Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category
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Oscar Nominations Announced
Early this morning the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced with the show being held on Sunday March 7th. This year the Best Picture race was extended to include 10 films which has resulted in a few more mainstream films being recognized such as District 9 and The Blind Side. The leaders in nominations are Avatar and The Hurt Locker both coming away with nine. Continue on to view the complete listing of all category nominations and I'll be back with reaction and notes on them...
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International Trailer for Clash of the Titans
IGN has posted the international trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures' Clash of the Titans. The movie features Sam Worthington as Perseus, along with Liam Neeson as Zeus and Ralph Fiennes as Hades. Clash of the Titans is scheduled to release on March 26th 2010. There has been talk of the film possibly being released in 3D. In case you missed the first two trailers, you can view the first one here and the second one here. ...
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Next Bourne Could Be Prequel or Reboot
At the UK premiere of Invictus last night Matt Damon was asked about the current status of Bourne 4. There have been some rocky developments specifically Paul Greengrass departing from the project and that there is still no script in hand. Damon responded by dropping speculation such as a prequel or reboot being more likely than the fourth installment of the franchise happening in the near future. “There’ll probably be a prequel of some kind with another actor and another directo...
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Weekend Box Office Results 1/29-1/31
Avatar won its seventh straight weekend easily while the two new entries performed right on with the predictions. Avatar now owns the record for highest weekend gross for every weekend except its first. It will pass Titanic for the all time domestic record this coming week and cruise past $2 billion worldwide. In second place it was the Mel Gibson revenge pic Edge of Darkness. Despite not having starred in a movie since 2002 it drew a solid $17.1 million which was a reasonable result for a ...
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Red Band Trailer for She’s Out of My League
The red band unrestricted trailer for She's Out of My League has been released. The movie centers on an average guy who meets the perfect woman but his insecurities and the influence of his friends and family being to wear away at the relationship. I actually found the standard trailer to be rather funny despite the limitations for a movie of this kind in attempting to present itself. This one though adds in the language and a few new scenes making it worth the watch. She's Out of My League is...
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Trailer for The Losers
The first trailer for The Losers arrived today. The movie follows a CIA team that is attacked and left for dead by their own agency. They attempt to discover why they were targeted for assassination and enact revenge. Written by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) and Jamie Vanderbilt (writing the upcoming Spiderman reboot) it stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Idris Elba and Chris Evans. The Losers is slated to release on April 9th. ...
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Weekend Box Office Predictions 1/29
This could be the third straight week where a movie opens strong but still can't unseat Avatar which will probably remain in the top spot as it has for all seven weekends it has been out. Mel Gibson headlines a movie for the first time since 2002 with Edge of Darkness while When in Rome goes for the light romantic comedy crowd. Could Edge of Darkness unseat Avatar? The R rated thriller has a shot but it doesn't seem likely. There is definitely interest in seeing Mel Gibson again as he hasn'...
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Trailer for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Michael Douglas returns as Gordon Gecko with Shia LaBeouf taking on the lead role in the upcoming sequel to to the 1987 classic Wall Street. Oliver Stone is also back as director for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Gecko, out of jail but now in the much harsher economic climate, takes LaBeouf's character Jacob Moore under his wing teaching him the ins and outs of the investment world. Emerging from a lengthy prison stint, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside of a world he once dominated...
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