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BRAAAM! 10 Trailers That Use & Abuse The 'Inception' BRAAAM!
"What's the most resilient parasite? An idea." Little did Christopher Nolan know when he wrote that line, he’d need to add an addendum: an idea that keeps getting pickpocketed over and over again until it loses meaning and ownership, and becomes simply background noise to the general cultural conver...
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Watch: New Deleted Scenes From 'The Avengers' & Alternate Ending For 'Iron Man 2'
If "Iron Man 3" being just under a month away is still too long of a wait for you, Marvel is easing the pain for fans, as this week they dropped their delayed Marvel Phase One box set in stores. As the name implies, it contains all the movies you know and love from Marvel thus far, along with a host...
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Joss Whedon Admits A Solo 'Hulk' Film Is Possible But Difficult To Pull Off
Making a film based off Marvel's The Incredible Hulk character isn't impossible. The character has appeared on screen three times now, in three different iterations, more than any other major Marvel character (played, of course by Eric Bana, Edward Norton and Mark Ruffalo). But they'...
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Watch: ILM Featurette Goes Behind-The-Scenes Of The Impressive VFX Work For 'The Avengers' Final Battle
With Oscar voting now underway, there is no better time to remind those casting ballots -- particularly in the tech categories -- that "The Avengers" was more than just an all-star cast running around in tights. The record smashing success not only boasted the story talents of Joss Whedon,...
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The Top 10 Most Pirated Movies Of 2012 Include 'Project X,' 'Mission: Impossible 4,' 'Dark Knight Rises' & More
3 high school seniors throw a birthday party so boss it apparently got shared/downloaded almost 9 million times -- apparently making it the #1 pirated movie of of 2012. Congratulations to the filmmakers and studio not seeing a penny of those grosses? They don't need it, right? Torrent Freak...
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2012 The Year In Box Office: Hits, Flops And Secret Successes
So we’re completing a year of record domestic box office returns, but it’s impossible to ignore that the international market is a hefty player, taking a bigger overall chunk of the pie. It’s not good enough for a picture to perform in America – if it doesn’t grab more than half its share from inter...
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Joss Whedon Reveals Early Draft Of 'The Avengers' Featured Wasp Instead Of Black Widow
Right around the time that Cobie Smulders was cast as Agent Maria Hill in "The Avengers," some folks speculated that Nick Fury's sidekick might be Wasp. And while that didn't come to fruition, it turns out writer/director and now geek savior of all things Marvel, Joss Whedon, was on the same wave le...
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Our Favorite Unconventional Performance Votes From This Year's Indiewire Critics Poll
Any end-of-year survey is sure to feature some interesting choices. Out of the over 200 ballots we received this year, here are a handful of our favorites.
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MTV Names 'The Dark Knight Rises' The Best Film Of 2012
Okay, we've had the lists from the high brow movie magazines, the exclusive critics groups, various newspapers and magazines, but what about one from somewhere that has a bit of pulse on what the folks are actually seeing at the multiplex? Well, MTV has dropped their top ten movies of the year, ...
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Kevin Smith On Why He Prefers 'The Avengers' Over 'The Dark Knight Rises' & Turning 'Hit Somebody' Into A Single Film
Over the weekend EPIX premiered a brand new Kevin Smith special, "Jay and Silent Bob Go Down Under." Chronicling a small smattering of the Australian leg of their "Jay and Silent Bob Get Old" live show, and the engaging one hour program features Smith and his "Clerks" costar Jason Mewes doing what t...
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