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Videodrome: 5 Music Video Directors Who Could Follow Richard Ayoade & Mike Mills To The Big Screen

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • June 1, 2011 6:03 AM
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Once upon a time, back in the dim, dark Blogspot days of The Playlist, we had a feature called Videodrome, which looked at a selection of recent music videos by notable directors with big-name actors or just clips that were worth a watch. Once we moved to indieWire, it rather fell by the wayside, but thanks to popular demand (well, one guy emailing us) we're bringing it back.
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'Submarine' Was Influenced By 'Taxi Driver' And 5 Other Things We Learned About The Film

  • By Christopher Bell
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  • June 1, 2011 5:37 AM
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Tackling the coming-of-age topic with dark humor and thoughtful style, Richard Ayoade's feature debut "Submarine" is more than an impressive first movie. From the incredible number of accomplished performers (Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine, plus the astonishing teen actors Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige) and the impeccable British/French New Wave-inspired looks, the British writer/director looks to be poising himself for a very promising filmmaking career.
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More: Films, Actors, Richard Ayoade, Submarine, Ben Stiller, Craig Roberts

Do The Math: 'Hunger Games' Trilogy To Become Four Films?

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • June 1, 2011 4:48 AM
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  • 5 Comments
Can you smell that? It's money. And Lionsgate is already counting the bucks that have come in for their mega-franchise "The Hunger Games" just as cameras have started rolling on the picture.
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David Fincher Might Have A 'Panic Attack'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • June 1, 2011 4:24 AM
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David Fincher's last two films -- "The Social Network" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" -- have found the director stepping back from the grittier, grimmer fare of past efforts like "Fight Club" and "Se7en." And while the Academy has recognized but not yet rewarded those efforts, the director looks like he's fully embracing his pulp side once again. Of course, there's the upcoming Christmas downer "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and now, the helmer has rounded up another project to put on his plate of potential next directing gigs.
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Watch: Official Green Band Trailer For 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Arrives A Couple Days Early

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • June 1, 2011 3:44 AM
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With the internet erupting over the weekend with the leaked/fake leaked red band trailer for "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" (guys, do you really think David Fincher wants the first look at this new film to be from a second hand video? Just saying...), Sony has bumped up the planned June 2nd bow for the green band version of the trailer with the spot landing online tonight.
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Review: Despite All Its Little Foibles, 'X-Men: First Class' Is Near First Rate

  • By Drew Taylor
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  • June 1, 2011 3:30 AM
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While a titled cross has been key in "X-Men: First Class" iconography (as well as a huge part of its incessant and not-entirely-original marketing campaign), suggesting that "X" indeed does mark the spot, the symbol most associated with the highly anticipated sequel/prequel/reboot/whatever-the-fuck-it-is is a question mark. Things have been leaning to and fro in the buildup to the movie's release, with pros and cons both flying wildly. Its unequaled cast (including a mix of veterans and up-and-comers including Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon, January Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and more) was balanced out by reports of an insanely hectic and rushed shooting schedule (ten months to get through production and post-production) and the unvarnished interviews with director Matthew Vaughn, who claimed to have worked with five different cinematographers and was largely unaware of who the crew was on any particular day.
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More: Films, Review, Super Hero Films, X-Men: First Class

Great Things Come in Pairs: 'Yogi Bear 2' Announced

  • By Sam Price
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  • June 1, 2011 2:20 AM
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Whatever he gets up to in his spare time – shilling "Ghostbusters 3" and its bizarre array of potential female leads like a crazed beggar man, contemplating selling his organs on Amazon Marketplace, downing a glass of whiskey and sleeping pills whenever a re-run of “Spies Like Us” hits the airwaves – Dan Aykroyd can take solace in the news that at least “Yogi Bear 2” is becoming a reality. While many were decrying last year’s original as a prelude to nuclear holocaust, the film itself managed to net over $200 million worldwide and hence Coming Soon reports that humanity is getting treated to take another suckle on the smoky teat of Yogi. Let this be a lesson to exhausted parents with diminished expectations everywhere.
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More: Films, Actresses, Animated Films, Yogi Bear

Now The First Look At The NSFW International 'The Girl With Dragon Tattoo' Poster Leaks

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • June 1, 2011 2:04 AM
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  • 19 Comments
Update: /Film have gotten their hands on the French poster for the film which has a ludicrously lengthy website address. Check it out below.
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Ray Winstone & Gillian Anderson To Star In Sexed-Up 'Great Expectations' For Brit TV

  • By Sam Price
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  • June 1, 2011 1:51 AM
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A zeitgeisty role like Agent Dana Scully may cast a long shadow, but Gillian Anderson seems determined not to have the first line of her obituary read “that redheaded gal off 'The X-Files.'" Lurching in recent years between respectable British TV costume dramas and mirthless crime fare (“Straightheads” won’t be one to tell the grandkids about), Anderson is now in talks to take the most iconic role in a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel “Great Expectations” as Miss Haversham, alongside eternal Cockney bruiser Ray Winstone as the novel's duplicitous Magwitch. Like everything else nowadays, though, don’t expect this to be your mother’s rainy Sunday afternoon "Great Expectations". Oh no, The Daily Mail reports that this three-part miniseries threatens to be “sexually charged”.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Film Studios, Great Expectations, Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson, BBC

James Gray & Joaquin Phoenix Reteam For 'Low Life'; Marion Cotillard & Jeremy Renner To Co-Star

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • June 1, 2011 1:41 AM
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Teaming up on three films -- "The Yards," "We Own The Night" and "Two Lovers" -- there hasn't been any director/actor pairing in recent American cinema as rewarding as that between James Gray and Joaquin Phoenix. However, circa the actor's stunt during the press rounds for "Two Lovers" where he grew a Will Oldham-esque beard and declared he was starting a rap career, many wondered if that relationship was over. And despite what reports may have surfaced, Gray wasn't worried, saying as early as February 2009 that he was confident he would work with Phoenix again. Then in September of last year, it was revealed that he was in on the joke from the beginning. So the joke is over, Joaquin Phoenix needs to get back to work and the duo are pairing up for their fourth film. And they've got some fantastic talent to help them out.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, James Gray, The Immigrant, Jeremy Renner, Joaquin Phoenix, Marion Cotillard

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