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Movie Review — Bridesmaids

Movie Review — Bridesmaids

Summer wedding season.  Your friends tap you to be in their wedding party.  You’ve gotta stay sober ‘til the reception.  The ushers aren’t nearly as good looking as your soon-to-be-wed buddy promised.  And you’ll never wear that ugly satin dress again, not even if you just shorten it.  But you don’t need an ugly dress [...]

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Stephen King’s The Gunslinger Coming To A Big Screen And A Small Screen Near You

Weed Road and Imagine Entertainment are seeking the rights to Stephen King’s seven-book series The Dark Tower. An intermingling of spaghetti westerns and fantasies like Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings, The Dark Tower is set in an alternate world which resembles the Old West, but adds magic into the mix. The series focuses on [...]

Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto To Fight in Tarsem’s Dawn Of War

Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto To Fight in Tarsem’s Dawn Of War

Slumdog Millionaire’s female lead, Freida Pinto is reportedly locked to star in Dawn Of War, a new Greek action-epic from acclaimed director Tarsem Singh (The Fall, The Cell.) Variety is reporting that the film will follow the adventures of Theseus, portrayed by The Tudors star Henry Cavill, who is on a quest to prevent a [...]

Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris Share ‘TMI’

Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris Share ‘TMI’

Whether you love or hate Just Friends (an inconsequential little comedy that came out a few years ago), you have to admit that Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris shared a great deal of comic chemistry. This is largely due to the fact that Reynolds is incapable of being anything but charming, while Faris is unstoppably [...]

Cate Blanchett’s Indian Summer Delayed

Cate Blanchett’s Indian Summer Delayed

You know you’re working in the bizarre world of Hollywood when your film is delayed even with a name like Cate Blanchett attached to star. Your movie can have everything going for it, but one little shift in the tide and it will be iced indefinitely. That’s what has happened to Indian Summer, the Cate [...]

Couple’s Retreat Photo Contest

Couple’s Retreat Photo Contest

Universal Pictures and Awkward Family Photos are teaming up for a contest inspired by the newest comedy film, Couple’s Retreat. Couple’s Retreat Photo Contest will run for two weeks and submissions will be judged by the Awkward Family Photos staff who will select the Top 5 entries. For the first time, all contest submissions will appear [...]

Kirby’s Estate Wants Their Rights Back

Kirby’s Estate Wants Their Rights Back

Jack Kirby, co-creator of such comic book creations like the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Captain America, is coming back for copyright vengeance. Well, at least his estate is. The estate of Jack Kirby is going straight for the jugular, as BleedingCool has more: [The Kirby Estate] has sent notices terminating copyright to publishers Marvel and [...]

Universal’s Gears Grind to a Halt Until 2010

Universal’s Gears Grind to a Halt Until 2010

In a cost-saving move that is undoubtedly the product of a messed up economy, Universal Pictures will stop spending money to develop advancing projects for the remainder of this year. Thus, unless a project is being fast-tracked, no progress will be made on films under Universal’s umbrella until January. Why is the studio freezing developments [...]

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