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Stephen Colbert’s Wildest Dreams Came True with a Cameo in ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’
The Tolkien universe’s biggest scholar isn’t Peter Jackson, or Ian McKellen or even the ghost of JRR Tolkien himself; it’s Stephen Colbert, and the world’s most unapologetic fanboy had all of his Middle Earth fantasies come true by finally becoming part of the...
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Lionsgate Surpasses a Billion Dollars for the Second Year in a Row
Ladies and gentlemen, it's a good thing to be in the business of movies, because the movie business is a'boomin. Heavy-hitting studio Lionsgate has just released its fourth quarter earnings report and it's more money than should be humanly possible, but thanks...
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James Cameron Likens ‘Avatar’ Sequels Plot to ‘The Godfather’
By now, you should have already digested the news that the world will be bestowed with three sequels to James Cameron's baby Avatar, but now the director has released some new information about the progress of his ambitious project.
According to a press rel...
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Weekend Box Office: Hobbits and Hellurs
It was a slightly weaker weekend at the box office for two films on completely disparate sections of the American moviegoing populace. To begin, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second installment in the Hobbit franchise, was the obvious number 1 this ...
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Disney Channel To Make Movie About The “Descendants” Of Villains
Here's an interesting idea for a movie that sticks with the remake/established property aspects of current movie culture/trends while also offering a bit of a unique take on the material. With Once Upon A Time doing well on TV and Maleficent scheduled to hit t...
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Surprise, PG-13 Movies Combine as Much Sex and Alcohol with Violence as R-Rated Movies Too
Remember that pesky MPAA study that showed there was just as much, if not more violence being shown in PG-13 movies than in Rated-R flicks? And the amount of gun violence had tripled since the 1980s? Well boy, do the researchers behind that study have some new...
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Weekend Box Office: “Frozen” First Over “Fire,” “Furnace”
The overall box office fell quite a bit this weekend between the return to work post-Thanksgiving holiday, the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, the hold-off between the two holiday's major releases and the absolutely freezing temperatures that domin...
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Coen Brothers To Write Musical Comedy
While Inside Llewyn Davis' due for theatrical release today (read our review of the masterpiece here), the Coen Brothers are already working on another musical-esque feature -- this time, a comedy. Vulture reports that this is one of two brothers the pair are ...
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In Case You Weren’t Sure About Gender Inequality in Hollywood, Here’s an Infographic About It
Because no issue on the internet is really an issue until someone makes an infographic about it, here is an exceptionally thorough data visualization from the New York Film Academy examining gender inequality in American cinema.
There are lots of pretty ch...
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Director Ben Affleck’s Mondo Series of Posters
Many movie fans adore the Mondo line of posters and even fewer people actually own one (I have one, The Master). Well it turns out that Ben Affleck is a big fan of Mondo as well and they have commissioned a series of posters based on his directorial efforts. A...
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