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'Rock Of Ages' & 'Jack The Giant Killer' Claim Two June 2012 Dates

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • March 23, 2011 10:24 AM
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With the spring/summer movie season barely started this year, studios are already making their claim on dates in 2012 and Warner Bros. has just thrown their weight around, planting two major films with big, June bows next blockbuster season.
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More: Films, Film Studios, Rock Of Ages, Jack The Giant Slayer, Warner Bros

Book Review: 'Sucker Punch: The Art of the Film' Fails To Excite

  • By Drew Taylor
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  • March 14, 2011 6:15 AM
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For months now we've been bombarded with trailers for Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch." These trailers have been elliptical, at least from a story point of view. Visually, they've been somewhat staggering – quick fire clips of attractive young girls in costumes that border on high-end fetish gear, battling all sorts of mythological or supernatural elements. They dive in between robots, zip underneath monstrous samurais, and face off against towering, fire-breathing dragons.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Film Studios, Zack Snyder, Sucker Punch, Jon Hamm, Emily Browning, Carla Gugino, Warner Bros

Review: 'Red Riding Hood' A Brooding Tweenage Fairy Tale

  • By Drew Taylor
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  • March 10, 2011 4:13 AM
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Catherine Hardwicke, for better or worse, has largely defined what we have experienced, cinematically, for the past couple of years. Her influence might get lost in the shuffle, since every subsequent film has been helmed by a different director, but with the look and feel of the first "Twilight"' movie, she set the stage for a whole bunch of copycats and wannabes, which makes it all the more startling that she's returning to remarkably similar (hallowed) ground, with a revisionist take on "Red Riding Hood."
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Film Studios, Review, Catherine Hardwicke, Red Riding Hood, Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Warner Bros

Alcon Entertainment Secures Rights To 'Blade Runner' Prequels & Sequels

  • By Edward Davis
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  • March 3, 2011 12:55 AM
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What's that? You have an iconic piece of cinema? But what? It's only a stand-alone piece of film, but it's so cherished you could milk it for a zillion more dollars because it's so well respected and beloved and you haven't done that yet? Cha-ching! Sorry, people this is how it now works. Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" has just too much damn brand equity to simply squander in the pantheon of words and sentiments that say, "lord, that's such a classic movie." Modern business thinking demands that you quantify brand equity into some kind of capital and thus more "Blade Runner" films await us even though most of us are thinking we should all just leave well alone.
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More: Film Studios, Classic Films, Warner Bros, Blade Runner

Warner Brothers Snags High Concept Action Pic Script 'Line of Sight'; Sony Gets 'Slackfi'

  • By Catherine Scott
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  • March 1, 2011 8:39 AM
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Over the weekend, while we were busy watching the Oscars, Warner Brothers was busy getting ready for the years to come, tying up a deal for F. Scott Frazier's "Line of Sight."
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More: Film Studios, Warner Bros, Sony

Warner Bros. Near Deal To Acquire Baz Luhrmann's 'Great Gatsby' With DiCaprio & Mulligan

  • By Edward Davis
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  • February 10, 2011 12:13 AM
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If will he or won't he is the question it appears we're good to go. Perhaps he was playing coy, but last week Aussie director Baz Luhrmann ("Australia," "Strictly Ballroom") was telling anyone who asked that he may not direct the adaptation of F. Scott Fizgerald‘s “The Great Gatsby.” “I gotta make a decision in three days’ time, whether to do it or not,” Luhrmann told Vulture last Wednesday.
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More: Actors, Actresses, Film Studios, Baz Luhrmann, Carey Mulligan, Warner Bros

'Fletch' Once Again Attempting A Big-Screen Comeback

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • February 2, 2011 2:09 AM
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  • 7 Comments
Once upon a time, there was a man called Chevy Chase. From his first appearance on the early days of "Saturday Night Live," it was clear that he was very, very funny. He swiftly became one of the biggest comedy stars of the '80s, starring in hits like "Caddyshack," "National Lampoon's Vacation" and "¡Three Amigos!". It also became clear that Chase was kind of a dick, and the work dried up in the '90s. Now, with Chase mounting a storming comeback as part of the ensemble of the best sitcom on TV, "Community," it seems as good a time as any to resurrect the character perhaps most associated with the actor, Gregory McDonald's investigative reporter "Fletch."
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Warner Bros & CBS Films Team To Adapt Stephen King's 'The Stand'

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • February 1, 2011 2:36 AM
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Regardless of his qualities as a writer (while he's extremely good at what he does, his most ardent admirers sometimes confuse 'prolific' with 'writer of capable prose'), there's little doubt that few novelists have had as many truly great films made from their work as Stephen King. "Carrie," "The Shining," "Stand By Me," "Misery," "The Shawshank Redemption" -- all classics, and all derived from novels or short stories by King. Recent years haven't been so kind, however, with films like "Dreamcatcher" and "Hearts in Atlantis" lining up alongside "Maximum Overdrive" as some of the worst King adaptations.
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More: Films, Film Studios, The Stand, Warner Bros, CBS Films

Box Office '10: Win, Lose Or Draw

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • January 28, 2011 12:36 AM
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Despite rising 3D surcharges, studios posted major box office and attendance drops in 2010, suggesting moviegoers were not entirely intrigued by the year’s product. Some distributors executed a winning game plan with success, while others floundered, making a series of unwise decisions that probably got a number of respectable people fired.
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More: Films, Film Studios, Marvel, Universal, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Sony, Paramount

Warners Planning Remakes Of 'Lethal Weapon,' 'The Wild Bunch,' 'Westworld' And Others

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • January 20, 2011 2:18 AM
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It seems these days that every picture not released in the last ten years is ripe for a remake, and even some more recent ones, if they had those tricky subtitles or foreign accents -- Pajiba reported a few days ago that a US version of last year's excellent Australian gangster thriler "Animal Kingdom" is already in the works. And it doesn't look like the trend is going away any time soon: The Hollywood Reporter tonight suggested that, with the departure of Warner Bros. studio exec Jessica Goodman, old projects have come to light that were thought buried.
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More: Film Studios, Warner Bros

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