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Bullock Reunites with Reynolds on Action Comedy Most Wanted
Sandra Bullock knows what she's doing. Tired of all the crazy tabloid crap, she's moving the conversation on to kissing Scarlett Johansson on MTV and possibly co-starring with her husband Ryan Reynolds on a new comedy, Most Wanted. Looks like she's following my career advice and getting back to work...
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Weekend Box Office: Summer Fizzle Leaves Shrek 4 On Top
Last weekend's horrific box office numbers continued into this weekend, which returned animated family film Shrek Forever After--in its third week--to the top of the fray, the only film to crack the $20-million mark! The lucrative summer season is when the studios send their surefire top guns to do ...
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RIP: Cinematographer William Fraker
One of Hollywood's great cinematographers, William Fraker, succumbed to cancer Monday at age 86. While D.P.'s can be cranky, Fraker was known for his affability and exacting standards on sets, from Rosemary's Baby, Bullitt, 1941, Close Encounters and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to Tombstone and ...
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Cruise Reprises Tropic Thunder Grossman Role
Tom Cruise dons producer Les Grossman's hirsute fat suit once again for the MTV Movie Awards, which air on June 6. One video shows a hairy post-Scientology Cruise assaulting an older Cruise reenacting the young Risky Business Cruise. An unintentional meta-enactment of his entire career? He also da...
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Trailer Watch: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World vs. Jonah Hex
The studios are so in love with comic-book movies that they're digging into material most of us have never read.
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Fox Launches Snarky "Don't F**K My Mom" Cyrus Campaign
Hand it to Fox Searchlight. They know how to get a movie attention.
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Ansari, McBride To Star in Rough House/Mandate Comedy
Rough House and Mandate pictures are prepping an untitled comedy written by Harris Wittels (Parks & Recreation), based on an idea by Aziz Ansari (Parks & Recreation) and 30-Rock writer Matt Hubbard. Ansari will star alongside Danny McBride (Up In The Air), and will also executive produce with Mandat...
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Daily Read: Storms Hit Cannes, Zoolander 2, Studio Revenues Rise, Machete Goes Arizona
Freak waves up to 18 feet high have damaged the Croissette just a week before the 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival is due to begin. While cars were tossed about and more than a dozen beachfront cafes have been temporarily shuttered, local officials told the BBC the damage will be "put right" and cl...
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Date Night's Tina Fey Rechannels Sarah Palin on SNL
Tina Fey is the hardest-working woman in show business, creating and starring in NBC's hit sitcom 30 Rock and starring with Steve Carell in Date Night, which is far smarter and more grown-up than most studio comedies these days. Fey's no fool: to boost the movie's opening weekend, she returned to SN...
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