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Robert Zemeckis's Yellow Submarine announces its list of Beatles lookalikes (or not-so lookalikes) — HitFix Desperate Housewife Dana Delany signs up for a guest appearance on Castle — Ausiello Files Soderbergh's Knockout adds Michael Angarano to its cast — Slashfilm The Writers Guild of America releases its list of 2010 nominees — Moviefone This trailer for HBO's new show Treme doesn't Read more
Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy smiled and waved in NYC on Friday as the Christmas Carol train tour pulled into Grand Central Station. Jim was soon off to film an appearance on Good Morning America, as he begins promoting his holiday movie before its release next Friday. He's still rocking the beard we saw him sporting earlier this month, and it might come in handy for Jim as he heads into Read more
Charles Dickens's 19th-century classic, A Christmas Carol, has been adapted to film in many different forms over the years. The long list includes Mickey's Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooged starring Bill Murray, and most recently the Matthew McConaughey/Jennifer Garner romantic comedy (loose) version of the story, among others. Now we have a first look at another Disney Read more
The Amazing Race is getting a 13th season, Variety says. Cary Elwes (a.k.a. Westley in The Princess Bride) has joined the cast of Robert Zemeckis' digital 3-D version of A Christmas Carol, writes ComingSoon. Stanley Tucci will join Amy Adams and Meryl Streep in the Julia Child movie Julie and Julia, Variety reports. VH1 has a whole bunch of new reality shows in the pipeline, writes The Read more
"I. Am. BEOWULF!" roars a computer-generated (and significantly enhanced) Ray Winstone over and over and over again. The animated epic story of Beowulf is impressive from a visual standpoint — it really is like living inside a video game — though story-wise it's empty and forgettable. But if nothing else, you will absolutely remember who. Is. Beowulf. I managed to see Beowulf in an IMAX Read more
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt looked typically wax figure-esque out at last night's LA premiere of Beowulf. Angelina may have been shy about watching her computer generated body on the big screen, but she was full of smiles on the red carpet keeping herself covered in her coat while Brad opted for his requisite hat. Elsewhere on the red carpet Anthony Hopkins did his best Jack Nicholson Read more
Speaking of Comic-Con, apparently there was a screening of 20-minutes from Robert Zemeckis' computer-generated version of the epic tale Beowulf, starring Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins, among others. MTV's movie blogger was there, and reported this: "This is the oldest story in the English language," [Neil] Gaiman told the crowd of press and VIPs. "And it’s told with the most modern Read more
Spider-Pig mania has hit the t-shirt industry. Thank you, Popwatch, for bringing this to my attention! Stereogum gets the scoop on Rihanna's umbrella line for Totes. Fab is so excited: America's Next Top Model has been renewed until 2010! SuperheroHype has an exclusive interview with "Heroes" creator Tim Kring. Earvolution christens the top 10 bands that never really existed; check out who beat Read more
You may have heard about this project of Robert Zemeckis' (Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump) to turn the epic poem Beowulf into an animated movie which, it was recently announced, will be screened in IMAX theaters. The movie's official website is up and running (though it basically just features dancing flames, dramatic music and a cast list), and now a Dutch website has Read more
It's been 27 years since Marty McFly crawled into a DeLorean and ended up in 1955, but the quotes from Back to the Future are still as prolific as ever. From George McFly's stuttering proclamations of love to Doc Brown's harried calculations, we grew up citing lines from Robert Zemeckis's classic time-travel hit. Here's a sampling of our favorite quotes, what are yours? "1.21 gigawatts!" — Read more
