Saturday, July 25, 2009 - Posts
TOTAL UPDATE: Psst! Those New Moon sneak clips shown yesterday at Comic-Con (and described below) are up on YouTube: Taylor shirtless here and Rob shirtless here. Enjoy! (For however long that lasts.)
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Robert Downey Jr. said he wish he could don a Mexican wrestling mask and stroll the Comic-Con floor to check out all the collectible toys and geeky-cool stuff. Peter Jackson joked about ducking out of a discussion with director James Cameron which drew
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Despite the fact that its heroes are (literally) guinea pigs turned superspies, “G-Force” winds up bearing the mark of its producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, more than you might think.
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Bono and U2 rocked more than 80,000 fans in Dublin as the Irish supergroup's latest world tour hit new emotional highs Friday night on home soil.
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Every movie, or so the Comic-Con saying goes, looks like a hit at Comic-Con.
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If things had gone differently, Ashley Greene could have been making Twilight movie magic with her ex-boyfriend, former Desperate Housewives star Josh Henderson.
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Filmmaker Spike Lee championed a free press Friday during a visit to Venezuela, where broadcasters are under pressure to avoid criticizing President Hugo Chavez's leftist government.
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Tim Burton's 3D promotional trailer for Walt Disney Pictures' "Alice in Wonderland" has been the talk of Comic-Con, thanks in part to the surprise cameo appearance of Johnny Depp at a panel on Thursday.
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Filmmaker Spike Lee championed a free press Friday during a visit to Venezuela, where broadcasters are under pressure to avoid criticizing President Hugo Chavez's leftist government.
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"Titanic." "Lord of the Rings." "Aliens." "King Kong." "The Terminator."
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As he prepares to make his first big-budget film, Chinese director Jia Zhangke vows to stay true to the signature documentary style he used to capture the struggles of the country's working class.
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Most camped out overnight. Some spent two nights outside the San Diego Convention Center. They wore homemade T-shirts, made friends with fellow fans and talked about their allegiance to Team Edward or Team Jacob.
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Hanif Kureishi has signed on to write the screen adaptation of Aravind Adiga's Booker Prize-winning novel "The White Tiger," which explores India's economic rise to power through the eyes of a young man from a poor, rural village.
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Next year's obvious blockbuster hit Iron Man 2 is already deep into filming, and tons of new stills have just been released.
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"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is on course to be crowned king of the domestic box office again this weekend.
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To stoke buzz for the sci-fi flick "Avatar," 20th Century Fox will take over as many Imax and 3D screens around the world as it can on August 21 to show 15 minutes of promotional footage, filmmaker James Cameron announced Thursday at the Comic-Con pop
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James Cameron originally wrote "Avatar" as a way to challenge the special-effects firm Digital Domain, where he served as chief executive. But it took technology 14 years to catch up with his vision of a faraway planet populated by otherwordly plants
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It's shaping up to be quite the week for comic and sci-fi enthusiasts.
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When James Cameron directed his first 3-D film, "Terminator 2: 3-D," for Universal Studios theme parks more than a decade ago, the bulky camera equipment made some shots awkward or impossible.
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Whew! The New Moon frenzy has passed, but San Diego Comic-Con still has plenty of juice left on Day 2. We're live-tweeting all the action, starting with scoop on Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes and the way-trippy Where the Wild Things Are.
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If life truly begins at 40, as the old saying goes, then after four decades the giant Comic-Con pop culture showcase is seeing a rebirth of sorts among a new generation of attendees -- families and children.
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Holy start date, Batman fans! Actor Gary Oldman, who starred in the recent blockbuster Batman movies let it slip on Friday that a new flick about the crime-fighting superhero is set to start filming next year -- but you didn't hear it from him.
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Gary Oldman had come to Comic-Con to support "The Book of Eli," but is dishing about "The Dark Knight" instead.
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Robert Downey Jr. needs no introduction so he walked onto the San Diego Convention Center's biggest stage without one.
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As director of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and producer of the forthcoming "Hobbit" films, Peter Jackson was given a hero's welcome Friday when he made his debut at Comic-Con, the pop-culture festival.
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Writer-director John Hindman wisely creates characters who go past “quirky” to being genuinely broken individuals, but then he traps them in a trite-and-true plot.
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My favorite band ever is basically calling it quits, leaving me to wonder what the heck I'm going to listen to now.
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When the director realized technology had caught up with his cinematic visions, he dusted off the concept and helped develop technology to make it work.
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The 30-year-old star of “Grey's Anatomy” and “The Ugly Truth” knows exactly what she wants and she's not afraid to say so.
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This despicable romantic comedy is an affront to movies, heterosexuality and humanity. To call the characters and situations sketchy would be to disparage the power of sketches.
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Despite similarities to predecessors like "The Bad Seed" and "The Omen," this well-crafted flick has frights all its own.
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Prosecutors claimed it was a deliberate assault. But Winehouse said she had felt intimidated by the drunken Flash — and claimed she was too short to have hit the dancer in the face.
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Show creator Russell T. Davies is unapologetic about death of beloved character on ‘Children of Earth’ miniseries.
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Host Julie Chen was entertained by some of what the "Big Brother" contestants had to say this week.
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Four months after reports surfaced that LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian were allegedly having an affair, the singer is no longer living with her husband, a source tells People.
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It was probably the right time for one of the kicked-off dancers to go home, but the other verdict is a lot tougher to take. Plus: Katie Holmes dances a tribute to Judy Garland.
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Sony has paid $60 million for footage of Michael Jackson's final rehearsals, according to sources with knowledge of the deal.
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Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman has signed an agreement for each of her 14 children to earn $250 a day to star in a reality television show.
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Michael Jackson considered it important to reach out and help others, his brother said Friday before a tribute in the late singer’s honor.
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The odd array of evidence police collected from Michael Jackson’s personal physician’s clinic and storage unit shows authorities are trying to follow a trail of drugs.
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Court filings show that Michael Jackson’s estate is solvent after temporary administrators recovered at least $5.5 million in cash and substantial amounts of the singer’s property.
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