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Aug 19 2011 01:34 PM ET

Can Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Harold & Kumar save 3-D?

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It hasn’t been a great summer for 3-D cinema. For one thing, attendance in 3-D theaters is dropping — possibly because people are unwilling to pay the added surcharge, but more likely because American moviegoers have gotten tired of paying extra money for a darker image. More disturbingly, however, there was no breakout film this summer that absolutely demanded to be seen in 3-D: No panoramic How To Train Your Dragon, no neon-spectacular TRON: Legacy, not even a cheesy thrill-ride like Jackass 3D or Piranha 3D. The one film that actually seemed to justify the 3-D was Transformers: Moon over Memphis, and even that was ultimately undone by Michael Bay’s inability to stage giant-robot-action as anything more than digital robo-sludge. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 12 2011 11:49 AM ET

Steven Spielberg has two movies in December. How will 'Tintin' and 'War Horse' match up to past double plays?

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In order to be successful in modern Hollywood, actors tend to follow the “one for them, one for me” policy. If you’re a talented young actor, you’ll find yourself taking a role in a big Hollywood movie — a superhero film, say, or perhaps a Mission: Impossible sequel — but only so you can turn around and take a minimum-wage role in an arty indie film, or get the studio to finance your dream project about the life of your favorite boxer. Some actors get a bit lost on the “one for them” side (see: Nicolas Cage), and some actors’ dabbling with franchises have a disinterested, let-them-eat-cake indifference (See: Tom Hanks in the Dan Brown duet.)

But the policy applies to directors, too… and no director in Hollywood has a better track record of shifting between registers than Steven Spielberg. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 28 2011 10:22 PM ET

Box office preview: 'Cowboys & Aliens' takes aim at 'The Smurfs' invasion

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With the debt ceiling crisis still looming, this could be the final weekend before the entire American economy collapses in an explosion so magnificent that Michael Bay wouldn’t cut away from it for two whole seconds. Realizing that you may never have discretionary income again, Hollywood is offering three — three! — new major releases this weekend. One’s a genre mash-up whose title tells you exactly what to expect (Cowboys & Aliens), one is a TV-series adaptation whose title can be used as both a noun and a verb (The Smurfs), and one is a romantic comedy whose title, for reasons we may never know, contains two commas and a period (Crazy, Stupid, Love.). Here’s how I think the box office will stack up this weekend: READ FULL STORY »

Jul 25 2011 05:20 PM ET

'Cowboys & Aliens' screenwriters on why you should see 'Cowboys & Aliens'

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They are, admittedly, biased. But Cowboys & Aliens screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek, Transformers) have three good reasons why people should go see Cowboys & Aliens, their new genre-mixing sci-fi western starring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig, opening July 29.

1. Because the film represents the collective wisdom of a highly advanced alien species: producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer and exec-producer Steven Spielberg. “It’s an historic match up of talent,” Orci tells EW. “The keepers of the western and the sci-fi genres — Howard and Spielberg — hashing their point of view onto this new generation in [director] Jon Favreau. They were like referees as the rest of us generated the story. They would push us back on the field if we went too wrong on the western or too wrong on the aliens.”  READ FULL STORY »

Jul 22 2011 02:21 PM ET

Comic-Con 2011: Peter Jackson surprises 'Tintin' panel with appearance alongside Steven Spielberg

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Six thousand people packed into Comic-Con’s Hall H broke out in a simultaneous nerdgasm as Peter Jackson made a surprise appearance alongside Steven Spielberg at this morning’s panel for Dec. 23′s The Adventures of Tintin. Jackson, who has been in production on his long-awaited fantasy epic The Hobbit since the spring, had said in recent days that he would not be attending the convention. Spielberg, who was making his own first-ever appearance at Comic-Con like a deity descending from on high, was greeted with a standing ovation as the panel began. He introduced what was supposed to be a clip of an animation test of the CGI dog in Tintin and was instead a clip of Jackson, wearing a sailor’s cap and holding a bottle of booze, purportedly doing his own screen test for the role of Captain Haddock. Then Jackson himself took the stage. “Working with Steven has been amazing,” Jackson said, deadpan. “I think he shows real promise. If he decides to stick with filmmaking, I think he could really go places.”

Early in the presentation, Spielberg asked the crowd at the beginning of the presentation how many in the crowd had ever read a Tintin book and seemed relieved at the amount of applause: “That makes my job easier.” He said he hoped that the film could kick off a new franchise. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 11 2011 04:37 PM ET

Steven Spielberg's 'The Adventures of Tintin' trailer: Watch it here!

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After years of wondering what Steven Spielberg’s take on Tintin would look like, we finally get our first good, long gander today. (That atmospheric teaser back in May was just that: a tease.) The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (out Dec. 23) looks like an swashbuckling, globe-trotting, planes-trains-and-automobiles-packed adventure yarn that aims for the same kind of all-ages thrills provided by Spielberg movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 29 2011 09:22 AM ET

'War Horse' trailer: Steven Spielberg uses beauty to explore ugliness of war

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If there’s a way to navigate out of hell, maybe it’s through grace.

By that logic, Steven Spielberg’s tactic in adapting the play and novel War Horse would make perfect sense: we’re all aware (though maybe never enough) of the horrors and ugliness of war, but rarely is it contrasted through the lens of beauty and innocence that at once surrounds and is engulfed by it.

The first impression of Spielberg’s teaser trailer for the movie (out Dec. 28) is simply: God, that’s gorgeous — which is jarring since the opening shot is of a vast landscape reduced to a cinder as the title character, a farm horse named Joey, frantically gallops for its life, just inches ahead of the mortars.

See below for a look at the trailer: READ FULL STORY »

Jun 28 2011 02:06 PM ET

'Jurassic Park' trilogy Blu-ray trailer acknowledges existence of sequels, barely

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The Jurassic Park trilogy is set to hit Blu-ray for the first time on Oct. 25, with more than two hours of all-new bonus features. Watch the trailer below. To the casual fan, it appears Jurassic Park III got the shaft, since William H. Macy and Téa Leoni don’t make the cut. EW’s Jurassic Park historian Darren Franich, however, assures me that there are exactly three shots each from The Lost Word: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. (“By the way,” he adds, “Jurassic Park 3 is way better than Jurassic Park 2, but only in the same sense that being punched in the arm hurts less than being punched in the face.”)  READ FULL STORY »

Jun 27 2011 06:49 PM ET

Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' casts David Strathairn

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Steven Spielberg has cast Good Night, and Good Luck Oscar nominee David Strathairn in a major supporting role in his upcoming biopic Lincoln.

Strathairn will play Secretary of State William Seward, which perhaps sounds a little dry, except Seward was a historical badass.

Not only was Seward a fierce abolitionist and a close ally of the 16th president throughout the Civil War, but he also orchestrated purchase of the land that would become Alaska (known at the time as “Seward’s Folly”). He was at his most ninja when targeted by the same group of assassins led by John Wilkes Booth… READ FULL STORY »

Jun 14 2011 10:39 AM ET

'Super 8' and the box office: Do YOU think it 'surpassed expectations?' If so, what does that say about what we expect?

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If you’re an entertainment junkie, the fascination of the weekend box-office report is that all those cold, hard numbers represent an objective index — the most honest one we have — of the interface between the movie industry and the public. How well a movie is doing really means two things at once: how profitable it is for the studio that made it; and how popular it is with the people. Those two things tend to go together, and should. But in the nearly 30 years that following the box office has gone from being a weekly inside-baseball game to a media-driven spectator sport, other elements besides numbers have entered the equation. There is studio spin. There is the awareness — at times, the over-awareness — that every movie, based on budget and marketing, writes its own rules. Then, of course, there’s that deeply elusive concept that exists at the opposite end of the spectrum from raw numerical data. It’s called expectations. READ FULL STORY »

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