Jul 02, 2009 -
Do you remember the Asteroids video game? It's one of the most basic video games ever. The player has to shoot asteroids with his or her tiny spaceship and avoid being smashed.
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Jul 01, 2009 -
Two of TV's funniest comedic actors (in my opinion) are joining up with Drew Barrymore and Justin Long for the romantic comedy Going the Distance. The movie focuses on long-distance relationships, with Drew and Justin playing the main duo. Christina Applegate and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Charlie Day will play supporting characters: Day will take the role of "Long's best friend while Applegate is Barrymore's sister."
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Jun 30, 2009 -
Now that the filmmakers have finally settled on the two male leads for The Fighter, a lady love has been cast. The endearing Amy Adams will join Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in the story about a famed Massachusetts boxer. Based on a true story, Wahlberg will play "Irish" Mickey Ward and Bale will play Ward's "trainer-brother" Dick Eklund, and the movie will follow "their early days on the rough streets of Lowell, Mass., through Eklund's battle with drugs and Ward's eventual world championship in London."
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Jun 29, 2009 -
Yeah, you read those names correctly. Michael Bay, director of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, is in talks to produce and possibly direct a sci-fi movie franchise based on a six-book young adult series that has yet to be published.
This news in and of itself isn't all that earth-shattering but the interesting part is that the project is reportedly being co-written by James Frey.
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Jun 25, 2009 -
Two of the filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning Monster are teaming up to tell another story with a female protagonist — but this one is, shall we say, a little different from that of serial killer Aileen Wuornos. In Decoding Annie Parker, producer Clark Peterson (pictured at right) and cinematographer Steven Bernstein will tell the story of the woman who first believed there could be a breast cancer gene.
Parker, a real-life cancer patient, thought her disease could have a genetic link, but her doctors dismissed her concerns; later, though, researchers would go on to discover the BRCA genes, which are associated with breast cancer.
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Jun 24, 2009 -
Katherine Heigl is making movies like there's no tomorrow, and who can blame her? She's apparently in demand. Her comedy The Ugly Truth will hit theaters this Summer and she's currently shooting Five Killers with Ashton Kutcher.
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Jun 24, 2009 -
For the first time since 1943, the Best Picture category at the Academy Awards will include 10 nominees instead of five. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis made the announcement today, and assured us that the outcome — just one Best Picture winner — will still be the same.
Ganis commented, "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories, but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize."
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Jun 24, 2009 -
The movie Aaron Sorkin is writing about Facebook looks to be getting even more bizarre: Word is Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button director David Fincher is in talks to direct the movie. Can I assume the first rule is to not talk about Facebook?
Actually, I probably can assume that when it comes to this top-secret project, the script of which has supposedly been printed on red paper so it would be harder to photocopy.
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Jun 23, 2009 -
I was just talking about ladies above a certain age landing more roles and today there are two pieces of news that make me feel like someone was listening. We haven't seen Cher on the silver screen in years, and now she has landed not one but two interesting movie roles.
First she will be joining Christina Aguilera in the movie musical Burlesque.
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Jun 22, 2009 -
Just like pretty much everyone else in the country, I loved The Hangover. It's a great, funny, raunchy comedy with some talented and hilarious actors. It did, however, recharge my wish for a similarly funny movie that features a group of women instead of men.
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