Nicole Kidman and Sam Worthington are the newest additions to the line-up of presenters who’ll be handing out the...
The Movie Blog
Mel Gibson’s Movie Causes Protest in Veracruz
It wouldn’t be a Mel Gibson film if there wasn’t some protests around it. But this one is just silly. A film is set to return Gibson to Veracruz, (he filmed Apocalypto there) where part of a prison will be emptied to make way for his crew….
Avatar Encites Political and Religious Criticism
Avatar has come under attack by a number of political and...
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Youth in Revolt
Teenage antihero Nick Twisp moves from the pages of the beloved novel YOUTH IN REVOLT to the screen with this film directed by Miguel Arteta (THE GOOD GIRL). Michael Cera (JUNO) stars as Nick, a teenager who may be wise beyond his years, but that doesn’t…
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IMDb Gossip
Farrell Baptises Baby In Poland
Model/Actress Johnson Sued By Ex
Mueller Wants To Reconcile With Sheen
Cotillard And Tarantino To Receive Palm Springs Honours
Hilton Sued Over Shoe Design
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New York Times - movies
Movie Review | ‘Old Partner’: Ox Is Part of the Family, and Then Some
The inscrutable dignity of animals may seem strange when encountered in a documentary like “Old Partner.”
Movie Review | ‘The White Ribbon’: Wholesome Hamlet’s Horror Sends a Jolt to the System
“The White Ribbon,” by Michael Haneke, is an unnerving but unsatisfying chronicle of a German village filled...
Slashfilm.com
Political Reactions to Avatar: From Thoughtful to Insanely Comic
There is almost no circumstance under which I would dispense the ridiculous “just turn your brain off” advice with respect to enjoying a movie. As Devin Faraci at CHUD recently discussed, the process of thinking about a film typically gives…
Redbox Pulls Deadline Art Featuring Brittany Murphy
Whenever a celebrity dies,...
First Showing
Second New Full-Length How to Train Your Dragon Trailer
DreamWorks Animation has quietly debuted a second new full-length trailer for their next movie, How to Train Your Dragon. This isn’t available in high definition anywhere yet, but thanks to SlashFilm we’ve got a embeddable version for your viewing pleasure…
Rumors: Worthington as Flash Gordon, McAvoy as Ian Fleming
Some...
Guardian Film Blog
Could this year’s Black List of unmade scripts be the picture of Hollywood to come? | Ben Walters
The annual list that picks the best unproduced screenplays making the rounds has in the past turned up scripts that became Juno, The Road and The Invention of Lying The past year has been a good one for phantom films, those unfinished or never-quite-started…
Best films of the noughties...
Cineuropa - European cinema
Releases - France - Kounen, Van Groeningen, Campion and Amenábar mark turn of year
European films make up the lion’s share of the 19 new releases hitting French theatres on December 30 and January 6, thanks in particular to several films unveiled on the Croisette. On Wednesday, December 30, Wild Bunch Distribution is launching Jan Kounen’s…
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Movieline
All Respectable Youth Revolts Begin With Swear Words
For those who have yet to witness its splendor: How does the red band trailer of Youth in Revolt titillate us? With four-letter words, erection humor, and Nine Inch Nails-reminiscent come-ons! Michael Cera will tickle your belly button from the inside,…
Television’s One-Season Wonders of the Decade
In the past ten years, a...
Cinematical - News
Cinematical Presents: The 25 Hottest of 2009
We’ve arrived at the very end of 2009, which means it’s finally time to unveil our hotly-anticipated 25 Hottest and Lamest lists of 2009. Tonight we’re kicking things off with our 25 Hottest of 2009 list, which includes a number of movie-related events…
Cinematical Seven: Asylum DVD Covers That Make My Head Spin
I love The...
IMDb Studio News
Avatar Reaches New Heights
Disney To Revive Obscure Marvel Superheroes
Oscar Ballots Go Out
Redbox Not Stocking Some New Releases
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Hollywood Reporter
SAG ballots mailed to members
The Screen Actors Guild mailed final ballots for the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards to nearly 100,000 members of SAG on Tuesday.
DGA names new assistant exec directors
The Directors Guild of America has promoted Regina Render and Lisa Layer to the position of assistant executive director.
GLAAD makes it official at Sundance
GLAAD and the Sundance Institute...
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The Movie Blog T-Shirts Inspired by You
The New TMB will be built around the sense of community. It was you guys that make this site worth doing, so we want to make sure you can partipate as much as possible. With that in mind, I have made some TShirt designs that we can share with you: The…
Star Trek 2 could enter Production in 2011
Star Trek was easily one of the biggest surprises for me...
IMDb Gossip
Francis Threatens Legal Action Over Rape Slur
Brand Purchases Los Angeles Lovenest
Celebrity Photographer Willoughby Dies
Bartha To Replace Knight On Broadway?
Johansson ‘So Over’ New Year Parties
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Wired - Underwire/Culture
Vote for 2009’s Sexiest Geeks
Following your passion is the key to becoming a sexy geek, according to Marina Orlova. She should know: The nerdy wordsmith has built an online empire with her Hot for Words videos that make philology more fun than a trip to the library. “The ultimate…
Depp Salutes Heath Ledger, Imaginarium Cast
Johnny Depp, who stepped in to replace the Heath Ledger in The...
Slashfilm.com
Cool Stuff: Ibraheem Youssef’s Poster Art For the Films of Quentin Tarantino
Toronto based designer/art director Ibraheem Youssef created these wonderful minimalistic pieces of poster art for the films of Quentin Tarantino., including Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Check out all of the posters in full,…
Geek Deal: The Complete Monty Python’s 16 Ton Megaset:...
First Showing
Star Trek Sequel is Starting Pre-Production Next December?
Apparently this little quote was first published last week, just before Christmas, and I’m not sure how we missed it. But considering there is no other news worth reporting this week, and because Star Trek is one of favorite movies of this year, I thought…
These Ain’t Just Opening Credits: The Art of the Title...
Guardian Film Blog
Oscars 2010: which runners and riders will last the race? | Jeremy Kay
The nominees will only be announced on 2 February and the awards given out on 7 March, but the likely contenders can already be divined As the end of 2009 approaches we’re in the thick of the US awards season and pretty much everyone from the critics…
Best films of the noughties No 4: Team America: World...
Cineuropa - European cinema
Production - Netherlands - Van Houten not a Happy Housewife
Dutch actress Carice van Houten, currently on screens in the box-office hit A Woman Goes to the Doctor (see news), has recently wrapped the title role in another big Dutch production inspired by a semi-autobiographical novel: The Happy Housewife. Van…
Box Office - Norway - Norwegian children’s films boost cinema-going
This...
Movieline
Can We Talk About How Terrible Cop Out Looks For a Second?
· The trailer for Cop Out preceded my weekend showing of Sherlock Holmes, and even the mouthbreathers at The Grove couldn’t muster a couple neanderlaughs for that thing. This is what we’ve been waiting for? “Cop Out?” Wasn’t that a 30 Rock punchline?…
Were-Dreams Come True
Prayer works according to Joe...
Cinematical - News
Monday Night Poll: Do You Leave a Mess At the Movies?
On Christmas day, my mom and I hit the local mall multiplex to check out It’s Complicated. Since the other movies showing were Sherlock Holmes, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Avatar in 3D, and other big office fare, the place was packed with…
Discuss: Performance of the Decade?
During this week’s At the Movies, film...
IMDb Studio News
Image Blurry On Future Of 3D Glasses
Movie Reviews: “The Young Victoria”
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HD-Trailers.net - Movies
Inception (Trailer)
Link to Catalog A contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind. (Source) Download: 480p, 720p, 1080p Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast) Related Links: Netflix Amazon.com Fandango - Movie Tickets IMDb - Movie Database Rotten Tomatoes Yahoo!…
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Hollywood Reporter
Top 10 sleeper movie hits of the decade
Sleepers expose the limitations of Hollywood’s conventional thinking about what makes a hit. THR ranks the top 10 sleepers of the decade.
Halle Berry among Globes presenters
Halle Berry, Colin Farrell and Matthew Fox have joined the list of presenters on tap to take part in the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards.
AFI hails ‘Avatar’ as one of...
The Movie Blog
The Creatures of ‘Solomon Kane’
A nice little featurette has come online of The Creatures of ‘Solomon Kane’. I am very hopeful for this movie and these clips only increase my anticipation. Solomon Kane is a 16th century anti-hero created by Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan…
John’s Final Uncut Show LIVE – Best Of The Decade, Mailbag, And Your Live Questions. Send In Questions NOW!
A few...
Collider » DVD Review
PLASTIC MAN The Complete Series DVD Review
We all know the Justice League and it’s main characters like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. But do many remember the spin-off series about the witty one-line shooting, elastic bodied, silly superhero Plastic Man? Maybe not as much. I…
via: Collider » DVD Review
IMDb Gossip
Perry Takes Madea Back On Tour
Weaver’s Guilt At Leaving Home
Michael Lohan Wants Charges Filed Against Ex-fiancee
Grant Harbours Writing Dreams
Wahlberg Slams Beckham’s L.A. Move
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Apple movie trailers
Warlords - Trailer
Warlords - Set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, WARLORDS stars Jet Li as General Pang, who barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and joins a band of bandits…
Sex and the City 2 - Trailer
Sex and the City 2 - Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda take another bite out of the...
Slashfilm.com
The Warlords Movie Trailer: Jet Li’s Recent War Epic Finally Comes to the States
The Warlords is a two-year old Chinese mini-epic starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro in a tale based on The Assassination of Ma, a story from China’s mid-1800s civil war period. The film cleaned up at the 2008 Hong Kong Film Awards and…
Avatar 2 May Go Off Pandora, And Other Sequel Tidbits
Given...
First Showing
Joe Johnston Planning to Shoot Captain America Next June
We haven’t heard much from Marvel recently about The First Avenger: Captain America, which is still slated for release in July of 2011. What we do know, though, is that Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer, Jurassic Park III, The Wolfman) is directing and the…
Director John Waters’ Funky Picks for the Best Films of 2009
Hearing the...
Guardian Film Blog
Nowhere Boy gets nowhere near unravelling the Lennon conundrum | David Cox
Sam Taylor-Wood’s portrait of a troubled teenager’s life tells us little about the roots of his genius Nowadays, most of us enjoy what academics like to call “parasocial” lives, in which we feast on the doings of our celebrity heroes even more voraciously…
Avatar delivers a very happy...
Cineuropa - European cinema
Institutions - Spain - Storm hangs over Spanish cinema
The river running through the Bethlehem of Spanish cinema is plagued by stormy waters at the end of this year because of a confrontation that could paralyse the Spanish film industry for months. The cause of disagreement is the controversial ministerial…
Distribution - UK - From Blighty With Love to India
In a bid to expand the...
Movieline
Weekend Receipts: No Shot, Sherlock
The stockings were hung by the chimneys with care, but Americans, still bitter about the “I O U … One Hug!” coupons found stuffed inside them on a very recession-y Christmas morning, chose to take out their frustrations at the local multiplexes. The…
via: Movieline
Cinematical - News
The Best of the Decade: Remakes
Talking about remakes is tough. On the one hand, as a film lover the ideal scenario is that remakes should be an endangered species; that filmmakers will spend their time and money investing in new ideas instead of rehashing other people’s dreams. On…
‘Avatar’ and the Death of Storytelling
As people gush about Avatar, allowing the beauty to...
IMDb Studio News
Past And Future Collide At Box Office
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HD-Trailers.net - Movies
Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore (Trailer No. 1)
Link to Catalog The epic struggle for control of planet Earth continues in this sequel to the 2001 comedy that had pet owners all across the world looking at their house pets in a whole new light. Chris O’Donnell and 30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer…
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Hollywood Reporter
‘Avatar’ wins second week in a row
Reigning champ “Avatar” easily beat newcomer “Sherlock Holmes” at the Christmas holiday box office in North America after a closely followed duel.
‘Avatar’ wins second week in a row
Reigning champ “Avatar” easily beat newcomer “Sherlock Holmes” at the Christmas holiday box office in North...
The Movie Blog
‘Edge of Darkness’ trailer online
This was released a few days ago, but obviously because of the Christmas weekend, it has been pretty slow for news. So here is Mel Gibson’s new movie trailer, Edge of Darkness. Moviesonline.ca gives us the 411: EDGE OF DARKNESS is an emotionally…
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