By admin on February 3, 2012
The current Twitter trend “RIP Eddie Murphy” has gripped the unwashed microblogging masses with equal parts earnest apoplexy (“Idiots on twitter, why would anyone want to trend something like that”) and predictable cheap-shottery (“Hey Eddie: ‘RIP Eddie Murphy’ is God trying to tell you something about your career.”) — not that unlike the last time Murphy “died” on Twitter. The most we can take away from this experience? People are very eager to paint Twitter itself — what with its frequent death hoaxes and other misinformation — as the worst mass killer since… well, you name it:
WTF Is RIP Eddie Murphy Trending,He didnt pass away, twitter is killing people more than Jason Voorhees
— It’s Shadoe Bitch (@MeganFoxFanNYC) February 3, 2012
RIP Eddie Murphy, god twitter kills more people than Rebecca Black’s Friday! #JustSayin
— Michael Booth (@M__Booth) February 3, 2012
RIP Eddie Murphy? WTF, Twitter killed more people than Hitler.
— GrandadjFreeman (@GrandadJFreeman) February 3, 2012
RIP Eddie Murphy. He’s not even dead? Twitter kills more people than Bin Laden.
— r.e.b.e.c.c.a. (@TW_Fever) February 3, 2012
RIP Eddie Murphy? God, Twitter kills more people than Voldemort
— Dumble-fucking-dory(@Evil_Dumbledore) February 3, 2012
RIP Eddie Murphy? Is it me or do more people die on Twitter than Texas’ Death Row?
— American Humor (@AmericanHumor) February 3, 2012
RIP Eddie Murphy? Twitter kills more people than fried chicken.
— gurdeep singh virdi (@gurdeepsv) February 3, 2012
RIP Eddie Murphy? Man, Twitter kills more people each year than cars, airplanes and trucks combined!
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews)
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By admin on February 3, 2012
Forget Transformers TV spots and Oscar frontrunner Jean Dujardin’s racy French posters; let’s talk about Best Actor nominee Gary Oldman and the Jersey Shore bump he’s about to get from this dramatic reading of Snooki peeing her pants. Jimmy Kimmel put the Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy star up to the stunt on his late night show — Which is on television! That thing that Oscar voters watch!
Maybe Jersey Shore recaps are the new phone book. Let’s make all of this year’s nominees read aloud about The Situation’s pubes and JWoww’s bikini waxes or whatever and see who comes out with their dignity intact.
[Jimmy Kimmel Live]
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By admin on February 3, 2012
The much-anticipated Daniel Radcliffe ghost-story thriller The Woman in Black opens Feb. 3. This calls for a giveaway! But considering what you stand to win (including an iPod Nano and a signed WIB poster), we’re going to make you work for it. (Sort of.) Welcome to Movieline’s Daniel Radcliffe Mini Fan Fiction Sweepstakes! [UPDATE 2/2: Contest is now closed -- thanks to all who participated! Scroll down for the winning submission.]
First things first: The prize line-up!
· The Woman in Black black long sleeve t-shirt
· The Woman in Black black short sleeve t-shirt
· The Woman in Black black veil
· The Woman in Black static cling
· The Woman in Black source novel by Susan King
· The Woman in Black branded iPod Nano
· The Woman in Black signed Daniel Radcliffe poster
Hoo boy. Don’t ask me how we come across all these things, seriously.
So how does one participate? Simple: Post an original piece of Daniel Radcliffe fan fiction in the comments section below. Follow these basic rules to qualify:
· The fiction must be 100 words or less. Not a word over!
· It must feature Daniel Radcliffe.
· It must include The Woman in Black’s tagline, “What did they see?”
· Romantic scenarios are fine, but anything considered especially lewd or obscene will be immediately disqualified and removed from the site.
· It must be previously unpublished. Finalists will be vetted for originality.
· Only one submission per person, please. Make it count.
· The winner must be a U.S. resident.
The deadline to participate is this Thursday, Feb. 2, at 5 p.m. PT. The winner will be judged by Movieline staff on the basis of originality, creativity…
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By admin on February 3, 2012
Banned in France! Well, kinda: Movie posters featuring Oscar-nominated Jean Dujardin, up for Best Actor for his turn as a silent film star in the sweet and wholesome The Artist, have been deemed too racy by French censors who recommended that certain billboards for Dujardin’s French language film Les Infidels (The Players) be taken down. Judging from the film’s redband trailer, Les Infidels is a comedy that features lots and lots of sex. Dirty sex. Upside down sex, suggest the naughty, naughty posters!
According to The Hollywood Reporter, who picked up the trail after French media went to town on the racy materials, Les Infidels is “a series of sketches from directors including Dujardin, Lellouche, Fred Cavaye, Eric Lartigau, Emmanuelle Bercot, Alexandre Courtes and Michel Hazanavicius all centering around the theme of male infidelity.”
Dujardin and co-star Gilles Lellouche appear in the posters in pseudo-in flagrante poses, boasting douchey looks of self-satisfaction accessorized by faceless women and female body parts. Of course, pointing out the ridiculousness of these fellas’ wanton use of women for sex is probably the entire point of the film (I’m guessing/hoping), but y’know…
Above tagline translation, per THR: “It’s going to cut out. I’m entering a tunnel.” Tres classy! But you tell me: Are these posters (courtesy of the film’s Facebook page) so bad? And, more relevant to this season: Can these raunchy images damage Dujardin’s hold on the Best Actor race?
For more of a sense of the film, and to see Oscar’s leading man get down and dirty, watch the French language redband trailer (via EW):
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By admin on February 3, 2012
Yes, I just wrote the words “Transformers Oscar campaign.” Sigh. It’s time we come to terms with the fact that each installment in Michael Bay’s robot action series has technically been nominated for one or more Academy Awards — deservedly so, really, given the technical achievements these CG metal-on-metal bashfests have under their belt, even if everything else in these films are aggressively, brain-numbingly mediocre. But Paramount aims to take home one of them statuettes this year, by god, and so they’ve created an awards campaign to break through to Oscar voters in the most effective way possible: Through their TV sets.
Bay’s billion-dollar summer hit Transformers: Dark of the Moon is nominated in three technical categories: Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects. No matter how much you may loathe this series, one thing is irrefutable: Transformers 3 boasts some of the best vfx of the year. That churning building-chomping giant bot thing cutting down a skyscraper in glorious, shiny detail? Mesmerizing, really. Bay slowing down his previously indistinguishable CG robot action for the third film actually helped highlight the amazing visual work he and his team pieced together out of bits and data, and though the first Transformers lost the Visual Effects Oscar to The Golden Compass (the second lost Best Sound Mixing to The Hurt Locker), 2012 seems like the year for a Transformers win for vfx. (Dark of the Moon is up against Hugo, Deathly Hallows Pt. 2, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Real Steel in the category.)
Which brings us to the two sound categories. Does anyone out there who’s not a sound engineer actually understand the difference between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing? Fine, I’m sure there are a handful of expert…
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By admin on February 3, 2012
Fun fact: Legendary philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand shared a birthday with Groundhog Day — a curious coincidence hinting that Punxatawney Phil guaranteed more than just six added weeks of winter when he saw his shadow Thursday. How about two more years of Atlas Shrugged adaptations?
Listen, I know that doesn’t really make any sense but it’s Friday and my brain aches and what the hell am I supposed to do with this news just in over the Movieline transom anyway:
Atlas Productions, LLC announced today that Atlas Shrugged Part 2, the second installment of the Atlas Shrugged movie trilogy, has been officially greenlit with principal photography to begin this coming April in Los Angeles, Colorado, and New York.
Based on Ayn Rand’s (Feb. 2 1905 – Mar. 6 1982) 1957 novel, ATLAS SHRUGGED is set in the near future when a dystopian United States finds its leading innovators, from industrialists to artists, mysteriously disappearing at an alarming rate resulting in the “stopping the motor of the world.” [...]
Rand’s 1,100 page novel is being produced by Atlas Productions as a trilogy which follows the three part structure of the bestselling book. Part 1 was released theatrically on April 15, 2011. Part 2 is set to be in theaters October 2012 amidst what is sure to be a fever pitched presidential election season.
“It’s no coincidence that we chose Ayn Rand’s Birthday as the occasion to make this announcement. We have high aspirations for Part 2. We’ve looked carefully at Part 1 and taken time to analyze and reexamine everything from the script to the casting. John and I are committed to making a great Part 2 and excited about what lies ahead,” according to Producer Harmon Kaslow.
For the record, the first installment…
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By admin on February 3, 2012
“All I did was write the press notes and visit the set, once. I remember very little because I knew it was a cheeseball enterprise from the get-go and I didn’t give a shit about any of it. The idea of the Golan & Globus machine attempting to arouse the geek/comic-book fanbase was hopeless from the start… pathetic. [...] Everyone knew it was a tank early on so there was this air of funereal resignation all through production and post-production… everyone just going through the motions.” [Hollywood Elsewhere]
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By admin on February 3, 2012
Even though it’s something of a slick mess, Madonna’s W.E. is just the kind of movie you’d expect from an artist who once, with a delightful lack of irony, declared herself a material girl. A weirdly sympathetic portrait of Wallis Simpson, the woman for whom a king gave up his throne, W.E. is the story of a life told through stuff: Evening gloves, cocktail shakers, baubles from Cartier, little hats trimmed with netting. It’s as if Madonna went back in time and forgot to talk to actual people, to find out how they lived and what they thought — but she sure did a lot of shopping.
And that’s OK, as far as it goes. W.E. is at times comically bad. But it’s also criminally watchable: Even through its many dull patches, places where Madonna apparently felt the need to carefully frame characters in doorways and hallways for no good reason, I couldn’t take my eyes off it. This is Madonna’s second movie as a director (following the 2008 comedy Filth and Wisdom), and it’s obviously her bid to make a classy period picture that people will take seriously. The Weinstein Co., for one, sort of has: Perhaps it’s hoping to repeat the magic formula that worked so well last year with The King’s Speech, a movie set in the same era and dealing with some of the same characters, though the tone and approach of W.E. is very different.
W.E. is actually two intertwining stories — or maybe, more accurately, two stories clumsily rubbing against each other in an awkward attempt to set off a spark. The first is the story, set in the late 1990s, of Wally Winthrop, a young New York society wife played by Abbie Cornish. Wally, it turns out, was named after the…
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By admin on February 3, 2012
On the one hand, the guy who made The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive is entitled to some kind of lifetime exemption to direct whatever he wants whenever he wants — Duran Duran concert videos, Dior commercials, debt-ceiling riffs, pop albums, whatever. On the other hand, David Lynch may as well be the art-house Donald Trump at this point, pursuer of nominal glories bordering on the fetishistic at best and the gratuitously stupid at worst.
Take this new coffee ad, for example — probably better than anything you’ll see on Super Bowl Sunday, but still an ad for a beverage branded by a master filmmaker turned hobbyist mythmaker. There’s nothing here you didn’t see 22 years ago in an episode of Twin Peaks; there is no other new Lynch cinema in any legitimate stage of development. Or maybe that’s just how it feels! Your mileage may vary.
Related: Here’s Lynch writing about his love for coffee, also old news. I am running out of things to give up on!
[AdWeek via THR]
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By admin on February 3, 2012
The allegory-rich Chronicle opens with a kind of generational statement: “I bought a camera,” senior class punching bag Andrew (Dane DeHaan) says, “and I’m filming everything from here on out.” Andrew is talking to his father (Michael Kelly), a drunkard ex-fireman who punishes his son for the stress of caring for his dying wife, though the announcement is meant for us as well. Chronicle fits into the growing genre of “found footage” films, though that becomes just one formal element of many director Josh Trank meshes together to put a new spin on the subject of teenage alienation and its more extreme social side effects.
People don’t respond well to Andrew’s decision to begin filming everything he does, though that may be because nobody responds well to anything Andrew does. Throughout the first part of Chronicle everyone he meets wants to know why he’s filming or tells him to stop; his popular, aspiring intellectual cousin Matt (Alex Russell) is particularly camera shy. In a gesture of great social generosity, Matt brings Andrew and his massive camcorder to a barn party for some fun one Friday night. Together with the ridiculously congenial class president hopeful Steve (Michael B. Jordan), Andrew and Matt explore what appears to be a sinkhole in a ravine outside the barn. What they find inside is a glowing chamber of vascular crystals. They emerge with spontaneously bloodied noses and telekinetic powers.
So, you know, another Friday night in Seattle. The trio take the event more or less in stride, so that what ensues is basically a montage of their various attempts to create the best YouTube video ever. The boys treat their superpowers like one more of puberty’s bodily twists, and trade tips on how to manage it. They begin by moving other objects around…
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