If anyone even remembers Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps anymore, it’s only because the film sat uncomfortably at the center of a miserable Venn Diagram that criss-crossed “Bad Movies Shia LaBeouf Has Apologized for Making” and “Oliver Stone’s Topicality-Porn Directorial Phase.” But most people forget that the first 20 minutes or so of the sequel was a surprisingly kinetic re-enactment of the downward spiral of the American financial system, circa 2008. Wall Street 2 ultimately wimped out into family-drama territory, but I’m hoping that the upcoming Margin Call — which focuses on a 24-hour period leading up to the 2008 crash — will be a bit more incisive. Although, at this point, the most fun part of the trailer is just seeing how many random people are stuffed in here. Oh look, Stanley Tucci! Hey, Zachary Quinto! Whoa, Kevin Spacey? Jeremy Irons? Demi Freaking Moore? Watch and enjoy: READ FULL STORY »
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'Margin Call': In which a starry cast tries to make the REAL 'Wall Street 2'
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'New Year's Eve' trailer: Five fearless predictions
A trailer for New Year’s Eve has hit the Web. Here are five random guesses about what happens in the film based upon the trailer alone:
• Michelle Pfeiffer’s character is a workaholic divorcée who’s dying. (Or, she’s just a workaholic divorcée who’s brunette.)
• Ashton Kutcher’s character’s relationship with his best friend (Lea Michele) turns romantic by movie’s end. (Just like it did with Jennifer Garner in Valentine’s Day.)
• Seth Meyers and Jessica Biel’s characters will compete with another couple to have the first baby born in New York in the New Year — and lose. But he loves her anyway.
• Josh Duhamel’s character is a friend or relative to Meyers or Biel and will come to the hospital for the birth but miss it. He will, however, realize the mystery woman he met last year was the doctor (Halle Berry) who delivered their baby. (Who else is he going to get with? Katherine Heigl? Feels like her character will get with Jon Bon Jovi’s, who apparently broke her heart years ago. Perhaps Sarah Jessica Parker’s character. She needs a place to wear that dress, and Duhamel is in a tux.)
• Robert De Niro looks to be on a roof and talks poetically… so I’ll say he’s dying, too. He’s someone’s father. Probably Parker’s character’s. (That’s how Duhamel’s character could end up running into her at the hospital.)
Watch the trailer below. Your predictions? READ FULL STORY »
Ron Howard will not direct 'The Lost Symbol'; 'Rush' is next
Image Credit: Simon Mein
Ron Howard will not direct the next Robert Langdon film based on Dan Brown’s best-seller, The Lost Symbol. EW has confirmed a Deadline report that the Oscar-winning director, who directed Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, will produce Symbol instead. A spokesperson for Howard says his next directing project will be Rush, a racing movie about 1970s Formula 1 drivers. Howard and Hanks have worked together on four films, including Splash and Apollo 13, but Howard’s reduced involvement should not effect Hanks’ plans. His spokesperson tells EW in an email, “Tom hopes to still play Langdon when and if there is another screenplay.”
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New 'Happy Feet Two' trailer confounds humans, fulfills purpose in this strange universe
This new trailer for November’s Happy Feet Two is a terrifying look at the state of our world. The Pulp Fiction music is hurling Robin Williams into the sea one count too soon; sparkly penguins are bringing sexy back and enunciating “Take it to the chor-us” a little too carefully; the overarching purpose of life is to dance; and KILLER SEALS!
It looks like Elijah Wood’s penguin has a son now, and the son wants to fly. But my overwhelming takeaway from this hallucinatory mélange is that the dangling nose-penis on that all-knowing walrus-tapir hybrid (?!) looks (and probably feels — I’m dying to know) like those weird rubber toys that were like long doughnuts with illusory holes. Right? And the whole point of them was to let them sift through your unclenched fist again and again and again? Check out the trailer below:
Robert Rodriguez's sexy concept art for 'Fire and Ice' -- EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS
Muscular heroes, seductive heroines and revolting monsters and villains — this is how the late artist Frank Frazetta helped define the sci-fi/fantasy genre with his paintings for the covers of pulp fiction books, movie posters and eventually his own stories.
At Comic-Con, director Robert Rodriguez announced plans to create a live-action film of Fire and Ice, based on the work of Frazetta, who died last year at age 82. The artist’s work previously inspired an animated version of the story in 1983, directed by Ralph Bakshi (The Lord of the Rings, the 1960s Spider-Man TV cartoon). That Fire and Ice is beloved among fantasy aficionados and grown-up kids of the 1980s, but has largely fallen out of the pop-culture consciousness.
Much like his partnership with another famous Frank — i.e., Frank Miller, whose Sin City books inspired that 2005 neo-noir thriller — Rodriguez intends to join his work with Frazetta’s style to bring to life the sword-and-sorcery story of survivors in a land destroyed by a mystical ice age.
“I want it to look like you just stepped into one of his paintings, where you get to see his world, and how he saw people, anatomy, and composition and color,” Rodriguez told EW. “It will feel like it’s real, but not real. It’ll be his reality. He saw things differently. He painted from his imagination. He didn’t take a photograph and just paint it.” Check out our exclusive look at the concept art for the movie below. READ FULL STORY »
Sneak peek at the upcoming 'Big Lebowski' Blu-ray: Photos from the Dude! -- EXCLUSIVE
The wait is almost over. On Aug. 16, Walter Sobchak, Donny, and the Dude (or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing) will be making their Blu-ray debut when The Big Lebowski Limited Edition hits stores. In other words, get ready to put aside that well-worn copy of Logjammin’ and witness John Turturro’s purple-jumpsuited Jesus doing his “Hotel California” psych-out dance in all of its 1080p high-resolution glory.
One of the most eagerly awaited releases on the format, the 1998 Coen brothers cult comedy is packed with all-new extras, including a picture-within-picture feature with cast interviews during key scenes, a trivia track, and a 28-page companion book featuring some of Jeff Bridges’ personal, on-set photos. (You could say they really tie the whole package together.) We got a hold of some of the Dude’s snaps. So why not kick back with a White Russian and take a peek…
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Toronto International Film Festival announces 2011 line-up
The Toronto International Film Festival, which has become an increasingly important platform for awards-seeking titles in recent years (Both The King’s Speech and Black Swan played there last year), announced its 2011 line-up this morning.
The 11-day festival, set to kick off on Sept. 8, will feature the world premieres of Moneyball, a baseball drama starring Brad Pitt; 50/50, a cancer dramedy with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen; Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, a drama starring George Clooney; Butter, a butter-carving satire featuring Jennifer Garner and Hugh Jackman; Albert Nobbs, an Irish-set period drama starring Glenn Close; and Francis Ford Coppola’s murder-mystery Twixt, among others.
Other notable pictures playing at TIFF: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan; Marc Forster’s religious drama Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler; David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, which features Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung and Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud; Madonna’s W.E., a romantic drama; George Clooney’s directorial effort The Ides of March; and Cameron Crowe’s music doc Pearl Jam Twenty.
Check out the full slate below. READ FULL STORY »
'Captain America: The First Avenger' actually earned $65.1 million, a little bit less than 'Thor'
Image Credit: Jay Maidment/Marvel Studios
Well, at least Paramount got a full day of headlines saying Captain America: The First Avenger scored the best superhero opening of the summer! (Fortunately, I resisted the urge to write that!)
Early estimates claimed that Cappy earned $65.8 million over the weekend — conveniently $100,000 higher than Thor‘s $65.7 million debut in May — but final numbers for the film lower that number just a bit to $65.1 million.
That’s still a huge gross, and much higher than the debuts of X-Men: First Class ($55.1 million) or Green Lantern ($52.3 million), just not as big as Thor. Granted, Thor received a lot more of its business from 3-D showings (60 percent of its opening weekend gross vs. 40 percent for Captain) and IMAX screens, and, notably, Captain America actually led the Norse god in terms of attendance.
But when it comes to actual dollars earned, Norse gods > American soldiers > mutants > green, light-wielding guardians of the universe.
Follow Grady on Twitter: @BoxOfficeJunkie
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Comic-Con 2011: Chris Evans talks his hope for more ‘Captain America’
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