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'The Dallas Buyer's Club' Back On The Market With Matthew McConaughey

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • March 10, 2011 3:17 AM
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Credit where credit is due; it appears that Matthew McConaughey is done starring in mediocre paycheck fare. After spending years taking off his shirt and smirking through films like "Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past," "Fool's Gold," "Surfer Dude" and "Failure To Launch" (while failing to launch a franchise in "Sahara" and doing forgettable dramas like "Two For The Money"), the actor is striking out in some new directions. His upcoming flick, "The Lincoln Lawyer" seems to be getting better than expected advance buzz and he's lent his name to a couple of bold upcoming comedies, William Friedkin's "Killer Joe" and Richard Linklater's "Bernie." And now, the actor is circling a strong drama that has been stuck in development hell for years.
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More: Films, Actors, Jean-Marc Vallée, The Dallas Buyer's Club, Matthew McConaughey

Review: 'Mars Needs Moms' A Dead-Eyed Bore

  • By Drew Taylor
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  • March 10, 2011 3:15 AM
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Robert Zemeckis has spent the past few years, since 2004's uncanny valley-crossing "The Polar Express," trying to convince the movie-going public of the validity of his brand of motion capture animation. For the most part, audiences have resisted, but he still keeps plugging away. And even a new deal with Disney to distribute his animated wonders wasn't enough to guarantee its success; it was quietly shuttered this year.
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More: Films, Film Studios, Review, Robert Zemeckis, Animated Films, Mars Needs Moms

Richard Ayoade's 'Submarine' Gets June 3rd Date; Seth Rogen's 'My Mother's Curse' Hits Spring 2012

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • March 10, 2011 2:55 AM
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Some new release dates have arrived for a couple of promising titles, so you might want to get your calendars out.
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More: Films, Submarine, My Mother's Curse

Watch: Green Band Trailer For 'Bad Teacher' Is Actually Pretty Good

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • March 10, 2011 2:32 AM
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Kudos to Sony for playing it smart. A couple of weeks ago they dropped the red-band trailer first for "Bad Teacher," presenting the film as we'll see it in theaters, will all the gleefully foul language in place. But movie marketing can't live on filthy trailers alone, and the standard trailer for the film has now landed, and you know what? It still manages to be pretty funny.
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More: Films, Bad Teacher

Review: 'Battle: Los Angeles' Is A Cynical, Soulless, Noisy Video Game Of A Movie

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • March 10, 2011 2:28 AM
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  • 37 Comments
Film is dead.
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More: Films, Review, Battle: Los Angeles

CBS Films Picks Up Coens-Scripted 'Gambit' Remake With Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • March 10, 2011 2:13 AM
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It's not the easiest thing, in a business dominated by multi-billion-dollar behemoths that have been running for the best part of a century such as Paramount, Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox, to establish a new film studio and distributor from scratch. Summit has been making a good fist of it in the past few years, with both a Best Picture Oscar winner in "The Hurt Locker" and a highly profitable mega-franchise in the "Twilight" series, but CBS Films, established around the some time, hasn't had the same success.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Film Studios, Coen Brothers, Michael Hoffman, Gambit, Cameron Diaz, CBS Films

'Men In Black 3' Starting To Sound Like A $200 Million Train Wreck

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • March 10, 2011 1:55 AM
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  • 5 Comments
Film Greenlit With Only One Act Of The Script Ready; New Writer David Koepp Refusing To Talk To Producer Walter Parkes Considering how tricky the genre is to pull off, the original "Men in Black" still stands as one of the more successful stabs at the sci-fi comedy. It's no "Galaxy Quest" or anything, and it derails a bit in the third act, but for the most part it was inventive, genuinely funny and starred a central pair with perfect chemistry. 2002's sequel? Not so much; a bloated, unfunny mess that failed to capture pretty much any of what worked in the original. A third film is, belatedly, on the way, but a fascinating look at the behind the scenes shenanigans suggests it's going to land much nearer the second installment than the first.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Barry Sonnenfeld, Men In Black 3, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Emma Thompson, Alice Eve, David Koepp

Review: 'Elektra Luxx' Seems To Exist Only As A Showcase For Carla Gugino

  • By Kimber Myers
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  • March 9, 2011 11:22 AM
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Not That There's Anything Wrong With ThatSebastian Gutierrez’s “Electra Luxx” isn’t so much a sequel to 2009’s “Women in Trouble” as it is a 95-minute love letter to girlfriend and star Carla Gugino. The original film only made $18,000, so it’s difficult to see “Elektra Luxx” as anything other than a labor of love (albeit one with some fun cameos and solid casting) that's pointless to the world outside the couple.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Review, Sebastian Gutierrez, Elektra Luxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki

New Posters For 'Bad Teacher,' 'Beginners' And 'Henry's Crime' Arrive

  • By Cory Everett
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  • March 9, 2011 11:03 AM
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And The Less Said About Them, The BetterWell, they can't all be winners. Sometimes an artist or designer (like Drew Struzan in the '80s or Neil Kellerhouse today) is allowed to execute his creative vision and creates a piece of artwork for a film that becomes as iconic as the film itself. And sometimes an intern who knows Photoshop has to slap some faces on a poster to let people know who's in the movie. Unfortunately the three posters arriving today look to be veering towards the latter. "Bad Teacher," based on a Black List script by "The Office" scribes Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, stars Cameron Diaz as a foul-mouthed child-beating teacher. We're cautiously optimistic about the film based on what we've seen so far and this poster featuring Diaz asleep at her desk with an apple that says "Eat Me" does nothing to sway us either way. It's a decent teaser poster (though the "She doesn't give an "F"." looks like an afterthought) but we'd expect to see something with costar Justin Timberlake's face on it before it's June 17th debut.
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More: Films, Bad Teacher, Henry's Crime, Beginners

Hasbro CEO Says Ridley Scott Still Involved With 'Monopoly'; Story About The "Play-Pattern" Of Game

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • March 9, 2011 10:50 AM
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Oh hey, remember that "Monopoly" movie that was announced a long time ago with Ridley Scott attached? Well, kind of unbelievably, the movie is stil in the works with Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner revealing that Scott is still involved and he vaguely talked up the story details of the movie.
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More: Films, Monopoly

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