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Aug 15, 2009 -
Back at Comic-Con I was treated to a sneak peek at Astro Boy, Summit's CG-animated film based on the Japanese TV series. At the time, the movie was overshadowed by New Moon anticipation, but I finally got a chance to see the cool, futuristic trailer without distraction.
Freddie Highmore voices the title character, a boy robot who's been engineered to perfection with all kinds of fun gadgets.
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Jul 07, 2009 -
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue.
Knowing
Oh, Nicolas Cage.
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Mar 10, 2009 -
Opening March 20, Knowing features Nicolas Cage as a teacher whose son finds an old document with a bunch of numbers on it in a time capsule at his school. Turns out the numbers represent a series of creepy predictions, some of which have already come true. But one of the predictions for the future has the teacher worried that he and his family are about to face something terrible.
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Sep 22, 2008 -
- Kathy Griffin's Emmy-winning My Life on the D-List has been renewed for a fifth season. — Hollywood Reporter
- Speaking of Emmys, Sunday's Emmys broadcast was one of the lowest-rated ever, with 12.24 million viewers. — AP
- Rachel Bilson has landed a role in the indie romance Waiting For Forever.
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Sep 08, 2008 -
Well, the Fall movie season came in with a whimper. According to Variety, "The first weekend after Labor Day is always sluggish, but this year the frame was affected by the start of the NFL football season and was particularly dreary." Bangkok Dangerous came in at No.
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Aug 01, 2008 -
- Lisa Bonet has joined the cast of Life on Mars as the main character's girlfriend, Entertainment Weekly reports.
- The Hollywood Reporter writes that Colin Firth is joining the next film version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
- ComingSoon reports that Mike Myers is writing the fourth Austin Powers movie.
- Billboard has details about the first album from The Verve in more than a decade.
- Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is working on another project about lawyers for NBC, Zap2it reports.
- The action-fantasy film Prince of Persia, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, has been pushed back a year and will now open Memorial Day weekend 2010, Variety writes.
- The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter will team up for prison thriller Scared Straight.
- According to ComingSoon, the script for the dramedy Ivy Chronicles, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, is being written by Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the screenplay for The Devil Wears Prada.
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Jul 18, 2008 -
Whoa, do you remember this movie? I do — but barely. But now that I'm looking at this poster from the 1983 comedy, can we just stop for a minute because holy cow, look at Nicolas Cage in this poster.
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Jun 26, 2008 -
Roman Polanski's next project has brought on a recent Oscar winner, a man who portrayed James Bond, and. . .
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Jun 16, 2008 -
The wildly talented German director Werner Herzog (Rescue Dawn, Grizzly Man, Little Dieter Needs to Fly) has tapped the Ghost Rider leads for his next project, a remake of Bad Lieutenant. The original 1992 film has this description on Netflix:
Winner of an Independent Spirit Award (Harvey Keitel for Best Male Lead), director Abel Ferarra's gritty, visceral crime drama puts an out-of-control police lieutenant (Keitel) on a collision course with disaster. A survivor of the streets, this junkie, thief and killer comes face to face with his own sordid past.
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Jan 03, 2008 -
I have heard so many mixed reviews about the No. 1 movie, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, I'm more intrigued than ever to find out what all the fuss is about. Those who hated it really hated it, but those who loved it claim it's better than the first National Treasure.
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