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Polanski's Ghost Writer Trailer
Here's a decent-quality French trailer for the espionage thriller The Ghost Writer, starring Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor, the movie Roman Polanski is finalizing under house arrest in Gstaad. Based on the Robert Harris novel, the movie is set for limited release by Summit Entertainment on Februa...
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Leaked! NBC CEO Zucker's Phone Messages to O'Brien
Leaked! NBC CEO Jeff Zucker's Vociemails for Conan O'Brien - watch more funny videos
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Fantastic Mr. Fox Acceptance Speech
At the National Board of Review NYC fete this week, Wes Anderson staged a novel acceptance speech, Fantastic Mr. Fox style.
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Conan Goes Nasty on NBC
In his first Tonight Show monologue following the NBC announcement of Jay Leno's return to 11:30, Conan O'Brien lets loose on NBC:
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Ferguson Riffs on Late Night Shifts
When my 20-year-old is home, she TiVos Oprah and Conan. (She refuses to watch Leno, Letterman or, God forbid, Charlie Rose.) In passing The Tonight Show mantle to O'Brien, NBC was trying to grow a younger viewer base, which takes time. By moving Leno to 10 PM, the network gambled that it could solve...
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Reitman's Up in the Air Press Tour Simulator
Jason Reitman not only put together a pie chart from his Up in the Air media rounds of most frequent questions, but now he's made a video of his endless global press tour that shows what a blur this whole thing must be. I talked to Reitman at the very start in Telluride with a flip cam interview bef...
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Gaiman's Statuesque Stars Nighy
This lovely ten-minute silent Neil Gaiman short starring Bill Nighy is up on YouTube for the moment. This gifted fantasy writer's books have not always translated to film, although Coraline did, quite well. I'd like to see what he would do with his own stuff.
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Last Post of 2009: Avatar Passes 800 Million, Year and Decade Wraps, Gilliam's First Short
Twelve years after Titanic, another late-year James Cameron release is climbing the box office charts. I thought I was safe with my estimate of $1 billion worldwide ($400 m domestic, $600 foreign). But Avatar is already passing $800 million! It could challenge Titanic's $1.8 billion record after all...
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Trailer Watch: How to Train Your Dragon
While most folks would pick Pixar over Dreamworks animation any day, Jeffrey Katzenberg does know how to craft accessible commercial movies like Madagascar and Shrek (the fourth installment is in the works under live-action director Mike Mitchell). But I am hearing good buzz on How to Train Your Dra...
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Holiday Movie Watching: Aamir Khan's 3 Idiots Hits Big
Like everybody else, I've been catching up on movies over the holidays. By far the most fun movie was the big-budget Bollywood comedy 3 Idiots, starring 44-year-old Aamir Khan as a geeky engineering student.
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