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Michael Haneke to Shoot “Flashmob” This Summer
Fresh off the Memorial Day weekend we have news about Amour director Michael Haneke's next project. Film Comment reports that the film is titled Flashmob a is set to shoot this Summer. Set partly in the U.S., the film will follow multiple characters and Haneke...
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Weekend Box Office: “X-Men” Opens Big, “Blended” Not So Much
Summer continues on strongly as Memorial Day, one of the bigger movie weekends of the year, marks the start of kids getting out of school and the real summer bucks rolling in. The latest installment in the X-Men franchise, Days of Future Past, claimed $90.7 mi...
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“Batman v Superman: Colon: Subtitle: Etc”
Zack Snyder's Batman vs. Superman movie now has a full title, and Twitter loves it! Or rather, everyone on Twitter loves to make jokes about it. The real title is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, an unsurprisingly nonsensical choice. Here are some of my fav...
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“Whiplash” Clip: J.K. Simmons Knows How to Motivate Students
Whiplash took the Sundance Film Festival by storm this January when it won not only the Audience Dramatic Award, but it also took home the Grand Jury Award. Damien Chazelle, the writer behind The Last Exorcism Part II and Grand Piano, made his directorial debu...
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First Look from Cannes at Michel Hazanavicius’ ‘The Search’
Talking about a vast change in direction. Michel Hazanavicius will have his new feature film, The Search, premier at the Cannes Film Festival in a few short days. If you can remember Hazanavicius won an Oscar for his film The Artist that had plenty of nifty la...
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Weekend Box Office: Obligatory “‘Godzilla’ Roars” Headline
After last summer's decidedly mixed domestic performance for Guillermo del Toro's kaiju big battle movie Pacific Rim, it was understandable that box office prognosticators were a little skeptical that Gareth Edwards' American Godzilla reboot would connect. But...
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Nicolas Winding Refn In Talks for Horror Film “The Bringing”
Deadline has word that Nicolas Winding Refn may have finally found his followup project to Only God Forgives in the horror film The Bringing for Sony Pictures. Scripted by Brandon and Philip Murphy, draws on an unsettling security video of a woman, Elisa Lam, ...
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Godzilla and Films That Are Better Than They Have Any Right To Be
Let's face it: Batman vs. Superman is going to suck. Jurassic World? Give me a break. Don't even get me started on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I don't know how these movies will actually end up, but I know enough to be sure that they will suck. Hard.
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‘Star Trek’ Composer Michael Giacchino Creating Score for ‘Jurassic World’
The composer for Jurassic World might not be John Williams, but it is a damn fine choice. News broke that Up and Star Trek composer Michael Giacchino has been tapped to score Jurassic World. Giacchino won an Oscar for his work on Up and is a frequent collabora...
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Weekend Box Office: “Neighbors” Beats Spidey
Just about every weekend during the summer season brings a new number one to the box office charts, which is expected given that studios are putting out big movies every weekend, and this week was no different. As a breather in=n between the big-budget crazine...
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